Sac City

Hey loves! I honestly cannot believe it's the end of July already. Seriously though, in a little more than 2 weeks I'm headed back to school. Can't say I'm not beyond excited! These past couple days have been both great and a little heart breaking at the same time. This past Thursday my family and I headed out to California to help move my brother into his very first apartment, as he is attending Sacramento City College this fall. He will be playing on their baseball team which is one of the best baseball programs in the nation. I couldn't be more proud of him and I know Sac City will be a great stepping stone for an even brighter baseball career. I'm hoping he makes it to the bigs so he can set me up with a teammate, who wouldn't want to be a MLB wife?! Haha our trip consisted of a long and painful trip to IKEA, an even more painful day of assembling all the furniture, as well as a day trip to San Francisco! We had a great time at Fisherman's Wharf in San Fran checking out the shops and walking around the boardwalk. There were a few too many birds and an obnoxious amount of people there for my liking but it seemed like something you had to do if you were in the area! Below are some pictures I took that day. Now, it's back to reality and the working world for a couple more weeks!

Do I have any west coast followers?! Or anyone else sending a sibling away for college?

xoxo,

rFe

Lilly planners & coupon codes!

I'm anxiously awaiting the arrival of my Lilly planner! I swear by my planner, it keeps me organized and helps me keep track of all my events for school, sorority, tennis, and work! I love all the options for the Lilly planners this year, it was so hard to pick one! I opted for the Soft Cover Agenda mainly because I'm in love with Multi Floral Punch print :) It's exactly the same as the Large Agenda but it has a plastic cover so it's a little bit lighter in weight - never a bad thing!

I'm also very excited about the sticker packs (I'm such a kid at heart). Now somehow I stumbled upon a coupon code that allowed me to get free shipping whooo! Since this was the first time I've ordered from the Lilly site (surprising but I tend to use Preppy Princess more) I got to use the code "welcome" at the check out. If this isn't your first time ordering from their site, I'd try using a different email and maybe it'll work. The second code I have is "ohshift" which you can type in to get a free keychain! I love saving money almost as much as I love spending it :)

Who's ordered their Lilly planners already?! And which style/print did you get?

xoxo,

rFe

Putting on my big girl panties

Today, I took one step closer in figuring out exactly what I want to do with my life, yay! I decided it was time to give up the dream that I would get my MRS degree and be some lucky man's trophy wife...I know, sad day. Anyhoo, I've always wanted to go to law school but I was never quite sure what kind of law I eventually wanted to practice. At first I was thinking Family Law, I totally saw myself doing divorces and saying "we're gonna sue that son-of-a-bitch for everything he's got" to heartbroken gals. In reality, it's a lot more complicated, messy, and less glamourous than that. But after talking to numerous lawyers, I think I found my calling in the law world...Entertainment Law. Now some of you may ask, what in the hell is that? Well...it's pretty much how it sounds. Entertainment Law focuses on providing legal services to the entertainment industry, whether that be film, music, television, etc. It's right up my alley. There's something about the entertainment industry that I'm just drawn to, and yes I know it's not all glamour there's a lot more that goes into it behind the scenes. I don't know, it's just so intriguing to me and it's always been that way. Going into this type of law would mean I would have to move to a big media city (L.A., New York, NASHVILLE!) Just thinking about it makes me giddy inside! 

And this brings me to my next dilemma. My major is Sociology of Law, Criminology, and Deviance with a minor in Management (the only Business minor non-Business schoolers are allowed to have). I'm not so worried about my major, it's a little too late to change that anyway but I'm wondering if I should I change my minor to something with media? Or is business applicable to everything? I'm not sure, I guess it'll be something to talk to my counselor about but I swear, sometimes my guess is as good as theirs...At least I have a little more direction in life at the moment! It's always a good feeling :)

Already decided this is my future home in Nashville - how cute! (I concern myself sometimes...)

Also, I'd die and go to heaven if I were Luke Bryan's lawyer...I imagine our conversations would go something like this. 

Anyone else slowly but surely figuring out their plans for the future?! I'd love to hear the schools y'all attend and your majors too :)

xoxo,

rFe

Graduation day

Today my younger brother, Ben, graduated from high school! He'll be attending Sacramento City Community College for the next two years to pursue a (hopefully) bright future in baseball. I've already made him promise to hook me up with a MLB hottie if he makes it to the pros haha :) I can't believe he's heading off to college and I'm already half way done with it...scary stuff. It was a great afternoon though, the ceremony was only about an hour and a half so that wasn't too bad. Luckily, it was gorgeous outside too so we got to take some nice family photos.

Ben and I 

He's actually a lot taller than me (8 inches to be exact) - I'm never past his shoulders but I wore heels today :)

The empty nesters and their college kids 

Wise words from Disney - love my family more than anything

Happy Sunday :)

xoxo,

rFe

Monograms

As many of you may already know (and feel the same way!) I'm totally obsessed with all things monogrammed and personalized. One of my favorite websites, Etsy, has made it ridiculously simple and easy to get anything personalized! This week, dWa at Prep In Your Step is doing a fantastic giveaway of this monogrammed necklace from Marinette Jewelry on Esty.

Besides this being a wonderful idea (I might have to do the same once I hit 100 followers!) I decided to dedicate this blog post to my favorite monogrammed and personalized items on Esty :)

These monogrammed, seersucker and gingham headbands are seriously adorable, not to mention perfect for the upcoming summer months! I absolutely love all the fabric choices and customizations you're able to make with the headbands. You can also buy customized bow ties too! The Lilly one is my particular favorite, it takes a certain type of man to pull off wearing Lilly Pulitzer (swooooon). All of these are available by Ellis G. Designs.

These next items are all from Looking 4 Lilly where you will find the cutest Lilly hair accessories. I love love love bows and these are by far my favorite ones I've found so far! The headbands are equally amazing as well.

For all my sorority girls out there, Monogram 4 U is my favorite place to buy personalized items for myself and gifts for others. She makes custom sweatshirts, t-shirts, shorts, bags, and much more using your choice of Lilly Pulitzer and Vera Bradley prints. I'm working on getting Big/Little koozies at the moment :) these are a couple more of my favorites!

Hope you enjoyed my favorites from Etsy and happy Tuesday!

xoxo,

rFe

I waste so much time

So I recently discovered this tumblr site that is absolutely hilarious and I'm a little obsessed with it. This of course happened over finals week when I actually needed to be studying but now that they're over I figured I'd share the site with y'all! It's called That Disney Gif and the description is "because if the Princesses had gone to college, this is how they'd feel too." Disney movies and college - seriously how perfect, I'm just upset I didn't come up with this brilliant idea myself. Here's the link to the site http://thatdisneygif.tumblr.com/ so go check it out! I promise it won't disappoint. I'm including a couple pictures of my personal favorites too :)

When I try to survive finals week, I start out saying: 

but after two days, I'm like:

When I see a pair of Tory Burches on sale:

When people see me before I put my make-up on:

Whenever I talk to my little:

When I walk past a car and my favorite song is playing:

When I got to Starbucks and it was closed:

What my mom says about my dating life:

SO happy that finals are over now! Let me know what you think of this site and send me some of your favs!

xoxo,

rFe