A Texan Odyssey

The day before Thanksgiving I made three different kinds of pie: sweet potato, pumpkin and mini chocolate cream pie. I also ate WAY too much of these. It was fun while it lasted but I'm breaking up with pie now.   Our Thanksgiving started with lunch with the Foxes, where Sean was being his sweet, silly little self! I am so thankful for my precious boy! We've had our tough moments adjusting to parenthood this year, but we wouldn't trade it for the world!  We took some family pics with both sides of the family, minus Ryan's dad in the top picture (he was running late because he got called into work) and Sean in the below picture (he was napping). I am very thankful for the wonderful people I get to call family. At my mom's house we celebrated my niece's first birthday and ate delicious Thanksgiving fare for dinner. I am thankful for my mom's good cooking and for the fact that she got to actually eat it this year due to certain food allergies getting better! G...

(Sweater: Target, tank: Express, jeans: Old Navy, boots, earrings & ring: Kohl's,  watch: Fossil,  necklace: Ebay, fox ring: my hubby's) I had a wonderful Thanksgiving full of family, food and fun! I will definitely put together a post about it but first I wanted to show you all what I wore. I stuck with my favorite new boots and jeans and just switched up the tops and accessories to make two easy outfits for our Thursday and Friday activities. I'm so in love with my hubby's family ring and was happy he let me borrow it! I wish it was small enough to fit my finger, but since it's not I improvised and put it on a chain to wear as a pendant. I also jumped on the glitter bandwagon and gave myself a fun manicure to reflect my festive holiday mood! All it took was a base coat of Sally Hansen Wet Cement and the tips painted over with Orly VIP. Oh and for my second outfit I experimented with new ways to tie my scarf and ended up with something I call the scarf necklac...

Comfortable Shopping Style by valfox   I've never actually gone out shopping on Black Friday because we usually spend the day with family, but if I did hit the stores on that day I'd want to wear something like this! My feet are always killing me by the time I'm done shopping, so the first thing I thought of for this look was a pair of soft cozy ankle boots! After that I selected a pretty pair of jeggings (although I still haven't tried them in real life) and an adorable and comfy looking sweater. Sweaters are easy to pull on and off when trying things on. You definitely don't want to wear a button down shirt when you go shopping, it's a waste of time to be dealing with buttons! Grab a cross body bag to keep your hands free (this one is from JCPenney and it's very affordable) and some shades and earrings to finish off the look! (Linking up to Long Distance Loving !)

Story time with Sean. Every morning we snuggle in bed with a big stack of books and no distractions, it's one of my favorite times of the day!  Naptime. Not only is it the perfect cure for cranky baby syndrome, but it allows me to get stuff done. (Ok, ok, it's also the perfect time to veg out too!) Sean's round head. Sometimes I forget that he ever had to wear a STARband helmet ! Seems like so long ago now. We're still waiting to see what can be done for his bowed legs (you can see how curved they are in the pic below) but we're so thankful his brachycephaly was corrected!  I'm pretty darn thankful for my awesome hubby too, and my beautiful mom and all my family! Can't wait for us all to spend lots of time together this Thanksgiving ! Take care everyone and let's not go into a food coma tomorrow! 

(Top & Jeans from Old Navy, Boots from Kohl's, Earrings from Forever 21, Bag from Target, Watch from Fossil) I'm wearing the same horse tee and jeans from this post, but everything else is different. I'm in love with the three new items I've acquired recently: arrowhead earrings from Forever 21, cross-body bag reminiscent of a saddlebag from my hubby, and lastly my awesome new riding boots from my Mom! I'm totally embracing all the rugged, cowgirl trends in one look! I'm just one ten gallon hat away from being over the top. Yeehaw!   Anyway, I've been such an airhead today! At one store I accidentally gave a fake phone number because I blanked on mine, (You never have to call yourself!!) and at another I approved the email the cashier put down for me before realizing she had spelled it all wrong. Oh and when I got home I pretty much had to crawl into my car's trunk to retrieve a multitude of cherry tomatoes that decided to ...

Happy Monday all! I already did a "what's in my purse" post before, (find it here ) so I thought I'd show you my new jewelry box and what's inside it! As I mentioned before, my anniversary is coming up and I thought I was going to pick a ring from Etsy as my gift. However I've been wanting to get all my jewelry in one place for a while now so when I saw this jewelry box yesterday I chose it instead! I love that everything is easy to find now and nicely organized. Before I had my jewelry spread out between two jewelry boxes and clear tupperware in my drawer, so this is definitely an upgrade!! So thanks for the anniversary gift hubby, even if I picked it out! :) My one complaint: I see from the pics it already collected dust overnight! Sheesh!

Quick recap of the weekend: -Friday: Afternoon of shopping and then dinner with the Foxes. -Saturday: Saw Breaking Dawn with my sister, her hubby and his niece, did some mall browsing, went grocery shopping, had pizza night and watched Psych with the familia. Oh yeah and got spat up on...twice. -Sunday: Went to church early for Ryan to help with the audio visual team, stayed in the nursery with Sean and read to a group of kids, dropped a big bag of clothes off at Goodwill, shopped with Mom and ate out (super packed restaurant!) organized and pared down my jewelry collection to fit in a new jewelry box, cooked dinner, gave Ryan a back massage and snuggled with Sean... ...and yet I didn't get a single picture! (Not that you want to see the spit up part, but before that I was wearing something cute to the movie and I didn't document it... fail!) Anyway to make up for that I'll put up a picture we got of our little family a few weeks ago. Doesn't Sean look like a li...

Pattern Mixing by valfox   This week over at Long Distance Loving it's all about mixing patterns! We'll probably see a lot of stripes and leopard print action because they look really good together! I know this is a sweater, but I'd love it if it was a little longer and you could wear it as a sweater dress. Pair it with some tights and oxford heels and you've got a comfy outfit that I think would be fun to wear for Thanksgiving with the family. I must admit, mixing patterns with a scarf like this is actually the only way I've ever done it before! Although...it wasn't even really  mixing patterns because I wore a striped sweater with a striped scarf! See? You could do the same with a cute sweater and scarf like these ones. I think it "works" because one set of stripes is closer together than the other is. If they were too similar it might look a little busy in my opinion. I do plan to eventually get adventurous and wear a legitimate mixed pa...