YOU'RE IT! Emily W, Mandy, and Jill (and anyone else who'd like to do it) you've been tagged!

A - Attached or Single: Attached

B - Best Friends: Everyone reading this blog!

C - Cake or Pie: Cake

D - Day of choice: Saturday and Sunday

E - Essential Item: my cell phone

F - Favorite Color: pink and blue

G - Gummy Bears or Worms: bears

H - Hometown: Jacksonville, FL

I - Indulgence(s): Blogging, Housewives of Orange County, veggie calzones from work, brownies and ice cream

J - January or July: July.

K - Kids: Zero but hopefully one soon!

L - Life is incomplete without: My husband, family, friends, the Gospel, and laughter!

M - Marriage Date: Sept. 17, 2005

N - Number of Siblings: Two, one stepbrother and one stepsister

O - Oranges or Apples: Oranges.

P - Phobias or Fears: Any kind of bug or rodent, clowns, I’m a little claustrophobic too (not extremely though)

Q - Quotes: See my quote of the week section to the right.

R - Reason to smile: My funny husband, family, friends, babies, puppies, accomplishing a goal, life in general

S - Season: Spring and summer are my favs

T - Tag Three Friends: Jill, Mandy, and Emily W.

U - Unknown fact about me: I used to have a secret crush on John Travolta

V - Very favorite store: Anthropologie, Ann Taylor Loft, and Target

W - Worst habit: I am always late…

X - X-ray or Ultrasound: Ultrasound to see my baby!

Y - Your favorite food: Café Rio Salads, Happy Sumo Sushi, In & Out Burger, and brownies (Sad thing is none of those restaurants are in Jacksonville. I’ve always got my brownies though)

Z - Zodiac: Gemini

Fun days

One of my best friends, Emily, was in town this week from Utah with her little girl and her mom visiting her new little nephew Grayson that was just born. It's her brother Carson's first baby and he is ADORABLE! It was so much fun to see them and to see what a GREAT mom Em has become! Here are a few pictures from our fun days...

Em and little Bailey. I love that little girl!




Grandma Jan and Bailey


Baby Grayson in the little outfit that I bought him. What a doll!


Proud dad


Happy Bay


Bay and a couple of silly ladies!

Granite

As our Christmas present to ourselves this year, we decided to get rid of our green kitchen counter tops and put in granite. Our new counter tops were installed today and we're thrilled with the result! Here are some before and after pictures. (The before picture is missing the microwave because we also got a new microwave.) Major difference huh! Now I can't wait to throw our next party! You all are invited!

Before



After

27 Dresses- Two Enthusiastic Thumbs Up!

Loved it, loved it, loved it! John and I just saw 27 Dresses and we both LOVED it! It was so cute and so funny! Go see it!

Makeovers Part 2

Here's one more picture from my virtual makeover...

This is Halle Berry's hair on me. I think it looks pretty good! John just told me he thinks it's "hideous". What do you think?

Makeover!

There's a really cool website that my sister in law Emily introduced me to called MakeoverSolutions.com. It lets you virtually try all these new hairstyles and make up, even color contacts! All you do is upload a picture of yourself and choose what styles and colors you want. It's free to try. Here are some different looks that I created on my computer. (This reminds me so much of that scene from Clueless where she picks out her outfit from her computer!) Which one do you like best? Call me crazy but I think I prefer the "before" picture! What can I say... I'm a simple girl!

Blonde Bomb Shell (with blue eyes- kinda scary!)


Smoldering Red (with green eyes- even scarier!)


Sophisticated Brunette (with glasses- I think I look smarter with glasses, too bad I don't need them!)


Sultry Dark (with blue eyes)

Now go try it! I want to see all your new looks on your blog!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year Everyone! Here are a few pictures from our New Years Eve party at my cousin's house. It was tons of fun! I hope everyone is having a wonderful time with family and friends!