ski trip recap

this past week was probably the most fun i've had all year! 

being sixteen is supposed to be fun, but mine was sub par to say the least 

 this ski trip was the best way to end my not so great 16 and start a fantastic 17! 

i went to beaver creek with my mom's side of the family and had a BLAST! i have one cousin that is a year older than me and one cousin that is a year younger (hey ellie and gabi ;) ) so we were able to be in the same ski school class! 

our trip was planned by our grandfather over the summer time so my cousins and i had a ton of time to imagine what kind of people would be in our ski school group.

we were really thinking one direction would be there, but unfortunately they didn't show up.

on our first day of ski school we had one other girl in our group. she was super super nice but she was 11. we weren't sure if we were bad skiers or if she was really good... 

we had so much fun skiing together and just being together, since my cousins and i don't live in the same town! 

the next day my two cousins that are my age went to ski school, but i decided to take the day off and relax, so i wouldn't get sick. 

(side note -- skiing is the most i've exerted myself in over a year!) 

everyone in my family went skiing on this day except for my grandparents so i just hung out with them. we went shopping in beaver creek village.

and when i say shopping i mean that we went into every single store. twice. 

i had so much fun with them, and all i bought was a fuzzy north face pullover that says beaver creek on the arm

the next day was my birthday! the big one. seven. 

i decided that i wanted to brave the fresh new snow and go back to ski school with my two cousins that are my age 

(second side note -- i have seven cousins in all plus my brother that went on the trip. all of my cousins are younger than me so they were in a different group, and my brother is also younger but he snow boards)

unfortunately, i only made it through half the day of ski school because i wasn't feeling too well. i thought i had altitude sickness at first, but i'm pretty sure that it was because i forgot to take my medicine with a big breakfast. 

but the half of the day that i went to ski school was super fun! it was just me, my two cousins, and three boys. one boy was taken out of our group though because he hadn't skied in a while. and the other two boys that stayed in the group were a pain. well one of them was a pain, the other one didn't really talk that much!
my cousins and i had an ongoing joke that the boy who got pulled out of our group was probably some super attractive guy but since we never got to see him without his ski gear we will never know. if any of y'all know a ryan from miami though
jokes jokes 

but the one that was a pain was an absolute nightmare. he complained about everything, and was just completely obnoxious. 

boys boys boys. 

the next day i decided that i wanted to stay in and not go to ski school, in case i got sick again. i also didn't want to hurt myself since the slopes were still super powder-y and i'm not that great of a skier! 

on this day (the last day) i decided to hang out in the condo for a little while and then i went down to the bottom of the mountain by myself and just take some pictures. 

i had so much fun hanging out with myself, since i never really am by myself at home. 

is that weird? i think that's weird. whatever.

after my hands started to get a little chilly from taking pictures i went back to the condo to hang out with my poor aunt who hurt her leg skiing the previous day. 

because my mom's side of the family is so large i never really get one on one time with my aunts and uncles so it was really nice having some quality "bonding time" with my aunt! 

then after my cousins were done with ski school i met them at the bottom of the slopes so we could go shopping together in the village! 

unfortunately the cousin that's older than me wasn't feeling so well so she decided to go back up to the condo after we had the best gelato ever! 

after my older cousin left the cousin a year younger than me and i walked around the village and took pictures of us with every statue and character (from the parade) we could find! 

we made great friends with the characters!! 

the next day we all took bus back to the airport where everyone, except my family, flew home. my family is staying in denver until january 7th because my dad works out here. we are probably going to move out here in the near future, which i'm super excited about because one of my all time best friends just moved out here! 

here are a few (kind of a lot - sorry)  pictures from the ski trip! 

this is my two cousins and i plus our ski instructor, ed. 

 the fam-jam

i feel like this would make an awesome christmas/new years card picture except for the fact that we got photo bombed. 

 these are the characters that my cousin and i made friends with

 we saw them probably ten times and we talked to them every time haha 

we call the guy on the right the present pine cone guy -- very fitting, right?

 how cool is this instrument?

the guy playing it was from germany i think, but he was absolutely HILARIOUS! 

 my two youngest girl cousins! 

this is one of my all time favorite photos of us together

i want to thank each and everyone of my guest posters! i really appreciate you helping me out while i was with minimal internet connection! 

what did you do over christmas?

thanks for reading! 

xox

1st week of school recap

wwheeeewww

i am so relieved that my first week of school is over! it was probably the longest week ever, and it was super hard to wake up in the mornings. i honestly don't think it's natural  to wake up before the sun rises, but i guess the school board doesn't understand;)

i've had a lot ore homework than i expected, but my planner is literally my best friend. last year i didn't use one, and i just don't understand how i got through the year without using it! i might write a post about how i organize it (would you be interested in seeing that??)

as most of y'all know i'm repeating sophomore year, and even though the first day was kind of hard i feel like i belong with my new classmates. it might sound cheesy, but it's true! i feel like the girls are much nicer, and we have a lot more in common so it has all worked out for the best! 

also, i'm in college now! well technically i'm not, but i'm going to be taking an online class for digital art. i'm soo excited, because digital art really comes easily to me but i just don't have the knowledge of all the possibilities that are out there. i can't wait to share with y'all what i learn, and i know that it'll be awesome! 

my acceptance letter!
go cards!!

oh funny story -- my mom told me that i should go to the football games and sit in the student section. alone. with shirt that said "virtual school" on it. hahah

anyways...

i want to let y'all know that i am in love with giving people advice. whether it be something generic like   what books i recommend, or more personal like how i would deal with "mean girls", or advice on what to wear to a certain event please don't hesitate to ask me! you can always email me at  

preppydiaries@gmail.com , or if you want to stay anonymous then you can hop on over to my tumblr and go to the "message" section and click anonymous! 

seriously, i'd love to help y'all out with whatever you need! 

also, tonight my mom and i went out for a celebratory end of the first week of school dinner at california pizza kitchen. the reason we went there is because they have a gluten free menu. 

well at least i thought they did.

it turns out they don't have that menu any more. 

so anyways, i ordered a caesar salad with no croutons, and my mom ordered a thai salad with the dressing on the side. 

when the waiter brought our food out the first thing he said was "i see some mistakes here, let me take these back to the kitchen"

long story short, we got our dinner for free! 

how exciting is that?

do y'all have any post requests? 

how was your week at school?

thanks for reading! 

xox 

weekend recap -- bro's bar mitzvah weekend

this past weekend was my brother's bar mitzvah weekend! we had all our family come in town to celebrate the festivities, and i had a great time seeing everyone! today i'm going to show y'all a little photo recap, because there was SO much going on that i would have to write a novel to share everything with you and by the time you finished reading it your eyes would hurt and you would never come back to read my posts (which neither of us would appreciate) 

instead of a novel of words, i'm going to give you a novel of pictures -- 

(warning, my cheetah dress makes it's debut in a lot of these pictures) 

friday morning my mom and i walked over to the nail salon. i got a manicure with essie's beach party. its literally the perfect peachy nude color, so if you're in the market for a good basic nail color i recommend this one! 

next, my brother, dad, and i went to the airport to pick up my grandmother and her boyfriend (although they hate me saying boyfriend haha). her flight was a little bit delayed so we had a photo shoot in the airport. i live in kentucky, so it's normal for there to be a random colonel sanders (of KFC) in the middle of the airport. 

it's also normal for there to be a random horse a jockey statue in the airport.
random stuff goes down in kentcuky! 

my family was staying at this awesome hotel in town, and by the elevators there is an interactive wall. that rains letters and land on your shadow/refleciton! it's so awesome I made my dad take a picture with me! 

this is my cousin's and me at my brother's friday night dinner! he had a special drink made for him that i like to call "jewce" (get it? juice with a little touch of jew? i know what you're thinking, that  i'm hilarious and clever and witty, but i already know that because i get it all the time... not)  my cousin's and i had a blast at dinner, because us "older girls" got our own table outside of where the rest of the family was because there wasn't enough room, which was fine by us! 

saturday morning there was a brunch at my house, and my cousins and i walked over to the thrift store that i talked about in one of my recent posts. we didn't find anything cute so we tried on these hides tops! they don't look too bad in the picture but it's out of focus, so you have to trust me on how bad they were! 

saturday afternoon, my other cousin from nyc and i went out to the driving range.  she is literally the most athletic person i know, and since i play golf we went to see if she could pick up the ropes (catch the ropes? i'm not sure how that saying goes, but i tried). it turns out she can play every single sport naturally, but golf is one she is going to have to work at! 

this is a random story, but this is a picture of the mumford and son's concert where i live! all those little ittie bittie dots are people watching the concert.
side note- my grandma is a talker. she literally could talk to a brick wall and learn each brick's life story. i'm not even kidding. she will talk to any person no matter what they look like and no matter how old they are.
so anyway, i drove to pick up my grandmother and her boyfriend from their hotel to bring them back to my house, and they were talking to this random guy outside of the hotel while they were waiting. when they got into the car i asked them who they were talking to, and they responded "someone from mumfry and something band i think". at first i thought they were just talking to a small band's member. but then i asked if it was a mumford and son's band member, and it was! how cool is that??
if you've never heard of mumford and sons you have to check out there music! i absolutely love every single song that they have made! click here and here to hear a good one!




so that concludes my little weekend recap. there was a ton more stuff that went on, but i think you've seen enough for now!

did you have a fun weekend?
have you heard of mumford and sons?

thanks for reading!
xox
chloe