Apparently November is a popular month for gettin' it on...

...because pretty much everyone I know has an August birthday.

I used to do individual birthday posts, but I am far too blog unorganized for that these days.

So here is a little love for those conceived in November!

By the way, I'm choosing to use vintage pictures for entertainment's sake.

Lara. August 6. Senior year of college. Check out my bangs.

Swampy. August 10. Her 21st bday.

Caroline. August 15. A Great Depression themed party our house had in college.

 

My dear mom. August 17. My Aggie Ring Day.

Julianne. August 18. Spring break trip to New York back in 2008.



Haritha. August 22. This was probably our freshman year of college. I say this because those sweet matching shirts say "Laguna Beach." We were a tad bit obsessed with the show.



Much love to all these wonderful people in my life!

I am quite thankful that your parents felt frisky 24 or 25 or an undiclosed number [mom] of years ago!!

Long weekend love

Three day weekends make me infinitely happy.

So happy Memorial Day weekend, my fellow Americans!

[And for those not currently residing in America, continue enjoying copious amounts of vacation days that make my heart ache with jealousy.]

Also, a very happy birthday to this lady:

I know I don't have to tell you to celebrate big. And we will celebrate even bigger in VEGAS!

Have a fantabulous weekend, everyone! May it be filled with copious amounts of food.

Because, duh, every good weekend [or day] should be filled with food.

A very belated birthday shout out

Happy [belated] birthday, Maegan!

Yes, this is us at our senior prom.


I'm sorry that spending my weekend out in a pasture in the middle of nowhere kept me from calling you on April 9!

Happy [belated] Birthday, Courtney!

A week ago, we celebrated the birth of the one and only Courtney. Her birthday was actually on the 4th, but that lucky girl was off skiing in Colorado.

The early celebration was held at a beautiful restaurant in downtown Houston called Hearsay. The drinks were tasty and the food was DELICIOUS. It was a lovely evening with great friends!!



Happy birthday lovely!!

Happy Birthday, Haritha!

And the last birthday of the month is my dear, dear Haritha, beloved member of the Fab Four.

We first met our freshman year of high school in Biology and bonded over....something? Haritha, fill me in because my brain isn't functioning properly. But we have been friends ever since, despite going to different colleges and living in different cities for the past five years. She is a brilliant medical student who knows how to have a good time, and one of my favorite people to talk about silly things with.

So here's to you, Mama Puffin AKA my shining star AKA my wonderwall!

This is a terrible picture of us, but it shows how far back we go. We were probably about 17 in this picture. Our group of friends was really innocent, so all we did in high school was go out to eat and shop. I believe at this particular occasion we were at Chilis, where both Haritha and Swampy wrote a note to our waiter telling him he was cute. We did things like this all the time. I know, we were ridiculously cool.

One of our nerdier past time spent together was in HOSA (Health Occupations Students of America). Don't judge, we went to a medical magnet school. The event we competed in was a four-person team event called HOSA bowl; it was basically like jeopardy, but medically related. I know, we just keep getting cooler! Here we are at one of our competitions, obviously working really hard.

Senior prom, crammed into our 24 person limmo.

High school graduation, ready to depart to our rival schools.

A Fab Four tradition during college was to get together during our Christmas breaks to eat dinner and have ice cream at Marble Slab. This was our first one, freshman year of college.

Haritha went to school in Austin, so as soon as all of us were 21 (wait...I take that back. We weren't all 21...certain other people used dishonest means to get into bars!) we took on 6th Street. We had THE best time.

To this day, whenever we're all in town together (and by all, I mean whenever I come in town since they all live in San Antonio now) we still honor our tradition. Don't know what I would do without these girls!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HARITHA!

Happy Birthday, Julianne!

Yeppp, another birthday!

This time it's Julianne, who is one of my very best friends. I'm pretty sure we've never been in an argument, or even a semblance of one. She's one of the most genuine people I have ever met. It's impossible for someone not to like this girl. I am so thankful to have her in my life, but am super sad that she's moving to California for a year in January. Oh well, that just gives me an excuse to visit!

Happy 24th, Julianne!

We saw Europe together after graduation.

One silly night in Cinque Terre that involved singing "Piano Man" over an over, finding food after midnight, and frolicking on a rock covered beach in the pitch dark.

Admiring the view of Florence.

Eating is what we do best. We've been teased for eating basically anything that is put in front of us. As you can imagine, we feasted like no others in Europe.

At our Ring Dance in April of last year.

A good friend of ours celebrated his 23rd birthday last year by taking friends on a party bus to Houston. There was a bit too much party on the bus before we reached our destination. Upon seeing this picture, you probably won't be surprised to find out that Julianne and I had to be escorted out of a bar that night. I may or may not remember it happening...

With Courtney during Spring Break '09 in South Padre.

We dunked our rings together. These pitchers of beer were very intimidating!

Julianne was a Fish Camp co-chair our senior year and graciously asked me to be her campfire speaker (I got to go to camp and share my infinite amount of wisdom with the incoming freshmen).

We spent Spring Break '08 together in New York and had a blast. Because neither of us had any ones, I believe we ended up having to give his guy $5 just for taking this silly picture.

Where our friendship started, Camp Davis. Thank you, Fish Camp for giving me all my best friends.

Happy Birthday, Mom!

Today my wonderful mom celebrates her birthday.

Not only am I her only child, but she was also a single mom for about six (early) years of my life. Because of this, I grew up being extremely close to her, sometimes to the point of refusing to leave her side when I was a child.

She had me when she was almost 40, but I like to think that I keep her young :)

I owe everything to this woman; she has made so many sacrifices for me and has always given me the world.

So here's to my mom, to MANY more birthdays, and to being my biggest fan and constant supporter.

A&M graduation

23rd birthday

Taken a few years ago at the coast.


Where I get my silliness from.

Too many people born this month

Please pardon the plethora of birthday posts that my blog is currently experiencing. There are still three more to go this month. Looks like November is a popular time for getting busy...

Please also excuse my use of alliteration.

Happy Birthday Caroline lovaaaah!

Today's birthday wish goes out to one of my dearest friends, Caroline.

We have grown and changed so much throughout our friendship, which is something I love. The people we were when we met about five years ago are quite different from the ones we are now, yet we have remained friends through it all.

So without any further ado, a photographic journey through our friendship. According to Facebook, there are 475 pictures of us together. Finding just these few was quite a feat!

This was probably one of the very first, if not first, pictures we ever took together. We met because our boyfriends were friends and later became roommates. Spending most of our time at their apartment, we quickly became the best of friends. Our major sources of entertainment consisted of laying around watching movies (with the boyfriends), bowling (with the boyfriends), and various other mundane activities. Let me say that I LOVE all of these activities (and she can attest to this as well), but the point is that we devoted EVERYTHING to those guys and never really got out and did things for ourselves. We ended up helping each other through both eventual breakups and came out winners.

As our dearly departed boyfriends did before us, we became roommates! Along with our three other lovely roomies, we enjoyed throwing themed parties at our house. This was our first, a "Great Depression" themed soiree. Though I didn't drink at this time, it was then that I really started coming out of my shell and making a point to always have a blast. Thanks, Caroline :)

When she got her Aggie Ring, I was obviously there to show my support and excitement.



Our second themed party, "Around the World." We (along with two others) represented Jamaica as the bob sled team!




When it was time to initiate me into the 21-year-old-in-College-Station club, Caroline was the one who took me out, despite the freezing temperature and nasty rain. Was it a successful 21st birthday celebration? Of course. She wouldn't have had it any other way!

I couldn't bear not being there to join in on her Ring Dance experience in 2008, so I convinced my boy bff to take me as his date so that we could all have an amazing time together!

Caroline has also been with me during near-death experiences. Let's just say that when describing this particular date party, I'm going to use my "I was young and in college" excuse.

As typical college girls, our favorite night spot was Daisy Dukes (yes, don't judge the name. This is Texas, after all). You could always be sure to find us there dancing the night away, most likely on speaker boxes, cherry vodka sours in hand.

Caroline's 22nd birthday weekend was one for the books. It's impossible for us to celebrate a birthday together and not have inordinate amounts of fun.

One of our very own time honored traditions: Pizzacake. Eat a pizza, bake a cake. Pizzacake.

As I was there for hers, Caroline was of course present for my Ring Day. She served as an excellent photographer and top notch face nuzzler.

We went with different groups, but met up during Spring Break 2009 in South Padre.

After two years and two different houses, it was time for us to part ways. Moving out of our house was so bittersweet. I'd be lying if I said I didn't bawl for the first 20 minutes of my drive.

And here we are today. Different cities, different lives, same friendship.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CAROLINE!!