2012 in Review

This year definitely topped 2011. Our little family has been so blessed and I truly believe that after the tough year that 2011 brought we became a lot stronger for 2012! Now that 2012 is heading out and 2013 will arrive in hours I thought I would do a recap of our year.

We celebrated our 3rd anniversary 

I celebrated my 30th Birthday...a month late but hey my Birthday is on Christmas Eve so we delayed it!  =) ...and my cousins surprised me with a visit from NOLA

Had an epic ladies weekend in Austin and came away with some great friends!

 My photography business really began to grow with an estimated 80-90 sessions and weddings

January:

December:

Hubs officially received his Paralegal Certificate from Rice!

 I was offered a brand new amazing job doing Marketing in Oil and Gas

Hubs started a new job at a law firm!

We started Crossfit together

Went to Arkansas to see my BFF

Hubs went to Denver with his best friend and attended his first Texans away game

We ran a 5K together...ok more liked walked it but we did it together!

 I also did 1 other 5K 

Went to Austin to meet up with my roomie from Disney

 Took a trip to Mexico and witnessed an amazing couple tie the knot!

 Attended my fair share of Dynamo games

 We bought new living room furniture!

 I booked to do my first Bridal show and booked 7 weddings to take place in 2013!

Cheers to 2013, I have a feeling it is going to be a great one!

Weekend 'o Fun

This weekend I...

Went and had Mexican food on Friday night after a loooooong week at work. No photo, but I had a fairly large Margarita and came home and passed out

Saturday I took full advantage of sleeping in and ran some errands before our Annual Santa Cause party that night, came home and found Bentley lounging and bathing...

Saturday night was our Santa party and this year we had it at the Paint Pub - which is one of those drink and paint places. We had a great time and here is my painting of the "Rustic Flag" I think I pretty much nailed it

The hostess with the mostesses - or something of that nature

Brad and I wont the Texans tickets in the Silent Auction - woot! Along with these amazing goodies

Along with having a successful 3rd Annual Santa Cause party we ended up raising $2,200 for Patriot Paws. They are an amazing non-profit that trains and provides service dogs to disabled American veterans and others with mobile disabilities. It helps them to recover and get back to independence both physically and emotionally. Really check out their website: Patriot Paws 

After the party wrapped we headed out to the newest craze to hit Houston, Top Golf

 It is basically a fancy driving range with microchipped balls that tells you how far you hit is, and if you make it into the bulls eyes you get more points, kind of like a stroke in bowling...I think

Sunday I woke up and finished some editing and then headed out for our annual girls night at the Nutcracker ballet. We took our regular photo in front of the ginormous tree...enjoyed the ballet and...

Took a photo with the solider during intermission

This year we were in the 7th row from the stage - amazing seats and the show seamed so much more amazing up close. After that wrapped I came home and crashed while the cold front blew threw

Hope everyone had a fab weekend, I am counting the hours until we leave for Mexico on Thursday!

Wordless Wednesday

Weekend Fun

on Friday I painted my nails and had the whole evening to myself - so nice!

Saturday I had a FULL day of mini sessions and I cannot get over the cuteness. I shared a shot from the back of me camera on Saturday after the first session. Hellooooo Starbucks I have your next ad!

Back of camera:

The edit:

I came home and headed back out again for Savanah's bachelorette party. Here is one photo, I will let her share the rest!

 Sunday morning I woke up and met one of my most wonderful friends who was in town from NC. I did their family photos in the AM...

 then we had the whole day to ourselves. We shopped, brunched, and of course we indulged in a cupcake.

 Sunday evening I was bound and determined to start the Christmas tree, it started out like this...

 and here is how it is coming along, nowhere near done but I am loving it so far!

Saw It, Pinned It, Revised It...

Saw it. Pinned it. Revised it.

Yeah, I tend to not follow instructions and do things the way I want it. Either it turns out great or it’s a major fail.

Most of my crafts that I have done from pinterest have all been revised to my liking. Wreaths, Glitter pumpkins, this craft, etc… I like to put my own spin on it.

So I am pretty much a Christmas decor-aholic - ooooo new word!

Source: scream-0.blogspot.com via Emily on Pinterest

While on one of my basically weekly trips to Hobby Lobby I picked up the bells and this week I picked up candles. I could not find a tray like the one pictured at the good ol Hob Lob so I just figured I would try somewhere else.

I got home last night and realllllly wanted to start putting out more decorations and reallllllly wanted to put this little centerpiece together for our coffee table, but crap I don’t have the tray and my candles are not in glasses. What’s a girl to do?? 

SO I came up with the brilliant idea of just arranging it like so on one of my silver chargers….and VOILA!

Oh I also made that fab burlap runner, and by made I mean I bought burlap and cut it and put it on the table...

No glue gun or burnt fingers here!

Happy Holidays!!