My Louis is my dream handbag! I love it, but I definitely wouldn’t mind adding another one to my collection :)

My pretty bag! It’s by Jessica Simpson, and I just adore it! It can hold so much stuff and it’s cute!

Here’s what’s inside!

The pink is my wallet and the black and white is my checkbook. The blue is my brother’s checkbook. Not sure why I have that…

Mint M&Ms, sunglasses, my iPod, iPhone charger, keys, and gum. Yes, I still listen to my super old iPod. Frees up more space on my phone!

Camera is a necessity!

Meds for every ailment :)

Gussy love! I use the wallet to carry money/receipts for work, and the wristlet (from Neely!) carries some miscellaneous stuff that I don’t want rolling around in the bottom of my purse.

Inside the wristlet! Pretty pens, mints, lip gloss, a flash drive, and my bloggy business cards! The business card holder is from The Pleated Poppy.

Alrighty, it’s your turn! I want to see your cute purse! Grab our button, answer the questions, and link up your post with Neely and me!

These questions contain some of our first reader-submitted questions!

1. What is your dream job?

2. If you had just won the lottery and didn’t need to work for money, what would you do with your time?

3. When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?

4. What piece career advice would you give to someone just starting out in your field?
5. What are your biggest pet peeves in life, blogging, or at work?
6. What are your biggest fears?

Have a fabulous Sunday!

Hey y’all!

One of the things that I love most about blogging is that I have made such great friends all over the country! What makes it even better is actually getting to spend time with those friends in person. Yesterday was just wonderful because Rebekah is in OKC visiting her family, and we got to meet for lunch!

Rebekah is one of the first bloggers that I really started following. I have always felt such a connection with her, not just because we’re both from Oklahoma, but because I feel like we’re so much alike! Every time we get together, for me it’s like we’ve just always been friends! I just love that we get to hang out when she comes to Oklahoma!

One of the other great things is that since we’re both bloggers, we get to actually talk about the blogging community with someone who really understands! It’s so hard to explain blogging to people who don’t get it. Rebekah and I have a lot of the same blogger friends, so it’s so much more fun to talk about bloggers with someone who knows who they are!

We had such a fun time playing jewelry at The Vintage Pearl, and we had a great lunch and chat at Cool Greens. Rebekah, I had a fabulous time, and I can’t wait for next time!

Don’t forget, I’m planning a Q&A vlog soon, so if you have questions for me, leave them on this post!

Have a great Thursday!



Hey y’all!

Hope you’re all having a great Tuesday!

A little over a year ago, I took reader questions and did a series of Questions & Answer vlogs. Since I’ve gotten quite a few new followers in the last year, I thought I’d give a chance for my new (and old!) readers to get to know me a little better.

I’ll leave this open for questions for the rest of the week. Leave your questions in the comments, or tweet or email me, and I’ll answer your questions (within reason!) in a vlog or two next week.

So, what do you want to know about me??

Hey y’all!

I’m finally back!

Wow, last week was…tough.

On Tuesday evening, I posted this picture on Instagram.

Five hours later, I was throwing up…

I’m pretty sure that I had a bit of food poisoning. I was absolutely miserable, and I spent all day Wednesday and most of the day Thursday in my bed.

This little fella really enjoyed having me home and snuggled with me most of the day.

He kept checking up on me to make sure I was ok :)

By Friday I was feeling much better, and I was able to go back to work.

Friday afternoon, I got to have lunch with Tracy!

It has been soooooo long since we’ve had grown-up girl time, and I really enjoyed getting to catch up with her. I’m so thankful for her friendship!

Yesterday at church was our annual Missions Sunday. This service is where we take up a special contribution to fund all of the mission groups that we support for the next year. Leading up to it, we’ve been having people from different countries skyping in during our services to lead prayers. I wanted to share a few pictures from our service this morning.

Flags representing many of the countries where we have sent mission groups

Our former minister spoke on how we are commanded to go out into the world to spread the gospel.

The service ended with our elders taking up the special contribution. We found out later that we surpassed our goal by a little over $17,000! I think this was my 6th Missions Sunday, and every year I am just blown away by the generosity of the people in my church. Our church is known for being very missions-minded, and I love seeing the ways we support mission works.

One last thing before I go! If you have a minute, I’d love for you to vote for me in Nathan’s Bloggy awards!

I’m ridiculously excited to be nominated in several categories, along with Neely and Lori! I’d love it if you’d vote for them too!

I hope y’all have a wonderful Monday!

In the summer of 2009, my momma, Mom-mom, and I went to Memphis and Nashville!

Graceland!

We met country singer Holly Williams at her shop H. Audrey

Coyote Ugly :)

I LOVE Dallas, especially since some of my favorite people live there!

It’s a close drive for me, but it’s still getting out of Oklahoma. There’s lots of fun stuff to do, or if I’m just needing a chill weekend, I can just relax with my girls.

I don’t get to go home nearly as much as I’d like. I love just chilling at home with my family, staying up late talking to my momma, and sleeping in my old bedroom.

My bestie and her family live there too, so I love to spend as much time with them as possible!

If you love The Sunday Social as much as we do, please head over and vote for us! Neely and I are also each nominated in several categories, so we’d really appreciate your votes! Thanks a bunch!

Next week’s questions

Week 7 is all about handbags!

1. What is your favorite handbag you’ve ever owned?
2. What is your dream handbag you lust over?
3. What are the daily essentials in your purse or work bag?
4. What’s in your purse (with pictures)?

We are also taking ideas for questions and themes for future posts! If you have ideas, email one of us or leave them in the comments. If we use your idea, you’ll get a shout-out in the post!

Have a great Sunday!

Hey y’all!

Because all of our teenagers were at church camp last week, we postponed our big 4th of July party to Friday.

Before the fireworks got started, we had a big flag football game!

I love me some Army Wives! Private Practice and The Voice are some other favorites.

I would love to be on The Singing Bee! I can’t sing at all, but I am really good with song lyrics, so I totally think I could win! Plus, I’d love to hang out with Melissa Peterman, aka Barbara Jean from Reba!

I got nothing, y’all! Who do you think is most like me?? 1000 points for the best answer!

Now it’s your turn! Link up your answers with Neely and me!

…that I can show you!

The bro and me

We had a pretty chill 4th of July. We had a late lunch with our grandparents, and then went out to Joyce and Wade’s to hang with them and the kiddos. Since all of the little kids are foster kids, I’m not showing any of their little faces here, so no cute photos!

It was weird not being home for the holiday. My 4th of Julys have always consisted of hanging out with the family for dinner and then going to Jessica’s for fireworks and ice cream. This was the first year I can remember that I didn’t get to spend with any of them, and it was sad :(

The teenagers are at church camp this week and are coming home today, so we are having our big 4th of July party at Joyce and Wade’s tonight! I should have a much more fun holiday recap on Monday :)

Have a great weekend, y’all!

Don’t forget about The Sunday Social!

Hey y’all!

Today I’m linking up with my sweet friend E for her monthly music link-up! Y’all know I love a good music post :)

Here are a few songs that have been recently added to my playlist! Sorry y’all, it’s all country this time!

“Even If It Breaks Your Heart”-Eli Young Band

“A Woman Like You”-Lee Brice

“Do You Think About Me”-Carrie Underwood

“When You Gonna Come Around”-Dierks Bentley featuring Karen Fairchild

“Christ Alone”-Edens Edge

What are you listening to? Link up your music posts with E!

Well, good morning friends!

Hope y’all had a great weekend!

I am desperately trying to fight off a sinus infection, so I have been spending every free moment in my bed.

I do have a fewwwww fun little things that have happened the last few days!

Thursday, I saw on the Twit that Meghan was passing through OKC! She, her momma, and some friends were having lunch right around the corner from the shop, so they stopped in to see me!

Y’all, she is precious! I love her blog, and I’ve enjoyed getting to chat with her on Twitter, so it was just wonderful to get to visit with her for a few minutes in person! If you don’t follow her, you should! Go now!

Speaking of The Vintage Pearl, we got sample pieces of two of our new pieces this week!

I am seriously LOVING Chunky Sunshine and Miracles Happen! So cute!

You may have seen on Twitter last week my sad tweets about Spicy Pickle closing :( It was closed on Monday, and Friday they started taking the signs down.

Super sad day

My sweet friend/former manager Adri has recently launched a new project called For This I Live. This week, she sent me a t-shirt, and I’m so excited to be supporting her!

Adri is one of the most amazing girls I’ve ever met! She is doing great things with this project, and when you have a few minutes, I encourage you to check out her site!

I’m working with the fabulous Jenn on a new blog design, so there will be some changes coming up around here! Can’t wait to share the new stuff with y’all! Jenn is just…awesome!

Before I go, thanks for continuing to support The Sunday Social! Neely and I are just thrilled with how many of y’all are participating!