Scary Thing About Dating...

So True. -Emily

Emily's Day to Night Outfit

Nicole and I are so excited to continue blogging and we thought it was necessary to do a photo shoot!
For this photo shoot we transformed day time outfits into night time/going out with friends outfits.

Teacher Inspiration

 I paired a mint chiffon collar top (Forever 21 $12) with a polka-dot sweater (Forever 21 $24). Nicole and I found black jeans from Nordstrom that fit like a glove on both of us so I had to put those on for this outfit ($44 but Nordstroms sale took $10 off so $34). For shoes I put on a simple pair of flats from Pay less ($14). OH YA! I forgot my new Ray Ban glasses..I LOVE THEM. They are prescription so I am not sure how much they cost but they pull the outfit together!

Jewelry makes all the difference

To transition into night time I took off the sweater and added a black necklace ($12 with sale from The Daisy Shoppe) and a chuncky black bracelet ($12 from forever 21). For shoes I slipped off my flats and put on some strap-y black wedges by Carlos Santana ($69). To pull the look together I added a black clutch ( an essential to any wardrobe!) which was a present from my mom many Christmases ago.

I need to work on my high fashion poses

Overall our first photo shoot went really well. We even invited a special photographer/model  Samantha Davis who will soon be posting some of her own outfits here as well.

I love this background

AND posing for photos is much harder than it looks. Out of the 200 pictures taken we cut them down to about 15 which were acceptable to post. Hopefully next time we can be a little more successful. Or we can find people who are just naturally photogenic to help us out!

Always remember to have fun with your outfits!

Nicole and I would also like to thanks to Bev Walker owner of The Flower Stand in Laguna Beach. We bought two flowers for a very reasonable price which added a pop of color to our pictures!

The Flower Stand

As Summer Comes to a Close..

WOW! This summer has been filled with it's fair share of ups and downs. I started off with high expectations for the summer hoping that I would:
1. figure out if teaching was what I should pursue
2. decided on what source of income I would continue through this year
3. figure out my love life (yikes!)

Well I did pretty well with coming to conclutions about the first too.

YES I want to be a teacher. So that is a relief. After spending the majiority of the summer as an
intern teacher with Breakthrough San Juan Capistrano (BTSJC) and spending 6 weeks with some of the most amazing kids I realized there is nothing I would rather do then teach math and help high school students learn! I also meet some amazing people through this experience and hope to keep in touch and live some other crazy adventures together.

 

INCOME. That is scary, but through a mentor teacher at Breakthrough I was connected with the San Juan Hills Softball coach and am now coaching JV at the school I will be Student teaching so that is awesome. I will also continue tutoring but have to cut these hours down due to my 4-9 class every Tuesday/Thursday.

LOVE. Yea...That is a funny story which is just depressing and sad BUT I am doing my best to move forward and live life as it comes and try to be myself (See New Relationships Page to come).

OVERALL. This summer was good and bad, BUT my friends have really come to the rescue through all my crap and for that I am so grateful. Without you guys I don't know where I would be! (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE). I want to give a special thank you to the two people who have really been their for me this summer NICOLE and KELSEY.

I look forward to blogging more and seeing what life has in store for me!

Nicole's Day to Night Look

For this post, Emily and I wanted to both take an outfit that we would wear to work and show you how we would jazz it up a bit for going out.  So here is how I turned my Preschool attire into going out for cocktails at night!

I took my simple plain black dress (Target, $19.99) paired it with a light pink cardigan (Forever 21, $12), added a cheetah print scarf (Charolette Russe, $10).  Tan booties (Pac Sun on sale for $6) and a cute Boho bag (Charming Charlies on sale for $7).

For going out, I got rid of the cardigan and scarf.  Added a blingy necklace (Forever 21, $10), tan leather jacket (also Forever 21, $30).  Lastly my Pammy suede wedges from Steve Madden (I splurged on these $99 yikes!) Why I liked this dress for this style was the cutout in the back.  At work it would definitely be inappropriate but the cardigan hides the cutout.  For night, it is a fun flirty way to show some skin.  I love the cutout style that is going on right now!

Vegas Trip!

Last weekend Emily and I went to Vegas! My parent's friends got married, and my kind mother invited us along for a small trip.  Emily is not 21 yet, so we had to get a little bit creative with what we did for entertainment.  We stayed at the Venetian, which is seriously one of the most beautiful hotels I have ever stayed at.  There was a huge shopping mall inside of the hotel, so we of course shopped a little bit.  We found our favorite designers, and dreamed of actually buying something from them.  It didn't come true... haha  So then we hung out by the pool.  Later we got dressed up and had a wonderful dinner at Canaletto.  It was so DELICIOUS! After dinner, we explored and walked the strip.  However, it was so unbelievably hot.  When I say hot, I mean it was still over 100 degrees past 10.  We just enjoyed people watching and the different stores and buildings along the strip.  We only stayed for one night so it was a quick trip.  But we had fun.  Here are some pictures!

Montessori Inspired Cupcakes

I am almost done with my Montessori Training.  It has been almost four long weeks of training, but it has been very enjoyable.  I have absolutely fallen in love with the Montessori philosophy and I am becoming more and more excited about having my own class room some day.  Last week we finished the Math curriculum.  It was a little bit heavy and a lot to take in.  To celebrate its completion, although I do love math and probably could have done another week of it, I made some cupcakes for everyone.  I turned them into the short bead stair. If you have no clue what that is, the short bead stair is work that Maria Montessori developed to help teach the children numbers and how to easily count them.  The one bead is red, the two bead bar is green, the yellow bead bar is pink, and so on.  Here is a picture of a real short bead stair:  

This is my cupcake creation! 

Home Decor Finds!

Yesterday I went to Hobby Lobby with my mom and little sister.  I wasn't expecting to buy too much. When out of no where I turned the corner to two whole aisles with 90% OFF SIGNS!  I almost screamed. I mean, come on, 90% off that is unheard of.  I got some of the cutest things.  Here are picture.  If you live by a Hobby Lobby check it out!
 

For my future coffee bar!  Originally $39.99, on sale for $4!

I am definitely most excited about this picture!  I think it so adorable. Originally $59.99, on sale for $6

This is a little tray that holds random junk, but hey we all have to much stuff, we might as well make it look good.  Tray $3, originally $6.