Honesty Hour! {Shameless Dancing}

Yep, that's right friends! It's Friday! Which means it's time for another Honesty Hour! WAHOO! BUT before we do that...hopefully you guys have noticed that the blog looks TOTALLY different. Well that's all thanks to my Blog/real life friend, Hayley from A Beautiful Exchange! Since I'm new to the blog world, she was kind enough to make me a header and navigation bar! Which are AMAZING! Seriously isn't she great at it? Well if you want her help on anything like that feel free to visit her blog and talk to her. She's real sweet! AND even if you don't need any help, go to her blog anyway cause she's awesome and you can meet her awesome little family! 

Okay, so on to this week's Honesty Hour. This time I'm going to talk about something we all do. Yes, all of us. That means you, you, and yes even you! SHAMELESS, I DON'T EVEN CARE, DANCING!! You know what I'm talking about. Those times when you don't care if anyone sees you. Those times when the music just hits you and you break it out. Yeah you know what I'm talking about!

WORK IT GURLLL! So we all do this. You can ask my roommates. I tend to break out in random booty shaking while making noodles on the stove. I will drop it like it's hot during a serious, emotional scene of Army Wives because I DON'T CARE!

I have been a dancer my whole life. I am a ballerina. I dance on my toes. But there are times when I just let loose and shake everything the good Lord gave me. Sometimes these "episodes" hit me when I'm out in public. Whoa, um yes. I am that crazy girl who dances like a freak in the car, in the parking lot, in restaurants. Doesn't really matter where I am. I LOVE busting some moves. 

     

 

 Here's my secret though. Even though I'm a ballerina and gives me great joy to be poised and graceful and beautiful...I LOVE to get down and dirty. No not booty shaking like a bad girl, I grew out of that. I'm talking about just letting everything out. Shouting like a maniac if I feel like it. Throw on the trusty ol' cowgirl boots and go to a hoedown. Whatever I feel like doing, whenever and where ever I feel like doing it! It's freeing and so much fun.

So in honor of the weekend, I challenge you gals (and guys if you're reading this) to go out there this weekend and just dance whenever the feeling hits you. Get multiple people to do it with you! Get videos and pictures and have a blast. Happy Friday peeps! Catch ya lata!

With love, Carly ♥!

Funnies from Apartment Life

So I really struggle with what I wanted to talk about today. I had a more serious post in mind, then I changed my mind to something funny, then changed back and then back and forth and back and forth...well you get the picture. I finally decided that I would do something funny, since we all need a laugh every now and then. I think all the mini stories I'm about to tell you are hilarious, but who can know if you will find them funny (not that I truly care). Now unfortunately some of the truly hysterical ones are not appropriate to share. What is said between girls who live together stays with those girls. Sorry!!

But anyway, first of all, here is the most recent picture of my roomies...ain't we cute? 

^Chelsea ^Mackenzie(aka: Kenz) ^Sarah Beth  ^Yours Truly

Yes that picture describes us perfectly. I love every single one of these God-loving, people-loving, fun-loving, and beautiful girls. They are my family. I would be lost without them. 

Now having said that, for this embarrassing post, I have chosen to pick on my main girl, Kenz. We have some crazy conversations. We stay up till the wee hours of the morning sometimes, talking about the most RIDICULOUS things. It's crazy. 

So here are some excerpts from a few of our wild conversations:

So one night Kenz is drinking something with ice in it while we are watching TV and she puts the cup up to her then turns and looks at me and says:  My ice is freaking out. It's like having a little party in there.

Oh okay Kenz.

Sidenote before I share this one. I have the most awkward laugh and tend to make weird noises out of nowhere. Okay continue reading...

Kenz: You sound like a camel!

Me: Use nice words Mackenzie Gail!

Kenz: Some camels are cute. 

Me: Thanks! *insert laugh here*

I don't even know what we were talking about when she said this to me.

Kenz: Whoa that smells weird. Like candy and magazines.

Do you see why I love her? Never dull! Okay so the next thing I'm going to share with you guys is something that actually happened this past weekend when we went driving which you can read about here. So right before we go on this adventure of ours, we are getting in her car and she is texting back her fiance with her door wide open. Out of nowhere, this bee starts trying to come into the car, and Kenz just freaks out on this bee. She starts yelling at it saying, "NO! NO! NO! This is not okay. NO!" I swear y'all she turned into the freaking bee whisperer. That daggum bee just flew away. I started laughing so hard at the whole situation and she just stared at me like I was the crazy person. Oh well! I thought it was hilarious.

So last thing...here are a few pictures that I think are hilarious of Kenz being weird. 

Okay y'all. Do you see the salt shaker? Yeah. Home girl is straight up eating salt. I took the shaker from her and she got all pissy, so I gave it back to her. Freaking weirdo. Love her though.

So we have a beta fish named Clyde and he's like all betas and can be a fishy with tude. So whenever Kenz feeds him, his side gills or whatever flare out and gets all defensive. So this is a picture of Kenz telling Clyde off. I wish I had gotten a video of what she was saying. It was hilarious. Oh and we were watching Army Wives, in case you were wondering. :)

Just for giggles, here are 2 pictures that I find quite hilarious. (If I shared the most hilarious ones I have of her via SnapChat, she would kill me. Which is too bad, cause they is supa funny!)

 

Well friends, that's all I have today. I hope you enjoyed leaning about what I deal live with. Next time I do a post like this, I'll tell you about one of the other roomies. 

With love, Carly ♥

Guest appearance! Hayley from A Beautiful Exchange!

Hey there bloggy world! So I have a real treat for you today! Instead of my boring post about my Sunday, I thought I would let you guys meet a great friend of mine. Her name is Hayley and she's a real peach! I'll let her tell you more! Take it away Hay...

Hi, About the Journey readers!!

My name is Hayley and I normally blog over here at A Beautiful Exchange, but Carly asked me to come chill with you guys today! I am a 20 year old mom of one, and I have been married for 18 months. It's crazy that we will be coming up on 2 years soon! Where in the world does time go? I really love experimenting with makeup, reading tons of good books, and getting lost in Target. My blog pretty much covers all of those things, plus anything else you can think of. I like to view my blog as all of my personal interests, hobbies, and family life all rolled into one! I love it that way, because that means more people can relate to me on different levels! I have done a few DIY things here and there and you can check them all out here. My personal story is on the blog here, and the love story with me and the hubs is here, for all you mushy gushy folks. If you love to read, like I do, you can find my (almost weekly) updates on What I've Been Reading. If you want to get overloaded with cuteness, you can read all about my family posts here! Make sure you come over and check out the blog, I know there's something you can relate to!

The little dude. Isn't he precious?!

So now that I have babbled your ear off about me and my blog, I thought I would share a little bit about why blogging is so great. In case you haven't figured it out for yourself, here's a few reasons:

You make great friends

I told my husband that I feel really lame whenever I say this to people about blogging. I guess it makes me feel like one of those people that sits in their house all day just talking to people that probably don't even exist in real life. I guess the difference for blogging is that the people that I "meet" on here give me quite a few glances into their real lives on their blogs! I know that they don't include everything, but I have made some great friends through opportunities that are out there for bloggers, as well as by just contacting someone I have things in common with!!

It's the age

Right now is the time to be a blogger. I mean, seriously. Everyone in the entire world is obsessed with social media. Those that aren't are at least (closet) reality tv junkies. People just naturally have a nosy tendency. How do you think all of the tabloids survive, people?

Memories

This is one of the main reasons I blog. I love that I can come to my blog and look back on almost every major memory that my family has made in the last few months. Some of Eli's milestones are recorded much better than they would be in some dusty baby book, plus, I get to share them with all of you!

An outlet

Blogging is something that is mine. I don't have to share my blog or my posts with anyone, but I choose to because of the community that is out there. It doesn't matter what you are going through, or what you are particularly interested in  (politics, DIY, makeup, books, product reviews, etc.) there is definitely a group of bloggers out there covering your likes! It really makes me feel great when I have people contact me saying that my story, or a post that I wrote, has truly impacted them! What an encouragement!!

So there are a few reasons why I love blogging! I did an entire post on why blogging is so darn awesome once, you can read that here. I hope you follow Carly, as I know she has a few awesome things up her sleeves! Also, make sure you follow A Beautiful Exchange on Bloglovin', Twitter, and Facebook! I would love to have you!!

OH DEAR! Wasn't that fun?! Now do what the lady says and go follow her blog! You know you want to! That's all I have for you guys today! Catch ya on the flip side!

With love, Carly ♥