yard sale-ing

^^everything is cooler in verb form.^^
 growing up, my family attended the occaisional yard sale & had a fabulous time. we stopped when we happened to drive past one in our neighborhood & loved paying the low low prices. but we were more of thrift store people over all.

then i married into the whiting clan.
to the whitings, yard sale-ing is a sport.
a cut-throat, in-it-to-win-it, die hard sport.
it involves planning, preparation and determination.

mela is my mother-in-law. she is the yard sale-ing queen.

all winter long she saves up her quarters & dimes in a big old jar & on a saturday in May she overturns it and counts out a portion of it for the day. because may is the start of yard sale-ing season.

mela prints out the addresses of all the yard sales in the area then maps out the order in which to attack.
like any sport, if you don't get out of bed early then you don't win.

last saturday was my first experience with the whitings. in the past, i have always been too timid to be very good at negotiating for the prices i want. but not anymore! now i can get it DUN. {which really means "done" but said in a more gangsta-gangsta way}

here is my loot from my first saturday with the whitings.

i made out like a bandit RIGHT!?
millie has so many cool things now & that quilt makes me want to DIE i love it so.
the table lamp was probably my favorite find, it was a little wobbly and the shade was coming apart but with some hot glue & trav's handyman abilities it is like new!
yard sale-ing with the whitings is bomb.

i knew one day i would like sports!
xo lauren

these are my people

{travis. so hot right now. travis}

we had dinner with trav's parents yesterday in little carey, idaho

we also learned about UFO's & ate some dang good finger steaks. 

xo lauren

cardiac.

on monday, trav's father had a heart attack.

he was life-flighted to the hospital where he will soon wake up from his medical-induced coma. we won't know of any possible resulting brain damage till then. we immediately left class as soon as we heard... it's been a nerve-racking few days. 

keep our family in your prayers?

xo lauren

Happy Halloween!

Over the weekend i helped my little cheerleader (aka sister-in-law Shayla) to get all fancied up as a Fairy of the Night for a party happening that night. She looked dang hot, if i do say so myself. She was also the only modest lady there, of which i was very proud. {smile}



& then i pretended to be an indian girl, and we had fun.







yeah yeah yeah! will everyone have a lovely & spooky halloweeeeeeeeen??

girl day with shayla

my sister in law & i had a fabulous shopping day downtown.

we had lots of giggles, and took lots of pictures!

ohhh how i love downtown!

anthropologie always has the best windows, this would be easy to recreate for a birthday or gathering!



shay & i loved those big antiqued mirrors in the dressing rooms {smile}





shayla found herself an steal of a shirt! i found a little something myself, i'll share it in a later post. (ooohh cliffhanger!)

i danced around in some water,

& shayla had fun with her fake mustache!

we topped it off at a frozen yogurt joint before i had to drive like a hormone crazed woman to get my girl to cheer practice on time. boy, was that fun {wink}. 

hello hello

hey party people!

so... i've kinda ignored the blog for a while. t & i took a vacay to boise & it was so nice to just mooch off his parents the entire time! plus, i went dirt camping for my first real time. holla.
we ate s'mores, slept in a truck bed, really looked at the stars, and i have 8 mosquito bites on my forehead. it's a win win.
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i won't lie, i felt really stinky about not posting for so long. i told myself no one noticed (covering your own eyes in hide-and-seek always worked, right?) but when my mama commented on my facebook, i knew it was bad. 

"remember how you used to write on your blog? yeah those were good times."

hahaha! gotta love a mother's kind words.
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so while i was gone, here's what i did and who i did it with.

i just love my W family.---t & i have our first anniversary this saturday!PARTY!