Summer Horchata

It's finally getting hot outside and we all know what that means....well, one of the things that Summer|hot weather means to me is drinking lots of yummy cold Horchata. It's been one of my favorite things I discovered in college, thanks to having a Mexican roommate (Love you Lupita)! If you've never had any, it's basically rice milk with cinnamon and it is quite the treat. You can find it at many Mexican restaurants (type "horchata" into Yelp to find one), meat markets, in powder mix-form (Hispanic aisle of grocery stores) or just make some from scratch (Martha's easy version). 

Thanks to my friend Veronica, here's my new favorite Summer jam:

Yes, they sing about it being "Winter" and "December..." but, it does mention "Horchata" too and the serene beats make me want to have my feet in a pool. It's also over 3 years old, but it's a new Summer jam to me :)

 

Beautiful Messy Instagram

Like many of you, I've been awaiting A Beautiful Mess app (by Elsie + Emma) to use on all my instagram photos. It really didn't disappoint. When I first started playing around with it, I was thinking I wanted to just clear my instagram account, "beautiful-mess" them all up and re-upload! Ha. I won't go to that extreme, but I wanted to share some of my old instagram images, after playing around with my new favorite app. 

Go ahead and get the app here! It's only $0.99, but you'll want to buy a few of the extra features, so get ready to shell out $3 or $5 (it may seem like a lot for an app, but come on people...we all spend $15+ at the dollar bins at Target on USELESS things!) This is worth it. You'll be using it every day if you're like me!

Follow me on instagram as I start using this awesome app!

 

Graduation Saturday

It's that wonderful time of year when all your friends are getting those really expensive sheets of paper and walking across that stage into adulthood and all that jazz. I don't know how many UNT graduations I've sat through by now...I'm thinking these were my 7th and 8th...but, it's still such a happy occasion each and every time! This weekend, I saw my friends Thomas, Veronica, Jared and Crystal make the big plunge into adulthood. So excited for all of their futures!

Way to go Thomas! 

Yah yah yah Veronica!

I took a break in-between the 9:00am and 1:00pm ceremonies and got some pictures with my old roomies: Lupita & Crystal. 

Jared's hat was way awesome!

Wooooooh Crystal (aka: Get Lost in Fiction)!

The Lupita got the camera + decided to have a photo shoot of me. Because I'm a model. I didn't mind. 

And by the way, taking a Vine video, while shooting pictures with a camera is really hard. So, this is all you get!

Welcome to the UNT alumni club! Love you all and I'm so proud to be your friend!

 

Graduación Fiesta

To celebrate the graduation of two of my best girls, Crystal and Veronica, I hosted a super-late-Cinco de Mayo party. Luckily, I found all that great inspiration last week and got to use plenty of the ideas. We thought it was the season finales of both Grey's and Scandal, but it turned out we have another week to go...A nice surprise! While our favorite shows were on, we ate seven-layer dip, fish tacos, pineapples, churro chex and cinnamon donuts. 

Definitely had to use my can-candles for the table. The other decorations were found in the clearance section of Hobby Lobby + the dollar bins at Target. 

I love looking around a room and seeing girls I met way back in the early days of my Freshman and Sophomore years of college. 

It's like I haven't met anyone since 2009...and it's because I don't really need to :)

This party was only the beginning of my weekend. There's a lot more I'll be sharing soon, so keep checking back.

 

Happy Mother's Day

"Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but they hold their hearts forever."

* Our wedding-day was photographed by Lisa Francis Photography in Dallas, TX