I’m not sure if you got the memo that I have been, and will be, taking my first ever blogging vacation over the holidays. A few of you have written in asking where I am {aww shucks!} so I thought I’d share a few sweet snaps to fill you in. We jetted out to Aspen just before Christmas {see above} and then bopped over to Texas to visit my side for some amazingly fun family follies {that of which the videos are un-appropriate for blogging and probably only funny to us}.

Somehow, in the 48 hours we were there, we managed to laugh like crazy in our PJ’s and heels, stay up until 4am each night singing along with my Aunt Jenda’s amazing piano skills and got crazy silly with my fun cousins and family with tons of dancing {insert: the Tootsee Roll circa 1994}, a bazooka version of R.E.S.P.E.C.T and my brother leading a mean conga line. Needless to say it was f.u.n.

Now we are back in Aspen to ring in 2013 in snowy style. Above are pictures from yesterday where I conquered my first ever double black diamond. Yes it was hard. Yes it was cold. Yes I am extremely sore. And Yes it was totally worth it!

I’ll be back in LA next week and truly appreciate your sweet notes of concern as to my absence. This Damsel needed a little time off to reboot and start 2013 with a fresh set of creative posts!

Until then . . . X