sunday best

I guess our little Sunday Best features have become more of a series of pictures posted on Sundays than our actual Sunday Best. Which is interesting. Hopefully once the event season calms down, I'll... You know, be able to go to church on Sundays again.

But, how great are those polka dot high heels? Yeah, Jared got them for me. Not that it's not painfully obvious that I have a small polka dot obsession or anything. PSH. He's such a catch.

his

shirt: h&m | sunglasses & shorts: cotton on | belt: j. crew

hers

shirt: pacsun | necklace: charlotte russe | jeans & watch: francesca's collection | shoes: f21

the rest of richmond

how to break in a new house: let friends invade for 2 days pretty much IMMEDIATELY following purchase of new home, under the pretenses that there's a 5k to be run, but really... it's an excuse to party. have friends explore city surrounding new home to (once again) give their stamp of approval that your city is, in fact, wonderful. make really good food that makes the new house smell all sorts of delicious, but also go out to a fancy shmancy restaurant & drink celebratory/way too expensive drinks (toast to friendship & home-owning & caramel + lava salt gelato). break in front yard tree with impromptu bestie-photo sesh. imagine having future children recreate photos in front yard tree. (not pictured: stomp around house singing & banging on walls just to feel better about not having upstairs or downstairs neighbors to worry about.) finish with a super precious photo shoot with spouse to commemorate homeownership. decide that new house probably isn't completely broken in yet, & begin planning the next friend invasion.

sweet, sweet times in richmond.
we are so happy for our kindred spirits & their new adventure.

color run!

Amelia & I decided waaay earlier this year that running a 5k seemed like a really good goal to achieve, & that a 5k involving being pelted with colors seemed like the way to go. Amelia has long claimed rainbow as her favorite color, & I have long claimed running as the bane of my existence, so the obvious choice was skipping our way through a run that didn't involved being timed or you know, like, training & stuff. but we did it! we walked a little but we did it! & it was just happy & carefree & we high-fived people we didn't know A LOT. the color mosh pit at the end was definitely magical, although this is coming from someone who was smiling/laughing her way through every color station & ended up with brown teeth by the end of the race. This is the same runner who was coughing/sneezing/q-tipping color out of various orifices for the next 6 hours. Which is the same girl whose armpits & kneepits were stained navy blue for 48 hours. ... Who is the same blonde that rocked green, algae-like tips in her hair for the rest of the week. Totally. Worth. It.

& of course, where would we be without our biggest fans, who found us at the finish line sporting their Color Runner sweatbands, with added "Husband of A" flair. Husbands are cute. & please don't let it be lost on you that my race number ended in 143. Obviously a sign that I was the most in-love runner out there.

Obviously.

sunday best-ish

I HAVE BOOTS ON. ihavebootsonihavebootsonihavebootson. !!! I, along with the rest of southern Virginia, have been obsessed with the weather around here recently. You don't understand - We don't really usually get more than two weeks of "fall", & when we do? It's in November. We're usually battling hurricanes or humid, sticky heat this time of year.

The weekend is finally upon us, since Mondays are our glorious day-off, & my big plans are to color coordinate our bookshelves & book our anniversary trip. But tonight? Tonight, Jared's cooking up his out-of-this-world honey glazed brussels sprouts, it's my turn to pick out a movie, & we're going to just hold still. & it's going to be great.

& no, I didn't wear this to church. I wore this after work. so there.

shirt: pac sun | shorts: h&m | boots: payless, whaaat | bubble necklace: southern jewelry auctions (check them out on facebook!)

minus & plus

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blog silence = busy times. 

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but mostly really great busy times! that include lots of pictures!

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my whole department was away at a conference last week, so I got to wear many, many hats at work.

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I survived. I also took 2.5 days off, so I sorta cheated.

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I survived my first 5k! (there may have been some walking involved.)

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I'm still sore!

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there's a chipped paint mess all over the back seat/trunk of our car.

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it's from a really lovely find in Carytown that I can't wait to show you.

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super crazy traffic on the way home from Richmond

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road trip conversations with my guy. it's a lot of laughing & hand holding.

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mixed emotions of leaving dear friends & our carefree weekend to come home to our still-mostly-disorganized-apartment.

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the last of the boxes have been emptied & it's just an organizing game from here on out!

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I should have done some of said organizing tonight.

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I made baked macaroni & cheese instead. 

ohhhhhh, september. please slow down.