Five on Friday

One. 2014 is already off to a great start! I'm not pressuring myself with too many resolutions, but I've got in mind how I want to live this year differently and so far so good. We had a few friends come into town to celebrate the new year with us and it was a blast.

                              

Two. I'm one of those people that is utterly obsessed with planners... not that I'm even that organized, but I love to have life written down in a pretty planner. I'm feeling inspired by the new year and want to try a new one. I've always been a big fan of Erin Condren planners, but am looking at the Day Designer by Whitney English now. Any others I should take a look at?

Three. We have taken down our Christmas decorations, only the tree stands now. We kept the lights on it and have enjoyed having it on these first few days of the new year - it's not like us to keep it up this long, and honestly it just hasn't been taken down because once it is we have to get it down 6 floors to the outside of our apartment building... and well that seems exhausting. But I'm not complaining, I really enjoy the light of a Christmas tree so I'm soaking it in until we find the time energy to take it down.  

This is my parents house in NC. Right out of Southern Living, am I right?

Three. My birthday is next Sunday! And I am so excited, I love birthdays... but having one so soon after Christmas seems really early to already start asking for more gifts. What did you get for Christmas that I should have on my birthday list? I really need some help here.

                                       

Four. I am so thrilled 2014 is here and I'm really looking forward to all that it will bring, but my mind keeps wondering back to 2013 and just how good it was to us. I will forever be thankful that 2013 was the year that gave me my husband! (I have full intentions of sharing our wedding pictures soon!)
                       

Five. This is my 3rd day in the office this week... only three little days, but this has been the longest week ever. We're creeping to 5:00! And then it's a weekend full of fun, football (GO TIGERS!) and good food and drinks with some friends. Happy Weekend!

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wedding videos are so worth it (here's ours!)

I'm going to skip the part where I say how terrible I feel for letting this blog go silent for 2 months (though I feel so terrible) and skip the part where I talk about how busy I am and how I just didn't have time for it (we're all busy, am I right?)... and just go straight to the part where I say "Hey! Watch our wedding video!"

PSA: I'm looking at you girls who aren't married yet... you're one day going to wonder if you should spend the money on a videographer... you're going to crunch numbers and think "there's just no way to make it work"... it's going to make you go slightly crazy when you realize what all you could get for the money that you would pay a videographer...... bypass all the stress, do it. Write the check and never look back.

You're going to spend a lot of money making sure friends and family have a good time at your wedding... do this for you... do this for the day that you and your new husband get to sit on the couch and relive the day you became husband and wife... do this so you and your mom can sit and just scream over how happy you are that "YOU DID THAT", you planned that! All of that.

It's magical. It's priceless. Just write the check :) pay it off later.

I'm going to stop rambling now...


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Wedding "recap" Wednesday

I can still participate in this even though I'm now an official wife, right?

Let's do a quick recap...

I made the "we're married!" announcement here and gave a quick sneak peek of one of our wedding pictures.
Then I told you all about the beautiful, breathtaking, "can you believe this view??" rehearsal here
And then you heard all about part I of our honeymoon in Hawaii, here.
...and if you follow me on instagram, then you've been seeing a few glimpses into our wedding pictures :) I'm in love.

I could honestly keep spilling every wonderful detail about the wedding here... but eventually you all will get sick of it, and eventually I will need to accept that talking about my wedding months down the road just isn't acceptable. Almost as unacceptable as eating a warm chocolate chip cookie without a freezing cold glass of milk... it's just wrong. 

But the good news for me is, it's only been a month since the wedding so I am giving myself the grace to still talk about it for the next month.... possibly bad news for you.

But this blog? It's about our life. And right now, our life is very much so still looking back and recalling the wonderfulness of our wedding day. Bare with us - eventually you will hear all about the exciting life of us newlyweds. We're up to a lot over the next few months - our weekends are jam packed this fall and I can't wait to get all of the festivities kicked off.

In the mean time - a few more wedding sneak peeks, shall we?