Saturday, October 29, 2011

All Smiles...

Where did October go?! Granted there are still a few days left, but November is less than a week away. that means Thanksgiving is coming up, and Christmas, and new years, and then my birthday!!! HOLY COW!!! Craziness! I am excited to share the holidays with Mike this year! That's another thing. I cant believe that Mike and i will have kinda been seeing each other for almost a whole year, but technically we didn't become official until the spring :P.

So I've been crazy busy this month. Two weddings, work, families, work parties, and friends. For some reason this was a very stressful month for me. I got overwhelmed and booked myself to full. For now on im going to try and leave more room for free time. Both the weddings were beautiful and super fun to go to. I was in one of them, and i was honored to be apart of Katie and Terry's special day. I am also glad to say i have no more weddings to attend this year and as of now I am not apart of any weddings next year!!


These are the fun people i work with at the salon. The other wedding i went to was my friend Bethany, not pictured. She works at Utopia with all of us.
Instead of a work Christmas party Utopia goes out to Roca scray farm. It was fun. i never go to haunted rides and houses to get scared, but its fun to see all the stupid girls scream to get attention from the guys they go with. If i pulled that shit with Mike he would just laugh at me.And here is the first picture of my awesome Halloween costume i made all from scratch, you would be so proud of me Nicole!! First off that is not Mike next to me. that is just some guy i saw and had to take my picture with because one he is Swedish Chef from The Muppets, also because he is a chef and I'm food! Anyways as you can see i am bacon and eggs. I will post a better picture soon. i used felt, cotton balls, wire and duct tape to make my costume. i was very impressed it turned out better than i was expecting.

On to the next subject...Mike and his beard!!

Before:

After:

SoooOOooooooOOo.....CUTE!!! I wont lie....i was a little nervous for him to shave his face! I've only seen pictures of him without a beard, but they weren't very good pictures. So when he decided that he was going to shave it for his Halloween costume, Ron Swanson-pictures to come, i was excited and nervous. I was also surprised he went through with it. But damn does he look smokin!! The only thing is he hates being clean shaved because he is such a baby face, and now people are also saying we look alike. so hopefully he will keep it like this for awhile because the minute he starts to grow his beard, i doubt i will ever see him like this again!

And of course i couldn't end this post without a picture of my baby Elvis!!! This is from last year. One of my favorite pictures. I took him to the vet to get his nails trimmed, they were curling! and this office has a cat that wonders around, i think his name was Frankie. and when i was paying the cat ran over and was sniffing Elvis. Then he went from sniffing to a slow paw up in the air ready to smack Elvis and the vet chick would say, "Frankie!" He would immediately put down his foot like....whaaa...i wasn't going to do anything bad...and then he would go for it again. Instead of being worried for Elvis i couldn't help but laugh and take pictures....don't worry Elvis...i wouldn't of let anything happen to you...

so....i would like to say i love you all and hope your fall is going as fabulous as mine!!!

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Yay....It is FALL!!!!!

What a crazy month September was!!! Can't believe it is October. The weather has finally cooled down, the air smells like fall. So delicious!! Life has been busy, in both a good and bad way. Lets start with the bad, work of course. Although i have to work everyday the salon has been slowing down. You would think that would be nice, however sitting at work watching movies doesn't pay my bills. I'm hoping this doesn't last very long, i would like to live off something other then ramen noodles :p. As for Ivanna Cone and Paintyourself Silly they are pretty same old same old. I'm excited that next month Ivanna is going to have an art show. I'm going to put in some of the art I've painted at sillys.

Now for the better. Mike and I just finished watching Mad Men, well what we could. Season five is going to begin in the winter i believe. After watching the show all you want to do is smoke and drink. I, however, quit smoking. So that is a very positive thing. I definitely have cravings sometimes, but Ive gone little over a month without a cigarette and i don't want to go back!! So instead i have a nice drink every once in a while. We've started to make our own old fashioned here at home.Nothing like some bourbon, orange, and cherry!!! Not only has Mad Men been giving me a craving for a good drink, i also want to dress and wear my hair and makeup from the 60s. What an awesome era!

Thats one of grandma Iris's scarf i have. So i rolled it up and went to work! I also added one of my favorite necklaces of hers later in the day. It is the pretty owl necklace. So when we aren't pretending to be from the 50-60s we are hanging out with friends, families, and fun date nights.

The other night we stayed in and cooked dinner and watched tv shows. I made sloppy joes in the crock pot. Not too bad, next time i think i will add more mustard. i then made scotcharoo's. Mike has never had one. It is like a rice krisipe treat, but made with butterscotch and peanut butter. the only bad part is i totally burned the sugar as i was cooking, we didn't find this out until we were biting into the treat. Hard. As. A. Rock. Not my best, but we all have to fail sometimes.

Because i haven't been able to update for awhile I'm going to break up the post a bit, but i wont end this one without a few more cute pictures :)