12/31 How We Celebrate...A Look at your holidays...

And just like that the holidays are basically over. Tomorrow, will be the last of the big family gatherings and too much food. I have to say, it was a wonderful Christmas season but it always goes too fast. I do believe almost everyone feels the same. I actually had no plans on posting until into the new year but alas here I am because I noticed that the Blended Blog had one more December prompt for the month that I liked. The prompt is How We Celebrate...A Look at your holidays, figured it was the best time to actually write down some of the traditions and memories that made our Christmas another great one (I also get to write this up on my new Chromebook! Thanks Mom and Dad).

One of my good friends was home for a quick visit over Christmas and I was luckily enough to catch him for a visit before he was off again. It was great to have a nice catch up with him since it had actually been a couple of years almost I feel like since he has been home. He says he is going to come home in the summer for a longer visit so I'm holding you too that Michael!

Christmas eve consists of my mom's side of family coming over for dinner/potluck. We now also include my best friend, her husband and daughter. It was great having everyone over, it was especially great this year having Quinn over because she is 6 and was just almost bouncing off the walls because she was so excited for Santa to come. The youngest in the family that was over was my cousin Charlie who is 16 (might be 17 I can't quite remember). So having a kid over was fun. She was so excited and is enamoured with my cousin Cole. Anyways, we always have a feast of food, drinks and great visit before everyone heads off to more holidays festivities with other family, friends or church. I normally get more pictures during Christmas Eve but I was more wrapped up in being present then I was making sure I got some pictures but I did get a couple of course!

The Wilson Clan...my most favourite people on this planet.

Stockings placed on the couch with care. And yes we have stockings for our dogs!

Santa has been here!

Me and my favourite girl Quinn! I think this was the only time she sat down for more then 3 seconds.

My parents!

The Wilson kids! I seem to look taller in this picture, I think it is because Erica is not standing up quite as tall as she is or I'm just pretending I'm taller than I am. 

Christmas Day, Chase came over around 8:30 for opening presents and Christmas breakfast which Erica made some delicious breakfast sandwiches. Everyone gave and received wonderful gifts. This was the aftermath....

For Christmas Day dinner, we of course had a beautiful turkey dinner thanks to my mom. We have my great uncle Jerry over for dinner, it used to be more but sadly we have lost loved ones over the years. It was a lovely day though filled with family, good food, presents and lazing around.

Boxing Day was a full on lazy day! I caught up on Criminal Minds, snacked most of the day and just laid around the house. On the 27th since the stores are closed in Nova Scotia on the 26th myself and Erica headed to Halifax to see what Boxing day sales were on. I headed up getting some stuff from Old Navy, MAC, La Senza and Winners. It was worth the quick trip up, Erica got even more than I did. I always love looking and seeing that you saved more than you spent. I got a great sports bra from Old Navy for $10! Can't complain about that.

I also got to have dinner with Danielle on Saturday and now here we are on Sunday, yes I'm even prepping this blog post.

I honestly hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season and you're ready to start 2019 with a bang! I wish you all the happiness you need for you 2019!

xo

Wordless Wednesday....In Honor of Prom Week

High school friends

Prom Date

What Inspires Your Blog Posts?

Hello My Lovelies!

I was reading through Helene’s blog the other day and saw that she was having a one-day link up about what inspires your blog. When I saw this I thought well I think I will do this next week! Then, came the hard part, writing this post! One would think it would basically write itself since it is suppose to be what inspires your blog! But alas it did not write itself so I’m sitting here trying to figure out what I want to say and how I want to say it.  I think I’m having a harder time writing this because I always just want my blog to fun, so my stuff is fluffier often, which is okay with me. When I need to get serious or more emotional I do it, like with my breakdown last week about Talia and Cory. I think you’re blog should be whatever you want it to be. No one should tell you how your blog should be. If you’re happy with it then that is all that matters!

Okay, hmmm….I think what inspires me most for my blog is just that I like writing and having fun. I like knowing that I can go back and relive a moment because I blogged about it! Pictures are posted and moments are written down. It is there forever to remember. If you forget that detail about that one weekend you know you can call up your Weekend Updates and know yes that is what really happened that weekend that is why we laughed so hard. I get different inspirations from everywhere and everyday!  I think of myself as a rather creative person with a creative mind. I try to draw my inspirations from as many different places as I can. There are different bloggers who inspire me to be a better blogger! PinkLouLou is who bought me back into blogging. I had many failed blogs before this one and for whatever reason this one has stuck. I started reading PinkLouLou and decided to get back in the game. It is bloggers like her who juggle work, personal life and blogging, that inspire me to keep blogging.  I always had the problem that when I got busy the first thing to go was the blog because who is reading it anyways! Now, though not a big following I know someone is reading it, which makes me feel good and keeps me going.  There are of course the regular inspirations such as music, books, movies, other blogs, random Hollywood news and such but it is nice getting random inspiration. I once wrote a blog about different scrapbooking pages I have seen.

I think I have turned this post into something more than I thought it was going to be! I hope you enjoyed it and maybe got some inspiration out of it. Remember you can find inspiration everywhere, in the smallest idea/thought/action you can often find the most wonderful things.

xoxo

20 Years and Counting

I know some of you will not care about this but I wanted to post something about the 20 year Anniversary for the Backstreet Boys because I have been a fan since I was 12/13 and I will be 30 this year. I have had the opportunity to see them in concert, meet them and I have never been disappointed. They are true performers and lovely men. They all have a way of making you feel like you're the only one in the room when meeting them and make you feel appreciated as a fan. Not only have they helped create many great memories in my life but they have bought me to some of the best friends I could have asked for. 

So to end this quick little post Congrats to the Backstreet Boys on 20 years and counting, Thank You for the memories and the friends!

xoxo