Independence Day!

I'm pretty redundant these days with my "everything is better with Nash" speech. But listen, EVERYTHING IS SO MUCH BETTER WITH NASH. The kid makes me wanna dot my i's with little hearts, take up skipping, do cartwheels, and make 17 different versions of chocolate chip cookies just to see which one is better. It's a straaaange thing that's happening in this household and I'm going with it. He's changed me. And I like it. 

Anywhoodle, this post is about the 4th of July. And what I meant by all that is that it was especially fun this year because Nash is aware. He participates, gets excited, goes on 20 second rants of Gobbledeegook (toddler language, clearly) after EVERY SINGLE FIREWORK. Watching him is MY excitement, MY fun. Cue the collective awe. (you better be awe-ing)

We started off the day at my mom's with swimming, pizza, and popsicles. Nash is becoming quite the little fish and anything involving cousins is like his version of winning the lottery.

His swimming must-haves: bucket and lacrosse stick. I don't know, he's weird.


So gangster right now.


The kid stayed like that for a 2 full minutes. Again - he's weird.


Snuggin' with grandma.


Handsome Gager.


Camden gettin his cool on.

Then we went back to our house and had us a good ol' fashioned BBQ. We like to keep things pretty cliche around here.


Kiddie pools are are the reason summer was invented. I'm sure I have that right.

Get yourself ready for some black and whites.






Baby Hendrix!


Stayed like this forever too. Why I feel this is blog worthy I DON'T KNOW BUT I'M INCAPABLE OF EDITING THINGS DOWN AND IT'S A PROBLEM.


BroHeimer playin some ball with Becks. Look at our cute lil garden in the back. I'm a real live gardener. It's ok to be shocked.

What?! More black and whites?? Ok.























Then we took it out front for poppers, tanks, glo-sticks, sparklers and such.


And it got WILD.


I mean...he's one wrong move from rehab. We're working on it.


He might look a hair nervous here, but he LOVED it. Seriously I was prepared for him to be terrified all night because people in my neighborhood go bat-freaking crazy with the fireworks. We're talking who needs Stadium of Fire when you have the people down the street. THOUSANDS of dollars spent and I get a free, front row show :) Anyway, he was in heaven. And therefor, so were Kevin and I.

Thanks 4th. We love ya.

What it's like when Daddy comes home...

Ok this was like a month ago or more but I'm gonna blog the crap outta it now anyway. It's just too cute. It had been raining all day and when it finally let up we went outside to wait for Dad to come home from work. First of all, these boys loooove each other. Kevin turns into some kind of mushy baby lovin puddle of cuteness when it comes to Nash (and really just kids in general). Here it is in whole lotta pictures... So excited he's losin his cardi. (let's all take a moment to be upset I just said cardi) Clearly, it was pretty magical.

He be ballin'

Shirts and skins. Nash was all "skins yo" so we obliged. His BFF Beckham was shirts. It was an intense game people. In the end, both teams won (cuz ya know...TODDLERS). It was hilarious watching those two (poo on me for not getting any pictures of Becks) I was surprised at how quickly Nash caught on and he looooooved it. He was in heaven. (I smell a basketball hoop coming to our house soon!) Dad doin a little half-time coaching. Nash's face in this kills me. Clearly it was a very serious ball game happening here. Boys.

Three brides and no groom.

Stephanie from Blackbird Photography asked me if I would do the hair and makeup for a bridal shoot she was doing. It took me all of 3 seconds to say YES!! YES! PICK ME! Which was super awkward since she kinda already had. It was to specifically showcase her mad skillz as a photographer, and to launch the new bridal hairpiece line for the very talented Kaysi who owns the Etsy shop London Raquel. Since she was having 3 models for the shoot, I asked my friend Talisia (who was also one of the models!) to help a girl out.

First of all, these girls are BEAUTIFUL. Like, thankyouJesus beautiful. They were a dream to show up and work on. We seriously ended up having a blast. We jammed to music, ate lotsa yummy fruit, and played in makeup...what more could you ask for? A million dollars, that's what. But I didn't.

ANYWAYS: Talisia and I were excited because we hadn't seen 2 of the 3 dresses, or most of the hairpieces/jewelry until we got there. It wath a thurprise. Sometimes it's fun to think on your feet and go with the flow. Who knew?

Okay so for Shikeyah, or Shikay-kay as I call her (oh nope, I don't) we decided on a really deep, bold lip with a more subtle golden eye. No bottom liner, no bottom mascara. We also wanted an "undone" look, so I fishtailed the shnaz out of her hair (plus some extensions...shhh) and pulled out pieces and roughed it up a little.

She is so beautiful it's gross.





Isn't that dress stunning? Yes, is the answer. Yes it is.


Kaysi from London Raquel also has a line of wedding garters. Word.

For Brooke we were going to do a high bun and mess the poo out of it, but she had some extensions already in her hair that would have shown had we done that. Sad face. So we slapped in some longer extensions in a variety of colors (for some dimension) and "bed head" curled it. We wanted her eyes to be the focus so we smoked em out and did more of a natural lip. (not sure why I'm explaining this step by step, it's pretty obvious when you look at the pictures, but it makes me feel more important)

This gorgeous girl has three kids. THREE. CHILDREN. 3. Tres leches! Wait...







For Talisia I did another bold lip and subtle cat eyes. Me-ow. It just felt right in my heart. Then I threw the headband hairpiece over her crown and braided sections tucking them back into the headband. (picture at the end to show this a little better) Then of course pulling out random pieces to mess it up a bit.






Can you believe miss Shikeyah doesn't ever wear bold lips??? I know. I literally Hail Mary'd myself and I made her promise me, if she really loved me, that she would every now and then. Those lips deserve better :)




This was a bridesmaids look. Can we give that dress a moment? Mint AND pleats? Why you gotta be all perfect like that?

These next three pics are my own from Instagram of "behind the scenes". Cuz I'm cool like that.



Close up of Talisia's updo. Braids are perty.

Aaaaaand we're done. Fun times. Isn't Stephanie (owner at Blackbird Photography) amazing?? Shikeyah booked her for her real life wedding after seeing these pictures. She gooooood. She real good.