Catching up - Thanksgiving

I hate that I'm just now posting about Thanksgiving, but I have been out of town and haven't had much time!

Thanksgiving was great! My parents came in from Dallas, and my brother from Nashville and we were all together - which is what Thanksgiving is all about! We were with my dad's side of the family on Thanksgiving day - which was so much fun as usual! We had a great meal and visit with everyone.

{Us on Thanksgiving day at my uncles house. If you look behind me - there is an old pie safe - which was my great grandmothers! I always love looking at it!}

After we ate and visited at my Uncles house - we went to my grandparents to visit for a while! My grandparents have a dog that they are just crazy about - and a cat! The cat and dog are friendly and I captured the cutest photo of my Grandpa in his chair with his 2 pets! SO cute!!!

I always think half the fun of Thanksgiving is having leftovers to enjoy - so since we were going out of town for the day for Thanksgiving - I decided to fix some things at my house for us to enjoy and eat on for a couple days. I made my first Turkey. I was pretty nervous about it and did the typical mistake of buying the Turkey the day before I was planning to cook it. I googled some tips on thawing it out and once it was all said and done - it was perfect! Not bad for my very FIRST turkey - If I do say so myself! My family loved it too and said it tasted great! Score!!

Another first for me for Thanksgiving was making a Pumpkin Pie! I cook quite a bit but this is one thing I have never made. I guess because my Mom is always the one who makes it and so I have never tried. Since my parents were traveling over the holiday - I took it upon myself to give pumpkin pie a try! And like the turkey - I think it was a success!! Pretty proud of how it turned out! I added some pecans for decoration!

I have some more pictures of Thanksgiving, but these are the main ones I wanted to share. I will share one more though that I just LOVE - my dad was sitting on our couch relaxing and my sweet baby boy, Mr. Big was hanging out with him! Love this!! I had Mr. Big in his cute Thanksgiving scarf too! He has scarves for each season! He's a festive, fashionable little fellow!

Give Thanks

Thankful today for my home! A home is one of the most treasured things! It's where you live, it's where you create memories, it's where you build a life!

I am also thankful today because we are getting 2 new pieces of furniture, a sofa and a coffee table for our living room. Since we are getting a new sofa in that room, we have moved our other one in our den area, which has allowed me to do some rearranging and change the room into the black and white space I've always wanted.

Still tweaking here and there, but think it's coming together nicely so far . . .

Last night I stayed up (way too late) and worked on a project and made my own "Give Thanks" sign to go over my mantel! Think it turned out pretty cute! Will have to take more photos later.

I'm also very excited because my family is coming tomorrow and I can't wait! It's been a while since I have seen them. But the good news is, my parents are moving to Dallas - which means they will be much closer and I will be able to go visit more. (Before they were 13+ hours away.)

If I'm not back on before Thursday, I wish all of you a wonderful Thanksgiving and hope you all enjoy time with your family!

My Fall Fashion Staple & Colored Jeans

It is at the in between kinda cool, but not too cold weather and I have been wearing my favorite Fall fashion staple - my black blazer!

I love wearing it because I can dress it up or down, I can wear it over a dress or with jeans and I can make some of my sleeveless tops I wore in the summer transition into my Fall wardrobe!

We went to a birthday party over the weekend and I wore my blazer over a long, black tunic, paired with my new electric blue jeans (which you can't really see in the picture unfortunately.) I have been wanting a pair of these pants for a while and finally bought some last week at Target! I've seen a lot of celebs wearing them lately and since I wear a lot of black, I thought it would brighten up my wardrobe a bit.

I also wore this blue stone necklace that I've had in my closet for a while. I was just waiting for the perfect outfit to wear it with and when I bought the pants I immediately thought of this necklace! I got the necklace at Charming Charlie. Sometimes that store gives me a headache because there is SO much in there - but last time I was in there I totally scored when I got this necklace! However, I must say - if you need an accessory in a certain color . . . . that is the store you want to go to!!

Here are some photos of celebs who are sporting colored jeans!

I know people are hating on KimK right now - but I still LOVE her style! I'm also diggin the emerald green jeans Fergie is wearing!

So what do you all think about colored jeans? yay or nay?

Go T-I-G-E-R-S Go!

Wednesday night hubby and I went to the first Memphis Tigers game. I became a fan because M went to school there and is a huge fan of course!

I went casual in my Memphis attire! We enjoyed the game then went to the Flying Saucer afterwards. I used to hang out there ALL the time back in the day, but hadn't been there in forever so it was good to go and hang out for a bit!

Hopefully the Tigers will have a good season! Our football team is not too impressive, but Tigers basketball is usually pretty exciting! We shall see!

Happy Weekend!

Feelin Like Fall

I have been adding a few of Fall touches around the house over the past few weeks. I'm not quite done, but have done a few things here and there to make our nest feel like Fall. I have mums on my front porch, made a wreath for my front door, decorated my dining and breakfast room with some festive Fall touches!

First my breakfast room . . . .

Still need to take a better photo of the wreath I made on my front door - this was taken at night with my phone. I'm normally not a huge wreath fan except for at Christmas and just could not find a wreath for Fall that I really liked - so I made one! I don't like wreaths that have too much going on - so I made one with leaves for fall but in a square shape for a bit more modern feel - if a wreath can even be considered modern?? lol! But here it is . . . .

And now for my dining room table . . .

And this little fellow, my pup Mr. Big looks mighty cute in his festive Halloween bandanna! He was striking a pose for me!

Happy weekend to all of you!!

Back to Blogging & Updates

I have not been on my blog or done any kind of update for 2 months now - which is rare for me. But I have been so busy and since I am now doing social media for 2 companies, I don't have much blogging energy left for own personal blog. (As I am typing this hubby just said "You're actually doing your blog?!?!) I know it's been a while when he's saying that! He used to give me heck about how often I was on my blog.

I love blogging and updating my own personal page, but when things get so busy, it becomes and chore and I've decided that I will do it when I have time, but I'm not going to stress or worry about it if I don't!

That said - some good things have been happening at The Nabors house! M got a promotion!! It has been something he has been working towards for a while and when he found out a few weeks ago I was just SO happy for him and for us! I am so thankful!!

The day I got the call that M got the job, I ran around looking for a new leather laptop bag for him to take to work. I have been wanting to get him one for a while and I was on a mission! I finally found one, got it wrapped then went looking for some nice pens! I got him some super nice pens that write like a dream. I also planned on taking him to dinner that night to celebrate! We went to a fab place here called Mesquite Chop house and enjoyed great food and drinks!

{us before the celebration dinner}

I have also taken on a new project for along with my job at the magazine. I am doing some Corporate Styling for a company and that along with my work for the mag is keeping me quite busy!!

Before M started his new job - he had a week off and we enjoyed that week running around and going to a local festival. We never have free time to do those types of things and so we really enjoyed that time together!

And while I'm uploading a few pics - here are more from the past month . . .

{before heading to a reception for friends of ours who recently got married in Napa Valley}

{The couple who got married are middle aged and have everything but I still wanted to get them something, so I put together a "Napa" themed basket for them. Their reception had a wine theme so I made an "m" for their last name out of wine corks, bought some cooking oils from Napa Valley (they like to cook), wine glasses and a great candle. I hope they liked it!!}

And over the weekend, hubby and I went to dinner with some good friends of ours! I tried a new look and did a nude lip - still not sure about it, but think I kind of liked it for a change!

The only other update I have is that my parents are moving to DALLAS and I'm so excited!! My Dad got a promotion and so they are relocating! I'm so happy because they will now be only 7 hours away instead of 13, and it's Dallas!! Can we say SHOPPING?!?! So looking forward to it!!

That's all for now! I'm afraid I may not be very good about leaving comments these days, but I'll try my best. I know that if I'm not leaving comments on other blogs, I may not get many comments in return, but that's A-OK!

Hope everyone is doing well! I have missed all my sweet blogger friends!!

Holly Jolly Photo Session Sneak Peak . . . .

Okay so here is a sneak peak of our "Holly Jolly" photo session with the talented Christen Jones Photography!

More to come soon! =)

Thanksgiving 2010

I am finally here to get caught up and post about Thanksgiving!! Last Monday my parents got in town from TX and I SO enjoyed spending lots of time with them!! My Mom had been baking and cooking the week before and brought homemade bread, pies, dressing and some other yummy things for us to enjoy. My house was still decorated for Fall/Thanksgiving. I like to leave it up for Thanksgiving since it's festive! It's not really Thanksgiving to me if my pumpkins are not still out and Christmas trees are up (although I can't wait to get mine up tomorrow!)

My Mom and I did make some cupcakes to take to our family gathering Thanksgiving day. We made Carrot Cake cupcakes. I mixed them and had the idea to put the little candy pumpkins on top. So I baked and she decorated. They turned out super cute and were soooo good!!

Oh and this was what our place settings looked like on our kitchen table . . . .

The day before Thanksgiving, M & I went and had some pictures taken in Harbor Town, down by the river here in Memphis! I can't wait to get them back, hope they turned out good! While we were down there I took some pics of the beautiful trees in this adorable, quaint part of town!

{And finally . . . sunset!}

After our pictures, we went and had a cocktail together and watched the sun set, it was so nice! As we were sitting there we saw a carriage pass by with a family. It was so fun watching a family be together and having a great time!

Thanksgiving day we went to my Uncles house about an hour away, then after lunch there, we went to my Grandparents. We got a few pics over there, but dummy me didn't get any with my Grandparents! I hate that! But here are a few I did get. It had been raining like crazy and by the time we got their we had been rained on - otherwise I would have looked a lil better. LOL

{Me & my lil bro}

{Mom & Case)

{us}

{sweet)

{M & my Grandparents dog, Myia! She's so funny!}

The next night, we still had turkey left over since we had cooked one on Wednesday just for us, but Mom fixed some brisket and it was delish!

Mr. Big was festive over the weekend with his cordoroy outfit he got on his birthday! He was being camera shy!

And now it's so long to my orange accents in the living room and time to ad some red!!

Hope all of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and time with family or friends! I am looking forward to Christmas, but hoping I can do all I need to do. I will be working a lot and I just pray it doesn't put a damper on the holiday for me, because this is my favorite time of year!!