sometimes it's fun to answer marketing calls

marketing/sales call:

me: Hello?

woman: Hi! Can I talk your mommy or daddy?

me: You'll have to call them at their home. My husband and I don't have any parents living with us.

woman: Oh... I'm so sorry. I'm calling on behalf of ::something, I tuned out:: ... take the survey?

me: Sure.

woman: Ok, how many people living in your home are over the age of 35?

me: Zero.

woman: Excuse me?

me: My husband and I are both under thirty.

woman: (laughing so hard she can't breathe) I can only survey people over 35. Miss, I am so sorry. But this has been the best call I've made all day.

me: Glad to help. Have a great day.

woman: Oh, Honey... I will NOW!

Insta-Friday

My week in cell phone pictures - I love this concept!





Sharpies are in my top-10-of-all-time list.








We got a new, grown up, chair this week! Turco LOVES it already!


Social Club Kickball! Games are at 9:30... when it's finally starting to cool down! :)




Getting ready for the beach. My annual ritual of cleaning out the pantry for stale crackers to feed the sea gulls.




Fourth of July Bunting. It's a little americana/country for our house, but for a midnight crafting session it came out pretty dang cutsie-pie.



Beautiful flowers from two even more beautiful friends. xx




Dinner, pool, and bubbly with a dear friend. Who says you need a specific reason to break out bubbles? I love celebrating life, everyday!



Are you on instagram? Will you leave your username in the comments? I'd love to follow you!

Too Funny!

This just put a smile on my face!





"Zola, nine-years old, is one of eight Western lowland gorillas currently living at the Calgary Zoo as part of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums Gorilla Species Survival Plan. He loves to play in water and keepers regularly give him the opportunity to do so as part of the enrichment activities they plan and vary on a daily basis"

I feel ya, buddy. Brie and I have made it our habit to play in the pool or hose at LEAST once a day. It's just toooooooo hot!

Summer {So Far}

It's officially been a week of summer "vacation". Here's what I've rounded up from the iphone.





Squirrel. It doesn't really have to do with summer vacation but I like it. It's fun. Summer is fun, too. :)





Sachi and I have been thoroughly enjoying staying up late and sleeping late in the morning. Obvi, she's not ready to wake up yet.





My pool buddy and I can't think of a better way to spend a hot afternoon. We looooooove the pool!





I attended the NEF Board Meeting and Annual Retreat hosted by Sea World and this cutie was our welcoming committee. Best meeting I've ever been to!





Friends are my favorite part of summer! A fabulous dinner at Le Frite and lots of catching up.

In about three or four weeks I'm going to start getting antsy. Someone please refer me back to this post and my original "to-do" list.

P.s. I posted this from my phone this morning around 10 am. At about 11:15, Brie stepped on my phone and cracked the screen. I was SO SAAAAD!!! The amazing guy at Apple replaced my phone for me. In the midst of being teary about my phone and grateful he didn't think I was a nut case and amazed that he was just going to REPLACE my phone, I stopped and actually thought to myself "Well, I'm sure glad I posted those pictures this morning. Those weren't on my last back up." Just keepin' real around here.

Decade of Friendship

Ten Augusts ago as a Freshman at Texas A&M I met some of the most beautiful women I gladly still call my friends. As far as friendships go, these girls wrote the book. We spent the weekend shopping, hanging out, and reminding ourselves why we liked each other in the first place (which mostly has to do with well timed puns, hilarious jokes, and the art of finishing each other's sentences without trying).

Mmmm! Starbuck's new Trenta size! It's like a classy big-gulp! Shopping the outlets almost did us in...

But we pulled it together for some boutique/antique shopping in Greune!

KDH, JE, KMF, AWB, KEH, CSF and KJC (we missed you if you weren't there!).

Nothing is better after a taxing and grueling day of shopping like dinner on the bank of the Guadalupe River.

When the sun sets in Greune, the party gets started! We didn't hang around for it, but Reckless Kelley was playing at Greune Hall.

We couldn't resist a little more shopping! The Greune Country Store has so many precious and unique things.

I think AWB is illustrating what she's going to feel like the Monday after Spring Break.

I apologize in advance for the following pictures.

As good Pi Phi's  should, AWB and I had a cookie shine! Yes. We even sang the song. Which launched us into another favorite... See an arrow flying by?

...and then we realized we couldn't remember all of the words. But it was all good. We're not prepping for recruitment and until KMF has her baby this summer, we won't be brain washing anyone anytime soon.

Thanks to TRog, Bradley, the Loj and the other "old girls" for inspiring us to also celebrate DOF.

Now, are we on a 5 year or 10 year track for the next one?

huh-lair-ee-us

Kate (over at life. simply stated) shared a link to "Catalog Living". I can't wait for more posts. I laughed SO hard reading the first few she's done. Eat your heart out, Anne Taintor.

Catalog Living