Sunday Photo Shoot

Macie wanted to play with the camera on Sunday, so I said What the heck. It made her happy, and since I aim to please......

Josh is facinated with how my keys work....some intense conversation going on here.
He's my little prince :)

Kari and Josh

Macie obviously got her Dad's gene in the photography department....oh joy.

And then I had to get a picture of the two of them, cuz hello!! They are just so cute!

Such a sweetheart!! Getting so big! She was so proud of her dress, because it had a bow on it, her boots had bows on them, and I put a headband with a bow on it in her hair. I did her hair in little flower buns, and she couldn't have been happier. . . . If only everyone were so easy to please :)

Hair drama

So. One day, quite a few months ago...like back in March I went and got my hair cut. I walked in the door, and I'm going to guess that from the look on every one's face, it was a lot shorter than they had expected. I knew that, but was trying to get used to it, because once you cut hair...its cut. Right? Right. So I get home, and Whit tells me that since I've already made a pretty drastic change, I may as well change some more, right? So we decide to make me a brunette. So I go to Sally's, find a color, come home.....and walla, I'm brunette. That was fun. I liked it, but I've always had this total desire to be blond. So when it started growing out, and was obviously time for more color, or something, I decided to try blond. So, back to Sally's. *DISCLAIMER* BAAAD IDEA!!!! Got the color i wanted, and we gave it a shot. I knew it was going south, when its 11:00 on a Saturday night, and Whit is putting it in and says "Is this all you bought?" As she only had half my head covered. Well, she made it work. So at least I was all over...Orange. Yes, it turned orange. Whats' worse, is that I had to go to church the next day. Ug. Well, first thing Monday morning I had an appt to get it "fixed" That didn't work either. After being in the salon for 5 hours, I came home WORSE than when I left. Trying to lift a dark color, doesn't work. Well, at this point, I had colored my hair twice in 48 hours and it was fried. I had to leave it alone for at least 2 weeks so that it could heal. That was the greatest news EvEr! During this 2 week span, my family would be visiting, and I ended up going to AZ for almost 2 weeks. SO it wasn't until a couple weeks ago, that I was finally fixed. My friend Panda's AMAZING sister was in town, from SLC, and guess what?? She's going to Paul Mitchell Beauty school. It just so HAPPENED that I texted Panda the WEEKEND Kenzie was in town, asking her if she had any suggestions on how to fix my "Orange skunk hair" cuz guys, that's TOTALLY what I looked like. Yes, an Orange skunk. So anyway... Here's the pics. Kenzi totally fixed me up!

This is My natural color, before any color at all....High school days....

Darker Days. NOTE: Ryan is notorious for just taking pictures, and NEVER getting good ones, so this is about all I have to work with...Sorry.ORANGE!!! I had to go curly forever, because straight just made the orange shine, even WORSE! The orange shirt is definitely not helping my cause in this picture, it was bad bad news.

Finally blond. Its still got some orange highlights in it, because she just weaved the blond in, but we are definitely on our way to a full recovery, I think!

Talk about unwanted stress!!! :) Just kidding. It makes things exciting and fun, and that's just the way I like it :)

2009!

Alright. Its obvious. This blogging thing, has totally kicked my trash. But here we go!

Janurary:

DISNEY CRUISE!!! It was seriously a blast! I came back, totally wanting to get a job with Disney! They have so much fun together, and I just thought it would be awesome! It was SO relaxing, I think my favorite part was never knowing what time it was. It could be 10 in the morning, or midnight, and you just didn't have a clue. I could seriously get used to that life :)

Here is my journal entry that I started, but obviously never finsihed... from the cruise.

Yup. I'm serious. I just had one of the best weeks' of my life. I think I've decided what I want to be when I grow up :)
Last week, Ryan, Whitney, Mike, Stacie, and Kent and Deb and their families, went on an Eastern Caribbean Disney Cruise. It was seriously amazing. I loved it.
Saturday, Sunday and Monday, we were at sea all day. They had tons of stuff for us to do. The kids each had their clubs to go to, they had pools, hot tubs, clubs for all ages with fun things to do, tonnnns of food to eat, all the time, movies playing constantly, in the theatre. We went to quite a few live performances, and they were awesome! You could catch a movie playing in the Theatre almost always. We stayed in the cabins midship, so there were no windows, which was awesome. We could go to sleep and sleep forever. . . never having a clue what time it was, because it was always dark (that, and you were changing the clock back and forth all the time because we were going through so many time zones.) The rocking was so awesome. . . especially when you were trying to go to sleep... Luckily I didn't get too sea sick.

This is Kylie and I, sitting in the window on Beat street on our way to Karoke night. Super fun, and obiously something was super funny because...look at our faces :)


Our boat was the one in the middle. The one that has Mickey Mouse ears :)

CORN ROWS!!! Funny story: Kylie and I went to get our hair braided. Disney does it on the ship, cheaper than you can get it done in Mexico per say. So Whit scheduled us a time, and we went up to get it done. They got almost done with Ky and asked me who was going to come up and sign for us. I told the lady that I'd go ahead and sign. She looked at me and said "Honey, you can't sign. You're Mom or Dad will have to come do that for you." I looked at her and said "Ummmmmmmm how old do you have to be to sign?" She said "You have to be at least 18 dear." Well, I had some news for her.....seriously. She didn't believe me! I seriously almost had to go track Ryan down, to come sign for us because she wouldn't buy the fact that I was 20 years old. When I told her how old I was, she looked at me and said "Oh my goodness. I thought you were 14" I still haven't decided how to take that....somedays people think I have 5 kids, other days I'm 12. What the heck!

Well, thats the most amazing vacation ever...in a very small nutshell. I will get caught up on everything else here....very soon :)