Instagram Holiday {Finally}

Are you ready for it? Are you ready?! Instagram unleashed!

Waiting to leave! Excited!

Margot gets antsy in airports

Home sweet home

These girls are the absolute best

I am so blessed with the BEST FRIENDS in the whole wide world

Oscar

My well-behaved little miss in the backseat

Cole and Nina playing

Grandma and Grandpa Kimball's house

Cole watching his video message sent from SANTA! ;-)

Uncle Phillip and Cole playing

Pooped pup

Bow :-D

Festive Margot

Making herself right at home

Oprie feast!

You know it's an Oprie gathering when...

Christmas eve attire

The church for Jake's wedding. So pretty!

So sweet.

At the wedding. We're just old married folks now! 3+ years woohoo!

Boys...and Corey's stache.

Boys at breakfast!

My maid of honor, my BFF

Now, for your viewing pleasure, my dear friends and their talents:

Next up, a special little number from the Ross wedding reception:

Lastly, my melodic mother:

{PS-I started uploading these videos yesterday at 6PM, kept at it late into the night, and resumed uploading again tonight after work so you better watch them}

Christmas Day {photo overload}

Well, we're back in the great Southwest from our Midwest excursion. I'm trying to think of the proper adjective to describe our trip because 'wonderful' doesn't seem to do it justice. I cried in the airport when we were preparing to return. I'm a sap, it's true. I took lots of photos and I'm not yet up to lots of wordy posts {who needs 'em anyway? the pics do it all justice} so I'll be posting those soon. Phillip and I are slowly but surely getting back into the swing of things here; adjusting to "real life". For now, I'll share with you what our Christmas day looked like. Beware, there are a LOT of photos, but I wanted to go ahead and throw 'em all together in one post!

Devil eyes

Me-"Smile!" Trey-ugly face

Me-"Mom and Dad, smile!". Sheesh.

haha

Our ethnic holiday spread

Tiny hamburger cookie

Mom and Dad are sweet

Jarts! These may or may not be illegal.

Check out Grandpa's awesomely long "tie"

This is his Jarts face

My uncle, on Jarts

Moonshine cherries

Trivial pursuit, a Carmien tradition

A lady's heyday thanks to all of Mom's discontinued colors

Cute, little Lily

Annnnd round it out with a game of Settlers of Catan

I hope you all had an incredibly happy Christmas holiday :-)

I'll Be Home for Christmas

For my friends and family back home in the Midwest...we'll be seeing you soon!

{Please excuse...well...basically everything about this video. The hair, the face, the lighting...Forgiven? Thanks!}

My Life Lately via Instagram

1. DIY garland  2. Christmas tree!  3. Bubble bath  4. Sleeping while sitting up

5.  Stockings!  6. Incense  7. Getting nosy  8.  Cuddling with mama

9. Baby shower at work! 10. Festive Margot  11. Mama & Margot  12. Pomegranate & Coffee

13. Covella show at Club Red  14. My friend, Sarah, the rockstar  15. My 'rockstar' getup  16. Hello :-)

16. Snug as a bug  17. Christmas garland and 'snow'

{I take a lot of pictures of Margot, no?}