Christmastime in New Orleans

We sat back and watched 3 proposals happen in the lobby of The Roosevelt after arriving and promptly ordering a fancy drink at The Sazerac. This lobby is a pretty magical place in December.

I have gotten in a bad happen of ordering room service coffee. I am pretty dang lazy but also must. have. coffee. asap.

One of our newly favorites on Magazine is La Petite Grocery. They have a great brunch.

Another one of our favorites is antique gazing on Magazine.

And always a macaron snack. 

Even though our loyalty is with The Roosevelt, we spent a lot of time in the courtyard at The Ritz Carlton. It was also pretty magical during the holiday season.

There was something about sitting in this courtyard with Christmas music piping through and Peter Pan Live playing in the room behind me.

Our favorite bar goes to The Sazerac. They have the best drinks hands down! 
On our way out of town the next morning, while waiting on our car to come around, Wesley noticed Drew Bree's wife, the three boys and little girl getting out of an SUV right in front of us. That is proof right there I would never notice a celebrity if they were right in front of me. But where was Drew?? Maybe there's a chance I would've notice him had he been there too!

Dec 2014

bieber & snow

Bieber and snow were definitely the highlights of January for us. Since we don't see snow very often it is super fun to experience it. Even better when you get the day off work {even though we didn't this time}. The snow came in on Thursday and we were actually in New Orleans until Wednesday for the Justin Bieber concert. Gasp, I know. More people think it is weird that we went instead of fun, but any excuse to go to New Orleans is gonna be fun.

   

We made it back home in perfect timing to wake up to snow.

Carlisle loved running around in it!

wrapping up 2011

The Christmas holidays were jammed packed for us and we've been having lots of fun the last of 2011. And with so much going on I still didn't walk away from my Christmas break with any thoughts of I wish I would've done that. Christmas always makes a home feel its coziest, so spending time at home is my favorite thing to do. The snug nights when I watched countless Christmas movies and made plenty of peppermint hot chocolate {and even got around to trying the salted caramel hot chocolate} almost makes me feel like a kid at Christmas again. There's no other time of the year when watching Toy Story and Tory Story 2 back to back in flannel pajamas makes sense for a 27-year-old!

The last weekend before Christmas, we traveled to Tupelo for our friends', Maggie and Adam's wedding. It was definitely one of the most fun weddings I've attended and I was obviously having too much of a good time talking to college friends and dancing to the band since the only pictures I was left with afterwards were these iPhone pictures of Maggie and her family on stage {which I think is cute because even her grandmother is on stage with her!} ...and then the picture Wesley had of me on his phone.

Christmas weekend we spent time with my family and then traveled to see Wesley's family ....and Carlisle came along on the four hour drive. I think she enjoyed her time at the Stocktons.

I don't know why Wesley is looking all ticked-off when that cute little head is peeping up beside him, and anyways, doesn't he know taking family photos in the car is normal?!

We had such a great Christmas this year - We are really so blessed to have two loving families to share this time with! I met even more of Wesley's extended family for the first time this year and I wish we could've spent more time with everyone. He has a hilariously blunt, yet kind great aunt named Sue Alice who I was loving!

We barely had time to get settled back home before we headed out to Nashville. I will never get sick of going to Nashville and even though it was our first time for 2011, we were there three times in 2010 and it feels like my second home. Having lots of great friends that live there helps make it feel like home.

Wesley's main agenda was the football game, while I was there to have fun with friends and just enjoy Nashville.

I really should start back taking pictures with a regular camera at some point, but for now I am consistent with grabbing my phone instead.

Hope you found yourself with friends and family this holiday season!

lately

I've been hooked on Chic-fil-a. It's suddenly colder than I can ever remember it getting, and I'm off getting a milkshake on most days. I'm also enjoying their lemonade and chicken more than ever, but it's the peppermint-chocolate combination of the seasonal milkshake I can't get enough of, and lucky for me, they are still serving it as of yesterday. {And these are actual photos from my car window as I wait patiently in the drive-thru line for my milkshake.}

I've also been frequenting a local bagel shop / bakery, Beagle Bagel. One of my favorites is their chicken salad on a honey wheat bagel. When I was there one day last week, I saw a little piece of heaven when I was checking out. A chocolate cupcake with peppermint icing.

Besides splurging on sweets, I meant to hit some after Christmas sales, but only made one stop where I found Vietri Snowflake plates for 50% off. They were considered Christmas decor, which is why they were on sale, but I think they can work as Winter decor too.

Hope you're finding a way to stay warm!

Who doesn't love snow in Mississippi?

First things first. On our day off from work you better believe we want to sit back, have our coffee and watch the Today Show...so, Wesley had to take the broom to our snow covered satellite to get the TV working.

Bentley didn't really enjoy the snow, though he did test it out.

I went camera crazy trying to capture all aspects of our very rare moment.