Diamonds are a girl's best friend

Especially to this girl!!!!

Woohoo Sarah got engaged!!! Finally!! Granted, she has already been planning the wedding but now it's official! Also, I've been given the most flattering and amazing job of matron of honor. I've been given that honor only once before and it was for Lauren's wedding.

I've talked about these two girls before but I feel like I should do it again. It took me awhile to realize and understand the meaning quality vs. quantity. I think, no, I know I had no confidence in high school. I desperately wanted and needed to be liked. I was not the popular girl but I wasn't a social outcast but some of the friends I kept would just bring me down. I came to Millsaps and was abused a little by my freshman roommate but I also did the most amazing thing I could have done for myself. I became a Chi Omega. Don't get me wrong-I'm not obsessed with my sorority or will care if Madison goes to another one but I finally met some girls that liked me for me and accepted me. I truly found myself and I owe it to mostly Lauren. There were others like Claire, Anna Kathryn, Liz, Katie and Caroline but Lauren and I were meant to meet each other. I became very confident and happy with who I was as a person. I'm loud, hyper, talkative and I say a lot of offhand comments but I now feel like you either like me or don't and if you don't, you can suck it! 😜

I graduated with my masters, got married and was whisked away to Memphis,TN. I entered unknown territory and I could feel my insecurities creeping back in. I was super lucky to receive an amazing advisor in Grace. However, Sarah was sitting next to me and I don't know why but it took us a bit to start talking. However, the minute we did, I saw fireworks!! We are truly the same person in different bodies. The fact that we worked together and saw each other every day for 2 years and never got annoyed is a testament to our friendship. I also think its because we can accept each other and we don't judge the other person's crazy (even though I think she's crazier than me hahaha). I the made the decision to leave public accounting and leave my sweet Sarah behind. I was truly nervous our friendship would be strained. But we both worked at keeping in touch and we don't have to talk every day but when we do talk, it's as if we saw each other the day before. She is my soul sister and I'm so happy for her and I can't wait to stand next to her on big day. She's found a good one (like trey, Michael can handle the crazy). I just can't wait to see her life blossom with the start of her family. I love you Sarah!!!

Holy Grail of Potty

Woohoo!!! Madison pee peed in the potty! She did it on 6/18/2013 @ 5:15pm. Unfortunately I was also on the potty and my phone was in the kitchen-so no actual picture of her on the potty but I do have a pic of the pee pee, which I won't share unless you really want to see it!!! Here are how the events unfolded.

I tried to get Madison to potty in the morning. She came up to me and said she had to potty. So I stripped her down and we proceeded to sit on the potty...nothing. Tells me she's done. So we walk into the living room and she tells me again she needs to go...so back we go. Once again, nothing. We go back to the living room and I try to out a diaper back on her and she just keeps running away. She runs to her play kitchen and proceeds to pee. I was hoping her reaction would be one of utter disgust but instead she started laughing=no bueno! So off to school we go...defeated.

I pick her up and we get home and I tell her Mommy needs to potty, do you want to potty? She says yes. She sits in hers and I sit in mine. She usually likes to hold toilet paper to tear apart but this time I told her I'd give her some when I was done with the potty. I proceed to pee and tell her to listen to what I'm doing. She giggles and then makes a face and tells ME to listen and what do I hear? The most amazing sound in the WORLD! I hear her tinkle! I went nuts!!! She got lots of chocolate, we danced and skipped around the house! And that was the last time she peed in the toilet. Ugh-potty training is frustrating-here's to hoping for another breakthrough...

Enjoy my photo dump!

NashVegas

Last weekend trey and I decided to do a getaway weekend. We decided on Nashville. It's something that we talked about for a long time but just never acted on it.  Well, Father's Day came and I didn't know what to get him so I decided to plan the trip for the weekend afterwards. However, I was super confused by the layout and where to stay and I wanted to stay downtown so we could walk around and everything was super expensive. I ended up telling him my idea and I'm glad I did. He ended up going on Priceline and we got the Sheraton downtown for $125 a night!!

We decided to head down Friday night after work-left around 4.

Those are some excited parents leaving their 2 yr old child behind!

We arrived to our hotel around 6:30. Our room was pretty nice and we got a king bed which was awesome!! Here was our view:

We headed to this restaurant that Trey's boss recommended called Burger Up. It was sooo yummy!! Everyone should try it. We got fried pickles, burgers and then the most healthy dessert I've ever had:Krispy Kreme doughnut bread pudding. A-MAY-ZING!!!!

Obviously we had no problem fitting dessert into our tummies! Afterwards, went to our hotel and then walked around downtown. I didn't realize how crazy downtown Nashville can be! Printer's Alley freaked me out a little. First thing I see is a sign that says Nude Karoke...weird. And there were 4 policeman on horses just standing and watching in the other side of the alley...weird again. Then we walked on Second Ave and it was just this crazy street. Lots of GoGo dancers dancing outside and very loud music. We finally ended up on broadway. We walked into a bar and had one beer and then retired back  to our hotel.

We slept in until 9am!!! Pure bliss! I love blackout curtains! We got up and headed to Puckett's for a late breakfast. Trey got the buffer and I got a pancakes dish-I wish I had gotten the buffer (French toast casserole-need I say more). All their drinks are in these cute mason jars:

After breakfast, we headed to Opry Mills and shopped til we dropped or at least became broke. Also, we kept saying over and over how much Madison would have had if she was here-we definitely missed our baby. After shopping we had lunch a Blue Coast Burrito. So good. Trey was definitely in heaven.  Got back to the hotel, enjoyed the ending of Shutter Island and then got ready and hit the town. We weren't hungry so we decided to just go to some bar and eat and drink there. This is around 5 or 6 and everything was packed! I wanted to sit on a patio. Anyway, we finally found one at Baileys. Pretty cool bar. We watched the hockey game outside and I had a celebrity siting or sorts.

Delicious Yazoo beers!

Owl always looking down on me-chi o for life. Haha

It proceeded to storm but our waiter was awesome and just brought our table inside so nothing got wet and once it stopped raining we just moved our table back outside and were fine because our chairs and table never got wet!

Trey and me being creepers by taking a "selfie" but really trying to take a pic of Ryan (d-bag Ryan from teen mom). He's the one in the bandana.

Finally jut got the drunk nerve to ask him for a pic. His shirt just says it all!

We drank too much and stayed up way too late-such a fun night! We had set our alarm for 7:30 for breakfast but we slept through it. We were running a little late but we got ready, packed, checked out and headed to pancake pantry for breakfast. This is what we encountered when we got there.

A long ass line. However, it moves really quickly and we got in and ate our delicious pancakes. Then we got the road to get our baby. 

Once we picked her up from Trey's parents house, we took her home and had a blast in the sink!

Like Dorothy says in the Wizard of Oz-there's no place like home.