Friends+Beach= New Year

This year was my favorite New Years Eve of all.

Pearl and I ventured to Galveston for a Girls Weekend. 

I so desperately needed time with some of my bible study ladies.

We were total girls this weekend. No boys or rules allowed. We were in our matching pajamas at 5:30pm, we played the new x-box dance game, had a delicious meal, played beer pong with costumes, chants and game faces, ate junk food, tried to watch aladdin and were asleep by 11:30.  Thats what I call an EXCELLENT New Years Eve. The next day was spent exploring the  charming town of Galveston and of course a photo shoot at the beach. yes. we had to do the jumping picture.

It was wonderful ringing in the year with some of my favorite people.

Wouldn't have had it any other way.

When I got home it looked like this

I wish I had time to think up pranks. 

Sometime in the near future.. It'll happen

I predict the prankster side of me will surface before you know it

and it will be a circus show.

get ready

Dominating DC

Dont mind me....this weekend the Tiny Dancers and I will be dominating D.C. If you promise to be good I might let you go. but you must have a perfect report from Santa.

Happy 25th Jessica

Tiny Dancer Engagement (#2)

This past weekend I headed back to Dallas for another wedding festivity event thingy. 

Another Tiny Dancer is engaged! 2 down!

I love these girls. We sat outside by the pool in Emily's backyard, like we had done for so many summers, reminiscing on all of our shenanigans. It is crazy to think where we were 10 years ago, where we are now and all of the times in between. I have to be honest, most of their stories started with "Remember that time we snuck out of Taylor's house..."

What did we even do after sneaking out? Walk around the block? kick over trashcans? what? Its not like we had places to go or people to see.  Sounds so stupid now. But Jessica in the purple dress would always stay home. Feel free to give her a hard time...we do :)


Congrats Emily and Brian!

Another one down

A tiny dancer is engaged!

(pictures I took on the Brooklyn Bridge with my Diana last August on a trip to NYC)

Corey proposed to Katelyn on the Brooklyn Bridge Friday morning and surprised her with a flight back to Dallas and an engagement party with 50 or so of their closest family and friends waiting to celebrate with them.

Champaign, toasts, good food and company were all had.

YAY for love!

(A tiny dancer reunion minus 2)

Birthday Girl

Happy Birthday Daphne

She was brought into my life, to be my neighbor, for a reason. This girl has saved me in so many ways.

LOVIN HER and tonight we celebrate...with fancy asian food.

Happy Birthday my beautiful friend

x

labeast

Krick's Bachelorette

Krick's getting married and this weekend we made sure she partied in style. It was a beautiful reunion weekend with 20 of Krick's fellow admirers traveling the distance to celebrate with her. Among those were past roomies who have detailed the weekend on their blogs here and here.

But I'll end with this.

I love my life.

I love my friends.

and I fell off my step during a step workout class today.

(Im talking-hit the ground)

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I am just sitting here on my couch thinking about things and I've come to the conclusion that I just freaking adore my friends. Every single one of them shapes and molds me into a better person and I am so thankful to have such loving wonderful people in my life. 

I am ridiculously excited about this weekend. I get to see two different sets of friends IN ONE WEEKEND. Lucky Lucky Me.

Tomorrow night the Tiny Dancers and I will be out celebrating one special girls b-day.

Ster-fry, my partner in crime since middle school and travel buddy to my most recent trip to England

And Saturday I will reunite with my college loves to celebrate this sexy kid

for Krick's BACHELORETTE PARTY!!

I cant wait. 

I cant wait.

I cant wait.

I cant wait.

And it wont be a visit back to Dallas without seeing my very best friend, bestie

 All of this in 48 hours. Dallas, Texas....watch out. 

ahhh

bed.

now.

Krickie's Engaged

This goofball best friend of mine decided to go off and get engaged. 

I admittedly think I am having a hard time with this new and upcoming  life change. 

You see, she has always been mine. Now I must share her? 

Not fair. 

No one asked me.

This picture is actually the night she met her fiance NYE 2008. Now thats a story. Remind me to tell you later. 

Congrats Krick and Tyler!

Alexia came to visit!

ALEXIA CAME TO VISIT!

My roommate last year of college is so wise. I really enjoy her company. We cooked dinner (what is with me?) and chatted and got a little crazy dancin around the room.

Without fail, Alex and I will speak in terrible British accents the length of EVERY conversation we have. We have fun. I love her.

Check out her wise yet witty outlook on life at her blog 

HERE

Dont mind my post yoga attractiveness

Aren't my lime green walls fun?!?!

Ima Domestic! First Name: Ima Last Name: Domestic

Meet Miss Domestic. Thats me! I spent hours (maybe one) in the kitchen yesterday being a domestic and baking yummy good things! It was a lot more enjoyable than normal...

and heres why

1. Christmas music was playing
2. Brother pretended to help
3. I was baking for other people (my high school lovelies)
4. I knew the dishwasher would clean up my mess 



So I made cupcakes and on one of them I decided to put a marshmallow snowman on top. Then I realized it could be taken as inappropriate...so I stopped at one. But I was proud of my creativity!

{Brother thinks its funny to zoom in so close}

"La Naomi" enjoys cupcakes too!
 

"La Naomi" is my creative and artsy friend. I am in constant awe of her talents and cherish everything about our friendship. We also share a love for Diana cameras, red lipstick and bolting around like celebrities with an unspoken understanding that we clearly...are not...celebrities. But we like to pretend we are :)

Krickie

Reeeeeeeeeeeallly missing this kid right now. My college roommate and bestie. Its wierd not having her around eating corn or Ritz crackers for every meal. This girl is the funniest person I know and doesnt even have to try. (thats supposed to be a compliment...doesnt sound like one though)

No words can express how much I love her.

Dearest Natalie Joy, 
I miss our dance parties and your obsession with ice cream and the weird way you ate it. I miss your hilarious fantasies, esp about Matt Wertz.  I miss teaching you how to give a backrub (thanks to Billzzz) because secretly (well... maybe not too secretly) I just wanted you to practice on my shoulders. I miss how we could sit at our desks in separate rooms but it felt like we were sitting right next to each other (TANCD house). I miss our creaky loft where we slept in a row at the sorority house. I miss singing in the shower at the top of my lungs and you finishing my verses from the other room.

GAHHHHHHHH i miss you!


Oh and that lovely picture of us was taken before our sorority's Nerd Date Partyin 2007.
Werent we HOT?!?!

Happy Birthday Shannon!

This weekend I will be home in Dallas celebrating her special day with this young lady. 

Happy Birthday Shannon! looooooove you!

Get excited cause...I am replacing my 1st generation iphone this weekend after 2 years of service. I am also trying not to think about all of my electronic memories that have been erased off of my external hard drive. That includes every picture I have ever taken, video footage (both trips abroad and wedding footage especially of the one I am working on now) and all important work information. 
(which is why I am not thrilled about the picture choice on this post but its the only pic I could find of the both of us.

Happy WEEKEND!

Aggie Ring...bling bling!

Today was the day college students at Texas A&M University long for. The day they spend 4 years "studying" countless hours for. The tradition known as Ring Day. (Read about the tradition here)

Only three times a year is there an opportunity for you to squeeze your way into tiny overcrowded rooms with way too many cameras and wait patiently for a chunk of gold which, depending on how you order it (Natalie), may or may not actually fit your finger. I didn't know I would fall in love with my ring the first time I put it on my finger. No other ring before me had ever shined so brightly and no ring after me ever will. 

Following Aggie Traditions it is expected that a "dunk" will follow. That a group of friends getting their rings will each "dunk" their brand new pieces of gold into a pitcher of beer, chugging all of it leaving only the solid, precious metal as a prize in their grinning smile. A timed competition of course. 

Well today is Megan and Ashley's Ring Dunk and due to unfortunate circumstances I was not able to drive the beautiful 2 hrs to College Station to surprise them!  So alas, a blog post must suffice.

{Photo kindly stolen from their facebook}

Ashley and Megan are twins and are the most genuinely beautiful people I have ever met. I mean that. Not only are they stunning (hello- check out those smiles) they are generous, kind, hilarious and giving. I absolutely adore these two ladies and they don't know this but I secretly want to be them :)

God was right to make two of these inspirational people in this world. I only wish I could be around them more. 

GOOD LUCK you two, my DG sisters and CONGRATULATIONS on a successful college career!

I love you two very much.

Below are pictures of my Aggie Ring day September 21 2007

Happy Birthday Jessica

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESSICA.

Dang, we're getting older.

I tried to find pictures from high school but none were awkward enough to post.

10 years of fantastic friendship and counting.

LOVE YOU!

A Reason to Love

Old Friends

A weekend away

Wine

Beyonce

a reason to love indeed...