growing up...

Welp. That’s it. I’m really an adult.




Tomorrow I report for jury duty. Might I just say that sending an envelope to an unsuspecting young woman labeled ‘court summons’ is really quite rude!

Honestly, I’m a little interested in how the day will go. I’ve never been to a courthouse (for real isn’t that a little weird?) so I’m definitely looking to this an a learning experience!

If you remember, I mentioned a few days before Christmas I bought a Clarisonic. Welp, I’m giving it another week or two before I review it. I read online about a ‘purging’ (um gross) stage your skin goes through and I think I am just ending mine. I’ll keep you updated though and give a full review in the next few days.

In other news, I’m making dinner tonight, spaghetti squash! I LOVE spaghetti squash because I’m a pasta addict and this is close to it without all the calories and carbs. If ya’ll haven’t tried it I definitely recommend it!

As for the rest of today, I ran to Target at lunch and intend on drinking a bottle of Day-Quil and endless Emergen-C drinks (acai is my favorite flavor!) at work today. I. Feel. Like. Crap.

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obsessed.

Katie and I recently upgraded to Comcast On demand (this was HUGE HUGE HUGE for us lol) and I am rather embarrassed to say I've been parked on my couch ALL WEEKEND. I will say that I had a hang over from hell all day Saturday so didn't feel like moving much at all :(

MY NEW OBSESSION:


Big Love is seriously just so good. If you haven't seen it GO WATCH IT NOW. I will say that it takes a few episodes to get hooked, but you won't regret it I promise!

Hope ya'll had a wonderful weekend!

xoxoxoxo

a blessing!

Exciting news!

D’s sister called last night and had us put her on speaker phone for an announcement…

SHE IS HAVING A BABY GIRL!


We are SO HAPPY & EXCITED for her and her husband and we feel so blessed- her tests have all gone well and the baby is growing and healthy! The doctor says the baby is looking big so she might move the due date up :) Currently, she is due a few days before our wedding! The last week of May and first week of June are going to be such a wonderful time- D will graduate, we will be blessed with a niece and get married!

PS: did any of ya'll collect Anne Geddes as a child like I did? It was RIDICULOUS my room was covered in babies LOL.

xoxoxoxo

first post of 2010!

Happy 2010!

I am finally back after my nice LONG 11 day vacation!

Texas was AMAZING and I am a little sad to be back at work (aka reality!). We had such a great time in Denton with D’s family. Christmas was WONDERFUL. D surprised be with a pair of Hunter wellies! They aren’t here yet but once I get them I’ll be sure to take a picture. He also got me a beautiful pearl ring that I’ve been wanting for awhile. AND a nice watch- I had been dropping hints and he picked up on all of them :) Such a sweet man! His parents got us a bunch of things off our registry which was so sweet- I never thought I’d be excited to receive a spice rack for Christmas!

I was able to meet with the cake baker and finalize our cake design :) I’m looking for something very classy and traditional, nothing too crazy or trendy. This is the photo I gave her (from theknot.com):




After Christmas we drove down to Austin for our engagement pictures. I’d never been to Austin but had heard amazing things- and the city definitely lived up to my expectations! Even though we are friends with our photographer on twitter and tweet back and forth, this was our first ‘real’ meeting. Luckily we just love him! We met at a bar (I had D drink a few beers before the shoot-lol he needed to loosen up a little!) in downtown Austin, and from there we went around 6th street and took some great pictures. I must say I was a little nervous at first, making out and staring deep into D’s eyes generally isn’t something we do in public! But he made us feel so comfortable and we really had a great time together. I can’t wait to share them after he sends them over!

From Austin, we went to Houston where Navy was playing Mizzou in the Texas bowl. SO MUCH FUN. D’s best friend and his gf actually DROVE down from Chicago so it was great to spend time with them too. All in all it was a great week and I’m sad its over :( Luckily D doesn’t have to return to school until next week so we have all week together (minus my work). We find out in a little over a month where we will be stationed when he graduates so that’s very exciting! OH, AND we get married 5 months from today!!!!

Happy Monday!

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happy holidays!

Happy Wednesday everyone :) And happy eve of Christmas eve!

My flight leaves early tomorrow morning for Dallas and I absolutely can’t wait! My flight leaves at 9:45 but I want to give myself plenty of time, especially because we’ve been having crazy weather and after all- I am traveling on Christmas eve. D has been there since Monday and not only do I miss him but I’m ready for a nice 11 day vacation (and only missing 5 days of work- how sweet is that?). The super shuttle is coming to pick me up at 6-6:15AM so I will have to be on top of my game and get my butt in gear early tomorrow!

WONDERFUL NEWS. My parents gift to D and myself was a check to buy something for the both of us, and I purchased a nice new camera :) Which means lots and lots of pictures to come! I was honestly a little hesitant to post pictures of myself on the world wide web, but there are just too many things I want to blog about that will include pictures, and as long as I am careful I see no reason why it would be unsafe. PLUS we are getting out engagement pictures next week and I am so excited about sharing those :) And, not to sound creepy or anything (ha!) but I always like it when I’m reading a blog and I see photos of the blogger, it kind of helps me identify more with her, if that makes sense?

I’ll be signing off for a few days- but when I return I’ll have tons of pictures and stories to tell I’m sure! We will be in Dallas, Austin & Houston for the holidays. We’re also hopefully going to visit the vineyard where our wedding is going to be held and pick out wines to serve for our big day! Check out our beautiful venue here.

Okay enough rambling :) I’ll leave you with a picture of D and myself last year right before Christmas:

xoxoxoxo

quick post:

go here.

I love what one of the commenters posted:

"the definition of family changes all the time."

xoxoxoxo

shopping success

Happy Monday!

I thought I’d share some pictures from yesterday:

Pretty crazy! That’s D’s car which took us 45 minutes to shovel out, before we ran out of gas and left it in a parking lot. Ah the joys of cities with poor snow removal.

I did get the majority of my shopping done on Friday though! I got D’s gift from Nordstrom (although I’m not posting what it is because he knows about my blog and he is just sneaky like that). I will say that I’ll blog about it after Christmas because it’s a must-have for men. I also picked up a cute little mug for my roomie Katie and my old college roomie Mandi. The stores were absolutely packed because a lot of people knew the storm was coming so rushed to get all of their shopping done before the weekend. For D’s sponsor family I picked up some really nice olive oil and bread dipping sauce which I thought was really cute (that’s how you know you’re getting old, you give olive oil as a Christmas gift!).

I also did a little Christmas shopping for myself (oops)! I FINALLY ordered this bad boy:


Can’t wait for it to arrive! I’ve heard AMAZING things about the Clarisonic cleanser and I’ll definitely let you all know what I think of it after I have a chance to use it! I don’t plan on getting any facials before my wedding, so this was kind of a trade-off for the price.

xoxoxoxo