July 16-July 30th

I have been searching for a new purse I like and came across this beauty! Francesca's never fails me :)

I have been practicing sewing and took on the challenge of turning a Goodwill shirt and shorts set into a pencil skirt! It was in the women's section but I promise it looked more men's!

Sporting the scraps as a head wrap!

Another project...this frame turned into a photo display! I love how it turned out!

Took the silly dogs on a walk...something Ive always enjoyed!

Had a little solo longboarding session and took some photos along the way!

I got my new free Enzo Milano curling iron in the mail from the class I attended! So, of course, I sent a pic to the far away husband!

New Orleans Video

We took a trip to New Orleans on Sunday since its Kirk's only day off! There was a lot to see and we still didnt see everything! We're going to go back to see the cemetaries on Friday before I fly back home! I tried to keep it short!

Enjoy!

4th Of July in Lafayette (pronounced Laugh-yet)

Kirk went out knocking a little bit earlier in the day so he could come home earlier! He had a pretty good day! I went out to the pool with Harmony Karges and just hung out for a while! The guys came home after 6 so we got ready and left for dinner! We went to a BBQ restaurant the guys had been to before called 2Paul's, its "radically urban barbeque"! I got a stuffed potato which was a baked potato covered in cheese and pulled pork, it was so good! Kirk got a pulled pork sandwich and he liked his too!

Then we drove around looking for downtown Lafayette where the 4th of July festivities were being held! The directions took us to the University of Lafayette which was totally empty so we kept searching and eventually found it! There were a lot of kids activities, bands playing and some food! We just walked around, hung out and found a curb to sit on and wait for the fireworks! They were awesome and the finale was amazing! The last 3 years we've been in different states for the 4th of July and its always fun!

 (excuse my squinty eyes)

Back Together Again!

I woke up at 430 to get ready and my mom took me to the airport for my flight at 8am! When I got on the plane I sat between these 2 girls who were super nice! The lady on my left talked the WHOLE time! She told us stories, shared her magazines, talked about celebrities and told us she was happy to sit next to "two gorgeous girls" haha She was wonderfully distracting from my fear of flying! We landed in Houston, got off and said good bye! Then the other girl and I found our gate for our next flight! We got on, she saved me a seat and everyone sat and waited...and waited...and waited! Then the pilot told us our plane was having some issues so we need to switch to another plane! So we all got off, moved to another gate and waited like 30 mins to board again! We got one and the pilot said "were having problems with the bathroom" everyone was not happy but they did a quick fix, closed the bathroom for the flight and took off! So after a 2 hour layover we made it to New Orleans and I got to run into Kirk's arms! It was the happiest moment Ive had in a while! We got my bag and jumped in the car! 

Driving from New Orleans to Lafayette was basically one loooong bridge! So much of southern Louisiana is swampy and under water, even the trees growing on the side of the highway look normal but are covered in vines and are sitting in water!

Going over the huge bridge leaving Baton Rouge! 

Kirk had bought me a Subway sandwich so I ate that during our 2 hour trip to the hotel! Once we got there we hung out and enjoyed our time together!

A rain storm headed our way in the open fields of Louisiana

Since Louisiana is twice as old as Arizona there are a lot of older parts of town and run down houses/buildings, either from being old and vacant or some of the hurricanes have destroyed them.

We went over this HUGE steel bridge and through the middle of it was another steel bridge that was for a train!