Bon Voyage (again)

Tomorrow Beau and I set off to Hilton Head for our first time! We will be staying with my parents for a week. We have soooo many activities planned! Deep Sea fishing, tanning, bike riding, shopping and exploring! And did I forget to mention eating?! I'm so ready to sit in an open air restaurant on the water eating crab legs! YUM!

Anyways I will be out for the week! Here's some images of HHI to leave you wishing you were joining me!

If yall have any suggestions for things to do tweet at ya girl @MISSTCBM!

Pink & Green Thursday: Summer

Since I've been doing a lot of summering lately I thought I'd share some pink and green goodies reminiscent of summer. Don't forget to link up with the amazing Trish over at Pink Preppy Lilly Lover for the blog hop.

Wouldn't these be just presh for a pool day with the girls!

Pink sand! How chic is that?

Love this bikini!

Hope yall have a wonderful weekend. I'll be MIA til Saturday because I'll be here! I know you're jealous!

BTW I have no idea why the pictures are huge again so...

I'm Back!

After a month long sentence of microbiology I have finally reemerged into real life! Don't worry I'll forgive yall for not throwing me an Oprah-esque going away party! Since rejoining the real world I've been going, going, going spending time with family and friends.

Beau and I spent the 4th in Murrell's Inlet with my parents.
Aren't we cute?

This is the first dress I've successfully sewed with my sewing machine I got for Christmas! It's blue seersucker on top and red and white seersucker on the bottom. :) Very festive!

Here's some shots of the awesome fireworks display!

We've also spent some time at the waterpark and of course all of our other free time has been spent on the lake!

One of the first pictures of my new haircut back in June

All-American boys throwing the pigskin around

Our favorite couple (besides us of course!)

So there you go, that's what I've been up to. I've still been trying to keep up with reading blogs and I promise to be a more frequent poster.

Tomorrow we are off to a friend's lake house until Saturday. Jusque-la

Goodbye World

Sorry guys but I will be mostly MIA for the next month. I just spent the last 8 hours in class and I really don't see myself having the energy or desire to post until its all over. Just stick with me and I promise I'll come back plus I'll still try to keep up with others' blogs.

Happy Memorial Day!

Thank a soldier! Home of the free, because of the brave!

Pink & Green Thursday: Weddings

I don't know about yall, but I daydream about my wedding all the time. I love thinking about anything wedding related and you better bet if I come across a wedding magazine I'm going to pick it up! So this week's installment will be all about weddings! Don't forget to link up with Trish over at Pink Preppy Lilly Lover for the weekly blog hop!

There is so much fun to be had decorating for a wedding. If yall need some ideas for your own pink and green wedding, I suggest heading over to theknot.com for some 2000 pages of inspiration!

Such a great idea for a beach wedding!

Monogrammed AND pink and green? I'm in heaven!

(Belated) Recipe Wednesday: Meatloaf and Roasted Potatoes and Asparagus

Finally something not stuffed! Well as much as I would love to share my meatloaf recipe, because let me tell yall, it is rather delicious, I have been sworn to secrecy. Sorry! I wouldn't usually cook something I'm not giving up the recipe to, but me and Beau were craving it.

Anyways, I can share a delicious and healthy side dish with yall.

Here's what you'll need:
3/4 lb of yukon gold potatoes, cubed
1 Tbsp of olive oil
4 cloves of garlic
2 tsp rosemary
2 tsp thyme
1 tsp salt
1/2 bunch of asparagus
pepper to taste

serves 3

So start by preheating your oven to 425. Then, on a foil covered baking sheet, toss potatoes with olive oil and seasonings. Cover with foil and bake 20 minutes.
Mix in asparagus and continue cooking 15 minutes.
Then increase the temperature to 450, remove foil and continue cooking an additional 5-10 minutes.
Season with pepper to taste.


Sorry for the complete lack of pictures. I promise I won't be as slack next week!
On another note, Beau and I have been making the effort to take walks after dinner lately and Tuesday we decided to go to the Riverwalk for the first time. It was awesome! So pretty and it just seemed crazy to me that this was a 10 minute walk from downtown Cola. Needless to say we will be frequenting it much more often!

AND for the first time in my life I won something! Yall don't understand, I am a frequent visitor to contestbee.com to enter sweepstakes. I enter anything and everything, even if I'm not that interested in the prize, but up until today I had never won. Today EAS over at Let the Tide Pull Your Dream Ashore informed me I had won her Sperry giveaway!

Here's my loot:

Perfect timing too, Beau is in dire need of a new pair of Sperrys! Thanks again EAS!

Haircut!

So let me start off by saying I am not a short hair kind of girl. The couple of times I have gotten a short haircut were a complete disaster and I cried for days (ridic I know). This time I found Laura on the internet by searching for DevaCurl trained hairstylists. If you are a curly girl you understand the importance of finding someone who knows how to cut CURLY hair because it is indeed not at all the same.

So up until today I have been sporting the same look give or take 2 inches since 8th grade. I am a junior in COLLEGE now. It was time for a change.

Anyways, I've been loathing the upkeep of having long hair and with summer right around the corner I thought it'd be the perfect time to try a new style. Plus my confidence was boosted by Laura's training. So at 11 hundred hours I took the plunge and told her I wanted it off.

Oh and side note: Beau loves long hair and would've liked if I kept growing what I had out. So before I leave he jokingly says "Hope it doesn't make you look ugly". Thanks babe, thanks.

Here's before and after:

Sorry for the sketchy mirror phone pictures.

So when I left I felt brave and powerful and was on a high from the big change. Now I kinda miss my long locks. I think I'm just having a case of the grass is always greener.

What do yall think of my new do?