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Girly Girl

So I usually don't wear any pink, I usually don't feel girly enough to pull it off. However, I went shopping for my birthday last month and wanted to get something special. When I saw this blouse I just fell in love with it. It was on a dress form along with the gold chain, and it just felt like something I needed to add to my closet. Now that I own it I've been enjoying the very girly, flirty look of it and have already bought a couple more pink items. Kind of not like me, but I'm loving the girlyness.

I wore this outfit to a family dinner last week. I had worked all day and my hair had lost it's wave and gone flat so I pulled my hair up into a messy ponytail. I love how it came out! That was probably the first time I wore a ponytail in the past 10 years or more. I think the key is to use some product and give the ponytail some wave and volume. And these are my favorite sandals. I bought them from Modcloth last year and can't get enough of them!

Happy Summertime Weekend

 

 

Happy holiday weekend!! I hope you're all having a wonderful 4th of July weekend and enjoying the Summer. We've been pretty busy fitting in all of our Summertime favorite things to do. Friday night we went swimming and relaxed my a spa under the stars. Yesterday we lounged on the patio and sipped our coffee in the sun. Then we went for an afternoon of wine tasting in the Livermore valley. We have been exploring out there a couple time recently and have found some wineries we love. Thomas Coyne, Murrieta's Well and White Crane are among my favorites, but there are so many to try we will add more to that list soon. We caught a fireworks show last night put on by the Oakland A's, our local major league baseball team. And before going home for the night we stopped at a little ice cream shop and I got my favorite ice cream of theirs, salted caramel!! yum!! 

Today we went to an antique fair that is held nearby the first Sunday of every month. We were out in the sun for hours, which called for some cooling off with soft serve ice cream from Foster's Freeze. yum again!!

Then we went and saw the movie Bad Teacher, which was a great mid afternoon funny movie to watch while using the movie theater to cool down. Tomorrow we'll go to my parent's house for a 4th of July bbq.
I picked up this little coral colored dress for the weekend and have to admit I've already worn it twice this weekend. I loving how light it is for the hot weather, and the pattern and color. I've been picking up some bracelets here and there lately and love the look of piling them all on. My favorite is the one with the chains that dangle down past my wrist.

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I'm obsessed with this hair. The color the cut and the waves....so beautiful!
I'm looking for a new hairstyle, but just not sure I can pull off bangs....

Happy Father's Day

Thanks for being such a great Dad, I can't begin to tell you how important all of your guidance in life has been. 

 Love you Dad!

Lumberjack!

Breakfast for dinner? .....yes please!

I can't tell you how long it has been since I've had pancakes. Over two years at least. Tonight the refrigerator was looking a little barren and I was really feeling like some comfort food so we had pancakes and bacon! Yum!

This is my first time trying to make gluten free pancakes. I used Pamela's pancake mix and they turned out quite lovely. I was worried they might be too dense or soggy, but they were pretty much perfect, fluffy and tasty. I topped mine off with butter, jam and maple syrup.
I don't really like cooking regular bacon so we tend to buy thick cut turkey bacon, which tastes just like regular bacon to me. So I cooked up some of that too!
I love breakfast!!

Bring On The Gemini

It's been an action packed month of events. First was a weekend in Sonoma/Napa, second my boyfriend graduated with his degree, third a road trip for my newly graduated and free boyfriend and last but certainly not least...my birthday!! Yes, I admit it, I turned another year older..it happens.

After three weekends of action-pakedness I didn't even have time, or energy, to plan a birthday weekend for myself. So my boyfriend took it upon himself and planned a cute little birthday full of things I love. The day before my birthday he took me to breakfast, then we did some shopping at a cute little boutique close to my house, he bought me a book that I've been wanting at our local bookstore and then we went to go see a movie. To top off my birthday's eve we went to gluten free pizza!

Then on my birthday we started the day by picking out gluten free cupcakes at a little gluten free bakery in Danville, California. They had so many yummy flavors that I got one of each of them!! After that we went out to my parent's house and picked them up to head out to some rustic wineries for wine tasting and picnicking, two of my favorite things!

It was a great birthday weekend, and thanks to my boyfriend for all of the planning when I didn't feel like planning anything!

Mystical Redwoods

And here are the beautiful Redwoods I visited last weekend. 

I think these pictures speak for themselves...