Productive Day in My Life | Vacation Prep, DIY Wedding Bouquet & Thrifting

Hey y'all, welcome back to a new vlog. Today we're going thrifting. I'm so excited. We're gathering some things for an upcoming trip and what better place than the thrift store to find some good stuff. So we're going to go see what we can find. I don't have a whole lot of time before my son gets off of school, so I'm going to try to make it quick and then I might end up picking up this vlog tomorrow and filming a little bit extra, but I got some cleaning done this morning and had to just play catch up. So I'm just now getting a chance to go. So let's go see what we can find. Well, it's been a long time. That's pretty. I think it's under new management, to be honest. I don't see the lady that's usually here. Oh, this is nice. It's zero dollars. Oh, these are cute. Suitcases. Told y'all. They always have suitcases here. What did I get? Here it is. 15. So, I just left the thrift store. Oops, I'm in both lanes. My bad. My bad. My bad. Oh, I ended up getting two suitcases and they're really nice. They're actually, it was a really decent price. $15 for the big one, $10 for the small one. There was another one there, but it, to me, it looked like it had been sitting in storage for a long time and it looked like it had some like mold on it. I ain't doing that. So I inspected these two inside and out, made sure there was like clean, clean. So, and they smelled good. So I was like, I was like, ah, this would be perfect. So I ended up getting those. I wanted to stop at the Habitat for Humanity, but I don't even think it's a store anymore. I thought that it was, but it's right there, usually. They have the sign tore down and everything. So apparently they don't have that anymore. I can't speak anymore. I may have enough time to hit one more thrift store, which is also another one that I know sells suitcases. So we'll swing by there, see if we find anything, and then we'll have enough time to go by and grab my son from school. So that's what we're going to do next. Can I please have a medium pumpkin cloud dunk-a-latte? A pumpkin cloud dunk-a-latte? Yes, ma'am. With only two of the pumpkins, please. Okay. And then light cinnamon on top. Oh, hey, girl. How are you? Good. How are you? Good. It was good seeing you. Bye. So sweet. One thing I've learned in life is that sometimes really, really great people, really sweet, kind, generous, loving people end up in some of the worst situations. And, unfortunately, you know, it's like so hard. People don't realize that when you're in a struggle, it's so hard to get out of a struggle. Like, also, um... I think that we are sold on, if you want to change your life, then go change your life. If you want a better financial situation, go get another job. Go to school. It's so easy to say those things, but when you're in the thick of it, and you have bills to pay, and you have children specifically, and sometimes you might start off as a... Actually, this is Dylan and I, for instance, when we decided to have children, we were in a great financial position as far as like we thought we were like, okay, we're as ready as we're ever going to be like, let's do it. Boy, were we wrong. I realized that we couldn't didn't want to pay for daycare because I didn't trust anybody with my daughter, especially in the area that we lived in. And I didn't consider that I didn't think about I don't know what To be honest with you. But I was young. Hang on. We'll be like, go get another job. Then you need daycare money. And then once you find a daycare, then you are limited on the hours that you can work. Because they're only open for a certain amount of times. And then if you want to get a second job, who's going to watch your kid then? Then you have everything just piles up. It's not that simple. It's so easy for people to be like, oh, change your life if you want to change your life. Oh, okay, Susan, give me some money. Like, but I will be praying for them. For sure. So, anyway, I am in the car line now. I need to get my little tag out if I can find it. I always keep it under my seat. That way I don't lose it. Yeah. Because I will. I'm so excited about my suitcases. I'll tell you that. I was worried about, like, not having enough room for all of our stuff. Because we usually, like, if we go somewhere and we go for, like, a day or two, we're going for four nights. Five, wait, no, sorry, five nights, four days. That's a long time, and that's a lot of outfits, because we're hiking, we're doing our wedding photos, I don't even, we're going to get, do our vow renewal, vow, vow, hopefully I'm going to take some English classes while I'm there, vow renewal, and then, um, The kids are going to take photos of Dylan and I and my dress and him and his little suit and stuff and try to get some good photos because we never got to get beautiful wedding photos and that's something that I've always wanted to have to look back on when we're old and my kids to be like, oh, this is my mom and dad and they were happily married and it's going to be 16 years. It was 16 years. We are married for nine years this month. Yeah, married for nine, together for 16. So, anyway, we were going to wait until like our 10 year anniversary, but why wait when you can do it now? And we're going to be in the mountains, and like who doesn't want to get photos in the mountains? So, we'll see. I'm going to try on my dress, see if it fits. I don't want to have to get it altered, so if it has to be altered, I don't know, might have to wait a minute. Because I don't have time. It's already, like we're leaving soon. I'm going to try on my dress at some point this week and make sure that it fits good. And try to prepare for some... Photos, I don't know. I have a couple ideas of like photo, what am I trying to say? Like poses that I want to do with Dylan. And I gave the kids ideas on like ways to take photos. Like my daughter is all for it. She's so excited. She's like, I cannot wait. You're going to be so beautiful. And she's just so sweet. I don't know how I'm going to wear my hair though. I kind of want to do like an updo similar to this, but like maybe more pieces down. You can't really see it right now because my hair is black and my truck's black. But I was thinking like heavy pieces down. Or do I do, like, a half up, half down, with pieces down? I don't know. I don't know. But I'll figure it out, and I will keep y'all updated, of course. I cannot wait to show them to you once we take them, because they're going to be so pretty. And that's what I really, like, I... So, we took photos when we got married at the courthouse, but they look so bad. Some of them, my mouth is open. I feel like we were getting called in all different directions, because, like, my husband's stepmom was, like, over in the corner, and she was taking pictures, and then... My father-in-law was taking pictures and his brother and my sister-in-law were taking pictures. It was a lot. It was, everyone was just like, look this way. And I'm like, I literally like this in some of the photos. I've been chatting for like eight minutes. Let me let y'all go. I'm spraying them down with Lysol just for peace of mind. I don't really know if this is going to help do anything, but I'm going to do it anyway. Um, so I sprayed them down. I did inspect all of them before I actually purchased them. I always recommend doing that. If you are ever buying suit, anything, furniture, especially furniture, look inside and out, pull the drawers out, look inside of them, look for any signs of bugs or previous bugs. You don't want to end up with something, you know what I'm saying? So just double check. So this is kind of random, but I'm going to share anyway. I did end up picking up a couple things from Amazon for our road trip to keep the kids as comfortable as possible. I have one that loves to ride and one that doesn't. And I'm like, whatever I can do to make this easier. Plus, I had to grab a couple things that I needed, like clips, a couple tops, random stuff. And I got this purse and I really like it. I just don't love the color of it. So I'm probably going to return it. It's a really orange looking. Anyway, but I got some things for traveling. We're driving for almost 12 hours total. By the time we hit traffic and everything, I'm accounting for that too. And that's a long time, because the longest we've ever rode is five hours, okay? And that was bad. So my goal is to make this trip as easy as possible. Not to mention, I'm trying to get ahead of everything and make sure the truck's cleaned out. Everything we need for traveling is already in here, so I'm not scrambling last minute to pull it all together. But I think it's going to be a good time. And I think anything that you can do to try to make... Everyone more comfortable does help. Sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it's like pointless and I'll keep you updated. If the things work that I'm going to share, I'll let you know whenever we go. the bad things you do. Please have respect for you. I haven't cried just by being young. Kicked it down. I'm not going to lie, the little pillows are great and I love these back of the chair organizers. I think I'm going to keep these up. All the time, not just for traveling because they have so many storage compartments and I like that it keeps it organized. And I'll have all this stuff linked in case you are taking a road trip soon. The back of the chair organizers were really inexpensive. So was this trash can. The only thing that was a little on the pricey side was the pillows. But like I said, we're taking a pretty long trip and I think it was worth it. Plus we can use these year round if we want to I want to, anytime. So I'm going to demonstrate how it works and the kids love them. So we're really excited and in just a moment, we're going to switch gears. I'm actually going over to my mom's. She's going to help me, where we're going to go shopping together. We're going to put together a bouquet for my wedding pictures and then she's also going to help me size my dress and I'm going to share that a little bit of that with y'all. Oh, I can't open that. Cool. And then this is the bingo on the go. Where did you get my list? Yeah, that's pretty cool. I feel like I'm going to like that. Well the bingo, I'm going to like the bingo. Oh my god, he just destroyed the box. Oh yeah. Hey y'all, so I am getting ready. I'm washing my glasses. I used Dawn. To wash my seeing glasses. But anyway, I'm getting ready to go meet up with my mom. We're going to go by Hobby Lobby and try to put together like a really inexpensive bouquet for Dylan and I to take photos. And I'm also taking my dress with me and I'm going to see if they can help me like sew it a little bit. To get it to stay. I am wearing it off the shoulders. It's supposed to be a high neck. I really want to wear it off the shoulders. So if I can get them to help me figure out how to get it to stay in place, I would prefer the photos to be like that, but it's okay. Either way, I think it's gonna be really pretty and I'm gonna let them help me with that. So, oops, I need to do my dishes. Let's go get my mom. This one. It's these? Yeah. Oh, okay. I like these. We'll take a couple of these. Yeah, those. Okay. Is that the same color as all of them? No. No, I like the darker color, I think. Right? Okay, grab, take this away. Those look more. Oh, yeah. I like these better. Look. Hang on, let me. Do they have smaller roses? Yeah, I think that's pretty. Oh, yes. Do we need more white, or? I think just, just. Oh, no, that's kind of it. This doesn't match anymore. This is so exciting. Did we get this one for red, didn't we? Oh no. I like these better. I like them better. Yeah so I was like. Because those even have the little stems. Where were we? Oh yeah. Yeah that'll be it. Yeah and we'll just take all the extra leaves. This one has a lot. We could be we could be wedding bouquet makers. Yeah. That'd be so much fun wouldn't it? Oh look at those at the top ones. Those have like the the little baby roses. Those are pretty too. Yeah I kind of think those look more real than those. They do. Yeah I like those Oh yeah. Oh it's pretty. This is all you want? Two, three, four. This is perfect. This is exactly what I wanted. Like not too much. Yeah. Oh this is way better than this. Correct her. Damn this one was seven dollars. So this is half off of these so that's not bad. Oh a little football one. That's cute. That'd be a perfect perfect one for Raylan. Oh Bob Ross. Chicken nuggets. Oh my god look at this. Oh that's it. That'd be funny. Oh my gosh. My blood pressure just went sky high. Oh my god. Dang. It's okay. I'll just I'll take it to the front. Don't drop another one. I'm not. These are plastic. I was feeling them already. I can't go anywhere with you. Why? Don't touch. Why do you have to touch it? Because. Look what your eyes. That's what you always do. Look what your eyes. But I like it. Oh, here's an antler. That's pretty. I'm going to get a hat. I'm going to get a hat. Hi, baby. Oh, sorry. Come here, sugar. I'll shirt your face. Sugar. It's fine, Mom. Her's happy. Okay. Oh, that dress is beautiful. Thank you. All right, I think... You want to dress first or dress first? It's up to you. I thought I'd be tacking it while you're trying to do that. Sure. Oh, boo. Where? I just hit the pen. Is it... Okay. I don't want you to take it off. If you just quit wiggling around so much. I didn't move at all. Okay let's chat. So it's late. Dylan's in the building watching a scary movie. Scary movies are not my forte. So me and Zoe are chilling in the bed editing and uh there's a couple things I want to say. First off we did get the dress pinned so I think it'll stay. It'll look really good. We got the bouquet put together but I want to make it clear that this is more than just about Pretty pictures like Dylan and I have wanted to renew our vows and have that intimate moment for a long time. I've wanted to do this forever because when we got married, it was rushed. The day that we got married, we drove to Florida because we live in Georgia at the same time or at that time. And we got married on the 22nd of November, which happened that year in 2017. It fell on Thanksgiving Eve. So we drove. To Florida, I believe. Yeah, we drove to Florida that same night that we got married. And we literally said just married on the back of my car. I'm sorry. But, like, during us getting married, and I think I've shared this story before, but the lady who married us, she was just, like, really rude. It didn't feel very special. It just felt rushed. Then I told y'all about her asking me for a tip afterwards, and I was, like, shocked, and I was so embarrassed because I didn't have extra money. I dang sure didn't have no cash on me. And it was just, like, a really, like, it kind of ruined it. You know, so I've wanted to have this special moment for just us and to document that and to be able to do this with our kids now that they're older is so special and something I'm really looking forward to a lot. It's not just about the photos. It's just about us, I don't know, sharing our love for each other. And I wrote vows and Dylan's been thinking of them and writing them too because that's something else we never got to do. We just did whatever the lady told us to. But anyway, I can't wait for that. So, I have a lot to do before we head out on this trip. So, I need to get busy around the house, get things done. I can't wait. I can't get here fast enough. I lose my breath whenever I see you. I see that you do.