YAY FOR FALL! Can I just say how super giddy I am that it hasn't really really snowed here in Utah yet? Coming from San Diego, it is the #1 thing I hate about Utah. I hate living in the snow. By some stroke of luck, it hasn't really started snowing. It isn't sticking. I don't mind, and just hope it can hold off until we go to San Diego for Christmas :) That would be an entire fall semester without SNOW! WOW.
On another note...
I usually don't quit things. I like to start what I finish. But can I just say I am so over the 30 for 30?! I am struggling. I had all the outfits picked out and just hadn't finished taking pictures of all of them. Do you know how hard it is to take pictures of yourself in clothes around a 9-5 job? Um. Yeah.
The second something becomes like a chore to me, I am over it. So I am sorry to announce that I have decided to end at 18 out of my 30. I think that was a good run, no? 18 outfits for you all. 18 outfits and maybe you could get some clothes like this with a Meijer Promotional code. I am not taking one more picture in those same clothes haha.
It really was a great experiment, and I did learn to see my closet in a whole new light. Some items of clothing I hardly ever wore, I ended up wearing way more then I thought I would or even could! So it was really fun to do that.
But have no fear, I still love clothes and would like to keep up with a once a week fashion post. So just expect to see more of the other items in my closet then you did before, like today's post for example :)
This lace dress is something I use to only wear to church or for really nice events. Since trying the 30 for 30 I have found SO many uses for it. I am shocked at how it is my most used piece of clothing in my 30 for 30! Although I am tired of this 30 for 30 challenge that has taken me forever to do haha, I am happy to have found a way to use some of my not used clothing items!
Top: Billabong Skirt: DownEast Boots: Steve Madden
As cool as this 30 for 30 has been in terms of me seeing my closet in a whole new light, I am not going to lie and tell you I am getting tired of it and want to post some other items I have in my wardrobe! haha Soon, soon I tell you!
Dear Monday,
You are here again? I swear you come around way too soon for me.
Dear Hand,
YAY you can wash help wash the left hand wash hair now! You can open jars, and food packages without too much pain. You do look like gross snake shedding his skin, but we are getting there :)
Dear Life,
You never cease to amaze me with your curve-balls. Life decisions can be tough, but I am feeling at peace.
Dear Utah,
We were doing so good there for awhile, why did you have to go and start winter on me. Lame.
Dear Kyna,
Thanks for having me guest post today!
Dear Self,
Be patient with the changes you want to make. Things will happen.
Dear Bathtub,
I have missed you all these years.
Dear Readers,
I feel the need to simplify my life, I think this blog as well. More on that later.
Dear Hand,
Thanks for finally being able to MOVE! Even though you aren't totally there yet :)
p.s. Please stop itching.
Dear Left Hand,
You rocked it this week! You made cookies, cupcakes, cleaned the house and washed dishes all on your lonesome.
Dear Utah Weather,
You are starting to feel cold. I am not liking it. Please rewind back two months, thanks :)
Dear Cheese,
I love you... on everything.
Dear Law School,
Please bring back my husband.
Dear Mary,
Thanks for having me guest post on your blog :)
Dear Jamie (best friend),
Maybe we should stick to texting, because every time we call to each other we talk for house. Last phone call OVER 3 HOURS! haha yikes. We could go for days....
Dear Readers,
No, I did not have to go to the bathroom in the second photo, even though it would appear I am holding myself? bah.
Top: F21 Skirt: F21 (man I sure like F21 huh?) Boots: Steve Madden (Girl) Necklace: Anthropologie
I realize I just wore this shirt in my last 30 for 30 post, but I don't care. It is so comfy I wear it all the time :) &don't lie and act like you don't repeat either every now and then!
Little celebrations in my life as of late...
+ Listening to old messages of my nieces and nephews on my voice mail :) *sigh* too adorable.
+ Nice strangers. It is always refreshing when you run into a total stranger, who is nice! :) Always makes my day.
+ Peanut butter filled pretzels. enough said.
+ All I am going to say is MONSTER! &there is a handful of you that know what I am talking about haha oh man, the poor people of Kneaders Bakery... we are sorry! wait, I AM sorry! haha
+ Meeting some amazing girls at the Utah Blogger Meet Up! I had such a blast :) Seriously, I think I made some friends that I will be actually planning outings with.
+Knowing that I can always call my parents for advice, no matter how old I am :) Thank you!
+ Sleeping in Saturday after such a long week, waking up and kissing Trevor's back and shoulders. That may sound cheesy, or it might be too much information, but I love it, so it goes on the list for the week :)
What have you been celebrating in your life lately?!
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+ Me being down about something, and Trevor totally playing the comfort role. He can be so sweet sometimes, and for that I am thankful.
+ Listening to Trevor create beautiful music. This weekend he worked really hard recording some stuff and the outcome really was amazing! Such a talent.
+ Papa Johns Pizza, because lets face it. It is the BEST!
+ Trevor pretending to be a puppy. More on that later.
+ Feeling like I am finally getting Provo down. This came much faster then learning SLC ever did!
+ Did I ever mention how happy I was that The Amazing UTES crushed BYU? Oh, I didn't :) YAY UTES!
+ Spending Conference Sunday with my sister and her boyfriend and Trevor. The best breakfast double date ever :)
+ Being uplifted by the beautiful talks at Conference on Sunday. I needed a spiritual boost, and it was perfect.
So they say you learn something new everyday. Well this weekend I learned something new. I can't believe no one has ever pointed it out to me before. I was talking to Trevor and trying to tell him about this "bumbo bee" and he kept asking me what the heck a bumbo bee was? I was getting very frustrated because how could he not know what a bumbo bee was. I was like "Come on Trevor you know what I am talking about, a bumbo bee, they are yellow and black... they sting, a BEE!" He replied with... "Oh you mean a BumbLE Bee?" I just stood there frozen. How have I been saying bumble bee wrong my entire life?! haha I have always spelled it correctly but never noticed how I just bypassed the l and e and added an o when I pronounced it. Then I really started laughing when I realized my pronounciation is actually a seat for babies... oh man.
I have since been trying to say it properly and it just isn't working for me. I guess I will be saying bumbo bee for the rest of my life. 22 1/2 years later is too late to start changing when it comes to my speech I guess, haha. This conversation got me thinking about other words we say differently. I am also guilty of saying mElk instead of mIlk. Yup, I am a melk girl. But I say pillow right, which doesn't make sense because if I say melk then I should say pellow.... but I hate when people say pellow. Oh man the English language, words, accents, all of it.... can just be so funny sometimes. What do you guys say that is off?
So go grab yourself some melk, sit outside in this beauitful fall weather, and don't get stung by a bumbo bee :) alrighty?! haha
&this one is just for kicks :) oh the animal sarah can bring out of me haha
Can you believe I finally made it into the double digits with this 30 for 30? haha I know I was a total slacker and I am now closer to the fall 30 for 30 then I am the summer when I was supposed to start. Oh well. I am getting them done now, and I am seeing my closet in new ways everyday!
+ Going to concerts with the hubberz and loosing your hearing. Not sure I want to celebrate that exactly, but it was a fun night :)
+ Girls night with a friend :) Thanks Alex!
+ Going back to San Diego to be apart of one of my best friends weddings. It was perfect.
+ Getting alone time with my parents. Growing up with 5 siblings this has never really happened until this year.
+ Gold glittery nails!
+ Costco runs with the hubberz. Even though you Provo people are crazy, I have never been in such a crammed busy Costco in my life, and so many people greedy for samples! haha I mean, I know we all love the free samples... but wowza people, you would think you don't eat!
+ Costco Gelato... pistachio :) yum!
+ Loving being able to see everything with my glasses... it is a whole new world!
+ Watching the hubberz play guitar. I must say, I still think it is totally hot :)
+ Meeting blog friends in real life! I got to meet Lindsey when I was home in San Diego. We called it out blind e-harmony date :) haha It was fun! Isn't her little one a doll? He was pretty great.
Age: 22 Bed size: Queen Chore you hate: Washing the dishes. This might be because Trevor and I didn't have a dishwasher for the first two years of marriage. It sucked. Dogs: I grew up with a Beagle, and I loved her, her name was Bridget. Trevor grew up with a Boxer, and his family now has two of them. We debate all the time over what type of dog to get. I really want a frengle. He just really wants something that is big, haha. We will see what happens! Essential start of your day: I should say breakfast but I always skip that, I should say morning prays, but I am bad at that one too. I guess the most consistent essential part of my day would be a quick morning snuggle with the hubberz... I love those. Favorite color: YELLOW! Gold or silver: I use to always say silver, but gold has its place too. I say don't make me choose! Height: 5'6" Instruments I play (or have played): Well I did played the recorder in 4th grade! haha No but really I actually played the flute from 5th grade to 8th grade. I have been playing the Piano since 5th grade, and officially stopped taking lessons my Senior year. I need to practice more because I have lost a lot of that. Since marrying a guitar player I have learned one song :) I hope to learn more! Job title: I am a Legal Secretary for an attorney here in Provo. Oh and a wife :) Trevor still likes to call me his "girlfriend" though, haha. Kids: Not sure what this means exactly... but yes, I want them? haha Live: Currently.... Provo, UT. But I will claim San Diego/Canada whenever I feel like it. Mom's name: Lisa Nickname: Oh man, are you ready? Belle, Alycia Belle, Leesh, Lee Lee, Sisha, Pumpkin, My little cutie (that's the husbands for me hehe) and Sunshine. Overnight hospital stays: Not yet. Pet peeve: People who crack their knuckles and people who chew with their mouths open! Of course my husband does both. Quote from a movie: I have SO many.... but I have always been touched by the Birthday toast given in one of my all time favorite movies, The Count of Monte Cristo.... Make sure you at least start at the part I am talking about 1:26
"Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine!"
Right or left handed: Choose the RIGHT! Siblings: I have 5 siblings. 2 sisters, and 3 brothers. I am the 4th and am sandwiched in between all the boys! Time you wake up: Depends on the day. Sometime between 7 and 8. Underwear: I wish I didn't have to wear it, haha. That's right for a long time I had the opposite problem of Tobias the Never Nude (Go watch Arrested Development already!) Vegetables you dislike: Squash. I HATE squash. What makes you run late: When I can't find my keys. It happens way too much. X-rays you've had done: Teeth, & my wrist. Yummy food you make: I would like to think everything I make is yummy! haha I don't know. I make a great box of Kraft Mac n Cheese (I don't follow the rules and create my own thing with it. yum) Zoo animal: The San Diego Zoo is the best. I think my fondest memory is seeing the baby Panda that was born. Doesn't get much better then that. Since you don't get to see a baby Panda everyday I would have to say the Hippos, the flamingos, or the Giraffes!
I would love to see you guy's fill this out too :) Happy Hump Day!
Tops: F21, American Eagle Jeans: F21 Shoes: Target
Well the books cost a fortune, but at least he has been getting good use out of them. Trevor has been reading non-stop since before class even started. I guess law school has officially arrived in our household. I already understand the joke people say about law school wives being law school widows. I am so used to Friday nights being our time together, but I had to wait hours for him to be done reading before we could have dinner together last week. I can already tell that we are going to have to take advantage of the time we have available and put it to good use. I think we realized that after the past couple weeks, so a bit ago we spent Saturday morning, after some studying of course, bouldering. Something neither of us have done before. Let me just say it reminded me just how much I need to be working out, I have no upper body strength! But I got better the longer I kept at it. We had a lot of fun :) After not seeing too much of him throughout the week, it was fun to do something together. In a strange way I think it has made our relationship better. We have less time together, but because of that, the time we do spend together we try and make really special and fun :) At the end of the day I am just happy I married someone who is such a hard-worker. Love you Trevor.
So when we graduate from high school my parents like to give us a big gift. They base this gift on our passions and interests, something they think we will really love. For example, my older sister Kira is an amazing oboist. She is actually a professional oboist now, but when she graduated high school she was going off to school to play and so my parents got her a brand new beautiful Oboe. My siblings interests all seemed so obvious to me, and when it came to my senior year, I had no idea what I would be getting. I have always been a lover of history and travel, and so when my parents sat me down and told me that me and my mother would be going to Europe, I was BEYOND excited/surprised. I was so giddy and so thrilled. Why do I bring this up?! Well one of the places we went to was London, of course, and we were touring around on those lovely double decker buses. There I am absorbing the sites in London, when guess who walks onto the bus?! Shia Labeouf. My mouth just dropped right open because I have been a fan of his since Even Stevens and then when he played in one of my favorite childhood books on the big screen (Holes) I was hooked. I was little surprised because he was shorter then you would imagine, but still, I was STAR STRUCK. I got the nerve to go and sit up right behind him, and my mom kept telling me to ask him for a picture (I mean who runs into famous people and actually has their camera with them?! lucky right?!)
But I couldn't move. I was just staring. Of course he saw me staring, I mean I was the only young person on the whole bus, I don't think anyone else knew who he was. But he looked right at me and kind of smiled, and he knew, that I knew who he was. At one point it looked like he was waiting for me to say something to him, but I couldn't. I remember thinking, "I don't want to interrupt his time off, touring the city. He wants to enjoy himself and not be interrupted by a silly girl like me." Eventually he stood up to get off the bus, and I just continued to stare as he got up and started to walk off, he smiled at me and left. He got off the bus to get onto another one, that is how the tour buses work, they take you to different parts of town etc. and I saw him get onto the next bus, and sit down. Our bus hadn't moved yet, and apart of me wanted to grab my mom and follow him. He pulled out a banana and started eating it, saw I was still starring at him, and smiled again, with a kind of wave attached to it. Then our bus drove away. I can not believe I didn't just say "Hey, I have been a big fan for a long time, mind taking a picture with me?!" How hard would that have been?! I mean I was right there, no crowd of girls fighting me for his attention, nothing. Oh well... I spent the rest of the day thinking how maybe if I had talked to him he would have been swept off his feet and he would have asked me to be his date for his red carpet appearance for the London premier of Transformers. Darn.
So random long point of this story is.... the other day when Donny Osmond walked into the same ice cream store that my mother and I were at... she wasn't going to go up and say hi to him. Then she remembered how I was when I was sitting next to Shia and how I regret not saying anything... and she went up to Donny cool as a cucumber and had a great conversation with him! Lucky woman. Where was my courage when I needed it?! haha I never would have thought of myself as the "star struck" type haha... Oh well, more power to you mama, you go girl! :)
UPDATE to the story... I did get several pictures of the back of his head, some profile shots and him eating a banana. :) haha
You guys sent me some great questions! &I can't wait to get to all of them :) I am thinking that some of them might need their own post. So I will get to working on that. Until then, keep asking away!
So I have been HORRIBLE at posting my 30 for 30... I am bad bad bad. I feel like every post I have done for my 30 for 30 has always had an apology attached to it, not cool. So I am going to try my best to finish posting the rest of them! (Sorry Nana!) --- Yeah you read that right, my Nana loves my 30 for 30 posts and is wondering why she hasn't seen any of them for so long. So I have to make it up to her!
Life Should Be a Party....
+ Spending the weekend with my parents :) I love when I get to see them!
+ Making new friends, sounds cheesy but some of the people I am working with are a hoot! Shout out BROOKE! :)
+ Finding a yummy pizza place! Like Trevor and I need anymore good pizza places.... Pizza will be the death of us. If we ever going missing for a couple of days, come check our apartment to make sure we are not in a Pizza Coma.
+ Going to the Pratt Family Reunion and learning so much about my heritage. I love love love genealogy!
+ Feeling like I can finally find my way around Provo without getting lost.... maybe.
+ Having ice cream with some blogger friends, I love when you can finally meet in real life! haha
+ Running into Donny Osmond while at the ice cream store and having your mother go up to him and embarrass the heck out of you! But I am happy she did :) He was of course her idol growing up! haha More on that encounter later...
(If you are not following the guidelines to the posting rules, aka, don't have a button up on your blog, ahem! then I will be deleting you from the list! sorry folks, that is just how the cookie crumbles!)
P.S. My $100 Sephora Giftcard Giveaway has closed, but since it is Monday, &we all need some pick me ups on Mondays, I will be letting any of you who haven't already have ONE LAST quick chance to enter. You have until midnight TODAY! GO!
I know I have been horrible at updating you all on my 30 for 30, but I will try and be better after the next few weeks of traveling are over! If you think this outfit looks too hot for summer, just remember that I am in Canada and will be freezing at night :) haha
So I am off to Canada! In fact by the time this blog posts I will already be in Canada. I can't wait to come home and share my fun month of July with you all. But I wanted to kick off Monday with the things I am celebrating in my life right now! &I can't wait for the rest of the great ladies that will be guest posting to participate in the Life Should be a party Series
So here we go folks....
+ reading a book while laying out on the beach :) the best.
+ staying up late with my parents watching old t.v shows, haha.
+ roller coasters that make my stomach jump! LOVE THAT FEELING :)
+ SLEEPING IN!
+ getting to attend 2 bridal showers for amazing friends, and a bachelorette party! woot woot!
+ sharing amazing indian food, with amazing friends. oh and discovering Sushi Korma, where has this dish been my whole life?! UH-mazing.
+ getting sucked into a great book.
+ finally getting a new prescription! I am going to be able to see next week! :)
+ seeing my husband after not seeing him for 5 days
+ traveling with my mother, sister and nephews :)
Come back this week to meet some of the first bloggers I ever discovered and started reading :) &see all the things they are celebrating in their lives!
Thanks for stopping by! My name is Alycia, and this blog has been such a fun space for me to share everything from the very meaningful, the mundane, and the frivolous stuff that falls inbetween. I guess you could say this is a digital journal of sorts! I believe that life should be enjoyed and celebrated, and invite you to join along in the party! ❤
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