10/06/2026
Apparently at one point in my life I thought buying a BUS was the solution to making my life easier. 😂🚌
And honestly? At the time…it kind of was.
Back when Hello Friends was still Heather’s Boutique and I was selling LuLaRoe, I was doing SO many events. Every one meant hauling racks, bins + bags of clothes, setting up an entire boutique, tearing it down and hauling it all home again.
It was EXHAUSTING.
So naturally I thought, you know what would make this easier?
BUYING A BUS. 😂
Instead of rebuilding my boutique at every event, we’d build it INSIDE the bus. Pull up, open the doors and shop!
And when I say we built it…I mean Eddie + my dad. 😂 I painted the ceiling, so obviously I played a critical role. 😜 But those two did the entire buildout. We even had a TV rotating photos of different styles.
My dad became my chauffeur + wingman. Could I drive it? Yep. But when I had an event, Dad wanted to be there. Always. ❤️ He’d drive, help me, crack jokes with the ladies and be there for whatever I needed.
And we had some ADVENTURES.
Once, we pulled into the yard of a newly built house for an event. It had been raining, the yard wasn’t finished and they assured us we’d be fine.
We were NOT fine. 😂
The bus SANK.
The women hosting grabbed a truck to pull us out and at one point the bus started sliding. I genuinely thought we were going to roll it. My dad and I were terrified, laughing and about to p*e our pants all at once. 😂
Somehow we got out. The bus survived. We survived. 😂
The kids were tiny then too, so they grew up right in the middle of all of it.
Looking back, this chapter feels a little insane. But I LOVE that we did it.
It was my family showing up and saying, okay…what are we doing next? And honestly, that’s been a theme throughout this entire business. ❤️
Eventually the bus chapter ended. LuLaRoe ended. Heather’s Boutique became Hello Friends. And the business changed about 47 more times. 😂
But I’ll never forget this one.
Would I do it again? Honestly…probably. 😂🚌