4 Miles, Tacky Sweater, Christmas

haha So true - it's OKAY to be lazy sometimes. In fact, I think it's good for you!! After Thursday's lazy day, Friday was MUCH more productive. I worked, then had my department awards ceremony/luncheon, where one of my big projects won! Yesssss $50 gift card! And my boss won MVP for our team which was well deserved and wonderful to see. Great day. I ended up getting off work at 2:30 p.m. so I headed home, went tacky christmas sweater shopping with Austin, got some Fro Yo at Yoforia, then went home to pack, eat dinner and have a couple of brews. Great Friday!

Saturday I woke up, walked 4 miles at the gym, cooked a couple of meals, got ready, and headed over to Scott & Mary's to pick them up - time to ride over to Birmingham for the Velotas Tacky Sweater Party! LOVED. On the way, we stopped at Austin's parents house and were able to have our Christmas with them - we exchanged gifts and had fun doing family Christmas pictures and such - always a good time with his family - everyone is FUNNY - so it's lots of laughs guaranteed. After the Martin's, we got to the Velotas's, got unpacked and let the fun begin! So good to see so many of our besties all at once! We had a few drinkies, tons of great conversations, a million laughs and took LOTS of photos and video clips - oh my. Here are a few of my favorite pics:

Besties - Mary, Scott, Teresa, Forrest, Mary & Jimmy

Ze ladies

Teresa & Forest - so cute!

Scott, Austin, Andy and Forrest! (and the smoke monster)

Teresa, Me, Mon and Mary! (in b/w - love b/w)

Loved our double date with the "lanorys"

Love this guy! Great Christmas with him - our 9th one as a couple

Paul & Cara - SO dang cute!

Scott & mary - Mary getting (pretend) annoyed at Scott's incessant photo taking! hehe

Me and my big boy Reuben

Mary, T, Me and Mary - me and T were in a Mary sammy!

Besties! Reuben, Remy, Daisy and Cassie

Scott, Austin, Forrest and Jimmy - frat bros for life - love it :)

Late night: T, Mar, Me and Mel - and the ladies, Daisy and Remy - we enjoyed a girl heart-to-heart in the man room!

Melanie and Remy became best friends!

Scott crashed out early. We messed with him out of love.

Austin's bro Tyler came by - great to visit with him!

Mary & Jimmy were on fire! lol

I mean really! haha

Ze boys

GREAT NIGHT - but wow. Time to rest and get ready for our big trip tomorrow - WOO!

Q: What was the highlight of your weekend? Mine was definitely just being in Birmingham - so good to be with so many of our family and friends!

Q: What are you doing for Christmas? We'll be skiing with Austin's fam- can't wait - always have an awesome time with them. Then, when we get back to Atlanta, it's more celebrating with my family for Christmas and for my mom's birthday! (the 26th)