Merry Christmas!

Look at me blogging up a storm!

Who knows how long it'll last, but I'm glad I'm back in time to share my mother's fabulous Christmas decorations with you.

(see previous decorations here and here)

I am so in love with her theme this year.

She used all bright colors...

yellow, blue, pink, green, purple, orange.

Not your average Christmas colors, but our house still feels like a winter wonderland.

It's beautiful!

Gorgeous, right? Well done, Nancy.

Also, compare how my mother wraps presents:

To how my father wraps presents:

Yes, that is a box... in the middle of the living room... with a blanket over it.

Good job, Dad.

Merry Christmas!

A WBAMS Christmas.

I have some incredible roommates.

We refer to ourselves as WBAMS (pronounced wa-bams!... Whitney, Brea, Ally, Marissa and Steff) for simplicity, just so you know.

We are just one big happy family, so naturally we had to have a family Christmas celebration before we took off for the holidays.

And naturally, we all had to get matching Christmas pajamas.

Cute, right?

(Top L-R: Whitney, Steffany; Bottom L-R: Me, Brea, Marissa)

We invited our boys over to join the celebration, too.

Naturally, we also made them wear matching Christmas pajamas.

Adorable. Such good sports.

Mike (Brea's boyfriend) and Nick (everyone else's boyfriend)

Our celebration started at midnight (because that's how we roll) and was full of lots of family fun, a gift exchange and me eating approximately 16 chocolate chip cookies (because that's how I roll).

My amazing friends gave me some pretty great presents:

Season 1 of Jem* (most thoughtful gift ever) and free Frostys for a year, to name a few.

I'm a lucky girl.

Not to sound all sappy and such... but I love these people so much and feel so blessed to have them in my life.

*Jem is a super cool 80's cartoon about the dual life of a girl who runs a foster home by day and turns into a pink haired rockstar by night using her earrings to project a holographic image over herself.

Naturally, it was a childhood favorite of mine.

Come watch it with me.

Come do yoga with me!

So I'm a yoga teaching machine these days!

Have you heard that I am now officially a "Yoga Professor" at GWU?

Yup, I have to write a syllabus and everything... no big deal.

I also teach at a really fantastic studio called CycleStudio and it is currently offering the most INCREDIBLE Groupon deal.

For $19, you get any three classes (a $60 value)

or for $35, you get six classes (a $110 value).

DCers... you need to take advantage of this!

Run, don't walk!

I promise you will get the best workout of your life at this place and have so much fun.

Plus, you'll get to take classes from me! (I'd love to see some familiar faces in my classes!)

Get it... it'll be so worth it.

Namaste.

Welcome to Miami!

So me and 3 of my best friends went to Miami this weekend because... seriously, why not?

We were craving sunshine, found an awesome hotel, got some cheap plane tickets and then we were off!

Best. Vacation. Ever.

Check out some of the "professional" photos we got taken on our parasailing adventure (yeah, we went parasailing)... We payed a pretty penny for these beauties to be added to our package:

Steff and I

Nick and Whitney

Maybe Nick and Whit?

No idea who this is.

Quality, right?

Calm down, I'll add more pictures of the fun once I get a hold of them.

Bienvenidos a Miami

Party in the city where the heat is on all night on the beach till the break of dawn.

I'm taking the MCAT tomorrow (finally!).

I'm probably going to rock it...

but prayers, happy thoughts and well wishes are appreciated nonetheless.

Thanks. :)

Twins - Part 2.

Ashley has been visiting me in DC this past week for some sisterly fun.

Throughout the week my roommates have pointed out that we have a lot of the same mannerisms and have snapped pictures accordingly.

It's fun being a twin.

Peet Family

Not too shabby, huh?

Dance Dance Revolution.

Did you know that it is illegal to dance at the DC Monuments?

Yeah, neither did I until my friend Mike took me out for a night of mischief.

He began by telling me about a bunch of people getting arrested last weekend for dancing at the Jefferson Memorial.

Watch this video and see for yourself.

Seriously, watch it.

(skip to 1:30ish for the good stuff)

Crazy, huh?

Feeling like this was completely un-American, Mike and I headed over to the Jefferson Memorial for our own little Dance Dance Revolution.

In the name of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, we preceded to have a dance party with Thomas Jefferson.

Innocent bystanders took pictures.

We did not get arrested.

God bless America.

Mike and me awkwardly slow dancing at the Jefferson Memorial, eyes glowing with rebellion.

I also got pretty chummy with dear old George Mason that night.

That's legal, right?

Life is good.

Haven't said that in awhile.