Monday, October 31, 2011

Happy Halloween

I swear this Halloween has gone on FOREVER!!!! We started off on Friday night with the school Halloween Carnival.

We did the spook alley again this year and the kids loved it!
That's Chris in the background wearing the "Scream' outfit.

Saturday, we took the kids to see "Thriller". I think we're going to make it a Halloween tradition. Preston literally laughed so hard you could hear him above the entire crowd during one of the skits. The girls' Hip Hop teacher played one of the zombies and they thought that was pretty cool! This is Sydney, their teacher, with the girls. (Notice Preston hiding under the blanket in the background)
Morgan was totally freaked out by the zombies at first. She wouldn't even go to the bathroom because she was afraid one would get her in there. Then all of a sudden, one approached her and she just looked at the girl and said, "Hey what's up?" Shelby, on the other hand, JUMPED OVER PRESTON and into my lap SCREAMING BLOODY MURDER and crying when the same zombie approached her!! It was freaking HILARIOUS!
Sunday, we took a break from the Halloween festivities for the kids Primary program at church. All 3 kids did a fantastic job!! Not gonna lie, I got a little teary eyed at one point!!!
Monday, the school did their annual COSTUME PARADE.  I got to go to Preston's class party, which I really enjoyed.


After school, we got ready for the big night. I had so much fun getting the girls ready. One good thing about having little dancers is that there's never a shortage of stuff to make a costume out of. Morgan was seriously FREAKED out by Shelby! It was so funny. Shelby even creeped me out a few times.



Shelby kept doing this to everyone. She was soooo serious that it was freakin' creepy! She swears she's going to do this to me in the middle of the night. I told her if she does she better be prepared to get smacked HAHA!
I promised her that I'd post a picture of her hair. She had a Fauxhawk and she thought that was pretty cool...until she had to try to take it down...HA!
 Morgan was my little "Rock Star" The eyelashes were a little much for her to handle HA! They were basically teal and black spotted feathers on her eyes. They kept blowing in the breeze and tickling her face. It was pretty funny! She also like her sleeves. ** For future reference: if you ever need to make sleeves for something like this, buy some fishnet pantyhose and cut the crotch and toes out. Put them on upside down and WAHLAH! You have a shirt.


Preston was the cutest little FBI Agent you've ever seen. He was pretty funny yelling "Freeze FBI! Put your hands up and nobody will get hurt" HA!

My 3 little hoodlums!! Love them to pieces!

After trick or treating, we went on a haunted hayride. Shelby was of course freaked out. Preston swore he wasn't scared but he ended up jumping into a complete strangers lap more than once to get away from the "monsters" on the ride. Morgan tried to play it cool, but she had a death grip on my hand the entire time!
It's been a LONG but FUN weekend!!!

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Trusting Friends!

Ok, NOTHING screams trust quite like letting your friend cut almost 18 inches of hair off!! Celeste totally let me do it. I'm honestly not sure who was having more of a panic attack; me or her!  We cut it all off then added highlights, layers and bangs!!








I think she's BEAUTIFUL... and not just cause of the hair!!

Saturday, October 15, 2011

New Addiction:

About 2 months ago, I discovered pinterest.com  I'm SOOOO frickin' addicted it's not even funny. If you're not familiar with it; it's basically a virtual cork board. You follow friends on there and when you find something that you like, you "repin" it onto one of your own boards. I have gotten SO many cute ideas. I got my new hair cut off there, recipes, craft ideas....etc. The best part is that each "pin" usually has a link to the blog the idea came from so when you're ready you can just go to your boards, find the item and then go to the original website for the "how to" without having to actually bookmark it on your computer. There's even a PIN IT button you can add to your toolbar so that if you come across something while perusing the internet, you can simply "repin" it right then. They even have a PINTEREST app so you can pin on the go! Here are my boards. Feel free to check them out and join Pinterest so I can steal ideas from you lol  http://pinterest.com/jbanay/

Sunday, October 9, 2011

A Whole Decade.

I seriously can't believe that my sweet little baby girl is 10 years old!! Holy cow, time has flown by. She's been begging me for years to get her hair highlighted but I wouldn't let her.  However, as you all know, I'll let her do subtle things to her hair. As part of her b-day, I let one of the girls at school put a "coontail" in her hair. Shelby thinks she's some hot stuff let me tell ya!
Today we spent the day in St. george and then came home for cake and ice cream.

She got an outfit and a watch
New rollerblades. (How stinkin' cute are these rollerblades?)
And a new scooter.
Shelby has grown up to be such a sweet girl. She's HILARIOUS, generous, smart and hardworking.  I'm so lucky to be her mommy!

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

'Tis the Season....

 Ok, so maybe it's the wrong season. Either way, ya'll  know I love Halloween. All of the students at Evan's got together to decorate our stations. Here's mine:
 The girls totally helped paint the Haunted House and Preston helped attach the ghosts. He even made a "Drago Ghost" (his dead lizard)
The girls were at dance, so Preston went with me to set everything up. He had fun for the first 30 seconds and then was bored to death! HA!
I'm soooooo excited that Halloween is finally right around the corner!!

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Epic

Shelby got to spend the weekend at Epic Dance Convention in Midway (Provo) UT. I couldn't go, but my good friend Jana took her (Thanks, Jana)They had workshops for Hip Hop, Ballet, Jazz, and Lyrical. Apparently she had a blast!!!
Shelby outside of the hotel.
Shelby, Shaylynn and Kinley. I think she thought she was pretty cool hanging out with the "Big girls" lol


On Stage girls

Waiting for one of her classes.

She's already excited for next year!

Friday, September 30, 2011

Hair School Experience

After he finished doing cartwheels over the fact that I would be leaving my graves job, one of the first things Chris said when he found out I was going to hair school was, "Please don't go too short". Well I made my first cut the other day!!! It's shorter than I wanted, but I like it! I just keep telling myself it's "part of the experience" LOL