Weekend of Thanks

This weekend was seriously awesome!! I love my family so much!! We were able to go eat the big dinner with my family this year. We went to G &G Braithwaite and it was fun to chat with the family and play with the cousins. Brielle, Kien{sp?}, and Blye played with Lola for hours. They are the cutest kids and I am so sad that I didn't get a pic of them with her. Blye even wrote Lola a note that said "Lola, You are cute and cool. I love you. Love, Blye". Even though these kids are actually my cousin's and Lola's 2nd, it seems like they are her 1st too. Its confusing, my mom's family is huge. My aunts are still in their younger child-birthing years... yay for big sisters {pretty much}.

Lola kept climbing up and sitting on this ledge and she would pop her binky out, get off and pick it up and jump back on the ledge. Silly lady.

The next day we went to the University mall with my aunt Cheralyn and her family to see Santa come to the mall in "Chopper 5", we kept referring to "Chopper 5", we thought it was so funny for some reason. You can see Chase sitting on his dad's shoulders in this pic.

Lola kept pointing at the copter and getting excited but Nic had some issues with my phone's camera so she is pointing down in this one ha

Lola did not want Auntie Nic to hold her in this one, ha ha

Us with "CHOPPER 5"

While Nic and I were shopping in Forever 21, which takes forever because you get so overwhelmed... my mom took Lola and got her pics with SANTA. You can tell she was highly amused, yes I am being facetious.

Later that night I went and saw "Minus the Bear" and "As Tall As Lions", the show was phenomenal in my humble opinion. Our friends Jeff and Josh joined Chris and I and Josh's friend Jillian came as well. Afterward we went and chowed at Coachman's. I love that place!!

We stayed at my parents Saturday as well and watched the "Holy War" game... GO BYU!!!! I like both teams but I root for BYU when they play each other. Needless to say we were happy about the outcome! Especially my dad and bro's who are season ticket holders.

In other news:

Chris bought Lola this cute {and cheesy} advent calendar, so last night she got to eat a piece of chocolate!! She wanted to open more doors after she saw her prized treat.

I have been working on some headbands and bought the cutest Christmas material. So watch for a store update by the end of the week!! Here is the "Pinwheel Headband" in black satin. Too Cute!

IF YOU HAVEN'T ANSWERED THE QUESTION IN THE POST BELOW, GIVE IT A GANDER. THANKS EVERYONE FOR YOUR INPUT SO FAR!!

The burning question...

I was reading through my blogs today and stumbled upon this post from (NO) Sex and the City. {such a great blog, Natalie is so cute and talented!!} I read the earlier post as well and although I didn't agree with all of her stipulations and standards of cleanliness, I had no idea that people would get so heated about someone else's ideal of cleanliness... You should read these posts, they are very entertaining.

But my question is: Do you shower everyday? and even further, Do you wash your hair everyday?

I shower every other day. Unless I work out or have a reason to need to shower everyday. I never thought there was anything wrong with that. I am clean and smell fresh and nice... but apparently the author of the blog and most of the commenter's think it is ludicrous that not every woman showers everyday. So I want to know what you ladies {and/or gentlemen} think. Please chime in for either side. I won't be offended, I am genuinely curious and would love as much input as possible!

Music Monday- As Tall As Lions

I saw As Tall As Lions this last weekend with MINUS THE BEAR {love love them, they always put on an AMAZING show!} My hubby Chris turned me onto ATAL and I am so glad. These guys are great and they perform with a lot of emotion. Seeing them live only made me like them more. If you like Circa Survive or Mutemath, you will like these guys. So for those of you that haven't heard of them... ENJOY the lusciousness!

If you love them, don't you fret, they will be back in Utah in April and I will be there!

Love love love, from the album "As Tall As Lions"

You can't Take It With You- from the album, "You Can't Take It With You"

Crazy 8's Tag

My friend Angie tagged me and I am at the computer lab at Weber helping Chris with an assignment so I figured I would oblige. :)

8 TV Shows I Love:
1. GLEE
2. So You Think You Can Dance
3. The Real Housewives...of any city
4. Medium
5. The Biggest Loser
6. Parks & Recreation (sooo funny)
7. The Office
8. 30 Rock
(I could go on and on!!)

8 Movies I Love:
1. 16 Candles
2. The Great Muppet Caper
3. Never Been Kissed
4. Mean Girls
5. Amelie
6. Elf
7. Christmas Vacation
8. Drop Dead Gorgeous (my movies are all so...intellectual ;) )

8 Restaurants I Love:
1. Happy Sumo
2. Sai Savahn (thai)
3. Mandarin Palace
4. 5 Guys
5. Macaroni Grill
6. Mi Rancherito
7. PF Chang's
8. Taco Bell, don't laugh

8 Things that Happened Yesterday:
1. I played with Lola
2. Cleaned the house
3. Put up Christmas Decor
4. Watched SYTYCD
5. Watched some old Chappel show with Chris
6. Made Red Curry for dinner
7. Did the laundry
8. Bathed Lola

8 Things I Look Forward To:
1. Chris finishing school
2. Christmas
3. Thanksgiving dinner
4. Shopping on Black Friday
5. Getting tile in the living room
6. Going to Minus the Bear on Friday
7. Paying off our school loans, etc
8. Playing with Lola and the fam all weekend

8 Things I Love About Winter
1. Cute clothes
2. Boots
3. Christmas
4. The lights on temple square
5. Christmas parties
6. Watching Christmas movies by the fire
7. Lola in her big puffy coats
8. nothing else, I don't love winter

8 Things on my Wish List:
1. Some Hunter boots
2. New clothes
3. All new carpet/tile in our house
4. A vacation
5. LASIK eye surgery
6. A new house
7. A sewing machine
8. To lose some LBS

8 People I Tag:
I don't want to pressure anyone ha ha, if you feel like it, do it!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

I have so many things to be thankful for!! We have lots of fun Thanksgiving weekend plans, I will fill you in later this weekend.... probably next week, who am I kidding.

I hope you all have a great Thanksgiving and that you share it with people you love!

This little lady is our number 1 blessing for sure! Can you believe how fast she has grown up? {single tear...}

Music Monday... ode to New Moon

In the spirit of New Moon coming out this past weekend I thought I would share some of my fav songs from the soundtrack!! There will be a lot, so I will keep the descriptions brief. Basically I already loved these artists, so I am happy to see them getting some exposure. Even though most tweens wouldn't know good music if it bit them in the arse! {except for my bro's I have educated them well, which reminds me of the time that a kid in Ryker's class said he liked Fall Out Boy and Ryker laughed at him. muah ha ha I am a proud sis!}

The Violet Hour- Seawolf

Possibility- Lykke Li

Hearing Damage- Thom Yorke

No Sound But The Wind- Editors

Done All Wrong- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Slow Life- Grizzly Bear

Ok I promise I am done! Good job to the soundtrack person on this movie!!!

When are you guys putting up your Christmas decor?? I think I may do mine tomorrow, since I work Wednesday then it is down to my parents for the weekend!! I want to come home to a Christmas house :)

This is for Nicole

Sorry if this offends anyone BUT when I saw this, I laughed so hard... and its my blog... and it could be worse. A little background, my sis has said something like this to my mom repeatedly, so when I saw this comic I rolled and I had to post it.

Here is a little background....You see, my mom is the lucky lady that always gets "shit" stuck in her teeth and then smiles and waves to someone that she recognizes at the restaurant, oblivious. To which Nicole then says, "Mom, you got shit in your teeth". HA HA Then my mom rolls her eyes because Nicole swore at her and she laughs and we guide mom how to get the shit out of her teeth. {I am cracking myself up right now, I am easily amused} I am a casual cusser sometimes too, it is one of my many faults. {nothing too bad or too often but I thought I should throw that in there so Nicole doesn't feel like I threw her under the bus.} Here it is!!!!

The compact, your only "true" friend!!!