2013: Happy New Year's!

Happy New Year from The Easton's!

Wow, it is now officially 2013! Last year was quite the year for us with several highlights and in our Christmas letter this year, we picked our Top 5 moments from 2012 so here's a recap:

1. Our wedding! It was the perfect day and the best party ever! A great way to start off our marriage! 
2. Jordan’s bachelor party in Vegas and my bachelorette party in the Wisconsin Dells! Both were filled with partying and good times…and like they say, what happens there stays there! 
3. Honeymoon cruise! Beautiful ocean views, fun adventures and lots of laughs together! 
4. Donating $400 to the University of Iowa Dance Marathon! We dedicated the Dollar Dance at our wedding to raise money For The Kids and are thankful to those who helped us with this donation! 
5. Kicking off Iowa football season in Chicago with both our families! Katie’s parents flew from Texas and Jordan’s family made the drive from Iowa. Hopefully the Hawks have a better season next year!

I am so excited to be starting this year off with Jordan by my side as my husband. We watched our wedding video earlier with happy tears in my eyes and lots of laughs as we reminisced about our past year that we had. We are incredibly lucky with the many opportunities each of us have received and for the wonderful family and friends we have in our lives. This year will prove to be one full of the unknowns, challenges and hopefully a lot of triumph and I'm excited to tackle it with my best friend. Happy New Year everyone and here's to a year for of love and laughter for all of you!

it wouldn't be a party without a hat for Paisley!

Paisley, the partied out pup!
and that's a wrap!

see ya later 2012.

This is my official good-bye post to 2012. It has been a pretty solid year, thankfully with more ups than downs and countless blessings. We are grateful for everyone and everything we have. Here's to welcoming 2013 with open arms and looking forward to what the year has in store for us! Have fun celebrating and Happy New Year!

the last wedding (of 2012!)

We survived another whirlwind wedding weekend with all of our friends and it was another awesome time together. The ceremony took place at a beautiful old Catholic church and the reception was held at an equally beautiful ballroom venue. It was perfect for a winter wedding and everything looked amazing. Especially my hubs while he was all decked out in his tux being an usher and sang the couple's first dance song. The reception was an absolute blast full of dancing, drinks and desserts. It was incredible. The drive home wasn't too bad either...especially coming home to watch the Vikings game and their big win to send them into playoffs! Whoo whoo, go Vikes! Now we are just looking forward to celebrating New Year's and having a few more days of vacation before work and school start up again!

all the girls dolled up and ready for the wedding!

enjoying a cocktail hour drink with the hubs before he sings!

down time

Happy New Year's from (in 214 days!)
The future Mr. & Mrs. Easton :)

Well our New Year's Party was a complete and 100% success.....minus one minor accident. Apparently, I was "standing like a ballerina" and so Jordan tried to mimic how my feet were, leaned towards me for balance which then made me step backwards and I stepped into the corner trim around our floor/wall in the kitchen. And it instantly sliced my heel open. Just split right open. Yep, nasty. Ouch. F bombs were dropped, as well as my drink, and blood pooled on my heel. However, we got it cleaned up and bandaged though and the party went on. As annoyed as I was during the day while I was baking/cooking/cleaning (and watching Jordan play xbox and test out our new surround sound system AKA not helping me at all) I loved having all of our friends there and "hosting" the party. Makes me feel like a real grown up and all like a housewife. Even Paisley loved all of our friends there because she got belly rubs and treat all night like it was her job.


Now that New Year's has come and gone, Jordan is already back at it for school for his J-Term class. Boooo. While I'm still on break until the 17th, yikes. At least I start back at work this week, finally. Jordan and I have spent the past few days on the couch snuggled up with Paisley and alternating between watching the college football bowl games or some new movies that we each got for Christmas. I love our families and our friends but damn, I also love the peace and quiet of it being just the two of us and now that the holidays are over, it's nice to have this time together. I mean, just because we live together, doesn't mean we really get that much down time or "us time" together! And for how stressful and down right upsetting/frustrating/annoying the first few weeks of our engagement were, I'm so happy that we're both back to who WE are as individuals and as a couple. 


I have a lot on my to-do list to accomplish over the next few weeks....it includes finishing our photo guest book, making the table numbers, and finalizing the design for our mailbox-cardbox. As of today, there's 214 days until the wedding and tomorrow will be exactly 7 months! Ahh!!! So happy to have lots of things knocked off the to-do list and I'm ready to tackle this next bunch of crafty DIY's!! Today I also kicked off my own "Bridal Bootcamp" and did my first kettlebell workout. HOLY SHIT!!! People who swear by these babies really weren't lying....my heart was pumping and I was sweating like whoa. I didn't get bored with the workout at all, which is usually my problem so hopefully these DVD's keep me entertained and sweating! I'm constantly paranoid about my dress fitting and have already had a few nightmares about it not zipping up....Jordan laughs about this. And I don't find it funny. one. bit. Hence why I made the resolutions I did: more sweating, less sweet eating.  


Well I hope everyone's New Year's celebrations were wonderful and that 2012 was welcomed with open arms! Hopefully all of those resolutions haven't been given up on already! As for me, guess I better get back to my to-do list for now!