Beat the Heat

Wore this on Monday...

We had an odd burst of heat wave that blew through town for a couple of days...

Great excuse to the switch out the winter shoe collection with the summer sandals...

My mom got the straps of these gladiators altered just to fit her legs but decided she still didn't like the look so I scored some tan ones in addition to my brown ones...
Love that they are fitted...

 Red Dress - Forever 21

Necklace - Cookie Lee

Sandals - Gabriella Rocha

We had a great Father's day with a BBQ steak dinner and a pool party...

I have my red dress on tonight

 Today's outfit was very simple. I had this inspiration from J Crew but it was more like a reminder than an inspiration that I should wear my red dress I haven't worn in a while…

Dress - Forever 21

Sandals - Steve Madden

Necklace - Shoedazzle

Earrings - Nordstrom Rack

TODAY:
Crazy morning of running errands, volunteering in school then doing bootcamp class.
I managed to prep my morning snack and lunch in the morning and pack bottles and bottles of water before I left. Got home for a quick shower and working on paperwork then got dressed and rushed back to the school to sell Logo Clothes at a Kindergarten event. Then picked up my son back to the house for half hour then out again to baseball practice. It is a crazy coordination of events and people on thursdays where my friend picks up my daughter and I take my son to baseball. May step dad meets me at the field and takes over for my son and I rush back to get my daughter. My parents feed and bath my son and bring him back before bedtime. It is the only way they can do so many sports. :)
My daughter is getting very excited about her upcoming play. We practice her few and short lines every day and she sings and sings her songs. The play: Wizard of Oz. Her role: Munchkin and a Poppie…

Garden Wedding

 Attended a wedding last Thursday night… Wore the matron of honor dress I had worn at my sister's wedding last year to this one… My hair is blonder now so it was a bit more striking and before the sunset added my mom's miu miu like nude sunglasses for a full effect!….

 Dress - BCBG

Necklace - Thread Show

Nude Sandals - Nine West

THURSDAY:

The wedding took place at this location in Izmir (the City) but we drove direct from the summer town for the wedding and back…. Left the kids with my Aunt's housekeeper for the night….

It was my cousin's fiance's brother's wedding….

With my mom and Aunt (her younger sister)….

With My step dad, mom and aunt….

My Aunt and Uncle

The ceremony podium….

In Turkey the bride and the groom walk down the isle together!

This bride's family is from another city where it is a tradition to line up after the ceremony to pin gold coins, jewelry and money on the bride and the groom! 

 With my beautiful Mom...

 My cousin and her Gorgeous fiancé… I absolutely loved her fish tail dress in blush pink….

Ladies dancing….

Party Favors:

Golden apple that housed a mini lavender pouch….

Earlier that morning we were at the beach with some friends. No wind that day and gorgeous flat sea:

The Way You Make Me Feel

Well we are back from Sin City!

I never took a true outfit photo but tried to crop some from the group photos to display what I wore at nights…

FRIDAY:

In the Airplane to Vegas then lunch at the hotel and hit the pool right away…

We stayed at Mandalay bay and found online coupons to book high floor suites that had amazing strip views.

Mandalay Bay has a wave pool as well as many other surrounding pools. We found the side pools were a better spot for us to lounge…

Our hubbies arrived mid afternoon and joined us at the pool then we got ready for the night. 

We had a nice dinner at the hotels big wine cellar restaurant where a woman dressed in rock climbing suit uses a rope lift to climb the clear wine cellar tower to retrieve wines.

After dinner four of us when to the 'Ice Bar' while the other two couples went to another rooftop bar…

 This was the same outfit I wore to my lil sister's bacheloratte party 

wanted to get one more use out of it...

SATURDAY:

Woke up somewhat early. We didn't quite tighten the black out shades so the light was seeping in and when on vacation you kind of want to wake up for the fun to start. Met couple of our friends at the buffet for breakfast right after securing 8 poolside chairs.

After Buffet we got settled by the pool. A long day of drinks and swimming. The lazy river was fast and super fun. By mid afternoon I could feel the sleep coming on so went up right away and took a nice long nap! It was soooo nice.

My husband woke me up 20 minutes before we were supposed to meet and I rushed and got ready.

We had dinner at an italian restaurant again in our hotel (actually in the four season's which is the connecting hotel). 

Then went to see the Cirque du Soleil's Michael Jackson ONE show!

Pretty good. 

Then we were up to rooftop club 'Foundation Room' to end the night!

Yes my friend spent the entire weekend in a 'boot' she was such a tropper!