Sunday Social {Family Edition}

Gahhh.. Sunday is almost over!!! Here is my post!! better late than never right? I hope everyone had an amazing weekend. :)  1. Tell us about the family you grew up in, parents, siblings, grandparents. I grew up with my parents and my two younger brothers. One of my brothers is 1 year younger than me and the other one is 4 years younger than me. 

My grandparents, my mom's parents, also lived with us ever since I could remember until a 7-8 years ago when my grandpa retired, and they back to Mexico to live. 

2. Tell us about your husband, fiancé, boyfriend, significant other. I'm still looking for that man in my life. I'm single and ready to mingle. ;)

3. Tell us about your children. If you don’t have children, talk about your fur children. I don't have kids or any fur children. But my kids are my nieces and nephews!! I love them!!

4. Tell us about your best friends. How long have you known them? How did you meet? My besties are the best!! I have one best friend that has been in my life since high school. And since moving back home after college we have become closer. 

And then I have my college friends. Deborah, Gina, and Brenda. The girls that have been there through thick and thin since college. We met in college, all separately, and then just somehow we all came together and everyone just fit together, like a puzzle. We have all lived with each other at some point throughout college, whether it was on the couch or in the next room. We've had a couple of arguments, but what group of friends don't, but we have bounced back from them, and I think it has made our bond stronger. After college, we each went our separate ways, and now we try too plan an annual trip to just be together, and have fun. They are all amazing, beautiful, strong women, and I admire them for always following their dreams. 

5. Tell us about any other special people in your life. I'm very lucky to have a big family, when it comes to cousins and uncles and aunts. Some people might see negative things of having a big family. But I love it!! I wouldn't change it for anything in the world. There is always someone there I can talk to, someone I can relate to, someone I can look up to, and someone I try to be the best role model for. My dad had 9 siblings, and I have about 30 cousins, and now 10 nieces and nephews, and we have grown up as siblings, always getting together. 

Sunday Social

Hi I hope you all had an amazing holiday weekend!!! HAPPY SUNDAY!!

1. Favorite Genre of Music? I will listen to all kinds of music, except for maybe hard rock. But I would say my go-to genre would be Pop and Spanish Pop. 
2. Favorite Genre of movies? Romantic comedies are my favorites!!! And I also like watching action movies.
3. Do you watch Reality TV? If so what was the first show you remember watching. Reality TV is my guilty pleasure!!! shhh!! Kardashians, Real Housewives, anything MTV!! But I think the first one I ever watch would be either Survivor or American Idol. I rooted for Kelly from the beginning. :)

4. Actress you’d want to be BFF’s with? Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone!! They are just so beautiful, fun and I feel like they are down-to-earth girls. 

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5. Actor you’d be happy to be stuck on an island with?  Ohhhhh.. Let me see.  Michael Ealy for sure. YES please!! And then can I have Ryan Gosling and the Hemsworth brothers be dropped off in the island too!!!

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What are you doing this perfect Sunday afternoon??

Christmas Bliss {A Book Review}

Title : Christmas Bliss

Author: Mary Kay Andrews

Publisher: St. Martin Press

Release Date: October 15, 2013

Summary from GoodReads: 

From the New York Times bestselling author of Summer Rental comes a novella that celebrates love, the holidays, and antiques. Christmas is coming, but Savannah antique dealer Weezie Foley is doubly distracted both by her upcoming wedding to her longtime love, chef Daniel Stipanek and also by the fact that her best friend and maid-of-honor BeBe Loudermilk is due to give birth any day and is still adamantly refusing to marry her live-in-love Harry. Listeners have come to love these characters in Mary Kay Andrews' three previous Savannah novels: Savannah Blues, Savannah Breeze, and Blue Christmas. Christmas Bliss offers Andrews' legions of fans the best of many things: familiar characters, a new novella for Christmas, and a celebration of Mary Key Andrews' own favorite pastime-antiquing. Blue Christmas was a fan favorite, and now Christmas Bliss is sure to fly off store shelves and into the hands of Andrews fans in bestselling numbers

Quotes:

“Being in his arms made me feel safe and good, and finally, for the first time in my adult life, I knew I was exactly where I was supposed to be." - Bebe

My Take: Christmas time, I miss it so much that I decided to read a Christmas book in March. And I really liked it. 
This was my very first book I've read my Mary Kay Andrews, and I really liked it. I didn't know that there were three other books with the same characters, which of course I hadn't read. But despite not having read the other three books Savannah Blues, Savannah Breeze, and Blue Christmas, I wasn't lost with the storylines. I feel like you could totally read it without the other three, but I'm excited to add the previous ones to my TBR.
This book follows best friends Bebe and Weezie, on their most memorable life events. A pregnant Bebe has been having reservations on marriage to her baby's daddy, but she soon realizes that he is the one she wants to spend the rest of her life with. She also discovers a huge secret from her past that can affect her baby if she doesn't settle it.
Weezie has found the love of her life and are having a Christmas wedding. But when her fiancee is away in New York at a fancy restaurant with a beautiful boss as a guest chef, she sets out on an adventure to see him and the city. And an aventure it is, she always gets mobbed by a taxi driver, her luggage gets lost, and her shoe gets washed away down the drain.
I think Bebe and Weezie's relationship is amazing. You could tell that they are the best of friends that tell each other anything and that are there for each other. I feel in love with their friendship. 
The book made me want to just head out to Savannah and become friends with them.  The characters  feel true and real, which makes reading their story even that more fun.  It was a great book, and now that i think about it, I would've been even more fun to read to Christmas time. :) 

What are you favorite Christmas books?