Black, White & Gold Kids Fashions

A few weeks back we went shopping at Old Navy, I hadn't been there in a while but they never disapoint and there's always a sale which makes me like them even more. 

Ah, thank you.

I love their kids fashions, and this season I'm in love with all their black, white and gold stuff! Here's a few of my fave picks from their girls section:

Old Navy Pics Black & White by andreaworley featuring old navy tees

Polka dot bathing suit, adorable! We scooped up a few things for Ava's summer wardrobe! 

And for the boys;

Old Navy Black & White for Boys by andreaworley on Polyvore

The shark tee, and the tanks are my favorites! 

Do you love this black and white trend? What's your favorite store to shop for your kiddos?

Altars & Idols.

For a few months my women's Bible study at church was studding about sacrifice & suffering. It came at such an important time for me as I felt like at the end of last year God was speaking to me during my quiet time about this very same issue. 

God started to reveal to me these different things and areas that he was asking me to take a look at, things that he was asking me to sacrifice for him. As I started praying through some of these things that God had laid on my heart, I started to notice a trend in all of these things. 

Here was my list; my blog, my photography business, and my heart for ministry. 

Being completely honest and vulnerable here God was showing me that these areas of my life had become more about myself and less about Him. 

They had become about being known. 

Being known around blog land, being known in the world of creative photographers and being known in the church. It had become about selfish gain. 

I wasn't happy with these areas of my life and the direction they were going because I'd been spending to much time on my own trying to make something happen. Instead of letting God use those gifts. Use them to bless others, use them to share his heart and gospel. It had becoming about me and my own agenda. 

They had become idols. 

Idols are built when the flesh takes over and there's no room for God. 

As I started to work through these areas, and seek the Lord in them I knew that he was asking me to lay them down. 

To build an altar and lay them down. To sacrifice them. Part of that sacrifice was letting go of my ministers credentials. Another part of that was taking a step back from my blog and photography biz and really examine my heart behind it and my motives.

An altar is made when we lay things down sacrificially. 

I realized very quickly that everything in my life was either an altar I was willing to lay down before the Lord, or it was an idol that I'd built up that had nothing to do with God and was completely all about ME! 

I realized I had a choice. I could either build idols, or I could build altars before the Lord and let him make something really beautiful. 

I challenge you today that if you're struggling with an area of your life to take a step back and pray about weather you're building altars or idols? My encouragement is that we always have the open handed attitude towards Christ where we hold our "things" our kids, our family, our blogs, our business in an open handed way that says to the Lord, 

"Do with it what you will." 

Easy Smoothie Prep with Silk Almond Coconut Blend

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When Zane was a baby around 4 months old he started spitting up large amounts of breast milk right after each and every feeding. He was eating really well, but throwing all of it up shortly after each feeding. I had asked a couple mama friends their opinions on the situation before I had made an appointment to see his Doctor. 

I wanted to see if it was something I could clear up on its own before anything else. A few friends suggested that maybe he could be allergic to dairy. Since I was breast feeding everything I was eating he was too. 

So as an experiment I cut out dairy cold turkey. No milk, no cheese, no yogurt, etc just to see how Zane reacted. Within a week of this he stopped throwing up after his nursing time, he was eating really well, his crying stopped a lot. I think mostly because his tummy was upset from all the dairy. I was convinced yup he was indeed allergic to it. 

Head to Safeway stores and grab a deal the Silk Almond Coconut Blend are 2/$6 or the Protein + Fiber is .39 off with your club card this week! 

Since then I myself have enjoyed Silk Almond Milk in replace of regular milk in just about everything, cereal, coffee, I also enjoy cooking and baking with almond milk. At first it was hard to cut dairy out of my diet, but now I actually prefer the taste of Almond milk. One of the benefits of almond milk is that it has 50% more calcium than regular milk.

My family and I use Silk Almond milk in a lot of our foods, I use it in all my baking where milk is added, we use it at breakfast time for cereal too! And I use it now in my coffee in replace of the creamer I once used. 

For my easy smoothie prep I like to divide up all my fruit and other ingredients and place them in ziplock bags and put them in the freezer. Then I when I want a quick smoothie I can just grab one out of the freezer and it's ready. 

Here's what goes into my bags;

Fruit (any desired kind) spinach, chia seeds, vanilla protein powder, Silk Almond Coconut milk. 

I love that in comes in a few flavors, my kids love the chocolate flavor too! Now, I'm excited about the addition of Silk Almond Coconut Blend and Silk Almond Milk Protein + Fiber perfect for adding to my morning smoothies! Even my kids love a good smoothie with almond milk. 

I'm excited about these new additions to the Silk family, giving me even more variety in a brand that I love! Do you love smoothies too? What do you put in yours? 

Coffee Date// Father's Day & Thrive Moms Local

Happy Friday friends! Yay for the weekend? Who's excited?! 

Big ole' hands raised over here.

Thanks for joining me for coffee this morning! 

Coffee Date 6-13-14 from Andrea Worley on Vimeo.

Visit Thrive local here and find a local group.

Visit Pink Coffee Photo here for the Father's Day printable I mentioned. 

to download prints from Danielle's site go here. 

Have a great weekend friends! 

Father's Day Movie Night with Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

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Father's Day is just around the corner, it's one of my favorite days. I love being able to celebrate and honor not only my husband but the many men in our lives. I wanted to put together a special Father's Day treat for my husband. He loves action movies, and we love to sit and watch movies together at home. I picked up DVD Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit Blu-Ray. Starring Chris Pine, Kevin Costney, Keira Knightley and Kenneth Branagh. 

I put together a fun movie night themed Father's Day date night, here's how I put it together. I headed to Wal-Mart, they currently have a special DVD combo deal with Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit & The Italian Job for $12.96! It's such a good deal and with that you get $15 off tickets at Ticketmaster good through 6/14! The second DVD makes a really great date night part two! 

I also picked up one of my husband's fave drinks and snacks and put them all together to gift him. We decided we're going to put the kids to bed early and enjoyed a date night in later that Father's Day evening. There's nothing we love more than snuggling on the couch together and watching movies, so this is perfect! And, the second movie in the combo makes for a great date night round two for another evening.

Another awesome perk of picking up the #JackRyanBluRay combo pack is that you get a $15 credit to Ticketmaster and a digital copy of both movies! Perfect for watching them on the go or travel, they will be awesome to have on our vacation later this summer. 

What are your plans for Father's Day? How do you make it special for your Husband or Dad?