See Y'all Next Decade

Sorry for my MIA blogging status, we all know this time of year is NUTS! And business is a-booming which is keeping this girl busy!
I'm headed down to Nashville (or Cashville as I like to call it) with some good good friends coming from Georgia to meet us. Can't wait. I'll post a Christmas recap (in pictures) and New Years recap in the next decade! Everyone please be safe and have a GREAT TIME TONIGHT!!!

La Femme Fatale

I did a photoshoot on Sunday after church with Lexington photographer Jerame Stephens. He's pretty much awesome! And he wanted to do a photo shoot with a "deadly" theme. I think these pictures are great because they in no way reflect my personality...but it was super fun to bring out my "dark side"
haha
Here are a couple pictures from the shoot:




haha, the perfect back drop :)
Maybe I should send these to the NRA and see if I can become their spokesmodel???
lol!

Pedicures on our Toes, Toes

I have not blogged in a while y'all!! Probably because I've been so busy...with work and with Christmas festivities!! Gosh my house gets so messy when I'm busy! haha.


Here are some pictures from our fun week/weekend:
Thursday we had our Lifegroup Christmas dinner...this is a group of 20 and 30-somethings from our church that Nathan and I lead a bible study with during the year. Hubby is not shown because he's taking the picture!
Me with the newest Lifegroup member...beautiful baby Karis!

Friday night we had our girl's Christmas party...where we did the "dirty Santa" game. We each brought a stocking filled with goodies:


I didn't get a picture of our whole group (waiting for friends to post them on facebook haha) But here's me and one of the beautiful hostess of the party Raina!

After the party (and a wardrobe change on my part) some of us girls when out to Drakes....super fun!
Sunday afternoon we drove to Frankfort to have a delicious dinner with some of Nate's family (one sister and one brother were missing due to travels) The Nitz's are leaving for Florida for Christmas so we won't see them until they get back. After dinner and before dessert my youngest sis-in-law and I decided we should make up a dance to that "Tic Tok" Song from Ke$ha...hahaha...

For some reason my youngest brother-in-law broght this horrible sweater home from college as a joke....gotta love the SouthPole

I have video of the dance but I will spare you all the pain of watching that :)

Hope everyone has a fantabulous Monday!!!

Ode to Laundry

Laundry how I hate you. How you make me cringe with disgust.

How you clutter my house in and overflow the hamper.

Your magical powers make you multiply like no other house hold chore.

How my husband loves to leave you in every room of the house.

How the utility room never seems large enough to contain you.

But why do you hate me Laundry?

Is it because I don’t fold and iron you in a timely fashion?

Is it payback for some un-confessed sin in my life?

Will you ever let me win this battle of having you all clean and put away,

Before another dirty load is ready to be washed?

Will my husband EVER learn how to use the washer and dryer?

Or will he continue on in ignorance?

A house without you Laundry, would be a very happy house indeed.

Honestly girls, it's no body's fault but my own...but I'm sure I will be doing laundry today until sometime in January! There is so much of it for only two people!!! HOW?!?!?!?!? Blah

In other news.... the darling Miss Jen at A Girl with Pearls & A Boy with Toys gave me the Glamorous Blog Award! Thank You!

And now I nominate:

The Joys of Not Having it All

Laugh, Love, Eat Ice Cream

Life, Love, and Polka Dots

Brand New Day

Short Southern Momma

and

Love Lace

Baby It's Freaking Cold Outside

On days like today (freezing cold days) it makes me want to be somewhere tropical! Like Spanish Wells in the Bahamas, where we went for our honeymoon. I was looking through some old pictures of our trip there and came upon this video that reminds me of those warmer times.

To disclaim: I thought Hubby was taking a picture of me in my snorkel gear....instead he was filming me TRY to walk in those big flippers.

Me: "You're taking a video of it!"
Hubby: "No, I'm not, come stand over here"

I hope you have a good laugh at my expense!

Oh Christmas Tree

Here is a preliminary picture of our Christmas tree....I still want to do a lot more to it, (I'm late I know!) so I'll post another picture when I'm done!

Anxious and Excited

The title of this post is the best way to describe me right now.

My entire life has been pretty easy, and I feel very blessed because of it. I grew up in a family that gave me everything I needed (but I think my parents did a good job of not overdoing it, and spoiling me). I got a new car when I was 16, I always had new clothes, my parents paid for my college, I was so lucky to not have to worry about those things which were taken care of for me.

When I was 20 I met my Hubby. He was 7 years older and already had a job. So when we got married, I once again, had little to worry about. I was taken care of. I did get a job after college (which I hated) and now I run an at home business. So do I work, but I never really feel stressed out if I have a bad month, because I know Hubby's paycheck is plenty enough to live on.

I've gone from Daddy to Husband...and that was pretty much always my game plan...
And I'll say again that I understand how blessed I am to have had it so easy, I know it's not like that for everyone.

Well Hubby will start dental school in August. I know it's only 4-years and afterward he'll be a dentist, who have a pretty good incomes, but that still means 4 entire years that he can't have a job since dental school is a full time thing.

So guess who gets to be the "bread winner" ? ME! It's a little scary to think about really. Grant it, I do have several months to prepare and save money...but dental school is like $28K a year!

I don't even want to think about student loans or the "D" word (dept). And I'll work my hardest to avoid both of those things.

All that said I am super excited about all the upcoming changes in my life...I mean...maybe I'll be empowered being the bread-winner?? Maybe I'll enjoy it. Maybe I can still run my at-home business on the side and get a kick-butt job making lots and lots of $$$$$$$.

But I'm also super ANXIOUS that I won't be able to do it, what if I won't be able to make the cut, and I'll be miserable. I've already prepared myself to be a "school widow" for the next four years....I'm anxious about that too.

The good thing is that I know God is going to give us exactly what we need. And even if I don't know what my future holds....I know who holds it.

So please pray for all the transitions about to occur in my life! The ones I'm excited about....and especially the ones I'm anxious about!

Courtney