LOVE YOU MOM!

What would I do without you? You have been there for me every time I called your name & every time I needed help. You've been there for me through thick and thin. You've seen me at my very worst and yet you still love me. Mom you are the most amazing person I know. You've been my role model not only as what a great mom and wife should look like, but in so many other ways as well. Your sweet, generous, kind, thoughtful, caring, & godly.

You've been there for every soccer & softball game, dance, piano, & voice recitals, & all my horse lessons, always cheering me on the whole way. Ever since I can remember you've always made my birthday parties so memorable and special. You've always set aside time in your schedule to make sure I had "play dates" with my friends or sleepovers! All you've ever wanted for me was to be happy. 

I can still remember the time when we would watch I Love Lucy during our lunch break. I believe I was six or seven at the time, and lunch break was my favorite part of the day! And on special occasions we would devour a big bowl of chocolate mint n'chip ice cream. Or the days we would hop in the car and pile in our lunch box with a few towels and hang out there until the sun went down! Sweet childhood memories are my favorite.

Your love and support through my life has been incredible. Thank you for all you do and all of your time. I hope you have a wonderful day this Mother's Day! Love you. "A Mother is she who can take the place of others, but whose place no one else can take."

No Sleep Till Brooklyn

 Now that summer is four weeks away, I always run around like a chicken with it's head cut off-ha! School becomes 10 tines more stressful and I get overwhelmed so easily. Finals are my worst nightmare and my junior year has had more subjects than I've ever experienced before. I'm trying to stay focused even though I have to constantly tell myself to breath and relax. With that said, I'm so happy I was able to get a photo shoot done considering my schedule! I think this photo shoot has been my favorite so far. I literally took ten minutes to take the photos I had in mind. I love trying new poses, although for me it can be hard to do because I always have my go-to poses, but I loved changing things up a bit! 

This last weekend my parents came home and It was so nice! Sometimes you don't realize how much you miss someone until your reunited with them again; and that's exactly how I felt. Saturday night my mom and I were able to sit down and have a long deep conversation over coffee. Something I love doing with my mom, but haven't done in a while because of them living in LA for the remainder of my dad's treatment. My mom and I are so tight, and I love being able to open up and talk about anything! It's something that's hard to do over a phone call, so spending time in a little coffee shop was exactly what I have been longing for. I don't know what it is, but if you talk to me in a large group you'll barely get thirty words out of me, but take me to a coffee shop I'll tell you my life story!

$45 Gift Card to Starfish & the Sea!

I am so excited to announce that we are giving away $45 credit to a beautiful druzy jewelry Etsy shop! Alex and I have gathered so many wonderful bloggers to team up with us as well for this giveaway! So thank you gals, we couldn't have done with without you! Starfish and the Sea is a true gem, and so is their jewelry. Alex and I have been in love with druzy jewelry lately and this shop is exactly what we have had our eye on! I promise you that even if you don't win this giveaway, you will want to spend your money on her necklaces!!

Meet the Girls:

Alex from Into the Woods

Jenna from A Beautiful Heart

Sandra & Evelina from The Hearabouts

Amy from Amy Flying a Kite

Paige & Alex from Whimsy Darling

Ariel from Auteur Ariel

One lucky winner will receive a $45 credit to Starfish and the Sea. All you have to do, is follow us gals down below through the Rafflecopter! This giveaway ends May 18th, and we will announce the winner a few days after the giveaway ends! If you happen to win we want to remind you that you only have 48 hours to respond to our email! Comment down below and let us know which piece of jewelry is your favorite and why you would like to win! Good luck. 

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Times of Change

Change is something I have never liked. Never known how to deal with it, and actually I'm still trying to figure out how to coop with it. I guess it's because I get too comfortable in one place and area in my life that change seems so extreme and too much of a difference than what I'm use to. This year though I have experienced to much change, and I feel my life is only full of change.

Thirteen years ago my dad was diagnosed with a brain tumor that was sitting on his optic nerve. I was only four years old at the time and I don't remember anything about it. Anything I've heard has only been full of past memories and experiences but it has never had an affect on me. Mostly, because for one I was too little, & two my dad was able to have radiation which helped kill the tumor making it not active and dead. They always had to keep an eye on it, but they guaranteed that the radiation would last for about 10 years. Well just a few months ago my dad had his yearly check-in appointments with his doctor and MRI scans, and we found out that my dad's tumor is growing and is now active. So my dad is going to have to do another round of radiation treatment which is going to be very hard on his body and brain because he's already had a full dose of it ten years ago! We also received more bad news, that they have found a second tumor near his brain stem. We weren't prepared for this at all and the radiation is going to be much harder and stronger! 

My dad's treatment is going to last for the next six weeks and he actually started two weeks ago. So we have just begun this new course, well sorta. We decided to use UCLA for our hospital because they have the best technology and trained doctors. From where we live now the drive is about two hours without traffic one way. So commuting isn't an option. Thankfully we have been provided with an apartment out in LA for the next six weeks, that way it's easier and literally three blocks away from our apartment. This whole new change has been hard and isn't going to be short. Plus I know how awful my dad is going to feel because of his treatment, and I can already tell & we are only ten days into the 28 days total we have!

Because I still have classes my sister and I aren't going to be able to stay in LA with my parents, so we are going to be staying with my grandparents until my dad's treatment ends. Right now my emotions are all over the place, and things have been rough! I'm not looking forward to the next few weeks of just being away from my family, and comfort zones. I just cannot wait until this is all over and done with!

This new chapter is going to be completely out of my comfort zone and a little challenging. Hence the fact that my blogging has been put on pause or just slower than normal! I haven't been in the mood to blog lately because of how I've been feeling & I didn't feel up to taking outfit posts because it would only be full of fake smiles and forcing laughter. I have no idea why this is happening but I know God has everything in control. I truly believe God does his best work during trials and I'm holding on to the fact that he is going to show us something good out of this. I just have to be patient and wait for God's timing, which is anything but easy but I know that it will be worth it. Psalms 119:50 states "My comfort in my suffering is this: Your promise preserves my life."