Caper Las Vegas Baby!!!!!

Destination: Mandalay Bay
Road trip buddies: Micky and me
Ariella and Amanda
The sick leopard/animal print truck and camper...I'm sure they were on their way to Nascar
Zoltar...Like in the movie BIG with Tom Hanks
Violeta lipstick from Mac and Micky's mustach
Micky, me, and my room mate Stacey at The Cheesecake Factory
The masses of people pushing to get into the general session...I seriously could've lifted up my feet and hung there. It was packed and when they opened the doors they made the announcement that if you ran you'd be sent back because they didn't want anyone to get trampled...ya...hard core. There were over 2,000 future professionals there.
The humongous stage and room that we had the general session in
Waiting for the session to start
Micky and me
Winn Claybaugh...he is an extraordinary motivational speaker! So inspiring :D
Robert Cromeans aka crazily dressed man/incredible famous hair dresser. He's Scotish, give him a break! He's the owner of ARCS salon in Mandalay Bay.
The man himself, John Paul Dejoria!
Angus Mitchell, the son of the late Paul Mitchell
Our school with Winn, JP, and Angus
Me, STEPHANIE KOCIELSKI, and Stacey. Stephanie is an incredible hairdresser and completely my mentor! I LOVE her! My color class was with her too! AH!
Me, Su (my school's director) and Stacey
Tired me and Micky at the end of the second day
Stacey, Scott Cole and me. He is also a famous hairdresser and a wonderful teacher! He taught our cutting class.
My updo for our Styling class taught by Noogie and Kevin Michaels
Other up do :D

Holy cow!!! Caper was SO so incredible and the experience of a lifetime! There were over 2,000 future professionals from aross the nation! The first day was all free time, the second day we had a "general sesson" with all the superstars of hair: Robert Cromeans, Stephanie Kocielski. Linda Yodice, Scott Cole, Angus Mitchell, Takashi (whom I did meet, but he was wearing a scandalous shirt, so I didn't post the picture), Noogie, and then Winn Claybaugh and JP Dejoria were there too! AH! That night we had a hollywood glam themed party and the next day was filled with classes! I totally made out like a bandit too: I got 3 mannequin heads (seriously $60 each) and tons of free product! YES! It was most definitely worth selling all of the bags, but I was happy to come home to my sweet hubby Ronnie. I just kept thinking "this would be SO much more fun if Ronnie were here". Anywho, thanks to everyone that bought bags from me and helped me get to Vegas!

School Happenings

Ronnie and me at Red Robin after the hair show at my school...it was our Valentines outing
Brandi in the hair show. My model couldn't come so I was just there to help out.
Kristen and me at the hair show
Me with Design Team at Canyon View High School for a Lunch Jam (we do hair to promote our school)
The lovely Laura LeBaron after I cut and styled her beautiful hair!
Jessica and me after our photoshoot.
This is me and all of the little girls from our old ward. They were at my school for a birthday party, where we paint their toes and fingernails and do their hair. It was super fun :D

Micky Shay Grover and me with saucy red lipstick...

Happy Birthday Brookie!

Leg up baby!
The birthday girl!
The group: Kari, Me, Ronnie, Lindsey, Aaron, Callie, Brooke, Makaela, and Amanda
Happy 21st Birthday my little Brookie Shanaenae! This girl is so amazing, beautiful, talented, fun and smart! I'm so grateful that she is one of my very best friends! To celebrate we went to the lavish Pirate Island! AAaaaar! It was actually a pretty fun atmosphere and had tasty chicken alfredo pizza! We had so much fun catching up and of course, reminiscing...poor people who were there that didn't go to high school with us...The pirates even sang to Brookie and brought her birthday cake ice cream!

Steph and Ahjoung go to Preference!

Aw....my little babies are all grown up and going to dances! I LOVE these girls so much and had fun helping them get ready for their dance. I can't believe that Steph is already 16 and dating and driving and so mature, and I'm so grateful to have Ahyoung in our family! She is such a wonderful, cheerful, loving person :D Ronnie and I also did their group pictures...I'll post them when I'm on the big compi!

Wedding Questionaire

1. How old were you?
19

2. What jobs did you and your fiance / husband have?
I was working at Bridal Elegance and Ronnie was working at Stinko's (aka Kinko's)

3. How long was your engagement?
About 2 months

4. What shape of diamond was your wedding ring?
Princess cut

5. What season were you married in?
Blessed Summertime

6. Who married you?
I don't remember his name, but he had really good advice

7. Who was your maid / matron of honor?
The one responsible for it all, Brooke Vincent

8. Was your wedding dress white?
With a blue sash

9. What were your colors?
Jewel tones blue and red, with black and white...it sounds gross, but it looked good...I thought...I may look back in time and gag.

10. How many bridesmaids?
Brookie, Callie, Kami, and Kari

11. Did you have a flower girl and/or ring bearer?
Nope

12. What flowers did you have for your bouquet?
Calalillies...if that's how you spell it

13. What kind of flowers did your bridesmaids carry?
Red roses and gerbera daisies

14. Did the groom wear a black tux?
With pinstripes!

15. Where was the ceremony?
St. George Temple

16. Did you wear comfortable shoes or neck-breaker high heels?
I had to wear flats in order to be shorter than Ronnie :P

17. Who gave you away?
Technically no one...my Dad didn't really want to give me to Ronnie anyway...hehe...jokes!

18. What was the most memorable part of the ceremony?
When Ronnie accidentally pulled off my veil at the end when we kissed...

19. Did you have a reception?
Yup

20. What was your favorite gift?
Probably our Coco-motion

21. What was your least favorite gift?
Probably the way they decorated our car so we couldn't get in and Ronnie was really mad

22. What kind of cake did you have?
2 layer butter cream frosting cake with raspberry filling! Super yummy!

23. Disc Jockey or Live Band?
Lap top with Grandpa's sweet speaker set up

24. What was the name of the song for your first dance?
We didn't have a dance because everyone left while we went to clean up our cake off of us...but it was have been You're Everything by Michael Buble or Must Have Done Something Right by Plain White Tees

25. Who caught the bouquet?
Hmm...I think it was Brooke, but I really don't remember...does anyone out there remember?

26. What kind of vehicle did you leave in?
My 1989 blue Plymouth Acclaim

27. If you could change one thing about your wedding day what would you change?
Probably the no first dance thing, that kind of sucked. And maybe the chairs...hmmm....it was perfect regardless :D I heart my hubby!


Now I tag Cami, Jessica, Andrea, Brooke, and Cindy

Year and a Half Mark!

Well, here we are, a year and half later to the date, and I can't figure out how to turn off this darn underlined thingy...sigh...oh well! Life is wonderful and we are so ridiculously happy! I love my hubby so much! He's just as handsome and kind, can still make me laugh harder than anyone else I know and loves me no matter what! What a guy! I love you honey!

Shoot Me

Here is a sample of my first ever photo shoot, with none other than the AMAZING Nick and Signe Adams! They are incredible and I've been following their work for some time, so it was a complete honor to have them take the photos for our school's photo shoot. My model is my wonderful friend Jessica, without whom I wouldn't have even attempted to do this shoot....thanks Jess! She was totally awesome! I did her hair color (weave), style and makeup (I also made the hair piece). It was crazy and a tad stressful, but a total blast! Thanks to everyone that made it possible! Paul Mitchell ROCKS!

Funraiser Kickoff at Paul Mitchell

Brandi, Sara, Morgan and me...hippie style.
My Learning Leader Julie and me in my Mom's vintage bell bottoms...oh ya...
Micky and Me
Kayla and a confused me playing Sing Star


Every year my school kicks off a "fun"raising season starting in February and ending in April. We have fundraisers weekly and give all of the proceeds, along with every Paul Mitchell school, to 5 different charities: The Larry King Cardiac Foundation, Cancer Shmancer, The Andrew Gomez Dream Foundation (for people living with depression) Food 4 Africa, and Leeza's Place (A support group/home for people with chronic illnesses). Just another wonderful reason why I love Paul Mitchell!
For the kickoff the theme was Love, Peace, Give, so we dressed up like hippies, tie dyed shirts, played Sing Star/Dance Factory, had yummy food, and listened to a conference call to get us totally jazzed! It was a blast!