Hello Sunshine

       This past weekend was absolutely not what I expected. I planned on going home and having a date night with Cole Friday night, spending the day with mom Saturday, having a girls night Saturday night and going out on the boat with some friends Sunday. Most of my plans happened but they all ended up with some strange twist to them.
        Friday I did drive home, through treacherous downpour. I was super duper excited to be having a date night with my boo. We decided to try out a local sushi and hibachi buffet restaurant that we had heard a lot of positive things about. It wasn't terrible but I would prefer to go to a sushi bar for some freshly made rolls, and a hibachi restaurant that cooks in front of you. But that being said it wasn't awful and the service was good, I think I just have a personal issue with buffets, I don't like not knowing how long ago the food was cooked and put out. The plan for after dinner was to originally go home and watch a movie....
        Well that changed instead we ended up watching the sun set out on Lake Murray and hitting a few bars that are right on the lake with a few friends.

The gorgeous view of the sunset

Cole and I riding on the boat, which is why my hair is crazy looking. 

The boys smoking cigars

Cole with his cigar and a drink

    We didn't get off the water until around 3am...Then we got up early Saturday morning so I could go cowboy boot shopping...which was unfruitful, I found a pair I loved but I decided against them cause I would have been kind of restricted on what I could wear with them, and the other pair I have been looking at were not in stock in my size at the store so unfortunately I walked away empty handed.

These are the said boots that I loved, I may end up ordering these later! 

Once we were done boot shopping I made a super drastic change I went from being a super dark brunette to being a blonde, which I swore I would never do again, but I must say I LOVE IT! I am so happy with the way it turned out.

Now...

 

Before....

     

                   

                    The rest of Saturday was full of girl pampering time, including pedicures....my toenails are now a lovely lavender shade that apparently reminds people of Easter....Saturday night my mom, Deidre (my Bestie since Freshman year of high school) and I went out to dinner then Deidre and I started our girls night...which we thought was going to be just a wine and a movie kind of night. Literally 2 minutes into the movie i got a phone call from Cole... The call basically goes like this: 

  Cole: "hey, what are yall doing"

Me: "nothing watching a movie"

Cole: "Do you guys want to go to a house party?"

Me: "uh I dont know, ....'Deidre do you want to go to a house party?'.....Sure we want to go?!"

Cole: "Ok be ready I am on my way to pick you guys up!"

     Can you talk about random? We seriously ended up in the middle of no where and mine and Deidres night, well I guess morning ended in us watching the sun rise on Lake Murray while we danced to the cupid shuffle on a boat...It doesn't matter how calm of a night we plan to have we always end up having some crazy story to tell. 

Best Picture of the Weekend, Deidre doing the Cupid Shuffle
 at Sunrise on Lake Murray

         Deidre, the friends we were with and I went back to the house slept for a few hours, then literally got up and went back out on the lake for the rest of the day. We ended our weekend eating dinner at San Jose, a local mexican joint where almost all of us looked like we were going to fall asleep in our food from sheer exhaustion, and possibly alcohol for some.

          This weekend was definitely one for the record books, and it is for sure a weekend full of memories we will be talking about for the rest of our lives. 

The World is Coming to an End!

             Ok, ok, not seriously (its not December 21st yet)...but have you ever said to yourself or someone else "oh that's never ever going to happen!" and then it does actually happen? Well when that happens to me one I feel like swallowing my tongue cause I was wrong and two I feel like the world is ending just because I never thought it was going to happen. Anyone else feel that way? yes, no, maybe so...

              When Dusk was a small itty bitty puppy he was the runt of the litter and was the one everyone seemed to bully, so he has always been kind of shy around new people, he is timid around new dogs and he has never been a cuddler. Dusk has some pretty hilarious stories of new dog and new people interactions that I will have to share sometime soon. Anyways Dusk loves, loves, loves to be pet and he is a real ham for attention when he knows you well enough, in fact the first trick he learned was his puppy hug. Puppy hug is literally where he stands on his hind legs and rest his front paws on your leg and enjoys some attention as seen in the photo below.

The famous puppy hug
photo was taken by  mariah simmons photography

         Dusk loves his puppy hugs but he has never been a kisser, in fact in the four years that I have had him he has never once licked me. Another thing that he never has been known to do is to cuddle with you, or sleep anywhere near a person. I tried my hardest when he was a puppy to convince him to sleep in my bed and cuddle with me. He would start out good, at the very, very end of the bed as far away from human reach as possible but would get down literally ten minutes later or as soon as I moved an inch. He just wasn't a fan of it. 

          Now keeping all of that in mind imagine how mind blown I was when over the last few weeks he has gone from sleeping at the end of my bed for two seconds and then getting down, to sleeping at the very end of my bed all night, to sleeping against my leg to completely cuddling. My dog has gone mad! But a good mad, I love it,I think I like the sense of security of him laying right beside me since we live by ourselves right now. 

          Since we live by ourselves we don't normally leave Columbia until Monday mornings now. Well on Monday morning I was up before Cole and had already packed all my stuff up. I went and got Dusk up and got him to follow me into Cole's room. I literally patted the bed once calling him up there to wake Cole up. The next thing I know dusk hops right up on the bed and shoves his cute little muzzle right under Cole's hand and woke him up. It was the most precious thing I had ever seen him do, and man do I wish I had a picture or video of it! 

With all that said I literally thought the world was going to end because my dog is officially a cuddler, I NEVER saw that coming!

My Birthday Extravaganza ~ Part 2

Saturday morning we got up super early and headed to the best beach in south Carolina, Folly! When we got down there we of course ate at the Lost Dog, oh and Howled like dusk 21 times in the middle of the restaurant (it was one of my challenges) and filled up on delicious food, and tasty mimosas! 

My mango-peach mimosa

We then hit the beach, swam in the ocean, tanned, did a few challenges and played football, it was a great time. Once we got all the sun we could handle we strolled on down to Taco Boy. Taco Boy is this amazing taco joint on the main street of folly and it has so many types of tacos its insane. I loooove their tempura shrimp taco and their portabella mushroom one they are so yummy. Anna and I then traveled on down to Black Magic, this unbelievably good coffee shop in Folly to get a coffee to finish another challenge, oh and we took several green and purple things from both Taco Boy and Black Magic. Finally we headed back to the main land. Before we could leave though we were supposed to paint the boat that welcomes everyone to Folly…This boat is basically out there for people to paint and tag with spray paint, its pretty much a staple to Folly and I have never done it so we were supposed to do it as a challenge. Well we go and buy to cans of spray paint, hop in the car head to the boat and when we get there the boat is plastered with “Will you marry me Morgan?” and well we just couldn’t bring ourselves to paint over it because when we came in earlier that day it wasn’t there so we knew that they had just painted it and we didn’t want to ruin something that thought full and cute soooo we never got to cross that one off the list. All in all the beach was a great time, and we all got some good sun, other than Glenn, he got some silly looking sunburn.

The ladies :) 

booty pop! I love my girls

Me and my boo enjoying the sand and the sun 

My BFFL and her boo looking cute

Saturday when we got back from the beach we all split into different ways. Cole, Anna, Nichole, and I set off to go fulfill a challenge. Cole and I had to go stand in the middle of the waterfront park fountain and say I love you 21 times…but that got sabotaged. Some jerk of a guy messed with the fountain so that all the fountain heads got stronger and were hitting Cole and I head on, whereas before we were in the middle and the fountain was barely getting us wet. Thank god I have fast reflexes cause I was wearing a strapless dress and strapless bathing suit and it could have possible been a disaster! But it was still fun and we did get a really cute picture out of it. After that us ladies split off and went shopping for a dress for Anna at forever 21, I must say I love that store but I hate digging through all the messy unorganized clothes.

Cole and I in the fountain
I love him  

That night we all got dressed real nice and went to eat out at Basil. Basil is quite possibly my favorite restaurant in Charleston. It is a very tasty Thai restaurant. Cole surprised me with a birthday cake there too which was super sweet! After dinner we hit the town, it was kind of late when we hit the town though so we only got to go to two places. The first place was called the Market Street Saloon, and basically it’s a dance club. The bartenders dance on the bar for specific songs and then the bar is open to dance on for all the ladies there. One of my challenges was to dance on a bar so Nichole, Anna and I got our sassy little butts up there and danced on the bar. It was surprisingly a lot of fun, but of course there are always creepers out there. Throughout the night I had one creep stare at us forever then try to offer me an open beer, then one guy was just way vulgar, multiple people thought I was getting married (because I was wearing a sash that said “birthday babe” and a crown with a 21 on it, apparently drunks cant ready) tell me “don’t Do It!” which was obnoxious, and also some creepy old man attempted to kiss me on the lips…there are some strange people in the world thank goodness I have some great friends, a protective boyfriend and a very protective big brother! We ended our night up on a roof top bar where us ladies danced the night away after I finished another challenge. My challenge on the rooftop bar was to tell a bartender how to make a shot called “Skinny Dipping” and order a round for the girls. My shot had mango rum, peach schnapps and pineapple juice and it was sooo good. After the bars we ended up at a pizza joint, and then a house party of some sort, and finally went back to the room a crashed.

My cute birthday cake

The best picture of the weekend
Anna, Cole, Me and Nichole

 Sunday we spent shopping all day…well Nichole and I did and eating frozen yogurt. The boys ended up sipping on drinks at a bar all day.

Sooooo good! 

At the end of the weekend I was able to put the pieces to my puzzle together even though we didn't complete all the challenges.......and it was........

A Cowboy Boot, cause Anna gave my money for a pair for my birthday!