Yearbook Yourself

I am so entertained by this website I found: Yearbook Yourself. You put in a picture of yourself and it shows you yearbook photos from different years - they are a hoot!!

1952. Do you like my pearls?

1960

1962

Joe from 1966. He's going to kill me for posting this! Haha!

1968.

Joe from 1972. Groovy baby!

1982. God Bless you, Farrah Fawcett!

1984. The year I bought stock in Aqua Net!

1992. I look like a lion.

1996. I look so much like my mom here!

Joe in 1996.

Now here's YOUR challenge! Go to Yearbook Yourself and see what you looked like through the decades. If you're really brave (and have a blog of your own) - post pictures for us all to see!

Favorite Vacation Spots

Happy Friday! My bloggy friend Kelly is hosting another carnival and today's topic is VACATIONS. There's nothing I'd rather write about!


My favorite vacation spot is London - it is BY FAR my favorite city in the world (that I've been to!). Joe and I went last summer for about two weeks to Paris and London to celebrate me finishing my undergrad.

Buckingham Palace

Can't go to London without checking out the tele in the famous red booth

We created our own pub crawl...
British Museum
the Rosetta Stone
King's Cross Station (made famous by Harry Potter) and attempted to enter the wizard world through Platform 9 3/4.

One of the best ways to get a great view of the city was from the London Eye. Basically, a huge ferris wheel. We timed the ride for sunset. Perfection.
London Bridge
One of my favorite things we did, visited the longest running play in the West End. Agatha Christie's Mousetrap


Day trip to Windsor Castle, so so pretty

Stonehenge
Roman Baths in Bath, England


touching the "healing waters"We also drank some of the water (very warm and salty)

Joe and I always say if we win the lottery we will buy a country home outside of London and maybe we will pick up a British accent! Haha!

Guest Bedroom & Bathroom

We've been in our new house for 2 months... I know you'd like to believe we've gotten everything unpacked, settled and arranged. Well, you just keep on thinking that! The truth is, we've pretty much come to a Stand.Still on unpacking. However, last weekend our friends Bob & Rach (newly engaged!) came to visit and I couldn't stand not having a guest room (or bed). Seriously, there's no excuses when you've got 4 bedrooms and no kids. Don't you see this gave me a great excuse to get a new bed for our master bedroom? So, we splurged on a new king bed for ourselves and moved our queen to the guest room, and alas, we had a guest room in the making! I added a few touches with things I had bought over the last few months for cheap and voila!

framed prints of butterflies above the bed

Do you recognize the desk? Bought for $9 and refurbished!

The details: lamp from an antique store, a framed pencil sketch of our dog that my sister did one year for me for Christmas (LOVE), old tin star, books and magazines to make guests feel welcome.

Can I just tell you that I almost peed my pants when I found that lamp!?! Haha! First of all, it's my FAVORITE color! Second, it reminded me of this $200 Robert Abbey lamp that I really, really, really wanted but couldn't justify. I found mine at an antique store for (you better sit down first)... $10 for a PAIR of them. Yahoo!!!

THE $200 lamp.

Let me share the guest bathroom with you, too. Doesn't everyone have a seashell bathroom? Haha! We're no exception - I love beachy bathrooms - It just WORKS! You know what's odd about our guest bathroom? I'll let you guess...

We don't have an actual window in there! However, I found this awesome old window at an antique store, I added a bit of jazz with a wreath and shells and I think it works nice. I also framed a nice coral print I had laying around.

Here's the sink. I got a sweet compliment from my friend about my goody basket here - it's got soaps, shampoo, lotions, shout wipes, toothpaste - all the essentials! And all the things I tend to forget even though I travel for a living - I still forget this kind of stuff half the time! I also have a framed engagement picture and beach picture from our honeymoon, and a jar of shells from our honeymoon - hey, it's cheap decoration ;-)

Now that I've shown you my guest rooms, who is going to come visit me next? I love visitors! :)

Wedding Reception and Honeymoon

Kelly's blog is at it again! This Friday she's hosting lots of blogs and our topic is Wedding Reception and Honeymoon.




My wedding reception was held at The Grand Hall at a garden in Kansas City. I dreamed of getting married here since I was a little girl. Although we actually got married in a church about 10 miles away, it was perfect for our reception.

I loved this venue because it's very rustic ~ there are two stone fireplaces and most of the walls are stone. On the back, there was an atrium and garden where you could go out and enjoy the garden (that's where we put the bar!).

Since it was July I couldn't see lighting the fireplaces so we filled them with hundreds of candles.

We had a sweetheart table for us to sit at right in front of a fireplace. I loved having our own table and we DID actually EAT at our wedding (although many people told us we would be too busy to!)

We had a HUGE six layer cake that was designed to resemble my wedding dress. We even borrowed vintage crystal clips from our cake lady to decorate the fondant bows like I did on my dress. I remember telling our cake lady that I wanted the cake to be almost as tall as me and boy did she deliver!! We had a choice of 4 flavors, with the overall crowd favorite: Peanut Butter cake. Our top layer was red velvet.
Joe's Grooms Cake was a chocolate cake that resembled an OU football field that my mom and her BFF made. They did a fabulous job!
We did a lot of dancing at our reception - fast and slow!

First Dance: Everything I Do, I Do It For You, Bryan Adams (this had been our song for years and years and Joe even played it to me the night he proposed - I could cry just thinking about it - very meaningful)

After we left we stayed the night at Chateau Avalon at The Legends in Kansas City. We had to get up and make an early afternoon flight to Atlanta - St. Maarten the next day.

Here was Joe rolling our overnight bag to our honeymoon suite on our wedding night - so debonair!
I can't believe I'm showing you this but I found this picture and I literally LOLed when I saw it ~ breakfast the morning after our wedding. Whoa boy, look at that hair! Haha!!

We were gone for two weeks but we spent the first couple days in Atlanta for the 4th of July (my fav holiday!)
We stayed at the Oyster Bay Beach Resort in St. Maarten. We did SO much while we were there. We rented a car so we made it our goal to visit every beach on the island (I think we almost did!). We did sunset catamarans, we visited St. Barths, we did snorkeling tours, went shopping and so, so much more.

The only time we've ever flown first class.

Infinity pool at the resort.

We had this beach totally to ourselves!

Don't you just love looking at wedding pictures? :)