Party Rockin'

Sometimes you just gotta...

So a pinata may have been involved, and said pinata may have had mini-liquor bottles in it. Maybe. But I think graduation is a worthy occasion to have a pinata shaped like a graduation cap filled with hard liquor. I mean... come on.

The night started off with a hungry pup eating almost half of our cake (that took 2 hours to ice), and ended with a predictably competitive board game. If you're going to eat a lot, drink a little too much, and get angry over a trivial board game, you've got to do it with friends, right? Right.

Death by Cuteness

You're just going to die.

 No. We didn't get chicks, but our friends did and we're totally reaping the rewards.

Play-dates with baby chicks are just about the best thing going. If I'm ever offered another baby chick play-date, I can say with full certainty that I will never turn it down. Never. 

Their clumsy, little, fluffy bodies run randomly all over the place--I just want them to run into my arms and stay there forever. Is there such a thing as bird kidnapping, bird-napping? 

You know, just wondering.

I'm FREE!

Ok, guys. I know I've been harping on and on about how I'm graduating, but I'm going to talk about it one last time. This time it's official, because last Friday I actually graduated. 

The deed is done.

I'm finally free and it feels so right. Rion's family came in from south Georgia and my Mom came in from New Jersey to celebrate... well, me! I felt blessed to have them all there cheering me on as I crossed the stage. Now I feel like I'm on a permanent summer vacation.

Today, Rion and I actually hung out. I know it's crazy right?

Needless to say, I'm a very happy girl.

LOTM: I Gather What's Not Mine

Nature is full of treasures. Treasures that we can't take home, and even if we did, they wouldn't hold the same value. As a kid I used to obsessively keep a rock collection. If something was remotely close to maybe resembling something then it was stored away and saved at home. Quickly I realized the power these objects hold in nature does not seem to resonate the same way when they're stuffed in a box.

In an attempt to reconcile this longing to keep nature with the inability to do so, I turned to photography. I'm still very much an amateur, but the photos that I take, I keep. These pictures hold memories, they hold places in a set time, forever preserving the beauty that existed and continues to exist. 

It is my way of gathering what is not mine.

Check out what the other ladies gather:
Gentri
Lena
Meagan
Nicole
Michelle

and guest blogger Faith