Gorgeous Saturday

Make Up

I was browsing Pinterest the other day; on their beauty section because lets face it; I love makeup, especially doing up my eyes.

I came across multiple pictures of the same girl with fabulous eye makeup and on all her pictures she said that she used BH Cosmetics 120 Palette.

So naturally I googled it, thinking that it was going to be pricey.

Well I might have stumbled across some gold.

This is a eyeshadow palette with 120 colors in it for about $20.

Well of course, me being me and being used to spending $$ on eye shadow, I couldn't believe there was something so cheap that could possibly be any good.

Well, after reading all the reviews,  I was proved to be wrong. 

Not to mention, you get about every shade in the rainbow.

So now I'm eyeing the 120 Palette First Edition, the Matte Palette and the Shimmer Palette.

Maybe for my birthday I'll get one :)

Here's the link in any of you wanna check it out.

http://www.bhcosmetics.com/products/eyes/

The Florida Life

After we got back from Disney World, we settled into the newlywed life in our new home.

This was the first time that Chris was seeing the Florida apartment, and he just loved it. 

The cats were so happy to see him, I don't think that Marshmellow stopped purring for about a week straight and Abby refused to lay anywhere except on top of Chris for a couple straight days days. 

I was so happy to see our little family back together, it is such an amazing feeling.

They may only be animals but I can definitely tell that they knew their daddy was finally home and the missing piece to the puzzle was home. 

And me, well I was just so happy to have him back that multiple people at work told me that I just glowed with happiness.

And it was true, I was so incredibly happy to have him back and finally be living the newlywed life.

It was so nice to have someone to greet me when I came home from work and to hang out with at night time.  

It was nice to have date nights again. 

It was nice to have my husband back. 

But as quick as we got used to being back together, he left to go back to West Virginia to make up the drills he missed while he was deployed. 

So that kind of stinks. 

Another 5 weeks apart.

We've spent majority of the first year of our marriage apart.

But, as we come up on our anniversary, I can happily say that we have grown in our marriage.

We have such a happy marriage.

We have survived a lot in our relationship and we've done it with such grace that I can't help but be proud of ourselves.

Our relationship hasn't gotten worse the more time we've spent apart but it's gotten stronger and our communication has gotten better.

I feel like we have such an amazing relationship and it will only continue to grow as the years go by.

I'm truly lucky to be married to my best friend. 

Disney World!

On Sunday March 18th we left Virginia to begin our trek back down to sunny Florida.

But we weren't going home.

We were going to Disney World to spend a week celebrating our wedding anniversary (early because I had the time off work) and Chris coming home safely to me.

If you know me, you know that when I go on vacations, I plan out every SINGLE minute.

Especially in Disney World, there's so much to do, you can't go without a plan.

I had been planning this vacation since December.

We drove most of the day Sunday and then stopped about an hour outside of Disney Sunday night to get some rest.

Monday morning we woke up bright and early and drove to Disney.

We checked into our hotel and then Chris and I spent the day in Magic Kingdom.

We did a whole bunch of rides and pretty much just enjoyed our first full day alone together since he had been back.

And he slowly put on his "picture face" to get ready for a weeks worth of picture snapping.

Tuesday morning we woke up bright and early to pick up my brother and Sam from the airport as they would be joining us for the rest of the week.

Let me just say how excited I was to be able to spend four whole days with them on vacation! 

We spent the day in Universal Studios since Chris loves that theme park and it's one of my favorites.

It was an absolutely gorgeous day and we had such a great time together!

Wednesday we spent the day in Animal Kingdom, one of my favorite parks since I'm in love with animals. 

I love them all and I never get sick of seeing them.

I could go to the zoo every weekend and thoroughly enjoy myself.

We also got Joey to go on a roller coaster and he LOVED it.

We couldn't get him off them the rest of the time!

Mission accomplished.

We finished out the day with dinner in the Magic Kingdom followed by their amazing firework show.

Thursday we spent all day in Hollywood Studios.

 We had another great day, it was beautiful and we rode on all the rides. 

I also met up with one of my high school friends, Lauren who also happened to be in Disney World for the week.

It was nice to see her since her hubby is getting stationed in Japan in a couple months and I won't be able to see her for a couple years. 

Friday morning we met up with my mom and Fred (they came down for the day) early to go to Animal Kingdom to do the Safari ride once with them.

Afterwards, we headed over to Epcot and spent the day there.

While We Were Home

After Chris got home we were lucky enough to be able to spend 5 days in Northern Virginia with our family.

It was so nice for the both of us, seeing as that is one of the bad things about living in Florida.

It's not like we can take a weekend trip up to VA to visit friends and family, so when we have the opportunity we relish it.

The day after Chris came home was my brother 21st birthday.

Let me just say, it was an odd feeling seeing my little brother be able to legally order a drink. 

It made me feel old, I always think of him as the little boy tinkering around which tools and taking things apart.

Although, he's far from a little boy, he's grown into quite the handsome man and he makes me so proud to call him my little brother.

For any of you who know my brother and Chris, you know that when they are together they are in their own world.

They have a ball together.

So it was great to see them back together again.

I organized a birthday/coming home surprise dinner for Chris and Joey.

My mom and Fred flew in from Florida.

My aunt and uncle drove up from North Carolina.

My dad and Cindy also joined us.

The only sad part of the evening was that my sister and her boyfriend couldn't be there.

But the look on Chris' face when we walked into the restaurant and he saw everyone there was priceless.

I also threw a little welcome home party for Chris.

It was small and lovely.

I can't thank my dad and Cindy enough for letting us have it at their house and all they did to prepare for the party.

My stepsister and her husband came up from New Jersey to celebrate with us, so that was so much fun.

Also, my sister and her boyfriend flew in from New York to surprise Chris. 

It was so great to see them both.

Words can't explain how much I miss my siblings so any amount of time we get to spend together, I cherish.

The following day was a beautiful spring day in Virginia so we all went to my brothers and his girlfriends house for brunch and just to hang out.

It was a gorgeous day and they live on 100 acres of land so we had some fun hanging out soaking up the sunshine.

They brought out their four wheelers and guns.

I took a ride on the four wheeler with Sammie and shot a gun for the first time.

The boys shot skeet, drank some beers and raced around like madmen on the four wheelers.