New Year's Eve Attire

New Year's Eve, what a wonderful time of year. Whether your out with friends in the city lights dancing and drinking the night away, or at home with your loved one's cosing it up by a fire and watching the ball drop on TV, it's a magical time of year. The time for new beginnings, new promises to yourself, and a chance to start fresh. I love the New Year's Eve parties my hubby and I normally attend but this year we will be ordering out good take out, if there is such a thing, and laying around in our pj's in our new house. My friends back in Japan I'm sure will be on a party bus headed to Tokyo so drink one, or a dozen, for me girls :)

Though my dancing shoes will be put to rest this year, I couldn't let this outfit I would have worn go to waste, so my dear friend Sarah, an amazing photographer, made it happen for our last photo shoot together in Japan.

Something about black sequin really makes my heart skip a beat. I'm a stay-at-home Mom and so any opportunity I get to dress up and not live in jeans or sweat pants you can pretty much guess I will be there.

During this shoot I was having a mad obsession with my lipstick. It's by Elizabeth Arden called Wine Cream and it's perfect for the New Year! Not red and not cranberry, more of mix between two.

Shoes: Jessica Simpson

Dress: Forever 21

Sunglasses: Kate Spade

Necklace: J.Crew

Earrings: J.Crew

Bracelet: Stella and Dot

Ring: Stella and Dot

Have a happy New Year's Y'all! And please stay safe! :)

My Life Lately

This holiday season instead of making merry and stringing up lights, I'm signing leases and contracts left and right because we have moved back to "Mercia" and to be more specific....Ohio. Never did I ever imagine living in Ohio but like anywhere else the military takes me, I'm grateful for the experience and the opportunity to live in a new place.

Traveling here from Japan was a shit show to say the least. Between my hubby constantly forgetting important paperwork everywhere we went, which sent me back to our hotel room multiple times, to small random panic attacks about whether or not our dogs made it on to our million flights....oh, and a toddler to entertain for long periods of time, like 8 to 9 hour flights on a regular. Dear Lawrd!!!! Mama needed an adult beverage every thirty minutes to get  through that mess. But when all was said and done we made it safely, all of us, to Atlanta where my parents were there to greet us and help us with our luggage and over sized, considered cargo, dog kennels.

By the way, when did everything become so expensive in the states? I swear we dropped more money  just moving back than we ever have....ever!! We have even been to Singapore, Vietnam, and Cambodia all on one vacation and never spent that much money on the whole vacation, which was all 5 star.

We finally moved into our house and I can say without a doubt that I'm super grateful for this big beautiful DETACHED house the Air Force provided us with.

Isn't it gorgeous?! This is way better than I ever dreamed, especially for the Air Force. We thought long and hard about buying a house to it came down to the fact that we don't want to permanently own a home in Ohio and we have a lot of friends that have a hard time renting out their homes, so we will wait for when the time is right and probably when we were closer to retirement status...years from now. 

To say Chrispy is settling in nicely is and understatement! He found his perfect hiding place too, which means I need to use all the other cabinets in order to keep this one open for him :)

I have plans already brewing in my mind about how I'm going to decorate this house. This time though, I'm only going to paint one room of the house since I don't think we will be here longer than three years. I'm thinking gray stripes down a rather long hallway ;) It should be great.

Chrispy loves walking in and out of all the rooms we have....he is constantly on the move. I couldn't be happier for this little guy to actually get lost in a house! Did I mention I love that this place is BIG?!!! :)
With nothing but time on my hands until our furniture arrives, guessing around March, I have a blank canvas to work with and get set up and prepped.

More updates to come....hard to keep up with a blog when doing it on your IPad since the movers took your love, your baby, your Mac desktop :(

Happy Holidays Y'all!

Family Holiday Photos

My house is literally a circus right now as we are about to cross the big blue ocean back to "Merica"! and we couldn't be happier about the move, but moving from one country to another is some kind of crazy that no would ever volunteer for. With a toddler, two dogs, and a hubby, my days are filled with trying to pack a house, feed the family, and sell off two cars, and have everything ready to go in the states for a smooth welcome. I'm so tired already and I haven't even gotten on the plane yet!

To be fair, my hubby is a great help and even taking every opportunity to grab Chrispy so I can do some fun stuff with my girlfriends before we have to part, for now ;) The great part about living at Yokota Air Base is the friendships I have made, and they will last me a lifetime. Can't wait to reconnect with all of them when we are in the states.

Today was bittersweet as a good friend of mine took my last photos that I will post probably when I'm in the states. She is an amazing photographer and we couldn't have been more blessed to have her take our family holiday pictures. Normally we send out a cute card every year but this year a Facebook picture will just have to do, since we will be moving in the middle of Christmas. No Christmas decor in my house this year :( Makes me so sad because that is my holiday y'all!

Just a little cheer for y'all that are dear!!! Love it!! Chrispy was such a Grinch this day but we managed to get through it. Funny story, this is my friend Deborah's shirt from H&M because my jean shirt was dirty, go figure, so I borrowed it that morning, she loved the way it looked on me so much she told me to keep it!!! Major score!! And I'm completely obsessed with my J.Crew necklace. I bought this beauty off of Ebay.com for $29!!! Ebay.com is my hidden gem, and even though you might have to scroll through a lot of stuff, there are always great payoffs!

I hope everyone's holiday season will be merry and bright. Mine will be a little less tradition since I will be probably celebrating in an empty house with Chinese dinner, but no big deal, I'm grateful for what I'm given, a healthy family, money to buy food, and the love of my friends and family that are giving us so much help during this transition for us!

Happy Thursday Y'all!