Double Trouble

Brace yourself for a very unconnected post....I've got a couple of different thoughts/pictures I want to share and none of them are really related.

I LOVE the colors of fall. Don't these pumpkins look gorgeous on my mama's stand?

Aubrey's still loving up on the kitty.  It's amazing that cat even lets Aubrey scoop her up on a daily basis.....but for some reason she continues coming back for more toddler love.

She even recruited a friend/sibling to hang out at the farm with her so we are now the owners of two kittens. My mom's dog tried to quickly do away with the second kitten the moment she stepped foot onto his side of the yard, but after a quick scramble up the tree she was able to escape. Of course, then the kitten was stuck in the tree and it really felt like those children's books where the fireman has to come and rescue the cat from the tree. Lucky for us, the fireman's daughter, our neighbor, happened to be over and she climbed up the tree to rescue the kitty for Aubrey. Later that night when we were lying in bed I brought up to Aubrey how nice it was of Alexis to save her kitty.

Aubrey: Uh huh. Vick. oh no! He kills.

And of course is there a better way to "watch" football than curled up under a blanket with your best girl?

Hashtags

Can we just take a quick moment here to talk about......hashtags? They are everywhere (and by everywhere I mean mostly on instagram but I'm sure their coming to a photo near you soon). I....DON'T....GET.....THEM. I really want to move forward with technology and embrace the hashtag but I just feel like there's a lot of confusion out there about what a hashtag should be.

If you're really in the dark here - a hashtag is that #something that shows up after a photo.

I've seen them done a few ways. Some people use them to catagorize whatever picture they are posting, whether it is by the camera system or filter they used.

I've seen people hashtag every possible subject that could be concluded from the picture. As in:

Look at our new addition! #cats #aubrey #farm #kids #orange #pet

I've seen people try to incorporate the hashtag into the descriptive sentence they are posting, making it almost impossible to read. As in:

New #pet #kitten drinking #freshmilk.

I've seen a lot of people do what I do and avoid the dreaded hashtag altogether.

And then I have one friend who should really be a professional hashtagger.

I'm not really sure how to upload her instagram photos on here, but let me just break down a few of her recent hashtags. We should all take notes. She should teach a college class on the subject.

#stillsummer (next to a picture on the lake taken in September)
#takeaseat (under a photo of a prank false seat performed by a younger brother)
#oceanview #perfecto (under a photo taken from her honeymoon hotel room)
#boatbar #priceless #honeymoon #jealous? (another photo from honeymoon)
#thecamp #drinkingproblems (photo of wine bottles)
#comeback (a photo of Alanis Morissette's new album)
#wilbur #rowdypigs (pigs at the state fair)

I could seriously keep going because they're all so good ..... but the point is that she's really inspiring and I think we should all take a hashtag page from her book.

Wine Tours are my Life

Someone recently told me when they interview people and ask them about themselves, they like to hear the people talk about something other than their kids - so they always ask what the person would do on a day to theirselves. I started thinking about this and quickly came to the realization that I use almost all of my days to myself to go on wine tours. I love them! Even when I can't drink and resign myself to driving.

This past Saturday I went on a wine tour for my good friend Kylie's birthday. As expected, it was a ton of fun. Kylie and I ended up with a little thing going where the server would ask me if I was tasting, I would say, Kylie would inform them of my pregnancy and then I would inform them of Kylie's birthday.

I think one of my favorite parts of the wine tour was our friend Katie's absolute enthusiasm for wineries. At one winery she kept walking around and saying I want to buy this place! with the exact same amount of excitement with each retelling of her goals.

Also, the games I was subjected to by my dearest friend, Caton, in the car really made the entire trip. And yeah....so I couldn't remember that the capitol of Poland is Warsaw....so I learned a little something....And Mike had difficulty with the rules in every game....but it really wouldn't be a car ride with Caton if there wasn't games.