NYFW Pinning!

Wednesday already, and I'm lovin' it! In good fun with New York's Fashion Week, I've been pinning lovely lines that are just adorbs on the runway (thanks to the inside scoop from LC!). Linking up with Michelle at The Vintage Apple, cheers to an OHP!

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Link up to share your fave pins of the week!

Farewell Aunty...

She is my grandmother's sister. The one to raise all of us in the family... The one to watch all the kiddos from infants to high school'ers...  The one to show and remind us all of the Samoan Way of Life... The one to encourage us to remain humble, respectful, and to honor our parents... This beautiful woman is one of the oldest ladies in our family... my Aunty Tali. She's the one to leave us here in America today to be with her son and family in New Zealand. She is heavily on my mind, especially lately, and more as ever today. I think, "Did I visit her as much as I was able to?"... "Did I tell her I love her enough times today?"... and on, and on, and on.

I share this farewell with you all today my friends, to remind you to tell your loved ones that you love them... to visit your loved ones "just because"... to love, honor and respect your elders no matter if you think they're right or wrong. They may not always be around the corner... they may move away from you, or you away from them, or they can easily be called by our Lord to be with Him in heaven. Don't live life with regrets or questions unanswered.... it's never too late to love each other, and forgive one another!

Happy Labor Day!

Happy Labor Day America!! Can't help but share a full shot of this picture I shared on Friday's post that I captured last week on a gorg night! Hope each and errry one of you are enjoying your day off, and if you're working, I hope you'll get to enjoy this labor on your paycheck!

OHP...DIY!

Happy Wednesday lovely bloggettes! Hope your week is going swell for you all! With bathroom makeovers and cleaning in my hood, I've been inspired to get into some arts and craft thangs! What other inspiration to go with than PINspiration?!!

Linking up with Michelle at The Vintage Apple, cheers to Oh, How Pinteresting Wednesday!

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Couldn't do an Arts and Craft spotlight without my gooorl, Lauren! What have you been pinning lately?! Link up and share it with the world!

Celebrate Good Times!

This weekend there were some mighty fine celebrations back home! One being my Aunt's birthday parlayyy full of some good ol' Samoan food that warms the soul, and some good sweet family time! My Aunt has been an amazing mother figure to me... and the rest of my family! There are no words to describe my appreciation for her love since the day I was born, but I'll give it a shot anyhoots! She is the one to never turn her back on our family, through thick and thin... she's the one who always has what I need before even asking her for it... she's the one to encourage and motivate me at each point in my life... she's the youngest of 14 siblings, and the one with my grandmother's heart... she's my Aunty ONE and I love her past the moon!

Aunty ONE, me, and my other mother/aunty, Aunty June

Another celebration that I sadly wasn't home for was my Bestie's bridal shower!! She's the one in the white, as you probably have guessed already! These are 5 of the 7 of us lucky bridesmaids who get to be with her as she becomes a MRS.! Her bridal shower was a burlesque theme, and from the pictures I swooned over, was extremely cute!! She's been there for me through it all, especially graduate school! She was one of my bridesmaids in my wedding, and we were so blessed to have her and her awesome possom fiancé in Maui with us to celebrate some SUPERB times!! I can't wait to reunite with her, especially for her BIG day that can't come soon enough! We shall fist pump like no other and celebrate the new chapter in her life!

And thennnnnn.... last night I missed one of my younger cousin's 21st birthday parlay! How fun it would have been there to sang a sweet song at her karaoke party! HAPPY BIRTHDAY KITTY KAT RACHA!!!

So many celebrations that make me super home sick, but I'm trusting that His plan is entirely for a reason!

And now, for my LLL's of the week... What I loved, laughed, and learned about!

LOVE

I absolutely loveeee that one of my gal pals asked mwuah for some blogging tips and tricks... not that I'm a pro or anything, but I was still able to share some basics that others were able to share with me! I love hearing about my friends starting their own blogs... I honestly love my blogging community and the fact that we all bring each other new things each and every day! Check her out!! Her name is Whitney (to me she be Whit Whit!) and she blogs over at High Heels & Carhartts... stop by and show her some love!

LEARN

I learned about an opportunity to present my dissertation at the biggest annual conference for SIOP (Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology, Inc.), and I am SO excited to keep the wheels turning with this while it's still fresh in my mind. Submitting is one thing, but getting accepted is a whole other ball park! I shall keep you all filled in!

LAUGH

My hubs and I watched 21 Jump Street this weekend, and I seriously cracked up the entire time!! Jonah HIll and Channing Tatum were hilarious together! If you haven't see it, I totes recommend it... who doesn't laugh while reminiscing through the high school days?!

Did you have any celebrations this weekend? How about your LLL's?

High Five!

TGIF!! Time to list our top 5 fave things from this past week with Lauren at From My Grey Desk! Let's give a High Five for Friday and get this party started on this Friday morning shall we?

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I'm not sure if you noticed from my blog, but we had the BEST time at our first official family reunion!

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Someone left this sweet note on my desk, which meant the world to me. Giving me kudos "just cause" can bring some sunshine in my life any day!

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During our family reunion, we had my graduation party! It was so overwhelming to see everyone and hear how they were all so proud of me. Also had an opportunity to make it rain during our customary Samoan dances!

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Career hunting has been quite fun this week. There have been some great opportunities out there, and I'm excited to learn of many more!

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Sweet words couldn't have been more bliss coming in an email!

Don't forget to link up with Lauren, and share your 5 fave things of your week! Happy Friday!

Family Weekend

Why am I home/family-sick? THIS is why!! A weekend full of family smiles, sunshine, and love!

My cousin ran for Ms. Taupou at the Samoan Flag Day

Showing love for the ones who built our foundation

Our talent show

Beach Day

Girls of the Fam

Boys of the Fam

I just love and miss each and every one of them!! Let me tell you... if you live near your family, enjoy every second of being with them... for those are the moments you will cherish the most!

Gettin' my hurr did!

Hip hip hoooray for an Oh, How Pinteresting Wednesday! It's mid-week, and time to share some lovely pins with you all!

If you're not linking up with Michelle at The Vintage Apple, then it's time you click this cute lil' button and be on your marry way to link up, and share your fave pins of the week from Pinterest!

 

I'm swooning over some hurr this week, and here are some of my faves!

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What are you swooning over in hurr land these days??

Happy Friday!!

Happy Friday to you ALL!! So first thing is first... YES, I was supposed to post some of my official wedding pictures yesterday, but read on to hear about my why I failed!

Moving and grooving' (as my Bootcamp goooorl would say!), here are 5 of my fave things from this past week! Linking up with Lauren at From My Grey Desk, let's celebrate with a High Five for Friday!

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I witnessed some gnarly sunsets this past week, and made me want to stay outside for all of night!!

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 I participated in my first ever VLOG with Lindsay at Trial by Sapphire and Ashley at 5ohWifey for The Girl Behind the Blog series. Thank you ALL so much for your sweet comments... you gave me great confidence to partake in another vlog session... of course after some time has passed! If you missed out on that vlog, you can peep game out here.

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I got some pics of my 5 month old cutie patootie nephew who now knows how to sit up all by himself!

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My family is here for the weekend, and the weather is fantastic!! Which means lots of outdoor hiking for us, possibly floating the river, and lots of laughs from the gut!! I am OOBERLY excited to be present this weekend ;)

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As you probably have read by now, I got our wedding pictures in the mail! YAYYYYY!!! I had THE hardest time choosing photos to share with you all from the wedding, so I decided not to post at all yesterday. I promise it was overwhelming for me and took for half my day to work through it. Well, I really didn't work "through" anything since they never were posted. But long story longer (sorry), I decided to break up the wedding pictures throughout next week, opposed to sharing the 55 flicks I narrowed down from the 722 total pics in one post! Anyhoots, great news is I now have the pictures, and here's one of my fave!

Courtesy of Hawaiiana Photography

Don't forget to link up with Lauren, and share your favorite 5 things from this past week!

The goooorl behind this blog!

It's time to join in on the fun with my first ever in all blog land... a VLOG!! Lindsay at Trial By Sapphire and Ashley at 5ohWifey are hosting another Girl Behind the Blog series #5! When I read the deets here, I had to put my game face on, and get a video prepped! 

The theme of this vlog was hopes, dreams, and aspirations. Okay.. not all of the above, but you get it... it was based on a goal we're looking towards achieving. Here are the specifics they asked for:

Introduce yourself and your blog.

What is one thing you are hoping to begin, accomplish, or change?

Why is this goal important to you?

What are your plans to achieve this goal?

So after a few re-takes of pretty much the same opening line of "HI I'M BEVERLY" and only lasting about 10 seconds until I was going way off topic, I finally made a complete video... best part is I have a co-host! Watch and learn friends!

WARNING! This video looks like I used the fish eye lens, and one side of my face looks a bit bulged... this is NOT reality, and I couldn't record it again, so what you see is what you get! My fish-eyed face! ANDDD lighting is all bad... but guess what? First vlog = EXCUSED!

Hope I didn't scurrrr you away! Link up with Lindsay and Ashley and give us your SNIPPET!

Swooning over Sea Shells

Time to PIN our lives away on this mighty fine Oh, How Pinteresting Wednesday hosted by the one and only, Michelle from The Vintage Apple!!

My trip to Maui has made me fall even harder in love than I already was with my shell jewelry! I AM SO IN LA LA LOVE.... bangles, earrings, rings... anything with shells I swoon over!! Which leads to my inspiration for this week's pins!

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What have you been pinning that's made you swoon these days? Link up with Michelle at The Vintage Apple!

High Five to YOU Friday!

Happy Friday to you all!! I'm so happy to be back in action, linking up with Lauren at From My Grey Desk for a High FIVE for Friday!! I love this link up... mainly because we get to reflect on the week and appreciate the small things that made us smile!

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We had family over to watch the UFC fight over the weekend... nothing like some quality time stuffing our faces and having some good laughs... especially with my HUBS!

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Helllllo bloggy land!!! I love that I was up and at it again on Monday... which meant I was totes in the mood for catching up with my blog reading!!

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Check out the digits on this forecast!! We've been having some superb weather up in herrrrrrr and oh what a difference it makes in ALL of our moods!!

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I went back to bootcamp this week, which feels amazing!! Yes, I run on my own with the doggies, but nothing feels like a dripping sweaty work out with a group of people who hoot and holler and push you past the limit!

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Free slurpees at 7-11 on Wednesday! I haven't had a slurpee in foreverrrrrrrrr... and man was this one good! Did you know they come in sugar free flavors now?! Yes indeedy!!

Don't forget to link up with Ms. Lauren!! Cheers to another start of a great week of fun filled things to count next Friday!