Category Archives: Personal

Mourning The Loss Of Instagram

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Rena Anne

green skirt 1 green skirt 2(Earrings: Cookie Lee  Shirt: Old Navy  Skirt: veryjane.com  Shoes: Thrifted by a sweet friend)

If I were to name my favorite app of all time, it would be Instagram. Without a doubt. Who couldn’t love a place where people display beautiful pictures of their day? There’s no bickering or bashing (*cough Twitter cough*), it’s not confusing and not full of “so and so’s friend liked this picture” (I’m so sick of Facebook).

But it makes me think and mourn for a time that I didn’t have Instagram. I really wish I had had it the day I met my husband back on the beach when we were barely legal adults and I fell in love immediately with his gorgeous face. Or when we got married. How awesome is it that other people can take a picture of an event, add a hashtag, therefore making it incredibly simple to just scroll through all the pictures of your lovely day?! #jesseandrenasbigday would have been one stellar hashtag. I guess I will just have to keep those lovely memories in my head and move past my mourning. *sigh*

If you ARE on instagram, you can find me at _thegirlwiththesmile. 🙂

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Here Comes The Bride

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Rena Anne

(Disclaimer: These pictures were all taken with my iPhone, so please forgive the “not as good as my Nikon” quality.)
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I was a bridesmaid in my sweet, precious, wise, gorgeous friend Cheryl’s wedding this past weekend. It was a romantic location, perfect weather and an absolutely gorgeous event.

All the bridesmaids were allowed to pick out their own dress, as long as it was blue green. I am blown away at how well our dresses went together. And we didn’t even see them all ahead of time! I got mine at Ross for $15! Cheapest bridesmaid dress ever!

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The turquoise dresses with red accents made my little heart so happy. And Cheryl’s dress was breathtaking.

I decided to do my hair in the milkmaid braid and got huge compliments on it. Yay! I even did my friend Laura & Katie’s hair. If it’s a braid, I can do it!

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(I’m hoping in the near future to do a “30 Days Of Braids” with daily tutorials on different braided hairstyles. Would that interest anyone?)

Lastly it was so fun to catch up with old friends at the reception and hang out with my husband sans kiddos. He even danced on the dance floor with me, which if you know my husband is a BIG DEAL!!

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Congratulations Glen & Cheryl! It is apparent to anyone who meets you how much you love each other and I’m excited for you to start your life together! God bless!

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Open Mouth, Insert Foot

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Rena Anne

green dress 1 green dress 2(Blazer: Thrifted  Necklace: Cookie Lee  Dress: Plato’s Closet  Shoes: Plato’s Closet)

I REALLY need to think before I speak. Here’s why:

Last week, I was working at our school district office doing paperwork, etc. I should explain that during the school year I do speech therapy at a middle school, but for part of the summer, I lend an extra hand in the office with whatever they might need help with. I needed some assistance on a special project I was working on and was directed to go speak to someone in another part of the office. I went up to this person and introduced myself by saying:

“Hi, I’m Rena and I’m in Special Ed.”

No joke.

The sad thing is I didn’t even realize it until I got home and it hit me what I had done. Thankfully I don’t think the girl helping me even noticed my error. Yikes.

Color me ridiculous.

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