Real Life, Real Estate, Real Dana: New Year's Eve

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Picture Time!!

Happy Thursday! Today I had no appointments until 11am so figured I would blog ... again... for the 3rd day in a row! :) I'm off to a good blogging start for 2013 don't you think? hehe Real quick ... two things that made my night last night, after a semi-stressful day: Exhibit 1:

Does anyone else's fur-child ever sleep like this?

The "back legs stretched out", army crawl look ... my ABSOLUTE favorite thing Frankie does!

So stinkin cute. I want to squeeze his little back feet ha!

Exhibit 2:

Who knew Chris was such an artist with chalk? ha ;)

So sweet ... I walked in the kitchen last night and saw this on the pantry door!!

(I won't tell you what I was going in there for, it may or may not have been a box of chocolate coveried cherries I am obsessed with at Christmas time! Must stop eating them!!)

Love him, so nice and sweet and I just love when he does random little things like this ... not all guys are like that, I am lucky enough to have one that is ;)

Lastly before the real moral of this little post ...

New Year's Pics!

I don't know how I forgot to share these two, but they are too cute not to share!

Right at midnight ... lol ... I think you can even see the confetti on the TV in the background!

WILD at midnight, but so fun and funny! :)

My Facebook card I shared to all my friends :)

Love me some Red Stamp ... if you don't have this app on your phone you should get it ... perfect for creating e-cards that you can share as a photo by email, text, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Super cute!!

You're welcome in advance, you will obsessed!

Alright friends ... I am excited to share today some
Engagement Pictures!!

First and foremost, shout out to Alicia @ Aesthetiica for her talented work!
She is awesome, but that's not new news to any of you I am sure! ;)

Ok ... here we go ... total photo dump ...

Love this one! Chris looks so handsome and the lighting is my fave!! <3

Total model and little sweet angel Frankie is ;)

**Sweetness**

Love the horses in the background of this one, you can barely see them but they were so pretty!

What do you think?? :)
I have GOT to order Save the Date's today but am having a hard time deciding which one?
Which is your favorite?

Can't believe we are getting married in 5 months!
Ahhh! So much to do, but surprisingly enough, I am not really stressed ... yet. Ha!

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Monday, January 2, 2012

Happy 2012, New Years Eve, & Pinteresting Monday!

Hi Yall!

Happy Monday... and...

Hope yall had a great time ringing in the New Year! I had such a blessed 2011, I am so excited to see what 2012 brings! I don't do New Year's Resolutions... period. I don't think I ever have. I don't like the pressure and also why do we need one specific day to start (or stop ha) doing something!?? Not my thing... but I understand people getting into it and trying I guess.

Anywho... MOST IMPORTANTLY before anything else... do you know what today is??

They're back!!!!! Wooohooooo!!

If you don't watch Pretty Little Liars... then you REALLY need to! It is my favorite show and even surpasses the Housewives and Tori & Dean, if that tells you anything. I can not wait to watch it tonight! (And thank goodness good shows are starting back up, over the holidays there has been nothing on TV at all!!)

Next on the agenda, New Year's Eve...

I would love to tell you that Chris and I did something glamorous and fab ... but this year we decided to let the kids do the entertaining and have a New Year's Eve Slumber Party w/ a couple of their friends from school... let me tell you what.. it was WILD... and by wild I mean devouring 5 bottles of sparkling grape juice, dancing to the surround sound and Just Dance 3 for hours, blowing confetti all over the Living Room (mild OCD attack, I had the vacuum out within 10 minutes of that little messy ditty haha!) and staying up until 3am (with one girl getting a stomach ache and having her dad pick her up at 2am, poor thing!) :(

I got this cute idea from Pinterest ...

We got balloons blown up and put little notes inside for them to pop "on the hour" and I'm pretty sure that was their favorite thing of the night... they literally counted down til each hour.

Inside we did the following notes:

7pm - Have a dance party!

8pm - Make Brownies

9pm - Pop your Confetti Poppers

10pm - Do some Kareoke (which was to Taylor Swift I might add! Ha!)

11pm - Make a Toast (w/ Sparkling Grape Juice, don't worry, but in Champagne glasses ha!)

Midnight - Make Some Noice!! :)

We had some super cute feather party hats! :) It was a blast!

Before the end of the night, I wrote down some questions on cards and had each of them sit in a chair and answer the questions about their year, and recorded them :) This will be a great thing to keep for the future and do every New Year's Eve! They were hysterical and so sweet and the kids loved doing them... I think they thought they were on iCarly maybe hahaha

They are obviously too long to share but Jake's was absolutely the funniest thing ever... I had to read them to him since he can't read but his answers were so funny... Take a look :)

(mute the playlist at the bottom before you watch!)

I would like to note three parts... his favorite food is a lunchable ?? He has maybe had one lunchable ever at our house ha you would think he doesn't eat cooked meals?!?! ... and he wants to be Ben10 when he grows up! and he is thankful for Transformers! Hahahaha! Too Funny!! We were dying, as you can tell in the background the girls could not hold it together to be quiet for him, poor thing lol!

Ok now for a little Pinterest :)

OMG How cute are those pillows? They are THE perfect new parent gift! I am obsessed! I think they were $60 ...? Takes 2-3 weeks to ship. I LOVE them!! What a great keepsake!