Life

Hiiiiiiatus :)

- Melody

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It goes without saying that I haven’t blogged in three months. It was unintentional and I really miss it. It’s strange not taking pictures of myself every day. 🙂

It hurts, but this blog is going away for a while, however it is what needs to happen. What I ask of you is to pray. Pray for me. Pray for the lives around me. There is uncertainty and pain and we need the comfort of Jesus.

I love you guys. Thank you for reading my silly outfit posts and commenting. 🙂 I’ll be back, I swear! And you’ll be the first to know when that is.

I held a baby

- Melody

baseball tee: BF Old Navy $5 score, skirt: BF Kohl’s $8 score, boots: F21, necklace: old

Saturday we celebrated Thanksgiving with my family at my cousin’s fancy new house! Woo! The little cousins played football in the backyard, I held a baby, we all ate the greatest food ever, and just enjoyed being together. I could have hung out all.day. Seriously, how did I get born into such a rocking family? I don’t understand it.

So I wore this skirt and a comfy tee to accommodate the copious amounts of food I was to eat. It worked. Plus it was stylish. Right? Sure.

Happy Thanksgiving! (From your favorite procrastinating girl.)

Plaid galaxy + Black Friday stories

- Melody 2 Comments

shirt: my sister’s closet, dress: Target, boots: Urban Outfitters

I love this dress! I remember seeing it before it went on sale and thought it looked like a galaxy and loved it. My sister has really been into space since she took an astronomy class last semester. She’s pulled us all in too!

So did you brave Black Friday? After my horrific experience last year I swore it off forever. However… Jason’s aunts and cousins get really into it and have made shirts! They make a big list with a schedule so they can hit what they want. I was kind of on the fence about it after I had seen Ulta was having some pretty good sales. (Even though most of them are still going on!) I’ve never really wanted anything big like a camera or laptop so I haven’t had to fight for stuff (that’s crazy to do anyway!) but I was still very anxious about it! My sisters and our friend were going and I thought hey, why not?!
After Thanksgiving with Jason’s family that Thursday I drove back to my parents and mentally prepared for the craziness. We got to town about 10:30 and hit Target first. They opened at 9 and my stomach was in knots. I DID.NOT. want another experience like last year. I needed a buddy the entire time in the store but everyone was in a cheerful mood! Even most of the employees! IT WAS SO BIZARRE. Dare I say a pleasant experience. (Though I have friends that had to work it and I don’t think they’d agree!)

Next we went to Ulta since it’s in the same shopping center. Though we had to wait in line for 45 minutes or more to check out everything was well stocked and people were still pleasant. NYX was having buy 1 get 1 50% off and I stocked up. I’m loving their stuff so far!
Next was Kohl’s. That.store.is.HUGE. I kept getting lost trying to find my sister! I picked up a couple of things and then waited in the check out line for probably an hour. CRAZY. I got a dress in store but it didn’t fit so I had to rebuy online because their sale stopped at 1pm! At least I got my size and color! 🙂

Lastly was Old Navy. The mother of Black Friday hell. There was a HUGE line waiting to get in before midnight and then they closed to restock and then reopened. Thankfully we got there after all of that happened at around 3am. EVERYTHING was stocked. I even got the coat I wanted! Woohoo! We still waited in the check out line for forever but it was still fun. 🙂

Since we couldn’t feel our feet we naturally decided to grab drinks and fries (healthy fuel) for the ride home. Watered down Coke never tasted so good…

We got to bed around 7am. Best.night.ever. I’d do it again 🙂

Did you brave it? Was it worth it? Let me know what you got! My stuff will be popping up on the blog in the next week!

x

Crossing things off.

- Melody 6 Comments

One of my fall goals is to take a lot of pictures of the leaves. I’ve never done that before and it was a little harder than I thought. The leaves on campus seem to just be getting to their glamour stage and they’re really showing off. Maybe I’m really blind, but I’ve just noticed the leaves near our home start to change. I made sure to snap a ton while I was outside yesterday before they all off! I just love that rainbow vine I found on our tree in the front yard! How cool is that?!

I’ll be taking the rest of the week off to be thankful for my ridiculously awesome family and wear (very) stretchy leggings.

Happy Thanksgiving! I sure am thankful for all of you. 🙂

xx

The girl who cried cheetah.

- Melody

jacket: stolen from my sister, tee: thrifted, skirt: thrifted, tights: Target, boots: F21

The leaves near our house are finally pretty enough that I want to take pictures of them. Thanks, leaves. When my sister left for college I raided her closet (twice…) and took most of what she left at home. 🙂 This jean jacket was one of the things I snatched! It’s worn in (thanks, Shel) and the perfect shade of denim. Not too dark! Not too light! I guess that’s what “perfect shade” means, eh? 🙂

I am off for the rest of the week from class for Thanksgiving! I mean, classes are still scheduled for today but lucky me I don’t have any! 🙂 Jason is off all week and I’m looking forward to lighting some fires and playing with Pepper.

PS. It’s our anniversary!
PPS. Please pray for my great aunt. She lost her husband this weekend very suddenly and I know she’d appreciate it.

MY SISTER IS LEGAL.

- Melody 2 Comments

Today my sister is 21. She’s been waiting for this day only so she can go to a bar and order a cosmo. (And buy moscato.)

She’s crazy just like me and we’re always on the same wavelength. (Even though it’s mostly a stupid one.) She is beautiful inside and out (cliche, but true) and will forever be a role model for me. I am so incredibly proud of her for moving away to college and living alone, something I could never do. She’s made friends and has become a light of Christ to them. We share the same passions and the same goals and I love talking about how we’re progressing towards those things and seeing how God is lining up our lives. She plays with my dog and does my hair for all of my important events. She documents our lives with her camera so the rest of us don’t have to. (And because she loves it and because she rocks at it.) She makes us all laugh and invented my favorite word, FLARP. If we could have we would have been born twins. It’d really just make this whole thing easier.

So Shel, from me, Jason, Pepper, Little Bit, and Toonces we wish you the happiest of birthdays.

Now go get a cosmo already.