Fashion Friday {Casual Friday}

 

There's a lot of craziness going on the last couple weeks. All the holiday parties, Christmas shopping, family get togethers. It's been pretty nuts over at the Reed house! It's nice that we finally get to slow it down and relax. Watch Christmas movies and drink egg nog. I hope everyone has an amazing Christmas and New Year! Happy Friday everyone!

 

 

Shop My Outfit

Jacket: Windsor

Top: Forever21

High-Waisted jeans: H&M

Purse: Target

Necklace: KKennedy Designs 

Ring: Forever21

Fashion Friday {90's Boho}

I put two trends together for this look. Since I did grow up in the 90's some of those trends are still pretty vivid in my mind. Plus my love for boho fashion. Voila! I just paired this lace top with a sleeveless flowy summer dress and my faux fur vest. I like to pair my summer pieces with fall/winter pieces. I get a lot more use out of the pieces that way. What's your favorite 90's trend?

Happy Friday!

Photo Credit: Andrea Kinnear Photography + Design

Shop My Outfit: 

Top: Forever21 {Similar

Dress: H&M

Necklace: Forever21

Vest: H&M {Similar}

Boots: Urbanog {Shop}

Purse: Target {Shop}

Conversations with a seven year old

I am sadly only a few weeks away from having an eight year old! Closing the chapter on this year and this age. It makes me sad that she's growing so fast and I can't keep up. I know each year comes new challenges yet new adventures. As a mommy you just want to stop time to soak in every second. I love being silly with this little girl. Our regular dance parties, silly voices, and her latest obsession snapchat videos. She's my mini me in every way while still being herself. I love her exactly that way!

Photo credit: Sunny Golden Photography

Mommy: What did you say/?

Riley: I didn't say anything.

Mommy: Oh I thought you said something.

Riley: What did you think I said? Cause I said {whispers} nothing.....

Riley: What song is this?

Mommy: "You and I"

Riley: Who sings it?

Mommy: Lady Gaga

Riley: Who's Lady Gaga?

Mommy: She sings other songs you know. 

Riley: Her first name is Lady?!

{Talking about the election with Daddy}

Mommy: I don't agree with voting for someone just so the other one won't win. 

Riley: I'm not voting for anyone!

{Talking about Minecraft....but I had no clue}

Riley: Steve won so we had to do medium and it was hard. It was my nightmare! {Over dramatically}

Nashville you stole my heart.. {part 1}

So this summer I did a lot of traveling. I guess moving from Hawaii back to the mainland wasn't crazy enough for me. I wanted to add more to my plate. I planned a birthday trip with my friend to Nashville. I like to come up with crazy ideas and love planning them out. A girls weekend in Nashville seemed pretty crazy to throw into the moving mix. It was totally worth it though.

I went before we moved to Hawaii and got hooked. We barely had any time to explore or do touristy type things. This was the perfect opportunity to do just that.

Day 1: First stop was Broadway! We at at Acme Feed & Seed again which was really good. Of course it was pouring rain by the time we left. We ran with everyone to the nearest gift shop to buy umbrellas and ugly plastic cover ups. You know the ones...basically going around Nashville in a trash bag. The rest of the night was going back on forth across broadway. We listened to all the different bands all night, met new people had a blast. We even found the Coyote Ugly bar....nothing like the movie, ....well maybe a little. It could've used some more Piper Perabo. 

Day 2: Went to the Johnny Cash museum again. I had to show Amber she's a Johnny Cash fun. I think it's a pretty fun museum. Last time I went though they had a separate room to watch old concert/tour footage. They took it out and replaced it with a green screen and a photo op with "Johnny Cash". I like the concert footage better the idea of posing with Johnny Cash was a little creepy. Then across the street to the GOO GOO shop which we didn't get to go to last time. However it was where Kim Kardashian was parked last time so maybe that's why. She was in the way of the chocolatey goodness! Then we had lunch at Merchants Restaurant. That place is really awesome loved all the black and white. All the bartenders had beards and mustaches it was great!

Fashion Friday {Tartan Leopard}

I'm so excited to have Fashion Friday back! I have to admit living in Hawaii left me with no motivation. Especially in the fall/winter when it's still hot. I missed the sweaters and the boots!

Now that we are mostly settled in our new home in Georgia I wanted to get back at it! 

When I saw this tartan plaid poncho I fell in love. I didn't buy it the first time I saw it. But you know it's love when you go back home and can't stop thinking about it. It reminded me of my recent trip to Scotland {blog post coming soon}. It even reminded me of my favorite show Outlander. I imagined all the different outfits I could make with it. How cozy and warm it would make me in the cold weather. How great it would be to snuggle up with it and enjoy a cup of hot chocolate or my new favorite vanilla chai tea. Yes! I was having a love affair with this poncho and I hadn't even bought it yet. So I raced back to the mall and snatched it up. We've been living blissfully together ever since. 

So I will formally introduce you!

Everyone meet my cozy new tartan plaid poncho!

........also on a side note. I learned my lesson with the poncho and snatched up this purse when I was at Target. It was randomly just hanging where it didn't belong. I walked right up to it checked the price and ..."HALLELUJAH" it was drastically marked down on clearance. I got that bad boy for $10! It was meant to be!  What are you loving this season?

Happy Friday everyone!

Photo credit: Andrea Kinnear Photography + Design

Shop My Outfit:

Tartan Plaid Poncho: Forever21 {SIMILAR}

Boots: Urbanog {SIMILAR}

Purse: Target

Dress: Forever21

Necklace: Charlotte Russe

Personal Post

 

Today is an important day for me. Today is the anniversary of my Thyroidectomy. 

Sometimes I forget that I'm a cancer survivor. Mainly because I didn't have an intense battle like most people have. I was lucky! Some people are not. I still dealt with the same fears as all people do when faced with this diagnosis. My ears went deaf when the Dr gave me the news. The world still went into a haze for me. I still entertained thoughts of leaving my husband and my 9-month old baby girl behind. That's not something a 22-year old young mom should have to think about. It was a scary month from diagnosis to surgery. Then the aftermath thinking I may not get my {singing} voice back. I felt like that was it. This was going to be my end. Nothing makes you really grow up fast then the things I dealt with in my early twenties. 

 I'm so thankful God brought me out of that as if it never happened. All that is left is the scar on my neck and bottle of pills in my drawer to remind me. It definitely changed my outlook on life. It changed everything about me. 

Cancer sucks! It's a horrible disease that has taken too many people. Everyone I know has been affected by cancer in some way. I've known too many who didn't survive. 

I hope that it doesn't take something like this to change your life for the better. You can change your life now. You never know when it's your last day here.

One year.

Today marks one year since my dad suddenly passed away.

I thought I would share this story for the anniversary.

I just recently went to Nashville with my friend to celebrate her upcoming birthday. 

One of the tours we went on was the RCA studio b tour. If you are a music lover this is an awesome tour. I grew up in a radio family so this was right up my alley. We heard some cool behind the scenes stories of Dolly Parton, The Everly brothers etc. I was getting a little emotional already because it was something my dad would've liked. I almost felt him beside me telling me interesting facts that the tour guide probably didn't even know. 

The tour guide took us back to the recording studio and started telling us stories of Elvis Presley. One interesting thing was how he liked the lighting while he recorded. He liked to feel the music. So while recording "Are you lonesome tonight" it was pitch black {picture above}. 

While the lights were still off he started to talk about his love of gospel music. Elvis loved to rehearse with gospel music. He was nominated for 18 Grammys but only won three Grammys all for his gospel records. The tour guide then proceeded to play us one of the records. I felt the moment before it happened. Something was coming.

"How great thou art" started blaring from the overhead speakers. I completely lost it at the point. In the dark with a bunch of strangers. 

Some of you may not know. How great thou art was my dads favorite gospel song. In the hospital when we had to shut the machines off that we're keeping him alive. We all gathered around his bed and sang that song one last time for him.

I couldn't believe out of all of the songs they played that one and right in time for the one year anniversary. It was an incredible and emotional moment during my trip that I will never forget. 

I love you daddy!