Ours

you guys know I love Taylor Swift and I've been listening to this song a lot lately and I think you'll be able to tell why I really love the video

did anyone else realize that that guys seriously needed a hair cut?

If you're at all related to the military I know you did! haha!

Socal blogger Meetup Deux

so I know I haven't been around lately but I've been really sick (still am) and have pretty much done nothing but sleep lately

anyway I went to the second socal blogger meetup this past saturday and had so much fun!

the meetup was held at Roppongi in La Jolla and I totally want to go back there for a date night the food was so delicious!

we were outside in their little front patio area and it was just the perfect day!

there were seriously so many amazing sponsors! go check them all out here, really go! I promise you want regret it (though your wallet might, such cute stuff!)

I won this beautiful necklace from The Altered Chain

it's seriously so pretty, dainty, and well made!

and there were tons of goodies and discounts in our gift bags! I totally have some shopping to do!

there were over 60 girls there which was amazing!

and they had so many sponsors donate to the giveaway that not only did everyone win something they put our names back in for the rest of it and I won a photography session with the lovely Karina Irene!  She took these pics of the meetup (my camera battery was dead grr...) and she's so amazing and being a photographer it's something I'm very picky about but can't very easily take pictures of myself so I am so excited!


now it's time for me to get back to sleep

see you in a week or so...? lol!

Things I miss about Texas

So I honestly never thought I' be writing this post.

I spent three months (of summer) in San Antonio, TX and that was more than enough for me! by the end I could not wait to get the heck out of there and back where it was "normal" (my normal, obviously) 

But now that I am happily situated in glorious California again all of the more trumatiac aspects of being in TX have slowly moved to the back of my mind and I am able to look back at my time there with a bit (albeit a tiny bit) of nostalga.  Which is fortunate since its highly likely we'll end up back there (I don't want to talk about it...)

Truthfully though we did have a lot of fun in TX.  

so without further adieu,  things I miss about Texas:

Blue Bell dutch chocolate ice cream. Oh em gee it is seriously heaven in your mouth!!!! they need to start selling it everywhere asap! I can't even get over how delicious it was!

Fresh made tortillas from HEB.  So HEB was like the only grocery store, period, but they had these amazing fresh made flour tortillas in the bakery section (you could legit see them being made on the machine) that were literally the best tortillas I have ever had! I've tried a bunch of mexican stores around here but they only have corn...bleck!

Cracker Barrel!!! specifically their hash brown casserole! most delicious thing ever! I've tried to make it myself (google Cracker Barrel hash brown casserole recipe) and it's good but not exactly the same.  And I know Cracker Barrel is not specific to TX but there are zero in CA! the closest one to us now is in Yuma, Arizona which is basically 3 hours away in the middle of nowhere.  Luckily hub's best friend is about the be stationed at the Marine base there and we can go visit him (and more importantly, get some hash brown casserole!)

Freddy's frozen custard! SO much better than ice cream! there is one in CA but it's 2 or so hours away and not on the way to anywhere we would be going, except maybe Vegas.

Jimmy Johns! gosh I miss that #2! so fresh and delicious, I could eat it every day.  Again, there is one in CA but It is also in the middle of nowhere and not on our way to anywhere we'd be going.

Hobby Lobby! Seriously the best craft store ever! Though I am happy to report that these are popping up in CA!!! so exciting!

So that's my list.  Yes I do realize that pretty much everything I miss involves food... does that really surprise anyone?

Punkin' Mickey

I know its WELL past Halloween 

but way back then we went to Disneyland...

YEE!!!!

you see, even though I've seen Disneyland a bagillion times and most of those at Christmas, I've never seen Disneyland when it was decorated for halloween

and I wanted too...

so we went!

Here's part of the entrance

and main street...

there were jack-o-lanterns in the windows...

and on all the ledges!

now unlike Christmas at Disneyland where everything is totally Christmafied, Only the entrance and main street were decorated

and as far as the rides go, the haunted house is changed to The Nightmare Before Christmas (and stays that way through the Christmas season as well) and space mountain is turned into ghost galaxy.  It's basically the same ride except sporadically this creepy ghost guy (he looks like a skeleton with the muscles and stuff on him...like a skinned human...ugk!) anyway, he'll appear and screech at you

it was rather unpleasant and honestly didn't make any sense...I mean, what is this creepy ghost doing floating about in space? I sure as heck don't know!

but other than that it was fun (it was Disneyland after all) nothing to exciting Halloween-wise but it was cute and I'm glad I got to see it.

Oh! ps, my birthday is in exactly 2 weeks! YAY!

Any ideas what I should do? Cause I for sure haven't got any...

Happenings lately

Hubs left for training, luckily it's here so in a couple weeks I should get to see him on the weekends

But before that he got a tattoo

We finally got our playstation hooked up to the network and set up our netfilx ...so basically that's all I do now

You all remember when I wrote about the socal blogger meetup right? well there's gonna be another one on Feb 4 and I can't wait!

Our upstairs neighbors' bathtub overflowed and poured through our bathroom ceiling light and flooded it...twice

speaking of which, they must either play basketball and move furniture up there everyday or they have pet elephant ..there's really no other explanation for the noise that comes from up there

and if you could all help my friend get some free wedding photography by "liking" this picture I (and her...obviously) will love you forever! 

Life lately according to my iPhone

 

I know I'm a guest posting monster lately

but hop on over to Something Charming to see a feature on our wedding :)

okthanksbye!

guest posting

Be sure to check out my guest post today over at the lovely miss Kai's blog!

I'm sharing my favorite things about about socal so head on over and check it out and be sure to share your favorites if you have any!