Hello Friends!
Ok…I know my December recap is just a tad late. But in my defense, I took some much needed time off over the holidays to enjoy the season.
So even though it’s January 5th…and we already recapped 2014 here and here, we are going to do December now 🙂
At the very beginning of December I was able to spend some time with some of my favorite seniors during their Christmas party.
I sure miss teaching them every Wednesday, but always enjoy catching up with them each month.
Then we headed to Chicago for our annual Christmas shopping weekend.
And let me just say…whenever we completely fill the trunk {and can hardly see out the back window} that equals a successful shopping trip to me!
Thank goodness for car sensors these days.
One of my favorite Christmas traditions is watching Christmas Vacation with our good family friends.
I’m pretty confident some of us can quote 90% of the movie…
Which we do during the movie, and through random texts to each other all year long 🙂
As you can see we take being fans of Christmas Vacation to a whole new level!
I received an early Christmas present…
My fancy new Nikon camera!
I’m so excited to have this camera…even though I don’t know how to use it 100% yet. Here’s to figuring it all out in 2015!
We celebrated Christmas…
Where I had many chances to test out my new camera…
And become my family’s official paparazzi.
Luckily my cousin and her husband also like to take pictures, so I wasn’t the only one 🙂
I’m not sure what we spent so much time laughing at during Christmas this year…but nonetheless my family is always laughing, and we have a great time together!
Then something really huge happened on Christmas Eve…
Kelli {my sissy} and her boyfriend Ian got engaged!!!!!!
So you know what that means…we {of course I can assist, duh} get to plan a wedding!
I can hardly handle the excitement!!!
Last but certainly not least, we celebrated the last day of December ringing in the new year.
And this year we did something genius…
We celebrated 7 other countries’ New Year on the hour until ours at midnight.
Where we indulged in some of their signature cocktails and traditional foods.
We made our 2015 resolutions…
And some even got a head start on theirs!
We played one of our favorite games Heads Up…
Danced…
Popped champagne when the clock struck midnight…
And celebrated 2015!!!
Ok…maybe we acted like kids and celebrated midnight by throwing confetti again a few times after the ball had dropped too 🙂
Despite the mess…
I’d definitely say the party was a success!
My fave posts of December were:
Holiday Song Inspired Blog Hop
I have so many exciting things to share with you in 2015…stay tuned!
Happy Monday,
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Renee says
January 5, 2015 at 7:35 amIt sure looks like you were a busy lady in December. I cannot wait to see all the wedding planning you are going to post about. I have a friend who just got engaged too. I will be sure to tell her about this blog to follow all your details! Also, what a fun idea to celebrate every hour for NYE!
theblueeyeddove says
January 5, 2015 at 1:13 pmHow exciting for your friend, Renee! I’m sure lots of posts will be dedicated to this upcoming wedding. Happy New Year 🙂
Courtney @ Crafts by Courtney says
January 5, 2015 at 8:55 pmWow you had a pretty exciting/busy month! You sure made it a memorable month.
theblueeyeddove says
January 6, 2015 at 10:34 amLots of great memories for sure Courtney 🙂
Katie Stahl says
January 9, 2015 at 9:59 pmYay!!! Congrats to your sister! Wedding planing is so fun (even more so, I think, when it’s not your own)! Sounds like you had quite the month. I’m a little jealous of the Chicago shopping trip and new camera, I must say! Looks like your NYE was fun, too (much more so than ours). Happy 2015!
theblueeyeddove says
January 11, 2015 at 10:24 amThanks, Katie! I can’t wait to help with the planning…lots of future blog posts will come from it I’m sure 🙂 Happy New Year to you too!