Head Case

Recently, I contacted one of Stephen's old coworkers, who now does hair, for a cut and color. Stephen has been growing out his hair and he was thinking about having it cut by someone for the first time in like 10 years. He said he would like to go to his old coworker and I thought, I need a trim and kind of want a different color so I might as well go to her as well. This was the worst hair experience I have ever had and I will spare you the unprofessional email I received from her but it was just an overall awful and an experience I am glad has finally been resolved. The cut was uneven and more than a little trim, after getting that fixed, my hair is about 1 1/2 inches shorter :( which sucks because I am growing out my hair, I guess it could have been worse though. Here are some pictures to show you what happened with the color:



The color actually looks kind of pretty on the top. I had to curl it because it was the only way to cover up how uneven the cut was!



Again, on the surface the color is okay and actually kind of pretty in some spots.

Then you start looking underneath and you see how uneven it is.

My tiger stripes! These pictures were taken 3 days after the experience, but it almost looks like my roots are growing in, but only in random spots!

My Wilma Flintstone wig! My friend Sarah said the bottom of my hair looked like fake blond doll hair, I totally agree. Oh and it felt like it too, dry but kind of plasticy. ECK! When I was getting it fixed the stylist found little bald spots where the hair had burnt off because the girl left the color and bleach on way too long because she didn't know what she was doing.

Look at my hairline as it frames my face. So gross!

AHHHH! I am saved! Look how pretty the color is. Even though this isn't what I wanted in the first place at least it is normal and even and it looks healthy!

No more tiger stripes! There were still a few issues that we couldn't get cleaned up because the damage was too much, but I think overall it looks a ton better!

I didn't think it would be nice to name names here for anyone involved, but if you want to have the contact information of the awesome stylist that fixed and saved my hair, please let me know!!!

One Year Anniversary!

Stephen and I recently celebrated our one year wedding anniversary! This past year has been amazing and wonderful. I have heard people say that the first year is the hardest, if that is the case then life will be easy!! Anyway life has been great and I can't believe how fast it has gone by. We have done a lot this year, besides being awesome all the time, we have also bought a house and gotten a puppy!

For our anniversary Stephen planned a weekend away. He wouldn't tell me anything about what we were going to be doing just that I needed to take a half day off work on the Friday before. We got in the car and he drove me to my favorite Mexican restaurant in Orem. Then we got back on the freeway and I found out we were heading south but I had no idea how long I would be in the car because I had no idea where we were going. About 3 hours later, we stopped in Cedar City to get gas so I thought well if it isn't Cedar City then it is probably St. George or Las Vegas because they are the next biggest cities. We got back on the freeway and he got off on the next exit and pulled into our hotel, still in Cedar City. It was an awesome trip. We had a room with a jacuzzi in it, I got a pedicure, we had massages, we went shopping and did tons of other things (see the pictures below!). It was the perfect way to celebrate! I am excited to celebrate many more years to come!

We watched football (GO BAMA!) and Stephen used his mind grapes to come up with this awesome table so we could eat our pizza and not miss a second of the game!

Yep, he used a shelf from the TV Stand / Dresser! Hey whatever works, I guess if we lived like that all the time it might be considered WT but every once in a while it is called genius!

We dyed Stephen's hair.... Before....

AFTER!!!!

We went hiking in Kolob Canyon, which is part of Zions National Park. It was gorgeous!!!!

This is us, enjoying our "happily ever after!" Yes I am cheesy but I love it!

Halloween!

This year is my work's second annual Trick-Or-Treating event. We have all of the employee's kids come in for a few hours to go trick-or-treating around the office. The admin girls at my work all dressed up last year and now again this year. There are a few more people dressed up around the office, so it is going to be a good day!

Here are some pictures so far:


Stephen was kind enough to compliment my outfit by being a "greaser"! That is a pack of cards in his sleeve... not cigarettes! I love his hair!

The great girls that I work with (or should I say "grills"?)

My new card

I need to get some holiday cards designed and put on my website! I came up with this one tonight. I love the little girl on the right, she is so cute. Whenever Stephen sees her on one of my cards, he immediately starts to laugh, it is great!

liFe is gOoD!!!!

Do you like our new blog look??? I love it!

We have had a couple of interesting weeks recently and I haven't posted a lot so here it goes...

This past Saturday we went to the BYU football game with our friends Sarah and Clayton. They were recently engaged, so congrats to them. It was a lot of fun, we won't talk about the actual game but the experience was fun. Sarah had most of the pictures on her camera so there is just this one!


We went to Mississippi to visit Stephen's family. It was supposed to be for his 10 year high school reunion (I know he is getting old! j/k) but that got moved to next May, so maybe an 11 year high school reunion? Anyway, we already had the trip planned and the tickets so we went. We got to meet our new sister-in-law Judy. Stephen's brother Glen got married to Judy in February of this year. We just found out they are expecting a baby so that is pretty exciting! Here are some pictures from this trip. I just love Stephen's family, they are awesome, it really was the perfect trip!

These pictures are a little out of order but oh well...

This is Stephen's grandparents old house..... well where it once stood before Katrina. Good thing they lived in Texas during the storm. It was crazy to see that things haven't all been rebuilt, but when we went for Glen's graduation 2 years ago, there was still debris in the trees so it looked better than that I guess. Still sad.

We went to Stephen's high school's football game after having dinner with some friends of his from high school. It was fun!

There are little geckos that are on the bathroom windows at night. They were really cool to see. Patti (my mother-in-law) said they sometimes end up in the house but they aren't harmful they are just tiny little things!

A lot of the houses near the coast are built up on stilts kind of, like this picture. Especially the new ones, it seems pretty smart in that area.

Here are the kids, L-R, Judy, Glen, Stephen and Me!


Mom and her boys!

Stephen and Al! Great picture!

He is hilarious, right?

I just love this one. He makes me laugh, and oh so happy!

Here is one of Stephen sleeping at the hotel after the big ALABAMA game!

At the University of Alabama! My first college football game

He is a very happy man!

It was raining like crazy. I have never seen anything like that, it just started gushing out of the sky and there was no hope for it. We had ponchos but at that point it was too wet to do anything. I felt really gross the whole game and my clothes were so wet, my pants weren't dry like a couple of days latter. It was still a blast and we will never forget that experience! Stephen, of course, did not have a voice after the game was over! They one, because they are awesome!

Stephen is growing out his hair and I have to tell you, it is quite entertaining. Here are some pictures of the styles he is trying out. I don't think they do justice to the real thing but it is pretty hilarious. It is a little longer now too and when he dries it with an actual blow dryer, it is huge he looks like wolverine! I love it!

I feel like all I ever do is an "update" post but that seems to be all that I have time for now. I remember the good old days were we just sat around and watched TV all weekend and I slept half the day on Sundays and sometimes didn't get dressed in real clothes on the weekends... but we are just busy all the time and we don't even have kids yet. Although Royce is pretty close and it is amazing how much he has changed our world in the short amount of time we have had him.

Things are going well. It is recruiting season at work so it has been very busy but it is going well and I am grateful to have a job and be where I am at right now, that is more than some have so I am happy with that. Last night was the big recruiting event at our work. It is actually called "The Big Event", very fitting name. It took a lot of preparation and planning and my feet felt like they were going to fall off last night but it was successful and went well so that is good but what is even better, is that it is over! It is like planning a wedding for months beforehand, the day comes and it goes by so quickly and just like that it is all over and all of your hard work gone and left only to memories... okay maybe not the same thing but event planning is like that! Again I am very happy that it is over but it will come around next year so something to look forward to!

We had our friend's Sarah and Clayton over today for back to back football games (BYU and BAMA, of course) they both won so that is good. Sarah and I made mashed potatoes and there was a ton left, but they were good! Stephen and I made two strawberry pies before they came over and they are delicious! It was a good day!

We are going to visit Stephen's family in two weeks and we are very excited! We are going to an Alabama game while we are there so Stephen is really excited about that. We are going for Stephen's High School reunion but he hasn't even really mentioned that part in a while it is more about getting out to see his family now!

Royce is doing well and growing. He is so freaking cute and fun to be around, we really do love him! Here are some pictures of him lately.

Wouldn't you agree that his is awesome?

This is my favorite. We were at Old Navy and as we were walking out the door we saw that they had a pet section and they had almost exactly the same shirt that Stephen was wearing, for a dog so we just had to get it. Maybe this will be something we can do for Christmas cards this year???

I think this was his second bath, but he does not like them at all! Gosh I feel like a new mommy or something the way I show this off, but oh well that is our life!

Okay I haven't loaded pictures on my computer from our camera in a while and those just about covered all of the new ones! We love Royce!