Brighter Days.

Mondays.

Mondays are my saturdays. They are usually amazing, and beautiful. But on the slight chance they are yucky and rainy Luke stays home from work and i get to spend the day with him! Which makes a cloudy day so much better. But for a change this monday i got both sunshines.

Luke is leaving for a tour and will be gone for 7 weeks. So since he was leaving on tuesday (today) We spent all day monday hanging out and spendin' time together. It was great, and such a gorgeous day!

We ate lunch and walked around uptown.

Went to the park to see an Art Exhibit outside...

There are massive sculptures like this fellow:

It was cool, we acted like tourists and took tons of pics. (obviously)

Later that day we had a cookout with a ton of friends!

a blog on that later!!

I miss him already. And he's only been gone a few hours. But i am super excited for him, and he's livin' a dream so it's not so bad.

And, well its my birthday month. so, i can cry if i wanna.

jk.

Having a spouse that travels can be hard, and well even though this will be the longest stretch we've had so far.. there are still things that i've learned to do to keep me happy while he's away. Do you have any bribes for yourself when your other half is gone?

tell me about them!

also: Check back later on images from the cookout!

Sea

Insipire: Hair! (Sunday)

Ombre, color melting, laziness, low maintenance, change without commitment.... Hair.

It's that time of year when my body longs for change. For my mind to feel just a little bit different in my skin. When my wardrobe and lifestyle start to feel a little more freeing and exciting.

So all this leads to me wanting to do something different with my hair.

It never fails.

This year i was really inspired by the 'care free' look of color melting.

My hair is so dark (well.. because i make it that way) That i cant really do much with lightening my color... and if i do, i'll regret it in a month and go back to black.

so i feel like for my change of heart type of attitude, this color is perfect, non committal and not to harsh or drastic.

and here's mine: a less dramatic version. :)

Hope you liked the inspiration.

more on that later :)

Sea

Hotlanta, balloons, and birthday parties! [image heavy]

This Weekend Luke and I headed to "hot-lanta" for 2 super kids birthday parties!

It was fun to get away and spend some time with one of our favorite families.

The Whittaker's

Carlos, Heather, Sohaila, Seanna, & Losiah

It was a joint bday party for Losiah, and Sohaila:

(and super sister Seanna)

It was a "balloon themed party" which was so cute and Heather did such a great job at coming up with great ideas for it!

(also can't get enough of this amazing blue couch, i pray i find a vintage jewel as good as this some day)

and awesome "dr. Seus cake" with popping of balloons instead of candles!

a balloon filled room, which definitely entertained the kids the whole time, and scared all of us every time one popped!

amazing porch.. precious Los, after his haircut! :)

Before and after of the balloon pops! sugar cookies on a stick! (dream)

(it took all i had to color in the lines while decorating these bad boys, and i only had to do a few!)

And this my friends, is what happens, when you throw a balloon party, sooner or later it was bound to happen. :)

After we left yesterday Luke said to me, "im so glad we get to be apart of that."

I knew what he meant, but i made him explain anyways. And its totally true. I am so glad that we have so many amazing friends. And im so glad to be apart of their lives, and have them in ours.

We are blessed.

Happy Weekending to ya!

love

Sea

Sunday Funday

Sundays are always real nice.

Especially when its spent with fun friends.

We had dinner with the Arnold's last night.

It was a good time.

lots of laughs and conversations about the strangest things.

Made plans for summer cookouts and i just can't even wait!

So glad Luke is home :)

even if its just for a little while.

St. Patricks day!

Thursday was St. Patricks day... as you all know.

I didn't do anything Irish really at all.

But i did have fun.

Mexican & Strawberry margaritas at Loca Lime

Pewter rose for dessert

(most magical looking restaurant ever!)

origami's hanging from the ceiling, twinkle lights, and indoor trees.

can't wait to go back!

The past week while Luke was out of town, i got in some quality girl time.

it was sweet.

glad to have friends who are around when my man isn't.

more music love...

Music Love

Okay, so im sure im creating some reputation by always talking about "amazing bands" and who you should listen to etc.. i mean.. who am i to say?

But REALLY, Charlotte is over flowing with amazing musicians and i can't help but spread the word!!

I've talked about Matrimony before on the blog, but they've been writing new music, touring like crazy, and are about to wind up their SXSW tour this weekend.. (which is so exciting, and if you live in charlotte you should definitely come out on monday)

anyways the band consists of some pretty amazing people:

Ashlee Brown being one of them... who is one of my close girlfriends.

Check out this video of them in Texas this past week... its one of their new songs, that i cant get out of my head.

Also- how cute is Ashlee?? one of the most stylish & beautiful people i know!

official website

Myspace

facebook

twitter

to purchase their music click here!

Music Love

Guys check it out, my friend Jess over on Boho Baby Bump did a feature on the band Public Radio, (which also happens to be the band my husband, and best friends are in) Read it and check out the videos! I am really proud of all of them and so excited about this new album!

Read her post and leave her some love :)

click the photo to visit her blog!

Also, their first EP "sweet child" is on itunes.

Sea