happy birthday to my best friend

{my best friend}

he’s 6′4  and some-odd lbs of solid love.

he has huge hands and an even huge-er heart.

he loves art and continually creates it.

he’s handsome, fun, intelligent and witty.

he’s unceasingly compassionate and patient.

he makes me smile when i see him smile.

he makes me deliriously happy when he holds me tight.

i was smitten the moment he first grabbed my hand.

i love him more everyday and forever will.

he’s my sexy-smooch-adam-lover.

happy birthday, adam love!

luv,

SUG

marlie marlie marlie marlie, life is but a dream

she’s baaack. well, for the week anyway. we had lots of fun, like we always do, when mar comes to stay!

{on our way to nacho mama’s for dinner}

{our cutesy couple pose}

{our glorious downtown}

{my pretty little sis}

{marlie meet marley}

{our stroll through town}

{mar and i spent a few days with my kiddos, and they wanted to take pictures}

WE LOVE YOU MAR!

in case you think your job stinks…

how many nights in a row can we watch fireworks and eat watermelon

it’s the 4th of july time of year! it was so fun. we really did see fireworks thursday, friday and saturday night! best year for fireworks, ever!

{this is actually from night #2, our camera was dead on the first night of festivities}

{with the blanks and lauren’s parents}

{the next day mom, ben, mick and i went to the augusta july 4th fair downtown and had a blast!}

{ben and mick made friends with the ice cream lady}

{these were all of the treats you could partake in at the fair. i had a lemonade and mom had cotton candy, nothing else}

{although we all mooched some cotton from mom. it was SO yummy. vanilla flavored!}

{notice the locals i was able to capture}

{we decided to extend our fun onto one of the kiddy rides. it was hilarious!}

{mom, riding with ben, screamed her head off the ENTIRE time. hahah}

{random huge cow and carton of ice cream. notice mick “milking” the cow and ben modeling the carton for us}

{locals riding ponies}

{pretty ponies}

{this photo is to portray the old/rundown-ness of augusta…notice the boards and all}

{our next stop was the “car show”, consisting of about 20 cars}

{it’s nice to have these reminders…we might forget!}

{this is our country spread of yummy-ness, including adam’s pride and joy (his ribs)}

{and my momma’s blueberry cobbler, made form the berries i picked last summer! mmm…}

{after dinner, we took some family photos}

{then it was fireworks-watchin’-time, again!}

LOVE 4th of july and this year was great!

happy birthday, america!

dinner @ dr. roberts

one of the wonderful professors from the dental school had the ENTIRE 2011 class AND their spouses over for a lovely catered dinner. needless to say, we had a fabulous time!

{those hammonds sure clean up!}

{here’s stephen showing us dr. roberts’ new pool}

{the blanks}

{me and smooch}

{i hope i look this good when i’m preggo!}

{pretty christie}

{dental wifies}

{craig and jeff were much of the entertainment}

{i was laughing ALL night!}

{he played us a few tunes before we all left. it was great!}

{the boy’s with dr. roberts}

it was soo much fun and the food was yum! thanks, dr. roberts!

besties come to play

first of all, amy has a new adopted daughter named, maggie. isn’t she PRECIOUS?!

{meet maggie may}

{mags and her auntie, steph}

{after introductions, we decided to celebrate with hibachi!}

{yay for kobe. so yum}

{the chef insisted on throwing veggies into out mouths before he began. adam almost caught his!}

{ i think amy’s hit her in the chin}

{after he did the “mt fuji onion”, he put the flames out with his “pee-pee man”}

{best friends}

{my other best friend, sushi!}

{thanks for hibachi night, smooch!}

i hope we make it a tradition! yum

lunch with paula

paula is my buddy i have spanish with. we go to lunch regularly and have way too much fun.

{hey pretty paula}

{this particular time we ate @ nacho mama’s. yummy as usual!}

{love you paula!}

can’t wait for fall class with her. and maybe minoring in espanol with her, too.

p.s. we both got a’s in our last class! way to go, paula!

concert @ appleby library

one of the few perks of living in augusta is the lovely area of old plantation/savannah-style homes near us. but on of the better perks is living down the street from one that is now a library that offers free concerts in the back yard during the summer.  we have been to several and ebjoyed them all. they have ranged from old-timey music {seen below} to bluegrass and blues. it’s the best summer event we have here and i look forward to next summers, as well!

{isn’t it it lovely?!}

{the library is surrounded by magnolias}

{this window is from a small old building in the library yard}

{our pal brittany was performing. she did great!}

{adam and lindsay}

{erika and trix}

{hey hammonds}

it was a lovely night.

a delightful saturday

my pal lis went through the temple and we met up with our marsh friends!

{isn’t lisa GORGEOUS?!}

{and i sure love my amy}

{it was a great excuse for my love to look extra spiff and to take a picture}

{hey marshs!}

{the amazing jacket my amy gave me!}

it was a lovely saturday. congrats to lis and thanks to the marshs for playing!

p.s. my smooch sure looked extra studly, too!

for steph

i found this and immediately thought of my bestie, steph, and her new found passion for cycling! i thought she would appreciate the little reminders of why bikes are better than autos.

good luck steph and be safe!