anniversary

HAPPY ONE YEAR WITH ZERO POSTS BLOG!!! I just knew I would be terrible at this and boy have I proven that! Let's see if we can keep up the mediocre work and go another year!

Its about time

So I have been home now for a little over a month and boy has it been interesting. Its nice to be home and to be around family and friends. However, I have been very very bored, for real. I'm waiting for my AZ license to be all squared away so I can get a job, so for right now I try to find things to fill my day..

Some real excitement went down this week, finally. My dear friend Jenna flew down for a visit!! I loved it because quite simply I love her. It was so great to have her here, it brought a piece of my old fun and exciting life into my new crazy boring one.

I tried real hard to come with things to do while she was here. She was here for a grand total of five days, and let's just be honest, Gilbert does not have enough to constantly entertain a person for five whole days, but we did our best.

In the end it shaped up to be a pretty dang fun week, if I do say so myself. I mean, I did force her to sit through an episode of Gilmore Girls and she had to experience the awkwardness that is my single's ward for family night, which she literally came away from that experience with an allergic reaction but I had fun having her here!

aaand I'm done

I am officially done with hair school forever! Wooo yeah!!! It feels so good to be done!
Hours- 2000
Clients- 1190
Perms- 200
Finger Waves- 40
Number of girls to spend every waking minute with- 40

Starting a career I love in just a year- Priceless.

Nights like these..

make me sad to leave Cedar in just 2 weeks.
We decided to get creative tonight and  we transformed our house into a techno bowling alley. We have the perfect long, narrow hallway for a lane and we have the perfect bumping sound system for our techno jams.

The first game just Hailey and I played. We came to find that the game was genius.
(I won) 

Round two we kicked it up a level. We invited the boys that live in the apartment in our basement to come up. We have just recently started to get to know them and they are pretty fun to hang out with,  I mean they even brought a strobe light for the next game, need I say more?

You know its going to be fun when a mullet is involved.

Skeleton strobe light. I know, its legit 

Final Scores.

Its always interesting the things you come up with when there isn't much around to do, that's usually when you have best time!

Time flies..

It has officially been over a year since I ventured up here to Cedar City. Its hard to believe its been that long! It has probably been the best year of my life. I have learned so much, met so many great people, and have had some serious fun. I have grown to love this small town (except when its snowing).

Its been a whole new experience as this new semester has started, not experiencing it with my roommates and favorite people has been a little sad. There is something in it for me to learn, I am sure. Its a pretty interesting look at myself, seeing how brave I am. I've been going to church activities and parties and such by myself. Its definitely a lot easier when you've got a posse of friends to back you, but what's life without the challenge?

I have less than a month of school left! WHAT?!? Yeah believe it. Its crazy to think the end is in sight. I have loved hair school a lot! However, not having to spend 40 hours a week with the same 40 girls every week of my life is sounding pretty goood right now. Oh the sweet, sweet freedom from girl drama, that is something to rejoice about!

I'm moving home in the middle of October and I'm pretty excited for a new adventure. May the beautiful Gilbert be good to me.

Shalom in the Home

So I did go home for the weekend a couple of weeks ago. And I loved it.
We started the trip real early and proceeded to drive the 7 hours home. Good news I only nearly fell asleep driving roughly 6 times, actually fell asleep once and almost killed us like 56 times, so all around a good drive. I was quite lucky to have an ever-alert co-pilot up front with me, she screamed at me at all the right times. Thanks Hailey, I owe ya.

she is cute, even though she got pop tart crumbs all over my car.

(We also handled the public restroom like champs)

This was Hailey's first trip there so I made sure to show her all the good points of Gilbert. We did the following:

• Trip of Bahama Bucks
• went shopping
• spent WAY too much money shopping
• went swimming
• Gecko Grill (it changed her life, just ask her)
• Pedicures
• Sonic
• Slept in
• Forgot about all responsibility
• Wedding
• Toured our future

I got to celebrate my best friend's marriage. That was a different experience for sure. It was so good to see her oh so happy, but sad to see her go off to adulthood (poor girl). I did catch the bouquet though. I had a pretty good chances seeing how I towered over everyone else by a few inches.

Hailey and I were able to go take a tour of an aesthetics school we have been looking into. We fell in love. I can't wait! It looks like so much fun! So much even I am willing to look past the fact that I will be learning how to properly pop zits and wax the more personal areas of the body. Those are the only things I'm worried about, other than that I am so excited! If all goes right I will start in February.

Home Sweet Home

   I'm going home this weekend!! Can I get a what what?? I am so dang excited! I just love my home and all the people there! I am going down for one of my best friend's wedding. Jennifer Manwaring will soon be Jennifer Martin. Weird. She is the first of my good friends to get married and I'm not quite so sure how I am going to handle it, its going to be very odd and exciting at the same time.

   I am all thrilled about my riding buddies. One is going to be the oh so adorable, beautiful, witty and hilarious Kylie Ann Felix, my niece. I saw her last week and told her I was going to "Arizonia" to visit Grandma and Grandpa and her reply was, "You're going without me? That's not even going to be fun." She was absolutely right, so she is coming. 

   My other buddy is my good pal Hailey Drew. We go to school together and she has plans to move to the big AZ after the first of the year, so I am bringing her along to give her an education on all she has been missing out on. I'm going to show her a good time, Gilbert style, er something.

   We are St. George bound tomorrow and then as early as possible we are heading to the valley on Friday morn. The only stresses of driving are

A. getting there, I don't really know how

and even more disturbing...

B. taking my niece into public restrooms. 

     That should be interesting especially because the last time I built up the courage to go into a public bathroom, while I was waiting in the line, the lady came out with a disgusted face and proclaimed, "Man! That got everywhere!" please pray for me.