Grace's Photo Shoot

One of my recent goals with my camera was to get some good shots of Grace to show her true color and sheen. 

Most of our photos of her just showed her as brown. Period. But she's not. She's chocolate brown with a really shiny coat. 

What do you think? 

The last one is my favorite. 

Sweet girl. 

Crazy as a bat out of hell, but sweet.

I Am Good People

This conversation happened on Facebook, and it confirms why social media is so awesome!

Blaze Masterson Just got my world rocked by some hominy and pork shoulder slow-cooked with some habaneros from Allison Roberts Cook. Thanks, sister!

Blaze Masterson

it worked out like a pseudo-menudo which is both fun to say and unbelievably tasty

Matthew Brizzi

Are you in Memphis or is Allison in Colorado?

Blaze Masterson

She actually mailed me some habaneros and ghost peppers she won in a contest when I asked what was up with her ghost chili vodka! This is because she is the best person.

Matthew Brizzi

Allison is good people.

Blaze Masterson

I can't possibly give her enough ups either as a supplier of chilis or as a radical person who is hella nice. also you should read her blog, she and chris are always up to unbearably cute hijinx

Matthew Brizzi

I should frequent her blog. I've stumbled upon it a few times, like when she posts videos of her cat, who is very unhelpful when it comes to making beds.

Blaze Masterson

cats are generally unhelpful if I can be frank

Allison Roberts Cook

Yeah! Can I say I love you both to the moon, and I'm so, so glad you used the peppers! P.S. I'm totally putting this on my blog!

So here's the back story. 

I met J.D., referenced as Blaze Masterson, in the above conversation, when I was a freshman at North Little Rock High School. I think that's right. We had a writing class together, and although questionable looking at first (he towers over my 5-foot self), we became friends. 

Fast forward a few years, J.D., went to Hendrix College. A year later, I went to Hendrix College. I didn't necessary follow him, but we're a like-minded pair. 

My freshman year at Hendrix, I met Matthew. (He will maintain the same name throughout this story.) His love for writing and dry, witty humor made us friends, and actually those qualifications go for J.D. too. I like friends who get my jokes and are skilled in English grammar.

So now we're all friends. Then we graduate Hendrix and are separated. We follow each other on Facebook, occasionally making sly comments or humorous observations about each other. 

Then I start a blog. And shockingly, some people read it! When I posted about winning the box of chilies, and making the Ghost Chili vodka, J.D. sent me a message. He wanted to know more about the hottest chilies in the world! 

Since I had been given a huge box of chilies, and because I think J.D. is an awesome guy, I offered to send him some. I made a little care package of some different chilies, a recipe or two and a note.

I got confirmation on Facebook that he received them, and that was that!

Until the above conversation appeared on Facebook the other day. I thought it was hilarious and very nice. 

It proves to me that social media works, people really read my blog to see videos of Porter, and I know some really good people.

Animals Gone Wild

I'm really enjoying the video camera on my new camera. Especially since I have such good subjects. Here's the latest from Porter and Grace.

Have I mentioned that Porter eats cardboard boxes? And have I mentioned that Grace gets really excited when she plays with Porter?

Don't worry, Porter doesn't actually ingest the cardboard, and Grace never gets excited enough to actually hurt Porter.

So basically, no animals were harmed in the making of this video.

Get Your Mushroom On!

I just have to tell you all that my favorite food blog, MarxFoods.com, is having another amazing giveaway. Two pound of fresh morel mushrooms could be yours. You must go enter! You will thank me when you win, and you're sauteing those babies up in some butter.

My Wedding Box

As promised, here are the contents of my wedding box. I know that a lot of people do scrapbooks, etc., but I went for a box. 

The first thing I uncovered was our CD, which I already shared.

  

Then I found our ceremony program. It was front and back. We had a high mass, Catholic ceremony, presided over by the Abbot of Subiaco Academy. There was a lot to explain!

I remember loving our monogram, and feeling very official when I saw it in print.

These were the little shiny pieces in my bouquet.

This was our rehearsal dinner invitations. We had our rehearsal dinner at The Captial Hotel in Little Rock, and Ashley's catered. It was divine.

This is the invitation for my bridesmaids luncheon at Brave New.

This is our ticket from our night's stay at The Capital the night of our wedding. I really like it because it said, "Allison Roberts, Honeymoon Night," as if that was part of my name.

This is our wedding invitation. Oh I loved it. You can't really tell, but it had a soft fabric overlay that I thought was really pretty. Chris and I picked out our invitations together, and we immediately agreed on this one. I think the invitation lady was pretty surprised I brought him with me, but it was great.

I was in the paper. I wonder what those other brides are doing these days.

This is a rose that I cut off of each of my bridesmaids dresses. I really liked the A-line dresses, but they had this terrible rose on the hips. I took a pair of scissors and cut those off pronto!

This is just a little look into my wedding box. I've really enjoyed going back through the box because I can remember all those decisions I made, and I remember how each of them were so significant.