best friends.

did you ever have those best friend necklaces

with the heart cut in two? i  love them. i always 

wanted the first part of the words... the second part

just didn't seem right to me...

check out all the innovative ways to show your bestie you care..

found all of these on etsy.

peanut butter jelly time for all my camp pals.

milk & cookies for my cookie monster bff raffy.

phone date gals, for my tara jane.

perfect for my nantucket loving best pal, say say.

my fabulous cori would totally rock this.

i think she'd be the poo & i'd be the pee...

just because we work together & share too much &

we're totally weird like that.

this is perfect for me & my beautiful sisters.

of course i'm in the middle... the sweetest one.

ex eggs.

farewell pope benedict.

thanks to cori for forwarding this along...

whole 30 days.

we're on day 28!

my super supportive fabulous cori always brings

me treats and words of paleo encouragement.

i'm really trying. trying really hard.

a beast omelette like this makes me feel like...

i'm a beast.

smashed chicken & cauliflower rice with veggies 

have been my favorite go-to meal this time around whole 30.

supper clubs with friends have been clutch.

nothing like spending quality time with your

besties & preparing hearty clean food!

a nice table setting makes the food taste better too!

coconut curry chicken stew. 

supper club lovers.

b & k, slim, tj, heather & mike.

falcon fueled smoothie.

this was our falcons playoff game spread.

didn't even miss the chips and beer.....

boom, happy birthday cori.

happy birthday to my fabulous cori!

the birthday girl livin' it up in hawaii back in the day!

cori & her sweet niece, glo.

mysterious mustache ladies.

the baby is a huge cori fan too!

hope you have the best day...

the office is super lame without you around.

my editor.

i'd like to send a long over due thank you

to my amazing editor, fabulous cori.

you've got an amazing eye for catching my mistakes.

nicknames.

this one goes out to hot dog, basil, two box & beret.

nail love.

i love painted nails.

i think living with and being friends with 

eleanor (who used to paint & re-paint her nails almost everyday

when we were in college) gave me the appreciation for a fine manicure.

lately, thanks to pinterest i've been obsessed with funky designs and 

creative, colorful nails.

my fabulous cori surprised me with a bunch of cool

nail colors that have the fine tip to allow for creating designs. 

here's a few from cori!

at the beach i did my mom-in-laws toes.

she loved the poka-dots!

here's a few of my recent favs that i hope to create soon.

buzzzzz....

fancy pancy black-tie nails.

love simple dots.

sos.

today is cori's dad's memorial service & birthday.

this was my daily picture. i thought it was appropriate.

we scored vip seats. sweet.

the service was at the temple. the temple is so beautiful.

it's so historical- the bombing, driving miss daisy....

look at that beautiful chandelier. amazing.

after the service & cake, a few of us ventured into the sanctuary

where we looked up the date of the bombing- 1958. 

(way earlier than we all thought)

if i were to get married again (to the same man of course) and i

wanted to go the synagogue route i would definitely do it at the temple.

it's just so historical & delicate & southern & pretty.  

i dedicate this pic in pops honor.

checkout this completely amazing program

from the memorial service.

  what a stud, huh?!

complete with 62 life lessons from stanley.

every.single.one is perfect.

my favorites are #'s 27, 12, 1, 49, 54 & 38.

word clouds are so cool.

all of the grandkids drew a picture of their papa zz.

what a beautiful celebration of such a special life.

i felt honored to be present.

grow!

as mentioned previously

slim, lea, my fabulous cori & i went to see grow!

 

grow! is an amazing documentary film that 

'captures the energy & independence'

of young farmers throughout georgia.

the film makers & one of the farmers featured 

in the film were there & had a q&a after the film.

mollybjams & the fabulous anthony-masterson film-making duo.

after sharing the grow! trailer on my blog,

the filmmakers recognized slim & i and

they even posed for a picture with me!

lea and the grow! poster.

my new ring.

slim got a kayak- i got this ring!

my fab cori said it's a lapis stone.

one more birthday girl.

happy birthday to my most loyal 

puddles of jams follower, my fabulous friend cori!

here's super aunt cori in action with her little ones.

honestly, cori makes me look forward to going to work, 

she's ridiculously fun, has a great memory & has the perfect

amount of ocd to balance my add. i just love her.

happy birthday cori:)

i love birthdays.

*t-minus 13 days until yours truly turns 27.

sick day.

sending good vibes & healthy high 5's to cori.

please feel better soon.

work really sucks without you.