Puppy!!

Hello all! I have some exciting news! First of all, Fancy and I finally ordered our Save The Dates! I'm super excited and I really cannot wait to get them! They're super cute- nice and simple. I really didn't want to spend a whole ton of money on the save the dates (I'd rather spend more on the invitations themselves!). I did a ton of research and found a style that he and I could agree on and ordered a 100 of them for $133.00, shipping and handling put it just over my cap of $150.00 to $151 and change, something I could live with.

This is the template from the website (Davids Bridal) but this is it! I can't wait to get them!!!


Next up, another bit of exciting news! We got our puppy this weekend!!! So ladies and gentlemen... I would like to introduce to you... Jax!

He is 4 months old and is a purebred Shetland Sheepdog and he is an absolute joy. I was actually really worried about my other two dogs and how they would react to the new pup mainly because my oldest, Sulley, was depressed for 4 days after I brought home Brinkley. It about broke my heart. But thankfully they love him! Brinkley tried to get him to play yesterday but Jax was still getting used to his new home and wasn't much in the playing mood. However, today was a different story! Jax played with Brinkley and many times instigated the play!

His favorite spot is under my coffee table. I'll allow it.... because he looks so cute under it. So here is my family

These are my guys and I love them all =]


Now onto nails! (LOL) My Orly mani didn't really last as long as I was hoping but it sure looked pretty- it was a BEAST to get off though! The color came off pretty easily but getting the glitter off was ridiculous. I was actually surprised with how much I had to scrub. I let my nails breathe for a couple days and decided to do my nails today. I went through my Box-O-Polish not really sure what color I wanted to do and came across one of my finger paints bottles that I'd bought a while ago. I hadn't used any of my Finger Paints polishes yet so I decided to try it. It's a really pretty silver polish called "Easel Come, Easel Go!". It went on really smooth and was really easy to control which was good because I broke the nail on my left index finger down pretty low yesterday. The silver looked really nice but I was in a crackle mood so I put my gray crackle over it. I used China Glaze "Cracked Concrete".

Here's my combo! And I, stupidly, did not take a picture of my nails just with the silver on >_< (sorry!) But here's it together

I really hate the lights in my apartment! They all seem to have a golden glow and it's terrible for picture taking but I always tend to do my nails at night so I guess this will have to do. I like the Finger Paints polishes a lot, they dry really quickly and I probably could have gotten away with one coat of the silver, honestly.


Still no go on my order from Amazon.... I paid 6 bucks for shipping!! Hopefully it will be in my mailbox tomorrow *fingers crossed*. Well I have some sleepy pups looking at me so I'm going to call it a night! Until next time =]

All about polish!

In my last blog I wrote about the red L.A. Girl crackle and Revlon's Pure Pearl.

Well I tried this combination out and let me say I was pleasantly surprised with it! Especially the L.A. Girl red crackle. You ever get a red polish but when you put it on it's more pink than red? That drives me crazy! So I was pretty nervous about my red polish but I am happy to report that it turned out RED!

Check it out! Love how it cracked too! On the bright side, because I used the pearl color as a base, when it started to chip it was harder to tell! So I was able to wear it longer than usual.

Last week Walgreens had a pretty good deal on their Wet n Wild nail polish (99 cents!!), so I picked up a couple... +2 (haha). (From left to right) Sally Hansen "Pumpkin Spice" (LOVED this one! Has a black tint and lots of orange sparkles. Perfect for Halloween!), Wet n Wild "Hannah Pinktana", Essie "Trophy Wife" (from pictures I thought this was going to be more blue but it looks more like sea foam green, but it's pretty!) and Wet n Wild "Blue Wants To Be A Millionaire" (originally I found the Wet n Wild Blue just by itself but then I came across it paired with a clear for .99(!) and in my opinion you can never have too much clear!


I've been reading about a brand called Kleancolor. I've read that it's a good brand so I ordered a pack from Amazon.

I am getting all six bottles for 12.95 (I found them from a place that had free shipping!!) I can't WAIT for them to get here! They were shipped yesterday and Amazon says the earliest I can get them is tomorrow.... keeping my fingers crossed!!

An Amazing Few Days

Sorry I've been MIA this past week, I have good excuses though! This post is probably going to be a bit on the looong side. Let's jump right in! I had this past week off (it was SO nice!) I didn't realize how badly I needed to just get away from work. This vacation really put me in an all around better mood. So Tuesday my good friend Liz and I went to Brandon to hang out. I wasn't really looking for anything other than maybe to check out what nail polishes Forever 21 had. Oh yeah, and maybe a dress because Wednesday Fancy and I were going to have a date night (but I'll get to that later on).

I successfully found some pretty polishes! L.A. Girl Cracked (bottle doesn't have a name but on the website it's called "Blast"), I was really excited about the L.A. Girl polish because it's the crackle polish! The Revlon polish I found outside of the mall in "Pure Pearl", love & beauty (from Forever21) in "Blue", and love & beauty (from Forever21) in "Purple". I think I'm going to use the red and the white together first. I'm really excited to see how the Cracked polish will look. I'm trying to get one of every "crackle" type polish out there to try it and find the best one.

I found a super cute dress from Hollister (and it was ON SALE. It was a $50 dress and I got it for around $15). Originally I thought it would look really cute with a pair of white strappy sandals but then I thought well maybe a pair of white tennis shoes (like the kind the Baby wore in Dirty Dancing). In the Brandon mall there is a newer store called "Cotton On". It's this super cool store with really cute clothes that are paired with affordable prices(!). It was at this store that I found my "Baby" shoes.

I love these! They're perfect for my dress! I was very excited with my small purchases and I was even more excited for Wednesday! I had to keep myself busy on Wednesday because while I had it off Fancy had to work. Luckily the day went by fast because I hung out with my MOH and future sister-in-law, Leah. Fancy really stressed that I be ready when he got to the house so we could leave immediately. I made sure I was ready, even watched for his car out the peephole. When he got the the house he had to go inside for a minute (go figure). We made great time getting to the restaurant (since we made such good time we stopped at ABC to get some champagne, I didn't really think anything of this, just thought it was for when we got home), we went to this place called Trolley's.

It was this little place tucked away in the Embassy Suites Hotel in downtown Tampa. The food was very tasty and reasonably priced. During dinner Fancy left (he said to use the restroom) and he was gone for a while! I was getting worried and texted him to make sure he was ok (making sure he didn't fall in! Haha). When he got back and we were done with dinner, he wanted to explore the hotel. So we wandered around, Fancy wanted to show me the view so we took the elevator to the 16th floor... which I thought was weird because there were 18 floors. Why not just go all the way up? We stop in one of the hallways and my man pulls out a room key!! He rented a room for the night so we could stay and enjoy some time alone together (sans puppies). I was SO excited! But of course I'm like "I didn't bring any clothes!!" But I should have known, he had packed a bag for us the night before (complete with bathing suits!) and the reason he went into the apartment before we left was to pack the bathroom bag really quick.

Here is the front room

This was the hall leading to the bedroom complete with mini fridge! Remember that champagne we stopped for? Yeah, he put it in the fridge (which was why he was gone for so long at dinner! He had to get the car from valet and put everything in the room!)

The KING size bed! This bed was enormous and very comfy!!

More of the bedroom! It was so big!

At dinner this couple got this amazing looking chocolate cake and I really wanted some but I was SO full! So around 10:30 I looked at Fancy and said "I want chocolate!" He says "Maybe if you think about it really hard, you'll get some!" So to humor him, this is what I did. Then, out of nowhere, there's a knock on the front door! Justin goes and brings me back this piece of cake all the while saying "You are good! How'd you do that?!" Haha! He had set up room service to bring cake at 10:30!! It just so happened that that was the time I got a craving for chocolate!! I LOVED this whole experience, it was just amazing. I feel really lucky to have found such an amazing man.


Thursday was going to be a crazy day because in the afternoon we were leaving on a road trip to Indiana! We were going to the USF v. Notre Dame football game!!

Go Bulls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Indiana has a LOT of corn fields!

Fancy and I in front of "Touchdown Jesus" (yes it's really called this) on campus. Their campus was huge and really beautiful!

It was an awesome game! We won (after 6 hours because of the rain delays) 23-20! GO BULLS! This was a once in a lifetime experience. Who knows when they'll play each other again (if ever)!