Snow, snow, go away

Well.  Just got dug out from 8-10 inches of fresh snow.  I swear you guys.  I said it yesterday, I choose to live in a cold, snowy state, but seriously.  Adding insult to injury - it had rained before it snowed, so my car was not only full of snow this morning but it also had a nice sheen of ice on it too.  And the locks were frozen.  Sweet.  I had been sent home from work early yesterday, but knew my boss would be gone today and hadn't approved us coming in late or working from home, so I really needed to get out.  Pants Monkey to the rescue - he helped bust open my car and shoveled me out of the driveway.  He's my hero.

I saw so many stupid people this morning.  Yep.  I am not mincing words here - they seriously were just being stupid.  I was cut off by a guy in a big F150 style truck who DID NOT CLEAN OFF HIS WINDSHIELD.  Big pet peeve - it's so dangerous to do that.  I honked at him of course.  He proceeded to drive like an idiot and I thankfully lost him about a block from my parents house.  I also avoided a near miss with TWO trucks with plows that were doing people's driveways and backing up without looking behind them.  Sigh.  You stay classy Minnesota.

Sweater - Mossimo, Target

Jeans - Gap, thrifted

Hat and scarf - Target

Bag - Coach via Poshmark 

So anyway, I made it to my parents house in one piece, fed my child, got back out the door and was only about ten minutes late to work.  It could be worse.  And now it's cold again - but it's Friday, so a good excuse to wear a hat and cover up my shaggy horrible hair.  It most definitely will be getting chopped later today so it's all clean for Oliver's baptism this weekend.  I'm also relieved the storm hit yesterday and not Saturday into Sunday - that would have been worse!  I hope you all have great weekends - and maybe better weather than me if you don't live in Minnesota!

Calm before the storm

It was so nice outside yesterday.  Lots of stuff melted, I didn't have to bundle the baby too much to go outside, I barely needed gloves.  This morning you step outside and it's still warmish, it smells like spring...but there's this ominous feeling of something looming out there.  We're about to get hit with another giant snowstorm.  Sigh.  I choose to live here...I choose to live here....repeat....repeat....

I am getting a kick out of the fact that apparently they have named this latest storm "Seneca".  Hunger Games much?  Too perfect!

Tank top - Motherhood Maternity nursing wear

Blazer - American Eagle, thrifted

Pants - Banana Republic, from SIL

Purse - Merona, Target

Necklace - gift from friend 

Thankfully my boss has already said if things get crazy enough later, I can leave early.  I think we'll be hunkering down tonight and doing very little...which let's face it, we're new parents, that is pretty much every night for us right now!

Unoriginal

Ugh, you guys, my outfit is so uninspired today.  It snowed.  Again.  So I chose pants and a sweater.  Again.  Most original outfit EVAR.  They have continued to promise us spring weather for this weekend though, so I'll just keep pinning my hopes on that.  Because in MN, you just always have to have hope.

 Sweater - LOFT, thrifted

T-shirt - Maurices, thrifted

Pants - Nine and Co, thrifted

Necklace - S&D

Thankfully today the sun is back out and the snow will melt quickly.  And I know it will be all too soon that I will be complaining about heat and humidity!  One day at a time.

Snow queen

Well, we just finished one of the bigger snowstorms we've had so far this winter.  About 9-10 inches of fresh snow fell Monday and yesterday.  Fortunately March snows do not tend to stick around real long!  Anyway, given the weather, it seemed like a good day to pull out my favorite Christmas gift from this last year, my H&M sweater dress.  Today I decided to try wearing it with my jean jacket.  Slowly pulling things toward spring!

Sweaterdress - H&M

Jean jacket - White House Black Market, thrifted

Leggings - Target

Boots - Old Navy

Necklace - S&D 

The other good thing about the snow yesterday is, we have good friends with access to a snow plow, so they came by and cleared us out most of the way.  That meant we only had a little bit of shoveling to do which took us no time at all.  Then we were able to hunker down with chili, grilled cheese sandwiches and some more episodes of The Sopranos (we've made it to the final season finally - eek).  Not a bad winter night!

My snowy valentine

Happy Valentine's Day!  We woke up to this here and I thought it was so pretty, I decided to take some pictures outside today.

So Mr. Monkey and I are not going out tonight, we're saving our nice dinner out for this weekend.  But I still decided to dress up a little and throw some pink into my wardrobe for today.

Instead of going out tonight, we're going to make dinner together at home and just totally chill out with some favorite shows and maybe even a bottle of wine.  So in other words, it won't be that much different that most of our days together, but you know what?  That is ok with me!  It's one of the reasons I love him so much, we do even the most mundane activities together and make them fun!  Isn't that how marriage should be?

 Dress - handed down from Lynne

Sweater - Merona, Target, gift

Boots - Target (very old)

Necklace - Maurices

Bag- Coach Factory Outlet

Looking at these pictures I don't think spring is coming anytime soon.  We're definitely having more of a true winter this year!  Oh well.  How do you celebrate Valentine's Day?

Snowy elf

It snowed again.  It seems we're making up for our lack of snow in early winter by getting a little bit every other day now.  At least it's been light and fluffy and easy to clean.  And I have a short commute to work so I can't complain too much!

I decided even with the snow and the cold today that I haven't worn my favorite dress in ages so I just felt the need to wear it today.  It's pretty warm, especially after adding this nice warm sweater from my cousin.

Dress - two birds vintage

Sweater - Jones New York, from cousin

Tights - Target

Boots - Payless

Necklace - S&D 

I always feel somewhat elf-like when I wear these boots.  I'm not sure why, other than they're short.  The toe isn't that pointy in them.  Yet, I just feel a bit like an elf.  But, hey, they're comfy, so they have that going for them!  They got a little coated in snow as I was setting up my camera this morning.

Such an exciting post today.  I guess the coffee hasn't quite kicked in yet!  Is it snowy where you are?

Snow and tell

I decided to take my pictures outside in the frigid air this morning to show off our snow here in Minnesota.  I don't know that I want to make it a habit though!  It was darn cold out this morning!!

Teal sweater - thrifted Target stock

White t-shirt - St. John's Bay, JCPenney

Pants - Anthropologie, thrifted

Shoes - Etienne Aigner, thrifted

Necklace - S&D 

Every year, even here in Minnesota, we go through a learning curve of how to drive in winter weather again. And usually it's not that bad, but last year was like Winter Lite, so I have noticed over the last day or so the drivers are acting exceptionally bad.  If we don't get our act together pretty soon, it could be a looooong winter!

It doesn't help that it got so cold after it snowed, there is pure ice on some of the roads and it doesn't look like our plows and ice trucks have done much to fix that issue.  Hopefully it will get better soon, in the meantime I have to pack a lot of patience when I get in the car to drive to work in the morning (and I even have a short commute!)

Complaining aside, it is nice to have a pretty fresh blanket of snow.  As I've been saying, I'm a traditionalist and I love the idea of having a White Christmas this year.  And it can linger a bit after Christmas too, but come January?  Yeah, all bets are off by then!

Inspiration Monday - And it snowed

Hello Friends! Happy Monday!  I just had quite a weekend, we had a really big snowstorm here in MN.  They had said they thought we'd get some snow early on last week, but then things shifted and we hit the snow jackpot.  We'll have a White Christmas for sure now, which actually, I'm not going to complain about!

So snow or no snow, it's Inspiration Monday and this week the birds picked Mrs. Justin Timberlake, aka Jessica Biel.  Did you know she's a MN girl?  Apparently she grew up in Northern Minnesota.  Useless trivia.

 So, my outfit here is actually quite a few weeks old, but I had it saved in an "extra outfit pictures" folder and realized it matched the look quite well, which is a good thing because I didn't have a chance to wear something like Jessica's look this weekend or today.  It's not a great photo, the Pants Monkey took it on my iPhone before we went on a date night because I loved the way it looked so much.

Red shirt - Michael Kors, from Lynne

Jacket - Mossimo, Target, old

Jeans - Old Navy

Necklace - thrifted

Boots - Payless

For today, I actually did keep the inspiration look in mind as I selected my outfit, but I wanted to be warm and cozy since after the snow fell the temp seriously dropped.  So I kind of kept her orange shirt in my head, and that's about it.  

T-shirt - Maurices, thrifted

Sweater - Aeropostale, old

Corduroy pants- Old Navy

Boots - Mossimo, Target

Necklaces - jerseymaids via Etsy (gift) and S&D

I had a good day off on Friday, the calm before the storm.  I did some baking with my mom and we did a little Christmas shopping, so I'm off to a good start there!  That makes me super happy.  How are you doing with your Christmas shopping?

For more Inspiration Monday looks, head on over to two birds.  And to all my MN friends, be careful out there, roads still aren't super great!

Leap Day Snowstorm

This is what we woke up to here in the Twin Cities this morning.  Lovely icy, snowy mess.  I took these looking out my front door, this is my little CRV all covered up in the first picture here.

And this is looking south towards my neighbor's house.  In all due honesty, this isn't even that impressive of a storm when you think of what our winters here are usually capable of, but this is probably the biggest one we've had this winter, so I had to document it somehow!

I was prepared that this morning would require more attention to cleaning off my car and just getting myself to work and not to taking blog pictures, so instead I'm sharing Monday's work outfit because I didn't get a chance to do so yet and I think it's pretty cute.

Monday was a much nicer day outside, that's for sure!  What a difference a couple of days makes I guess!  On Monday I wore my favorite Anthro pants again, I keep saying I'm going to hem them and I still haven't done so.  I wore nice high heels so at least I wasn't tripping over them.

 I told the Pants Monkey about all the compliments I received on the dress yesterday and his response was "cool!"  Mostly he was just happy that I liked the dress and that it's working out well for me.  I told him he can buy me clothes anytime, to which he responded, "yeah but our anniversary isn't for another three months."  Who says he needs a special occasion?

Happy Leap Day!  Anyone out there actually have a birthday today?  The father of a girl I grew up with had a birthday on Leap Day.  They used to joke that he was younger than he really was since he only got a birthday every four years!

Outfit rundown:

Shirt - Decree, JCPenney

Pants - Thrifted Anthropologie via Clothes Mentor

Owl necklace - F21

Hidden shoes - Mudd, Kohls