greatest hits

sorry i have been such a lame blogger this week.  but let's be honest, it took 48 hours to recover from our 24 hour trip to texas a&m.

we spent saturday and sunday in college station with some of the best people i have ever had the pleasure of knowing.  when we are all together, my face literally hurts from all of the laughter.  i never want it to end.  and when it does, i am sad and left wanting more.

college friends.  they are family.  it's a special kind of love, am i right?

here's a peek at my week(end):

1) chance and jason arranged a surprise (to us) run-in with the beautiful miss reveille on campus.

 campus was full of high-school kids and their parents.   they either looked at us and thought a) wow.  they are loud and have foul mouths or b) see?  aggies are awesome.  even the old ones.

2) lunch at wings-n-more, our fav.  home of giant beers and the freshman fifteen.

 we were lucky enough to love on baby luke before he went to the babysitter.

3) then we moved on to duddley's draw, where we picked up right where we left off.

just looking at his expression makes me laugh.  i am sure whatever was coming out of his mouth was highly inappropriate.

 best friends gathered from dallas, houston, austin, denver and mcallen just to shoot the shit over pitchers of beer.

 this is what happened after i told them to "look sober".  fail.

 joni clicked her heels over the excitement of it all.  ryan was not entertained.

 4) the next day we went shopping on empty stomachs (when will we learn?) and marcy and i found these really cool cute red-ass unfortunate hats.  lucky for all who know us, we didn't buy them.

i don't know when a reunion like this will happen again, but i hope it is sooner than later.  i am counting down the minutes until there is a next time.

looking forward to a nice relacing weekend at home.  how was your week(end)?  what are you looking forward to?

until next time, whoop!

xoxo,

coco

greatest hits

i hope you felt loved yesterday, because you are by me.  that is all.

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here's a peek at my week:

1) my half-dead plant came back to life and looks beautiful when the morning light shines on it just so.

2) brothers doing brother stuff.

 3) a valentines party for ben's class.  all of the kids had a blast, that is, except for my kid.  i shouldn't have let him wear that hulk shirt.  he must've been trying to live up to the name.

{ben with his newest main squeeze, in between meltdowns}

{can you find the only kid not having fun?}

4) traditions (of the heart-shaped message variety).

 5) roses from my boo.

 6) homemade cards.

 7) chocolate cake.

 8) candy-comas.

p.s. i got chris this.

and he got me this.

we're on the same wavelength.

it must be love.

looking forward to the next 24 hours in college station with my very, very best friends AND chris.  i am about to pee with excitement.

how was your week?  what are you looking forward to?

love,

coco

big time swag

happy valentines day from ben and the beibs. xoxoxo

grammys

let's talk grammys, shall we?

i loved them this year.  

highlights:

• ummmmmm, justin timberlake.  the end.  i have a little thing for voices that don't match the person.  does that make sense?  his voice is like buttuh.  and his moves?  cut. it. out.

• bruno mars.  i don't even like bruno mars, but i just may have found my new guilty pleasure song.

AND he sang with sting, who sang the police, and then into a bob marley tribute.  loved it.

• my batman loves him some mumford and sons.

• the black keys sang with dr. john and the preservation hall jazz band.  cool band + best of new orleans = pretty good in my book.
• jack white was weird and awesome and a little creepy (in a musical genius kind of way)

disappointments:

• rihanna looks hungry.  she needs some bob armstrong dip and a cheeseburger.  and she was there with her boyfriend who likes to punch her in the face.  i have problems with that.  but she sure is preeeeeety.
• adele's dress.  she's one of my favs.  not one of my favs: dresses that look like draperies.
• frank ocean.  listen frank, i am trying really hard to be a fan.  i love your cd.  but you've got to cut that forest-gump nonsense out.  mmmmkay?

did you watch the grammys?  what did you think?

greatest hits

i am in charge of planning the spring carnival for ben's school this year.  sounds fun, right?  it's fun (don't get me wrong) but it is also an enormous fundraiser for the school and requires a ton of planning.  i find myself staying awake at night fretting about how to: raise money, ask for help, beg for donations, and not be a complete failure.  i feel a bit out of my comfort zone.  and overwhelmed.  have i mentioned that it is a hobby of mine to stress out about every. little. thing?  tis true.  my brain is exhausting.

then mornings like this morning happened.  i ran uphill for 6.25 miles.  not once did i think i was going to die.  it was challenging, but i recovered and i have felt fantastic since.  i feel strong and capable.  and that, my friends, is how i know that everything will be o.k.

here's a peek at what made my week:

1) this nutjob.  he is into everything.  including plastic bins.

 2) dropping $20 at an estate sale for a big box full of old school wooden blocks.

3) "chaperoning" ben's first field trip.  and to the symphony!  

i was giddy.

 ben was a bit bored, but he certainly perked up when the high school ballerinas danced across the stage.  to quote him exactly (after he whistled, mind you), "i liiiiiiike her."

4) i have this friend named roxie.  she is actually a former co-worker of some of my dear friends.  we met at parties over the years and it was next to impossible not to fall for her deep louisiana-accent, her long red hair, and her fluency in spanish.  well, since she no longer works with my friends, our paths never cross anymore.  that is, until she started reading my blog.  and now i feel like i talk to her often (funny how that works), and i love it.  out of the kindness of her heart and since she knows my love of mexican food AND louisiana, she sent me TWO jars of her favorite salsa from her home state.

thank you, sweet roxie.

 5) the trees in my neighborhood.  when the weather is nice, the boys ride their "bikes" and i lay on a quilt and tree-gaze.

looking forward to valentine's day (no plans.  just because.)

how was your week?  what are you looking forard to?

love,

coco

a little pick me up

i have stayed up past midnight for two nights in a row.  i know, i know, wild and craaaazy.  that's me.

 

i am too old for that business.  i am tired, y'all.  so while my starbucks gets settled comfortably in my bloodstream, i will leave you with a song i heard on the radio this morning.  it was my little pick-me-up.  what songs lift your spirits?  i would love to know.

 

 

p.s.  just to prove my age, i am also in love with this new one from an old band very close to my heart.

 

love,

coco

greatest hits

i had a celebrity sighting!!!  not really, but kinda.  you know you are a blog-loving dork when you spot one of your favorite bloggers and are flipping out like you just spotted beyonce.  does anyone read simple lovely?  it's one of the first blogs i read, joslyn is from dallas, and i feel like i know her.  well, yesterday i spotted her husband and children at the park (sans the blogger herself) and got giddy with excitement.

seriously, i need to get a life.

sorry greatest hits is late.  i guess i was too busy geeking out over local blogger celebrities to get my act together.  my bad.

here's a peek at our week:

1) introducing the bonner family band 

(complete with a pantless frontman).

 2) my almost two year old mimics whatever his almost thirteen year old cousin does.  love it.

 3) dance parties before bedtime are not the best way to get your kids to wind down.  oh well.  we figure if you wear them out enough, they'll sleep better (which means we will sleep better).

 4) we got a valentine's package all the way from syracuse.

addy tried to take-off with some m&m's.

 5) because of my friend chance (in austin) we learned about target's first saturdays at the nasher sculpture center (in dallas).  thanks, chance!  chris made fun of me because my head was about to explode from almost all of my happy things happening simultaneously: gorgeous weather, my boys, art museums, food trucks (and later my super cool celebrity sighting).  he said the only thing missing to complete my perfect day was a margarita.  true, true.

 there was a sculpture scavenger hunt for kids.  ben wrote the artist's names all by himself, because he is basically fifteen already...sniff, sniff.  it's going by too fast, y'all.

 6) we followed up our museum run with a trip (acrross the street) to dallas' new gem, the klyde warren park.  we even ran into friends on the way out.  perfection.

looking forward to watching the superbowl commercials and cooking a big pot of gumbo.

how was your week?  what are you looking forward to?

xoxo,

coco