Happy Day Before Christmas Eve Eve! Hope everyone is having a lovely time with your families. Jimmy and I are currently in California (we surprised his family, other than his mom who flew down us to surprise everyone else) and are having the time of our lives. For that, I’m making this post short and sweet and posting an outfit that I took a few days before we left. These were taken in our front yard just outside the door. Obviously we are very on top of shoveling our driveways and walkways…hah.

beanie: gap
sweater: thrifted
jeans: thrifted
legwarmers: target
boots: reflection

Merry Christmas!

It is absolutely BEAUTIFUL outside. But it’s also freezing. In the negatives, to be exact. I don’t know how we do it to be honest..how we live here. Haha. It’s sort of funny how when it reaches up to 20 degrees we get excited about it. But I will gladly take that over -7! Anyway, enough about the weather. The snow is so high (past my knees) that I haven’t been motivated to take any outfit photos lately, so here I will leave you with the last one I took before the snow came. It’s also been hard to wear anything other than jeggings/leggings or jeans, but I’m comitted to not letting the weather bring me to the point where I don’t feel like getting dressed up! So here’s to toughing it out and braving the snow. I’ve been doing it every weekend for photographing my clients…why should this be any harder?

In other unrelated news, today it has officially been a year since Jimmy joined the Air Force. I can’t believe how fast time has flown by! One year ago today I was saying goodbye to him and seeing him off to BMT. Crazy. But good crazy. There have been some frustrating times for sure, but I wouldn’t trade our life for anything and I’m thankful to the Air Force for putting a roof over our head, medical insurance, and so much more! And I’m also thankful for my husband, of course. Words can’t express how proud I am of my handsome man and how grateful I am for his service! He is an amazing Airman and I can tell he is going to do great things and go very far in his career

You know, now that I’ve gotten busier with Jen Hammer Photography (and don’t get me wrong, I am loving it!) I haven’t made the time to take many outfit photos, or photos of my family, so as busy as I get, I’m trying my hardest to keep up and still take the time to keep documenting my life in photos, for me. I really miss taking outfit photos and right before we welcomed snow, I took a couple. Here is the first. The rest of our household goods came and with them came my chucks. And oh, how I have missed my chucks. For a small period of time I’ve been going through this phase of wearing Jimmy’s plaid tee’s. This one I picked out for him at the thrift store on base. I’m pretty sure I wear it more than him, though. And I can’t help but be on a flare kick…still. The jeans were also picked up at the thrift shop and are AE brand! Love them. I know this outfit is similar to the last, but I couldn’t help myself. I am sort of really into plaid at the moment. Anyway, it’s good to be back!

October 30th marked the first official day of snow here in Alaska, and although some of you probably already have snow, and some of you also may be laughing as well, I’m super excited. But what do you expect from someone who’s been born and raised in Southern California? So yes…for now, I will celebrate and have lots of snow fights with Jimmy and Layla! Maybe I’ll grow tired of it, maybe I won’t. It’s taken me a while to get used to the weather changes as it is, and I’m still getting there…but we’re loving it! As you can see here, Layla and I played around outside while Jimmy was shoveled our driveway, a daily task we are required to do since we live on an Air Force base. I’m looking out the window and I’m seeing our driveway that has yet to be shoveled today…along with our walkway and sidewalk. The snow looks beautiful falling right now, but I definitely do NOT feel like going outside and shoveling at the moment…nope not one bit

Happy Snow Day!

As the title of this post states, these photos are a bit old. But I figured I’d post them anyway. It’s weird to look at them because I can notice how much the scenery has changed since then. The trees are no longer that vibrant green and are pretty much bare, and most of the leaves that have fallen on the ground are dead. And I’ll state the obvious…it’s flippin’ cold! Yes, I am a wuss, but seriously…the first snow fall is due any day now. While most of you are welcoming Fall, we are preparing for an early Winter!

Having Jimmy take my photos has been loads of fun for me cause I get to sneak in some mushy pics. But nonetheless, I got a Gorilla Pod to hold me over until my tripod gets here with our stuff. It’s for me to use on those days when my begging and puppy dog eyes won’t work

MY, does it feel good to have an outfit to share!! This is my first time owning a pair of flares. A good friend and I went shopping and she picked them out for me and insisted I try them on. I was hesitant at first because I never thought I could pull it off, but once I slipped them on, pretty sure I was sold. They give me curves where I don’t have any, which is something I love because lets face it…that doesn’t happen often. I got the inspiration of this outfit from an episode of That 70’s Show, if you haven’t already guessed. I was getting ready to go out to dinner with the husband when I glanced over at the TV and saw the always beautiful Mila Kunis rocking flares and a flannel button-down with her bangs pulled back. And wedges! Seeing as how I have all those things, I decided to try it out for myself and I felt pretty dang hot. Maybe not Mila Kunis hot because she does set the bar very high, but good enough to get checked out by Jimmy and that’s more than sufficient for me

button-down from Target, flares from F21.

So there has definitely been a lack of outfit posts around these parts for two reasons. One: My beloved tripod is still back at my in-laws with the rest of our household goods that are waiting to be sent to our new home. We’ve been in Alaska for two months and our stuff still isn’t here yet, and let me tell you…veeery frustrating. Anyway, I usually prefer to use the tripod and handle taking outfit photos that way, but I gotta admit, having Jimmy take photos for me has been pretty fun! I’ll most likely be trying to get him to do it more often, I just have to get him to agree…or bribe him with Oreo truffles…

Secondly, lack of clothes! For the same reason, it’s all back in California. While packing to move here, I only took the clothes I felt I would need and now that we’re settled in and waiting for the rest of our stuff, it definitely seems like I didn’t take much. But it’s allowed me to be creative and for some reason, it’s not really as hard as I thought it would be. I have a new love for mixing outfits, that’s for sure! Maybe if I’m feeling confident enough, I’ll be showing some off…

I apologize for my absence but once I get back into the swing of things I’ll return with some fun stuff to share! Things have been a teensy bit busy in the Hammer household.

I’m not really jumping for Joy. Well a little, but I figured I’d squeeze in one last outfit post before we move because I don’t know when I’ll get to post another one. It shouldn’t be too long, but we do have to get settled in and adjust and in the meantime I’ll be on the hunt for some beautiful photo taking spots, which from what I hear won’t be too hard at all.

Jumping photos are probably one of my favorite kinds of photos to take. My husband is convinced that he gets better air than me when he jumps in photos, but I think he’s wrong. Maybe I’ll drag him with me sometime and take some, and you all can be the judge of that…

cardigan- a small boutique in my hometown, shirt- wal-mart, shorts and belt- thrifted (shorts were pants that i cut), shoes- target

Wow, I can’t believe we’re leaving in just a couple days. This time at home has flown by so much! Pretty much all day yesterday was spent packing and organizing our things, and we still have a bit more to go. Today we’re going to a friend of the familys 1 year olds birthday party, and then stopping by to see our cousins who are in the Navy and catch up with them before we go. There’s still so many people we’d like to see before we move and have proper goodbyes with, but we are so strapped for time that it’s looking harder and harder. Who knew 10 days would be too short? I sure didn’t. But we are both so excited to begin our new life in Alaska and get to know the area and people. The butterflies, excitement, and anticipation is already coming! Can’t wait!

I only stand at 5′1 so when I started seeing more midi and maxi length skirts and dresses, I was convinced that I was too short to pull them off. Then I got over it, and bought a few anyway and I LOVE them! I got a little excited with the twirling because I feel like it’s something you should do if you’re wearing a fun and flowy skirt, no?

A tad bit obsessed with twirling.

I noticed my adorable niece staring out the window at me longingly from inside the house. So I smiled and waved, and kept twirling for photos. Each time I twirled, she would break out in laughter.

So my mother-in-law took her outside, and she came out to play and twirl with me! Plus, saying no to that face is way too hard.

everything is head to toe thrifted, except for the headband from Claire’s, and the shoes from Target.

I hope everyone is having a lovely week so far. I’ll be in Virginia until the end of this weekend since we decided to extend my stay here a bit longer

I did my hair in a low, side topsy-tail style and I kinda like how it came out! I like doing my hair this way instead of just a side pony cause it adds a little something extra.

cardigan- from a boutique in my hometown, button up-target, pants-forever21, boots-reflection

I loved all your sweet comments on my anniversary/wedding posts, you’re all wonderful

Anyway, as you can guess, my husband is still not home. I’m doing okay, though. Really! I don’t want to jinx it but it’s looking like this week he could possibly get orders to come home? We’ll see. We take it one day at a time and on most days we get no news whatsoever, but Skype is so good to us and we have ours on and are skyping for most of the day, even when we’re doing our own thing or sleeping through the night. And that is whats making this whole situation so much easier. Just last night I put on Beauty and The Beast while he was passed out, and I loved being able to just click a button and see him sleeping. It’s the next best thing to actually being with him in person, so I’ll take what I can get

Not much else to share other than that! But hopefully I’ll have something new to share soon. Have a nice day, friends!