Outfit of the Day

HOLY MOLY.

It's been one hot minute since I posted an Outfit of the Day or some fashion tips.

BUT, since I literally threw this outfit together less than 5 minutes I just had to talk about it.

First off, the dress I got it from Francesca's. It was more than I normally will pay for a dress but I absolutely LOVE their clothes and I knew that I could pair so many things with that dress.

Those over the knee tan suede boots I got with a girlfriend on a BOGO deal from Maurices. They were under $50 too. Nice boots under $50, to me, IS A DEAL!

The vest is the one and only Herringbone Vest. I don't remember which boutique I bought it at as I purchased it last year but you can find them a lot of places!

The scarf I scored from my favorite place Rue 21. I purchased it ona buy one get one $1 deal. I swear they always have the best freaking deals!

The cross earrings I scored at this awesome place in downtown Bryan called "Texas Rose Boutique." They have amazing sales and very reasonably priced items.

Such a cute and casual outfit for a day at work or for running some errands on a beautiful day!

Just remember, vests, necklaces, scarves, earrings can go with SO MANY THINGS. Don't be scared to buy them!

Book Review: Game On by Katie McCoy

If you like baseball and if you love to read then this is your book.

Let me rephrase that, if you like hot baseball guys and reading then THIS IS YOUR BOOK.

I REPEAT... THIS IS YOUR BOOK!!!!!!

It's been a while since I read a good baseball book thanks to my girl J. Sterling for that one. 

How I stumbled upon this one... well I can thank BookBub for that. 

In case you don't know what that is it's this company that sends out and email every day of book deals. It's pretty amazing.

I see the books that they send me and I check out the good read details on them and then SCORE... NEW BOOK!!!

Anyway, I stumbled upon this book and it was amazing.

Not only have I been on another blog, reading, writing hiatus but I'm slowly working back to it and well here I am trying to share with all of you another amazing read.

This book kept me on the edge of my seat because I kept thinking something would go wrong but nope, it went in the exact path I wanted it to go in and made me happy.

Despite the fact that it's based off of a baseball player and  my FAVORITE CITY IN THE WHOLE FREAKING WORLD.. Austin, Tx.

Gosh, I am obsessed with that place.

Okay, well I don't want to give out any deatils but that you should go read this book.

No, you NEED to read this book.

It is a stand alone so sadly there isn't anything else added to their story but seriously... GO READ IT! 

Would You Be A Kid Again?

Whoever said it was fun to be an adult, lied.

Adulting sucks.

Paying bills sucks, taking care of yourself sucks, and most of all, listening to an upset 6 year old niece, sucks.

I try and call my sister in the mornings and during my lunch break since she is usually teaching piano when I get off work and twice now that I have called my sister in the morning my niece is upset. 

She's not liking this school year so far. 

My niece is a mixture of her father and me. My poor sister just carried her.

LORD, HELP US!!!!

Her dad gets irritated very easily.

I'm not any better.

My sister, however, is the very patient one and that totally skipped right over my niece and onto her second kid.

My niece is in 1st grade and school is just so hard.

(The drama, right?)

She stresses she won't finish in time so she gets stressed and spends more time stressing about it rather than staying calm and just getting the work done. (She gets that from her dad.)

School was easy for me. 

I made good grades and breezed right through.

Except for my conduct grades. I was always in trouble for talking to much or too loud.

Who would have thought?

Me. The talker!

Plus now that she's in 1st grade she has a different class and different classmates.

Therefore she's without her friends now.

Well, apparently there's some girls in her class that she likes to play with but they have their own little clique going so when she asks to play with them they so no because they're already playing with someone else.

Little bitches.

I won't tell her it get's any better because that would be a lie.

BUT, I would go kick some 6 year old ass if I could.

I hate seeing her upset like that.

I tried to have a little pep talk with her today hoping that maybe it'll sound little different coming from her cool aunt when in reality I just want to march right up to that school and make those teachers make those mean little girls play with my niece. But I can't do that. I can't fix everything for her. She's gotta figure it out on her own. And I know she will, it's just a matter of her finding how to do that.

I think I'd do just about anything to be a kid again but if it meant dealing with little rude girls like that again, no thank you. 

Ugh, it just pains me to see she's upset like that.

And she also showed me her wiggly tooth tonight.

Time, please slow down. My mini me isn't staying so mini. 

Until next time....

My Haunted House

Do you believe in ghosts?

I do, but I don't think I ever ran into one until I moved into my house.

My husband and I moved into our new home about 2 weeks before our wedding, about 2 1/2 months ago.

The day after we moved in I was at the house moving some things around when my husband had gone over to our old house to get some things. I was moving the couch around the living room when I saw a shadow. I looked over and it just faded away.

Okay.
Maybe I am just seeing things.

So, I was moving some stuff around again and I saw the shadow.
I was getting that feeling that someone was standing next to me and there was a legit black shadow in the space.

Okay.
Again, maybe I am just seeing things.
Or maybe I was just wiggin' out because it was the first time I was alone in a new environment.

So, my husband comes over and we start to move things around, and I don't even mention what I had seen.

My husband already thinks I am crazy, that would probably just put the icing on the cake.

Anyway, we got all moved in, got married two weeks later and started our lives together.

Cool.

Well one night we are sleeping and out of no where our dog Chico wakes up in the middle of the night just barking his butt off.

I wake up thinking well maybe Blake has gotten up to go to the bathroom, or is even sleep walking.

Nope. Blake's sound asleep.
Great.

Well, Chico is still barking and at this point I am thinking that maybe there is a burglar in our house.
Do I want to get up and have the burglar kill me?
No.
Should I get grab the gun that we have yet I have never even shot before?
Umm no, that's a disaster waiting to happen and I don't really feel like being on the news tomorrow morning.

So, I get up and grab Chico with me and he is still barking, somewhat growling in our pitch black house. I walk down the hallway, and even in the dark, there goes the little black spot. It moved as if it was walking right out of the door.

OH. SHIT! 

Okay. Here I am telling myself "Lisset, turn around and go to bed. Do not look out the window and scare yourself more." So I go back to bed and Chico is fine. He lays right back down and goes to sleep.

Damn, is it really that easy?
We just possibly saw our ghost friend and here he is just passing right back out.
Do I wake Blake up and risk the chance of him thinking I am A.) More crazy than I already am or B.) Have him go all psychotic crazy on me because I woke him up.

Yeah no.

While I am laying in bed, trying not to freak out, trying to get myself some more sleep I am also praying I don't have nightmares if and when I do finally go back to sleep!

Well, I finally fall back asleep. All is good.

I go on about my life and but I was still thinking about that black spot I saw.

I think it was a ghost.
Not sure.
But def not going to mess with that thing.

It's not messing with me, just wants some cold ac and a place to hang out... go right ahead ghost, no worries here.

Okay so one day I am laying down on the couch waiting for my husband to get home from work and out of nowhere Chico goes running to the window and starts barking.

Okay, my husband isn't home, no one is outside, not even a squirrel or a bird. Heck, I didn't even see a wasp or anything.

It's real. We have a ghost.

So I tell my husband about this finally a few weeks ago and he was like "well, I haven't see anything."

And that's it.

Really Blake.
Really?

Basically I got the vibe that he doesn't believe me and he thinks I am crazy.

WTF.

Okay, so the day we get back from our trip that I told him on, we were in the house hangin' out and there goes the black spot.

This time it was outside on the porch. I saw it move towards around the house.

Oh shit.

Now it's pissed because I've told someone about it.

Where we live it's been said that it was build on an old cemetery.
Not to mention around where we live there are houses that have been said to have paranormal activity.

The thing is, I belive in ghosts, I've never had an encounter with one but I think they exist.

There's one in my house.
I think it's Casper.
Not his brothers because they were mean and crazy.
This one is friendly.
Someone I know.

So technically is the house really "haunted" or just occupied with humans and spirits?

Until next time....

Being Catholic

Yesterday I went to a funeral for someone in my husband's family.

The man was Catholic.

I was raised Catholic.

Technically, I still am Catholic. 

However, I've never really attended the Catholic church.

I went as a kid growing up but as I got older I really just stopped.

I can't say that I've ever really been a fan of the Catholic church. 

Or any church for that matter.

I am Christian and I believe in God and all, I just have never truly felt "Welcomed" at a church. 

When I was little I got my confirmation done while in Mexico with my parents. My sister had done her communion and so we both got our confirmations at the same time. Even though I still hadn't done my communion.

I was in Junior High when I decided to try and get it done. 

I took the classes(was the oldest person in the class) and dang near completed the course. However, I got sick and was unable to attend a class and they told me I wouldn't be able to do my communion. 

Well okay then.

I was pissed.

No like seriously eff you Catholic church lady who told me I wasted those Wednesdays coming to class to accomplish nothing.

I mean I guess I did learn something because I learned how to do a proper rosery, the our fathers, and hail marys.

But still, couldn't do my communion and to this day I can't even remember the Hail Mary. 

Anyway, I've still gone to Catholic church all of my life. 

I say the appropriate things when needed, however the only and (MAIN) problem that I have is that I am still unable to take communion during the service.

Well I think that's a load of crap.

Here I am, 26(almost 27) freaking years old and I still can't take the communion. 

I've been coming to your church for all of these years, half asleep, half annoyed because I can hardly ever understand the priest but I still come, it's what my family expects of me, so I do it.

STILL. NO. COMMUNION.

Well, here's the thing.... God knows I'm a little rebel and he knows that I am hard headed and that I have always done what I have wanted to do therefore I think I should be able to take the communion. I mean, doesn't everyone get a little hungry during the service and that little piece of cracker/bread (whatever it is) could do just the trick to hold you over.

I mean why not. 

You wouldn't let me get my communion done because of your rules and still I've come to church anyway.

And if I take the communion without really being allowed to, then I ask God for forgiveness, won't he just understand anyway?

IDK!

God, if you're listening, let me know what's up.... I sure get tired of watching everyone else take communion and I just sit there. 

Until next time....

When I'm Gone/When You're Back Book Review

Holy Smokes.

I seriously don't even know where to begin.

The Rosemary Beach Series has literally been apart of my life for the past 2 years.

When I found Fallen To Far I was hooked.

That book had me hooked on Abbi Glines.

Her writing, the way she sucks you in, makes you laugh, cry, get mad and want to throw the book all the same time, she's just awesome.

Now, this story about Mase and Reese had me SWOON.

I loved everything about Mase except how he kept talking about "his freckle." LOL

It just seemed weird.
Like it wasn't something that would really be said in real life.

Other than that I LOVED him.

I mean, who doesn't love a southern cowboy.

YUMM.

I loved Reese because she had gone through a lot growing up and got a chance at a new life once she left home.

I loved that the people she had met and made friends with treated her nicely and she was able to move on from her past.

I also loved how Mase's family accepted her and didn't question her past.

I just can't get over Abblie Gline's books.
She's awesome.

This one's going to be a tough one to get over.

The Gypsy Cricket

Okay y'all,

I've been seriously M.I.A from the blog world lately. 

Getting married, buying a house, then doing absolutely nothing afterwards can do that to ya. 

Anyway, I've got some projects I'm working on for you all to read but something that seriously cannot wait is me letting you all know about this sweet little gem called "The Gypsy Cricket!"

Okay, so there's this really sweet, cool and might I add BEAUTIFUL woman I went to high school with who has opened up a shop. 

Well, she makes these ridiculously cute headbands and sells them. 

For CHEAP!

No, seriously!

Here's mine that I just purchased 

Check out the headband... Not the cute puppy! (Well you can check him out too!)

But I seriously couldn't wait to open the package when I got home...( and obvi had to try it on and have a photo op!)

Anyway, you need to go check her out. 

Esty... TheGypsyCricket

Better yet just go to:

www.Etsy.com/Shop/TheGypsyCricket

Instagram: TheGypsyCricket

Facebook: GypsyCricket

You won't be sorry! 

Here's a few pics of what you'll want to be apart of....

She even sent me a sweet little thank you card with a note in it! Who doesn't love that? 💗

Cardinal Birds

I'll never forget the day that my grandpa died in 1997.

I remember it just like it was yesterday.

The day of the funeral I remember sitting on the front porch of my house and seeing a Cardinal flying around the house.  My mom said that it was her dad coming to see her and tell her that everything would be okay.

We saw that Cardinal for years and mom always said it was her dad just checking up on her.

After losing my mom I looked for a cardinal immediately. I didn't see one until a month after her passing.

I was laying in my room watching tv with the blinds open, I saw something fly by and it caught my attention.

I looked out the room and saw a Cardinal sitting there in the tree.

I smiled, and it flew off.

I haven't seen a cardinal since.

Well, Sunday I woke up kind of early and couldn't fall back to sleep.

I was laying on the couch with Chico thinking about how I wish my mom was here. There's just so much going on in my life that I wish she was apart of. I wish I could hear her voice again, and let her share her wisdom with me.

I went to get ready to take my bridal portraits and as I showed up a bird flew right past me. I didn't think about it until I had walked under the balcony I decided to back track and realized it was a Cardinal just trying to get my attention.

There it sat.

Quiet.

Looking at me.

I tried to get a picture but it flew off.

That weird feeling I was having all morning suddenly went away.

I felt as if things were okay again.

I went on about my business, got ready, took my pictures and all was right in the world.

If  I could bet money, I bet there was a Cardinal out there while I was taking my pictures!






Missing you always mom. 

World Book Day

In case you didn't know, today is World Book Day.

There's lots of people out there who give me crap for reading as much as I do, and I don't care.

Reading is healthy.

It helps you learn, it helps you relax, & it helps you travel to places you've never been.

So for World Book Day I decided to share the top 10 books or series that are my favorites.

10 Top Books
1.)  Black Lies by Alessanda Torre
2.) Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover
3.) The Jade Series by Allie Everhart
4.) The Fixed Trilogy by Laurelin Page
5.) The Avoiding Series by K.A. Linde
6.) The Bad Boys Series by  M. Leighton
7.) A Beautiful Disaster Jamie McGuire
8.) The Rosemary Series by Abbi Glines
9.) Hopeless by Colleen Hoover
10.) Travises Series by Lisa Kleypas

Share some of your favorites with me too. I don't ever mind new books to read.

50 Shades of Grey Review

Let's see... Where do I even begin. 

My thoughts after seeing the movie. 

"Umm no." 

Jamie Dornan. No!

Sex scenes. No! 

Women in the theatre screaming over the movie. Hell no!

When the cast was originally picked and it was Dakota Johnson and Charlie Hunham I was disappointed. I don't so much care for Dakota but Charlie isn't who I had in mind. Like a lot of other people, anyway. 

When I heard Charlie Hunam dropped out I was really thinking "wtf!" I had accepted him and of course didn't mind his good looks. 

Then, recently after Christmas I sat down and watched the entire Sons of Anarchy series in a week. Can you say obsessed? 

When I get to watching a show I'm hooked! 

Anyway, I'm totes obsessed with Charlie Hunam now. I mean who wouldn't be? He's a total badass, typical bad boy and of course he's nice to look at. 

Therefore, I was NOT impressed with Jamie Dornan. 

First off he looks like a wimp. I mean in my head Christian is this tall, hot, deep voice dominant man. Not a guy I could probably beat up. And I'm all of 120lbs on my heavier days! ;)

Then when he talks I can hear his accent. Dude. No. 

And to top it all off when he said "laters baby" I wanted to throw my drink at the theatre screen!

Although I didn't. 

I wouldn't dare waste alcohol! 

Anyway, the movie was just blah.

Major disappointment. 

But, I, the girl who reads a book every two weeks, who picks apart every book, who sees the story beneath the words are written, wasn't surprised!

I knew it would blow!

I'm just glad the movie premiered so I can stop hearing all of these people crying about "that movie is the devil, that movie is about abuse, that movie has issues" and blah blah blah. 

The books aren't real. 

Yes, BDSM exists. 

Yes people who commit to that are morons. 

But that doesn't make me one for reading the books. 

I too was like "wtf is this crap" when I first read the book. But the other two have so much more meaning than just BDSM. 

But that's my opinion. 

Anyway, all in all the movie sucked. 

Here's to the next two being better! :)

Amazon Online Bookstore

New and exciting things are happening for The Lady Latina!

I am now an official Amazon Associate.

In other words, they think I am cool enough to work for them and sell items through them.

So you know what that means....

TIME TO GO SHOPPING!!!

The Lady Latina Amazon Bookstore

Now, with that being said I only have my bookstore up and running right now.

But basically I can get you anything you want off Amazon.

Now I know that you might already have amazon and how easy it is to get something with just 1 click.

BUT, I know how much cooler it is to buy stuff from friends who are trying to come up in the world and that just so happens to be me!

The Lady Latina Amazon Bookstore

Don't be scared... go online and buy some books.

The Lady Latina Amazon Bookstore

Planning A Trip? Check out RelayRides!

Planning a wedding can be overwhelming at times.

Especially when trying to plan a honeymoon as well!

But let's say you're not planning a wedding and just looking to take a trip somewhere.

You're going to need a rental car, right?

Well, there's this nifty little thing called RelayRides.

They are a great company that allows people to rent out their own cars to those that need it which not only is a win-win for both parties, but also is making better use of the cars already on the road and much greener than their corporate car rental counterparts.

I'll be going on my honeymoon soon and RelayRides is the company I want to use!

Think about it like this....

In your everyday life you might drive a mom car, something small, or maybe something too big...

But, renting a car can be fun.

I mean why not?

My everyday car is a suv or my fiancé's truck so when I go on my honeymoon I want something fun!

Maybe that sporty convertible I've always wanted, or maybe the little cute compact cars I think are just so funny to look at when they're driving down the road.

RelayRides is the place for that. I can pick and choose from all types of cars to drive when I am on a trip somewhere.

Just remember that when you're planning your trip and making sure you've packed all of your clothes... don't forget to schedule your Airport Car Rental too!


You'll regret it if you do.

We've survived 1 month with Chico.

Funny how things happen, isn't it?

I would've never thought that I would have a dog right now.

Me, of all people, wanted a cat.

Heck, I still want one.

Chico needs a friend to keep him in check. LOL.

I've only had one cat in my life and he was the coolest.

Now don't get me wrong, Chico has been way more loving than Armani ever was... but I still loved that freaking cat.

Anyway...

Last night as I realized it had been 5 months to the day since I had lost my mom I was kissing on Chico and thinking about how today would be 1 month since I picked him up.

And what a blessing he has been.

He's made me smile in ways I never thought I would again.

He's made me realize I do have some type of "motherly" instincts in me.

And it's crazy how I ended up with him.

I realized that if I hadn't lost my mom my sister may have not been given her dog which wouldn't have led me to getting my dog.

Therefore Chico is my blessing.

And still can't believe I made it 1 month with a puppy.

Here's to many more months with my sweetness. <3