Tuesday, December 17, 2013

The Snow Queen & Annual Tacky Christmas Party 2013

Life had been so good lately.. very busy, but very good!



Ashli, Jessica and I went to see The Snow Queen ballet to celebrate Ashli's 25th birthday. I was really beautiful. This was the first time i'd been to a ballet.. i enjoyed getting all fancied up and going!







Later that day we had our Tacky Christmas Party.......





For the last 7 years my friends and I have done a Tacky Christmas Party. We like to do this each year as a way to all get together and celebrate the Christmas season. It's really hard to spend time together through out the year since we are spread all over the place so this is our way of celebrating not only Christmas, but our friendship.  Its something very special to me and I hope it continues each year even as we age and our families grow.

This year we celebrated with a spaghetti dinner and lots of treats and snacks to enjoy before and after the meal.  We decided to each bring a game for our Dirty Santa swap.  We've been trying to take turns hosting a game night once a month to help us get together more often so we thought it would be fun to bring games to add to our collections. After Dirty Santa we decided to open up some of the games and try them out. PS:Heads Up and 5 Second Rule are really fun! I am incredibly thankful to have these people in my life. My friends are really incredible and I love getting to have this annual tradition with them.


Here are some shots from the night:




                                                        Our attempt at a group shot!




Thanksgiving

There is so much to be thankful for this year, but I guess as i've gotten older the more i've really appreciated my parents so I wanted to share a few shots of us from Thanksgiving day because they are truly wonderful and while i've always loved them.. i haven't always understood and grasped the magnitude of what all they have done for me and now that I do all I can be is thankful.  










26th Birthday

I am SO BEHIND on posts, so I'm going to try to catch up!

My 26th birthday was all of 2 months ago, but i've got to include a few snapshots from that day.. it was a lot of fun! It was spent surrounded by friends at a halloween themed costume party complete with a chocolate fondue fountain! Duck Dynasty characters, Ellen, Sophia Grace and Rosie and the cast of New Girl and Star Wars were all in attendance. It was truly an honor ;) I was instagram..via Pinterest inspiration!