Alternate Post Title: The Month I Was Wearing the Same Dress in Every Photo Taken Ever.
I’m so sure you and my grandmother are finding all of this riveting–but this is the only journal I have! Therefore, everything goes here so that one day I can sit back with my chai tea and my senility and fondly remember all these events. Conveniently, my blog only documents the fun things. I rather like that about my blog, don’t you?
On the first weekend of September, we celebrated Izzy’s 6th birthday. I distinctly remember that it was 103° on this Saturday, and that by Monday I was wearing suede boots and a sweater. Welcome to Tennessee!
It was a really nice party, and I know Amanda was missing her mom every minute of it. However, I’m sure Penny would be proud that I defended my annual cornhole championship title. I did so despite the fact that Gary (see the crazy looking dude below) typically just tackles you if you start to pull ahead of him. 
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And then yet another month went by, and WordPress ate whatever the rest of this post was going to be. So…I need to get caught up so I can actually enjoy this blog again and not think of it as a poorly-paying JOB. I’d also like to, you know, WRITE SOME CONTENT sometimes.
So, here’s a superfast rundown of what else happened, according to the times I remembered to bring my camera…
Baby Girl went to school dressed like this for the Nursery Rhyme Parade. She was the cat from Hey Diddle, Diddle–and thank goodness there actually IS a nursery rhyme with a cat in it, because she was going to be a cat no matter how persuasive I was. Costume credit to Erin. She wears this outfit and makeup now at least once a week.
At home.
Not to school.
Because her attire is weird enough already.
We also got to see Gabe Dixon at the newly revamped 3rd & Lindsley with old friends Thomas and Liz. He was so good (seriously, I can’t understand why no one is paying me to write music reviews). Liz and I went to meet Gabe after, and he was just the right endearing amount of uncomfortable to be meeting fans waiting in line to see him. I made the mistake of handing my camera to a stranger who was about 4’11, so we sort of look like giants here.
I have a feeling Liz might have immediately cropped me right out of this photo so she could pretend this was a special moment just between the two of them.
SO–I just realized I’m wearing this green dress in both of these sets of pictures, and I’m going to be wearing it in the NEXT photo I wanted to post, too. Apparently, this is the only thing I wore all month. I should be writing a fashion blog as well, clearly.
Anyway, I’m not proud. I like that dress and it was $15 at Target and I’m reasonably sure I washed it between all these various photo opportunities.
How cute is that pregnant belly? Erin’s FL friend Allison came up for a visit, and we ate a lot of Puffy Muffin food and drank lemonade from Mason jars, and then I learned that crazy straws ARE NOT dishwasher safe. Allison also sent me an original NES Duck Tales game, which I’ve been searching for for years, so I’m pretty sure that is going to have to have its own blog post later.
The End.
For the record I love that green dress. And all these pictures.