As close to Halloween as I got.

Normally for halloween while in california we would go to bates nut farm to pick our pumpkins out, have a pumpkin carving party, mabye make some pie, and think about dressing up. This year we didn't have any of that. Instead Jared went to Wyoming to go hunting, and I was left to celebrate alone. I didn't plan on doing anything but we were allowed to dress up at school and the day before they had a halloween costume contest with Tim Burton characters. That contest really got me in the mood so I decided to pull out an outift the night before. I'm really glad I participated because it was the closest to halloween as I got.

The beginning of the Corpse Bride.

The workings of Cheshire Cat.

Putting together Edward Scissor hands

 Edward Finished.

 When Mar's Attacks girl start.

It doesn't look like Tim Burton's character..but this was Sammantha's version of Mad Hatter.

 Mad Hatter.

Corpse Bride all finished

 Cheshire Cat all finished

All of the contest Characters finished. The creators did an amazing job!

 All of us who dressed up for the day.

 Mario & Luigi Instructors

 Mickey the Zebra & Courtney the cop

 Who doesn't love Lucy? I know I do!

 Look out little Red!

 Resident bad girls. Rachel & Roxanne

I got that Punker!

Kali, Klarisa, Lynde, and Jaycee.

On Halloween day I watched old time halloween favorites  such as Hocus Pocas and Halloweentown 1,2,3 and I ordered myself a pizza.  Wasn't how I would have pictured the night, but it was fun none the less. Even though I didn't hand out candy I saw some adorable trick or treators. I hope everyone had a great Halloween!

I spoke too soon..

The day I spoke of my perfect school record...It came crumbling down. The flu had hit me...and hit me hard! It started in my nose and crept it's way to my throat. ICK! I felt so weak it was crazy. It hurt to chewy my gummy vitamins because of how weak I felt. I decided to spend the day in bed and miss school. Not something I wanted to do, but I couldn't have handled the day doing hair in the condition I was in.  Plus it wouldn't be fair of me to go to school and spread the cold around, after all that is how I got the cold. :( So now I sit blogging curled up in my blanket, missing not only one, but TWO days of school. Thank goodness for me though that I am way above my contract so I could afford to miss a few days. Also it's nail week so I am not missing theory either because I couldn't participate anyway. I drugged up on nyquil and slept in until 1:30 trying to kick this nasty virus. If any of you readers are going through this right now I hope that you get better soon and I will send you good thoughts. Please do the same for me ;)

As will all good situations in life there is the bad. We must take them in and see the positive from it. Although I am sick and feel like I have been run over, it has given me the time to get some well needed rest. I feel like I have been going and going and going with no time to stop and recover. I'm sure that added to how I got sick in the first place. It has also given me the chance to catch up on blog reading and posting as well. I didn't get to read everyone's that I missed over the last 3 months, but I read for hours until I was satisfied. I love that blogging is a way to keep in touch with friends and family. It makes you feel closer and more a part of their life if you don't seem them on a daily basis. I for sure am putting that on my thankful list this year.

Speak of being thankful, we might have finally found a plan for the holiday. :) Jared's work gave him a gift certificate for a 12-14 lb turkey with his paycheck this time around. Those buggers get expensive so we were certainly excited about it. We think we might travel to spend thanksgiving with family this year though. (really we just don't want to cook haha)  What is everyone else's plan for turkey day? Let me know!

M.I.A (long one..sorry guys)

Just like my last several months of posts I am going to start with an apology. How busy life has been since I have started school! I have been looking at my blog and seeing the pathetic slip of posts since the month of August, I still haven't ever gotten caught up with reading everyone else's posts. Lets see, let me try to catch up a bit.

The time has been passing me more quickly this year than any year past. I feel like it should still be March and I was just leaving California. I can't believe that is has already been 5 months since moving into our home in Bozeman. I was cutting a client's hair yesterday and they asked me if I had plans for thanksgiving. I told her no that I haven't even thought about it. She quickly reminded me that it was only 2 weeks off and I should think of making a plan...Geez didn't we just start October? Yeah apparently that month slipped by me as well.

Jared is doing well. Scruffy as ever, he is now 6 months into his hair grow experiment. (YAY HALF DONE!) I wouldn't mind the beard as much if it was well manicured, but since there is absolutely no shears to touch it, it remains wild as ever. Jared is a workaholic to say the least. Since switching his job within the company in July he has worked every single saturday since. His job is to be their truck driver, but with the big hail storm back in June he has been doing incredible amounts of shingle jobs with Ryan. He did the math and he lifts over 1 ton of shingles in a single 12 hours. He is loosing weight and looks great. I am very proud of him.

I am continuing to do well in school. I am holding a personal record I set for myself, that makes me very proud. I have not missed a single day of school since I started on August 3rd. I have been on the clinic floor for over a month and can now do cut, color, and perms on the public. At first I hated cutting so very much. I thought I would like it a lot more than I did. It would frustrate me to the point that I wanted to cry every single time I got into the cut. But I later discovered that it was just cutting on a mannequin that drove me insane. I started cutting on the public and I picked it up rather fast. I think a lot of it has to do with the interaction that you get with the person. I now have a least 2 or 3 clients a day. :) I am getting pretty fierce at men's cuts lol I do a lot of those. I had my first experience with extremely thick asian hair. WOW! I cut more hair off of that guy than I had on my whole head, and he still had triple the amount than I do. After sweeping it up it looked like a small black dog chilling in the corner haha. Unfortunately I experienced my first cut during his hair cut. Everything was going quite well until the thinning process. I was using my thinning shears and when  I went to palm them they slipped off my finger just enough that they were going to fall. I went to catch them and the blades bit down on my flesh in the process. It was so fast that it wasn't painful but it was quick to bleed. The after math looked like a small shark bite haha the serrated edge looked like teeth and somehow it was curved. CRAZY. I am loving it though now that I am busy working with the public.

Winter has officially hit Bozeman. We are freezing our Southern Californian Nay Nay's off here because of it too. The bird's hate the cold and stay constantly fluffy. The day the first blizzard hit I took them to the window to look out. Tico freaked and did everything in his power to get away. The first storm decided to come the day that I had to travel to Helena to take my national nail exam for Montana. When I woke up that morning it was just a light rain but after jumping out of the shower is had turned to fluffy white flakes that accumulated so fast! I wasn't thrilled about driving in that, my poor Mazda RX-8 and I was almost in tears. :) The further away I got from Bozeman the better the weather was though. I passed my test with flying colors and I am now licensed in two states. I am happy about that! I am still trying to sell my beautiful car, I am very unsuccessful with it though at the moment. A winter area just isn't the place for such a magnificent sports car lol. I am at the point that I think we will travel to an area where snow doesn't happen and find something else to drive back. It's just too beautiful to get ruined by a winter storm.

With all of that being said, I think you all are just about caught up on our life. We have been very fortunate to have several visitors, which we love. We are still adjusting to our new life and taking all of it's up's and down's with stride. I think I am having a lot harder time doing that than Jared is though. A bit of identity crisis has been going on inside my head. :) I haven't abondoned you all though and I am sorry that I have been such a stranger. I will try to be better again.

Much Love,

Her name is Mindy

I don't know about the rest of you readers, but I am a HUGE "coffee shop" music fan as I like to call it. I love the soft melodies and perfect words that each song possesses, especially when I am stressed or feeling down, or if I just want to unwind and get some work done. My new favorite coffee shop artist is Mindy Gledhill. Her album Anchor is pretty much amazing! I highly reccomend that you all take a listen. I even included one of her songs on my blog for sampling. Jillian Edwards is another new artist that I have had on my playlist. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I do!

More Dancing Fun!

I broke down and bought Just Dance 2! I love that game so much, it's super fun and I get a great workout! Here are a couple video's from the 1st Just Dance that my friend and I were doing. Nothing like  a good game night with buddies, completed with Pina Colada's :)

Cotton Eyed Joe

Pump Up the Jam!

Birthday Gun and Bad Mouths.

Last weekend Jared wanted me to go shoot his new gun with him really badly, so we piled in the truck and headed up into the mountain. Ryan and Jared shot the gun for a while and I was hoping to get away without him making me, I wasn't so lucky.  He kept telling me how awesome it was, and how it didn't kick at all because the recoil magically took all of the impact, and blah blah blah. Well I held it tight up against my shoulder not wanting to pull the trigger, and pulled it anyway. Immediately the stupid thing kicked back and smacked me really hard on the Clavical. I was so pissed and instantly a huge string of foul language shot out of my mouth without a second thought. :S I hate guns so much, they are scary.

Isnt it beautiful?

He's so Badass ;)

I really liked this Stump.

I think the moss on the tree's is facinating

 Max

 His new baby

 The Boys Shooting

Me being afraid. Dang gun

Photo update for August

This is the rug walking into the school. Kind of neat

Air forming in basics class

 

Break time! Left to Right: Kallie, Heather, Sydney, and me

Heather and I

This is Tim. He is the instructor that we harass the most, but we love him.;)

Camping with Jared

Yeah we be crazy

Finger 11 and Hinder concert. It was so good

Jared and I after the concert

Jared's 24th Birthday

I put tiny guns on the cake because that is the only thing he got for his birthday.

Rainbow in the clouds.

Kelsey & Suzanne at the wax party

Waxin it up

Sydney and I getting the wax off

Mama Maud came to visit us :)

Roller set from school

Kiwi just kickin' it on the couch with Dad

 

Jared's new gun that he got for his bday.

Doing what I do best...Hair!

I made them a beautiful shade of pink and blue. haha

Pimp Cups!

Chillin' with my Homies

I love crazy friends :)

I hope you enjoyed!