Oh my gosh we have a stylish First Lady!

In light of everything going on in the world, this is probably low on the list of priorities. Nonetheless I am super excited about it! Check out her inauguration-al celebration choice by a new and upcoming designer Jason Wu. His entire collection is so fun! How fun to have such a prominent person be so fashionable and not fade into the background because she has to dress professionally. I love people who dress fashionably, cute, stylish, and manage to look professional all at the same time. I can't wait to see more of her choices!

On a more important note, Justinbustin watched the inauguration at school yesterday. My heart was so proud when I heard that. What a neat moment in history for the kids to share together. I watched it at work. My boss was recording it and I still don't know how to work that darn TV, so I'm glad it was on already when I got there. I have to say I'm still not sure what to think of Obama, mostly because most people I know vehmently disagree with some of his choices. I voted for whose parties my beliefs most lined up with, but I'm still not sure who I really believe in.

The Tousled Look

Truth be told this is my first attempt at this one. Sort of a sleek look with only the ends curled. I did pretty well, only one burned thumb and one petrified looking section of curled hair that I decided to try hairspraying while I was curling it. However, when I got to the end I attempted to tease the crown and ended up poufing it more than I wanted. I liked the sleek look before I teased it, so next time I'll stick with that and see what happens to it a few hours down the road.

Make up your mind!!

I am officially sick of winter and in between days. I want the weather to make up it's mind, none of this in between shit where I wear tank tops one day and sweaters the next! Half the time these days I go out in long sleeves when it's short sleeve weather or vice versa, just because it was that the day before. Doesn't mean anything around here. Today I feel like I have nothing to wear because it's a beautiful spring day but, oh, wait, it's still the middle of winter.

Book Review... & Kristin!

In the last month I've finished all four of the books in the Twilight series, and now How to Sleep with A Movie Star (which is really nothing of the sort). Because I couldn't stand the thought of not having something to move onto when I was done with the Twilight series, I snatched up How to Sleep With a Movie Star, the only book that looked interesting on the Barnes & Nobles bargain table. For a mere $2.50 how could I pass it up?

At first glance it seemed to be pure chick lit, light and an easy read after skimming a few pages. As I dove into it last night after finishing Breaking Dawn the evening before, I realized it was a similar premise to what Twilight's theme had been. Girl doesn't feel good enough for overwhelmingly dashing and charming man. There wasn't quite as much interaction between girl and dashingly charming man, but the road to get there was worth it and it more than filled the empty space the Twilight series left behind.

Any way, as I read it I thought of Kristin and wondered if the career worries and choices that the main character dealt with are in any way familiar to her since their line of work is/has been similar. Which made me realize I never posted the pictures of when we were out there!! So in honor of her and her hard-earned line of work, I thought I'd finally post the picture of when I got to meet her in San Fran at an adorable breakfast place I forget the name of. I don't think I ever even emailed her the pictures : ( !! And just because it's funny I'm posting the picture we forced the guys to take. We took our girlie pictures and so we made them take a guy picture : ) . Next post, the pictures with Cecilia and Courtney. Gah, I can't believe it's taken a year for me to post these.

Moment

The boys in their room, Justinbustin, now nine, and Shawners, now seven, working on a project taping together two empty oatmeal boxes and taping paper to the outside creating who knows what. Music from Justinbustin's ipod playing softly Jeremy Camp in the background. A sweet brotherly moment I witnessed for a few minutes of total teamwork, accompanied by soft music,  as I realized tomorrow I will blink and they will be all grown up. Less than four years now until Justinbustin's voice changes, less than six when he will turn into the man he is becoming and the adult he will be, and less than eight when he will be considered an adult by law.

My third nephew that lives out here is the last one to turn into an adult amongst his brothers, and I have freaked him out a few times in the past few days by acting like the crazy aunt who can't believe how much he has grown. I talked to him on the phone today and sat in shocked silence for about four minutes while I listened to his changing voice that sounded so much like his brother did just a year or two ago. His brother, whose voice I now mistake for his father on the phone all the time. Who is more of a man than any other sixteen year old I have met, runs his own business, bought his own car, and who is now about to be seventeen. My eyes widen in shock every time I see those boys realizing when we moved here the second time, only three and a half years ago now, the youngest was the age Justinbustin is now, and I realize how very close my boys are to becoming grown ups of their own.

Torn

Friends in Hawaii with us would be soooo much fun. A vacation with the two of us is so needed. Years of marriage, friendships to keep, time together that is needed. What do I WANT?! Both.

Updated: I called him and found out his girl only had a few days vacation any way so told them we would loooove for them to be there, but told them Brando and I wanted time to dirty the sheets too so if they could come out for a few days it'd be perfect! Haven't got a response yet, but I'm happy with saying what I wanted.

The Casual Headband Look

This hairstyle I recently discovered from a Hills episode and l-o-v-e! I've always liked headbands on other people, but the whole hair pulled back from my face thing has never worked well for me. This allows my face to be framed AND I get to wear a headband. This one is super simple, I do my hair normally and then place the headband exactly in the middle. Be sure to use a headband that contrasts with your natural hair color i.e. light colored headband for brunettes and dark hair, black or dark brown headband for blondes. I tease the hair behind the headband so it doesn't disappear completely from the front view, smooth it down, spray it all with a light finishing spray and I'm good to go. Here's a side view picture from over Thanksgiving of when I did this hairstyle. You'll have to excuse the throw up in your mouth a little.

Blogging Catch Up

Justinbustin bought his best friend a Christmas gift. When the friend came over on Friday to play Justinbustin gave it to him and crossed his fingers behind his back as he watched him open it, hoping he would like it. When his friend opened it, Justinbustin asked, "Do you have it already?" His friend loves Indiana Jones and it was an Indiana Jones book. Sooo cute.

The other night when we ate dinner I yawned and stretched my arms over my head. Shawners, now seven years old, started cracking up and pretty soon dissolved into laughter for a good five minutes. When we finally got him to 'fess up to what he was laughing at, he says, "Your boobies are big." Oh my!!

WE'RE GOING TO HAWAIII!!!!!!! YIPPPEEEEEEE!!!! This really deserves a post of it's own, but I just haven't taken the time. On top of that, Brando has ONE more person to have it approved with in order for him to take off from work. So we have thrown around more than enough dates, going with more than enough people, and finally settled on a date. We bought the tickets, we have the house reserved, an itinerary created thanks to Alyssa's help, now we are just waiting for that one last bit of go ahead in order to actually go ahead!!

We had a wonderful family weekend this weekend. Yesterday we attempted the Veloway for the first time. Too bad it was full of roadies that liked to do nothing more than shout "Wrong way!" when we had to turn around because Shawners had a meltdown on his heavy bike a quarter mile into it. It would've been funny to shout wrong way to them before they got to it and try and convince them THEY were actually going the wrong way. Too bad I thought of it just after we saw the last biker before we reached the parking lot. We went and fixed Shawner's lighter bike after that. Then we took the boys to the Palmer Event Center fountain park. They biked up and down the hills while we sat on the grass huddled up in jackets in the cold and read. Today we hiked Barton Creek Greenbelt for the first time while the kids rode their bikes. Then we chilled at the boys' favorite playground before heading home for a relaxing evening.

Well I was going to post the pictures, but Blogger is being lame so I'll post a slideshow instead.

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