Sisters?

So I am due for a cute funny friend story. We have been pretty boring lately, so it was time to make one happen. Friday night I ventured down to the horrible city that is Tuscaloosa. Growing up an Auburn fan, I have learned to despise this town. Well no one in Birmingham planned to do much, and friends were going to visit a friend we have in the MBA program at Bama so off I took. We get to the bar The Houndstooth (voted best bar by SI- I don't think so). We are standing talking with friends when a guy my little sister goes to school with comes up and says "Molly!" I am oblivious to that he is talking to me, so after a while The Educator informs me that she thinks he is trying to get my attention. I quickly tell him that I am not Molly, but her older sister and he says "No way. She told me she had a twin, but I thought she said you went to Auburn." Keep in mind this guy has had a few, so after arguing with him for a few minutes that Molly and I were not twins I just gave up. This is when The Educator decides to jump in and announce to the guy that yes Molly and I are twins and she is our older sister! I about lost it! The guys eyes get huge and he goes "Da** you have a fine a** family!" I lost it. Completely. I have never laughed so hard. I really hope this guy kept on partying and does not think we are all sisters!! I pretty much think of Carolyn as my sister and Molly obviously is my blood, but twins really?

"Shews"

I got a phone call today from my aunt saying Anna Cruce must really be my daughter is disguise. The child already has an obsession with tutu's, dancing, anything sequin or flashy, and most important, SHOES! Yes I was (and still am) obsessed with all these as a kid. Little A.C. will run up to you like she has not seen you in years, huge smile on her face and immediately point to your feet and touch your shoes yelling "shews! shews!" It is the cutest thing I have ever seen! If you dare take them off in her presence be prepared for her to shove them in your face until you put them back on your feet!

Today my mom and aunt were browsing a children's store in Homewood today and A.C. spotted some red sequin ballet flats and proceeded to carry them around the store the entire time. She also picked up the pink sequined pair and refused to let you take them out of her hand. I talked to her during the trip and all she would say was "shews! shews!" They said she was showing them to the phone for me to look at. Normally they end up buying whatever she has in her hand, but they were $80 a pair!! Needless to say she pitched a royal fit and taken outside for a cookie. Ahhh the life!!

I love this kid. I want one just like her (not anytime soon). Since she has been playing with my shoes so much I just so have noticed that it is wayyyy past time for me to invest in some LBB aka little black boots! I have been putting them off and my square-skuffed up pair are not going to kick it anymore. So I have found these options. My mom would hate all 3. I have not tried any on yet, but what do you think?

Basic?

Country flair with the buckle?

Skip the boot and go for the patent look?

All three of these are from Nine West and hopefully will pop up at the local Belk's when I leave here! I just may or may not have opened a credit card there in order to get my 40 percent discount?


On a sad note, most of my post will have to be able A.C. until we have excitement that can be posted. My cute blog motivator Gus suddenly passed away two weeks ago. I am just now getting to the point that I want to write about it, but I am still shocked. Also, my team has done nothing to prove to me that I should support them with my amazing tailgates, but I will at least have to post about our two awesome outings.I am going to West Virginia next week, so hopefully I will come back with a camera full of mullets and mountain mama's! Bye for now!

How to Satisfy the Queen!

Take her to Sam's and let her laugh and charm all the customers and associates.



Find the toy aisle and pretend she owns all the teddy bears by tossing her inside the box over and over and over...



Clap everytime you throw her in the bears! The simple things are the most exciting!


Give her a lollipop and teach her to make the "pop" sound when she pulls it out of her mouth!


Goodness I love this little girl! She said "B" for the first time last week! Smart child!



P.S. I am sooooo procrastinating studying for my midterm...Grad school... what??

Christmas 2K8

I just got the go ahead from my mother to start making my list for Santa Claus this year. Yes all 4 of us children are now officially in their 20's and my mother still insists on doing Santa Claus. I do not complain because it is one of our family Christmas traditions that I absolutely adore. Molly and I have always slept in the same bed Christmas Eve (Andy use to join us, but has gotten to old and my dad booted him from the room. Ryan got to help play Santa). We started this tradition as a ploy for "Santa" to come and me keep the little ones from peeking too early. Anyways, one of us would wake the others up and we would all creep and look at our presents and then would try and fall back asleep until daylight. Sadly now that we are all older, it takes my mom beating us out of bed an hour before family comes to open our presents and put them away. We also keep the television on the 24 hour marathon of A Christmas Story. I will be so sad when TBS decides to stop running that on Christmas. I act like I have NEVER seen it and watch it compulsively.
With all that being said, my mom called me today to inform me that I needed to start my Christmas list. She wants to get to buying early (I will be shocked if that happens). My problem you ask???? What are all the 999,999,999 things that I have randomly thought of as "great gifts for Brooke" throughout the past year? Now that it is game time for my list they have all deserted me. I know I need clothes. Duh. But what else?? Give me ideas people! What are the hot items for 2008?

I belong in....

Year 1991 baby. The description is pretty funny! I do not know if I really pull off the "ghetto fab" in my life, but I guess I should start trying! Ohhh gotta love it!

You Belong in 1991

With you anything goes! You're grunge one day, ghetto fabulous the next. It's all good!

What Year Do You Belong In?

Wow...

It has been a while. I have definitely been up to no good lately, but I have not been motivated to blog. Sawry! I am going to blame my lack of blogging on the new focus for the month-the perfect Auburn tailgate!
You see two years ago my old roommate Marty and I wrote down a yearly progression chart for our Auburn tailgates. These are the years since we have been gone from Auburn, saved lots of money with our bad-a jobs (ha) and purchase one influential tailgating item a year. The goal being that in 20 years we will purchase a RV and travel to every game throughout the season. Year one was simple- chairs, coolers, koozies,you know all the basics. Keep in mind BOURBON was still the most important tailgating essential in our minds this year after graduation. Year two we advanced to Auburn tailgating at home and we added away games!! This also included more chairs, adding tables with decorations, proper silverware,homemade goodies for munching & a cd player/stereo system. Well as we get to year three we hit a roadblock. Marty left me. So I have felt I have to keep up the tradition, so when she moves back to the south (please!) she can pick up with me where she left. Have no fear though, all my peeps have gathered togethered to make year three the most awesome yet. For LSU alone we are adding- 2 tents, 1 stereo/ipod system, tv for games that will come on during the day, a cooler/grill COMBO (I'm telling ya it's swifty) and a HANDMADE Auburn Cornhole board. Get jealous. I know you are. Well the best part is the Enginerd and I just had a conversation about how we can get a generator down there to get the tailgate running with no hassle! Yes we are quite possibly going to be ahead of our progression chart by a few years! Do not get your hopes up quiet yet Marty, we have to find a donator because they are toooooo expensive for the bank account, but be assured I am looking for one instead of working!
By the end of this football season, the Enginerd and myself may have an orbiting tailgate around campus, so we could tailgate hop! You are a Rocket Scientist, let's do it!!!
OK back to reality I sound like I am on drugs. My life for the past few weeks has been on tailgating. I still have a week and I am sooo ready for the next two Saturday's I can barely see straight! Marty-Party you better get ready. You are going to be so impressed to see this year's progression of the tailgate that you may never leave!

WDE!!!!

It is Time for....

AUBURN FOOTBALL!

I can already smell the football in the air. The tailgating has started, the hotdogs are fresh on the grill & everyone has poured their first Bourbon and Diet Coke- mixing it together with a shaker so it goes down smoothly. I basically morph into a man during football season. Today for example I have already read up on autigers.com and JOX turned up on the radio in the store and in the car. I highly doubt many other women can top that. However, football season and I have a love/hate relationship. No I am not your fair-weathered fan by any means, I am the fan who needs to get a life from and stop living for August-December. I LOVE when we win and the chills I get when we score, but I HATE the feeling of losing. The feeling of not being able to control the situation or move the big blocker out of the way. Better yet I want to take the little yellow penalty flag and hogtie the referee with it! Ohhh Auburn football. Why do you do that to me??

Well anyways, if you ask right now if you could be anywhere in the world where would you be I will hands down this moment say Auburn Alabama sitting by the tennis courts waiting to mark our spot for tomorrow's game. Traye already has the tailgate down and people are coming from class to take turns securing our spots. We have already started sipping beers and Marty is on the road already yelling as the cars drive by. Carolyn is at school & Ellen is still sleeping. Pretty soon things will get crazy as more people come out and play and we may even stay there all night yelling at people when they drive by. Ohhhh can I go back to college now.........

Ok I am off to white water raft- yep you heard me correctly. I give a rivoting spill about football when I am going to miss the first game. Be aware this is the first game in about 8 or so years that I have never watched or listened to live. Even though it is La Monroe I am sad. So I will leave you with some favorite football pictures. I have a limited collection on my work computer, so I will have to add more later from my laptop. WAR DAMN EAGLE!!!!

The Educator...

Well I will start my funny story collection with a hilarious tale about my best friend who will be known on this blog as The Educator. The Educator and I became best friend's in college and she is one of the main culprits for me going back to school to get my Master's in Education. She insists we have summer's off so we can travel and be beach bums. The Educator is going on her third year of teaching and amazes me with her champion skills to play at night and be a wonderful teacher the following morning. Well this story tops the cake of the Educator tales (keep in mind the details will be kept to a minimum).

The Night Rider

A few weekends ago in the late night moonlight, the Educator thought it would be a wonderful idea to take a bike ride around her neighborhood. She had been out with a group of friends and was desperate to meet one of them back at her house. No one would drive her, so she opted to take her bike instead. Keep it mind if you have ever visited her neighborhood you know that she lives extremely close to two busy four lane roads and she lives in the DUI capital of America!! Well she cleverly manages to ride up one of the busy roads, wave to her friend's as they pass in a car, make it to her house and then circle all around her neighborhood. In the middle of her peaceful ride, she manages to somehow fall off the bike, ruin her pretty white sundress she was wearing, get back on the bike and ride some more. The next morning, the Educator quickly realizes something is wrong when she see's her white dress is now brown and frayed on the ends and she also has a nice skint up knee. She looks outside and see's her bike sitting upright smiling from the late night journey. She had to smile because she then (barely) remembers her late night ride around her neighborhood!

*Update to the story- The bicycle has been stolen from The Educator's backyard. She is very saddened because she is no long able to take night rides. If anyone knows of it's whereabouts please let her know!


**On another note we have discovered that the Educator has absolutely no fibbing abilities when it comes to the boyfriend- who we will coin the Enginerd- and his car being out in front of her house in the early morning hours when her STUDENTS pulled up to roll her house. Really Educator- you can lie to your students when you have too!

Rain Rain...

Go away please come back when I can stay home and snooze away. Seriously I am on cup of coffee number 6 and I am still adding to the count. I wonder what is the record for most cups of coffee drank in a day?? I may beat it by the days end.

Oh but look at what I did this weekend...

Friday night we had this....


Saturday night included both of these...

and we had MORE cheesecake which was wonderful!!!




With a rainy Sunday. I was greeted by this...
and these...

I may never eat again after this weekend!!

Obsessed...

You can easily say that I am obsessed with this little girl. She will be a year old in less than a month and not a day goes by that I think of her precious smile or cute little laughter. She is growing up to be a wonderful little lady!!!

Just the Beginning....

Wow. Where do I begin??? I do not know why I have decided to start this blog except out of complete boredom. I turned 25 on Wednesday (yes I know halfway to 50 and lower insurance) and I have been thinking about all the crazy stories my friends and I have shared over the years. There is never a week where someone does not have a hilarious-make your stomach hurt with laughter- story, a random encounter with a strange person/animal/experience or one of our crazy road trip that always churns out multiple memories!
I have also been reminiscing over my college years and the craziness that ensued. I cannot believe it has already been a little more than three years since I graduated and Tom forced me home (literally) and made me get a job. It feels like I should be pulling up to ole Leischuck Hall, or the ole Edge West 204 or even sleep walking to class in the early morning heat (bc no roommate would wake up to take me). I have experienced some of the best times with some of the best friends one girl could ever ask for from the Lord. Each of them has impacted my life in more ways than one and I hope I have been able to return the favor!
So I am starting this blog. Who in the right name knows what will come out of it, but I hope I can benefit someone or something. Hopefully my friends can share a laugh or too when I get to remind them of a hilarious happening! =)


P.S. WDE!!!! 8 days until kickoff!

Gus the blog motivator!