worst day

i had a bad day. i really bad day. started with two free cuts and colors and another free haircut (so im not actually getting paid to work), water alllll over my shirt at work, half hour last clients, ended with car completely dead in a huge wet snow storm. windy, cold, snowy... thank goodness my mother bought us a jumper battery! you should all go buy one. life saving. worst. day. ever.

but my husband can always make me smile. and he did a few times through texts, getting me through the day. now to watch a chick flick and have some salt and vinegar popcorn.

get to know me

A fun little get to know me quiz! Go ahead and steal it and do it for yourself!!


4 years ago I was:
Just about to graduate... and months away from meeting my sweetheart.

My best friends were:
Jessica Payne, Nikki Byam

5 Things I must do before I go to bed tonight:
1) make some money at work
2) read scriptures for 30 minutes (we're on a roll right now!!)
3) go on a run (im not on a roll with this right now)
4) call some primary mothers
5) do some picking up and cleaning around the house (yes i still have to do this even though my husband has 2 weeks off)

My Favorite Treats:
haha popcorn with salt and vinegar kernals flavoring, dill pickle chips.. i know a lot of salt, but i try not to add salt to my meals anymore!

What if I suddenly became a billionaire:
Ummm, holy! I'd quit my job, go on a 2 year trip around the world, i'd pay off michaels insane student loans, buy a beautiful home and decorate it how i want, buy michael any camera he wants (its his new hobby), buy him a canoe (this is year three of him wanting to buy a canoe-why you ask? i dont know. he says hes gonna go on a big canoe trip.. hes been maybe twice since ive KNOWN him, we cant afford it, and we have no where to put it, yet he is insisting that we get one.... im hoping by summer this annual urge will pass), id buy myself a beautiful kitten, more books, take our families to Hawaii! And the list goes on and on. Sooo I'm ready to become a billionaire....


Places I've lived:
Lethbridge(1 yr), Stirling(5yrs), Fort Macleod(1yr), Coalhurtst(3 yrs), Raymond(4yrs)

Lethbridge
Two different houses with my family (south and north side) and one house with my husband when we first got married, since then our homes have downgraded to small basement suites.

Edmonton
House #2 with Michael, so small, no room for our kitchen table, our couch, and numerous other things.

Current living situation:
Basement in Calgary.. lets just say I'm definately looking forward to upgrading.

Jobs I've had:
1) Phone girl at Pizza Hut with about 6 of my friends at the time. Pretty close to my dream job, haha. Then I was promoted to cook, which was enjoyable.
2) Busser at the Keg, then promoted to hostess
3) Server at Waterton Lakes Lodge (where I met my true love :) he was the life guard at the pool in the same hotel)
4) Merry Maids (worst job ever, lasted 3 months)
5) Subway Sandwich Artist (and I was dang good at this!! I actually liked this job, haha)
6) Server at Ric's Grill 
7) Wife
8) Assitant at Swizzlesticks Salon Spa 
9) Hairstylist at Curious!! (current)
10) Travelling Hairstylist (I do peoples hair as I travel from Lethbridge to Calgary to Edmonton, I love it) (current)

A Few Things You Didn't Know About Me:
1) Im the oldest of 13 kids (2 sets of twins, 10 girls) Its crazy
2) I loveeee Glee (k maybe you did know that) but I also love BONES!! (The tv series)
3) I love to PLAN.. 
4) I've watched The Little Mermaid  more times than I know of anyone else doing...(and i still get teary eyed when she says "i love you daddy"
5) I LOVE to read... 
6) I LOVE kitties and cats! I reallllly want one
7) I love surprises!! (hint hint michael)
8) I don't enjoy cooking. I'm blessed to have a husband that does. And I'm trying... trying to learn, trying to enjoy it. 
9) I have nightmares almost nightly. Last night, I was in world war two but it was in someones house and Rics Grill (lol) and people were trying to kill me... Most nights someone is trying to kill me, hunt me down, attack me, its not fun!!

artwork

i often compare myself to da vinci, van gogh, and picasso. i have always had an artistic talent. not only in hair, but in painting. see for yourself.

facials and hair

cassandra, becky, and mom came to visit this weekend. cassandra and mom were both in desperate need of getting their color done. they came up friday night, which is when did homemade facials. mom an i did an avocado/banana one, becky did an orange yogurt one, cassandra did strawberries and cream, and michael did eggs yolk and yogurt (very runny) we were able to spend some time outside, and just hanging out inside.

faced washed and about ready to mix and apply

pouring his liquidy facial, haha

facials applied, cassandra looks like she might be sunburnt

after completing hair, we went to bowness park and enjoyed being outside and feeding the birds.

the tree has a pretty freaky face

so sunny out

check out that chin of cassandras. 

after dinner, we played a quick game of skip bo before they had to head home. sad.

cassandras color BEFORE

AFTER, definately much improved.

becky showed us some realllllly funny cute short youtube videos. heres one about BEA, and FAINTING GOATS

hope everyone had a great weekend, i know i did!! 

wedding

want to see the pictures from my best friend jessicas wedding? i was in her wedding party, the photography is amazing, and he only shoots in film!! check out a good chunk of the wedding HERE.

semifinals

this week we played in the playoffs. we played a really good team with strong offense. we lost. haha, sad. we did super well in the first half but we have to have 2 girls on at a time and we only had one sub this week, and usually we have 3, so that was tough but at least we play next week for 3rd and 4th place. heres a team picture (with 2 of our girls missing). i think next week i will get another picture if everyone is there. so here are the DANGEROUS DANGLERS (hahahahaha our team name) our team captain came up with it... apparently when you have a bunch of fancy footwork with the ball, its called dangling...???? michael has played soccer his whole life and never heard of it, but here we are, looking dangerous.

***if you click on the pictures, they enlarge and they are much clearer.

me and my hun!!! maybe next week we will get a picture without the goof in the background. 

easter

this weekend we went up to edmonton to visit some friends. we did a lot. we flew kites, colored eggs, hunted for eggs, played at the park, went out for breakfast with the malmbergs, and pretty much played the entire game of the new super mario bros for wii. we were also able to go visiting michaels cousin jordan henrie and his wife dani and their new baby boy, H. here are quite a few pictures displaying what we did this weekend. it was a lot of fun to visit with friends and enjoy conference as well.

lauren and her baby

me with the girls kite

girls

both kites broke but they seemed most upset.

this was so hard with one hand. picture #2 tells how hard it really is.

action shot

coloring eggs

two of mine that i did

all of these eggs... see hulk hogan? that was darcys egg, and he gave it to michael as a parting gift. hopefully it doesn't rot.

all of us. lauren got a better one of us, so maybe i will replace it later.

easter morning, and michael at the easter egg hunt. the guys were thrilled.

the most beautiful baby ever.... i finally got a french braid into her hair after many attempts.

what did you all do this easter weekend?

its just a game

michael and i are on an indoor soccer team and we play at 10 every tuesday night. tonight we played to see if we are in the finals, we won, and we are waiting to see if another team won their game...

i was playing defense and we play on a fairly small field (as a result of cheap costs to play) so we can hear pretty much everything the other teams say. here i was just playing the game and this blonde girl on the other team who is off says to the brunette "i can't stand that girl" and its obviously this comment is made to me because the brunette says "i think she heard you" and the blonde looks over at me and i smile nice and big, and she gives me a pretty smirk.

i really have no idea where this came from.. i think it was after michael got a yellow card for the goalie body checking him and i was like "whaaaaaa"

so after WE WON (close game), we all are shaking hands with the other team saying "good game" and i happen to say to the blonde "its just a game" and keep on going.

after hand shakes, she turns right around and says "honey, what did i do? i dont understand" i laugh a bit and started to walk away and she kinda grabs my arm saying "no tell me" and i pull away and wave my hand as i walk away...

my teammates asked if there would possibly be a fight after the game in the parking lot....

maybe next time :) jokes

thats as dramatic as it gets for me. probably the most drama in a while. it was kind of nice to wave her off a bit after she was basically trash talking me... haha. anyways, thats my exciting story, it made the game alot more fun.

see you later

this weekend we went down to do a couple things. first on our list was to go to the temple, which was really awesome. we watched my new favorite show, Tabathas Salon Takeover. its reallllly good, you should watch it.

one of my best friends from high school is leaving tomorrow on her mission to Argentina, Spanish speaking. we were able to go to her farewell talk a few weeks ago but this weekend we went down to have a little farewell party for her. it was a ton of fun to hang out and talk and play some games and eat some really good argentinean dessert. this is the last picture of us before nikki leaves. this was taken at 2am after some good laughs and conversation.

oh we always have to get pictures of us together:

we had a lot of fun playing cranium sunday evening (just us girls). cassandra and becky won after cheating, haha jokes.

did some haircuts this weekend for jody, nikki, and mom.

this week is very busy, michael has quite an involved project and assignment due thursday and we are leaving thursday to edmonton after i am finished work. michael has been a bit sick with a throat infection/sore throat for just over a week and so he also has to go to the doctor. we have a soccer game tuesday night (our last to determine if our team is in the semi-finals). also, last week i scored my first goal..... ever. it felt wonderful.

how will you all celebrate easter this weekend? any big plans?

bunnies and birds

i fixed it! now i am starting to wonder whether there was anything wrong in the first place.

i was showing michael that i had fixed it and he was like "oh its an easter background" i said, "ummm, i guess the colors are but i was thinking more springish" he says "no, i can see the bunnies....... and the birds" so i am searching the background for anything that resembles either.

can you see them?

i can't.

under construction

so i realllly screwed up my blog. teaches me i shouldn't mess around with the HTML and everything else. so for the next while, my blog will look like this.... i am trying to figure things out so it will probably be a while until it looks great, and i miss blogging, so bare with me. lately we have been really busy. i joined michaels soccer team, which we have to get pictures of, and i really love it. we have both also been trying to get into shape so we have been running almost every night for almost two weeks (besides soccer night). on saturday we went to a waterpark here in calgary for the day and went down the waterslides so many times, did the hot tub, played on the kids stuff, diving board... everything. it was a blast. we went out to eat and took a long walk to a great view of the city. it was an awesome day.
since moving to a brand new salon, its been super slow, but the past two weeks have been really amazing weeks and i am seeing a lot of return clients, and referrals! also, i finally got my hairstylist license and my red seal!! its really exciting for me because i really wanted to finish all my schooling and complete my apprenticeship before we started a family someday so i could work from home, and it feels amazing to have it over with and know that i have no more exams.
my thoughts are pretty scattered right now, but i will try to update this more often. we are getting so excited for summer coming up. we have a lot of little trips we want to do. we always spend july 1st in raymond with michaels family, 3rd weekend in july we go to magrath for magrath days (one of my favorite days), we head to shushwap lake end of july for a petersen family reunion (the first in a long time!!), and hopefully taking a whole week off to go somewhere we haven't decided yet. in between all those events we plan to camp a few times (we love camping!!), hike in kananaskis since we are so close now, and visit friends and family.
we are headed this weekend to lethbridge to go to the temple and see my best friend (nikki byam) before she heads on her mission to Argentina. we are going a little party for her and i am so sad to see her go. i will hopefully get some good parting pictures.

i will leave you with a picture of my best friend jessica's wedding. nikki and i were bridesmaids, they were mine. :) but the photos from the wedding are almost up on Kristopher Orrs blog. I will let you know when you can check them out!

holidays 2009

i reeeeaaally enjoyed my holidays this year. michael got 3 weeks off, i got 11 days off. just before the holidays i wrote my 2 exams to get my license and PASSED so now i am just waiting for it to actually arrive!! we did a lot. we went tobogganing one night, played a lot of jenga, ate amazing food, shopped, celebrated, and just spend time with family and some friends!

found out 3 of my cousins are pregnant and due within 2 weeks of eachother so congrats again to them all. everyone is pregnant! seriously.

here is a collection of pictures from our holidays. we did end up getting family pictures but i haven't been sent them yet, so i will post them later.

i just realized we didnt get a picture of michaels whole family, so this is it.

What was your favorite holiday moment?

curtains

mom and breanne came to visit.. the purpose of the visit was to make us curtains and give my mom a haircut. we did more than that. we started out by heading to fabricland, did moms color and cut, made curtains, went to see new moon (which i thought was very good so go see it), and then out for dinner to red lobster!! here are some pictures of our curtain-making!

the finished product

michael helped too by putting them up, but not sure what hes pointing at here, haha.

lately i've had a desire to be a little more crafty... this helped, but i still want to do more... i am excited to be making some christmas gifts this year and maybe i'll learn to knit or something. michael is always telling me i need some hobbies (other than tv shows, haha).

On Tuesday the 24th it will be our 2nd anniversary! We are headed to Edmonton for the day to get some free dental work done so we celebrated this Saturday!! We went out for a nice dinner to Joey Tomatos. Our gift to eachother was cotton housecoats, since the 2nd anniversary you are suppose to gift something that is cotton.. first year was paper and we got concert tickets and went to see Carrie Underwood. I don't know how long we'll be able to follow the Anniversary gift guide for each year but we plan to attempt. It was a nice year reminiscing about the past 2 and even the year we dated.

We both can't even believe how fast time has gone by. I am just blown away that its been two years since our wedding day!

                                

Just Married!!

I don't think anyone realized how windy it was!! What terrible weather! We were both frozen!

Look how sweet my husband is!!

Man, I sure do love this guy!

Happy Anniversary Honey, I love you!!!