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Showing posts with label best friends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label best friends. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Wedding Wednesday: Bachelorette Weekend Part II

Well, today was planned to be a bridal shower reveal, but my computer decided to disagree with me.

Instead, I will give you some more bachelorette weekend pictures...taken from a real camera!! :)

Enjoy the photo dump and say hi to Laura below!!

Posing in front of our house! :) 

B and I before she had to leave on Saturday! 

L and I at the beach!! 

L and I looking fierce!! Best friends since 1st grade 

E and I before she had to leave! Best friends since 7th grade! 

My wifey! She's been my partner in crime for over 5 years now

My maid of honor!! We've been best friends since I moved in next door in 7th grade!

We met because of our exboyfriends. We left those losers behind! 

K is the newest of my best friends, I'm so happy Iman's best man has a wonderful wife!! 

Known this girl since birth!! (also, she gives me the amazing HT clothes)

My best friends! (Minus a few) I am so happy they all celebrated with me!! 
 Sorry to disappoint on the bridal shower pictures! If you want a sneak peak head over to my Insta!

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Laura from Simply Me, The Way I See It is my oldest blog friend!!! We met through the Carabox Exchange a year ago and she is one of the sweetest ladies I know! She has a fierce love for Texas sports [especially the Rangers] and an equally fierce love for her friends!



1. What makes you lucky? 

 I am lucky for 3 reasons, Faith, Family, and Friends.  If it were not for an amazing support system and my faith when things get tough, I can't imagine how I would have survived. I am truly blessed in every way that matters! 

2. If you found a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, what would you spend it on? 

 What is the current price of gold? Lol. I would definitely put some away for a rainy day when there isn't a rainbow but because I lost my father and multiple family members and friends to cancer I would give a nice portion to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society because I really believe that our battle with cancer is a war that can and will be won! 


3. What are you looking forward to most this spring? 

 Oh gosh, there are so many things. Rangers Baseball of course, and flowers and being outside and not freezing my behind off and mountain biking!  Most of all, this spring I am actually looking forward to, hopefully, selling my house and buying "our" house.  It's becoming more real every day and is so exciting and scary all at the same time! 


If you're feeling particularly sports-y today, head on over and chat it out!
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Wedding Wednesday: The Bachelorette Party

I have been anxiously anticipating this post all week and now that it's time I find myself utterly unprepared! Also, I am apparently really into alliteration!

Where do I even begin? [Maybe with an apology for all of the cell phone pix. The real camera pix have not yet been sent to me, but I'm too excited to share]

Two girls had to leave early for work, but this is the gang of us + our go cart driver


When I got engaged, I told all of my bridesmaids that I wanted the bachelorette and the bridal shower to be a surprise. I'm really into surprises and no one had ever thrown me a surprise party before. I did pick the location of my bachelorette party [San Diego] and which weekend it would be. From there, the rest was up to my maid of honor and bridesmaids.

They did such a great job!!

Instead of a couple of hotel rooms to house 9 of us, they found a house with enough bedrooms through AirBnB. I was the only person who had used the site before, so they were all a little weary before we arrived.

Surprisingly, we made great time on Friday and got there around dinner time! [Woo hoo no traffic!] The house had 4 bedrooms with room to sleep 11 comfortably; 2 bathrooms; a kitchen; living room; dining room and spacuzzi.

It was awesome!

Cards against Humanity! 

Obligatory "Bachelorette" cup and penis straw while drunk picture 

Spa stuff / typical girls' night! 


The first night we did a spa night. There were only about six of us staying the first night. We didn't actually get to the masks and facials because we got too drunk. So basically we painted our nails and eventually ended up in a luke warm spacuzzi. [I have pictures, but they will not be shared because my new bathing suit was too small].

The next morning we woke up and ate breakfast before heading to Coronado Island. It is just beautiful! I'd only ever been one other time because I am scared of the bridge to get there, but I will definitely go back!

All of us by the Hotel Del Coronado sign. This picture is really blurry :( But I know they took one with a real camera, too. 

This was a fun picture :) 

I am so happy that the rain from the prior week was gone! 


Full Bachelorette regalia at the really fancy hotel

Lunch time!

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Yum! Gelato :) 

Lauren, my best friend from pre-school

Emily, my best friend and neighbor since i was 12

My maid of honor and best friend, Molly! [if you can't tell, she and Emily are twins]

Katy, my partner in crime 

All of us in the bright gelato shop! The ladies working were so sweet! 


We walked around, ate, enjoyed the beach...and then went back to get ready to go out!

Around this time some strippers "showed up" aka a couple of my friends invited them because they didn't realize I didn't want strippers. I took one look at the guys outside the door and said "I'm out" and barricaded myself in my room until they left. The girls said they were handsy and had only ordered one stripper anyway.


I love this bag! It's hot pink though, not orange. 


I think male strippers are creepy...or at least the idea of them coming into my home. I could go see Thunder Down Under ANY DAY!

After we got ready, we took an Uber [If you use code V39H6 you will get a $20 credit for your first ride!!]   to Downtown San Diego to go out!

Krystal, my newest best friend. She is Iman's best man's wife and we spend so much time together! 



We ended up eating at Bootlegger. It seemed really awesome at first but then our service started to suck. As in, she forgot to ring in my food! MY FOOD. Which was the easiest because I ordered a hamburger and I filled out a sheet for her. I wasn't the only one to do this though, so I'm not sure how she misplaced mine.

Attempting to look like we enjoyed Bootleggers

The security guard was pretty cool. He wanted to take a picture with me? 

Also, they took forever to "rush" my food out to me. Drinks cost $10 for the size of an old fashioned. I.e. 1 shot of alcohol...so we left there and I was pretty sober.

We walked a bit and ended up at Altitude, a rooftop bar. I love rooftop bars. This one was smaller but I was stoked anyway!! We ended the night at Bang Bang! An Asian Fusion club that has a Ryan Gosling bathroom which I heard wasn't worth the wait in line.


The San Diego skyline! 

This guy gave us all a free ride because he gets paid by the advertising


Home again on Sunday morning, all hungover and awesome.

All I ate was Jack in the Box for all of my meals. Then I had a piece of cake for my future brother-in-law's 15th birthday and got a stomach ache. Another Jack in the Box taco fixed that. #hangoverproblems.

My bridal shower is this Saturday and I am so excited!

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Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Happy Birthday, Megalin!

Today I had planned on writing about rekindling friendships, but I believe I've written about that lately, and besides it's my blog BFF's BIRTHDAY! Therefore this post will be about Megalin - an awesome friend I met through blogging and who is a fantastic Warrior Queen!



We met through the Carabox exchange a few months ago - right before my birthday! 
Through chatting  we found out that we both have tattoos, drove 1988 pick up trucks in high school, have mutual friends [as So Cal girls] and love to read. 
Check out her awesome blog, My Random Lovelies, where she talks about her life as an army wife in far away land [I can't wait for her to come home so we can meet in person!]. She has the cuuuutest hedgehogs and entertaining posts. Go now!
Happy, happy birthday, my dear friend!!


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P.s. For those of you in So Cal - I'm doing Run or Dye OC in November and I have a coupon code for you!
1) Head over to http://www.runordye.com/register/Orange-County-20132) Check out and use coupon code LETSDYEFRIENDS to take $5 off registration3) RACE THE RAINBOW with me on November 23


Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Friendship in Times of Need

It's Tuesday and my weekend was far from relaxing. I've come to realize that this summer isn't necessarily carefree for those closest to me, or myself. The positive vastly outweighs the negative, but I think we all need a little extra love and positive energy right now.

Which has led me to this unstructured post that is an open letter to friends from friends everywhere.



Dear you,
Some days I need a little more love and support than others, but I'm too buried to reach for it. Some days I need you to send me that text message of support, that might not even get a reply. Some days I need you to understand that I'm not replying because I do not love and respect our friendship. I have yet to reply because I don't know what words to say, terrified that the one word "Hello" to someone I know cares deeply for me, will break the dam and all of the emotion and tears will come pouring out.
 Some days I need to hear "That blows" instead of a solution to my problems. Other days, I need those solutions and I appreciate every little bit that you do. When you bring food to my house for us to cook and leave the leftovers for later in the week, I appreciate it. When you sit by my side, silent, while I cry, I appreciate it. When you come over and ask for advice, worried to put more on my plate, I appreciate the distraction. 
 I need you to understand that some times I do not talk to you for weeks and weeks even though you might see on Facebook that everything is wonderful and I seem to be spending a lot of time with so-and-so. Please do not get jealous, as I can assure you, my love for you has not faltered. Sometimes I need the support of certain people, but many times, they need mine. I might not text you for a few days because, while I'm busy at work, I am spending every spare second supporting someone else who is going through something tough. I want to talk to you and I won't ignore you. But I can't spend my day worrying that you are upset because I haven't texted you when it goes both ways. 
 Please, do not be afraid to reach out to me any time of day or night that you could need me. I will do everything in my power to love and support you.
Forever your friend,
Me.

Do you have any friends going through a rough time?

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Thursday, June 27, 2013

Throwback Thursday: Cultivating Your Friendship Garden

Today, I thought I'd throw in a little #ThrowbackThursday action on my blog posts! [I got this idea from Miss Mama Me]

I was looking through my old posts to find one to share and, while this one has always been my favorite, the meaning behind it is definitely standing out at me today. Thanks, Tut for prompting me to post it!

Cultivating Your Friendship Garden


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Thursday, January 19, 2012

Warrior Queens

Hi guys,

Sorry for the week-long hiatus. I went on vacation for my last week of winter break and am currently in North Carolina. I found some time to write for you guys and it's about something very important that happened to me last week :)

Have you met the original WQs? The girls who got me through high school with the WQ philosophy. The girls who were going to get WQ tattoos with me? Well, there was a group of us...I want to say 5 or 6 who started calling ourselves WQ back in the day.

A few of some of the original WQs (I'm in the middle)



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