West elm

Like this calendar from Spread the Love.

2011 — This is going to be a good year.

Photo from The New York Times via The Craft Dept.

Love this little baby bear

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Loving these cool invites — on 100 Layer Cake

Thankful for:
My family whom I love and adore
All my other favorite people and friends
The Gospel
Pumpkin bread with chocolate chips
93 degrees weather in November (love AZ)
My fireplace (yes, it still gets chilly at night)
Hot chocolate
FOOD (can't wait for all the amazing dishes tomorrow)
My life and my health. Cheers!

SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE.. DANCE.. DANCE

All I have to say is FRONT ROW, it doesn't get much better than that!
Loved every second of it and didn't mind too much the guy behind me who was going ballistic shouting out his love for everyone the entire performance. We sold him our backstage passes afterwards — the dancers were in for a treat!

15 days and counting till I get to see this little nugget.

Papercuts and Stationery

Shopping Justification...

Love finding new places to eat, St Francis looks amazing. I was salivating as I was reading the menu. Tonight I am going to Zinburger in Scottsdale, can't wait! How amazing does the Zinburger sound; Manchego Cheese, Zinfandel Braised Onions & Mayo. Or the Samburger; Nueske's Applewood Smoked Bacon, American Cheese and dressing. All I know is I'm going to top it off with their Double Chocolate Mint Shake. YUM.

Yes, pleeeeze. I've always wanted a Honda Shadow, this bike is so good lookin.

I love celebrating the holidays and since we have so much fun with our family Halloween party in Utah every year I decide to start my own out here in AZ.

Fall
Oh... I love going home for the holidays, and this is one of my favorite family celebrations. The Reeses host our annual Halloween party every year and we all love dressing up eating Kristen's taco soup, drinking homemade root beer, munching on her ghost nutter-butters, and Meg's always spoils us with some of her tasty treats, this year is was caramel apples, caramel popcorn and chocolate covered strawberries! And then after all the feasting and photo taking there is the pumpkin carving. Love it. This trip we also went up to the Witch Fest at Gardner's Village, ate a ton of food, celebrated Nelma's birthday, drove the gorgeous Alpine Loop and had breakfast up at Sundance's Foundry Grill and just hung out on the front yard (I also mowed the lawn, which I LOVE doing). Oh, and last but not least I just got to hang out and hold my little nephew Aiden, and like stated in other posts, I'm in love... he is adorable. It was a perfect trip, perfect company and the weather and colors of the fall leaves were brilliant and breathtaking.

Adventures on Kauai

Hiked to Wailua falls
Bought green muumuu's at local thrift store (the lady working asked if Jmill, Jess and I were going to be brides maids. haha — we all walked out of the thrift store wearing our muumuu's. Good times)
Went swimming at our hotel Kauai Beach Resort, it was uber nice and the pools had sand that lead up to them and it even had a slide! (And yes we did go down it)
Yoga on the beach
Hiked to the 1st waterfall on the Na Pali coast. BEAUTIFUL.
Dinner at Mermaids with Jmills friends Sean and Renn
Hot tubing Hanalei
Kayaking and Paddle boarding
Ate at Bubba’s (teriyaki burger with cheese, grilled onions and pineapple — delicious! )
Hanalei beach (jumped off the pier)
Fresh coconut and other goodies from local fruit stand
Dukes for dinner
Pool and reading time at the hotel
Poipu falls (where we met Tarzan - seriously this guy was climbing and jumping from one rope swing to another)
and of course eating lot's of Hi-chews and Melona bars.

I love these islands. I really don't know why I'm not still living there but I loved going back and visiting. It was a great trip both on Oahu and on Kauai, couldn't have asked for a more perfect vacation...