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summertime happiness.

I love me some Lana, and the Cedric Gervais remix of Summertime Sadness is still one of my favorite jams. Thankfully, though, this summer has been anything but sad. Instead, it’s been full of fun, good friends, adventures, and then some.

This past week has been a particularly good one. First of all, one of

lessons lately.

Tuesdays are still the best nights out.

That would be Jessi enjoying her birthday extravaganza last night, which started at Tequila Park and ended at Lil Charlie’s.

Rule #1 of being in charge of the cake: don’t forget the cake.

That’s right – I got a great big birthday (cookie)

scenes from the weekend.

Happy birthday Monica!!!

AKA Monjean

On Friday we went out to celebrate one of the coolest chicks I know, who also happens to be one of my best friends.

I hadn’t been out in the city in a while, and it was quite fun.

I somehow managed to wake

a visit from katie.

Look who came to visit me!

That would be my beautiful sister, Katie. She doesn’t get to visit me nearly enough – and I’ve been needing her big sister love/advice more than ever lately - so the time together literally meant the world to me.

Katie got here Tuesday afternoon as I was wrapping

short and sweet.

Sometimes there’s a gap in between blog posts where way too many things happen, and it’s easier to just keep the words short let the photos speak for themselves.

This is one of those times. Sound good?

Thursday night was an impromptu dinner at Alta, which turned out to be one of the most amazing

weekend wrap up.

As if the first half of my weekend wasn’t good enough, the second half turned out to be just as lovely.

On Saturday after brunch I decided to opt for a less-than-productive afternoon. It was a good decision.

90 minutes of napping later, I was ready for the night ahead. Monica came over and

best birthday weekend ever.

I tend to be quite the exaggerator, but in this case “best ever” is actually an understatement.

Truth be told - my actual birthday is…TODAY! But why squeeze all the celebration into one Monday when there is a perfectly good weekend leading up to it?

I didn’t care whether or not I even had a

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