A travel teaser

...blog posts coming soon:

Kayaking the Nantahala

NYC for Governor's Ball Music Festival

Grand Cayman for my best friend's wedding

Stay Tuned! 

Tunesday: Volcano Choir

Thank you Jesus for letting Volcano Choir release another album.

We are counting down the days until their second albums arrival on September 3.

Thankfully, iTunes is letting you receive a copy of the song featured in this trailer if you pre-order their cd.

Don’t think, just do it.
(P.S. In case you aren't convinced or have never heard of Volcano Choir, it's another one of Justin Vernon's side projects.)

Birthdays, birthdays, & more birthdays ...and a wedding

Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.

The last few days have been madness.

All my traveling (plus a monstrous sunburn) have finally caught up to me and I'm worn slap out.

Last weekend I helped my mom celebrate her 50th birthday.

There's no way I will ever believe for a second that this woman is truly 50. 

Also, we celebrated my dad's birthday (as well as Father's Day)

I'm fairly certain I couldn't have been raised by a better man.

Also, this little boy turned 26.

Siyonara health insurance.

I had the best intentions of waking up to make him gluten free blueberry pancakes this morning, but work put a bit of a kink into things so we had birthday breakfast for dinner instead!

. . . and he was not complaining.

Let the birthday week celebrations commence.

. . . and one of my best friends just got married!

We are such adults.

It is still hard to wrap my head around the fact that we are even old enough to be married.

Times like these make me so thankful for all the incredible people I am surrounded by!

 Once I catch up on work, sleep, and aloe vera rubdowns I'll have plenty of blog posts coming your way :)

Our afternoon in the cutest city in the south: Chattanooga

Two weekends ago (jeeeez, where has the time gone? sorry for the neglect little blog world) Josh & I headed east (with Charles in tow, of course)

Josh's dad and step-mother live in north Georgia. We made the drive from Dallas to spend the weekend with them, and we also got to explore some nearby cities. 

Our first stop we made was Chattanooga.

Before Josh found a job in Dallas, he applied for a few in Chattanooga (even though neither of us had ever been there before) because Outside magazine labeled it as one of the best cities to live.

After our afternoon in the city we would highly agree.

Chattanooga now rivals Seattle as our favorite city in America.

It was such a cute, friendly city nestled in the mountains with the gorgeous Tennessee river running through it.

We started the day off with lunch at Food Works (pet friendly!) and had some local beer and bleu cheese sweet potato chips.

The meal plus perfect weather on a patio made for a fantastic first impression of this city.

We walked along the river and found a park with a fountain.

We weren't sure if dogs were allowed in the fountain, but Charlie sure made himself at home amongst the kiddos.

He wasn't afraid to hop in the river either.

How freakin cute are they?

Let the Josh and Charlie photo shoot commence . . . 

Josh opted for ice cream from Clumpies for dessert.

LOVE that name. 

I opted for cupcakes (duh)

The most magical lemon blueberry cupcake, to be exact.

Have I mentioned this is the cutest city in the south?

. . . and this is the cutest pup in the south?

Charlie was quite the worn out pup after this little vacay.

Who sleeps on the gear shift?

More posts coming soon, as well as posts about our weekend in NYC for the Governor's Ball music festival.

I'm headed to Grand Cayman for the rest of the week for Jenna's wedding!

I'm kinda getting excited about the lack of cell phone service I'll be having over the next few days.

Technology detox!

See 'y'all soon! 

The Beer of all Beers: Dogfish Head 120 minute IPA

Josh and I have always been really into microbrews and craft beers.

On vacation we are always looking for local breweries to sample their creations.

You can catch up on some of our "Brewsday" posts here.

One of the main breweries we haven't had the chance to go to yet is the DogFish Head brewery.

They create tons of incredible beers, but there's one beer that is often referred to as The Holy Grail.

So much so that one day Josh and I were walking out of a bar, Josh casually mentioned "DogfishHead 120 minute IPA" in conversation, and a complete stranger walked up to us asking if we had any.

It was then that we knew we had to try it.

The brewery only makes it a few times a year in such a small quantity that it only gets distributed to a few lucky buyers. 

We searched local bars and stores for a few years, but we have always come up empty handed (up until last week when I saw on Whiskey Cake's Facebook page that they had some)

Without thinking twice Josh and I drove straight there, sat down at the bar, and ordered two.

We had been waiting years for this.

We drank the beer with smiles on our faces and loved every second of it.

The bartender asked us if we wanted to keep the bottle caps, which we thought was pretty silly at the time.

A few employees even came up to ask us about it.

For a split second I would say we almost felt like celebs.

Until we got this . . .

. . . anddddddd goodnight.

Plenty of blog posts coming soon about our adventures last weekend, as soon as I figure out how to add a 25th and 26th hour to the day. 

I still can't wrap my head around how bloggers with children make time to blog.

. . . and they always seem to be the best bloggers?

Anyways, this week is going to be nuts, only because I'm off work again next week.

This weekend: NYC

Next weekend: Grand Cayman

Please pardon my absences, but prepare for more blog (and Instagram) explosions to come.