Weekend Highlights

This weekend I:

+Officially started my first day of work as co-director of summer camp on Friday. Although we've already started planning on our own time, this time I found out that my raise was approved and I got to clock in :) 

+Cody and I went out to dinner at a bar & grill near his house that is owned by his old sixth grade teacher and where he has performed in the past. Neat.

+After dinner we went back to his house and watched Paranormal Activity 2. I have no idea why. I enjoy the occasional scary movie, but I probably won't be able to sleep again. Ever.

+Saturday, I went shopping with best friend and bought the coolest hair dryer EVER! Lindsay recently bought it and when I saw her results and heard how easy it was I decided to give it a go! I bought it on our shopping trip and tried it out as soon as I got home; I am utterly obsessed! It is the Remington 3 in 1 styler hair dryer, $25 at Target. It comes with diffuser, smooth concentrator, and  beach waver attachments. The beach waver is the reason I bought this product. The attachment looks like this:
 

 You pretty much just feed sections of your damp hair through the top part and it simultaneously dries and styles your hair, creating perfectly imperfect beachy waves. I will take some pics for ya soon! Go check out best friend's blog because she is doing hair month over there and I'm sure she will do a much better post about it soon!

+Boyfriend and I got together after that (he loved the beachy waves too) and ordered pizza and had some beers :)
 

+Today the weather in Cleveland is GORGEOUS! I did some reading outside and watched as PeeWee played in the backyard; he LOVES playing outside. Naturally, this called for a photo shoot

 How's that bush tasting Pee? Dummy

We are about to grill some burgers and eat dinner on the back porch and I'm loving that we can finally do this!

Nothing too special, but still a relaxing and enjoyable weekend! 

I hope you had a great weekend too!

More Myrtle

There is something so sweet about messages written in the sand...

I couldn't resist taking pictures of these! My heart just melts when I see sand writing. 

Prom? How stinkin cute! Where was my adorable prom invite? 

So Laguna Beach...yep, I said it.

How can you turn that down...
Nick was written in the sand for the owner of the North Coast All-Stars gym. Her son was recently in a snowboarding accident and is currently in a coma at the age of 13. The girls all showed their support by wearing white heart pins with Nick's name on it, on their bows as they competed.  

So sad! It really puts things into perspective; be grateful for what you have because things can always be worse. I didn't get a good close up picture of their bows, but you might be able to see them from a far in one of these pics.

& Some more pictures

Here are some fun action shots that I took during the cheerleading competition!

We practiced taking jumping shots in our hotel room before the girls competed so I could make sure to get great pics of them in action that weren't blurry! Success :)

My cousin Brigid is the flyer on the far left! Amazeballs, she is!

I also have a great video that I took of a cheerleading team called Cheer Extreme. I remember the name from back in the day, but apparently they have become a pretty big deal in Cheer World. Never have I seen a crowd react the way they did when this team performed. The judges literally had to ask the crowd to sit down so they could see & properly score the team and even threatened to deduct points because they couldn't see past the crowd; but the crowd remained standing and screaming. After the team was done, other cheerleaders ran over to get pictures with them. I was in shock. I'm pretty sure my cousins cried after they got to meet them... On the first day of the competition I just watched in amazement and the second day I decided to record it to share! Anyways, it's not a full video but I thought you might enjoy watching it because these girls were ungodly good! Unfortunately the uploader is being temperamental, so I'm going to use this YouTube video instead and will try uploading mine again later. Same team, same competition!

I won't bore you with anymore cheerleading pictures. I got it all out of my system, promise. As for more outfit pictures, it just didn't happen for the sake of not freezing my toosh off! I vow to be a better packer on all future trips & will try the whole outfit post thing again soon even if I'm not on vacation, because why not?

This is kind of a crappy post...poorly put together and whatnot & for that I apologize; it is Sunday and I am feeling a bit lazy!

Phantom on the beach

Photographs via moi :)

Phantom loves their coach!

Brigid & Kelly

The WiFi decided to change it's mind and let me do pictures now! These are some of my favorite beach shots that I got of Kelly's team (Phantom). I couldn't get front and center because there was a real photographer there... pshh! And a bajillion cheer-rents battling it out, but I squeezed my way up there!