Simply Jay

I love this holiday season and all the joy it brings. I am as happy as Buddy the Elf is during Christmas time. Everything is a first for us in the Hadley house with being newly weds. Another first of ours is our very first Christmas tree! I felt like such an adult picking out the tree, bringing it into the house and decorating it. Sometimes it feels surreal that I am married and live in my own little house that I can decorate however I want! It is so fun to go on Pinterest and look up decor I like and try to pull it off. So with all the decorations and fun, I of course have to capture it all for memories. Luckily I got to steal Mitchell in for a second between his finals studying to take a picture in front of our tree. I have this crazy idea that every year we take a picture in front of the tree and as the years go on there will be more people in the picture like a dog, then babies, and so forth.  It may look like a cheesy, self timer, old fashion photo, but I love it so m...

I have had such a wonderful week off from school and it was so nice to have a couple days to relax and then head up to Santa Barbara to see my love. I love visiting Mitchell since he is my best friend and we always have so much together. He also is the sweetest person to me and just treats me so well that I still don't know how I got so lucky.  It was a weekend of fun and Halloween festive! Dressing up, eating fun food, and hanging with friends. I am so sad it is over, but I am so happy that it happened. 

Cheers to another year that I get to spend with Mitchell and all the amazing families that get together on Memorial Day Weekend. Its always my favorite kind of days when they are spent at the lake house (and if you know me then you know the lake house is one of my favorite places), but even more when not only are the Hadley's there but their family group that has been together for many years.  Its a full weekend of all these fun families getting together and having the best time. In a nutshell it was four days of being on the boat, wake boarding, ping pong games, running around, volleyball games, yummy food, hanging with friends that I don't get to see all the time, early mornings and late nights, dance parties, relaxing around, and having Mitchell home. It was such a great weekend, and I am still pretty hyped about it all. Even if the weather wasn't the typical warm weather, cold and cloudy was the forecast. I mean I got to wake board in a 3/4 wetsuit which was fun! ...

as the new year is rolling up,  my best friend Hannah  { Hannahs Blog } and I cant be more excited to get into the crafty spirit. Its the best having someone that loves crafts and blogs, two peas in a pod I tell yah we decided to make our own party hats that are more glam and fun than your regular hats what are your plans for this new year? if making these cuties are on your list then all you will need is ~paper of your pick {here we took white construction paper and painted them gold and black} ~any type of jewels or bedazzle you like ~headbands ~hot glue gun