A Christmas/ Weekend Recap

Hello my dears! 

I hope everyone had a great weekend and a fabulous Christmas last week!  I can't believe NYE is tomorrow and my vacation from work is over.  It has truly been a great 10 day but I am starting to miss my work friends so it will be nice to catch up tomorrow.

 

I've been meaning to recap my Christmas but I have been busy/lazy the past few days so I decided to group it in with my weekend for a Mega-recap :-)

 

 Kev and I spent Christmas Eve with my family.  Every year my Grandparents on my mom's side have a big gathering with all my aunts and uncles.  It was good to see everyone and catch up.

 

For Christmas Day lunch my family headed to my Grandparents on my dad's side.  There we had a full Christmas feast!

 

After that it was off to meet Kev and spend Christmas afternoon with his parents.  I swear they had baked hundreds of Christmas cookies.

 

In between all the food and family time there was also some present exchanging.  Here are some of my favorites from this year.

 

I was excited to see that my mom stuffed my stocking full of new makeup to try.  I'm definitely going to have to try all this out and write a review post.  I'm probably most excited for the Benefit Cosmetics kit.

 

Kev loves to pull out surprises on Christmas.  He really got me this year with these earrings. One day I was Pinteresting (all great stories should start this way) and I ran across earrings that looked like this.  I pointed them out to him and said that these are the type of earrings I wanted to wear on our wedding day.  Of course there was no indication of where to buy them but Kev hunted down some that looked identical. 

Also loved these Tori Burch Earrings he got!

 

  And finally one of my favorite gifts was a new Cam Newton jersey.  I assume you all know that the Panthers are officially the number 2 seed in the NFL and will host their first playoff game at home one the 11th.  I'm hoping to score tickets and rock this baby at the game.  If not there, definitely on my sofa!

 

Thursday my friend Sara and I headed to Charlotte.  She was in from Myrtle Beach and we were in desperate need of a girls day!  We spent the afternoon sipping holiday drinks at the Starbucks on Tyron St and had a lovely dinner at Vapianos.  I was so glad that they still had their decorations up.

 That night we had tickets to the Charlotte Comedy Zone to see a few comedians from MTV's Girl Code.  We are both fans of the show and I made sure to get us tickets front and center.  If you've ever been to a comedy show you know they often pick on audience members up front and this was no exception.  2 of the comedians called me out and I loved every minute of it.  Jessimae even told me she loved my southern accent....Made my day!

Friday was a me day until Kev got off work.  I spent much of my time watching way to many hours of Sex in the City....

 

 and reading my book!

 

Saturday was equally as lazy minus a trip to the Red Lobster with Kev and Sunday was a day full of football.  Once again Go Panthers...I can't say that enough!

 

Also I'm excited to be joining in with Lisa from Showered With Design for this weekend recap.

 

 

Happy Monday Ladies!