New Years

This New Years despite us saying we were going to try to make plans, we ended up not

 (because we're big procrastinators >_<)

I did however "plan" my outfit for the night. I combined two of my loves. Stars & Rainbows <3

Unfortunately the weather didn't get my outfit memo, and it rained all day.

And since I didn't want to ruin my fabulous shoes (they're suede) I ended up not wearing it :(

Guess I'll save this outfit for a glamorous night out on the town ;P

This is what I ended up in in the end. Went more casual since we decided on a low key night.

Dress/Top/Jacket (F21) Stockings (Sock Dreams) Leg Warmers (Wet Seal)

Finally wore the skeleton stockings I bought before Halloween. I really like them now; they're so fun <3 I tried to layer up since it had been cold all week and instead it was just muggy, humid and wet. I really need to try to start checking outside before I finalize the outfit I decide to wear. lol

We ended up ringing in the New Year with Adrian's family, and I must say it was a perfect way to do so. Hung out and made lots of memories <3

Our midnight Cheers!

Toast to the New Year! May it be filled with lots of love, laughs and good people. I really feel like this year will even better than last year and I can't wait to see what it has in store for me. I didn't really make a New Year's resolution but I'm going to continue my tradition I started last year and just try to be the Me that I want to be :)  Did you make a resolution or have something you'd like to accomplish this year? Love to hear it...

Christmas Day

Christmas morning was even more hectic then I was expecting it to be. lol. We were in charge of bringing the green bean casserole and dessert (chocolate candy cane cupcakes) to my family and brownies to Adrian's family. Luckily I did the brownies and cupcakes (-the toppings) the night before.

Of course I had to wear a super Holiday-e outfit

Dress (Plato's Closet) Cardigan (Old Navy) Stockings (Sock Dreams)

We first went to Adrian's parents' to open gifts :) His mother did such a great job decorating

My Secret Santa got me Minne footie pajamas, sock monkey slip on socks and pretty stationary (which I will put to good use) :)

After we opened gifts we went to my family's get together

Got a colorful lamp from Santa this time; which I am now using at my workstation

Had a blast hanging out with my family as usual and Santa even surprised the boys and girls with a Spongebob (which actually was a pineapple) and Barbie gingerbread houses.

Little Sister helped the boys (the rest of the boys were outside playing with one of my nephew's new BB gun)

And I helped the girls. Ginger bread houses are so hard. You have to let the frame dry properly (which we didn't) before overloading it with stuff. Our's almost collapsed several times; but luckily we had enough hands to hold it together long enough to get pictures. lol

Pretty good and very colorful <3. We almost gave up (which the boys ended up doing) but kept on going. Yay! Girl Power!!

Two of my Beautiful Nieces

After we got "proof" that we finished it; we didn't waste anytime tearing it apart and eating it.

 

Later in the evening we then went to Adrian's family and ate, hung out, opened white elephant gifts and then played pictionary (which we won on a come back of 4 points. Woohoo)

 

Family, Food and Great Memories everything you need to make it a perfect Christmas.

 

Did you have a good Chistmas? Have you ever made a gingerbread house? Love to hear about it..



Christmas Eve

This year me and Adrian tried to get all our holiday and grocery shopping for Christmas done early so that we didn't have to venture out of the house on Christmas Eve. And we actually did it :)

Since we were staying in and I knew the next day we'd been running around alot, I decided to try to keep the day pretty lax. I threw on some red and green clothes and finally tried out Usagi's hair. lol

Don't think I will be using my camera for mirror pictures anymore. The phone ones come out better I think; these came out kinda weird.I have no makeup on (although I don't very often) and I need to practice teasing my hair more because I really suck at it (and these buns should be poofier). lol After I had my outfit complete I noticed that this hairstyle with this outfit didn't look very good. Hahaha. Good thing I didn't have to leave the house. Although now I put it on the internet so...

This year really went by quick; and I procrastinated alot! If you've read any of my Holiday related posts you know I love a good excuse to decorate or dress up so the fact that I didn't put up and decorations at my house might have been contributing to why this year didn't seem as festive. So on this day I decided to put up at least some of my decorations, not as much as usual but I at least got up the stockings, Christmas tree & snowflakes :)

I love my Santa picture; made it over 7 years ago. Maybe I should redo a bigger one.

I also really like my snowflakes. I made some these a few years back, but last year me and my friend Talin re-glittered them on both sides and added more. It took a while but I love how sparklely they are. I like to sit and watch the colors as they spin in the air <3

I attempted to take a picture of the sparkle but this picture dosen't do it justice

And our Charlie Brown Christmas tree (since we can't have a real one because of the cats)

Also got around to finishing the gifts I made for my nephews and niece. Zombie Pandas (in their favorite color) and Hello Kitty pins. They liked them :)

And here's a picture of all of our gifts (for other people) that we wrapped. I love wrapping paper and only bought two new rolls this year. Usually I buy more but I tried to contain myself.

We were up late (after midnight so we opened our gifts that night! Me with the gift Adrian got me. He wrapped it all by himself and did a really good job this year. He even added sunglasses to my tag so my penguin was cool :) And it was a laptop! Yay! Now I can blog on my own computer <3 (also got awesome Hello Kitty and Domo socks... I love socks!!!)

Adrian spent the day giving the dogs a haircut so when he was done we put on their holiday Pjs. They actually liked them this year (bought them a few years ago. lol)

This is Kazama . He's our first born and the baddest, but he also loves attention. lol

And this is Kiyami our sweet little girl who is also the police of the house. lol

If she know's you're doing something you shouldn't she will let you know.

I'm falling behind with my posts. Oops. But hope to catch up soon. Christmas is next :)

Halloween Wkend Pt 3

After getting de-zombiefied, we got ready to hit the town. We didn't really have any definite plans, but ended up meeting a friend at a pool hall and spent the remainder of the night there. It was such a fun and great day. Here's a picture of me and my husband that my good friend took of us :)

Gotta love Instagram's filters. I look cool here. lol

My costume was an improvement from the last time I put it together. It took 3 cans of spray to get my hair that white and that stuff got EVERYWHERE! Not the best choice for an all black outfit. Next time I'm buying a wig. lol

Coincidentally I ran into another Storm there. She had a wig and looked so awesome <3

(Tried my best to center the pic below but it's not working)

See... Her hair looks cooler (O-O)

 

 

 

We also saw...

Chong & Cheech

Loofahs (These are so cool)

Bo Peep & her Sheep (Bo Peep glued cotton balls on a shirt and shorts to make his costume)

Found some Drunk Things

Nicki Minaj, Kim K & Minnie (photobombed by Flava Flav?)

South Park representing (Kenny, Kyle, Cartman & Stan)

My good friend Talin, Me & Adrian (who was a Zombie Monkey)

 How was y'alls Halloween? I'd love to hear about it. :)

2nd Thanksgiving

This year my family got together Friday for Thanksgiving. I'm really glad because it gave us the whole day to hang out. Family time is really one of my most cherished times and almost all of my siblings made it out :)

My Little Brother's Bday was on Wednesday and my Step-Mom's was Thursday (Thanksgiving Day)so I surprised them with a cake and of course we sang Happy Birthday :)

More Thanksgiving food... Oh yeah! Kinda want more now

 

To get everyone in a more thankful mood we cut out some paper and everyone wrote down what they were thankful for. I then strung them up with some ribbon for display

Close up of some of them. That ribbon came handy. I bought it for a dollar at Michael's a while back and matched really well :) Ended up a great back drop for pictures, which I made everyone take ;)

And my outfit shot. These are cell phone pictures so they didn't come out that great -_-

 I wanted to dress festive so I busted out my fall colors. Of course my family was like why are you a pumpkin when it's Thanksgiving. I told them that pumpkins are fall not just Halloween and Thanksgiving is Fall ;P

Dress (Hautelook - Jack, BB Dakota) Undershirt (Marshall's) OTKs (F21) Cardigan (Old Navy) Shoes (Shoe Dazzle)

Bonus: I usually don't put my family's pictures here but my Nephew is too cute and getting so BIG :)

I can't believe we are in the last week of November and I know it's going to fly by and we'll be in the New Year (o_o) Have to try to make the most out of every day then ;) How did everyone else spend Thanksgiving? Did anyone else had a double Thanksgiving? Love to hear about it...

 

Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite Holidays (although I pretty much say that about all of them ;P). When you're in a serious relationship things like holidays can sometimes get tricky. So, me and my husband divided the main holidays. Thanksgiving is for his family (since it's the one time a year his Dad's side of the family gets together) and mine is Christmas (because I love Christmas).

So on Thursday we went to his Uncle's house for Thanksgiving. It was wonderful, I always enjoy getting together with family and his Little Sister and Fiance were able to make it down from Dallas :)

As usual, the decor was very festive. I always feel so fancy ;)

And of course there was plenty of food

My Plate: Salad, Turkey, Ham, Spaghetti (his family is Italian so his Dad makes it every year. It's very good), Yams (I made them), Green Bean Casserole, Stuffing and a roll, I also made a couple of Pumpkin Cheesecakes but I forgot to take pictures (oops) It was delicious though (not jut my thought ;P)

Since my husbands family is a little more appropriate I dressed in something a little more classic though still very me. And got a chance to wear my new shoes :)

Dress (Marshall's) Cardigan (Old Navy) OTKs (Sock Dreams) Shoes (bought off EGL Sales)

 My family FINALLY decided to hear me out and we decided to have our Thanksgiving on Friday. Which was great, so we didn't have to rush over to my family's and instead got to go visit Adrian's Mom's side of the family :) There we got to see his Grandma and Aunt (who stays in Dallas). They even played Loteria (Spanish Bingo) and I decided to play since it had been a very long time and I won 4 times in a row! Then on our last game (w/$1 cards) I won with another girl so I took home an extra $8.50 :) I never have much luck so it made me very happy

 

Once we got home we relaxed to get ready for another family filled day the next day...

Halloween!

So.... I was planning on posting Halloween Wkend Pt. 2 next but since so many of the pictures are in my camera; I decided to post Halloween first since I do have those pictures on my phone. :)

The night before Halloween we finally got around to carving our pumpkin. It's been a few years since we've carved one so I was excited. When I got back from work, I dressed for the occasion since that's what I do to get me more into the mood, plus I had this outfit picked out ahead of time ;P


Shirt / Hat / Bracelet (DIY) Skirt (Exotic Caberet) Stockings (Sock Dreams) Boots (Sheik)

OMG! I forgot how much time and energy goes into carving one of these bad boys. Probably didn't help that the tools that came with our kit kept bending and we didn't shave down the inside of the pumpkin enough. lol. It was still fun but next year we're using better utensils and designing our own picture. This one said it was 2 out of I think 4 or 5 pumpkins on difficulty but it was HARD. I kept cutting the tip of my ring finger. It didn't come out perfect and one of his fingers was cut off but still pretty good :)


Here it is lit up :)

I ended up really liking the way my outfit came out so I decided that I would wear it to work the next day (Halloween).

Here's a picture with my Beautiful Co-worker Kari :) She's AWESOME!

We didn't do anything special this day and only got 2 trick-o-treaters (who were a friend's kids) LOL! But it was still a good day and I actually got to bed early :) Looking forward to the weekend again. Gotta love them ;P