Lately

Went to Nashville, got a new haircut, enjoyed my Christmas tree, did important wedding related research. You know, the usual.

Happiness

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Christmas is here!

I finished my decorating last night while watching Eloise at Christmas on Hallmark. What a glorious night. Have I mentioned how much I love cheesy seasonal Hallmark movies? Because I do, a lot.

Also feeling better about wedding planning because I finally had a few calls answered and have four meetings set up for my trip to NC for Christmas. Can't wait to have a date and place picked out!

Breaking news!

Ok, so maybe it was breaking news yesterday, but William and Kate are having a baby! I am so excited. Also slightly disturbed by how open I am about my live for the royals...no less than 10 people texted or posted to my Facebook to make sure I had heard the news (of course I had). Whatever, no shame here :)


Also, I finally started on my decorating! I got my wreath up first, so at least the outside world can think that I have decorated. I got the tree up too, just no ornaments yet. We'll see how much progress I make tonight!

Behind Schedule

I am afraid to admit this but, I have still not put up my Christmas tree! This is incredibly late for me. Usually I have mine up and ready and the whole house decorated the weekend after Thanksgiving. This year I am procratinating for some unknown reason. Hoping to remedy this tonight and just power through to get it all done. Luckily, I have almost all my shopping done (only 1 more big gift to buy in-store, and a couple of restaurant gift cards to pick up).

I think the reason I'm feeling so behind schedule is also due to wedding planning/dreaming. I know some basics: the date we would like, a back-up date, ceremony location and a couple potential reception locations, but nothing is finalized yet, and I think its secretly driving me crazy. Once we get our date and places pegged down, I'll feel so much better. Also would love to have a caterer and cake and photographer booked soon as well. So. Much. To. Do. But still trying to remind myself that its good, fun stress that I'm lucky to have in my life :) Looking forward to an engaged Christmas, for sure.

Are you all on track with holiday preparation? If so, I am jealous! Trying to find ways to kick myself into gear today, but the 75 degree weather is not making me feel very Christmasy!

Thankful

These are all the things making my life better right now:

-Christmas. It's my favorite thing.
-Everything that goes along with it, including decorating, gift shopping, holiday get togethers and mostly Hallmark and ABC Family movies!
-Friends. I've been busy and antisocial lately, but I'm happy to finally see some friends this weekend, and hopefully more soon.
-Healthy food, to balance out all the carbs and sweets and yummies.
-Work. It's crazy sometimes, but I do love my job.
-Wedding planning. It us already more stressful than I expected (especially to plan something from 2 states away), but I am really trying to enjoy such a sweet process. Once I have the first couple big ticket items under contract and a date, I will feel so much better!

Xoxo

Lately

Between work and more work and wedding planning (!), there has not been much time for blogging! I'm not feeling bad about it though, just thoroughly enjoying the holiday season and (too much) shopping and eating and all the fun that comes with it. Hope you have been too! Here's a few snaps of life lately. Warning: it's incredibly random.

A little wedding planning, and trips to NC and TN.