the emily jenkins.

I don't have many friends, but the friends I do have are quite wonderful/talented/gorgeous/awesome.

When I was in high school 4+ years ago (did I really graduate 4 years ago...?), I was in an all-girl band that consisted of me, Emily, and Erica. We were kind of awesome, and played songs about eating nachos, new shoes, and getting attacked by monsters. We only played a few shows together until we split up to go to different colleges.

Since then, Emily has kept up her singing and guitar-playing, and recently, she recorded some of her songs (one of which was a song our band played)! And, like I mentioned above, she is all of wonderful, talented, gorgeous, and awesome! So, give her a listen here!

Emily and I have been best friends since Kindergarten, when I peed my pants. Once, before cell phones were popular, we talked on the phone for 3 1/2 hours straight when she was babysitting. We would crash stake dances (with Erica, of course) with our mismatched clothes and our crazy dance moves, and sometimes go into the mens' bathroom and take pictures there. When we're together, we go to concerts, take pictures of each other, and do weird things like volunteer ourselves as ethnic servers for a high school dance (meet Sanchez and Pierre, above).

Nothing quite brings back the good ol' days like these songs.

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life lately, according to my iphone.

Apparently I really like Zac, since he's in three of these pictures, and I'm in none. I'd say that's realistic.

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how we spent our fourth of july.

This fourth of July was just a little better than last year's, but only because last year we got in a wreck the day before. In fact, now that I think about it, last year's fourth was actually kind of nice. It was spent being woken up by the parade just two blocks from our apartment, and that night, we went to Zac's grandma's house to light our own fireworks with all of Zac's cousins (who are hilarious, by the way, especially when fireworks are going off).

For this year's fourth, we actually went to the parade (only to leave an hour later... dang sunshine in our eyes), took a fourth of July nap, had my brother, Daniel, and his girlfriend, Erika, over for dinner (that Zac and I made ourselves that whole day, and I may or may not have stressed out about it a little too much), and also played Just Dance 3 with them!

That night, we went to the Stadium of Fire (we scored tickets for $5 a piece!), where the Beach Boys serenaded us in all their 70-year-old glory! It was their 50-year anniversary tour, after all! And you know what? For being in their 70's, I've got to admit, they've still got it! I was quite impressed.

Oh, and Ryan Innes played, too. I love Ryan Innes! So much so that he gets his own paragraph on this here blog post. Ryan Innes!!

The Stadium of Fire also has the best firework show in town. It was wonderful to watch all those lights in the sky from our seats, and even when we were walking the mile back to our car, because we accidentally left early.

Happy birthday, America! You put on a good party.

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happy fourth of july!

Today was the Fourth of July! Zac and I celebrated more than we did last year (because last year, we were still recovering from this). The day seemed so long, which I love. But my feet are killing me from the walk to and from the Stadium of Fire, so I'm gonna go to bed now. Goodnight, America!

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a happy list.

via.

The things that make me happy today are these:

• grocery shopping with Zac.
• an orange moon that looks like Halloween.
• the 4th of July is in two days.
• the sound of fireworks as I type.
• a new little nephew.
• clementines, even if they are out of season.
• taking a nap today.
• red pants.
• summer evenings outside.
• organizing my Pinterest boards.

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welcome to the world, jackson!

My newest little nephew arrived this morning. Everyone, meet Jackson Bradley. Matt and Steph are proud parents, I'm sure. I'm excited to meet this little person tomorrow night!

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a trafalga date.

Last night, after eating our famous homemade pizza, Zac and I went on a date to Trafalga. Other than the place being super old and ghetto, with most of the lights on the mini golf course burned out, and most of the activities out of order, it was pretty fun.

Zac and I spent our time playing mini golf (which we didn't finish, because every time I play mini golf, I get bored halfway through--yes I am 5), eating Dippin' Dots (who knew those were as good as I remember?), and using up all our tokens in the arcade (mostly on Ski Ball). By the end of the date, I was laughing much too hard.

After putting our tickets through the counting machine, and looking at all the prizes we could get, we decided to give our ticket receipt to a little girl (why does one tootsie roll cost 15 tickets?). The look on her face was perfect.

When we got home, we got ready for bed, and watched The Office until 2:00 in the morning.

In other news, Zac and I are in the market for bikes. I really, desperately want this one in cream, but it may just be a little too expensive for our budget. I'm open to suggestions!

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