And....That's a Wrap.

Dear Readers,

It's official; this is my last post on my beloved little blog here.  It's been so fun, but it's time to move on.  Life has just gotten too fast and furious to keep up here. I can't believe,  I kept this up consecutively for three years: blogging starting in January 2009 through December 2011. 

The last three years have had lots of highs and lows.... life changed over this three year span. And now, life is just continuing to change so quickly and my priorities have changed... that I feel in some weird way that I've outgrown my little bloggy blog here.

Moving forward~ I'll be posting our personal photos on facebook to keep in touch with our friends and family better.  I'll also be blogging now from my J.Starr Biz Blog...but this blog won't serve as a online scrapbook (like this one was)...it will be a mix of all kinds of fun things, so be sure to follow me at: http://jstarrstylizedweddings.blogspot.com/

Thank you for reading and caring..... Keep in touch!!!


Muah,
Jennifer Starr

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Ringing in 2012

We ended the year, with an unbelievable evening.  For Christmas Justin bought us front row tickets to see Michael Jackson's Immortal Tour. He booked a room at the Hyatt Regency and we had an AMMMAZING night out on the town!

It was the coolest way to ring in the New Year....

The night started with some pre-partying and toasting in our room.

Then walked over to the show, which was INSANE!  Truly INSANE.

Did I say INSANE???

INSANE!
 

It was the most perfect way to ring in 2012.  Thank you Justin Starr....
You know how to impress a girl.

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Christmas with the Starrs

Christmas Night, Shannon didn't get off work until late...and we were all sooo exhausted... so we decided to celebrate the following night. 

We just made a simple yummy dinner, had some spritzers, and of course some Berried Treasure Pie!

For some reason, I'm not exactly sure why... I remember us watching the He-Man Christmas Special~which was kind of odd.

Exchanged some gifts....

And watched random utube videos....if you're interested in seeing which one the boys were watching (above) ummm.. go ahead a check it out here.... nothing says Happy Holidays more than a Hippo??

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Good Ole Fashion Christmas at Ma & Pa's

This is the view we woke up to Christmas morning... there's no question who I get my event planning obession from... take a look a my mom's gorgeous living room!!  And this is just a snap shot from just one angle... she decorates all over their home...and it's just magical.....

 Lovely Little Christmas morning at Mom and Dads, nice and relaxing, and very cozy.....

Granny Morris (and uncle Gene) came down from Chandler...and though she couldn't hear much, being that she only had on one of her hearing aids (she calls them her earrings)...she had a great time too...

One of the gifts we gave Chase was this Beatles blanket, and about ten minutes after this photo was snapped he broke out in a itching attack ~ awesome, cheap gift.

And later that today, Grandpa Jim joined us and Justin drove up to Phoenix to pick up Trevor only to drive back down to Casa Grande again, so that he and Trevor could join mom's delicious Christmas meal. 

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Havin' Ourselves a Merry Lil Christmas

One of my favorite Christmas Traditions is what we call.....Our Christmas.....

So much of the holidays is shared with our families (which we love) but it's so much fun just to take a night for ourselves... I really hope we keep doing this year after year...

So the night started with a charming little dinner date & live music over at Pesto's ...

Followed by "our" gift giving to each other ...

Some years we don't buy much for each other, some years we do... this was a year we did.  It's never really about the gifts, just the time together during the crazy busy, frantic, holiday season...

One of my gifts was a bottle of my favorite wine of all time....Pinot Grigio by Kokopelli...crisp, clean, light, delicious! Somehow Sammy and Olive wormed their way right into the middle of the festivities, like they always do.

No, no we didn't drink all of this that night... this was one of my gifts to Justin...his own little mini bar for entertaining ~ it's look like we were on a total booze fest this year, but I promise there were other gifts! My ultimate gift from Justin was tickets to Michael Jackson's Cirque du Soleil on New Year's Eve!  I was shocked and so excited!

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Norris Christmas Early Eve

Christmas at Grandpa and Grandma's House....

A treasured celebration with our Norris Family on Christmas Eve that has been the only Christmas Eve Celebration that I've ever known.  

As we're growing older and the family has gotten bigger and bigger... over the past few years prior to this past year our Christmas Eve celebrations had been getting smaller and smaller.

But this past year, we decided to "bump" up Christmas Eve to the weekend before, so that all of our family (almost all) could be together....and it was just amazing. 

In fact, as it turns out... it was really meant to be... as my sweet little Grandma Jane ended up in the hospital on "actual Christmas Eve".

Gracie was the star of the celebration... she passed out everyone's gifts as she handed out our gifts..... she did this darling little "bow"...it was soooo adorable.

And let's not forget about baby Ellie... she's assisted Miss Gracie (her big sis) in all the adorableness.

My dad and Karen had this random debate going on the majority of the night... and it got louder and louder as the night went on.  The hilarious part of the photo is that one of their big debates was about dogs...and LOOK who is center stage in this photo....Karen and Danny's dog: Arf!

Happy Times....

Lots of food.....

Lots of fun....

Several wise cracks...

It was a loud, crazy, and wild night.... but then again that's what happens when you get the Norris Bunch together....lots of story telling and making fun of each other ~ times we treasure.

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