{baking cookies}

{the posed photo}

We bake cookies A LOT over here in the Petunia household. There's nothing like a couple of warm cookies and a glass of cold milk after dinner! I even place Lil P's cup of milk in the freezer while the cookies are baking so it gets icy and a teensy bit frozen--she loves this. Tonight it will be Oatmeal Chocolate Chip (my personal favorite).

I wanted to capture the moment and had to go to the other room to get my camera, so I told Lil Petunia "Don't eat the dough while I'm gone!" Guess what she was doing when I returned...

{the real photo!}

{Jenna Lyons in Town & Country}

Jenna Lyons, creative director of J Crew, appears in the August issue of Town & Country wearing the feather skirt. My favorite part of her whole outfit is the shoes--which are not even J Crew. (They are Lanvin.) I don't get this skirt at all. It could possibly be cute if it were black, but I don't like the combination of the brown colors of the feathers--from afar it looks like a furry animal. Hmmm....oh, well. I do love the black tights and the bracelets!

For those who liked the Ankle Stretch Toothpick Jeans in my last post, they arrived in the store in Black, style # 18188, as seen below. Same fit as the Twilight jeans, but the denim is a little bit different. As I was checking out, two of the salesgirls complimented my jeans and asked if I bought them at JC. I was wearing the Twilight jeans again--LOVE those jeans!

{outfit for a casual dinner}

Hubby, Lil Petunia and I went out to dinner at one of our favorite local restaurants tonight. These are the J Crew Toothpick Ankle Jeans in Twilight wash. I am loving these jeans because they are so stretchy and comfy. I had worn them for a couple of hours at this point, so they are already stretched out in this photo. When they first arrive they are quite snug! They fit true to size in my opinion. This black top needed something--it always looked too bare up top and too bottom-heavy on me. It needed something to balance the ruffled ribbons on the bottom, and I think the Libretto necklace was the perfect piece for the job. I actually ended up wearing it tied about two inches higher, so it didn't fall quite that low on the blouse.

{wrong post, wrong blog}

Depeche Mode - "Wrong"
I would love to see Depeche Mode in concert in September. Anybody want to go with me? Heehee--not sure if hubby would go or not. Well, if he saw this video he probably wouldn't want to go. He would say "What kind of music is that??!"

((Let me just say that if you are faint of heart do NOT watch this video--it is a little disturbing.))

If you do watch it, ...don't come running to me when you have nightmares! The first time I saw it a few months ago I think I turned it off before it finished. I eventually watched it again and thought......Oh, I get it now. Reminds me of an episode of Nip/Tuck--which I watched for the first couple of seasons before it became too weird.

Oh, well, shocking video or not, I would still LOVE to see them in concert, but of course by the time I checked there were only nosebleed section seats available. :(

{happy birthday J!!!}

Happy Birthday to my big sister, J!

This is a photo of my sister J, me holding Lil Petunia when she was just a few months old, and my niece, E! I miss this cute baby girl, but she kept me quite busy--can you tell I was a little exhausted? :)

{guess who we met today?!}

....Tickled Pink and Green!

Our lovely blogger friend is vacationing in Palm Beach with her family this week. So, today Lil Petunia and I picked up TP&G and her BigGirl at The Breakers Resort and took them on a little driving tour of Palm Beach. Then the four of us lunched at the old Chuck and Harold's restaurant on Royal Poinciana Way. (It has a new name now, but it will always be "Chuck and Harold's" to me.) We had so much fun meeting them and talking about everything from politics to blogging to shopping! She is just as pretty AND funny in real life as she is on her blog. BigGirl is so beautiful and poised, and we were also able to meet BabyGirl (a doll!) and the Hubby. It was truly a fun day!

The Breakers

Royal Palm Way

Interior Designer Celerie Kemble's quaint shop

Hamburger Heaven was closed!

{happy independence day}

Happy 4th of July!!

{what's in your beach bag?}

Janie Schoenborn, creative advisor for Lilly Pulitzer, shares what's in her beach bag in the latest issue of Coastal Living:

What are your summer essentials??

{vacation pics}

The beach was beautiful!  We spent the entire vacation at the beach with occasional visits to the pool.  My entire family from New Orleans convenes to spend this time together each summer.  I put SPF 70 on our faces and sprayed SPF 50 on our bodies every morning!  I'm still pretty pale but Lil Petunia got quite the savage tan.  This happens every year--it doesn't matter that I reapply her sunscreen several times each day--she just naturally tans.


Oh!  Lil Petunia learned how to surf!  Many of the grandchildren took surfing lessons and had quite a fun time!  Here she is with her instructor who is a professional surfer:


Here is one of my four sisters (& one brother) with her son.  She came home with us for a few days of extra vacation:

just stopping in to say "Hi" & "Thank you"

The Petunia family has been on vacation, but we're winding down the fun and getting ready to get back to reality!  Well, actually Mr Petunia has already left (work, work, work, yes it is hard for him to relax for more than a few days....he gets anxious to get back to his patients!).  The girls will be home soon and my sister L is coming home with us for a few days!

Anyway, I just had to post a huge Thank You!!! to Miss BLC over at The Company She Keeps .  I was the winner of her 200th post giveaway of a beautiful Lilly Pulitzer 50th Anniversary Jubilee scarf!  How exciting!  Believe it or not, this will be my first Lilly scarf--yay!

If you have never checked out her cute blog, well then you simply must!  She is having another giveaway by Stella & Dot in July, too!!  Thank you BLC!