Grad Photos

A few posts ago I mentioned that I only have one term of school left. It really hadn't hit home how close I was to finishing until we went for grad photos a few weeks ago. Wow. That was reality check, only 4 months left.
Aaron and I went for Grad photos together. I am done in April and he is done sometime during the summer, so our Grad photos will appear right next to each other on the composite board (aww..).

And now a warning to future graduates, know what you are getting in to when you go for your grad photos. I was busy, I was naive, I did not take time to think about the meaning of grad photos. I assumed they were cap and gown ( so what I wore and how I did my hair didn't matter it would be covered). I also assumed the only purpose was for the composite board, so they would be very small. Ha. I was right about the gown, it did cover my outfit, one point for me. Reminder don't wear anything with a collar. So I get into the studio and see these pictures of graduates all over the place, big pictures, pictures were you can see flaws (luckily I had retouched my makeup before I went), with girls whose hair was curled perfectly and I thought Oh No.

The photographer tells me about all the different poses that we would be doing, and I am realizing how very wrong I was. These pictures are mostly to buy for yourself, to put up large prints on the wall.  Opps.

In the end they turned out not too bad, considering.

Academy

Hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas!!

Wedding Wednesday

Okay, so I believe the last wedding update I left you with what with 23days left and the ladies from Avalon Alliance had thrown me a shower. Now hopefully I can give you these updates in order, and not miss anything, but it has been a while so we will see how it goes..

I believe that the next big thing was the shower that the ladies from Ebenezer Baptist had for me. My Grandma was nice enough to take some pictures with my camera:

Group Shot of some of the ladies.

And the other side of the room.

The Eats

The Gifts.

My aunt and I grabbing some Grub. Man was I tanned back then !

Another generous group of ladies, and some awesome gifts.

Next week is the bachelorette party/ lingerie party.

Last Exam today!! Not a lot of time for a post, but this is to cute not to share:

More Christmas Fun

As I mentioned previously, we had another Christmas party to go to this weekend. In is an annual Christmas party that a friend hosts for friends from high school (and significant others).  There about 12 of us there and we had lots of fun. It is always nice to catch up with people that we haven't seen in a while. I made sure to take my camera so I could snap some pictures, but I forgot about it until later in the night (I missed the gift exchange, but I will show what Aaron and I got in the near future).

The host always puts on a great array of appetizers (because I forgot to take pictures it was a little picked over by the time I got a picture):

 The ham, onion and cream cheese rolls are my fav. So Delicious!! ( on the bottom left)

Another part of the tradition is to play catch phrase. I got a few photos of that, and a couple great game face expressions:

It seems that part of group was more animated than the rest.

 That was Saturday night. Then on Sunday night my office had  a little get together with great food and a gift exchange. Didn't take any pictures of this, but I got a little "pampering set" with body wash, lotion, etc.

And last but certainly not lest we finished off the night with the Survivor season finally. I am a little cheezzed about Sophie winning. I don't think she really did anything. I am an Ozzy fan, and he should have won, but at least he got fan favorite. All in all it was a good night with good company.

Source

P.s. Did anyone see the preview for the next season? If not, the two tribes will be competing against each other but living together. I am note sure what I think of this yet. Good idea for bad idea?

Wedding Wednesdays

Not falling asleep until early morning + getting up to early to study = No blog post for today.

I did however decide during my sleepless night that I would share wedding details and pictures on Wednesdays. It will be a little series until I run out of wedding stuff to talk about. I will start where I left off, which I believe was the shower with the ladies from Avalon.

So tune in Wednesday for the first batch of Wedding news.

Christmas Fun

Today is another study day, so this will be short and sweet.

One of my favouite things about the Christmas season is all the holiday parties with friends and family. So far we have been to two. The first was a gingerbread house making party (longest party name ever). It was so much fun. My friend homemade gingerbread houses, they even had "stained glass" windows. They were very cute (and delicious). Everybody brought a few kinds of decorations to share. It was a lot of fun.

Here is a before picture of a house that she made.

And the after picture of the house that Aaron and I decorated. 

Clearly we lack gingerbread house decorating skills.

And finally a picture of everyone around the table.

Our second Christmas party was for Aaron's basketball team. My camera was dead, so no pictures. We had a lot of fun though. His team is a bunch of great/ fun guys. 

This coming weekend we have another Christmas party on Friday night and I have a work gift exchange on Sunday. Hopefully I will remember the camera. And then we cannot forget the survivor season finally on Sunday night. How come they haven't voted out Coach yet!! It better happen, or else he will win, and that would be.. unpleasant. 

Looking forward to the crazy busy, but mostly a ton of fun (lets not forget about studying) weekend coming up!

I'm Back..Maybe

So term 1 of my last year of university is done! Just two more finals and then Christmas break! Wooo!

Clearly I have neglected my blog over the past few months. There were many time that I thought about it, but I knew that I would have time to keep it up. I am going to try to get in the habit of blogging over Christmas break and then MAYBE I will be able to keep it up during school.

It is also obvious that the blog needs a new name. The wedding is over and done with, and I am not counting down to anything. I have yet to come up with a good name, so If you have any ideas let me know.

Aaron and I are both so excited about our first Christmas as a married couple. I am especially excited to have a place to decorate for the first time. Last year after Christmas I bought lots of decorations and wrapping paper on clearance and it sure has come in handy.

Here is a picture of our tree this year.

It is just a little guy, that is all that we had room for.

This isn't a very good picture, but I love the way the tree turned out. The colours are silver, purple, blue and white. 

This is my favourite ornament:

It is like a mini disco ball. I just love them because they are so shiny and pretty. I had actually bought some for a secret Santa gift exchange last year and loved them SO much that I bought myself two packs. (After Christmas on clearance of course.)

Aaron's Mom got us this ornament for Christmas last year, so that we could hang it for our first Christmas. It is so cute!!

And lastly this is some garland we have on the TV stand which Christmas ornaments in it. It was intended to go on a ledge that we have in the living room (which I would have liked better), but it would not stay up, so it was relocated. I still love it and the Christmas feeling that it adds to our place.

I can't wait for next year when we have a bigger place and I can put out more decorations (insert Aaron's groan here).