Day after Christmas Boat Trip.

Greg and I started a new little tradition last year by taking the boat out the day after Christmas. It was cold and cloudy, but we had the best time!

Bowling Birthday.

Today is my beautiful friend, Christina (lovingly referred to as Styna)'s birthday! 

It was a bowling party. Which makes it the 2nd bowling birthday I've attended in the past few weeks. Love it. 

We just got a couple of photos. Here they are.

Merry Christmas to you!

Photos from this morning (a perfect little morning) at my parent's house.

Merry Christmas!

oxo

Happy Birthday!

To my beautiful, sweet & talented cousin, Amanda!


Today is her official 22nd Birthday.

photo by Leila Brewster Photography.

Gingerbread.

Over the weekend, Leila hosted a Gingerbread House Party at her place. We ate icing and candy and gingerbread.

It was seriously so much fun!

Our houses weren't the prettiest, but it was a blast. Her little cousins are the cutest. 

 

photos by Leila Brewster Photography.

Lepicerie.

This weekend was cold and rainy, so breakfast at Lepicerie Market was perfect.

We had crepes and lattes.

It was so good!

First Christmas Gifts.

We kind of, sort of just opened the first Christmas gifts of the year on accident. Since the package didn't say who it was from we tore it open and didn't realize what it was before it was too late.

Thanks Mark & Phoebe for amazingly adorable North Face beanies!

We.Love.Them.

(sorry we opened it early even after you specifically told us not to).

An old, abandoned project.

Over a year ago, my best friend and I started a little photo blog. She was living in Denmark at the time and I was here in LA and it was a fun way to keep in touch. 

Back then I let the project stress me out.

I never liked my photos. I got lazy and wouldn't take them 'til the last minute. I always thought Leila's photos were so much better than mine.

I hadn't visited this blog in over a year, but today I took a look back at the photos. Some were self portraits done with a timer. Some were iPhone pics. Funny thing is, I started to actually like some of these. So I thought I'd share a few of my favorites.  

a COOKIE exchange and a birthday PARTY.

Here are some photos from the cookie exchange!

It was so good to see some high school friends and the star of the show was my friend Lindsey's 2 week old baby, Addison Lilly! I love her. She is so cute I can't stand it. 

After the cookie party, I met up with my cousin for her Birthday. A few of us went bowling and then to get pizza. Yum. I love this girl!

On baking cookies.

On Saturday I went to an annual cookie exchange at one of my best friend's house in Orange County, so Friday night I drove down to my parent's house to start baking. 

My mom and I had some fun goofing around while baking 90 chewy molasses cookies!

I got a stomach ache from sneaking bites of cookie dough!

I'll be posting about the cookie party later!

How was your weekend?

Little Holiday Parties.

A few nights ago we attended our first Holiday party of the season. It was so much fun and made me excited for the other events we'll be going to and hosting in the coming weeks. I love the Holidays!

I am hosting a NYE-Eve party with one of my good friends this year and I can't wait. I just finished designing the invite for it on Paperless Post. Can I just tell you how much I love this site? I told Leila I want to have a hundred parties just so I can design more invitations. They make it so easy & they look so chic.

Here she is in all her glory...I can't wait!
click to enlarge.

Are you hosting or attending any fun events?