This is one of those types of playlists that you only listen to during the season. I personally love Halloween music and think they're a lot of fun! They're great for Halloween themed parties as well as playing in the background of your house when the trick-or-treaters come around the neighborhood! I always loved when houses go all out with their decorations. Here are a few of my favorite Halloween songs!

- Monster Mash by Bobby "Boris" Pickett
-Witch Doctor by David Seville
- Ghost Busters by Ray Parker Jr. (always will be a crowd favorite)
- Thriller by Michael Jackson (obviously)
- I Put a Spell on You by Screamin' Jay Hawkins (any Hocus Pocus fans out there)
- The Addams Family by Vic Mizzy
- Time Warp by from Rocky Horror Picture Show (LOVE Rocky Horror Picture Show)
- Heads Will Roll by Yeah Yeah Yeah
- This Is Halloween by Marilyn Manson (Gotta love The Nightmare Before Christmas)

Gotta love Halloween music!! Have a great week everyone!

xo
Olivia

November Monthly Goals

This month has been pretty hectic with school work. Luckily I was able to cross a few things off of my October Monthly Goals list!! Although this month has been crazy busy, I had such a great time! It definitely had it's ups and downs but overall it was a good month! Here's to an even better month in November with a new list of goals!! Yay goals!

October's Goals
Make pumpkin hot chocolate I'm counting this as a win because I had Starbucks to make me pumpkin hot chocolate lol
Carve a pumpkin 
Go in a corn maze Success!
Make homemade chili Success!
Limit myself to getting Starbucks once a week 
Take more scenic pictures Success!
Get Ky to take a cute "couple" pic with me Success!
Finish the Ellen Degeneres book
Go apple picking
Meditate before going to bed and right after waking up Counting this as a win because I really tried!
Unplug for 2 hours a day
Jump in a pile of leaves Success!

November Goals
Unplug for 2 hours a day
Continue to take more scenic pictures
Make a dish for Thanksgiving
Finish the Ellen Degeneres book along with another book (suggestions please!!)
Remember to make my bed every morning
Get back on my blogging schedule
Cross something off my 25 before 25 list

I definitely thing these can be achieved!

xo
Olivia

October Monthly Goals

I can't believe it's already October!! We're also like a third of the way through October. How crazy is that?! If you didn't know, my favorite season is the fall. This is probably because my favorite holidays are in this season: Halloween and Thanksgiving aka dressing up and eating a lot of food! This is the first of many posts about goals. I'm going to start doing monthly and weekly goals! I personally think making goals and actually striving to achieve them is an incredible way to live your life to the fullest, which is basically everything that I believe in! So here's my goals for October!

Make pumpkin hot chocolate
Carve a pumpkin
Go in a corn maze
Make homemade chili
Limit myself to getting Starbucks once a week (yikes)
Take more scenic pictures
Get Ky to take a cute "couple" pic with me (he hates pics)
Finish the Ellen Degeneres book
Go apple picking
Meditate before going to bed and right after waking up
Unplug for 2 hours a day
Jump in a pile of leaves

I'm definitely challenging my inner child this month. How can you not act like a kid during the fall?! Soo many fun things to do that a lot of people forget about when they get older. What goals do you all have for October? Share them with me in the comments below!!

xo
Olivia

Family Weekend At USI

I've been super busy with school work this past week so I never got around to putting up a post about my awesome weekend visiting my sister! Last weekend my mom and I drove down to stay with my dad Friday night. We had a great time and my dad made one of my favorite foods: stuffed mushrooms! He's an amazing cook and I definitely miss his cooking. After playing with my dog, Sasha, for a few hours we all got exhausted and went to bed. The next morning we took the 2 1/2 hour drive from my dad's house to Evansville, Indiana where University of Southern Indiana is. That is where my sister is a freshman! It's soo weird that she's in college now!

We had a relaxing day filled with a LOT of food and a LOT of shopping. I got a few new sweaters (you can never have too much) and some jeans. I also got an awesome new headband for the winter to keep my ears warm from Target! Emma had to make a paddle for one of her sister's in her house since she's officially in Alpha Sigma Alpha! She's soo excited! I got in the mood to do an arts and crafts too so I just painted a pumpkin that is actually really cute! After I finished with mine, I helped her with the paddle. It turned out really good! Unfortunately I don't have a picture of it..

We had a great, successful family weekend! Definitely was hard leaving but we had a great time and can't wait for next year's family weekend!!

xo
Olivia

Halloween Costumes

The month of October puts everyone in a great mood. One of the main reasons for this is because of Halloween!! This is actually my favorite holiday so I'm a little biased haha. I love dressing up and I really go all out. Halloween decorations are some of my favorite things to shop for! They're all soo fun and I love everything about it! Ky, however, absolutely HATES Halloween and refuses to ever dress up. We'll see if I can get him to change his mind. Here are a few of my favorite Halloween costumes that I've seen in the past. I hope they will help give you all some ideas for costumes!

These pictures are from this past weekend. I know it's not Halloween yet but you have to love multiple Halloween parties! This means many different outfits! I went as goth, my roommate went as a playboy bunny... (yeah idk), and then 2 other people went as Cosmo and Wanda from The Fairly Odd Parents! How funny?! For my look I did heavy dark brown eye shadow and black eyeliner for the eyes. For my lips I actually used eyeliner and then put on lip gloss to make it shine! For my outfit I just wore combat boots, black high waisted jeans, and a black crop top. For the chocker I cut the top part off of black tights! 

 These were Halloween costumes from my Freshman year (right) and Sophomore year (left) in college. Freshman year I went as a cat and my friend went as a school girl. I just used eyeliner for the whiskers, pink lipstick for my nose, and did the cat eye look with my eyeliner on my eyes. For the paws I cut the fingertips off of a pair of gloves from CVS or Walgreens. The cat ears and cat tail (not shown) are from a Halloween store. My sophomore year I went as batman. I'm obsessed with Batman. For this look I got the leggings with mesh on them from Charlotte Russe. The shirt and cape came as a pack from either Spencers or Hot Topic. For the face mask I actually used black eyeliner to draw the Batman symbol and then colored it all in with eyeliner as well. Eyelids, eyebrows, skin and all. I actually use baby whips to take off my makeup because I feel as though they're more natural and softer for the skin.

 Here are some costume ideas for younger kids! These are my cousins that I'm obsessed with. They're the cutest things. This year is on the left and last year is on the right. I couldn't find a good pic of Brody's costume from last year. Last year Leighton went as Mr. Funny Bones. It's one of his favorite characters from whatever movie it's from haha. I think it would be cool to spice it up a bit and spray paint all of the white bones with glow in the dark paint. That will definitely make it easy for you to find your kids in the dark while trick-or-treating! This year Brody is going as Maleficent from the new movie Maleficent. For the makeup her mom used a sparkly, purple eyeshadow and a darker, purple eyeliner and winged it out like the horns on her head. For Leighton, he's going as a stormtrooper from Star Wars. Such a little guy costume. Loving these kids so much and always love seeing what they come up with for Halloween costumes!

What are you guys dressing up as for Halloween??

xo
Olivia

Fall Break

This past weekend was my Fall Break at Indiana University. Like always, it's a chance for me to go home and see the family and Ky. I had a great weekend with everyone! Kyle's sister, Dani, drove me home because she is a senior at Indiana University! I love going home with her because we get to catch up and we get along really well! She's the best! Her friend from Georgia, Shayna, came with us like she always does for Fall Break. We got home super late on Thursday so I basically just went to sleep to prepare for the rest of the weekend. Driving sure does tire you out!

Friday I spent the day catching up on some stuff for my blog. I don't think I've told you guys yet but I was offered to write for this awesome blog called Grad Guard! You should all really check it out! My first post went live this past week! It's great for college students, high school students, or recent college graduates! It is basically all about making yourself a better person and being healthy while spending your lives! How awesome is that?! After I finished my post for this coming week I went to get my eyebrows waxed. Let me tell you, they for sure needed to be done. I don't know how I went 2 months without getting them done! I only waited that long because I don't trust anyone else to wax them so I had to wait until the next time I was going home. After that I took the train into the city to spend the night with Ky in Chicago. We had a lot of fun and basically just relaxed the entire time. Of course we watched some Seinfeld (they're obsessed) as well as some baseball. Does anyone actually enjoy watching baseball on TV?!? We went to our favorite restaurant in Wrigleyville which was obviously sushi. We're both extremely obsessed with sushi except we have to watch what we chose with me being allergic to gluten and Ky allergic to tuna (as well as everything else you could think of). The sushi was once again amazing and we are excited for when I come in town again to go back to Oh Fusion!

Saturday was a lot of fun as well. After waking up, Ky and I went to breakfast at one of our other favorite cafe's called Horizon Cafe. I got a Mediterranean skillet and Ky got eggs and hash browns. It was their 10th anniversary so they went back to the prices that they had when they opened in 2004. Our entire meal was 13 dollars!! How crazy is that?! We were shocked because we had soo much food for only 13 bucks! They also had my favorite tea to drink (Tazo Zen)! After making our way back to the suburbs around 3ish, my mom picked us up from the train to finish getting ready for my family event. We drove about 45 minutes to a farm called Richardson Farm. It the largest corn maze in America! It's awesome there! You basically rent out a bonfire area and bring food and just have fun with your friends or family! This was our 2nd year going back and we will continue to in the future. This year we finished the corn maze in an hour and a half (last year it was 2 and a half hours....). The corn maze is different every year. Last year it was shaped as the Beatles and this year it was shaped for the 200th anniversary of the Star Spangled Banner! It's pretty amazing! This also means that I accomplished one of the things on my October Goals list! Yay!! We had amazing food and had a lot of fun! I love spending time with my cousins and it's great to get to see them when I'm home from school!

 Sunday morning was pretty hectic making sure that I had everything that I needed before heading back to school. I got to spend a little more time with Ky and his family because we all went to Walker Brothers for breakfast. I was amazing! My mom was also invited so she got to, finally, meet Kyle's dad! We all had a blast and I had amazing chocolate chip gluten free pancakes! I had a great weekend and wish I could've stayed home for a few more days. 3 days at home is such a tease when I'll be home for a little over a week for Thanksgiving break in a little over a month! I can't wait to see everyone again for that! How was your weekends?? Did you do anything exciting??
xo
Olivia