Shop Till You Drop... Literally.

A couple weekends ago I headed off to Birmingham to do a little shopping with the Sims Sisters. What started as a quick trip to the city for Lindsey's baby shower quickly turned into a well-planned shopping extravaganza for Lauren. She had money to spend, and Lucy and I were more than willing to help her spend it. Being a personal shopper is so fun!! And exhausting...

We left Fairhope at 7:30 a.m. on Saturday morning. We stopped at Chick-fil-A for breakfast, and made it to Birmingham just in time to eat lunch at the new O'Carr's in Cahaba Heights. YUM-O!!! (most of the weekend revolved around food...) Lauren had never had their chicken salad before. Poor Lauren. She is now just as sad as I am that there is no O'Carr's here.Me and Lucy had fun trying on all the stuff we would probably never buy... Lauren had wads of cash. That must be nice. She got so much cute stuff!!

We had dinner at Surin West downtown (Super Crunch and Crab Angels, of course) and went back to the Summit for some dessert from Cheesecake Factory. TO GO. Notice that it is very dark outside. By this point, I thought for sure the baby was about to fall out right in front of Anthropologie. We didn't check in at our hotel until 8:30 p.m. I was about to collapse. Now a word about the Hampton Inn... I really really love the Hampton Inn. Their pillows are nice. Their beds are so comfy. Even their free breakfast is pretty darn good. I might could live in a Hampton Inn if I had to.

We woke up early on Sunday morning, ate at the hotel and got ready for more shopping before Lindsey's shower.

Lucy let me fix her hair. A mini-me! Isn't it beautiful? I do love a good poof.

Here's Lauren with all her bags...

And here's one of the v. cute shoes we all bought at Target! Our Target is lacking a bit.

I would like for someone to buy me this headband from J.Crew. It was $40, and I just couldn't justify that, which was really surprising. Usually when I am in Birmingham something inside me clicks, and I instantly revert to Single Emily who doesn't care about price tags and frequently blows entire paychecks on frivolous purchases. Maybe it was because I spent my last $20 on the purple shoes... Darn that Dave Ramsey.

We grabbed a quick lunch at Jason's Deli (a first for Lauren & Lucy) and finally made it to Lindsey's baby shower. It was so fun to see Lindsey with her pregnant belly! I can't believe that two girls who once had a serious yelling match over cleaning out a cooler for hunch punch are having kids. It is very surreal. I hope our boys will be roommates at Auburn and never ever drink any hunch punch.

Please notice that Lucy took down her poof. What a stick in the mud.

And when we finally got home at 9:30 p.m. on Sunday night, I thought I might die. For real. On the drive home I started having some sharp, shooting pains that I was pretty sure were not supposed to be happening. I described them to Kay Bostic, who immediately freaked out and said I should go to the hospital. I got home and in the bed, and they subsided. Since I already had an appointment with my OB scheduled for the next day, I decided to forgo the trip to the ER. He had to check me (which was quite painful...I wasn't prepared for that...), and he said everything was just fine. And that he could feel the baby's head. So apparently home boy is hanging out as low as possible without falling out. There is plenty of room for him in there...if I were him I'd move up a bit...stretch out... It would make 12-hour shopping days easier on both of us.