Today is Little Kate's EIGHTEENTH BIRTHDAY!! She requested my coconut cake.
I also made wedge salads!
And Mer made super yummy French dip sandwiches.
I gave Kate one of my old pairs of Fryes. She looks super cute in them!
These are just a handful of her medals. She sure is a talented kid!
Cake time!
Happy Birthday to Kate!
Make a wish!
Yum. Happy birthday, Kate! We love you!
Valerie, Yumi, Kristi and I all went to the Honky Tonk Hoedown fundraiser tonight at Stuart's Opera House.
They had a mechanical bull!
It was a good night for unicorn pegasus.
Yee haw!
The main event was line dancing, which I was pretty excited for, as it's always intrigued me. But OMG it was freaking so impossible. My brain needs weeks of practice before I can do something like this without bumping into other people. Oh well, maybe some day!
It was fun to watch everyone else do it!
Val stayed on the bull for a really long time! And her epic fall was captured on film.
Yumi, Summer and I went up to the Athens Halloween Block Party tonight. Look at all these old geezers we ran into!
Waiting for the Honey for the Heart parade to start.
Here it comes!
I really loved this bunny and owl duo.
More bunnies!
After the parade, we stopped at The Union for a drink. Summer was Mia Wallace from Pulp Fiction. So good!
Magic 8 Ball had to make a quick phone call.
Then we headed to Central Venue to see The Wild Honeybees! Emily was dressed as Audrey Hepburn from Breakfast at Tiffany's.
After the show, Emily joined up with us and we all went to a house party. It was a pretty excellent Uptown Halloween experience this year!
Mom and Dad took me to the Union Street Diner for breakfast for my birthday this morning. I don't go there often, and I asked for an "iced coffee." I assumed it would come black, and I could add some cream and sugar if I wanted to. This is what I was delivered! The mug was lined with chocolate and caramel, and there was a ton of half and half in it. Definitely sweeter than my usual morning coffee but it was hilarious and I did drink it.
We had dinner at Mom and Dad's. Cincinnati Chili! I'm on a Cincinnati Chili kick and can't get enough. Mom's recipe is DELICIOUS.
Mom also made a Texas sheet cake. Yum!
Make a wish.
Mmmm!
Tonight I went out to Fern Hollow Farm with Emily to see her band play! Emily has been getting her nails done for a couple of years now, and every time she goes she asks me "What color should I get?" and I always say "NEON YELLOW!" and she always laughs and says "Never!" But then this week is my birthday, and for my birthday she got neon yellow nails!!!! Isn't that SO NICE?! And look at how cool they look!!
I gave out several unicorn pegasus tattoos throughout the evening.
Their set was amazing!
Drew and Uncle Tom with their unicorn pegasus tattoos!
Fern Hollow served an amazing farm-to-table dinner featuring bison empanadas. Everything was delicious!
It was such a magical and special summertime night. I'm having the best birthday week!
We got together at Mom and Dad's to celebrate Dad's birthday tonight! I made enchiladas, but forgot to get pics of dinner. We also played Golf! Little Kate made this delicious peach cake for dessert.
Felix and Lucy were hoping to snag a slice.
Heather and I have managed to amass so many matching pieces (hat, earrings, tee shirt, boots) that we were overdue for a matching outfit night!! We went to the Tap Room to play euchre with Val and Yumi, and then did a little photo shoot.
Ahhhh matching matching matching!!
Happy place!
It was really ridiculously fun.
And then we headed to Eclipse to see The Wild Honeybees and dance!
Cheers! Oh, matching glitter too!
Matching in the bathroom!
Today I went to Columbus to get matching rainbow heart tattoos with Clark and Anne! The ultimate level of matching!! PERMANENT MATCHING FOREVER! We went to Janine Ramos, and it was a really great experience. Clark and Anne both have lots of tattoos, but this was my first. Look at the color lineup!!
Here we go!
Done!
Look at how colorful and cheerful they turned out!! I looooove them!!
XOXOXOXOXO!
Janine got a unicorn pegasus tattoo while we were there!
