Wow... What happened to 2011?

Fellow Snobs... I've been an absentee blogger for so long! I had such great intentions, but somewhere around February of 2011 I completely fell off the blog bandwagon. What happened? Well, this is what happened...












Yep, I met Eric White and fell head over heels in love! I think we might have started planning our wedding around the second or third date. :) I abandoned all blogging (and almost all reading) for wedding magazines and catering sites!!

We got engaged on the observation deck of Vulcan in Birmingham, Alabama on June 3, 2011. Eric had the proposal running across a sign in Southside below us. See...














(Vulcan statue)

















"Lori Barstow, I love you, will you marry me?"
YES!!!

Finally, the big day came! December 3, 2011. It was a magical, spiritual, wonderful day. I got to marry the love of my life and I got to have lots of friends and family there to celebrate!










































We went on a honeymoon cruise...












... and we're finally settling down into real life.

This Book Snob has a lot of reading to catch up on and I'm looking forward to it. Several friends and I are going to attempt to read through War and Peace this year. I think most of us are both excited about the adventure AND skeptical about our ability to understand it - not to mention stick to it long enough to finish. I'm about 60 pages in and already fairly lost as to what is happening. I'm going to forge ahead and see if it comes together for me at some point.

I'm also working on updating and republishing my devotional for college women...
Precious Stones and Alabaster: Gifts of Advice for Christian Women Starting College. www.PreciousStonesBook.com
I'm excited about the possibility of doing a format for e-readers like Kindle and Nook.

The year ahead has some great possibilities for reading snobby books and having lots to talk about.

I hope your 2012 is off to a great start and that you're starting it off with a great book.

Read on!