Springtime is here!!

This post has nothing to do with makeup.  I am just so excited that spring is finally here that I wanted to post a couple of pictures that I took!  There's just something about spring air that makes you just want to go outside and take a deep breath, I love it! 

These are just the flowers on the tree in my front yard (sorry I don't know what kind of tree it is)!  Aren't they beautiful??

And this picture is of my "Lamb's Ear", I just thought it was kind of a neat picture. 

   And now I have to share with you the most AMAZING jeans ever created!!!   I got these last week.  I have to tell you here that I do not buy myself clothes.  Like ever.  If I have extra money, you'd better bet I'm buying something makeup related haha.  But it had been a while... like a really long while since I've bought new jeans and I needed some. 

So I had been taking these stupid online surveys on "e-rewards": each survey is worth a certain amount of money and then you cash in your money to get some kind of reward.  Well I saw on there that if I earned $95 then I could get a $50 Express gift card so that's what I did.  The week I finally earned enough (it really took a long time) and my gift card came in the mail, I also got coupons from Express giving me $40 off of a purchase of $120 or more!!!  So I went to Express and picked out these jeans. 

Now let me say that I have "thick" thighs.  They are just big and muscular and they always have been and no matter how skinny I could get, I'd still have large thighs.  Let me give you an example; a few years ago I had on a pair of sweatpants at my parent's house and my dad looked at me and said, "Sonja, you should model softball pants."  Yup... softball pants.  I know he meant well but in my language that meant, "Sonja, you have really big thighs" haha.  So I need pants that flare out at the bottom to make my thighs not look as huge. 

I picked out two pairs of jeans that are the same style, one just has whiskering and fading on them and the other is just dark blue, I got to the dressing room and put them on and got so excited because they looked good and I didn't look at myself in the mirror and say "hello thighs" like I usually do when I try on pants haha.  Now let me warn you that these aren't cheap pants.  The plain dark blue pants were $69.90 and the ones with whiskering were $79.90 (I guess whiskering costs more???).  But they had a buy one get one 50% off sale (that's actually why I got two pairs).  I also grabbed two tank tops (each was supposed to be $19.90) from there because I wear tank tops under everything and they were also buy one get one 50% off.  So all of these things added up (with no sales on anything) would have originally been about $190, but with the sale, my gift card, and my coupon I paid about $60!!!  Yay for deal hunters!!! 

Now, without further ado, let me introduce you to my incredible pants (maybe some day I'll get brave enough to post a picture of me wearing them but today is not that day):

The plain ones:

http://www.express.com/flare-leg-stella-regular-fit-jean-deep-rinse-33217-24.pro?showBreadcrumb=true&recentlyviewed=true

The ones with whiskering:

http://www.express.com/flare-leg-stella-regular-fit-jean-dark-indigo-32827-641.pro?showBreadcrumb=false&relatedItem=true

I highly HIGHLY recommend them to anyone who had big thighs (oh, but I should mention that I don't have big hips or a big butt).  LOVE them!!!

Well, that's enough of my rambling for today haha!  I hope that you all enjoy the spring weather as much as I have been (unless you live somewhere like Upstate NY who still have snow haha)!  Thanks guys for reading this!!!