The 20 Something Society

The Husband and I went out for a nice quiet dinner on New Years Eve.  Just the two of us.  Thats the way we like it.  We’re a bit antisocial.  We both ordered the exact same thing.  A pasta dish which included bacon shrimp AND chicken cooked in a rosemary cream sauce – and then all of it topped with a roasted red pepper sauce – whew!  It was DElish!  I am a sucker for anything involving the word rosemary.  I was planning on being good and ordering a salad but that obviously didnt happen.

I went out the day before New Years Eve and bought a couple of little items to add to my outfit.

Some leopard print kitten heels (meeeow!)  and a coral lipstick.  I can’t wait to try these kitten heels with different things – especially my skinny jeans!  The husband took some pics of me in my outfit before we left – but I havent uploaded them yet – been lazy.  What did you do for New Years?  For me its not really about DOING anything spectacular – just being able to get dressed up!

I just snapped a couple of my plaid wool throw hanging on the couch catching the evening window light.  Warm and buttery yellow.

One of my favorite Christmas movies is The Family Stone.  A bit more sadness and less ho ho ho jingle bells – but I love it.  There is a scene in the movie in which one of the characters is explaining a dream he had about another and it is my favorite part of the movie.

“You were shoveling snow.  You were just a little girl in a flannel night gown and you were shoveling snow from the walk in front of out house.  And I was the snow.  I was the snow, everywhere it landed, everything it covered, you’d scoop me up.  With a big red shovel, you’d scoop me up.”

My newest love.

Yep – el cheapo shampoo smells SOOOOO GOOD!  They have a couple of new scents – I love each of them.  But the rosemary and mint is my idea of perfection.  It’s going to be hard for me to restrain myself from asking everyone to smell my hair tomorrow.  When you go grocery shopping this week you should give it a whiff.

Oh – and on a side note you just got a teeny tiny peek into our bathroom redo!

I’m sure a good time was had by all.  We hosted Thanksgiving this year (for the first time) – had the sis in law, mom, stepdad, and grandparents (along with their dog) over.  It was the first time my family has seen our house!  There was a lot of cooking, a lot of eating, a lot of black friday shopping, and a lot of football.  There was a Skype visit from my Uncle, Aunt, and cousins also.  Everyone except the sis in law packed up and headed home this morning.  Here are just a few shots.

This really should go up on my photoblog for JJP – but I don’t want to post it there quite yet.  We whipped up some follow up postcards for the folks we met at ye olde wedding expo.  I like em.  Do you?

I know you guys are wondering where that last post disappeared to.  You know, the one with all the beautiful new babies?  My new boss told me it was alright to post those and then she decided it wasn’t such a great idea so I took them down, sorry.  But if you’re interested in learning more about what I’m doing you can go to the website – Bella Baby Photography .  Since I can’t post a me for Bella Baby photo I’ll just post a me for Jacquelyn Jackson Photography baby photo!

We planted many peppers in our little garden bed this year.  Jalapenos, sweet banana peppers, hot banana peppers, cayenne peppers, and bell peppers.  We have so many that we can’t eat them all right now!  We, and when I say we I mean The Husband, have been spending the day pickeling them!  I can’t really tell you the steps…because I didn’t do it.  But it smells bad, involves sterilizing mason jars, boiling water, a big pot, some jar tongs, and mustard seed.

Panini here I come!

Yeah you know me!

Between editing pictures and….editing pictures, I have been putting together a new pricing guide for clients…..I thought I’d share the cover with you guys.  Just a little peek.