Spring Fever!

I am really struggling to stay focused on these last few school assignments....especially with lovely weather like today! I was daydreaming at work about summer days at the park with a good book. I have two papers and one final left and then I'm home free until the fall! One of my summer projects is to get my blog printed out - has anyone done this or looked into it? Any suggestions?

Seven Pounds

Don't text and drive!

Flashback Friday

Junior Prom
2000

Tew Time

Last weekend we went to hang out with the Tew family to have a belated Easter egg hunt for the grandkids and to celebrate Rick and Kristy's birthdays. Before the kids got there we filled dozens of plastic eggs with goodies (mainly stickers and coins--at the parent's request for no more candy!) then we hid them all over the backyard. It was so fun to see them get so excited to find an egg! It turned out to be a fairly warm spring Saturday and Nate and his siblings were able to play soccer and volleyball while I played with my Nephew Kenny. He insisted I be Catwoman and he was Batman. We completed a few top secret missions and he even showed me how Catwoman was supposed to walk - it was hilarious!

E is for Earth

Happy Earth Day!
Reduce~Reuse~Recycle
(woah - if you say Earth a lot it starts to sound really weird)

Layout Issues...

So my funky floral layout that I loved totally spazzed out and had a bunch of photobucket ads on all my posts- plus I found out the layout was only free for 90 days- so now I have to find something else. I am on the hunt and thinking about actually leaving Blogger (it's so limited!) for Wordpress or something else. Stay tuned!

Butter Treat

So when I got my hair trimmed several weeks ago my stylist asked the dreaded question that they always try to play off as totally innocent...."Soooo, what kind of Shampoo and Conditioner are you using?" (as she tosses her head to the side and her glowing shining beautiful locks cascade around her face because she gets a discount on all the products that I can't pronounce) I looked down at the ground and answered, "L'Oreal.......Paris" (I thought the Paris part made it sound more professional - it says Paris right on the bottle!)

She clicked her tongue a few times and told me that explained things. Then she just went on cutting. That explained things??? Like what? That my hair is curly as all get out and it goes in all directions and she has no idea what it's like to live with a massive mane of hair? It didn't help that it had been way to long since my last cut so of course there were a few dead ends here and there....and all over.

I decided to stand my ground. I calmly explained that I just couldn't justify spending half my paycheck on shampoo and conditioner - especially when you have as much hair as I do and you have to use half a bottle each time! I told her that we could compromise - I would keep using my shampoo from Paris and I would fork over a little cash for a deep conditioner. Oh yes she said, she had just the thing. Redken's Butter Treat that is a total of 8.5 ounces and cost me 5 times what my normal conditioner does. (I'm serious.)

So, they were all out when I left and she said she would call me when the new order came in. I picked up my Butter Treat today and when I got home the first thing I did was compare the ingredients to that of my conditioner from Paris.
Hmmmmmm...let's see....

First ingredient on both: Aqua/Water

Second ingredient on both: Cetearyl Alcohol (which makes no sense to me)

Then the rest of the ingredients differ here and there with a Dihydrocholride here and a Cocoamphodipropionate there.

Butter Treat's claim to fame is it's Macadamia Oil...
L'Oreal's is Camelina Seed Oil.

Basically I am sick of hair products and how much they cost and what they claim to do. Anyone else feel my pain?

P.S. Anyone had success with Butter Treat?

Flashback Friday

South Summit Water Polo Team
2000

Been listening to:

F.E.E.T Part II

More pics from the growing collection:

Countdown

Let the countdown begin...

The semester is over in three weeks!

The Easter Bunny Brought Our Family...

and I made:

Delicious!

My friend Militza introduced me to my new favorite snack: Sliced mango drizzled with lime juice and sprinkled with coarse sea salt - it is so good! She is from Mexico and she says that her family eats this all the time. I've had it twice this week!

Flashback Friday

Bus O' Cheer
Sophomore Year

Refrigerator Time

Fridge Tag

Instructions:
1) Open your fridge
2) Take a picture
3) Tag 5 people (or 6)

I tag: Sherrill, Tasia, Chelsea, Rebecca, Valerie, and Ashley M.

Rexburg

A couple of weeks ago my family came out to Utah for their Spring Break. Kelsey, my mom, and I took a day trip to Rexburg to check out their piano pedagogy associates degree for Kelsey. It ended up being freezing but we had a lot of fun. My mom flagged down the lady who was giving tours and she gave us free drink vouchers, pamphlets, mints, and t-shirts. The campus has totally changed since I was last there. Lots of renovation, a temple now, and the new bookstore looks like Barnes and Noble. I made some lifelong friends in Rexburg, and also a million memories that I will never forget-sometimes I miss those days.

Flashback Friday

Valerie and Jess
Rexburg, Idaho
October 2002