from the shores of north carolina

We are taking a blissful week off on the North Carolina shores. Jared's brother & his wife, along with sweet baby Mia have joined us for some R&R, making for lots of baby lovin' & laughs. It has been a loooooong event season, but our November vacations are well worth the wait! Alright, I'm being told it's movie/naptime. My kinda afternoon.

stockley gardens art show

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

It's funny looking at photos of the bright & beautiful fall weather we were enjoying just 8 days ago with our sweet friends. We popped over to the bi-annual Stockley Gardens Art Show before the Coulomb's left town - Soaking in the smell of kettle corn, wishing we had $500 to drop on paintings of bears & taking turns with the camera since there's actually no way to take a good photo of five with a 50mm lens. I know that there's usually photo-OVERLOAD when us five hang out, but they're just our sunshine! We love them! I don't even feel bad!

sunday best - hurricane edition

We're currently battening down the hatches in anticipation of Hurricane Sandy/Frankenstorm/Stormpocolypse/WHATEVER. So far, that means doing a lot of laundry, drinking a lot of hot chocolate, & (apparently) wearing really wrinkly skirts to church. Also, Psych Season 6 & homemade tomato soup + caramel corn, while there's still power. But really, there's also been plenty to prepare for. We're keeping a very close eye on everything Sandy & keeping everyone north of us in our prayers. Here's hoping we don't blow up, up & away!

saturday best - AKA style

Things you need to know: 

-Sometime during sophomore year of college, Allison, Amelia & I started calling ourselves the AKA. It's been our standard photo pose ever since. (& over five years, that spans quite the spectrum of embarrassment, let me tell you.)

-It's only just now dawned on me how wonderfully coordinated we were, so that's nice & bff-y! 

-I'm not actually a towering giant. In fact, I stand at a very average 5'6.

-My friends are absolute dolls.

-If you look real hard, you can see the polo shirt tan line I've worked really hard on all summer at my outdoor work events.

-Allison's pants & Amelia's purse are the real show stoppers here.

-But isn't that also such a nice stucco wall?

We learned in my last post that local fashion weeks aren't really anything to write home about. But, by gum, it was fun to feel fancy with two beautiful ladies for the evening.

iphone does: virginia fashion week

 

Since a 5k got Jared & I up to Richmond to spend a weekend in the Coulomb's brand new house, it seemed fair to entice the Coulomb's to make a trip down to Norfolk to visit our new apartment by dangling a fashion show in front of Amelia's nose. Allison, Amelia & I got a little gussied up & headed over to the Virginia Fashion Week's Couture show. Drank a little wine, played with some  SPCA kittens (our city loves some SPCA), pretended like we were totally part of the fashion scene... You know. Fashion Week stuff.

I'm not going to lie, it was a little... local? I can't say disappointed, because I experience the Big 4 fashion weeks via bloggers, gossip columnists & my big imagination, so I don't have any real life experience to compare it to. But, we can at least say we went out, supported local models/designers/whoever was sponsoring the cash bar, & hey! PLAYED WITH KITTENS.

Thanks for the evening out, Norfolk!