These are the moments that I'm gonna remember most

Yesterday's inspiration was an old one I think from 2011:

I have been wanting to wear this combo it is just a bit too warm for our city so the opportunity did not present itself until now. Even yesterday I had the jacket off most of the time….

Jacket - Thrifted but Forever 21

Top, Pants - Forever 21

Booties - Victoria's Secret

Necklace - Cookie Lee

SATURDAY:
This was a crazy weekend with my daughter's birthday party one day and my father's celebration of life service the next day. I guess that is what life is all about. Good memories and bitter sweet moments. Birth and death all together.

Here is my princess ready for her party….

My daughter's party was a trampoline place that we had never been before and the kids loved it. We co-hosted with my friend our third year in a row…

Our Party Favors:

The brothers:

And after the party we came home so she can open her presents and relax for a very short while then the family who is in town from all over the country for my Dad's service came over for a low key dinner at our house and to hang out together. My kids have been so waiting to spend time with their uncle so they were so happy when he came early to play with them. My cousin is in town and my aunt again and my sister in law and nephew and her parents were all there.
I had an all costco meal that consisted of steak and salmon and Turkish side dishes like stuffed grape leaves and quina salad and asparagus and two types of salads.
It was a great evening that ended with going over the slide show my brother had finalized…

my wonderful cousin and aunt. they are both amazing cooks so instead of steaming the asparagus had her show me the pan version with garlic which comes out so good.

My sister in law and I with our mothers….

Just Dad is missing from this gathering! But he was always with us in spirit….

Those were the days my friend we thought would never end

 Friday's outfit…. I was going to wear a blog outfit but decided why not… There was a bit of rain (really hardly any) but a drop of rain is good enough excuse to wear my rain boots so here they go.

The inspiration from Bee (Atlantic Pacific):

I feel this came out great together. Hunter green combined with red plaid coat and boots is predictable but adding a blue button down makes it very unique...

 My son liked this necklace cause it was a 'T' in the middle which is his initial!

My latest ring combo. Amazingly I can soap my hands and keep them all on without them feeling wet afterwards. This set is a keeper… Pointer and ring finger rings are Bauble Bar, the midi and the bow ring are from Forever 21.

Coat - Old Navy

Blouse - Express

Pants - Bebe

Boots - Henri Breandel

Necklace - Ann Taylor LOFT

Rings - Bauble bar & Forever 21

FRIDAY:
My mom had my daughter and my husband was soo nice to let me sleep in the morning an extra hour and took my son to school I went to bed around 1 AM the night before working on pulling old photos for my Dad's ceremony slide show. I got up and got dressed and headed to my Dad's house to be with my family that has arrived. My brother, my aunt, my sister in law and nephew and of course my cousin who has never left my side. We worked on photos for a little longer than headed to the ceremony room at the library to check it out and get training on the audio. The room is perfect and it is exactly what my dad would have liked. we then went back home to work more on photos and slide show plan for the food. THen picked up my son from school. Took him out for frozen yogurt. Stopped at the library and at my friend's house and came home for a quick stop to change him in his swim gear and my mom brought my daughter then took him to his swim team practice and back at home for dinner. We were hoping the family would come but they were all jet lagged so it was a quite night at home. I spent the whole night listening to songs for the slide show and just reminiscing...

See him when I close my eyes

 I don't even know what day I wore this. The week is a blur. 

The inspiration though came from Sept 2013 catalog of J Crew:

 I decided to create this mixing deep red with bordeaux but decided to go mustard on the top. Not quite sure if it worked. Honestly, I am kind of going through the motions when getting dressed these days so it didn't matter.

Cap, Pants, Necklace - J Crew

Top, Jacket - Forever 21

Booties - Steve Madden

EARLIER THIS WEEK:
Days are a blur this week…
I was doing OK but then as the days go the grief sets in more. There are days I pretty much shed tears throughout the whole day. Everything reminds me of my dad. Everything is a trigger. I hide behind my large sunglasses but the kids are no dummy. Then there are the nights where I lay with wide open eyes staring at the ceiling.  Barely falling sleep when the sun is coming up making me feel ridiculously exhausted when I have to wake up early.
So, I am pretty much getting dressed every other day or every 2 days. Plus we are working like crazy for the past week going through old photos pulling favorites for a big slide show for my dad's 'celebration of life' service this Sunday. Of course looking at photos are the all time trigger. But it is smiles and tears and this vast feeling of gratefulness for all those things we did together.

I do our regular routine with the kids every other day. My wonderful mom and step dad fill in in between. My mom having lost a dad herself gets me 100% which is such a comfort….

On a lighter note, my daughter took the preschool class puppet: 'Winnie' home this week….