Vlog Friday: What was your favorite childhood toy?

Happy Friday!

This weekend is going to be particularly busy as I'm decorating a wedding & Jus is planning on ripping out the second kitchen. My little sister, Banan, is planning on spending the whole weekend with us as well.

Thank you, thank you for all of your sweet words about last week's Vlog Friday. I promise, I'll try to get Jus in more Vlogs (I think he secretly liked it!) so you can see more of the man behind the blogger.

Growing up Banan & I were lucky kids, during our childhood we had a swimming pool, trampoline, horses, a barn swing and lots of other things to play with so toys weren't necessarily the first thing we went to, but I did have some favorites.



So what's your favorite childhood toy?

Next Week's Prompt:
Who are 3 people from history or life you'd like to invite to dinner?

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Vlog Friday: First Kiss

Happy Friday, darlings! We've made it to the weekend!
(And what's better than the weekend is that this weekend is supposed to be warm!)


This week's Vlog Friday prompt is Who/What/Where/When was your First Kiss.

And let me tell you, mine was a doozy.

And just a disclaimer, I love kissing Jus, I would kiss him all day every day if he let me.



So there you have it, I hope you don't hate me now, I love you a lot. As always, leave a comment if you've played along, I'd love to hear about your first kisses!

Next Week's Prompt: 
Model the outfit you're going to wear as soon as the temperature hits 70

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Reunion

This weekend I met up with three of the girls I lived with in college. These are the girls I spent my senior year with, the girls who tried to convince me to date Jus, the girls I partied with, and the girls that I share a lot of history with.

We met at the Behemoth and walked to one of our college haunts where Jus & BFF Beth's husband sat at the bar and pretended not to know us.

We reminisced about our wild times and caught up on our current lives.

Jello shots on my 21st birthday

In four years three of us have gotten married and one of us has become a mom.

And now

(I'm really trying not to be totally disgusted by how fat I look here-ugh!)

We were able to stay out until 2 but there was no dancing on tables or taking home random guys, we're much too grown up for that.

How was your weekend?

T Double GIF!

This week has been one heckuva week around our house. Jus has been super duper sick and I've been one big, giant ball of nervousness. Sunday is 5 months till the wedding which means I have officially hit the "HOLY FREAKING CRAP I HAVE SO MUCH LEFT TO DO" stage. I'm also busy trying to plan an awesome bachelorette party for my BFF, Beth, and I'm pressuring myself to make it an awesome one.

I hope I wasn't too all over the place this week, my brain is having a lot of trouble focusing on anything other than the wedding and I'm afraid it's just going to get worse before October. One post I'm silly happy I posted was the "When I was 13" post. I loved reminiscing with you, but I realized I sort of promised a picture of my awkward self and since I love you all so very dearly I dug through some pictures.

Me, age 12, in full awkwardness (and in the apron I made in Home Ec)

Banan & me with our Saint Bernard puppy

Banan & me Halloween '98

(and proof that no matter what I have the most frizzrific hair there is.)

So there you have it, proof that I love you, cause let me tell you, 13ish year old Coles aren't too hot and I wouldn't share those pictures with just anyone. This might not be the end of the reminiscing, it's too much fun bringing up silly things and horrible hair.

Have a fabulous weekend lovebugs! Have some 13ish year old fun!

When I Was 13.

Sunday night I stayed up until 4 am watching Titanic, I hadn't seen it since I was 12 and the I sat in our living room and sobbed just as much as I had twelve years ago. Then yesterday we were in the car and Savage Garden's Truly, Madly, Deeply came on the radio.

The memories associated with both of these reminds me of braces, fuzzy hair and all around awkwardness. (I've been searching for a picture of myself from 7th grade but they're all at my parents!)

Since it's fun to reminisce I thought we could all take a trip down memory lane, I'd love to see your responses either here or on your own blog.

When I was 13ish I was:

Listening to:

Evan & Jaron's "Crazy for this Girl," I loooooooved this song so much that it inspired me to write my first (and only) fan (e)mail. My awesome parents took me so see these one hit wonders twice and I can still sing every single word.

Reading:

Mostly books for school, but two I can remember liking were Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier and Say Goodnight Gracie by Julie Reece Deaver

Wearing:

Oh man. Braces (complete with colored rubber bands that changed monthly); Overalls (and shortalls) were big at my school; I wore a lot of striped three quarter length shirts. Truth be told I wasn't what you'd call fashionable.

Watching:

I watched a lot of MTV. I loved TRL and loved all of the special shows they had for spring break.

Titanic was one of my favorite movies, I saw it 3 times in theaters. I loved all girly movies that made me cry but my all time favorite was 10 Things I Hate About You, I can still quote the heck out of that movie.

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Crushing on:

By that point I had gotten over my Jonathan Taylor Thomas crush but I was all about any celebrity with long, shaggy brown hair (Evan & Jaron, Heath Ledger). In real life I was the queen of crushes, I had so many that I started a "newsletter" about my friends & me and who we were all crushing on.

Well, how's that for a trip down memory lane. I hope you'll play along, it's so fun to revisit a time in my life awkwardness and crushes reigned supreme.