Sorry for the long absences..... But hey! At least that leads to a nice lengthy post to read ;-)
This week I'm counting down! I'm going on vacation..... And it's just right around the corner!
When I woke up this morning my first thought was "I only have to get up this early 3 more times before vacation!!!!!" I'm a little excited, in case you couldn't tell!
Thursday is our last day in the office, vacation officially starts at 4:30pm Thursday afternoon! This vacation is pretty special. It's my hubby's and my one year anniversary! A part of me can't believe it's already been a year, and yet another part of me feels like we have been together forever already (I guess almost 7 years together is still a pretty good chunk of time.)
Friday we are going down to Galveston, we have a romantic afternoon/evening planned, an overnight
hotel stay at a really nice hotel, and then bright and early Saturday morning we board our cruise ship! We are going on a 7 night cruise this time. We have stops in Mahogany Bay - Isla Roatan, Belize, and Cosumel! Our cruise leaves on the 17th, and our anniversary is the following day. Since it's a day on the water without any stops, we have an amazing day planned aboard the ship starting off with a romantic couples massage, and finishing up the day with an amazing steakhouse dinner! I will do a post when we
get back with pictures from the trip along with details on our excursions ;-)
In the meantime, I'm working on getting through this work week. It feels like it is absolutely dragging!
Over the weekend we had plenty going to keep us busy! We got my step-son's Halloween costume for this year, he is super excited for Halloween this year! We also bought a new outdoor grill, and it's NICE! Tested it out Saturday for dinner, and the steaks and chicken we cooked up were amazing!
Sunday Daniel and Aidan washed cars, and I worked on a couple of my horses; trimming feet, trimming whiskers, worming, exercising -- and I even got in a nice ride on Flag, my first horse! It was a great weekend!
Here are a couple more of my guys that I got to mess with this weekend:
Angel -- Head shot
Angel -- Body Shot
Tender -- Body shot (she's my old lady at 22!)
Now that you've seen a bit of my country side, here is the "Fashionista" side of me ;-)
Here are some recent OOTDs that I have worn. Just the highlights, since we are still in-between houses I don't have a great spot for taking my outfit selfies.... I kinda miss my old porch! LOL It's ok, our new house will have a nice new porch once it's done, and I can have my horses as my background. Best of both worlds!
This dress is available through Gwynnie Bee, it's a Taylor Dresses dress
This dress is another GB dress, it's a London Times dress that
looks lovely on everyone I've seen wearing it!
This lovely dress is an Adrianna Papell dress --
I'm completely in love with this brand!
This next one is through GB, I love this brand --XTwo
and look -- I'm wearing pink tights!
This one is a Kiyonna top that I have been chasing forever,
and finally got this one via resale ;-)
This top is currently available through GB, but I got it
resale also! I love Eloquii !!
Now for some recent makeup looks I have been playing around with, I don't have a product list for each, but here are some of my new favorite products I have been playing around with and LOVING!
- If you are in search of an AMAZING foundation brush, I'm in love with my Tarte Airbuki Brush This brush works amazingly with both liquid and powder foundations to create a wonderful airbrushed look.
- My new favorite setting powder is to die for! Laura Mercier is life itself!
- Kat Von D makes a really nice eyebrow marker of sorts. It creates such a natural looking brow!
- And of coarse the old favorite of Anastasia Beverly Hills has not been forgotten for eyebrows either.
- An amazing new brand for lips that just launched last month (and has already sold out on a couple of their items) is Black Moon Cosmetics as an up and coming all natural makeup company, they have a very small offering of liquid lipsticks (4 colors to be exact) but OMG, their formula is to die for! Lasted all day easily! You really need to check them out!
- Another brand I have become very quickly fond of is Colour Pop, their prices are really reasonable, and their formulas are great! The shadows, blush and highlighter are a smooth creamy texture, and their lippies stay on a crazy long time! Check them out!
- For face care, I'm completely loving the Philosophy line available at Ulta. I have pretty greasy skin, and between the Face Wash and the Face Mask my face doesn't get near as greasy as it used to. I can get well into the afternoon now without looking like a grease slick! I got as a free gift their Body Wash and I completely love, love, love how squeaky clean I feel! Definitely money well spent!
Face Mask Time:
Anywho, I hope that has at least sorta caught you up on what's been going on in life. We are hoping to have our new house done middle of November, so we shall see how that all goes! So exciting to see what life has in store!
XOXO
