Missionaries

We had a nice dinner with the missionaries tonight.  Here are some pictures of our evening.  Elder Needham is from Notingham England.  Elder Earley is from Texas.  My girls are in love with one of the missionaries but I won't say which one but he might have a funny accent :)

I love to laugh

Today was a great day.  My sweet husband took me out to lunch and my sweet daughter did my nails! 

I have a gggggreat instructor in school, I really like him, he makes me laugh.  You all know how I love to laugh.  I laugh a lot at school.  Today he told us a story about how when he first started to teach school he was getting ready for work one day and had a "spasm" and hit his self in the eye with a hair brush and gave himself a black eye.  My instructor's name is Lyle and he is the most patient man.  He works with many, many, many women and even most of them are just young girls.  Crazy hormones and girl crap happening all through out the day and it just doesn't faze him.  He just lets things roll off this back and he works with everyone so well.  I am really impressed.

I am grateful for the my sisters.  I love them.


Lyle playing around with the students at school wearing a wig.

Lyle letting the girls play with his hair.

Emma getting her nails cured under the lights :)  Isn't she beautiful?

Emma's beautiful nails that I did for her.

Beauty, we do go to great lengths to achieve it!

What a day :)

I am grateful for Scott he came home early this week and it was so nice to sit down with him on a Wednesday and snuggle on the couch!

I had my WHOLE face waxed (if you know me well you know how hairy my face really is :)

I had my eyebrows and eyelashes tinted (or dyed).

It took 3 hours to do this but it was worth every minute and painful hair being ripped out of my face...jk.  It wasn't really that painful TRUTHFULLY! I think I have a high pain tolerance and last fall when I had a woman use the string method to remove my face hair it was soooooooooooo painful that it made me cry and I will never use that method again.  Give me some gooey green wax any day over a piece of thread.

Super

Today was a super day.  That is my new word.  Super.  I seem to be using this word  alot lately to describe everything.  Kind of like when I use to describe things in my past by saying awesome.  I really need to develop my vocabulary skills better....JS.

Back to my SUPER day.

I got to give Emma a deep conditioner and scalp manipulation.  Doesn't that sound technical?  Really what I did was put oil in her hair and give her a DANG GOOD head massage.  It was a massage even Ann would be proud of :)

I also learned how to wax someones face!  Today Emma had her eyebrows done.  Tomorrow Emma is going to do mine and I get to do another persons eyebrows too.  I love waxing.  In the past I have enjoyed plucking my girls eyebrows and now this is an even better method of doing it. 

I am so grateful for Valentines Day.  What a great day to say I love you.  If you are reading this blog then it means that I really love you!!

Emma applying some stuff to my hair before the scalp manipulation :)  she did a super job!

I think Emma looks like one of those super Lumpa Lumpa guys from Willie Wanka and the Chocolate Factory with her green eyebrows.

This is Angelica.  She is an angel.  Her name fits her personality perfect.  I have had the opportunity to meet some really sweet girls at the school and I have to say hands down she is one of my favorites! 

I just love learning from her. 

She is Emma's age and is a senior in high school but she has the soul of a wise, patient and loving person.

Getting ready to start my week

I had a great weekend.  I worked hard on putting together my frozen crockpot dinners and finished them off today.  I am going to see how they taste and if they are good then I think I may be converted to freezer cooking.  I love the idea of taking a few hours once a month to put together 20ish dishes that I can throw into the crockpot in the morning and have a meal waiting for us when I get home from school.  I think this is an awesome way to cook healthy when you have no time to actually cook.

I am looking forward to this week because I just know I am going to learn lots of things.  I have all my meals made for this week and....Elle has her two best friends taking the missionary discussions :)  This will be their 3rd appointment and I think one of them (a girl named Kayla) is taking it very seriously she is actually on 1Nephi 6 in just two days.  (That actually impresses me).

The reason why the girls were interested in the lessons is because we happen to have a really cute missionary from England serving in our area right now.  But if the reason why they want to meet the missionaries is because they are cute but they keep learning because they are searching for truth and really interested in learning more about the LDS religion then I say send out all the cute missionaries to our area because I think EVERY missionary is cute!!

Speaking of missionaries....I miss mine.

Last week Emma and I got to work on real clients :)  I did a color and style and Emma helped with a color correction.  I have realized that all those times that I colored Emma and elle's hair in the past I was doing it wrong.  I really didn't know what the heck I was doing.  No wonder one time Emma's hair turned orange :)

I am so grateful for Mondays.  They give me a break and I get to chillaxe.  Plus I get Tanner's emails on Mondays!

We have so much fun at school.  Emma showed us her mad skills as she ate a cookie without using her hands :)  I know I have a talented daughter!

Not a Morning person

I hope this blog doesn't get to boring.  But I guess I will be talking a lot about school since that is what my life is focused on right now. 

I have stated before that I am going to school with Emma.  For the most part we get along very well.  Even better then very well.  I love to be around her and she is one of my favorite daughters :)  but I can see that I might get on her nerves at times.  Today she was frustrated with something she was trying to do and I was trying to help her with it and she got very ornery with me with me.  I just don't get irritated as easily as she does and sometimes it is hard for me to relate to people who get so ornery.  Another thing that I already knew about Emma but it has become very apparent to me in a different way is that Emma is NOT a morning person.  Until about noon (actually after lunch) her mood is not as happy and she gets frustrated more easily.  On the other hand I am a morning person and then I crash around 7 pm when our day is over but she is just getting started with Elle when we get home.

I hope we can make it through our year of school together without to many moments when she is mad at me but they are bound to happen.

I am grateful that Scott is taking me out on a special valentines date tomorrow night. 

What's for dinner?? Poptart or Grilled Chicken?

I am happy to be half way through my week :)  I am exhausted and would like to crawl into my bed right now but I am going to cook some things for dinner to have for the next few nights.  I don't get home until 7pm and by the time Emma and I walk through the door I am starving!!  If I don't prepare better I am going to end up eating junk for dinner because I don't have the patience and energy to make dinner after standing on my feet for 10 hours a day....so I am off to pinetrest to see what recipes I can find :)

But speaking of pinetrest, I love it and I think it is weird at the same time.  (Thanks for getting me hooked Allison)

I am grateful for my knowledge and testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ.  I am glad I know where I came from, that I am a daughter of God, what my purpose is here on this earth and  what I can achieve after my time on this earth if I make the right choices in my life.  WOW, many people don't know any of that.  I can't imagine what my life would be like without that knowledge.


Emma pulled Magnum's hair through a cap today and gave him some orange hightlights!  I gave mine some normal blond highlights.

Missionaries are my favorite kind of people

Today was a great busy day.  After 10 hours of rolling perms and learning that stress does cause gray hair my girls and I drove into SLC to see a dear friend of ours.  Elder James Holladay fresh from Minnesota was spending the night with an aunt before he is off to the MTC tomorrow.  It was so wonderful to see my old home teacher!!  It really brought back lots of memories and feelings of a great time in my life.  I can't believe it has been less then a year since we lived in Minnesota.  I miss my friends and the members of the 2nd ward sooooo much. 

I am excited to report that the girls and I will be visiting Rochester for a whole week the first week of April.  We all have a week off of school for spring break and I can't think of a better way to spend it then with the people I love from Rochester!

I am so grateful for missionaries....they are the best!

Elder James Holladay and the two girls being goofballs!

I miss the Holladay Family, but I was so happy to see Elder Holladay.

Magnum P.I.

I had another good day.  I learned how to trim a man's beard (not!... I really suck at that) but I did feel good about the time I got to spend with Emma! 
                                                                         Emma Kate

Magnum before the bread trim.

Emma thinks he looks like Jesus

Magnum After!

Just taken a break in the massage chair...it has little kneader fingers rubbing my back :)  Oh I love this

I am grateful for a warm house.  (It snowed here today...brrrr)

  

A New Adventure Following My Dreams!

Okay I am ready to start posting again! 

I feel so tired and great at the same time.  I started cosmetology school today with Emma.  We are going 4 days a week 10 hours each day.  This program will take us 1 year to complete but I think the long run it will be worth it to get done in a year instead of dragging it out for two years. 

Emma said to me around January 1st that she thought she wanted to go to cosmetology school and as soon as she said that I had no doubt that I wanted to go too!

We had a great first day.  Cutting our manikin hair, rolling a perm and using the clippers on another manikin. 

I am sure I will be totally wiped out after each day but I am going to enjoy having this adventure with Emma!  I love her and we make each other laugh :)

Today I am grateful for new beginnings.  A fresh start after many of years of having a dream  do this.