The has been one of my favorite "go to" casual outfits. I bought the jeans (which have awesome zippers on the sides) at Forever 21 for around $20 and the shirt around the same. 

The boots I borrowed from my sister Maddy along with the kaki green military jacket.

I have been a proud supporter of the top knot lately. I have been cheating and using a rolled sock with the toe cut off to make my bun fuller. I tucked my hair over the sock and under my ponytail and wa-lah!
 
Its so fun visiting family...its also fun to triple your wardrobe by borrowing all your sisters clothes! 

For our boat extravaganza I took a dive in my sister Maddy's closet. 

I wore her floral skirt, polka dot button down (and tied) shirt and  red orange cardigan with black sandals.
 
I am featuring my hottie in this Christmas post.

We went out of the boat when we were visiting my parents in Texas.

He was wearing his turquoise Volcom sweater, grey straight jeans and, you can't see them but, grey and black DC shoes.
 

I was so excited about this patriotic tank.

I found this "America, 50 states of Awesome" tank [left] at Old Navy on sale for $10.00

I saved it for fourth of July but honestly, I would wear it on any causal day of the week.

I love America!

I paired with my jean button down, skinny jeans and red Keds.

Happy late 4rth everybody, God Bless!
 
I was having a hard time deciding which of my pages to post this on. I decided TWO; thats right if you saw this on my "My Nest" page too you are not going crazy.

Alright so this is a little unorthodox for this page because its baby fashion instead of women's fashion but it is just too darn cute. I recently bought this outfit for my best friend, Bri, who is pregnant with her first. 

She loves Def Leppard, actually they are her favorite band. I couldn't help myself when I found this onsie so I splurged at go it for $25 from Amazon (including shipping). 

I lucked out and found these adorable tan pants at Old Navy for $5.00 and these Van-look-a-likes at Walmart for $5 as well. 

Add it all together and you get one stud-ly 80s Rocker baby
 
Bringing out an older picture today for some causal outfit inspiration!

This picture is from a photo session with my sister TyRee that we did for fun. I wore my hot pink plaid collared button down with my MissMe jeans. 

I'm a little spoiled by my sweet husband; he bought me the fancy jeans! Such a sweetheart. 

Getting back on track...

For my hair, I took advantage of my wild bed head hair waves. I added a couple extra curls as needed with my straightener and then bobby pinned my bangs into a large poof.
 
We had to go to UVU campus today to register Jake for classes starting the 24th...of June. We are slow.

Yay, Jake! He is making the leap of faith to go back to school after being out for 4 years! So proud of him!

Anyways, the outing gave me the chance to wear some non-professional clothing. What does that mean? JEANS! 

I could live in jeans.

I broke out my brand new birthday jeans (my birthday was the 5th) that I bought for $20.00 at Maurices. 

They are awesome. 

The are stretch to fit meaning, you buy them snug and they stretch to fit.

I know how this sounds and I was skeptical at first too but they are so comfy! AND in a pant size smaller than I have been wearing! Woot! Woot!
 
For church today I decided to go a little retro. 

I bought this geometric patterned skirt at Forever 21 about a year ago. I am also wearing a second skirt underneath because it is not long enough for my liking.

I got a bonus because the brown belt came with the skirt. Woot! woot!

I got my jean shirt from Burlington Coat Factory for $10.00

My shoes I bought for $25. I should have bought more than one pair because I they go with everything!

I am wearing the poor suckers out.

Below are the earrings I wore; I picked them up traveling Italy.
 
I love the way this bun is so messy and unkept but still out of your way. Perfect.

Heres how to do it.

1. Make a low ponytail.
2. Grab a small, finger sized piece of hair from the top of your pony. 
    Loop it up, over and under your hair tie.
3. Continue to take small pieces and tucking them similarly back into your hair tie. 
    Do this until you have all/almost all of your hair back into a "bun."

You can make this look as messy or as neat as you want. 
When my hair is longer I can make it look really neat for a more formal style. 
 
I bought this fedora some time ago when they were everywhere in stores.

Its an instant chick-transformation! I honesty feel ten times cooler when I throw this bad boy on.
Love it.

So if you're feeling like shaking up your casual look grab yourself a fedora and rock it! 

Outfit basics; 

1. Fedora
2. Grey loose shirt
3. Black bottoms
4. Long chain necklace