#paris

I married the Points King of the World! Blake found an incredible deal on roundtrip flights to PARIS.  Normally a domestic flight is about 25,000 miles but we are flying to Paris for only 30,000 miles roundtrip!  Scccore. Even better, we had enough points leftover to pay for a hotel for our stay.
We are thrilled to have found such a great bargain and feel to blessed to be able to celebrate February 14, 2013 in the City of Love.

I've never been to France so I need some tips: good shoes, what to pack, etc. so comment away please!

DIY Headbands

It's no secret that I am in love obsessed with headbands. My collection continues to grow much to Blake's dismay. I think it's pretty fair that my headbands take up an entire shelf in our only storage closet though right??

I stumbled across some adorable ribbon headbands at Anthropologie and lucky for me (and unlucky for Blake) they were on sale! Away went 4 beautiful headbands tucked alongside their friends in my closet. 

After I wore these little suckers a couple of times though I realized they were honestly just ribbon. Adorable ribbon but still just ribbon all the same. Hmp. Anthropologie you got me again! 

Anthropologie. 4 for $15 (on sale for $6)

But wait! Don't be discouraged! My cute friend Chelsea showed me a website where you can buy the e.x.a.c.t same ribbon suuuper cheap. Like we're talking $.50 a yard.....so I just logged right onto that website and ordered 40 yards. That seemed like a reasonable number at the time.

The website is: http://www.sunshineshoppesupply.com/Fold_over_elastic_5_8th_inch_p/foeyard.htm

I bought the fold over elastic and the glitter 5/8th inch elastic. Just FYI one yard makes about 2 headbands or 4 hair ties.  
You simply measure out your ribbon, chop it and tie it! So simple. Tip: Paint the ends with clear nail polish to prevent fraying. 

Then I stored them in some tins from Pick Your Plum- another wonderful craft website.

I knew my sheep skin rug was the perfect back drop for these!
Don't worry they look cuter in person

I made about 20 for myself. Yep 20. And then I had about 20 left over for gifts.
All in all for $15 I made about 40 headbands.

Can't beat the math here. 40 > 4 so take that Anthropologie!

Consider this my gift to all of you- Merry Christmas! And a big thanks to Chelsea for showing me the website!

[P.S. If some of you get these for Christmas from me... just act surprised :) ]

T Give

To celebrate Thanksgiving, Blake and I headed up to Rochester, NY to see four little munchkins and my brother JR and sister in law Angie. We finally got to meet baby Everett and he is simply adorable.

Blake was a baby hog all weekend and mastered the "possum hold"- a very advanced baby hold.

BFFs

The real highlight of the weekend was mastering the baby top knot. 

I think we should all be a little more grateful for top knots in our lives. 

Awwww

 Sydney created a little salon for us girls and we had a nail polish party. It was pretty awesome.

Sydney dictated a book to JR all about horses. (She must be your soul mate Steph :)) 

It will probably be a best seller by next Thanksgiving. 

We continued the Faust tradition and made our annual ginger bread house. 

Every year we get more advanced, I mean check out those reindeer on the roof. Am I right?

There was a lot of playing dress up and reading books together

What little sweetie pies

It was Blake's first holiday as an uncle and it's safe 

to say he was a big hit and stole all of the attention.

Fine by me- I just hung out in the corner and ate all of the rolls, suckas!

A big thanks to Miss Angie for all of the yummy food and good times! We love you guys!

Blake and I have a lot to be grateful for this year including all of our newlywed adventures, my job, his school, oxfords, ruffles, instagram, twitter, our new families and looooove. Happy Thanksgiving!

Also JR performed surgery on both Blake's eye and my cheek on the living room floor. Scapel, gauze and magnified glasses and all! Goodbye cysts! So that was an exciting weekend wrap up. 

Thanks for the free medical care bro! 

Roosevelt Island

Before Blake starts ditching me for the library every night to study for finals, we are making the most of our weekends. We finally made it out to Roosevelt Island and it was beautiful! We went at dusk and the lighting was perfect. We walked around and enjoyed the last of the fall leaves. Although I am soooo excited for the holidays (yay Utah!) I am a little sad to see fall go. Nothing compares to DC in the fall.

her october happy list.

Pumpkin frozen custard. Just...wow.

Dark purple nail polish.

Modern Family just keeeeps getting better folks!

Newly discovered show- Homeland. Claire Danes is intense. 

Hot bubble baths.

Seeing my nieces and nephews in 18 days!

2 days off of work! For free!

Craft nights with the girls.

Anthro headbands on sale.

Halloween Oreos. Am I right?

Old roommate dinners.

Trick or treating with my adorable kiddos at work. 

Starbucks gift cards.

Discovering a new (and better!) Target.

Pitch Perfect.

Getting my Christmas vacation time approved. Utah here we come!

Buying a TV for our bedroom. (It was a need)

PUFFY VEST! After searching in vain for weeks, the sweetness of a puffy vest is mine!

Blake's birthday celebrations!