TGIS!

You have NO idea how happy I am that it is Saturday!

I have had a crazy busy week, and today I purposely scheduled nothing so I could relax, enjoy some time with Chris and the kids, clean my house, do laundry, get a spray tan and my nails done ha, and just play catch up on my personal life!

This will be a random tid bit of fun pics and events from the week :)

I cleaned out my office and desk and added some cuteness:

 New Lamp, TJ Maxx $39, steal!!! :)

New Chairs ... also TJ Maxx find .. $89 each! Aren't they so cute? They're comfy too! I am adding a little table in the middle but waiting on my mom to make the burlap table cover :) Can't wait! 

School was called off on Friday because we literally got a centimeter of snow lol so Ella and Ava learned real world skills and went to work with me! 

They were stuffin' envelopes, printing return address labels, returning text messages haha you name it, they were doing it! Such good little helpers!

Frankie went and got his hair did and now he is even handsomer (is that a word?) than before!

I found two wedding hair styles I like ... 

Chris wants me to wear my hair down and wavy like normal, but I want to add a little something to it, I like Jess's hair do above, kind of teased up a little, I think that would like pretty with my veil. What do ya'll think? 

Then I love this Carrie "do" below for bridesmaids ... 

Side swept is my fave ... it would be so pretty! 

That's pretty much all on the wedding front I have right now ha. 

Last night we went to Chris's nephew's 1st Birthday Party! 

He was so cute as always! And a very neat cake eater too! He didn't make a huge mess like normal 1 yr olds lol ... he kept wanting to feed it to everyone else :) So precious!

We enjoyed some yummy chili for dinner! 

How cute is this sign Lisa made? 

She and her house are straight out of Pottery Barn and Pinterest ... the cutest you have ever seen! 

I got to play with Jack, my favorite ;)
I mean he is literally a baby model ... he needs to be picked up from Crewcuts!

How cute is he? 

Adorable. 

I will leave you with this ... 

I saw this a while ago and loved it, then couldn't find it ... and then this week I saw it on Emily Maynard's Facebook! Love her. And love this. I am printing it and putting it in my Bible so I won't lose it again!

Happy Saturday!

I am off to clean and run errands :) 

Christmas Wishlist!

Hello, Hello Friends! 

I have taken a little break the last couple of days just because I've been busy with work ... but today I am taking the day off and catching up on things around the house, wrapping some Christmas presents, etc :)

Does anyone else besides me LOVE to wrap Christmas presents?
I am obsessed!
It's calming kinda and I like to just see the progress made of all the pretty presents under the tree!

I love for everyone to have their OWN wrapping paper ... it's fun and just is exciting to me!
This year for the kiddos (and Chris ha) they will each have their own wrapping paper as usual,
HOWEVER...
No one will know which paper is theirs until Christmas day!
I love it ... everyone will be dying to know lol a little suspense never hurt anyone ;)

Before I reveal my Christmas Wishlist,
Here is a little of what I was up to the past few days ...

Happy 1st Birthday Mack!
One of my best friends, Kelly, had a super fun and cute 1st birthday party for this sweet baby boy ...

My gifts were a hit ... I got him what any good Aunt would get him ... a grocery buggy and a cleaning set complete with a Swiffer and all hahaha! He loves brooms and vacuums, etc so I thought it would be perfect! 

Kelly made cute little gift bags ... had TONS of food and Sesame Street appropriate snacks ;) 

 Cake time is where the fun began ... 

What a good sport his dad is .... wearing a Cookie Monster shirt haha :) 

There were a millions babies the same age there!!

Kelly and I came up the cutest little "Favorite" board for some pictures he is having this week ..

How cute is that? 
Adorable.

Next up ... 
Face timing with my 88 yr old Papaw! 

Hahaha I love this ... I will forever keep this picture close to my heart ... 

you gotta love technology these days! 

He thought this was the craziest thing he had ever seen. 

My Papaw is funny, and I mean like "have you in stitches, you can't believe he just said that" FUNNY!

If you are new around here, you can check out some amazing Papaw-isms HERE :) 

Enjoy. Ha. Love him. 

Yesterday I went to a Realtor lunch for the Young Realtors of the Bluegrass at our local board 

and was AMAZED at all the toys we raised for children for Christmas!!

WOW!
Awesome. No words. So great!
So glad to be a part of a community where all of us Realtors can come together and help others. #Blessed.

Lastly on the home front, 
Ella's first Violin Concert
Last night we went to hear her first performance on the violin...
 who knew Hot Cross Buns could be so cute?
(Did that just take you back to middle school? It did me ha.)

Love her. She's amazing. That's all :) 
She did such a good job, so proud of her! It takes strength to perform in front of a room of people when you're in the 4th grade and she did amazing! <3 

Tis' the Season ...
Everyone keeps asking me what I want for Christmas ... my parents, Chris, my brother, ...
which is so sweet and I love them ...
but I honestly have not been able to think of much because I just really don't need anything!
(no I am not running a temperature for those of you who know me well ha)

However, I did come up with a few things once I really put my mind to it ;)
(Didn't take long for me to pop off some things don't worry lol)

Christmas Wishlist 2012 
Ho Ho Ho! 

1. Gold monogrammed necklace in script with my soon to be NEW INITIALS :)
2. Marley Lilly fleece vest, also with my new initials :)
(you might begin to see a repeating theme here ha)
3. Urban Decay NEW Naked Basics
4. **this is a total splurge if Santa remembers me** Nikon 1 J2 Digital Camera ... obsessed
5. I desperately need a case for my iPhone 5! Preferably monogrammed like my old one, go figure ha.
6. I REALLY want the E-cards desk calendar for 2013, they are hysterical!!
7. Kate Spade "Mrs." earrings ... dying!
8. This will sound super cheesy BUT I really am just looking forward to spending some time with my sweet, handsome boyfriend fiance!! We have both been so busy lately with different things, I am just ready for some down time to cuddle and go to dinner and hang out with friends or at home in front of the fireplace! Love it when the house is all Christmas decorated up and feeling cozy! That's the best time for some QT!

Alrighty, that's it for today!
Still loving all my new followers from Living in Yellow! 
We are gearing up for a HUGE giveaway over at Erin's blog next week! Can't wait! I'm trying to drum up what fun things I am going to give away! Any suggestions??
OH WAIT...  > Go enter this awesome give-away my girl Melanie is having ... Who doesn't want a credit to an awesome Etsy store that has super cute jewelry?? Plus her blog is adorable and you should be following her anyway :)  XO, 

Celebrity Birthday Party Ideas

I love that the kids love to have parties!
I love to have a party for absolutely no reason, as long as there is a theme, it will be a good time!

For the girl's birthday party this year they decided they wanted to have a Celebrity Hollywood theme party... Ella came to me one day and said she was set on having a light up dance floor, I quickly repsonded "Hmm I think those are expensive plus I don't think you can rent those in Lexington, only like big cities" ... as I am fixing dinner she calls for me to come in the room and when I walk in, dang girl was on google and found 3 places in Lex that rent dance floors... bahahahahaha 3rd graders are smart these days!!!

At first I thought this may be a challenging task... celebrity theme... what would we do?
Then I found this website...
http://www.thisishollywood.com/
and this one...
http://www.windycitynovelties.com/

and of course my favorite store...

The party is a week from today... and here is what we've got so far :)

Every Celebrity Style Party needs a Red Carpet :)

So we will be turning the front of our garage door into a "Step and Repeat" with a Red Carpet in front of to walk and take pictures! So cute! However, of course you can't have a red carpet event without a REAL celeb to pose next to...

So here we have a lifesize cardboard cutout of the little Biebs himself :) bahahaha

The pics should be pretty good from the party, I am laughing just thinking about it!

And to go on either side of the Red Carpet...

Some lifesize tall Golden Globe Award Statues :)

These will line the driveway and have the guests names written on them :) 

Some Street Signs for outside!

And some caution tape with the VIP theme!

Just some other cut out decor that was like $5 so couldn't pass it up!

Cute Napkins...

Think we will just go black plates & stuff with these cute napkins!

I thought about all the fun events I've been to, and just how special you feel to have a VIP pass when you're out and about. So I found these online...

However... they were INSANE expensive... we needed like 30 or so and it was going to be way too much (insert Chris having a heart attack ha) so I decided, what the heck, we can make these, and they will be even cuter! Do you know how hard it is to find lanyards in Lexington?? I must have went to 10 places! Finally ordered them from Hobby Lobby and they were super duper cheap but look great and will do the job!

The girls and I cut out the cardstock paper, they put on all the stickers and glued the papers together, I hand wrote each one to be uniform... and here is what we ended up with...

This is about half of them.. still need to make the other half :)

The front of the passes!

and the back of the passes!

How cute are those??

(All supplies came from Hobby Lobby and stickers you can wait until scrapbook stuff goes 50% off!!)

I am so proud ha! Love them!

If you were a kid wouldn't you feel so special wearing this? Let's be honest, the adults will be wearing them too and feeling pretty fab ;)

For food I have no clue yet...  I haven't finalized the menu ;)

(did that sound like a wedding planner? lol)

Most importantly, as we all know, will be the cake!

I have found a few examples online that the girls liked... but I trust my girls at Confused Confections will do their thing and make it fabulous! If you have missed our previous cakes, CLICK HERE! :) To see an amazing cake for a 21st birthday they did CLICK HERE or to see the cutest UK Football Cake ever made, CLICK HERE!

Can't wait to show you how the actual party turns out! This will be a fun one I think!

I can't wait to pull it all together for the kids and see how much fun they have!!