New year’s in California and other randomness

This year I didn’t get to travel as much as I would typically but I did visit two gorgeous places – Turks & Caicos and Puerto Rico so I was definitely happy to get away over the holidays to visit family on the west coast. I spent new years in California visiting my brother and I had an awesome time. We drove down to Malibu and then Santa Barbara and I took a few pictures on our way. The pacific ocean was just gorgeous at sunset -

My brother’s friend was nice enough to take a few pictures of me. Here’s me looking at them like “Did you figure out my camera yet?”

And here’s me laughing at them go all paparazzi on me.

We also took a drive up to the Hollywood Hills where I took this photo. The view was gorgeous -

And finally here’s a photo my brother took of me close to his home in Pasedena (I miss you already Femi!)-

In other news, so far, wedding planning is coming along great (Thank God for a great wedding planner) and I’m trying to enjoy the whole process without getting overwhelmed (…all this work for one day). I’ve moved the general gist of wedding planning to my lookbook so feel free to stop by there to see what’s going on from time to time (but I’ll still be making updates here).  Top on my priority list is buying a dress. I’m the bride that starts looking for wedding shoes before finding her wedding dress… you’d think it would be the other way around right? go figure. Although I’ve hated trying on dresses I have to admit it’s been a lot of fun. I made sure I tried on everything from the most ridiculous to the most fashion forward just to see what I’d look like. I wore the Cinderella ball gown and the sexy backless sheath dress. I wore the dress with the weird high neckline and the one with the most unflattering cut that made me look like I was in a tube sock. Although I have not 100% figured out what dress  I’ll be buying I do know what I will not be wearing :)

Anyway I’ll be back with more wedding posts shortly.

Thanks for stopping by.