Going Away Shin Dig

We had several of our close friends over this weekend to celebrate that guy in the middle...

 That's one of our best friends, Ben, he got a new job and will be moving to Florida next week. Although we are super sad to see him go...we are so excited for this next adventure in his life! We know God has BIG plans for him in Tallahassee! To celebrate the new job we kept it simple....

but tried to add personal touches....

 The funnest thing was stringing embarssing photos on top of our gigantic chalk board...at the end of the night the chalkboard was covered with well wishes, inside jokes and hilarious comments to Ben!

The food was uber yum. We made taco soup for all of the guest. Everyone that came brought some type of dip for us to snack on as well as several delish desserts.  I'm so in love with my new Kitchen Aid Stand Mixer...it makes the best cookies...

These girls were a blast...

The night concluded with a little dance off between Andrew and Talon....such a proud wife...

Good luck Ben!! We can't wait to come visit you in Florida!!

January Begins!

Our year has made a banging start. Two of our very best friends got engaged a week from Saturday! Kari and Matt will tie the knot in June and we are so happy to be a apart of their big day!! We got to meet them for dinner on Friday night to celebrate and check out the new bling...it was SO much fun. Tal and I wish SO badly that they lived a little closer so we could do dinner dates more often. I got to spend some of the day Saturday beginning wedding festivities with Kari. I know these next few months will be full of good times. Cannot wait for these two to see what a blessing marriage is!

 This Saturday was also a super special day for our most precious niece....

That's China on the left. She turned 14 on Saturday! So hard to believe she is getting so big. She lives in Texas so we couldn't actually celebrate with her but we did send her a little something to commemorate the day. Here's an iPhone pic she sent us of her wearing her new unicorn ring (p.s. she picked it out). Happy Birthday China! Talon and I love you so so so very much!!

Monday was a work holiday for me. Talon's an accountant so no holidays until April for him. I got to spend the day finishing up projects and hanging with this angel....

I hope every one's weekend was just as wonderful as ours!



Merry Mini Christmas

We had a very mini Christmas at our house this past weekend. My brother, Grayson, will be spending Christmas in Colorado this year...so we had an early Christmas celebration for him at our house.

 It was lots of fun with lots of yummy food. See that cake...its Alton Brown's Red Velvet cake recipe...so delish. Those are Chocolate Crackle Cookies in the back. I found the recipe here. They were also yummy and made excellent Christmas gifts for the neighbors.

All of this baking was made possible by our new favorite toy....Merry Christmas to us:) Thanks Dad!!

 Along with the food there was excellent wine...

 And a goodie box of treats for our guest....

 These two were the center of attention the entire night....

 The lab is our nephew, River. Tillie is not so sure what to think of her much younger but way bigger cousin.

 

 For the most part you could tell she wasn't happy with any other furry animals in our house. This is her hiding behind my Mom...avoiding River like the plague. At times though she did warm up...

I hope everyone is enjoying all of the fun Christmas gatherings going on this time of year! We loved having our family over to celebrate!

December Activities

A short post to let you know what we have been up to in December...it's been busy but probably the least stressful holiday season we've ever had. We've enjoyed every minute of it...I think because we finished our shopping in November. Reminder to self...do that every year. Here we are at Talon's office Christmas party...

We've baked SO many delicious goodies this year. This specific day I was baking red and white sugar cookie pinwheels. From the recipe I found here. They are definitely not as hard as they look...just a little time consuming.

We celebrated this big guy turning one...so fun to watch him grow:)

  We've also made several attempts to drag Tils along for the ride where in the end every single time we decide it's best that she stays at home. This is her seating on the console in between the drivers and passenger side seat because she is insane in the car... 

I hope everyone is enjoying their holiday season as much as we are!

Year Two.

Tal and I are celebrating 2 years of marriage today:) Well, we've been celebrating all weekend but today is the official day of matrimony. We decided that the best way for us to celebrate would be to do something together. So on Saturday we headed to Atlanta for a day trip. We had so much fun just hanging out together all day...

 In true Woods family form...we made a stop at IKEA while we were thdre...

Where we loaded up on lots of goodies for the hizzy...

  It was a day of celebration which was an obvious excuse to eat terribly unhealthy food and drink lots of Starbucks....

 Tal's basket of goodies he was semi-surprised with this morning {note: your husband can view all of your instagram photos that you post} which he more than deserves for being such an amazing husband.

Here's to many many mord happy years of marriage {like fo-eva}....