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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!

XO, post signature

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Wagon Wheel

Wagon Wheel by Old Crow Medicine Show

If you have not heard my favorite song of all time ...
(with the exception of Carrie Underwood's rendition of "How Great Thou Art" of course)

then you need to go listen to it real quick by clicking below ...

Ok now that we have that out of the way ... I will point out a few facts:

1. I am from Bristol VA/TN and lived in Johnson City, TN for a while and lovvve it there

2. The lyrics in the song "but he's a headed west from the Cumberland Gap, to Johnson City, Tennessee" is my favorite line, for obvious reasons.

3. I have always loved this song and play it frequently and now Ella and Ava know every single word and love it, so we blare it and sing super loud which sometimes drives Chris crazy hahaha

This weekend we went back home and took them with us for the first time ... it was an adventure let me tell you!

They got to experience my favorite place to eat on the planet ...

Pal's!

I got some Pal's dollars from my Aunt Cathy too because everyone knows how much I love it there!

We went to the Bristol Motor Speedway

Where the Nascar Races are ... and we drove through the light show, which was supposed to be one of the best in the country and it really was awesome!

We were surprised to see that we actually got to go down on the track and DRIVE around the track ...

You would have thought Chris died and went to heaven ha! It was pretty cool I will admit, even though there was a good chance our car was going to tip over it was SO steep on the track!

We hung out with my Papaw .... SO fun!

We took the kids to his house to play and it was hysterical ...

Ava discovered the "organ" from 1929 haha and literally brought the house down and blared it ;)

My Papaw collects coins ... he has his whole life, like hides them in walls and safes and such ha it's insane ... but Jake saw some on his walls and said

"Ohhh papaw collects money? He must have one THOUSAND dollars!! I want to collect money too"

haha we were cracking up! He was mesmerized by the money.

Ella saw a real rotary phone for the first time, and thought she was in a museum.

She was trying to call our phones and kept dialing the wrong numbers ha she said it was WAY too hard to use that kind of phone, lol bless her heart.

We went to my Aunt Cathy's 60th Birthday Party!!

Def doesn't look 60 in my opinion!!

It was a great party, so good to see her!

Papaw was ready to eat ha

We had a great time!

Happy Birthday again Aunt Cathy! xo

Maybe the sweetest part of the trip ...

I got to meet up with my cousin Anna and meet baby Henry!!

Obsessed with him! He is the cutest ever. So cuddly and sweet! I could have held him all night!

And he looked pretty dang handsome in his new UGG boots I got him for Christmas ;)

Ahhh love him!! <3

We had an awesome trip ... it was too short!

Lastly, I went to get my Mamaw's Bible

because I wanted to use it in our wedding for something... and when we were cleaning it out I found this piece of paper with a great little paragraph on it ...

Isn't that good?

I want to hang it up somewhere I will see it every day! Great reminder.

Well, it was a great trip and we had an awesome time!

Can't wait to go back sometime soon!!

Until then, we will just keep listening to Wagon Wheel hahaha

Sorry babe ;)

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Happy 2013 and Recapping Christmas!

Happy New Year Friends!

Today I am taking the day to be lazy, work on some wedding stuff, relax from the CRAZY last couple of weeks I have had ... and finally catch up on blogging and everyone else's blogs! :)

I have so many wonderful things to share from Christmas ... so this will be a long one ... then I have some other Christmas posts coming this week just to do a little recap! But I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New Year and got to spend lots of time with their family and friends!

Our Christmas was PERFECT!

I was such a bad blogger and didn't even get to share our Christmas card this year ...

Sorry had to take a picture of a picture, so it is a little blurry :(
But we definitively had Christmas Bliss this year!

If you are in Lexington ... our Christmas pictures were taken by Mary Maldonado and she was awesome!
Then our Christmas cards were made on Tinyprints.com

My work Christmas Cards were ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE,
and created by the fabulous Mary Ellen Designs...

How cute is that?

I gave her kind of my vision for what I wanted on the card ... and then she actually hand draws these things!

She exceeded my expectations beyond belief :) Love it! Cutest Real Estate Christmas Card of all time!

We had a great Christmas!

We literally had 4 Christmas's and they were all so special!

Frankie received a special gift from Santa in his stocking ...

HOHOHO!
hahahaha
A little Santa hat and heard ... which he wasn't very excited about but made for a cute picture ;)

He also got a new cute Woolrich coat ;)
He is so so handsome!

I am kind of sad to take all of this down this week :(

This was my favorite tree we've ever had!

I had a fun time with the present wrapping this year and all my fun litte taggings ;)

We got a surprise visit and literally one of the best cakes I have ever tasted, from Ginny our wedding planner! Love her times a million. She is the BEST!

If you are local check out her website by clicking here ... she is awesome!

On Christmas Day we had a blast ...

The kids and their new robes ;) LOL

Chris and I opened some and bless his heart he did an amazing job this year!

I am so blessed and lucky ... he remembered things I had just said in passing from months ago!

So sweet and we were both very blessed this Christmas!

I think one of my favorite things I got

(besides my new cross body purse and gold monogrammed necklace! hehe)

was this ...

My little gold ring with Chris's initials on it ... obsessed with this. I have wanted one for a long time and it is even cuter in person than it looks in this pic!

My other favorite thing is my new Marmot vest that my dad picked out all on his own lol ;)

He did good! I have worn it every day since Christmas, it is warm and cozy!