a halloween letter from tina

Hello everyone!!

I just wanted to share with you a little bit about my Halloween experiences.

Last year mom and dad dressed me up as rooster. I was not a fan of the idea. It was impossible to walk in! Going backwards was the easiest. When I attempted to walk forward, I felt as though I needed to be low to the ground and walk at an angle. They kept laughing at me, but I was certainly not amused. This year I put my foot down. NO COSTUMES! If they want to humiliate an animal, it's Zoey's turn or Jack even! Jack probably wouldn't mind. And Zoey, where was her initiation into the family?!

Anyway, I just wanted to wish you all a Happy Halloween!!

xoxo Tina (or princess tina if you prefer)

happy halloween weekend

My intention today was to do an outfit post. I wore a new blazer and I wanted to show it to you all. BUT as you can see, that is not what happened.

Here is the story - Jason is working and he won't be home until about 8pm. By that time, it will be too dark to take shots outside. You might be wondering, why not just try out self shots again? Well I tried that and the truth is it failed horribly. I did not like anything.

As a result, a tripod was immediately added to my Christmas list! haha

Instead, in light of this weekends holiday, I decided to share some of my autumn decor with you. I like adding small and simple decorations throughout the house; I fell like it makes the season come even more alive. I enjoy decorating for the holidays and each year I add a few more things to my collection.

Jason is working all weekend, so we won't be doing anything special for Halloween. But I am hoping that we will get some trick or treaters so I can see all the cute little costumes :)

Are you doing anything for the holiday??

Have a Happy and Safe Halloween!!

its a love hate relationship

This photo pretty much sums up how Tina and Zoey's relationship started out. Tina was not a fan of our new addition.

Over the last few weeks, Tina has been coming around. One minute they might be fighting, but then they will be sleeping together the next minute.

Tina is for sure the queen of the house. She is also super sweet too. We are not sure of her exact age, but we are saying she is five years old and her birthday is....okay we haven't decided that yet. (we adopted her when she was a few years old)

Zoey is getting so big! She has grown quite a bit in the last few weeks, she now weighs in at 2lbs 14oz. If you look closely you might notice that she has a bit of a cross eye. lol Her nickname has become Little One, which we find ourselves calling her that more than Zoey.

black, white and read all over

varga cardigan, f21 leggings, banana republic top, betsey johnson belt, bakers boots

Have you heard this riddle before? - What's black, white and read all over?

It kinda doesn't work when you type it out because it gives away the answer. Oh well....(the answer is: a newspaper)

I was thinking today how awesome the blog world is.

You may have noticed in the right hand column of my blog, I have a world readers box. I love this feature because it allows me to see who from around the world reads my blog. Today, I got my first reader from Indonesia. I also recently got readers from Ukraine and Malta. How cool is that?!

Besides blogging, I can't think of any other way for me to connect to people across the world. Blogging has shown me how big, yet also how small the world really is. There are people all over the world that are interested in the same things I am. It blows my mind sometimes to think that so many people, that I don't personally know, care about my life. It's really touching actually. I love feeling connected like this.

So thank you, to all my international readers!!

I have also felt great connections with some of my fellow bloggers here in the United States. I have found a few that I would call my BBF's (blog best friends). If only we lived in the same place, we would totally hang out all the time :)

we're not in kansas anymore

This is what I came home to today.

Our poor little harvest man was blown off his hay bale by the forceful winds. I knew right away this meant the weather was serious.

I had been hearing all day on the radio about severe storms that were headed our way. Yesterday a tornado touched down pretty close to our house and the threat of another tornado makes me pretty nervous.

As I am typing this, the television has been taken over by weather reports. Another tornado touched down tonight near our house and caused a 7 car crash and shut down a highway.

Don't get me wrong, I love thunder storms. But natural disasters? Not so much. This is a little too much for me.

When it rains, it pounds the ground. It has been raining on and off since about 3pm. I took some photos at my house when the rain first started. And then when there was a break in the rain, I went outside to take some shots of the "damage." So far we have been lucky that it isn't bad.

All evening an emergency plan has been running through my head. I would grab that cats and Jack and head to the laundry room That is the most central area of our house that is a smaller room. Also there are no windows and none of the walls are shared as outside walls.

Jack is not a fan of the rain. He doesn't like to go out into the yard when it's wet and muddy.

One good thing about the weather, I got to wear my new Marc Jacobs rain boots!