Beauty on a Budget

So if you care nothing about makeup you can probably stop reading here.  This is a completely random post, but I just redid my makeup collection and am passing along some good deals for great products.

Does anyone else still have their makeup from high school?  Maybe i'm the only one raising my hand, but believe it or not there is a timeline for all your products and I was completely breaking the rules.

You're technically supposed to replace anything related to your eyes every 3-6 months, any sort of face powder every year, foundation 6 months to a year, and lip products every 2 years.

I'm pretty good about foundation because I normally run out, but the rest were pushing 5 years.  So I finally broke down and replaced it all, (i'm not sure how people afford to keep up with it all....and I buy on a budget.)

So here's my strong suggestions for beauty on a budget.

First, organization.
I wish I would've had a before picture.  Every piece of makeup I owned was shoved into a travel bag.  You can imagine the mess of powder lining the bottom and the amount of digging it took to find what I was looking for.  My husband bought me a beautiful vanity that makes my life a million times easier.  So if you have some available counter space I'm highly recommending this to keep you organized.

Link:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LOQ0Q4O/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Here's my stuff all put in some sort of order.

Next onto foundation.  I will say, I've tried the really cheap stuff and was extremely disappointed and I didn't even realize how disappointed until I found this stuff.  I know i'm cheap but I hated even paying 10 dollars for it at first, but now realize it is so worth it.  And considering most professional foundations are at least 40 dollars, it's a really good deal.

Link:
http://www.target.com/p/revlon-colorstay-makeup-with-softflex-for-combination-oily-skin/-/A-12771471#prodSlot=medium_1_2&term=revlon+24+hour+foundation


Eyes
I really suggest you look into the e.l.f. line of beauty products.  I get them at target, but i'm sure they're carried elsewhere.  They are super budget friendly and I really like how they work.  That's what I use for eyeliner, and most shadows.  I've also bought their primer and concealer.  I just purchased this off amazon because of the great price.  I purchased the every day collection, but the natural one I think will be my next purchase.  It has every color I need and I really like that it's a one stop shop instead of having to dig around to find the color I want.

Link:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AB4W2H4/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

And last but not least the brushes you'll need to get the looks you're going for.  At first I was a person that would use the brushes that came with whatever I bought and if it didn't come with one I just made do.  I'm telling you, having a nice brush set makes all the difference.  Plus i'm not sure how you pass up this current deal.  If you go to Karity's site they'd charge you the $85 dollars.  The only brush I can't speak for is the foundation brush because I bought one from the e.l.f. line that I like to much too make the switch.

Link:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HIDT94U/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1


As for the rest of my products like mascara, lip products, and bronzer, those change depending on my mood.  But here's some info probably most of you didn't need that you got anyways :)  Happy shopping.

Hanover Vegetable Farm

Yesterday we headed over to Hanover Vegetable Farms.  They had pick your own pumpkins, a little country store, and cute little activities for kids.  We decided not to do the pumpkins because there's another pumpkin patch we're planning to check out next week.  But we didn't find some other things for the kids.  (There is a lack of Casen pictures because he was scared of every single animal we came to.)

In backwards order...

Local apples for a snack on the way home

Aryas new favorite thing is to turn her head or not smile purposely for every single picture.

We didn't attempt the corn maze because we weren't sure how the kids would do, but had to get a picture anyways :)

Fall Fun

Caleb and I have always said once we had a house of our own we would get a little decorating crazy for the holidays.  And here we are, our first holidays in the house.  Now, since this of course is our first year, we're slowly building our stock pile.  But we're getting there!  I hope our kids end up loving the celebrating all the festivities as much as we do :)  And of course not pictures is the ridiculous amount of  pumpkin/fall smelling candles/tarts we got.

I've decided i'm just going to change out these frames with the seasons.  It's a super easy craft for your kiddos.  I just drew two pictures that had something to do with fall and let them color (okay so I pre-selected the colors they were allowed to use to fit the color scheme I was going for,) but none the less, they colored, i cut and framed, and voila, free and cute decor!

burlap pumpkins go perfectly in my kitchen

Williamsburg/Yorktown

I love that Caleb's schedule now gives him 4 days off in a row.  When he was working 5 days on 2 days off realistically Saturday was spent relaxing from the work week and Sunday was getting ready for the start of the next one.  Now we have the extra two days to focus on the fun family stuff.

Monday we headed back to Williamsburg where we used to live before California.  I'm really thankful that we still live close to these areas.  We did the outlet malls and the huge Yankee Candle factory and had a yummy dinner.  Then it was off to Yorktown beach to enjoy the perfect weather and the pretty view...and some Ben & Jerrys.  Morgan and Tim came along too!

and her cute little crossed legs after a long day

Picture and Life Update...even though I don't have much of one.

So here's our unexciting life dump these past few months.

A few weeks ago we made a quick trip to New York to celebrate with my sister and Tim on their wedding day!  We all had a part in the wedding so we had a busy few days, but we had soo much fun!  Caleb and I got to have a night to ourselves and I gotta say, he's a pretty great dancer :)  It was a beautiful wedding and i'm thankful that they made the move down here so we get to spend more time with them. (also i have a complete lack of pictures, but we did have a really trip spending time with family.)

And since we got back we've just been laying low at my family place, our home, (which has had no major updates to blog about.)

Caleb has been taking some classes so we've been enjoying having him here at night as he's been working days, but next week we'll be back into the midnights swing of things.  Both shifts definitely have their perks, at least on my end of things.  He's still being awesome doing his police officer stuff :)

Me, I've just been doing the same ol mom thing.  They keep me on my twos.  In October I'll be starting a month of working.  I haven't had a job since 2008, yikes.  I'll get to work for the same company as my sister does and it's just a temporary thing so I still get to enjoy my babies.  Hoping for the best as I step out of my comfort zone of home.

Casen is growing up way too fast.  The buses have started going by our house and I can't believe he'll be on them next year.  His newest obsession is dinosaurs.  He knows way more about them than I do.  Of course, he still loves Spiderman and cars and anything else boy.  He just got a new hair cut too!

Arya has of course changed the most, even just in the past week.  She's in the rapid changing stage.  She learns a new word it seems like every day.  She likes things her way, and that's about it.  She got two more teeth and two working their way in.  Her favorite thing is coloring.  Her favorite show is Sheriff Callie, which I now know because she's started saying it to ask me to put it on.  Her eating has slowed down drastically.  She was my easy child that would eat anything and we're onto not liking anything.  Thankfully, Casen was much worse so I know it's just a passing phase.  She's still in her crib, down to one nap a day, and is still sleeping through the night...as long as her teeth let her.  Her newest sayings are, come on, what you doing, and i'm hungry.  Potty training will be starting soon, yikes.

And here's so random cuteness for the end