Happily Ever Johnson:Just Engaged, so now what?

Happy Snowy Friday!! The snow is really starting to come down and it looks like I'll be snowed in for my birthday! I can always celebrate another weekend but was looking forward to this weekend. Well I hope you got the chance to watch my engagement story. You can see that post HERE!! Well I'm bringing the first post to my new series, Happily Ever Johnson(that is going to be my new last name lol). I'll be taking you guys along the whole planning process until the big day. Since we just engaged we've been doing a lot of talking about everything. It was just like where do we start with the whole process?? I found The Knot.Com and that website is just amazing!! It has everything and is very helpful! You can view different venues, make your guest list, and view pictures of just about everything. I love that it gives you a to-do list for things you should be doing every month up until the big day. Here is a snap shot of our checklist.

They have so many articles and just full of so much information so I don't feel so overwhelmed. We first thought about the budget which is the most important thing. You have to know what you can spend and the limit you want to set. I think this is very important! I really want a nice wedding within our budget. We next talked about a date. We wanted to have enough time to plan and enjoy the whole process so it will be Spring 2017! We also started selecting the wedding party and compiling our family and friends list. It just seems like a lot but I am up to the challenge. I decided to take on planning the wedding myself and with some help from family. I'm just so excited. My fiance also brought this planning book and mug for me. I love how hands on he is with this process.

I can't wait to get into this book!! I hope you guys stay safe and warm wherever you are and see you on Tuesday!!

~**Drea Notes**~

I tried the new Latte Macchiato at Starbucks. I like it with a pump or two of Vanilla.

I hope this is the only big snow storm we are getting this year! Lol!

Taking a break.......

On Tuesday I did mention that I had some exciting news to share. I have been working part time for a while and searching like crazy for full time work. I was starting to get a little frustrated but never gave up. Well a full time opportunity came up at my current job and I am now full time status!!! I was just so overjoyed and thankful. I will have a more stable income, I can go back to school and start to make some moves. Then I started to get a little overwhelmed. How was I going to juggle being a full-time working mom, grad student, blogger and balance everything else. It has been a while since I had a full time schedule and based my blogging schedule around my days off during the week. I start my full time hours next week and just need to take a small break away from Naturalle Drea. I really didn't want to because I love this so much but I need to see how to handle everything. I will most likely change my blogging schedule around. Thank you to those who have been encouraging to...

Updated: How I currently store my makeup

Hey guys! Back in January, I took everyone through my entire, well majority of my makeup collection. I showed how I used to store my makeup. You can see that original post here. I had everything stored in my empty Birchboxes. It was working for a while until I went to two makeup shows and I didn't have a place for everything! As I was cleaning one day, I saw that had this tall storage bin with stuff that I don't even use anymore and thought it would be a great place to store all my makeup and still have it organized. Here is a picture of where my makeup is currently stored. I believe I purchased this 7 drawer unit at Walmart years ago and glad I kept it! It has come in handy. I'll take you through what is in each drawer. I'll start with the top of the unit where all my brushes, setting sprays (that I haven't used yet lol), OCC lip tars( I couldn't find anything to store them in but that red cup lol. I'll have to decorate it later.) and other items...

Sometimes its hard.....

You know when you keep thinking of something and you just feel like you have to get it out? That was me before sitting down to write this post. I had something else planned to write but I kept thinking...sometimes its hard and it just evolved from there. We all heard the sayings, life isn't fair, life is hard and so on. Sometimes life can be hard but we don't experience it for long. There are so many things that I want to do but I know I can't do a million things at once. I can't just pick and go anymore, I'm someone's parent now. There are times I want to but I know things have to be planned out now. I will get to those place I want to go, just have to be patient and plan it out. It seems like we focus so much on what is hard about life that we forget about the easy stuff. We forget sometimes about all the good things that happen and to be grateful for getting through those rough patches. You may not like your living situation but you have a roof over ...

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