Almost a Year

This weekend J and I will be celebrating our FIRST  anniversary!! So to commiserate the event I thought I would share some photos of us over the years..

Wear Your Lilly Day

Lilly 2010 

Text Message Shift

side note.. this is the bathroom at work.. not my home

Home Sweet Home

My hiatus is over.. That's right I'm back!!!  Work has been super busy lately but today it seems to be slowing down a little (thank goodness)

So as some of you may already know.. J and I have a cute little fixer upper back home that we plan to move into when J finishes with law school.. so for the past month or two I've been saving pictures of different things I like from the COCOCOZY Blog... and so far this is some of what I've got. 

We are planning to start our re-model in February or March of 2012 (if everything goes according to plan).  So I'm clearly jumping the gun.. but the way I see it.. It's never to early to start looking.

Living Room Ideas

Our living room is one of the few rooms we aren't doing anything to in the house..

It's not huge but it's workable and with all the space we are planning to add on

and all the updates we think we can make it comfy and homey much like the following 

Love this but I'm not sure J will go with the color scheme

like the colors but not so much the chair or rug

This is probably be closer to what we end up with

Kitchen Ideas

Our Kitchen is very small and very out dated

so our idea is to gut it and our formal dinning room to make a 

larger, more modern in kitchen with a bar 

I like the cleanness with a splash of color

this is pretty much the exact layout for the kitchen but smaller

I like the idea of this if we can't make it bigger

love the cabinets

Guest Bathroom

Our guest bath is long, narrow, ugly and has an awkward window

so this bathroom seemed like the perfect update for that room

Master Bath

We are thinking of turning one of our extra bedrooms into a master bath

and walk-in closet so we have lots of options for these VERY IMPORTANT rooms

this bath tub in the bathroom below

minus the mirrored cabinet doors

Walk-in Master Closet

love the dressing area in the closet idea

The DREAM

Study

reading list

Next on my reading list is Heaven is For Real.  My brother-in-law just graduated from law school last weekend and everyone at lunch was talking about this book and I literally had chills just hearing little snip-its from the book.

First I have to finish Water for Elephants. (I'm so close to the end that I went a head and watched the movie and it was fabulous, as well) I have this weird thing.. I hate to buy paper back books so a few weeks ago my mom ordered Water for Elephants in hard back for me but it's not going to get her for a few more weeks.  Apparently they stop making hard backs when paper backs come out..  So annoying!!  So I broke down and bought my first iBook and have been reading it on my iPad and it's so good.  I just can't put it down.. still not sold on the paperless books.. just love the smell of a new book to ever make the switch.

After these two I'm returning to my Nicholas Sparks reading list.  This is one of the few I haven't read so.... Safe Haven is next (and I got this one in hard back.. YAY)

Summer Sandals

Neutral Flats.. but I don't know which pair I want/need

Ivanka Trump

Kate Spade

Dolce Vita

Fun Heels.. 

I'm adding all of these to my wish list.

Tabitha Simmons

Bebe

..These will be purchased before 4th of July

BP

Manic Music Monday - Black Kids

All month we have been traveling back and for the SC every weekend, like 2 crazy people.  Well my old favorite song came across my iPod yesterday and has  become my new favorite song.. again!!

The Black Kids - 

I'm not gunna teach your 

Boyfriend How to Dance with you

Spray Tan Mishap

So I went to the dermatologist Monday with a slight sunburn from the Crawfish Festival the Saturday before.  So my Dr. gives me a small lecture on sunscreen and tanning beds.  Well with a burn on my shoulders and desperately needing a tan before the wedding this weekend, I tried to do an at home spray tan.

Actually, the product itself works fabulously. No streaks!! Not orange!! and alot less expensive than driving 3 towns over for a professional airbrushed tan. However, being the blond-ding-bat that I am.. I have this brilliant idea (or so I think) to apply the tanner in the shower so I can just rinse the excess down the drain. Well that worked perfectly.. the Mishap however is all over the bottom of my feet.