The Dog Park with Rose

today i got off work really early (i did store inventory, 6 am to 11!) and since it's nice out i decided to take Rose to the centennial park dog park.



at first she was freaking out and didn't want any of the dogs near her (but she loves all the people who came up to her)

but then....

omg!!! look at that FACE!!! it kills me every time. she got a little more comfortable and even ran in the dog pack a few times.

ryan was randomly there with some of his friends from the other store. so random! that is a girl named rachel's dog bloo. such a pretty baby! ryan was forcing her to love him. haha.

we walked down to the park and everyone climbed in a tree and i sat awkwardly on the ground off to the side and played with rose.


i think we'll go back a few more times before it gets too hot. hopefully it will socialize her more and she won't try to shark crystal's dog constantly. haha.

now rose is totally passed out on the couch. she is so adorable.

First ever trip to knoxville

On monday travis and I went to knoxville, tn. We've been talking about it forever, because it's the only big city in tennessee i hadn't been too. and i get into their zoo free because i have a nashville zoo membership. it's about 3 hours away from us, so...we went.




huge long tree tunnel to see the bears! so awesome!!

i was FREAKING OUT about these wax animal machines. they had them at the little zoo near my grandparents house in florida. the was melting smell made me so nostalgic.

did you know the red panda is actually the only member of the panda family? giant pandas are really bears. cute.

can you believe i wore a dress in public?


i was REALLY EXCITED to see their huge turtle collection, but they don't come out til may! which sucked because it was HOT (almost 80!) that day so it would have been fine. i love turtles.

while we were taking these i could hear some kids around the corner saying something about cats. so i was hoping they had a cat exhibit! how cute would that be? but it was just an old picture of a cat.

my little baby chicken.

baby camels! they guy doing the camel rides kept bringing loads of kids on camels over. i think he thought i was someones mom because i was taking a million pictures.

rat exhibit! they were so BIG. so cute.


the elephants were doing a really cute synchronized dance.

travis IS a gorilla.

so verdict, it was an allright zoo. a few nice new exhibits. the big cat part was sad though. really small and old.

we drove around town with the windows down. so awesome. it felt so great to be out and somewhere new.

we went to the yee haw industries store front. i was geeking out! the owner was sitting in the window drawing when we got there! then he told us to come to the back and watch them print if we wanted. but i chickened out.




i spent so much money! but i got some gifts for people. we're going to hang the food ones in our dining room. i already had one of them (a corndog and caramel apple on a date!) and i'm going to hang the tree set in my craft room. so much cute stuff.


we ate at soccer taco! fish tacos with a delicious spicy cheese sauce. so yummy.



then we walked to the sunsphere! it was built for the 1982 world's fair!

it was pretty neat. there isn't much to look at in knoxville though.

i cannot wait for our big anniversary road trip! just six weeks away!

Up from the grave he arose!

Happy Easter!!







what a perfect little easter bunny!



a tulip bloomed by our back door today! perfect timing!

Mad Tea Party!

Last night was the first party in our new house! I was extra stressed and bitchy the day before. Haha, sorry Travis and Dana. but i think it went really well in the end..


the main reason i was really cranky was i waited until the last minute to make my costume. and i've never made clothes before. so i was freaking out about it. but it actually turned out pretty good though. i made a wrap skirt and added straps to make it a pinafore. dana gave me the idea and helped me out so much with it.

brittany and i hosted the party together. she came over really early and we made props and decorated. we went shopping for teacups a few weeks ago. pretty awesome. together we had a pretty big collection of cute cake stands and serving pieces!



i am obsessed with those fruit tarts from whole foods. i was a little pissed because i special ordered those and they don't look as good as usual. but they still tasted pretty good.
i couldn't stop eating those petit fours! so good, and the flavors were always unexpected. the pink we coffee, and the brown where strawberry and apricot. so delish.

drink station! ice cream punch, two choices of tea, or italian soda. we got sugar cubes so it would be super official.
crystal came over early as usual so she could get ready here. that one of the most fun parts. we still want to do drag queen party. crazy make up and hair and drag queen movies and dancing.
duck lips face of course.
so we had....


two cute alices.


two march hares.

the white queen!

the mad hatter

queen of hearts number one

queen and king of hearts!

tweedle dee and tweedle dum!
brittany gave me the idea to put "dee" on my skirt. so cute. i'm going to use this again for fourth of july too!
brittany made these ham/herbed cream cheese/spinach rolls that were gobbled up in 12 seconds.






mostly we just sat around and ate and laughed and i gave house tours since not many people have been over here yet. we let rose have the run of the house during the party and she did really good! she was really friendly at the party too. so proud of her.

we got lots of points and laughs at the movie. i forgot that its different if you don't go on opening night. hahah. but two groups asked to get their picture with us. we went to the big imax theater so the 3D was great.

the movie....it was just ok. i was expecting to love it. because i love tim burton, and alice in wonderland, and johnny depp. it was too fantasy/battle/adventure for me i think. and weird alice/hatter action. you kept thinking they were going to kiss or something. eh.

oh well. i guess its good they did something different because there have been so many alice movies that follow the plot of the first book. i wish this one would have been like "through the looking glass." and why is there an avril lavigne song at the end? and wtf stupid mad hatter dance sequence. i HATED that. stupid. blech.