#jammies&champagne

On New Years Eve my friends and I weren't quite sure what to do.  We were hesitant to go out - I can party every other night of the year, but New Years it's triple the cost?  We had nothing to wear.  So we decided to have a casual pajama party at my house.  The party was a success.  Most of the girls ending up wearing leggings.  We had some party crashers who showed up as well and they made the night pretty memorable.  And as always, Diddy was present.

Aaron bought superman pajamas for the occasion

the girls

our party crashers

dancing with Diddy

and sabering champagne to brin in the New Year

Hope y'all had a great New Year too!  Some of my resolutions are to go bed by 11:30, to be on time, to work out at least twice a week.  Yeah they're pretty much everyone's resolutions.  Aaron stated that he would like to work out more together, which is also nice.  I also hope to blog more!  take care y'all!

New Year, New Blog

Welcome!  I've decided to move our family blog from wordpress to blogger.  Wordpress is amazing, but unfortunately you have to be more of tech geek to fully take advantage of all of it's features.  I wanted something simple and easy, so over to blogger I go.

Also, if you didn't know, I have a few blogs and will be consolidating them:
 laurensbox.blogspot.com This blog used to be my personal blog and then turned into my wedding planning blog.  I will no longer be blogging on it.  Instead I will direct people here as well as to my tumblr for the girly stuff.

http://laurensbox.tumblr.com/ This is my tumblr and where my mind plays.  It's mostly fashion and beauty.

Where you are now is the site Aaron and I will use to docment our good times and share with our friends and family.

Expect more changes to come!  I have a new camera, so photo quality should increase by 1000x. :-) I hope the New Year is treating you all well.

Auld Lang Syne

Christmas was pretty sweet.  It was our first married Christmas and I think that both of our families did everything they possibly could to make Aaron and I feel accepted.  It's definitely hard to spend the holidays away from your family - you see the memories and good times everyone around you shares and sometimes you don't really know how to participate.  I think every year it's gets easier and easier and you begin to have your own memories together and old jokes you share.  Embraces grow from awkward to genuine and parting words sound less rehearsed.  It definitely takes time but we are getting there!  We spent Christmas morning with my family and then spent Christmas evening through Saturday with Aaron's family in Gastonia.  Both Aaron and I like to give big for Christmas and we both surprised and thrilled the other.  I gave Aaron a pair of Allen Edmond's Park Avenues.   He loves his Allen Edmond's from the wedding, which are brown, so I knew getting him a pair of the same designer in black would be perfect.  Aaron gave me a fabulous camera, the Canon HX50V.  It's a really nice point and shoot camera that takes super crisp photos.  It's automatic modes are amazing for people like me who want to take pictures in low lighting but are not comfortable working with iso and shutter speeds yet.  I love it!  Plus it connects to wifi, so I can push photos I take to my camera or computer.  Awesome.  I also really enjoyed shopping for my family and friend's this year.  Being married I felt that we could no longer write our names on gifts our mothers buy. :-)  It was fun and we kept it cost conscious too.

Here are some things we're looking forward to in the New Year

-I opened a Roth IRA and am happily saving for retirement

-we plan to get the house's interior professionally painted (we tried this on our own, fail)

-we are planning a trip to South Africa this April - so excited!!!

soon we'll post our New Years resolutions.  We hope all is well with you and your family!

Merry Christmas

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6

October

So, as promised last week, I am going to blog more.  So that means I need to catch up!!!  Here's what we did in October

Our friends, Nick and Erin, got hitched!

Erin's dress was gorgeous

The band, the Casablanca Orchestra, provided an amazing big band sound with such a classy feel - did you I know I was the one who recommended them to Erin? ;-)

I celebrated Halloween with one of my favorite girls, Robin.  

Hope y'all had a Happy Halloween as well!

Savannah

Hello!  I apologize for the lack of posts.  Now I have to  play catch up :-)

In August, Aaron and I went to Savannah.  It's a beautiful city and was an easy trip from North Carolina.

We stayed at the Savannah Inn, more pictures below

The living room

The dining room

Our gorgeous room

Bed and Breakfasts are definitely are preference.  Your room's unique, the breakfast is fabulous and usually it's the same cost of a hotel!

At Forsyth Park

Savannah has a lot of history and a strong civil rights movement

The holes in the floor are in the shape of an African prayer symbol.  What makes them amazing is they are actually holes for fresh air.  Underneath the basement floor was a holding room for escaped slaves.  The church is part of the underground railroad and there is a passage from that room to the Savannah River!  We couldn't go underneath for safety reasons, but it was really amazing.

We also ate amazing food, like the best Southern food ever at Ms. Wilkes

And fried strawberries :-)

DELICIOUS drinks at Jenn & Friends

We even went to the beach at Tybee Island! Only 20 minutes away and they had a Wet Willies!

All and all, we had a great time and recommend anyone go!

Vow Renewal

Our aunt and uncle on Aaron's side decided to renew their vows this August after 5 years of marriage.  They are so in ove and such an inspiration to us.  The ceremony was outside at Trump National Golf Club and afterwards we went inside for dinner and to celebrate.  A great day to spend with family!

Aaron was kind enough to do the music