It's a LouLou Christmas!

Guess who is ready for Christmas… ME!!

I loves Christmas. So much so that I have Christmas pimped my blog, please enjoy some of my favorite seasonal tunes.

Here is some Christmas cheer that has been going on in my life. I decorated my parents living room tree by MYSELF last night, ha. I just was too antsy to wait for anyone else. The tree is like 12 feet tall or something ridiculous like that so ladders were involved. As you can see, my parent’s house is uber contemporary, as evidenced by the circle windows, but we loves it.

Also, I decorated the “girls” tree that is in my sissies and my TV room at home. Complete with feathers, pearls, boas and bling!

Aaannnnd here is my office tree. Ha ha. Sorry the lights just ran out of batteries-bogus.

Kevin {my parents pound puppy} has been really excited about Christmas as well, and pulled out some of his yuletide accessories.

And just for fun, this guy has been making me smile this Christmas season. He gets super mad points for scoring Carrie Underwood meet and greet concert tickets. I literally can’t wait. Countdown: two days.

Has anyone finished Christmas shopping? I haven’t started. I have a fun filled weekend ahead with THREE Christmas parties, and a little Carrie concert. Should be relaxing ;)

Click here for a little LouLou & sissies Christmas love to all! hahahaha

Les curls and le poof!

Alright ladies, per your request, here is a little "how to" hair video. Ha ha. I am embarrassed to post this, but whatever, I'm going with it.

Had some extra time over Thanksgiving break which was AWESOME, so I made use of said time by cocktailin' and hairfixin' with the sissies. If you are lucky I will post the other videos we took that night as well. As the wine increases, so does the ridiculousness.

Sorry for the miss piggy nasty upward angle of the video. Ewww.

PS I MAY have revealed my Carrie secret in this video ;)

I can't take it any longer...

Ok. So on Monday I tweeted a little something like "I just got the most exciting news ever, I can't wait to tell you all. I am dying of excitement!" or something along those lines.

And it is all I can think about. For reals.

I kept it secret for two whole days, but I must give y'all a clue about what my exciting news is, so here is said clue.

Happy Thanksgiving y'all! loves.

How cute is this?

One of my sweet followers Ellen sent me this, and I just love it! Thanks girl for sending, so sweet to think of me! You can check this out here also!

Dearest John, if you are reading, I would love you better than Emily Blunt... and that is a promise.

Sooo I forgot to tell you all I got married...

I kid. Clearly, I did not get married.

but check what my name card said at the wedding I attended on Saturday.

not my last name obvi…but it is my date, aka the best man’s last name. Interesting .... definitely made for a few funny pics that evening, and many unexpected “congratulations!” haha.

Here I am modeling my new name... and perhaps a stolen diamond from Dana.

Anyways, the weekend started fast paced-me RUSHING home from work to change for rehearsal dinner I had Friday night. Dinner was fab and I went out afterwards with ma date Adam (exhibit A below) and my sissy and her BFF Kylee.

{sidenote: girls, check these dimples. To die for am I right?} I digress.

{note Kylee and sissy showing off K's blingy antibac, ha!}

Saturday started off with a faulous breakfast of cheddar tots from this classy establishment. No judgment please. Point goes to whoever can tell me where I am in this pic.

Saturday was full of some nice napping, followed by some getting ready for the wedding. Oh wait did I mention I missed the wedding because I was running late? So I just high tailed it to the reception , nail polish in hand, and met some other fellow wedding skippers at the bar. It was quite comical. And yes I did polish my nails whist sitting at the bar with my new-found-also-unpunctual friends. I almost got away with it, but upon Adams arrival all I could say was

“I’m embarrassed…”

His response? “You should be” haha.

What are you gonna do right? I think the only way to get me to a wedding on time is to put me in the wedding, or give me specific pre-wedding things to be in charge of that ensure I must be physically present at the church, because unfortunately this is not the first wedding I have missed. Dana are you taking notes here?

Anyway it was a SUPER fun fun wedding reception, and MissLouLou was definitely having a good time. Such a good time that I currently have a little war wound on my knee, covered by none other than a hello kitty bandaid. Those darn heels got the best of me ;)

Here is a pic I snapped at the reception to send big sissy- and by the looks of things I would say I am on my thrid glass of wine at this point...

{I call this my KimK dress ha ha}

Here's more proof of said good time. Apparently I made a pretty aggressive move for the bouquet, and caught it, aaaaaan insisted on keeping till the next morning.

Can’t wait to catch up tonight on what all you lovelies got into this weekend!

PS apologies for poor quality of photos! Can’t remember if I told you all or not I have LOST my camera charger! It’s quite awful I assure you, so I must resort to iphone pics. Oh well…

In the words of Leah... I am crying laughing.

Children, allow me to share with you a ridiculous picture.

Whilst searching through old family photos, I came across this little gem. Halloween circa 1994. I almost died. What 3 and 6 year old's dress up as little men? I give you, the Marx brothers... and a scary witch. Apparently I was into fake hair/weaves at the age of 9.

You all, my sister has a legit mustache on, and a small suit. WTF. I am not gonna even get started on Becky's orange fro.

And just in case you need clarification of the Marx brothers are, behold. I kid you not, we watched these movies on repeat. We didn't have cable...

I don't know what to say about this. Except seriously? My family would.

I also found this bad paid for photo. Apparently my sweet sissy just wasn't into smiling as a child.

Happy Friday lovies.

Oh ma word...

Since you lovelies often ask about my hair, this was going to be a “how to” post on the ever popular "I didn’t wash my hair this morning, but I am rocking a poofy messy bun thingy”, however, that post is no longer.

I snapped this pic for evidence of said messy poofy I didn’t wash my hair bun thingy, when I saw it.

Cue scary music.

wrinkles.

(ok so they are harder to see once uploaded... but they are right there on my forehead. TRUST me!)

…

Is this a joke? I mean I realize I did graduate high school almost a decade ago, but seriously??

WRINKLES? I am 26. What gives?

I knew immediately who to turn to: you fine beauties. Please help a sister out here and tell me the absolute best skin care, anti-aging, make me look like Demi Moore skin treatments out there. What must I be doing daily? What must I not be doing? I told Kris in Houston that I once heard sleeping in your makeup one night ages you seven days, is this true?? Because I sometimes, eh forget, to wash my face if it is perhaps 3 in the morning, and I have been participating in activities of the adult beverage variety. So therefore, on any given weekend, I am potentially aging myself 14 days. According to said calculations, if I didn’t wash my makeup off at night two nights a week for a year, I would have aged TWICE as much!?

This has to STOP!

OK in all seriousness, I think the culprit of these supposed wrinkles on my forehead may be due to the fact that I am a chronic left eyebrow lifter. I don’t know why, but I am. I took another pic for confirmation and here is exhibit B of the wrinkles sneaky culprit.

I give you eyebrow lifting, at its worst.

So ladies HELP! Let me know all of your skin secrets. I admit to being a makeup enthusiast, but when it comes to skincare, I am embarrassed to say, my routine is lacking.

I fell better just admitting the problem.

Anyways,I’m off to my spray tan appointment. You see, I am skin savvy enough to stay out of those nasty little tanning beds ;)

Love love, heart heart, and thanks in advance!

It's in the bag.

Hello ladies! I have been a busy busy girl inside and out of work recently. October-November is my busiest time and it has been crazy! So my apologies for the lack in quality posting, I vow to do better.

I thought today I would show you what I keep in my purse!

1. Because I am super nosy myself and want to know what you keep in

YOUR purses!

2. I have seen other people do this and I just thought it would be fun.

The only rules? NO pre-cleaning your purse out! This is a spur of the moment "what ya got in there" kinda post...

So today, we shall investigate just exactly what is inside, LouLou's Louis.

How I love this bag. My dad got it for me for xmas a few years ago after very specific instruction. I don't think I have carried anything else in three years, its just so functional and easy and goes with everything.

Sidenote: this actually happened. My dad was seeing one of his patients and she walked in with the same purse and he said "Oh my, is that the speedy 35?" and she looked at him like yeah you flamer it sure is...

OK back to purse contents...

A woman's purse is a sacred place, one where men rarely dare to go.

(haha this pic makes me laugh... not sure what i was going for here...)

I am a bit nervous to come clean, and show you just what is going on in here.

Bam. Purse vomit.

All of this is legitimately, in my purse on a daily basis. I must note I am not a fan of a messy, unorganized purse. So I keep mine pretty clean, and reciept free.

I am a chronic organizer so everything is pretty compartmentalized. I hate having lose items rolling around in there. But here are the "lose items" if you will.

This would be ma drugs. Just the standard advil, claritin, BC, you get the drift. And my purse iphone charger lives in here as well, just keeps things more streamlined that way.

My Lilly planner. Love her! She keeps me organized.


My Hobo wallet. Tis the best, you must get yourself one. It's so versatile. It can be a wallet, or you can grab and go and use as a clutch!

It has all sorts of sneaky little places to hide things, like lipgloss, or a flask of bourbon for football games. Ignore my glorious roots a la my licence pic.


This little pewter heart lives in my coin section of le wallet. I got it probably 6 years ago, and one for Chrissy too. Suppose to bring us love. I'll keep holding on to that one ;)

And on to the most important things. I HATE not having something I need. I mean what do you do when you are enjoying a tailgate mid September and you realize, "oh no- I forgot to put on deodorant!" LouLou to the rescue. Or perhaps your curls are a little less full than desirable, oh wait, did someone say they needed hairspray? You can never be too prepared ;)

This is my little bag-inside-my-makeup-bag. It holds tiny things like lipgloss, concealer, tweezers etc- things I would definitely lose in said large makeup bag. My favorite lipgloss is by Lipfusion- Lipinfatuation, in La Lip Jolie. And rest easy it is not that pink in person.

And that is it! That's all I got in there currently. It is pretty much my Marry Poppins bag, and I feel confident I could keep a small sorority in pristine condition for a week with the contents of this bag. Don't forget the mini CHI comes along from time to time (sub curling iron when applicable).

Also-I just realized I don't have my camera in there... I usually do but I have lost the charger so she is on the fritz currently. Bogus. Anybody with an extra SONY charger out there??

Happy Wednesday! Half way through chics!

no.time.

busy girl. like seriously. But look what I found, our girl singing at a country fair at 14! haha. Precious.

A Little Bit Stronger

I love this.

Each day, I am a little bit stronger. And my sweet Ellen, you will be too.

LouLou through the years. My fashion faux pas.

So I was going through photo albums at my parents the other night and I was literally crying laughing at some of the pics I found. My mom pretty much documented our entire lives in pictures or videos, so what I have to show you today is a small sampling of the 2,873,678 pictures I have from my childhood. Someone was clearly proud of their daughter ;)

Anyway, I pulled out a select few for your enjoyment. Let's take a look at PinkLouLou's evolution through the years shall we?

Things started out normal enough. Pink frilly bathing suit, check. Thanks Aunt Debbie, I know that was your doing NOT my mothers. Please notice my chub thighs. Unfortunately not much has changed

{le sigh}

I was clearly an advocate for pug love from the get go. Meet Sadie's precursor. Wish I knew that dogs name.

Easter with my cousins was always an occasion for poofy hair and poofy dresses. You may recognize someone from Brit's blog! Yes that is my sweet little cousin Ginny! Becky never liked to smile for pictures, as evident below. I am going to go ahead and assume by my hot pink headband, pink jellies, and exposed slip, that my mom had a struggle just getting us out the door this morning. If LouLou wasn't happy with her outfit, aint nobody happy, which is why my mother pretty much let me dress myself.

Just chillin at Nana's pool. I thought this was the most beautiful bathing suit I have ever seen.

Like I said, my mom was pretty "hands off" when it came to my fashion choices, including my hair. Apparently it took me a few years to really hone in on my fabulous hair skills. {he he} This pic of my little sissy melts my heart. Precious.

Typical Christmas morning shot here. Dad playing with one of his new toys. That's a pretty legit camera pops...

I thought I had bad outfits in high school. no no. Doesn't even compare to my babysitters, that I must tell you I IDOLIZED. Look at this pic, how mad would you be if these were the clothes you wore in high school. Amanda and Gina, the coolest babysitters ever. They actually both turned out gorgeous, despite their unfortunate fashion choices.

Matching sissy outfits. This was taken at my Nana's (notice the brown carpet, couches, curtains...) and I would be willing to bet my life savings that she crafted these beauties herself. I would also like to point out Tiffany Christina. The most "beautiful name I had ever heard".

Insert the middle school years. It was not good. I promise, NOT.GOOD. I think this was an 8th grade dance?

Dance competition in Disney World. Go Colts. What you don't know is my sister bought herself a snazzy goofy hat that she refused to take off for weeks even after being home. You can see her creeping in the pic...

And then there came high school...

For some reason my friend Sara and I decided overalls were really cool. Looking back, they were not.

I am not sure what inspired this next look, but someone else please tell me you did the "scrunchy curly hair" look?? WHY I don't know, it looks like we both just jumped out of the pool. Ick.

Senior year got a little {I said little} bit better. I made my mom hem this skirt twice, because it was

just too long.

Oh Spring Break. For some reason our parents let us go to Panama City by ourselves at the ripe age of 17. I do remember my mom protesting profusely, but me telling her to calm down and that "everyone was going". We came back with two more tattoos and two more body piercings than we went down there with. Neither of which belonged to me thank goodness.

You can't have spring break without meeting boys, and of course, we found some. Here is the hottie Lindsay decided she liked...

and here is the dorky kid I decided I liked.

My affinity for loving the smart witty nerdy boys, has never changed.

I am not sure what is going on here, but the fact I have this picture is hysterical.

Senior Prom. Whoever told me that a lace up backless dress was cool should be shot. The only dress better than this would be the Tiger dress I sported to a Christmas dance. If you missed that post, click here. I promise you wont be disappointed.

Aaaaaand the senior pic. Again, a two piece ensemble.

FOR SHAME.

Even some college pics are ridiculous?! I mean am i THAT old? This was freshman year, ok so that was 8 years ago, but seriously, what the heck is wrong with my hair and makeup?

If you look closely, you will see two familiar faces. One is Courtney's hubby {aww how cute!} and the other is... you guessed it. Reed.

I found the rooms Leah and I attending ADPi Spring Formal in our lovely shades of ice blue and hot magenta. My hair is ridiculous.

I could literally show you tons more bad clothing, hair, makeup choices I made throughout the years. I seemed to really get it together junior/senior year of college, and would like to think that these past four years I have done alright?? Thank goodness we learn, and we change, for the BETTER! I swear I laugh so hard at my old pics, because I seriously thought I was looking pretty good in high school, haha. Just goes to show you what you think is cool now, might not be so hot later. And now since I am feeling so ashamed for posting these ridiculous pictures from years past, I must leave you with some more recent shots, so you know I did get it together. ha ha.

I would LOVE to see some old funny pics of YOURS! I know you have them, and I promise you will feel better after a good laugh, and posting of them.

Happy Friday girls!!