a late Christmas party

Just a few pics from my family's super late Christmas party. Since we spent Christmas in Chapel Hill, we celebrated with my parents & brother yesterday. We had a blast!

the gifts ready to be opened:


the food I made:


nothing fancy--Mexican roll-ups, sausage balls (or as my Dad loved to call them, "Christmas Balls"):
chips & homemade salsa, queso in the crockpot & little bacon wraps (recipe found here)


Connor & I:

My lovely parents & I (you have no freaking idea how many times we had to take this picture!! My mom is incapable of keeping her eyes open in a photo omfg!)


Mike's shirt says "I was raised on the street"-lmao

Merry Christmas!

Hope everyone had a great time! We're trying to settle back in at home, we still get to celebrate with my family this weekend! I'm sick and really hope I get over this soon! Being sick on Christmas is no fun at all! :(

Traveling, Arkansas Style

Here's my last post until Christmas, this year has flown by!! We leave for North Carolina tomorrow. We're flying out of the Northwest Arkansas Airport...I'm hoping it's not ghetto!

We fly home on Christmas Day. This will be my first Christmas ever to be away from my family. I'll admit that I'm sad. :( Oh well, I'll be with Mike, & that's all that matters.

Hope everyone has a fabulous Christmas!!

Best Emails Ever!!

Those of you that know how much I looove Pink is the new Blog (Brooke!) will understand how this is so fun to me! Yesterday I was on one of my favorite little gossip sites and heard the Jamie-Lynn Spears pregnancy rumor. Trent didn't have anything up on PITNB, so I emailed him (just used the email listed on the site) just to see if he was going to post the story. I never expected a response...but like 2 minutes later he emailed me back! lol :)

I'm a dork and got sooo excited-I just love him!! We emailed back & forth a few times last night discussing the Spears sisters. It was the highlight of my day!!

My husband knows me so well!

I'm blogging from the most ridiculously girly laptop ever.
Mike surprised me with a "luxury pink" Sony VAIO laptop. :)
Not only is it adorable, but its pretty bad-ass! I can control everything by voice command. I don't even have to touch the keyboard to blog!!

LOVE it. <3 <3 <3

My Newest Obsession

Celebrity Hair Makeovers.

Some are cute, some are lol-worthy:

(oh & wtf is up with my Paris Hilton-esq wonky eye?? I do not have that in real life)

Jessica Alba:



America Ferrara:



Jennifer Hudson/Sara Ramirez:



LC from The Hills:



Reese Witherspoon:



Kate Hudson:



Gwyneth Paltrow:



Rhianna:

Drunken Rock Band

Picture from this past weekend. Might be the best game EVER!! We played that bitch till 3:30 in the morning!!!

Outdoor Christmas Decorations

Nothing too fancy-- just a wreath & some garland. Lights & garland on the back deck, but no pictures yet!

I'm betting that no one else gives a crap about this...

But I don't care, I'm EXCITED!!!!!!! :)

Saturday night is the Mayweather-Hatton fight. We're having people over to the house & watching it on pay per view.

I'm a huge boxing fan (probably more so than Mike!). I've been following Hatton's career for a while now, I think he is a tremendous fighter & my fingers & toes are crossed that he will kick Mayweather's ass!! lol

I'm also just really excited to meet some of Mike's co-workers and entertain at our home. I'll try to take some pictures, if I remember!


**The hardest thing for me will be to stay clam during the fight. I always yell (usually very vulgar things! lol) at the tv, and I don't want Mike's co-workers to think he's married to a weirdo!**

This might be a little bit stalkerish...

So I'm going to New Orleans in January. I'm super excited for the trip...and even more excited today since I just happened to find Brad & Angelina's address to their new house. Eeeeek!!! My friend & I are determined to go and at least take a picture of it. And if little Maddox, Zahara or Shiloh happened to be outside, I wouldn't mind either. lmao

Just Cause

Random Picture Post by me:

This has become my favorite picture on the net:



I'm still jealous of my parent's new car:



I'm thinking of getting bangs again:





Yum:



Yum again (never thought this kid was hot until this mugshot... go figure):



Yum again:

Coming soon to a mailbox near you-- this might just be the picture on our Christmas cards this year...just saying:



red nails for the holidays...eh, not my favorite, but I'll keep them for a week:



2 half-eaten cheesecakes I made for a dinner party--soooo freaking good!!:

Blogger, its been fun...

Mike started working on a website for us last night, so hopefully we'll be migrating there soon. Blogger is great, but I'd love to have our own site and the flexibility that comes with it. Until then, I'll continue to blog here :)

The tree is up!

My Favorite Souvenir

There was a Coach Outlet in Florida, so I treated myself!

I originally just went in to get a wallet to go with my other bag--but I saw these and had to have them! :)

Vacation Pictures Part One

Home Sweet Home!

Just got home last night. Its going to take a day or two to edit all the pictures, but here is one I took on our last day.

Exciting Stuff!

We leave in the morning for Florida! :) I cannot believe that a year has passed and we're celebrating our wedding anniversary! Seriously can't believe!

We'll be back on the 18th, with lots of pictures and stories, I'm sure. We have lots of fun things planned-- one in particular that I'm really excited about: we're taking a sunset dinner cruise on a yacht! eeeek!! soooo looking forward to that :)

Hope everyone is well. Be back in a week!

Another Halloween Post

Mike's other costume:

They had to dress up at work so Mike went as Bacon and his friend wore the Egg. lol!
Mike looks totally high in this picture... I blame that on the fact that it was 5:30 in the morning, he was pissed and I caught him mid-blink. hehehe!

Halloween 2007

Loving Bella Vista

These were taken last weekend about 5 minutes from our house. I'm amazed at how pretty our town is!

Please excuse Mike's creepy face! (He was chewing on trail mix. lol)