Thursday Finds & Car Trouble, Oh My!

Yay!! It's finally the weekend..Woot Woot! :)

I hope you all had a great week and now we can all relax and enjoy the weekend!

I had two $10 off coupons for Kohls since there was a brand new one that just opened up in the town where I"m going to school. Me and Ross decided to go check it out yesterday and use the coupons since you could use them on anything in the store, EVEN CLEARANCE ITEMS!! I knew what I wanted right when I walked in the store..a new purse! I loved the one I had but it was just too small so I decided it was time for a new one. I wanted one that was still the cross body type but just bigger. 

I decided to go with this one because I loved the floral patterns on it and with Spring coming up I figured it would be a cute accessory for the season. It also has 4 really nice sized pockets. The main one with the zipper you can see on the top, the smaller one with the zipper on the bottom, a zipper, that you can't really see that well, between the top and bottom pockets that is like an arched one, know what I mean? Like..the bottom pocket with the zipper is actually on the front of a bigger pocket. Then there is a huge pocket that buttons on the back of the purse! It was originally $54 but was on sale for $38 plus I had the $10 off coupon which made it $28, not bad..not bad at all :)

Since I had a second $10 off coupon I let Ross use it, only one per customer..boo!! He really wanted a new wallet since his old one was getting kinda dingy looking and he wanted one that had a picture pocket on the outside of the actual wallet. This is the one he went with..

It's a Dockers wallet, oh wait..I was just informed by Ross that it's technically a billfold not a wallet since there is only fold instead of a tri-fold..I didn't know there was a difference :/

He also still needed to buy me a Valentine's Day gift, I know I know..very late, but we like to wait until we have that extra money to buy the gift. Since he knew I've been wanting a coffee maker because I have coffee but nothing to make it with he decided to buy me one, how sweet is he? :)

It's actually a pretty nice one and I'm very very excited about it, he did a great job! I haven't used it yet but I will definitely be using it soon. The wallet was originally $26 but on sale for $18.20 and the coffee maker was originally $39.99 but on sale for $19.99 and with the $10 off coupon he got both for $30!! Woah!

We were going to go to Hy-Vee tonight and buy some more coffee, a kind that he would like, and when we got to his car nothing would work!! The lights wouldn't turn on, the car wouldn't even turn over so we figured we needed to have it jumped. We had someone come (try) to help us and his battery in his car is in such a weird place that we couldn't get the negative side connected so we had to just hook it to something metal instead since we got the positive side to connect..yeah..it still didn't do anything for the car. So..we're going to try and get it out tomorrow, god help us, and take it to get it checked. It was just really weird that it just stopped working, and you're probably thinking "well you probably left a light on dummy." Well..we didn't actually. We make 100% sure we turn off all the lights, there was no dinging noise when we got out of the car last night telling us we left something on, and when we got into the car tonight to go I pushed the lights button in to turn them on and they pushed in..so I know for sure they weren't on or if when I pushed the light on/off button it would have popped out instead of in. It just seems really weird. Maybe we just weren't suppose to go anywhere tonight..a sign maybe?

So that's how exciting my past two days have been..fun huh? he he! Hope you all have an amazing weekend and please keep watching for my next post and keep following along with me. Also, I love reading comments from you guys so if you have any questions, comments, or anything please ask/tell..I love connecting with my readers!! :)

xoxo -kc

P.S. I can't believe I almost forgot to show you my favorite buy of my Thursday finds...

That's right..a Milky Way! :)
I know I'm suppose to be eating healthier but technically I'm not starting my "food journal/diary" on here until Monday, so I figured it was ok!!

February Favorites

Happy hump day everybody! I hope the first part of your week was great but I hope the second part of your week is even greater! :)

So the picture above really has nothing to do with my February favorites but it's one of my favorite pictures ever! My sweet cousin Lily just moments after she came into this world was holding onto my grandma's finger, so precious! I just wanted to post this picture to hopefully brighten some of your guy's days! 

So I was unsure of what to post today because I'm kind of been having writer's block recently but I've noticed a lot of people putting up their February favorites videos but since I don't do videos I figured I'd just write a blog post about my favorites. I will try and remember where I got everything and will put a link to where you can find it at. I hope you all enjoy! :)

 First favorite thing from February this Paris Amour body spray from Bath and Body Works. It is absolutely amazing! I normally use Incredible by Victoria's Secret and that is still my favorite overall but this month I was in love with the perfume. I put it on and imagine that I'm strolling down the streets of Paris walking by all the cute little cafes and bistros. Someday I will go to Paris and I will wear this perfume :)

So this next favorite has been a favorite of mine for quite a while now but I figured since I hadn't put any other favorite posts up I would put it in this one. It is the Secret natural mineral deodorant in the fragrance "Eucalyptus Blossom." I love it because it's so flowery and is perfect for the Spring or Summer time. I get mine at Wal-Mart or Target but I'm sure it's sold pretty much everywhere.

Unless you know what this is then it probably looks very strange to you, ha ha! It is a head massager and it works absolute wonders. I bought this at Target for $3 but it was totally worth it. When you first start using it it feels very ticklish on your scalp and it gave me goosebumps right away. After awhile though you get use to it and it's just the most amazing thing you've ever put on your head :)

 It's Girl Scout cookie time and I am addicted to these things! Not only the thin mint kind but pretty much every other kind as well ;) There was a couple girls at the mall selling these and I just had to buy some. I bought 1 box of thin mints, 1 box of Tagalongs (the peanut butter kind), and 1 box of Samoas (the coconut caramel kind.) These three are my favorite of all but I do like the rest of them as well. If you've never had a Girl Scout cookie you are missing out!!

 This juice is absolutely amazing, it's so refreshing and it has 100% of your daily Vitamin C, which is awesome! I originally bought this to add to those frozen smoothie things you buy in the freezer section of the grocery store but I tried it by itself and I am now hooked. Ross got me glass the other night and I had forgotten what kind it actually was so when I tasted it I said, "mmm, this tastes like Orange juice, peaches, and mango." Ross said "well probably because that's what kind it is." Ha ha, Oh..oops! It really did taste like each one of those flavors, it did however have a pineapple taste in there as well but I'm completely ok with that! :)

These things are now my non-guilty pleasure. For one they taste exactly like Raspberry Cheesecake and for anyone that knows my Raspberry is my absolute favorite flavor, and for two it's only 90 calories a bar! You can not beat that! I buy mine at Wal-Mart but again you could probably find these pretty much anywhere food is sold.

Oh goodness..this last one is such a good and bad thing at the same time for me! I have been in love with and addicted to Starbucks since I go to college in January. The building inside out apartment neighborhood area has like a fitness area, a marketplace, computer lab, etc., but the marketplace sells Starbucks! I almost died when I found that out :) Plus there is a drive-thru Starbucks not even 5 minutes away, a Starbucks in the Hy-Vee that is also 5 minutes away, and the other places to eat on campus sell it as well. I'm in heaven here :) So my favorite drink to get is the Chai Tea Latte but recently I've been getting the Salted Caramel Mocha and it's sooooo yummy! If you don't like a lot of salt you probably wouldn't like it because you really can taste the salt that is in it, but I love salt so it's perfect for me!!

So there you have it, my February favorites. Please comment and let me know if you liked the post and if I should keep doing the monthly favorites, I love hearing from all of you! 

xoxo -kc

What's on my Ipod?

I've noticed on other blogs and even YouTube videos that people really enjoy the room tour videos, the "what's in my bag" videos, and I've even saw "what's on my Iphone videos. I've always liked watching/reading about these types of things and seeing how other people organize their rooms, closets, phones, etc. and maybe getting some ideas from them. Since I don't have an Iphone I will be showing you guys what's on my Ipod, I hope you all enjoy this as much as I enjoy reading/watching these types of things.

 This is the first page, I was updating some things under my "photography" and "eateries" categories when I took the picture, ha ha! I use all of these things a lot, especially the bottom four.

 This is the second page, I use most of these all the time but not as much as the ones on the first page. That Cyride app is great because it tells all the schedules for and routes for the buses that go around the campus of the school I attend. You should check to see if your school has any apps for things like that, they are wonderful.

This third page is where I have all of my games. I left the top four games out of the grouped ones because these are the ones that I play the most. As you can tell I have a lot of catching up to do on my SongPop game, ha ha! My background photo is a picture of me and Ross I took the first weekend we were here at college.

 These are the apps I have in the group "utilities" on my main page. I really only use the bottom two rows and the calculator. All the others are just on there because I can't delete them!

 This is my second "utilities" grouping and I only use the bottom row, most of the time. I could probably delete the quick drafts and Evernote, just haven't gotten around to it, ha ha!

 These are the apps in my "music" grouping. I love all of these apps, especially Shazam. If you don't know what it is you are missing out. You use it to figure out names or artists of songs that you just aren't sure of. Say you hear a song on the radio that you really want to know that name of, all you do is open Shazam and hit the Shazam button, it will listen to whatever is playing for a few seconds and the results will automatically pop up. You can also save your past searches so you can go back and look through the songs you searched for.

These are my "photography" apps. I don't use any of these religiously. I only use them when I decide to be a little more creative with my pictures. Face Bomb is one of my favorite photo apps. You pick a picture that has more then one person in it and you can pick which face you want to swap out with the others. I've done it with a picture of my family before and gave everyone in the picture the face of my grandma, it was hilarious!

These are my "eateries" apps. The Starbucks app isn't really that great, you can't do anything except keep track of your Starbucks rewards but since I don't have that it's pretty much a useless app. Me and Ross love ordering pizza so the Papa Johns and Domino's apps are very handy when we want to order in. The other two apps just have places around where I live that deliver food and you can pick which restaurant you want and order right from there.

The two picture above are the "games" categories. The top picture has the games that I play more then the ones on the bottom, but like I said earlier the games that I don't have in the groupings are the ones that I play the most. I honestly don't know why I have so many games when I never play any of them but I just can't seem to delete them. I just keep thinking that someday I will be really really bored and end up wanting to play more then just my regular games, probably won't happen but I want them to be there just in case, ha ha!

I hope you all enjoyed seeing how I have my Ipod set up and all the cool and some not so cool apps that I have. I got all of these off the Itunes app store and 99% of them were free. So if any of them looked interesting to you that is where you can find them! How do you guys have your Ipods, Iphones, or tablets set up? Do any of these apps look familiar? :)

xoxo -kc

Victoria's Secret, Splash, Zombies, & Deer..

Hi everybody! I'm sorry I haven't posted anything in the past few days but I've been out of town and away from my computer. So if you're wondering about the picture above, that is my dad and his deer he shot, I believe it was 3 years ago. He shot this monster on Christmas Eve and I was lucky enough to be with him when he found it, it was such an awesome moment for all of us. If you're a hunter you will know what I'm talking about :)
Me, my mom, and my sister have all shot deer as well but since my dad shot the biggest I figured I'd show his off!

You're also probably wondering what everything in the title has to do with eachother, ha ha, well first off..this past weekend was the Iowa Deer Classic in Des Moines and I try to go to it every year. It's where everyone can take their deer to show off, their shed antlers, there are vendors you can buy spices, clothes, deer/turkey calls, tree stands, pretty much anything to do with hunting you will find there. So that's where I was this morning into the early afternoon.

 Backup to Saturday when me and Ross drove to Des Moines and met my mom and her two friends and one of their daughters at the mall. We all got manis and pedis, well except for Ross..he went and bought a book from Barnes and Noble and read that while he waited for us, he he! It was so relaxing and I had an awesome time. I will post a picture below of my pretty nails. After getting pampered my mom and her friends went back to the deer classic and me and Ross shopped for a little bit. We went to Aeropoastale first and they were having a "buy one get one free" t-shirt sale so I bought two shirts for me, two for him, and bought him a zip-up hoodie because he lost his last one :(

Red with glitter polish over the top!

 This is the shirt my mom bought for me. the JFD stands for "Just For Does", it's a company that makes clothing, bows, etc. just for woman. So lots of pink! I have shirt I bought from them last year that is black with their logo on the front and the back says, "We hunt like you, only prettier." :)

They also have a "Just for Bucks" line of clothing and other things just for guys. 

Check them out --> Just for Does

 This is one of the shirts I bought at Aero, the other one looks like this but it's white.

 It looks kind of wide in the picture but this is a size medium and it's one of those shirts that is wider on the sides and doesn't quite come down to the top of your pants, like a cutoff. 

My pretty North Face sweatshirt :)

We walked around a little more and wound up in Victoria's Secret where they were having their "buy 5 for $26" underwear sale. So of course I had to get some, ha ha!! We left there before I spent anymore money and went back to the hotel my parents were staying at, but not before driving around for what seemed like hours looking for a parking spot that was $10 to park in. We ended paying only $5 which was the cheapest they had. Me and Ross went to dinner with my parents and another couple that came up to Des Moines with my parents. It was a place called Splash and it was a seafood/grill restaurant and let me tell you it was delicious, expensive..but delicious. I ended up getting a ribeye with mashed sweet potatoes and green beans. We also got oysters and tuna, they were both super yummy and I recommend trying both of them.

So today after going to the deer classic we ended up going back to the mall because I wanted to look for a new purse but I could not find one that I liked anywhere!! I did end up walking out of there with a new North Face sweatshirt though, it's amazingly warm and cozy!

 Sooo..how to zombies fit into this story? Well, downtown Des Moines there is a place called Zombie Burger and Drink Lab, I had never eaten there before but I've heard amazing things about it so we decided we would go there for lunch. It was definitely AMAZING! They have such cool decor, awesome names for everything on their menu, and amazing drinks! Here are just a few examples of the cool names for their food and drinks they serve..

Undead Elvis: Peanut butter, fried bananas, bacon, American cheese, egg, & mayo

T-Virus (What I got): Swiss, grilled portabello mushroom, lettuce, tomato, onion, & mayo

Trailer Trash Zombie (What Ross got): American cheese, fried pickle, chicken fried bacon, fried cheese curds, and ranch

CEREAL SHAKES!

Cinnamon Toast Crunch: Vanilla ice cream, cinnamon toast crunch (if you want it alcoholic they add Rum Chata)

Crunch Berry Shake: Vanilla ice cream, crunch berries (vanilla vodka if you want alcohol)

Do these not sound so fun and awesome? I wanted to try everything, ha ha! So if you're ever in Des Moines Iowa please stop by and try out there amazing burgers and/or drinks.
Here's a link to their site with a full menu --> Zombies!

Sorry this post was so long but I tried to fit in my whole weekend into one post, hope you all enjoyed and please come back for my post! I promise it will be shorter ;)

Happy hunting for your clothes, deer, and even zombies

xoxo -kc