In December I went home for Christmas and had a blast hanging with the family. Enjoy some photos of that excursion.
Yes, that would be the incredibly talented and beautiful Rubi. She had a pop-up hair shop before her braid night at Jordan’s craft night and we got to go. I received the best braid ever, fell in love with her gorgeous dog Cleo, and next time I swear I’ll let her chop all my hair off.
Yes, I’m back. And yep, that would be me. The hop-on; the happiest girl in the world. 7 days until Arrested Development Season 4 and I’m so excited!
PS – Be prepared for an influx of post updates of my life over the last 5 months. I’ve taken a bit of a break in a lot of ways. But I’m back, I’m home. And hopefully better than ever.
I hope everyone has a lovely evening and an even better 2013!
xo,
B
Hey out there,
It’s been a while. Not a whole lot is very new or exciting. I had a lovely four days off doing absolutely nothing (and not eating very well), and it was fabulous. But tonight, I’m getting back into my healthy routing by cooking, cleaning, and heading to the gym. I thought I’d share a few photos of life lately.
xo,
B
While that sounds like the title of a rather terrible movie, this post is actually about my sister’s wedding. My beautiful twin sister, Brittany, married her best friend, Scott, on April 28th of this year. They are the greatest couple, they have the sweetest little boy (picture here!), and their wedding day was certainly a dream. Today their wedding was featured on Wedding Blog Bible Style Me Pretty! Go check it out, and peruse the gorgeousness of their blush/cream/gold wedding photos.
All photos by the talented Caroline at Tinywater Photography.
xo,
B
Yesterday we were at the CA Beer Festival in Ventura, where I was the designated driver back to LA. You’d think the DD at such an event wouldn’t have a good time but I had a blast seeing our friends, and an even better time deciding we should drive down the coast on the way home. It was beautiful and Will stared lustfully (lustily?)out the window at the waves, so naturally the conversation turned to his hobby of surfing.
Long story short, surfing is Wills favorite thing and we haven’t been since we’ve moved down here. We decided we would get up at 6 and go Sunday morning. And it was a great plan! Until we got there. And it was windy, cold, humid, choppy and only an 11 year old boy was out there riding anything. After about an hour we decided against it was a bust and left to get coffee.
Still, it was great being at the ocean so early in the morning and I’m hoping it turns into a weekend ritual…with better surf!
xo,
B
I suck at blogging. Sorry for that. I promise I’ll have a few updates soon, but for now here’s a picture of Penelope in a shoebox.
I’m back in LA and settling into normal life again – cleaning, cooking, working out, laundry. All that fun stuff that’s been neglected. Will and I took a drive around Los Feliz this morning and ended up at the Observatory. It was beautiful.
I’m also starting to get majorly homesick. The nice part about having talented friends and loved ones all over the world is the fact that you get to visit them. The terrible part is that they’re far from you 99% of the time. So, please bear with me while I post a bunch of photos of some of my favorite people in an attempt to miss them a tiny bit less.
Me and the extremely talented Laura Sudduth.
The beautiful Malory.
Lauren with a giant beer (a girl after my own heart, obviously).
Jessie, with my nephew Griffin. This badass chick is getting a PhD from Yale in Medical Anthropology. Read her blog and follow her witty Jesse-isms on Twitter! And that little boy steals my heart every minute of the day.
Needless to say I’ve got some pretty awesome friends. Miss you all immensely.
More regular posts on the blog soon!
xo,
B
(PS…all photos poached from Facebook so I can’t exactly photo cred the photographers, but they’re not all mine)
Will was out of town last weekend/week for HostingCon in Boston (yep, apparently they really do have conventions for everything), and now I’m heading out of town this weekend/week for my company’s annual meeting in Milwaukee. I’m not very excited about the heat and humidity, but I am excited about our garden party at the Milwaukee Zoo and our Annual Show with Maroon 5. As long as they play their first album (yeah, right). I’ll be updating my Instagram (@briannahanson) with photos all weekend/week long, so feel free to follow along if you’d like! Anyway, the blog will be a bit sparse over the next few days, but our lives will should be back to normal next week.
xo,
B
(image via Jose Villa)
Sorry for the crappy cellphone quality of this picture (thanks iPhone!), but this was the sunset last night. Isn’t it amazing? It’s hurricane season and that means LA gets to experience some pretty interesting weather. Most of the week it’s been blustery and consistently 70 degrees, but yesterday was warm and muggy and filled with bursts of rain. It was very odd. But I got to see the most beautiful sunset from my back “porch” last night, and for that I’m thankful. I’m also thankful that the wind and rain brought a very clear and sunny day today, even though it also brought a very hot one. That I can do without.
xo,
B
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