The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. -audrey hepburn

Happy 2009!  My New Year’s Eve and since has been spent indoors with a cold. bleh.  I’m making the best of it though.  Watching Mad Men season one that I got for Christmas and spending time with Shayne mostly discussing to get married or not to get married.  I guess it’s the planning part that has me stumped.  I’m not a let’s make plans kinda gal.  To be honest the only thing that excites me is the getting dressed up part.  More about that later though.

I’m not usually one for making resolutions but for some reason (cold medicine) I decided I might just try to make some this year.  To be safe we’ll call them goals.

1. Make healthier choices (exercise, eat more fruits and veggies, take my vitamins)

2. Save some money and pay off at least 2 credit cards

3. Update my sites more often

4. Take a vacation

5. Be happy

me on christmas 1988

Merry Christmas! I hope everyone got what they wished for and is enjoying the day with friends and family. I’ll be having Christmas dinner her at our apartment again this year. My mom and brothers will be here too. Then I’m off to my Gram’s house for a quick visit and after that to Shayne’s Grandpa’s house.

me on christmas 1985

As you can see I have a full day ahead of me and can’t wait to get back home and watch a movie and snuggle up with Shayne and some hot cocoa. Until then I hope you’ll enjoy these pictures of holidays past.

my brother adam and me on christmas day 1989

Christmas is just two days away! This year seems like it flew by faster than it should have so now I find myself looking back and embracing every last second of 2008. That means I’ve spent this morning looking at tons of pictures from ‘08 and realizing that I never posted any of them. Here they are my favorite photos of the year.

my 24th birthday

going to see sex and the city with the girlfriends

my brief stint as a sorta blonde

train station fun

fireworks

knoebel’s on our anniversary

jackie’s bachelorette party in harrisburg

the red rabbit drive in

tamara, me and cori

jackie & nick’s wedding september 13th, 2008

getting ready for halloween.  that 70’s couple

me, cori and tam

shayne’s 28th birthday…i made his cake myself!

make a wish

2008 I will miss you but I love the fresh start that a new year brings and its endless possibilities…

Back in February I swore I was going to focus this blog more on my personal life.  I haven’t.  Life got too busy but now my head is scrambled and I need a place to clear it.  So from now on I will be updating this site more with little pieces of my life in pictures.

Last week Shayne and I got the Christmas decorations out.  We toyed with the idea of getting a real tree but I love the teal tinsel tree too much and a pine scented candle gave me my real tree smell fix.

Sweet little Feather Finchley.  She is my favorite part of holiday decorating and has been with me from the beginning.

Our tree this year is all colorful Christmas balls with the exception of a few sentimental ornaments.  The mice are Shayne’s as are the Rudolph ones.  My special touches are the glittery one above from Pier 1.  I love it because it is from our first tree we had together in 2002.  The other ornament features Button and Bo and it still makes me as happy as ever when I put it on the tree.

Mr. and Mrs. Claus

and a view of the outside…

“Bettie Page, the brunet pinup queen with a shoulder-length pageboy hairdo and kitschy bangs whose saucy photos helped usher in the sexual revolution of the 1960s, has died. She was 85.”

This makes me so sad.  I love Bettie.  She is an inspiration to me.  Her hair, makeup and of course those naughty pictures are what will live on.  I recommend that you watch the movie The Notorious Bettie Page with Gretchen Mol playing Bettie.  It is fantastic and shows you sides of her that you may not be aware of.