happy happy!

happy happy birthday, elle!!!!

love you.

miss your face.

JILL

happppppy birthday, mom!!!!

today my mama,

super awesome and hot mama,

turns 50.

happy birthday, mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

love you forever.

JILL

{image via bellevivir}

today.

today i turn 29.

(there needs to be alot more candles on that cupcake if it's for me!!)

i've blogged before about getting older. how it truly is a privilege.

and i know that. and believe that.

there have been many many people before me/us who weren't lucky enough to reach their 29th birthday. taken well before their time. i know this. and i'm ever so grateful to be here, healthy and happy on my 29th birthday. i thank God for it.

i still can't help but feel a little twinge of something else.

not bummed about being a year older (with a few more gray hairs ((that i still pull out when i find, btw)) or a few more wrinkles)...

its just when i was younger i pictured myself having accomplished a little bit more than i have before this BIG next birthday. and i don't even have specifics. its just a general feeling. maybe it isn't even measured in accomplishments because i like my life, i like where i'm at, i love my husband, and i like what the future holds... maybe i just saw it differently.

this is a feeling i know some of you also feel.

its like where on earth does the time go??? i wake up and i'm 29. i don't feel old enough to be this old. ha.

on monday, i can't wait until friday. and then the weekend. but that means i rush through tuesday, wednesday and thursday just to get to friday. i should be living and loving each day.

when i was little, thursday was my favorite day. for no reason at all. it just was. i want today to be my favorite day again!

its not even the week that rushes by, whole seasons and YEARS do that now. summer's gone before i know it. disappears way faster than it did when i was a kid. so does spring, fall and winter. the whole year for that matter, zips right on by and if you're not careful, same goes for life.

the best part about this feeling (because there is a good part), is that i have the next 365 days to make up for it, God willing. i have a whole year to appreciate and celebrate....

it's going to be a busy year. and a good year.

maybe even the best.

again, i don't even have specifics but if this is my last year in my 20s, i better (and i'm going to!) make it amazing.

JILL

2 new babies

my cousin's having her 2 little twinkies today, a boy and a girl!

right now. maybe as you're reading this.

well, not all day (for her sake!!).

but this a.m.

so if you're reading it this morning, then yeah.

otherwise, no. but that means they're already here!!!!

:) 

happy birthday to the little nuggets.

when they're old enough, they'll be able to celebrate with mexican food and margaritas {sorta}!

happy cinco de mayo to you all tomorrow.

eat and drink some for me. i will for you.

and happy friday to you lovers.

JILL

{balloons from tumblr, and the birthday cake from sho and tell blog}

hey hey

happy birthday to you.

happy birthday to you.

happy birthday dear lover butts elle.

happy birthday to youuuuu.

love you, friend!

wish we were doing somethin similar to this...

but... since you're all the way over there.

and i'm all the way over here.

and it's cold in both your spot and my spot....

i'll settle for a little birthday wish through the internets.

love.

JILL

{images from pink wallpaper and pink preppy lilly lover}

oh happy day.

happy birthday to the best, most loving, most BEAUTIFUL mom out there.

mine!

and happy birthday to the best, best-friend-cousin out there as well. (who, holy moly, just found out she's having twins!!!!!)

love you, mom :)

love you, rae :)

JILL

birthday picnic.

i turned 28 yesterday.

i didn't want a party, i didn't want a huge big deal made.

i just wanted a picnic with 2 of my favorite beings.

and thanks to God, the weather was nothing short of amaze. an 83 degree day full of nothing but sunshine and breezes. back to layers and chills today. lucky lucky lucky.

i took a half day off work and we made our way to loose park to have ourselves a picnic.

french bread, fresh olive oil marinated mozzarella, chocolate tart, lemonade, a quilt, and a caramel macaroon. {because it was #1 caramel, #2 a macaroon, and #3 i have no self control around that winning combination}

check, check, and check.

shorts and flip flops!

{and white legs!}

fall leaves.

a nap.

crazy beautiful view.

my pup.

this tart was more than what we had expected.

that white whipped gooey-ness...

was homemade marshmallowww, people!

that's the face that is required when eating heaven.

check out the marshmallow stache.

lookin good, babe :)

and because i'm always the one behind the lens... (this was our old point and shoot)

husband was snapping some of his very own.

i need to make a point to be present in our pictures more often.

the fam.

seriously.

add all that up and it =

the best birthday spent yet.

be back shortly!

JILL

butterflies

martha sent this to my inbox this morning, we're on a first name basis obvi.

but, she's given this template for us to use as halloween decor...

i happen to know a girl (thumbs pointing to myself) that would not have argued to use such big and bold butterflies for a birthday party back in the day... or next month when i get another year closer to 30.

me oh my's daughter knows what i'm talking about.

JILL

happy birthday, blog!!!!!

happy birthday to our little blog today!!

we're both really thankful you all stop by here.

just wouldn't be the same without ya.

so have some champagne!

much much love,

jill and elle.

{image via la dolce vita}

flowers for friday #26

happy friday everyone

and happy birthday elle!!!!!

i'm just loading the car, be there in 2.2

(i wish!)

happy birthday, friend. i hope it's a splendid weekend at home ;)

love.

JILL

{images from the neotraditionalist and apt. 34}

balloons and sparklers.

{via pinterest}

it is my birthday tomorrow. doing a little celebrating at home. call me old...tell me i have gone to the other side...remind me that i am a loser. whatever you say i could not be more thrilled to have a weekend with no plans. projects, movies, sweats, homemade dinners. sounds like the perfect way to turn a year older to me. no parties in the cold, no dressing up...if your lucky maybe a shower :)

good solid r + r

enjoy your weekend.

xoxo

elle.

another year older.....

today's my birthday... and if my friends and fam could help me celebrate anywhere, i would choose here in a heartbeat:

my photo

and this is most certainly, without a doubt, how i'd do it!!:

oncewed

apartment 34

a whole towering cake of macarons... and sparklers? you shouldn't have ;)

and to finish it all off, some cafe au lait.

and now a mix of some french-feeling goodies. from me to you :)



the neotraditionalist

everythingfab

covet living

(p.s. when i was there, i had one of these almost everyday! good thing i walked 10 miles a day or else my husband would have had to roll me on the plane)

everythingfab

my photo, in the luxembourg garden

anthropologie

design*sponge

covet living

anthropologie

my photo

my photo... this got carried to a spot for a picnic and kinda got sloshed around. don't worry, didn't affect the taste ;)

john french photograph

everythingfab

my photo of the seine at sunset

spearmint decor

from fullhouse -- i need this pillow. NEED it.

pink preppy lilly lover

everythingfab

bonne journee.

JILL