The Sunday Social, Week 2

Sunday Social
 
Hey y’all!
 
It’s week 2 of The Sunday Social with Neely and me!
 
Thanks to everyone who linked up last week! We were seriously BLOWN AWAY at the huge response! Y’all are awesome!
 
A few of you have asked about how to link up your post. To link just your post instead of your whole blog, copy and paste the post link into the linky, and you’re all set!
 
The winner of the Starbucks giftcard is Rebekah!! Congrats girlie! I’ll get the card in the mail to you this week!
 
Now, on to this week’s questions!
 
1. Favorite movie of all time?
My favorite movie is Miss Congeniality!
Seriously, it’s amazing! Sandra Bullock is fab, and it has the BEST quotes!
2. Favorite movie quote?
Oh goodness, I could go on and on all day :) A few of my favorites:
“A dream is a wish your heart makes”-Cinderella
“Life should be a little nuts. Otherwise it’s just a bunch of Thursdays strung together.”-Rumor Has It
“Regrets are a waste of time. They’re the past crippling you in the present.”-Under the Tuscan Sun
3. Best movie to watch for a girls night in?
Um…depends on who I’m watching with. Jessica-anything girlie!, Joyce-Dirty Dancing or Mamma Mia, Neely-No Strings Attached or something Madea!
4. Best breakup movie
Again, pretty much anything girlie :)
5. Favorite celeb eye candy?
Ryan Reynolds. He’s beautiful!
6. Which movie star’s closet would you want to raid?
Reese Witherspoon! She always looks so so cute!
Next week’s questions!
These are all about music!
What is your all-time favorite song?
What is your favorite singer/band?
What is your theme song/song that best describes your life?
What songs put you in a good mood?
What is your favorite roadtrip music?
What song are you embarrassed to admit you love?

One more thing before I go! A big Happy Father’s Day to my wonderful daddy! I’m so lucky to have the best dad in the world!

Love you Daddy!

Welcome to Thunder Basketball

Hey y’all!

I might have mentioned just a few times that there’s kind of a big sporting event happening here in OKC. Just in case you haven’t heard, the OKC Thunder is in the NBA Finals!

Wednesday afternoon, Colby and I went down to the arena to get some Finals stuff and just walk around downtown. It is just the coolest thing ever to see all of the NBA Finals stuff in OUR TOWN! Here’s a few pictures from our afternoon.
Chesapeake Arena

Me!
The bro
A few of the boys’ pictures around the arena
The Courtyard Marriot hotel

For my Vintage Pearls-the original Pinkitzel :)

Today at the shop, we got to wear our Thunder shirts!
Thunder Up!!
Don’t forget about my Vintage Pearl giveaway! It ends on Sunday night!
Also, the second week of Sunday Social is this Sunday! If you missed the questions, they are posted here!

Sunday Social
 
Have a great weekend, y’all!

It’s Ok to be Thankful

Hey y’all!

What a fun day it is! Today is the merging of three bloggers with two fun link-ups all into one! Neely, Amber, and Tracy are joining forces to bring us…

It’s Ok to be Thankful!

Its Ok Thursdays
They are all super sweet girls, so you should all link up!
It’s Ok…
…to be thankful that I live next door to a Sonic.
Some days you just need a Dr. Pepper RIGHT NOW!
…to be thankful for dark chocolate mint M&Ms.
Don’t judge me.
…to be thankful for funny photo text messages with coworkers in the middle of a rough day.
I tell them all the time that they are keeping me young, and they totally are :)
…to be thanful for the person responsible for selling the Seattle Sonice to Oklahoma City, where they became…
Seriously, this team has united the city! Proud of these boys!
Link up your lists with Neely, Amber, & Tracy!
Don’t forget, my Vintage Pearl giveaway is still happening!
Get entered here!

The Vintage Pearl Giveaway!

Hey y’all!
I’ve been meaning to do a giveaway since I hit 300 followers, and I am freaking out with excitement because of today’s giveaway! I am thrilled to be giving a lucky winner one of my favorite pieces from The Vintage Pearl!
One of you will win a sweet piece called “a little vintage love”!
Thank you all so much for following! I appreciate all of you so much, and your comments make me smile!

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Just a few things…

Hey y’all!

I am truly BLOWN AWAY by your response to The Sunday Social yesterday! I seriously never expected to have so many of you link up with Neely and me! Saturday night when we chatted about it, we both were hoping for maybe 20 people to link up. Y’all went above and beyond what we ever expected, and we thank y’all SO MUCH! We are so happy to hear that many of you found lots of new blogs and friends through the link-up!

Sunday Social
 
If you missed yesterday’s link-up, we have a new set of questions for next week! You can find them at the end of this post. We will announce the winner of the Starbucks card in a couple of days!

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The In My Twenties giveaways are quickly ending! There’s still time to enter some of them, and winners are being announced all week. We are thrilled with all of the love we’ve gotten since we came back from our little bloggy break!
 
Also, I have some HUGE news! There is a giveaway happening right here tomorrow, and it is the biggest, coolest giveaway that this little blog has ever seen. I’m so excited to share it with you, but you’ll have to wait until tomorrow to find out what it is :) All I’ll tell you is that it’s pretty!
 
Before I go, I just have to share this sweet picture with y’all.
Snapped this the other night of two of Joyce’s former foster babies. They aren’t siblings, but they adore each other. Just too sweet!
Hope y’all have a great Monday!

The Sunday Social, Week 1!

Sunday Social
Hey y’all!
 
It’s finally here!
 
Neely and I have been waiting for this day for weeks, and we are so excited to have y’all participate in our new link-up!
 
Just in case you haven’t heard the details, each Sunday we will post six fun questions, so grab our button, post your answers, and link-up. Super simple and super fun!
 
Here are my answers to this week’s questions!
 
1. How did you come up with your blog name?
My blog name came from my favorite line in one of my favorite songs, “Wheel of the World” by Carrie Underwood. I think it’s a fun way to think about the journey through life!
 
2. What is your favorite thing about blogging?
My favorite thing about blogging is the friends that I’ve made! I’ve had dinners with, spent weekends with, and vacationed with incredible girls that I met through blogging, including my fabulous cohost and bff Neely :) I’m thankful to have these amazing friendships!
Neely, Meghan, Kiley, Amber, and me
Just a few of my wonderful friends!
3. What is one thing you have discovered because of blogging and now can’t live without?
This may sound weird, but I’m going with TOMS shoes! I’d heard about them before, but it wasn’t until I saw so many bloggers with them that I decided I like them. Then, I bought a pair and fell in love with them!
4. Facebook or Twitter? And why?
Ohhhhhh, how I love the twit! I think it’s easier to connect with people on twitter. Messages are short, quick, and to the point! I use twitter waaaaaay more than I’ve ever used Facebook!
5. If one celeb read your blog, who would you want it to be?
Carrie Underwood, duh :) She’s my favorite!
6. What is something you want people to know about your blog?
I want people to know that my blog is me! The person you read about here is the same person you’d meet in person. I’m not trying to be someone I’m not. What you see is what you get!
Don’t forget! Everyone who links up this week is entered in a giveaway to win a $20 Starbucks gift card!
Again, Neely and I are very excited about The Sunday Social, and we hope y’all will join us each week!
Next week’s questions:
Favorite movie of all time?
Favorite movie quote?
Best movie to watch for a girls night in?
Best breakup movie?
Favorite celeb eye candy?
Which movie star’s closet would you want to raid?

Random Thoughts Thursday

Hey y’all!

I am beyond proud to be an Oklahoman today! We are all celebrating the OKC Thunder’s win over San Antonio to move on to the NBA Finals!

It’s hard to believe that in the short amount of time that the team has been here, we’ve gone from terrible to winning the Western Conference finals!
It’s been awhile since I’ve done a music post, so I thought I’d share a few of the songs on my playlist right now.
“Pontoon”-Little Big Town

“Postcard from Paris”-The Band Perry
My favorite song by them!

“Feel Like a Rock Star”-Kenny Chesney & Tim McGraw
For those days that you feel like a rock star. I pretty much feel that way every day :)

“Too Good To Be True”-Edens Edge

“Fly Over States”-Jason Aldean

What are y’all listening to right now?

Don’t forget! Neely and I are starting our new link-up this Sunday!

Sunday Social
The first set of questions are posted here!
 
In My Twenties started up again this week, and we’re having a fabulous week of giveaways!

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Don’t miss out!
 
Hope y’all have a great Thursday!

Birthday Fun!

Hey y’all!

Before I get started, Neely and I are so thrilled with the response to our new link-up! We are so excited, and we can’t wait to get started! In case you missed it, The Sunday Social starts this Sunday, and you can get details here.

Sunday Social
 
Also, In My Twenties is back this week! We’re celebrating our return with a week of giveaways! Today, I’m giving away a $25 gift certificate to Gussy Sews! Be sure to check it out!
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The last few days, we’ve been having all kinds of birthday fun around here! My little bro’s birthday was on Saturday, and we celebrated by going to Joyce and Wade’s house and watching the OKC Thunder beat the San Antonio Spurs :) 
The birthday boy with his strawberry cake!

The fabulous cake! Looked awesome and tasted amazing!

Little Miss was very interested in the cake

My with my sweet M. She’s the one who made Colby’s cake!

Gorgeous flowers that Little Miss and Little Bit’s momma and daddy brought Joyce and Wade!

Little Miss talked her daddy into playing in her tent. It’s amazing what a two year old can get a grown-up to do!

Sunday night we had dinner at our grandparents’ house, and Colby got ANOTHER strawberry cake!
Last night, we had a birthday party for Becky, one of my girls at work. We had a Pinkitzel & Pinterest party!
Pinkitzel is a fabulous cupcake shop, and they make the BEST cupcakes!
Yum-o!
We also each picked a craft from Pinterest to make!
I made these fun headbands! They are almost The Vintage Pearl blue :)
I am so blessed to have such a great group of girls! We all work really well together, and we have such a great time. I can’t wait for our next evening of fun! Jo and Lauren, we missed y’all!

Won’t You Join Us?

You may have noticed a new button over there on that sidebar huh?
You may have thought to yourself….oh this is gonna be good!

YES IT IS!

We have a fabulous new weekly link up for you to participate it.

The Sunday Social with Ashley and Neely

Sunday Social
What is The Sunday Social you ask?

The Sunday social will be 6 questions every Sunday that all have a similar theme to them. Its a great way to meet new people, gain some followers and find new blogs you can’t wait to read! People will slowly get to know you. You can add pictures to the posts, videos, whatever you want.

The only requirement is that you use our button and answer the questions in whatever way you like :)

THE FIRST LINKUP WILL BE SUNDAY JUNE 10th! DON’T MISS OUT!

I know a lot of people don’t blog on weekends but the great part about this linkup is we give you the questions the week before.

This is how it works. Today we will give you the first Sunday’s questions. Every Sunday at the end of our post will be the questions for the next Sunday. Make sense? That way you can plan your posts a week in advance and then sometime on Sunday come link your post up to one of our blogs!

Easy Peasy!

Plus now you have something to post on the weekends :)

We REALLY hope to link up with us and make this linkup super fun :)

THE FIRST LINKUP WILL BE SUNDAY JUNE 10th! DON’T MISS OUT!

Here are the first set of questions:

We figured the first set of questions could really let people know who you are and what your blog is about:

How did you come up with your blog name?

What is your favorite thing about blogging?
What is one thing you have discovered because of blogging and now can’t live without?
Facebook or Twitter? and why?
If one celeb read your blog who would you want it to be?
What is something you want people to know about your blog?

Also, because we love y’all, everyone who participates in the first link-up will be entered to win a $20 Starbucks giftcard!

THE FIRST LINKUP WILL BE SUNDAY JUNE 10th! DON’T MISS OUT!

See you then!

It’s Ok…

Its Ok Thursdays
 
Hey y’all! I’ve been resting this week when I haven’t been at work, so I’ll be back soon with a little update! Today I’m linking up with Neely and Amber!
 
It’s totes Ok…
 
…that Neely and Meghan are going to NYC today WITHOUT ME!
Um, no…not really.