Perfect Fall Day

These pics are from our trip to Door County, Wis. this past weekend. The weather was perfect! It was cool and fall-like, and the clouds were amazing everywhere we looked! 

Our group of six went to a "fish boil" (has anyone ever heard of that or done that?), took in the beautiful sky, played some fun board games, did a little ghost hunting and celebrated our friend Tara's birthday! Big thanks go out to her for getting us all together for a much-needed weekend with great friends!

 Button down: J Crew (similar here), Jeans: H&M, Shoes: Reef (on sale on Piperlime here!), Bracelets, Forever 21, Watch: Michael Kors, White sunglasses: from last weeks wedding in Memphis, There were like 20 pairs floating around so I took a pair home...souvenir :)

 Check out those clouds! Pretty amazing, right?

These earrings are a shout out to my girl Darby of Obviously Obsessed, who mentioned tiny bowed earrings in a post of hers (see it here) awhile back. They were in my head when I saw these adorable little sparklers a few weeks back. These have a tiny gold bow on top of a domed sparkly base! My new favs from Forever 21!

Thanks for the inspiration Darby! 

An amazing view while waiting for dinner!

The Bee-autiful Birthday Girl!

Bees doing their business! 

 Our hunky, straight out of a Nicholas Sparks-novel fish boiler! 

My very first fish boil! How could it be bad when it's served on a plate covered in butter!?

All White

When my husband first saw me in this all-white outfit, he said that in all the 12 years we have been together he had never seen me wear head to toe white, and was not sure what he thought of it. It's tricky to pull off but I think I did a good job. He's just not used to it, but warmed up to it by the end of the day...or so he claimed.

What do you think about all-white ensembles? Easy or hard to pull off?

Top: Loft, White pants: My favorite skinny twill pants from Forever 21 that I've mentioned before that I own in 7 colors! My favorite pants by far! Sandals: H&M, Neon sunglasses and necklace: Forever 21, Watch: Target Men's watch, recently brought back to life. Mesh chain bracelet: Randolph Street Market

FIRST Bar and Grill in the Palazzo Hotel: Really great food and my favorite wine makes this our favorite new restaurant in Las Vegas! So good we went twice!

Even Andrew liked First Bar and Grill! And he's hard to please in the food department.

Roman Date

Ok, so its not faux leather this time, but somehow all my Friday posts involve me wearing an all-black ensemble. It just happens, without fail, at least once a week. I guess it's my dark side that needs to get out.

This was what I wore out to dinner one night. Then after dinner we went back to the hotel where I promptly changed shoes and put on some comfy flats. I know I'm a city girl who pretty much walks all over downtown Chicago at home, but man there is a whole lot of walking in Vegas! Thank goodness I brought a bunch of flats!

Have a happy weekend all!

Asymmetrical cut out dress: Heels: Nine West, Bag: H&M $13 bought here in Vegas, Necklace: Vintage, Bracelets: (from left to right) first 2: Forever 21, Arrow: eBay, Watch: Michael Kors, last bangle: Natasha Couture via Nordstrom

New clutch bought here in Vegas at H&M

Fun Louis Vuitton store windows

Memory (bike) Lane

This weekend we took a long bike ride to the Osaka Garden, which is where we got married last October. We had a little picnic right where the ceremony was. It was nice to be back there, lots of great memories. It really is one of the prettiest places I know of in all of Chicago. After the 20 mile ride we needed a break, so we cleaned ourselves up and took a walk over to Beer Bistro in West Loop for a late night bite where we negated all that bike riding. Worth it!

Navy Tee: American Apparel deep v, Vest Forever 21: Heritage,  Shorts: Joe Fresh purchased while in NYC in June, Silver sandals H&M, Silver ID bracelet from the Randolph St Market.

These shorts have such an awesome texture and design.

 Neon pink toes and bubble gum pink fingers (Lovie Dovie by Essie)

USA! Sears Tower showing Olympic spirit

 Now and then: 

Obviously still loving hot pink! (Fyi, my bike basket is hot pink too!)

  Not much different about us except both of us have shorter hair now. Mine by about 8inches though.