 We are vlogging today. I know it's been a while, but first let's go get some caffeine. Toby, you wanna go outside? You wanna go outside? You know, we're early when we get parking in the lot. Where else would it be on a weekday morning? It's 7.40 and it's pretty early but Ryan usually likes to get out and get coffee in the mornings but I feel like it's too early for me to have caffeine. I like to like sip it when I'm actually meeting the energy around that midday slump, like two. And my new favorite energy drink, maybe I'll drink one today. I haven't drank in one in the last couple days, right? No. We're afraid that I was trying to get addicted but my sister left me to use a longy new drink. They're the only energy drink I've tried that doesn't make me anxious, which is insane because I feel like everything makes me anxious except for Diet Coke, but I don't know. What do you call that energy drink? It's caffeine. Yeah, but anyways. I just like to come and get out of the house. So me and the followers want to know what's so great about Fletch Coffee and why do you get it every day and day? Damn. I don't know anything about coffee so I'm like, how is this? It just tastes good. I did that in April a lot of times. Put a little bit of maple syrup in there. And it's a little bit, like the coffee is a little bit bitter, which I like. That's not like burnt. Like Starbucks tastes burnt. This does, and it tastes a little bit more bitter. And then they put the oat milk and the maple syrup. It's just so good. So if he likes it, right? You didn't like it that much? No. It tastes like the milk at the bottom of free pebbles. That's usually what my moshes taste like if it has lavender syrup in there. If you guys are new, I don't drink coffee. The only coffee I drink is summer moon because it's like this much milk. And then Starbucks, the white ice, ice white mocha, which is also a lot of milk. But I prefer an iced chai. I like iced chai. My apple watch on. And I saw in a TikTok, kind of a while back that if you put this watch on your ankle, it counts to your steps more accurately because my hands are barely moving up here. So I just turned on like an open goal workout. And then I'm just gonna slide it over my ankle, which I really need a new strap for this. I stretched this one out so that I just need to get like a velcro strap so it's easier to put around my ankle. And then I can, you know, tighten it on my wrist. And that way I don't have to like change the bands every time because it's kind of annoying to do so. And I am editing the rest of my New York vlog. Like we went to New York. I don't even know. Like a month ago now, it feels like at least. And I still haven't edited it. Like I've been so bad with my posting on YouTube. You guys probably know if you have been, you know, watching my vlogs for a while in the past, I was really consistent with weekly vlogs. And then life just got kind of crazy that I couldn't really keep up with the editing of it all. It's really hard to get back into vlogging when you take like a day off or like just a little tiny break. You forget to bring your camera around. You forget that you're even vlogging that day. And it just doesn't come as natural. Like even if you have such a small break of it. So what I'm trying to do today is to kickstart the vlogs because I miss it. Like I miss vlogging. I just feel like the editing is so draining for me because I don't really have much time to edit. So it's kind of like a dreadful thing. Like if I vlog, then I'll have to edit it. You know what I mean? I honestly just need to be more consistent and like hold me to a posting schedule which I used to post every Sunday. But that just kind of like got off tracks because I would leave the editing until the weekend and then I'm like, why should I be working on the weekend? So anyways, we're here editing my video and we're gonna walk a little bit on the treadmill. Finished editing the video and I'm just gonna upload it to YouTube. I think the other hardest part is just making the thumbnail and like the title and stuff. I mean it's not like hard but also kind of really important because that's what makes people click on a video. And I know I'm not the best. I'm making great thumbnails for people to click on because my views have been really suckin' lately. But I am gonna make a smoothie. It is 11 o'clock and I actually had two shoots today scheduled but one person canceled, which kind of sucks but it's okay, life's gonna go on. So that one was the evening ones. That's why I'm kind of like okay with it because now I have my full evening to myself and I'm excited because I'm gonna be cooking pasta for dinner tonight and I got beef so we're gonna be adding a little protein in there too and I just feel like it's gonna be a really yummy dinner. I'm already looking forward to it. You can probably tell I'm very hungry right now. I was watching my friend Nagin's TikTok I think and she said that she puts frozen spinach in her smoothies and I was mind blown when I saw that because I buy like packets of spinach and usually one third or like half of it goes to waste because I don't use it in time, like all of it. And I really like to add this in my smoothies because I feel like I can't really ever taste it and it's just like added nutrients. So this was just like so smart of her and I bought it yesterday and I wanted to try it out tonight and then I'm probably just gonna do like strawberries, pineapple, banana. I just kind of like do a hodgepodge of things that I have in the freezer. But I also think I'll probably add some protein powder. I haven't been adding protein powder like for the past month or so. There was a point in time where I was drinking the protein powder so often that if I didn't have it in my smoothie I would like it just like wouldn't taste complete which is funny but I wanna kind of get back into it just so I don't have to have a heavy breakfast and also like cocoa heavy breakfast. I'll probably have some like prosciutto on the side because I love like a sweet and savory combination. I have a shoot at 12, it is currently 11.10 and I really wanted to try to get ready before it just to be ready for the day. I'm not sure if that is realistic but we're gonna try to eat quickly and then just put on some makeup and my hair is pretty much already straight. Last week I did a newborn session and they wanted me to do some more photos of them and some other family members so I'm going back to their house today which is a good feeling when they want you to come back you know, because you did a good job. I already feel so productive getting that YouTube video edited because let me tell you guys it's been like the weight on my shoulders just knowing that I have a video to edit and I don't know why like I just feel like sometimes I dread the editing process and yes I could hire a video editor and I have in the past but I don't know like giving up creative control it's really hard to do. Number one, number two you think you're gonna like sit back and relax but you kind of have to train them to like get to your style and aesthetic and just like the way you edit your videos so there's not a huge difference of when they actually take over versus when you edit your own videos also to be very transparent I don't really make that much money on YouTube especially if I wanted to hire a video editor like it would be coming out of my own money so it just really wasn't worth it for me to be spending that much on a video editor so that kind of sucked because it was very nice when they finally got the you know, swing of things and then I could actually create the content like I could create more content and then they just edit it and it's just like done like that it was very, very nice so I'm definitely not knocking it for the future but for now editing is no joke like it really takes a lot of time I always make the mistake of making way too much for smoothies so I just put some for Ryan in a cup and like most of the time he isn't really craving a smoothie when I make it so I'll just put it in the fridge for him and this is where I realized I didn't even put protein powder in it and I don't really feel like putting it back in the blender so I guess we'll just do it without you know what time it is, taste test so good, like so good I barely taste, well actually I don't even taste the spinach almost done with my smoothie and now I'm just packing up my camera bag I use this camera to shoot for my photography business and then I also use it for vlogging so maybe I'll take some clips on my iPhone for you guys I am back home, I didn't get any footage because it was a newborn shoot and there were so many family members around I definitely would have gotten a clip or two if it was just like the couple and the baby I am going to eat this beautiful sushi roll that I bought at HEB yesterday that I totally forgot about so this was a very nice surprise it is currently 1.30 and I have this like mental thing where if I don't put on makeup before noon I'm just like eh, what's the point especially because we have so many hours after daylight savings time but something in me is just like it's just not worth it, like I can't film but obviously I probably can I don't know, I feel like I should make today an admin day and like do a lot of editing since I got like one video down or maybe I'll just save it for tomorrow that way I can get in my steps for tomorrow so we'll see about that but I feel like whenever I actually put on makeup like it really doesn't take that long at all and I might film a tech talk while I put on my makeup so that could be an option too I'll keep you guys updated after I chat on on my sushi roll we finally got the video posted and I have one video more to go I have a support haul that I wanna put up and edit, I already filmed it so the hard part is over I guess I feel like that's my easy part that editing is really the hardest part for me but we are gonna go to Costco and Ryan wants like to get golf gloves and it could be dangerous y'all could be very dangerous basically he was just like I need to go in quick and get out quick and I was like no we need to have a little Costco party so that's what we're gonna do and then I also have to pick up my lens that precision camera I think I dropped it off in like what March or February and it's now May, late May huh? I thought you ordered a new one or something no I probably should have it took so long and it's like I have to pay a good amount to get it repaired well it's already repaired it's ready for pickup but it took so freaking long literally all of grad season it's not the lens I use the most but it's definitely one I gravitate towards like I think it'd probably be my second most used so that kind of sucked you know how I'm yet it's my 50 millimeter so I was gonna buy a new one but then I was like you know what let's just get it repaired it's definitely gonna be a lot cheaper I decided to pull out the little camera this used to be was it my first ever vlogging camera? I think it was so this is the Sony A5100 I don't even know if they make it anymore but they do make ones like this I actually bought it on eBay so you could probably still buy it on eBay but it's very compact and I'm trying to like pinpoint the reasons why I don't like vlogging why I dread it sometimes number one is the bulkiness of my camera right now because I vlog on the Sony A74 and this one is just so much smaller and especially when I'm going out in the public I feel like I am being stared at because I have this huge camera so if I have this little thing I am more willing to vlog like I'll vlog more and then I won't be embarrassed so we're gonna try it out we'll just bring this along the only bad thing about this camera is that the battery like lasts for two seconds at least I feel like it does I always have to change it out so I literally have a bag of these batteries I don't know if you can see it but it's filled with so many of these batteries so whatever at least these are all charged I believe from a trip that I was gonna take it to our house looks like a freaking sports sports what's it called? Sports Academy? What was it used to be called? No babe, the one that we like would oh sports drama the best part about any grocery store is the frozen aisle in my opinion but it's not like we have a whole family to feed I know it's Costco but I wish all of this wasn't so big because I'm like well number one we don't even have a big enough fridge or freezer for all of this so I guess I'll just look for now oh my gosh look they have pressed juice $30 wow $40 I'll give you like $7 for one hopefully they're just as good just a child in a playground last night I was at my friend Sherene's house and she had this saffron tea she's Persian and she made this really yummy tea I saw this and I was like what the heck I sent her a picture and she was like that's not a bad price for that so it was like $9 I think so I'm excited to like look up on TikTok what I should even do with saffron we're trying to press juice in the parking lot we actually ended up getting it because I was like wait that's so cheap it's good it is really good, I like it other than their ice cream yeah I have some beef with pressed ice cream I think it's called pressed freeze and I just you know it's hard not to fall for cute packaging and all these influencers are like my god it's so good but it's like actually so not good I was so disappointed it's like icy I'm really really not good I'm walking what? don't lock your keys in there can you give me the cap do you have the cap? bring the bucket I'm glad we got this it was like $8 or $9 like one little pressed juice thing at pressed you know the to-go ones would definitely be like probably $10 I'm like so shook that it's that price but hey I'm not complaining we love a Costco date we're going to get my lens I'm making pasta tonight and I decided to add on a little bit of protein it's just some beef and we have some this kind of pasta and I think I'm going to do this sauce and I have some heavy cream so I might add a little bit in there happy Friday we are about to go try on my boots that I dropped off earlier this week I don't think I've walked it because I just started vlogging yesterday but basically free birds gifted me a pair of boots and I absolutely love them they're really really tall though and you know it's in my jeans to have really really big calves I didn't think that my calves were like that big like abnormally big but whenever I try on boots I get really humbled because I'm like why doesn't nothing fit over these freaking calves when I was getting the boots she was like yeah they're gonna stretch I've been struggling to even get them on without being in so much pain so I decided to like go take them to the boot store and they would only like stretch the toe part like how wide it was not the calf part which sucks because then I had to take it somewhere else but I found this place on like Yelp called the golden slipper and they said that they were able to stretch it so I'm gonna go try them on hopefully that works I think it was around like 30 bucks to get them stretched but if that doesn't work then he'll have to like actually take apart the boot and like add more material maybe I'm not really even sure hopefully we won't have to do that so I can just like take them because I've been wanting to wear them I got them like maybe a month ago or something maybe a little over a month ago and I've worn them maybe once or twice but I really don't think my calf's got any bigger so I'm like really confused it just like is impossible to get on now so I'm glad I can finally check that off of my to-do list I'm gonna get my boots done too probably from Allen's and they are too narrow right here like the instep of my foot, good stuck so I'm gonna see if they can cut them and re-stitch them I love these boots so I'm gonna save them boys and their boots it's still really tight so it's up in here I was so hopeful that they would fit and I wouldn't be able to take them home today but it was still such a struggle and yeah we had to leave them on the stretcher he said come back Wednesday so hopefully they'll be good enough he wants to stretch the actual boot like the shoe part not the shaft of it you know yeah you argue to be a bit so I trust him we'll see, hopefully it doesn't make him too big yeah they're pretty like stretchy and actual shoe part but getting them on is so hard why we got big feet and calves God bless our child in the future club feet and hairy very hairy Ryan's off work for the rest of the day and also Monday right so I thought we could get a little sweet treat or just something as a little reward and there's this new boba tea place that opened up in East Austin so we're gonna go try it out we got home and I ate some leftovers from last night that pasta is probably gonna last us like four to five days especially because Ryan didn't eat it he got food out and I was just like you know what I have to eat the pasta like it's just you know it's gonna sit there and then it's gonna go to waste if no one eats it there's still so much more I don't know how many more days I can really truly eat pasta but it's pretty good it's very filling I really want to get back into sharing more fashion content and I feel like I always shared like fashion collages and actually I had an assistant last year that helped me put these together like I would kind of just like find the links to everything and then she would screenshot remove the background put it in a nice cute aesthetic collage and that was very very helpful now I have Canva and I just thought I would try to do it on my own and they have a bunch of templates that you can use and kind of customize I pretty much took like one template and then added stuff from the other template I loved this little checkered background and I don't know if you can see but there's like some plaster texture behind it because I felt like it needed a little bit more but like how cute is this I know this one looks a little bit cramped but this one wait this one yeah this one is so freaking cute before I did Canva I used to take every image into like Photoshop and remove the background but now you can just click the image well if it had a background you go to edit photo right over here and then all you have to do is press this and it'll literally remove the background it says background remover and it is so freaking cool I do pay for Canva but I think it's so worth it because the amount of freaking templates you can choose from and the graphics and like the little elements is insane and yeah if you guys are in the creative industry and don't already have like a subscription in Canva it's so freaking worth it so I've been doing that and now I'm gonna go into Lightroom and start calling through the photos that I took yesterday at the second newborn session for the same baby it was just the other side of the family wanted some photos with him so they called me back which was so fun and yeah I'm just gonna call through these that might take a while and then I'll probably go ahead and edit all of them I try to edit as fast as I can in today it's definitely way more chill than like any other day especially grad season it was like go go go some days I get lucky and I can like deliver the photos like the day after because I personally don't want it to just like sit in my like editing queue like if I have the time I'll get it done fast so I'm gonna try to get these done by today just so I don't really have to worry about it through the memorial day weekend good morning it is Saturday and we are up early we're gonna get breakfast I think we're gonna try a new place and it's not like new to Austin but it's new to us and it's called picnic so we're gonna see if there's a wait hopefully there's not and then we'll go eat there first I want to show you guys my outfit of the day top is from Amazon I absolutely love this body suit and I've been meaning to do a video on different ways to like style this body suit but today I paired it with these Amazon linen pants I believe they're like men's linen pants but they are so comfortable and just gives very cool girl vibes and then I don't know about the shoes but I'm kind of loving the furry Birkenstocks right now and I'm still not really sure what purse I'm gonna do but the hair is up I'm actually getting it cut and colored today which I'm super excited about I honestly don't remember the last time I got hair cut slash color and you can see that my black dye faded at the ends because that's like the bleached part and like all this is probably my natural hair since I've been growing it out for pretty long time so far so yeah I'm just gonna dye all one color again get it cut get some more layers for the summer I just feel like it's getting a little bit too long and there's just so many dead ends like it's really really bad I got some matcha and Ryan got nice latte with maple syrup and my husband maple syrup too and coconut milk so let's do a taste test cheers it's a little bit sweeter than the clutch looks good I think I want to cut out for my hair cut and I'm going to get like a gloss or dye or whatever they call it glaze and go a little bit darker this is what it looks like this is how long it is I had to change my top because I spilled something on my top of course I feel like I always have so many opportunities throughout the day even the days that I'm not really filming content hey I'm Caitlin we're here at Spoken Wheel Austin today we're gonna go ahead and gloss her up we're gonna do just a little gloss to cover up these previous highlights and just help it to blend with her natural it's also gonna add a ton of shine I'm excited for that yeah my hair is gonna be looking so healthy again thank god so we're gonna start by getting her prepped with keyed teen we'll just go ahead and dampen the hair just a little bit so that that peptide can get in there a little bit better and then we'll go ahead and apply the mist and we'll do the mask at the shampoo ball what is the mist like what product is that so the mist is designed to get through any kind of like conditioners on your hair it's a professional only product so this is something that you can't get online at Sephora so this is professional only the mask you can purchase at here or at Sephora it's just gonna keep your hair so much healthier I feel like keyed teen's kind of like the new it's gonna get in there it's gonna rebuild your hair from the inside out and it's gonna permanently repair your hair so love that yeah it needs all all the help it can get and it's cumulative so you can't overdo it you'll just continue to benefit Hi my name is Tim Patrick I work at Spoken Way Lawson so we've just prepped their hair after color we're gonna be doing a dry haircut on it today for accuracy I can manage the density and the length very efficiently we're gonna take a face framing layer just right above her chin around lip length it's going to be very soft it disappears in straight hair it presents itself one curler way and just a little less than an inch off the length just to freshen it up for summertime right in there perfect this is the final the face framing look at this shout out to Caitlyn and Tim hi there Ryan and I are getting an early dinner we decided on pizza for tonight we're going to San Vittorio fingers crossed that we can get in and we can get in really fast and we won't have to wait it's 5 30 right now so we'll see we'll see but tomorrow is the boat day I don't know if I told you guys this but we're going on boat like a big party barge on Lake Travis and I want to be like prepared so I'm gonna make sandwiches and like you know kind of pack the cooler tonight and then we have to like drive up there I think by like 10 a.m. so pretty early morning so I definitely want to try to go to sleep earlier tonight it is boat day we're making a mixed drink we're gonna do pre-cycle and pineapple juice we just finished the press juice it was so good guys seriously get this if you go to Costco but we are pouring it into that little canister and it's busy that's fine or it'll shake up the whole way I'm thinking we can just like drink it in the car maybe on the way and then last night I actually opened or is it a PR and I got these margs in the mail oh I got the worst flavor in my opinion this is a mezcal margarita but there's like a coconut one in here sparkling coconut margarita like are you kidding me and my friend I posted on my story my friend said these are really good so I'm very excited to try those and what else do we need um water what didn't you want to put pineapple juice in there yeah yeah it's right there our fridge is a mess there we go you pour it in there too first this is pineapple juice in Perseco it needs like a bit yeah oh heck yeah and we just brought seltzers too and I see what I found what the tequila kind is so was it what was it it's vodka before and then we had tequila let's see what flavors ooh okay yum hi boat day you guys look so cute