I'm a little busy bee!!!

Ok Go - A Million Ways {I"m pretty crazy about Ok Go}

How was everyone Christmas??? Mine was more than crazy and busy this year. I'm sad {and slightly embarrassed} to confess that I was still Christmas Shopping up until Christmas Eve. Here is a quick recap of the last few days last week.

On Thursday, I got to set up and witness one of my best friend proposal.

{I will post more pictures and details later on}

The same night we also celebrated my Father in law birthday.

We spent hours waiting in line on Friday doing last minute shopping.

We barely got home in time to get ready for Christmas Eve with my Hubby family.

Me and the Hub at his parents house.

We spent Christmas lunch with my Mom and Aunt.

My mom is the one in the gray dress. I double dare you to guess her age!!!! I hope I will get her good aging gene.

This post is all over the place is because I'm exhausted. My hubby, little brother and I took a little road trip to visit our siblings in Colorado today.

A beautiful sunset in Kansas, on our way to Colorado.

If In Doubt. Bake a Cake

Can you believe this week is Christmas???!!! I still have a gazillion things to do.


... like bake a cake. Along with baking a cake I will hopefully also finish all my Christmas shopping today {crossing my fingers}.

Well even if I don't get everything done I will be ok, because it's time to...

Welcome Christmas while we stand
Heart to heart and hand in hand

I spotted the illustration above on Pinterest.

P.s A very happy Monday to my friends Neena and Shantini who just graduated over the weekend. Whooohoooooo!!!

A Gift of Compassion

I spent the majority of today extremely stressed out. Stressed out by family matter, stressed out by financial problems, stressed out by work and stressed out by Christmas. All that stress seem to melt away though when I stumble across Compassion International through a Facebook status. I was reminded once again how blessed I am. Blessed with the people in my life and for everything else {the good and the bad}. My heart started filling up with hope. Hope for those children, hope for myself and hope for those around me.

Compassion International exists as a Christian child advocacy ministry that releases children from spiritual, economic, social and physical poverty and enables them to become responsible, fulfilled Christian adults.

Compassion International have programs where you can Sponsor a Child or give a Happy Birthday where $100 helps provide a woman in poverty access to a skilled attendant during the birth of her child.

They also have a Gifts of Compassion catalog with items like...

$10 - Mosquito Net
Give children and their families a mosquito-free sleep with an insecticide-treated bed net.

$16 - A Chicken
A chicken means more than food for a family—it means a source of income, manure for the vegetable garden and a supply of eggs.



$30 - Education Supplies

This gift can help children to attend school by supplying the educational resources they need.

$25 - Vaccination
This gift can help vaccinate children and keep them healthy so they can grow to their God-given potential.

$40 - Kits for new moms
This gift can help provide a new mother with the resources she needs to raise a healthy baby.

$55 - Water Filter
This gift helps prevent waterborne diseases by providing a water filter which can clean up to 500 gallons of water per day.

$75 - Bakery
Your gift can help provide teenagers training to learn skills like bread making to help put them in business!



$5000 - A Major Surgery
This gift can help cover the costs of doctors, transport to appointments, medication, surgery and post-operative care.

No crowds, no lines, no stress - just a gift that will help make a difference in the life of a child living in one of the poorest communities of the world. Your gift will help provide clean drinking water, medical treatment, disaster relief, food supplies and much, much more for Compassion - assisted children and their families. Meet real needs and bring real joy with a Gift of Compassion.

A Winter Holiday Soiree

I have a folder title Inspirations for Holiday parties in {on?} my desktop with pictures I have save over the years. I'm so glad I look through the folder again yesterday, because I stumbled upon this lovely shoot.

I really love the easy going feel of this shoot. With holiday party, it is really easy to go over the top {I am always guilty for that}, but this shoot was just comfy and beautiful.

I love love love those mercury glass ornaments. I am on the mission to find some for my Christmas tree now.



It is my personal believe that every special occasions need a touch of diy elements. It bring a sense of peronalness {I know that is not a real word, but I'm having brain farts and can't think of another word at the moment} and fun to the occasion.






I love the attention to details and the different ways they make use of the sheet music.






I love how each kind of flowers get their own vase. Not only does that help the flowers stand out, but also easy for anyone to put together.



I love how the menus were lettered in the shape of a star.









How prefect would this bouquet of white peonies, gray dusty miller, black privet berries, and tied with beautiful striped wire ribbon be for a winter wedding.



Aren't you just itching to throw a holiday party now? I know I am.

I spotted this shoot on Snippet and Ink last year. It was stylized by Courtney Spencer from Merriment Events. Janie Medley at JM Flora and The Bride's Cafe did an amazing job on the floral.

Oh Christmas lights, keep shining on

Currently on repeat right now is Christmas Lights by Coldplay

My hubby and I finally got to go shop for our Christmas tree this past Sunday night. We were debating between getting a real tree or a fake one. We ended up going for a real one, because it was at the moment cheaper and I thought we should try it out as least once as a married couple. We ended up falling in love with our tree and agreed to continue to do so each year.

We just went to one of those Christmas tree lot that usually set up in some random empty field. It was FREEZING and I did not have any gloves on, so it only took us about 10 minutes to find our tree. All in all, it was a really fun experience and I can't wait to do this with our kids in the future and make it tradition.

The under 5 ft trees corner was my favorite area.


I thought this tree was super cute mainly because it was shorter than me.


Hubby and me.


We found our tree!!!!!! It's a pretty awesome tree, and just for $30 too.


We set the tree up as soon as we got home, but didn't start decorating it till tonight. I can't wait to put all of our ornaments up.