My blue heaven

If you’ve been reading my blog lately you know I’ve been obsessed with the color blue!

From sky blue to peacock blue all the way to navy blue I’ve had my sights set on blue!

As many of you way know the reason for my trip to Colombia was a family wedding. In Colombia all of the weddings are Black Tie and long dresses for the ladies are required. Since the only long evening gown in my closet was my wedding dress I knew I had to find something.

Of course it ended up being blue! Bargain shopper that I am I found my dress on sale for $49 at the BCBG outlet! The color was called INK.

Little side story about me and Jon. We became best friends our senior year of High School. At some point that year we both started to like each other, but of course we didn’t say anything to each other. So prom time came around and Jon asked someone else to prom. So this little lady threw herself a pity party and didn’t go. Anyway since this wedding was the closest thing to a prom that we’ve attended in a while I made sure to get Jon a matching tie. It was blue/black stripes. Cheesy? Totally, but I had to do it. :)

Apparently I wasn’t the only one that had blue on my mind. It turns out all of the ladies in the family were in some shade of blue/green that night.

Funniest part of the evening. It was a wedding for my cousin and they forgot to make me a name card. Jon thought it was totally funny and a fellow wedding guest decided to fix it and added me on.

I loved the way my hair come out. It was a sort of side knot/bun thing and I loved it. I also found some fab green stub earrings that I think went really nice with my blue dress.

I love a good funny face shot so I had to make Jon and my sisters compile with my request and make their funniest faces.

At the wedding they handed out fake mustaches and flower hair clips for all the ladies. Not sure exactly why, but it was fun.

My husband who rarely drinks turned out looking like this by the end of the night.

Ah what can I say he had fun with the mustaches. Jon thought this was super funny!

By the end of the night (party lasted till 4 am) my face was pretty much like this at all times:

If you can’t tell Jon really enjoyed himself!

Don’t worry Jon wasn’t the only one that had fun. It looks like Dad enjoyed himself as well.

This brings my Colombia trip recaps to an end. I hope I didn’t bore you all with pictures.

:)

I’m so excited….

My sweet parents and two amazing sisters decided it would be a great idea to gift me and Jon with a winter get-away for Christmas! Since they know I tend to be a bit controlling and anal they decided to tell us in advance so that we could have a say in where we stayed.

We were given our very generous budget and I was all set for a Madrid/Barcelona vacation. I recently re-watched Vicky Christina Barcelona and can’t seem to get it off my mind.

 

Being that I’m not going alone I had to discuss this with Jon and since we are only going away for 4 nights/5 days he thought it was best to do a beachy type vacation and not a social studies vacation as he likes to call them.

 

So, what did we pick?

 

COSTA RICA

We are both super excited. It took me forever to find a place to stay. We tend to like small, off the beaten path hotels as opposed to massive hotels like Sandals. I know some people like them, but I guess we are anti-social, because I was searching for a hotel with the least amount of rooms.

 

After an SOS tweet I had the response I wanted. A big thank you to Millie of Brilliant Asylum for her suggestion.

 

Without further ado here is where we are staying:

{They are rated #1 on trip advisor}

 

{ Many hotels in Costa Rica say they are beach front, but then you have to walk miles away to get to it. They are actually beach front!}

 

{ There are only 6 rooms in the entire place}

 

{Daily yoga classes are included}

 

{We are staying in our own 2 story Casita!}

 

{ I look forward to curling up on that bed and reading many books! I’ve also now decided that a kindle is a necessity. Santa if you are reading this..wink wink.}

 

So, lovely readers any suggestions for Costa Rica? Well be staying in the Tamarindo area.

 

Also any takers for guest blogging while I’m away? It will be from Jan 23-27.

I swear Monday’s post will be design related. I’ve been working a super fast and inexpensive project at my Mom’s house that is about to finish up today!

 

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