Showing posts with label St. Patricks Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St. Patricks Day. Show all posts

Thursday, March 29, 2012

St. Pattys Day {RE-Cap} + some

Can somebody PLEASE tell me
where in the world is Carmen San Diego?
Ha! kidding...
really PLEASE tell me why is it that my {followers} is not showing up.
I've done everything I know to do.
You can find me on my knees begging for your help. 

Until then. It's time to play MAJOR ketchup.

iPhone Style:
be ready for picture overload.

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St. Pattys Day Eve -
We piled up in the family {14 passenger} van as one of Aaron's co-workers
drove us down to Savannah to drop all nine of us off & to pick us up.
Wasn't bad for $30 a couple!
Yay for safe driving!


We had dinner at
Moon River Brewing Company - delicious but craZy busy.
In moments like this {above} is the only time my hubby
gets anxiety. 
 Uhhh, duh - I gotta get the first beer of the weekend!

Just a small, very small glimpse of the partying downtown
City Market! I met so many people from everywhere that night.
{yes, I am the person who talks to random people asking them where they are from in the beer line, that's me!}

After karaoke, dancing, & lots of drinking,
We ended our night at Wild Wings - where they had a heavy rock band...
that was insane loud.

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St. Pattys Day 12'
{took several pictures with my actual camera that I've yet to upload.}

Can you believe out of ALL the drinking I was doing,
I never ever ever ever ONCE drank a green beer.
I don't know how I feel about that.
I'm kinda ticked.

First St. Patricks Day, married!
It was an AWESOME day.

Started out with our first Wet Willie Drink at 9am...
and then face painting....

My bestie Kristie is a teacher, therefore she brought her
face paint from class down to the parade to paint shamrocks - my hubby thought he'd
join in because he was ticked to death over this shamrock (& she talked him into a mustache, hilarious}. After seeing a few {5+} of his art work, I was quite impressed.

The hubster & a very very old/great friend of his, JP.
I love seeing these two together - Aaron gets SO excited. Can't ya tell by the
hand on the hip? {he's pretty lit}

... & again showing this craZy amaZing fun side along with my
second Mom, Mrs. Wanda - my best friends Momma. They were on a roll!

Walking down to see my family on the other side....
Remember the other day when I mentioned having like the smallest ounce of
baby fever... yeah, well it's moments & pictures like this that get me.
♥

... better said as the smokn' hott Georgia heat.
Rachel and in the blaring sun visiting my Momma, sister & her family down
the road from where we were. They agreed to share our spot next year - way too hott.

I have a lot of favorite people in my life, but these two by far hit the top!
I couldn't do it without either of them! ♥ My heart.

Grandma and Chloe, my niece...
sweating to death. No joke. Almost heat stroke... in March.
Minutes after this picture, we headed back to the Oak Trees....

... and instead of normal people we thought it would be great to walk with one
of the Irish families {IN THE PARADE} - it was hilarious. We got weird looks, however
by that time the enormous family was pretty tired and we were just getting started...
we had the crowd going! :)



It was a must-stop-right-now, please take a picture with me
moment!
These ladies reminded me of my bachelorette party, Madd Hatter Style!


Yep, that's me drinking beer out of a straw &
then a small shot-like drink in my other hand that a friend Nic, made for me.
It tasted just.like apple pie, De-LISH! 


Kristie & Candice chill-axing!


About 5 minutes before this moment, I had little Lacey on my
shoulders. Rachel {her Momma} clearly stated, "Jess, you do not have to do that. Holding a child on your shoulders is not for woman, it's a mans job."
Yeah, well I was {Mrs. Jess aka Mrs. Awesome} and Lacey couldn't see...
so I did it. It wasn't minutes before I was dying but wouldn't say a thing.
Jon saved me. It took me 1.5 days to realize why the heck my body was hurting SO very
bad. I thought I was just getting old and couldn't drink that like anymore.
#truestory. - definitely a mans job.

And that's all I got for St. Pattys Day photos.
We ended the day at Jalapenos filling our tummies!
Great day!
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A little bit of where I come from:


small town. one stop light in the whole town. everyone knows everyone.

My new mantel look, SOOO please with it!

-Thanks to Caitlin from my hometown!
You can find her here -----> blog  website  etsy
Her store is called, Embellish Boutique


It's springtime. I'm in love.
Even though I've recently moved my bird feeder to the dogwood tree behind it,
I still love this picture. It was taken on my front porch.

Is this not beautiful? I can look at it all day long.

A few pictures I captured of Aaron's family Plantation:
a woppn' 130 acres :: what used to be a campground many years ago.
It's where we call home.


the pecan trees.

pond #1:
this is what he did as a kid. seriously.
fishing is his passion.

Pond #1
Love this picture♥

Pond #2
+
pond #2 - once of my favorite places to be.


One of the many family members homes that live on the property. 

that would be me. collecting the fish as we walk around the pond.  :)

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Random nights of Yahtzee.

Aaron bragging on {ALL} his Yahtzee skills.


Candice finally getting her first Yahtzee!

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Mommas birthday gathering
{post coming soon}


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First timers!
{posts coming soon w/ recipes}

Stuffed Artichokes -amazing!


Banana Pudding {yum!}

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A night at the ballpark.


Me & my mini-me, Addyson.
AKA my niece - Maybe not today but she is a spittn' image of me when I was
a little girl. && yes, I too have natural red hair.

They didn't win, however Ashlyn had the best play of the night! :)
I was a proud Aunt♥


The End.


Monday, March 19, 2012

over in a lot of ways.

The weekend is over...

I'm still hungover.
I've never been so exhausted.
Seriously. No joke.
my body hurts and my eyes are struggling to keep open.
I look like my dogs morning crap.
... yes I made it to work - no I am not gonna get a damn thing done today.

"Why does my body hurt so bad?" was the question of the day yesterday & yet still today. It never dawned on me until I was driving back from brunch...
 "Holy Poop, I just figured it out" were my exact words.
  I thought it would be okay to hold a 40 pound precious
little girl on my shoulders so she could see the parade better...
#Dammit.

I should have listened to Rachel {her mom} when she tried very hard to explain that
carrying a child on your shoulders is a mans job.  I'm over being "The Cool Mrs. Jess..." She never warned me that it would add age to me the next day - And Lacey is tiny. Really tiny. So tiny I'm embarrassed to explain how much my body is aching. I can't imagine a heavy child.

Besides the four hours of sleep Friday night, the seven hours Saturday night
& the six hours of sleep last night - I never slowed down not one bit.
I partied like a rock star.
We partied like we were in the movie OLD SCHOOL.
#truestory: "I like your green hat" was my quote of the weekend.
I even pretended to be Frank half the weekend. I may or may not have even done
the Frank the Tank impresonation... not once but twice -  
  
However, I had an amazing weekend.
One hell of a weekend.
So much fun. So many laughs. A lot of good memories with wonderful people.
I'm over being green. I'm over drinking beer. I'm over partying.
I'm over not having my beauty sleep.

A full St. Patty's Day/weekend  post will be up sometime this week.
For now, I'm over & out.

Friday, March 16, 2012

Green. Green. Green.

I am so excited I can taste it.
It's been two years since I've {we've} celebrated St. Patty's Day.
Since I've gotten my big girl job I've missed out on one of Savannah's BIGGEST
events not to mention my favorite.

This is me at my desk...
Chilling with the leprechauns not getting a dern thing done.

Clearly St. Patricks Day falls on {tomorrow} a Saturday.
I told Aaron back in early January to mark the calendars - we were going.
It's always been said that Savannah has the second largest St. Patricks Day Parade & celebration - well this year it's being said that ONE MILLION people will be downtown Savannah this year - YES.. I am ONE in a million - Duh! It's thing largest of ALL this year & definitely bigger than Savannah has ever had.

Mr. Wonderful called me up earlier this week asking if I wanted to join his cousin & some other people TONIGHT - Uhhhh... of course! I immediately started thinking of my #2 outfit to wear. I just have to promise myself not to act 21 again... I still have another day, full day at that.  So ya better watch the news,  I just may be on there.

Find the girl with the biggest beads flashing her knockers... 
that'll be me behind her cheering her on while she gets arrested - drinking GREEN beer!

Yes, If you didn't know - I do drink beer.
Love it!

Random Fact: Everyone in the blog world seems to be {classier} - because everyone always seem to drink wine- I N.E.V.E.R hear/read/see anyone talking about beer. Why is that?  Don't get me wrong, I love my wine on a week night but when it comes to social drinking... bring me a bud light please mam'?

I already ordered my two dozen Green St. Patty's Day Donuts for the 7.5 of us who
are piling up tomorrow morning {7am} and headed down to Bay Street.

Have I mentioned I'm excited?
Well I am. SUPER pumped. I even have butterflies. Why so?

I'm going to go ahead and apologize for taking up for news feed on
Instagram & Twitter.

I = jessicaldrew  T= JLDrew9311
find me

Yep - I'm sharing everything! Get over it!
But know that I'm thinking of everyone in the blog world wishing you ALL were
with me getting our party on.

Everyone have a fun SAFE weekend -
if you're partying, be safe & live like you were dying but don't kill yourself.
Don't be dumb and drink & drive!

XoXo
Love ya!

St. Patricks Day 2009


Check out my red hair...
YES - It's my natural color. YES- I'm Irish!

Thursday, March 1, 2012

go green or go home.

(136)shamrock with pipe

Happy first day of March!

I always look forward to March for many reasons - here's why:

♥Mommas, my BIL & bestie celebration
another year of LIFE. Yay! :)

♥St. Patty's Day!
Amazing holiday I always enjoy celebrating.
I didn't get to attend St. Patty's Day last year like I usually do due to work.. it sucked.
However this year it falls on a Saturday which means...

Party rockn' in on the house street tonight all day...

Ohh.. and I can't forget
too much of this

(143)green beer

Yes, that is green beer!  Get in my BELLY!!!

The hubby & I are planning to do our ritual which is joining my bestie & her
partying family as we all watch the parade as it marches by us on Bay Street, Savannah Georgia.

Bagpipes are seriously the best thing EVER.
I absolutely LOVE hearing them when they pass us. It's just awesome!


Okay, we miss a LOT of the parade due to actions like this.
But seriously, we had a heck of a time.


Can't wait. 16 days to go.
Take a look on last years St. Patrick''s Day 2011 -
Maybe you can venture down/up/over here next year!
It's ONE.BIG.PARTY!

Please remember - not ALL of these people being interviewed
are NOT from Savannah. You'll see ... a LOT.

♥Holy 6 month of marriage --- a whole half year!
Niiiiice. I love my husband. Marriage is SO good!