January in Review

As usual, I've fallen behind in updating my blog. So here's January in review...so far.

On January 3rd, I modeled in the OK Bride Bridal Fair at the Cox Convention Center. There were 2 fashion shows and I wore one bridesmaid's dress and one wedding dress. I went out in my bridesmaid's dress and everything was fine. Then as I was putting on the wedding dress for the first show the zipper of the wedding dress broke. So I got clipped into my dress by veil hangers then we put a long veil over it to try to cover where it was gapping. I'm not going to lie, I was really worried that I was going to step on the dress and it was going to fall off. Luckily, it didn't.

Later that week I helped host a bridal shower for one of my long time best friends, Caitlin. We had the shower at my house, so I was in charge of cleaning and that was about it, which was nice, but still time consuming. But the shower turned out wonderfully, so I was happy that it worked out so well for her.

On January 16th, Jake and I both modeled in the Clear Channel Bridal Show. I really enjoyed getting to see Jake in a few different tuxes again. And I was pretty proud when during the rehearsal I heard several of the girls gawking at him before they found out we were married. If we had had more time I probably would have made Jake pose for some wedding pictures that I wanted to get but missed at our wedding. Oh well, maybe next time...

After the show was another friend's wedding. She was on pom with me, so a few of the girls that are still around came to the wedding then we all went out afterwards. This time we even did a pretty good job at including our husbands.

Caitlin's parents had tickets for the Untitled at Artspace Gala in downtown Oklahoma City so Caitlin and I were able to attend that with them. Untitled at Artspace hosts different kinds of arts and artists from all over the world and this was there annual fundraiser. This year's theme was each artist had a room of the house that they were to create furniture for then all the exhibits are for sale as well as having a dinner with live music and dancers. This was a chair in the "media room". This was one of those chairs that I was scared to sit in, but I had to try it.

That has been January in review.

Christmas and New Years...for Brooke

*The following are exaggerations based on actual events.

OH My HeCk!! I can't believe that it's already the new year and I didn't blog about how totally awesome my Christmas was!!!!!

So to get ready for Christmas my in-laws (who are totally awesome) took Jake, me and his 2 little sisters ice skating at the outdoor ice skating rink in Oklahoma City!

Then, because Oklahoma is the greatest place to live ever, it snowed like a GAZILLION inches on Christmas Eve. Our Christmas tradition is to spend Christmas Eve and Christmas morning with the in-laws, then spend all day Christmas with my family. But this year since the roads were SOOOOOO slick we ended up staying at the in-laws all night Christmas Eve. Since Jake is pretty much the bestest hubby ever, he and his dad went back out into the dangerous and life threatening Oklahoma blizzard to go back to our house to get an overnight bag for us. And since Jake is wonderful, he totally stopped and helped like 50 people that were stuck in ditches on his way to get our stuff and back!

Jake and I got some totally awesome stuff for Christmas! But since I'm feeling pretty lazy and don't want to find pictures for everything we got, I'll just got over the basics: boots, a sewing maching, new clothes, movies, and a new TV! Yay for us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Then right after Christmas is Jake's birthday! That's right, my super loyal followers, my dearest, most wonderfullest hubby turned 26 this year. So for hubby's birthday we went out to dinner with our families then we went to one of our favorite activities.... KARAOKE!!!!!!! While we were there I totally ran into an ex-boyfriend...hello awkwardsville. But luckily, no fights broke out so it was totally ok.
The for New Year's Eve night preparation my totally awesome mother in law took me and my two sisters in law to get manicures (we were going to get pedicures but it was too cold to wear those little flip flops). So it was super nice to start the year out with pretty hands. See...

We ended 2009 (which I was happy to see go because it has totally been the ABSOLUTE WoRsT year of my life and that does include the year I died) by going to dinner at Texas Roadhouse (YuMmY!!!!!) with Jake's sister and her boyfriend then to Club Rodeo for some two stepping! Oh yes readers it's true. Yours truly did drag Jake out on the dance floor multiple times to two step because he had to show off his totally AWESOME and AMAZING cowboy boots I got him for Christmas.

The only downside to the evening was that I have been fighting off a cold-like thing all week and it hit me hard on NYE and with my 1 working lung full of junk, I lost my voice before we even got to the club. So I couldn't scream or yell and I didn't even have a noise maker to ring in the new year. T-O-T-A-L BuZzKiLL. And even today my voice still isn't back. I know what you're thinking...What the heck? So there's our holidays in review!

And of course now is the perfect time to tell you all my resolutions, but again, I'm feeling a little lazy so I'll just go with the usual. Lose 10 pounds, read my scriptures for 6 hours EVERYDAY and not get mad when people tell me they're pregnant. It's gonna be hard, but I can do it!

P.S. Brooke - part of my soul died while writing this. And I really do think my in laws are great.