Life According to Instagram

Hi there! In over 3 years since I started this blog, this has been the longest I've ever gone without posting! Because of the overwhelming demand for a new post (by my parents and grandparents, of course :) ) I'm hoping to jump back in to blogging! Here's a glimpse into our simple, wonderful summer...full of pool days and movie nights!

It's so funny that most of my friends that I've made out here are from Georgia. I guess I just gravitate to them! Allie and Britney are from my hometown, but we didn't meet each other until we all lived in California! (Allie and Doug actually graduated high school together!)

Here's another Georgian living in CA! Lauren, a friend from high school, just moved out here and I am thrilled to have her 10 minutes away! Our first outing? The Men Tell All taping!

It was SO much fun! We left with a vase of roses that were behind Chris Harrison's head and a t-shirt!

And we made it on TV! Here we are being angry with James...this picture cracks me up!

Another ridiculously adorable picture of these two :)

With Doug and my FIL at the Angels-A's game

One thing that I desperately miss about the South is the food. I have been on a mission to find good BBQ out here, and I finally found some that was almost as good. Lucille's also had delicious lemonade, and the red velvet cake was to die for. 

Enjoying a date night with John Mayer!

I added a few things to make the guest room a little happier...love this new tray!

I've never been so active in my life as I've been this summer. I never thought I'd say this, but I'm really enjoying it! We have a beautiful lake to walk around, and I have wonderful company. On this particular day, we walked 5 miles! That's a new record for me :)

And last week, I enjoyed a sleepover with the sweet Katie and her cutie pie Bennett. Katie may not be from Georgia, but her husband went to the same high school as my mom. Small world, right!? We did some organizing and re-decorating around their house which you can now see in the Project Gallery!

I think I'll just do these Instagram posts once a month....I want to have them all on here since I print my blog into books, but don't want to be too repetitive in case you follow me on there, too. 

It feels good to be blogging again, and I have a giveaway coming up soon! Stay tuned! :)

Oh and one more thing, football starts this month!!!!!!!! You know I have a problem when I'm dreaming about it...yes, last night I had a dream that I benched the wrong QB and lost my fantasy game. Clearly, football is a priority in this house :)

This Is THE VOICE!

I meant to post this weeks ago, so now I don't even remember what month this all happened in! Maybe November? :) 

I was so happy when Michaela moved to LA for school this past year. We have had so much fun together already! We went to a taping for The Voice together and had the best time, despite it being about -20 degrees in the studio. Seriously, if you ever go to a taping for it, WEAR A PARKA. Luckily, one of the audience producers took pity on us and gave us his jacket, but we were still shivering all night while shoved in a jacket together :) It was a sight! 

The episode we went to was when the top 12 performed, and honestly they sounded even better live. That night was when Cassadee Pope became my favorite, and I'm so glad she won! Pictures aren't allowed in the studio at all, but the audience producer snuck one with his phone for us anyways :) It's terribly blurry, but you can at least tell it's us!

A couple weeks later, we met up for dinner at our favorite place in Westwood, Palomino. Michaela shares my love for their gorgonzola fries and pomegranate margarita :)

Twins in reverse!

Note to self: IRON.

Afterwards, we headed to another one of our favorites- The Grove!

We walked outside of a store to find that it was SNOWING! (Fake snow, obviously!) I flipped out and was way more excited than the kids running around. It was so beautiful!

Michaela, I'm so glad you are in LA now! And I think we're overdue for another round of gorgonzola fries and pomegranate margs :)

My Week with Mom (Part 1)

It's almost been a month since my mom was here, so I need to get these posted before I forget everything! She came out for her spring break, and we had THE BEST time. Seriously, we were kind of nervous because everything was going too perfectly. It was such a wonderful week!

We started out the week by heading up to Burbank for the Ellen show taping! Beforehand, we ate at Bob's Big Boy...a landmark in Burbank and so delicious! 

The Ellen show was amazing. Out of all the tapings I've been to, I have to say that this is my favorite! We somehow lucked out with front row seats and got to see Edie Falco (Nurse Jackie), Andrew Garfield (The Amazing Spiderman), and Mo Isom, a girl I actually went to elementary and high school with! (She tried out for the LSU Football team) It was so crazy that she was there the same day we were! 

Ellen is just as wonderful and nice as she seems, and Portia was in the audience as well! Apparently she comes to most of the tapings...so sweet :) It was so much fun!!

Afterwards, we tried out Pink's hotdogs. Holy deliciousness.

And we stopped by Crumbs on the way home for some cupcakes! (These are my favorite cupcakes ever by the way!)

The next day, we headed right back up to Burbank for the Warner Bros Studio Tour! I have been dying to do this since we moved here, and it did not disappoint! 

My all-time favorite shows are FRIENDS, Grey's Anatomy, Gilmore Girls, and Pretty Little Liars....and 3 of the 4 happened to be filmed here! (Grey's is not) Rosewood and Stars Hollow are the basically the same and they used the same houses!

This is Luke's Diner!!! (Gilmore Girls)

Miss Patty's Dance Studio (GG)

Rosewood High School! (PLL)

This house was pretty cool because it combined all 3 shows! It was Ross and Monica's parents' house, Lane Kim's house (GG), and Emily's house (PLL) 

The stairs where Ross decided to take Rachel to prom!

The kitchen where Monica chopped off Chandler's toe :)

Suki's house is connected to Lorelei's house on the back!

The gazebo from Stars Hollow

Lorelei's house!

I was pretty excited....and maybe a little bit geeky about this :)

I think this was Toby and Jenna's house

This is what they use for any Central Park scenes...like when Rachel and Phoebe went jogging! 

The FRIENDS soundstage

Austin Powers' car

General Lee

The Hangover car!

Then...the highlight of the tour! We got to go inside Central Perk!!

Pretty Little Liars was actually filming on this day but unfortunately I didn't see anyone...they were filming on this soundstage though! 

My mom and I had tickets to the Voice taping that day but decided not to go since over half of the audience is standing only. I do love that show though!

The tour was really great and I highly recommend it! I'd heard from many people that it's the best studio tour, and I'd have to agree!

Afterwards, we headed over to Westwood for my favorite pizza ever at Palomino. I went here with Ashley and Britney for my birthday and had been craving it ever since! This time we got the pomegranite margarita, pepperoni pizza, and the most amazing gorgonzola fries. I'm already dying to go back! And after this we walked over to Diddy Riese for some ice cream cookie sandwiches. What can I say, we ate goooood that week!

Part 2 coming tomorrow!