happy weekend!

Yay for Fridays! I'll be leaving work early today, which deserves an even bigger YAY! My parents got into town last night and my mom and I have a meeting with Epting Events this afternoon. We'll be meeting with someone from their floral team to discuss bouquets and centerpieces. Hopefully we'll go over timing, set up and some of the other little details, too. I'm especially happy that I was able to schedule this so that my mom can be included. Sometimes she just has an eye for things, or creative suggests that I just don't think of. And because I don't want this to be a completely picture-less (read: boring) post, here's the floral inspiration board I made for Epting this morning:

(all images from Once Wed)

Hope you all have a fabulous weekend!

white christmas and splitting the holidays

I hope you all had an enjoyable holiday! It was a white Christmas in the mountains - truly a winter wonderland. We actually ended up spending an extra day because of the 5+ inches.


This Christmas was my first away from my family. Definitely strange, but still wonderful to be surrounded by my new family and experience new traditions. The future mister and I lucked out in that we didn't have to really hash out how to handle the holidays. We just followed in the footsteps of his older sister and her husband by alternating Thanksgiving and Christmas. So this year my family got us for Thanksgiving and his for Christmas. Thanks to technology, we were still able to have a pseudo Christmas with my family early last week via video chat. Video chat also allowed me to continue my Christmas Eve tradition of watching A Christmas Story with my little brother. I might have been hundreds of miles away on my future in-laws couch watching a different television, but my brother was right next to me, on the computer, laughing with me at all our favorite parts.

"I can't put my arms down!"

How do you split up the holidays with your significant other?