Is everyone else as ready for the weekend as me? I swear the work week gets longer every week and I can never be satisfied with sleep. I think humans should hibernate. I'm boycotting this whole work and being social thing until the weather decides to be reasonable. Sounds fair, right?

 

Hello Dears!

I'm over at Flock Together today sharing my take on this lovely vintage polka-dot dress of Hannah's. Come check it out!

P.S. Thanks for all the sweet birthday wishes for Ethan on my last post :)

UPDATE : I'm being featured as Pretty Of The Week over at Get Your Pretty On! Thanks Alison!! :)

(also linking to WIWW and Rolled Up Pretty)

As I mentioned on Friday, my dear Hubby's birthday was Saturday. He turned 23 on the 23rd! (I hadn't heard this until just barely but apparently when you turn the age of the day of the month you were born on it's your "Golden Birthday" -supposedly your best birthday ever)

Anyway, since I didn't really have anything ready to post today and because I think my man is pretty cute and he doesn't make it on the blog enough, I decided I'd share some photos from his big day!

I made this card for him. I like to hand-make my cards, but they seem to always be for girls... I think I did a pretty good job making it look manly? P.S. - I'm so clever, I folded up a $20 bill like a shirt for him to use towards a band tee at the concert!

We had Lunch/Dinner at one of Ethan's favorite local restaurants, Chubby's. They have some pretty cute decor, but we found this sign kind of funny (and racist...). I got my usual, a fresh-made veggie burger and he got some meat with more meat on top like he loves to do :) (blech!)

Next we stopped for Coffee on the way to the concert since we had some time to kill. I had an amazing caramel pecan latte! But I forgot that I had a Pepsi at the restaurant just before that...caffeine overload!!

I thought this building was pretty cool. We saw it on our walk from the car to the concert venue. I wish we had time to take pics in front of it!

And then Ethan's favorite part of the night that really made it his best birthday yet:

He was already pretty stoked that one of his favorite bands, 10 years, was playing on his birthday but then he got a chance to meet the lead singer, Jesse Hasek after the show and get his new t-shirt signed and that REALLY made his night!! It was a really good show and I love this venue because it's smaller so you get such an intimate performance.

And since this is a style blog...here's what I wore to the concert:

I tried to keep it simple and wear a few layers since it was a blizzard that night and we had to wait outside for quite a bit before the concert started.

Outfit Details:

Jeans - Forever Young

Top - Papaya

Chambray Top - H&M

Leather Jacket - T.J. Maxx

 

 

My lovely little sister gave this cute deer sweater to me. I was swooning over it while sitting in her room one day and she surprised me by telling me I could have it since she didn't wear it enough. I LOVE it! It's a couple sizes too big so I'll probably have it taken in when I get around to it.. but for now it's over-sized and comfy :)

So funny story, a couple weeks ago when we took these photos, we decided to drive up the canyon a little ways just as the sun was coming down. We pulled into a snow-covered parking lot, took some photos and then got back into the car to go, but the car wouldn't budge. The tires just kept spinning and spinning and it was FREEZING cold! Ethan got out and tried pushing and even shoveling the snow out from under the tires with the ice scraper but we didn't get much further. We got kind of worried since we had no cell service in the canyon and there hadn't been any cars passing by but a few minutes later a nice man saw our hazard lights and stopped to help us. With the two guys pushing and me pumping the gas peddle we finally made it out! It was kinda scary though! No more snowy adventures for my little car!

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It's not just this sweater I love, I'm obsessing over all things animals right now. (especially foxes) so I'm linking up to Falling for Friday with a few picks from Etsy (mostly jewelry). My mom would love that little sea turtle necklace!

(also linking to Casual Friday @ Two Thirty-Five Designs)

I can't believe it's already hump day again! This week is speeding by with that long weekend! Which is fine with me, except Ethan's birthday is this weekend and I don't have his present yet... better get on that pronto!

So, we took these photos this morning and I edited them lightning speed (can you tell?) because I really wanted to do the black & white trend challenge over at Marionberry Style. I've actually been wanting to join in the monthly trends for a while but I always miss her announcement. I had my mom take some photos on my lunch break yesterday but the lighting ended up being weird and then I decided I didn't really like what I was wearing...so here's take two!

(Oh, and I closed my eyes in like 75% of the pics so some of the "better" ones look like this ^)

I just found this darling striped cardigan on sale at the Downeast outlet store in Park City over the weekend. I love that it has the crocheted lace on it so it adds some girliness to the stripes trend. Plus, it was on sale so....I had to have it! Right? Unfortunately all they had left was an assortment of XXS and XL. I've always found their clothing to run a little big so I took a chance and tried the XXS and what do you know! It fits perfectly!! 

In case you were wondering we had an awesome Valentine's weekend. We spent the day Saturday snow tubing at Gorgonza park followed by some shopping in Park City and then finished the night with a romantic dinner at the Melting Pot (a fancy fondue restaurant) where we enjoyed some AMAZING cheeses whipped up right before our eyes. It was pretty awesome :)

Drumroll please.........

(cuz this is a pretty big deal)

My FIRST successful jump shot!! That's right! I'm pretty proud...

This ^^ is my "It's so cold out here and I don't know how I feel about that" pose.

Well, Happy Monday! Did you all watch the Grammy's last night? I could go off on a tangent about how weird it was to see FUN. performing and winning awards and how it made me remorseful for the end of The Format and Nate Ruess' incredible potential, but alas, I won't bore you with that.

>>P.S. If you haven't entered my Firmoo Giveaway yet today is the last day!!<<?