quinn's place

my good ol pal lauren is gettin hitched this summer! a bunch of gals and cousin joey made the trek to sin city to celebrate lauren and her upcoming nuptials to the wonderful mr. levi nelson.

here are the kits i put together for everybody on the trip:

{this particular one starring the amazing

alyssa wilcox}

the bride to be.

family.

friendzies!

each vegas survival kit included:

tylenol

bandaids (for the feetzies)

sunscreen

confetti

gum

hair tie

burts bees

diamond ring shot glass

"lolo came to party" balloons

2 Sticky9 magnets

of each person with Lauren over the years

waterproof disposable cameras

pizza tattoo from

Tattly

(a huuuge hit---my friends and i are #1 pizza fans)

Yolo 4 Lolo sunglasses

amazon is a dream when ordering oodles of various bulk items!

LOLO CAME TO PARTY!

i had these balloons custom printed, but i won't mention where i got them from since i wasn't very pleased with my experience. i was supposed to end up with a variety of colors of balloons, and got only white. i'm glad i ordered these super far in advance, because they showed up exactly a month after i ordered them.

everybody absolutely loved them and were super surprised, so it's all good :)

thankfully all these lovely people contributed money to the cost of these kits. i was just bursting with ideas after we booked our trip to vegas and i knew i had to act on it. i'm so glad i did. everybody was genuinely surprised and thankful. i love my friends!

here comes the bachelorette party!

miss piper

molly, lauren's soul sista

linda, lauren's real sister

alyssa

joey, lauren's cousin

marisa

j-brad

ashleigh

j-burg

and for the lady of the hour, lauren lamb:

i felt weird getting specific magnets of lauren and me to hang in my kitchen since i did this project so far in advance. i didn't want people to come over and see the magnets because these kits were supposed to be a surprise for everybody. i got this one of lauren and me from when we first moved into our college house and had a big ol party and made lots of money :) i also got a sticky gram photo of peter and me together so it was less weird than having two random photos of lauren lamb and me displayed in our home. haha.

lauren's kit.

"shit just got real."

a phrase i heard lauren say after levi proposed and they were finally engaged to be married after 7+ years together. i just so happened to find a temporary tattoo of this phrase.

the pizza tats were way better though.

fun was had by all!

we cannot wait to celebrate lauren and levi's wedding this july!!!

xoxoxo

yes. that's correct. we got ourselves a brand new tape deck. because we were made in the 80's babies.

it's for the volkswagen, folks.

pete & i are going on a week long road trip from seattle to san francisco this may. we plan to take highway 101 all the way down, stopping at breweries along the way, and camping in our surprisingly comfortable volkswagen camper bus. our "destination" is the berkeley area to visit our friends marisa & foster who recently moved down there. pete is a firm believer in the notion that "the journey is the destination," hence the old tymey tape deck, our weird and eclectic collection of cassette tapes, and the fact that we are pumped to do this sunny volkswagen road trip some justice and listen to cassette tapes on the open road for six days.

pete whipped up this little console this weekend! he tore out the original one that was starting to sound all LoOoOoOoOoPy when we'd listen to certain tapes. it was actually pretty funny to hear, but maybe it'd be nice to hear what the actual song sounds like...

too legit to quit. even my celine tape.

it is february and we are making preparations for may. we are clearly excited to see some sunshine and go on an adventure!