Happy Birthday Tarin!

My little sister turned 13 yesterday. She turned 13 but thinks she is 16. We had family over for presents, cake (cupcakes too!), and ice cream.

On Friday night she is actually having her party. My mom is being brave and taking some girls up to Mt. Charleston for the night by her self because my dad is hurt. (I would go with her but of course I have school) They are going to have dinner at the lodge, open presents, hang out in the hotel room and talk about boys like all 13 year old girls do. Then they are going to wake up the next morning, go to the old lodge for breakfast, and play around in the snow all day. I'm sure she will have a great time. It sounds like so much fun!

A Lil' Bit Country!!

This past Saturday my family went to the Brad Paisley concert. We got the tickets for Christmas and had been waiting anxiously to go. We ate at Chili's before the concert and showed up to the concert early to get my Dad situated before the show started. Unfortunately what started out as a family function kind of ended up as a sister outing and a parent outing. My Dad tore his MCL at work the week before so he had a brace on wouldn't allow him to bend his knee so he couldn't sit with us in the normal seats. He and my mom ended up having to sit in some chairs literally right across the arena. It was not too far away. We could still see them from our seats. That is my mom in the blue shirt standing up and my dad sitting in the chair to her left.

He toured with Chuck Wicks

and Rodney Atkins.

Both of who were extremely good. Good enough that we went out and bought Chuck Wick's CD that came out on Tuesday. But during the little intermissions, between shows, we got a little bored. Can you tell?!?!

My Sisters and I

My new Cowboy boots I got for Christmas.

And of course the star of the show. Brad Pasiley. He was very good. He played his guitar a lot, sometimes too much, but he was very entertaining.

Overall the night was great. We had a lot of fun. Next concert on the list......Kenny Chesney!! (hopefully)

My New Model!!

So I needed a male model this morning for class. We could only do cuts, color, or perms. I don't know any guy in their right mind that would want a perm. We are in the 2000's not the 80's. So anyway...Josh, being such the great boyfriend he is, came in as my model. We had already cut his hair though just a a few days ago and a perm was not an option so we were left with only one choice...color. He told me to do cheetah spots kinda like Dennis Rodman and well I think it was a success and didn't turn out half bad.

He is going to come in next week again to be my model. If anybody has any fun ideas for his hair next week PLEASE let me know. He is pretty much up for anything so be creative.

On My Vacation...

-I had a great christmas. I got a tv, a curling iron, running shoes, Brad Paisley concert tickets, luggage, a blow dryer, an exercise machine, and the list goes on. I have to admit I got a little spoild this year.

-Attended my Aunt's 65th birthday/40th anniversary suprise party in California. She was so excited she cried.

-I went to my brothers wedding. I got to see my family. It was a huge party.

Josh (my brother) and new sister-in-law, LeAnn

My sister and my new nephew DJ

My family

My neice Austynn praying. She just looked so sweet.

-Brought in the New Year with some family and friends. We played the Newlywed game. There was like 8 couples and Josh and I tied another couple for first place. (us and the other couple were the only ones not married)

I have had and awesome vacation. It was been about a week and a half with no work or school but it all starts again tomorrow. I am not really complaining though because I only have 6 weeks until I graduate!!

The Twins!

I finally got over to see the twins on Monday. They looked so cute dressed in their little Christmas outfits. Here are a few pictures.

Left: Hayden & Right: Kaden

Bottom: Kaden & Top: Hayden

Hayden

I made these letters for them.

Late Night Bang!!

This is a funny Christmas story that I thought I would share. So I had just crawled into bed the other night and I was so tired. As I was laying there I was looking at my tree. All of a sudden I thought I was seeing it fall but I knew it was in a tree stand so I doubted that it was. Plus I figured it was just me seeing things since I was so tired. I blinked and looked at it again. It seemed to still be falling. Another blink and then I saw it was really falling over. I hopped out of bed, ran for the tree, and just barely missed it. All decorated and everything it was laying on the floor. I picked up the tree, leaned it against the window, and left all the decor strung all over the floor. I was just too tired. Needless to say it wasn't as funny then as it is now.

Christmas Spirit!!

What gets me in the Christmas mood more than anything is the smell of pine and that's just what I smelled today. I came home from school today to a surprise in my bedroom....A BIG Christmas tree (courtesy of Josh). He always seems to sneak a tree into my bedroom every year. I just come home one day and there is a tree in my room. I wasn't sure if I would be getting one this year due to the big Christmas present he bought himself (a new truck) but I was lucky once again. It started 2 years ago when both of us wanted a real tree but neither of our parents liked the thought of a real tree so he got us our very own! I bought new decorations for it this year. At Target, they have a series of bright colorful decorations and that is the theme I went with this year. Last year was a bit of everything because Josh doesn't liked the themed trees but the first year it was the country cabin stuff from Target. This year though it is really cute. I just LOVE it!! (and the picture really doesn't do it justice.)



Tonight I took my little sister and her friend Sydni to the cactus garden at the chocolate factory. It was really fun to see all the lights and watch the little concert they had going on. It was 5 11 year-old girls and they called themselves Broadway Divas. They sang about 9 different Christmas carols. All of them were so cute and had the most amazing voices for 11 year-olds.

TarinSydni

We got to see the factory as well. Of course the machines weren't running or anything but there was a lot of cool sculptures displayed. All of them were made from 100% chocolate. This one was my favorite.

So needless to say tonight was a good night, minus I didn't get to go to Josh's little family get together they have every year at this time because I had already made plans, but there will be more I'm sure. The Christmas countdown is definitely on. Only 10 more days to go!!!!