Another Weekend Away

Following guests in town and plenty of crazy busy around our house I took off to Palm Springs with the girls for our second annual shopping trip.  This is our second year doing this and we decided it definitely must be an annual trip.  This year it was a little later than last year which made holiday shopping so much better.  It was a lot easier to get in the mood for holiday shopping and to actually shop.  The other thing that was different is we were down two girls.  Jessica had the flu and AJ had to stay home and be a responsible adult while she chose studying for her MBA over shopping with the girls.  That left Amber, Kim and myself all weekend.  I am not going to lie, I did do some damage at the mall in Palm Springs. 

A picture of the damage three girls can do at a high end outlet mall in Palm Springs.

Besides shopping we went out for a nice dinner at Roy's and then to see the Twilight Breaking Dawn 2 movie.   Such a girlie day and I loved it, especially since Andy would never do shopping like that with me and he would never, ever go see a movie like that with me.

While I was away I asked Andy to hang the outside Christmas lights and help me finish a project that I was in the middle of, but just ran out of time due to the craziness lately.  He is such a good husband as he completed both tasks.  I was a little unsure if he would help me with my project because he is not into arts & crafts at all, but he must have been super bored without me around that he did do it and he did a great job.  I got this idea from Pinterest of course.  I already decorated the entire house the weekend prior and purchased the letters J and Y for the wall.  I needed them spray painted gold, and then a layer of gold glitter over that and then hung on the wall on each side of the wreath.  Now you see why I was unsure if Andy would participate.  He is such a good sport and he did a GREAT job! 

The finished product behind the couch.

Up close of the final product.  I am very happy how everything turned out.

Well, that concludes my traveling adventures for 2012.  I will not be traveling for the rest of this year, thank goodness because I am all traveled out.  I had a great time this past weekend with some amazing girlfriends.