Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

I'm baaaaaaaack!!! Welcome to 2010! Hope you all had beautiful holidays and a happppy NEW YEAR! I know I did. Wanna see?

Besides our trip to NYC (all 200 odd pics up on FB and will probably be up on here in the "highlights" form shortly) Jonathon and I had about 4 other Christmases! One vicariously through my lil bro and sis on the phone, one with just each other before NYC Xmas (many gloves and hats exchanged) and one at Jon's grandma's house and one at my grandma's house. Whew are you tired too? Naw, it was pure fun.

Here we are sitting in front of the fireplace at J's Gammer's... We had a load of fun playing Christmas trivia with my future MIL Staci (who won) and eating the world's most delicious quiche and apple tarte from Urth Cafe. YUM!


After our flight home, our Christmas at Jon's grandma's and a few hours drive to Palm Springs we spent a few days of r&r with some of my favorite people... my cousins and my bro. They are all the bomb.com.






I don't know if you can tell from the pics but when we get together we like to eat... a lot. :) It was awesome. It was really fun spending new year's eve with my peeps since usually they are all off in Wisconsin or Texas or somewhere else. Jon had to work at the crack of dawn on New Year's Day so he didn't get to laugh at Dick Clark with us, but it was the best New Year's Eve I've had in a long time. Very low-key... Only would have been better if I could have kissed my honey at midnight. But man did I give out good high-fives!


Happy New Year to you all. It will be a big year for me for sure, and I hope this is the start of an amazing journey. Won't you come along for a ride on my fantastic voyage?! ;)

Last 100 Days

There are only 100 days left until THE BIG DAY! Wowsers. Start your prayers now for peaceful, love-filled, stress-free marriage wishes.

We are off to NYC for Christmas so we will be seeing you in the New Year 2010!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

May your yuletide be gay and your heart be light. PEACE OUT!

LA Holidaze

Last weekend my mummy and brother took Jonathon and I out for a night on the town. It was really my kind of day and night. We went shopping, ate a lot and sang carols! J bought his beautiful Allen Edmond split toe shoes for the wedding and a really lovely crisp white button-down for under his suit and Natey got his suit for the wedding (as previously seen here on Becoming Mrs. Ford). I really love shopping for other people with them and letting the opinions fly... I was in shopping heaven.

After all that retail therapy we went out for a yumtastic Italian meal worth writing home about. If you are from LA or just visiting, you really really need to do yourself a solid and go to C&O Trattoria or Cucina (there's two and both are off the hizzy). The killer garlic rolls are meal one, the appetizers are meal two, the Chianti is meal three, and the entrees are next days lunch. SERIOUSLY YUM.

We were a little bit stoked.

I'm not sure if you knew this or not but... We're engaged.

As a daughter, I see it as my duty to really crack my mom up every chance I get. Not because I like to give her something to smile about, but because when she really gets laughing it is the funniest thing anyone has ever seen. She absolutely can not stop. It looks painful, and the harder she laughs the harder she has to laugh... Feast your eyes:

At the KCRW Christmas Sing-A-Long where we got to rock out with several quit good and quit famous celebrities including Christopher Guest, Jane Lynch, and Weird Al! Heck yea!

Oh man we had a great time. This is what happens when you drink Chianti, sing and dance to Christmas carols for hours, and then ask your brother to take a photo of you and your fiance...

Perfect day and perfect night! Merry Christmas!

Trimming Our Tree

First things first... I brought my dress and veil home today!!! I feel like a proud mama, bringing home baby. The dress is everything and more than I remember. It is the most beautiful dress God ever set down on this great green Earth. I am wearing it right now while blogging... ok, not really. But in my mind I am. It is hanging safely in the closet wrapped in a giant pink bag so nothing will show-through. I think Jonathon has figured out it is no simple sheath as he had to carry it and it is NOT light.

:D

Second things second... We have been very busy little wedding bees of late what with Christmas and 2010 approaching at the speed of a bullet.

Just for you, a visual romp through our recent tree journeys and festivities.

Up next, our family outing to the KCRW Christmas Sing-Along Concert. It was FUN.

Holiday Card Swap

Tis the Season! I am in love with Christmas. It is one of the world's best things ever.

The fiance and I have been celebrating since Nov. 1 and we plan to celebrate through January. It is just the best. We make some people nauseous with our carol singing and reindeer sweater wearing, but we so don't even care. This year J and I get to feel the full joy of the season by going to NYC for Christmas and words can't even describe my excitement. I am putting my order in now for a white snowy Christmas wonderland... Please, Santa?

How cute is this Holiday Card Swap from Brooklyn Bride? If I were feeling industrious and not planning a wedding I would definitely participate. Maybe I still will...

We went to B&N yesterday to check out this years card selection. It was rather disappointing. You know what really ruins Christmas cards? The words "Happy Holidays." The card is green and red, there is a sleigh and some candy canes on the cover, we all know what it should say.

I think we may make our own picture cards this year. We were hoping to have our engagement photos done by then but maybe I'll just dug up a cute pic.

Stay tuned for my Autumn rap-up post and for much more holiday magic coming to your favorite blog soon.