Christmas!

I just want to wish my wonderful family and friends a Merry Christmas. Life has changed big time for us this year, becoming parents, home owners, and all that comes with that. We are truly blessed to have all the support that we have. WE love you Merry Christmas!!!!

Love Emily, Devin, and Teags

Girl crush... Is that bad

With the good bye of Amy Poehler on SNL, I was really heart sick. I didn't know if I could continue watching. Of course there would be funny skits, but would they be as memorable as "Really" with Amy and Seth on Weekend Update. Would there be the infectious laughter of Lil' Amy that makes the jokes even better, the uncanny Hillary Clinton impression that even makes Hillary think she is a not ready for time prime player on SNL, the ghetto fabulous Bronx Beat that makes me want to move to the Boroughs to practice my own New Yorker accent. 

 Amy Poehler will be missed by many including myself, but man do I Heart Kristen Wiig. This love affair started when she did the sisters skit spoofing The Lawrence Welk show. I think I watched it 194 times, cried because I was laughing so hard 54 times, and peed my pants twice. I still chuckle thinking about it. From that one skit I started crushing hard on Kristen. I love her in her sweaters, wigs, and cat voice. Kristen Wiig I am your biggest fan.

Here is just one of her wonderful skits. I want to hang out with Kristen. 

Static?

With winter comes static hair, and as a hair care professional I feel like it's my duty to give a few tips to hopefully get us through this.

1. scrub your hair with baking soda. Yes baking soda. Put some in a bowl and take it in the shower with you mix it with your shampoo, scrub and rinse. You might want to shampoo again. The baking soda helps to remove build up, that makes it hard to let the conditioner in. IF you have just colored your hair I would suggest waiting a week to do this.

2. Try using a leave in conditioner. Sexy hair's whey leave in conditioner is light so it won't way your hair down. It also smells very good! (which is always a factor with product) Also deep conditioning is a good idea.

3. Try to not play with your hair to much during the day. The more you touch it just seems to make it static. I'm not a scientist I just do hair. 

4. Dryer sheets they make your clothes static free try running one  through your hair. 

5. Abba makes great shampoos and conditioners. Their moisture conditioner is especially great  I think, again my opinion, that it helps control the hair. Also pureology's hydrate shampoo and conditioner, but abba is a little more affordable. 

6. Less is more, don't over do the product, this is true any time of the year. use a light texture paste if you want, but definitely finish with a little hair spray. Either spray directly on the hair, or on to your comb/brush and then brush your hair. But this would have to be done few time through out the day.

I hope this helps if there are any questions feel free to ask maybe I will know!

Hacker Alert*

Dear Emily-

This post is to warn you that while you were hacking into your sister's blog, she has been doing the same. This post will not include cute pictures of a baby, updates of mommy moments, reports on meida crazes, or the like. Consider yourself warned.

Love,
Mr. Blogspot

Snow PLEASE!!!

Me and Teagan are bundled up and ready for some fluffy white moisture. I think that I'm the only one that looks forward to this time of year mostly for snow. I LOVE IT. I love the smell, the ring around the moon just before a big storm. The foot on top of my car that I have to shovel off, because it gives me an excuse to bundle up and kind of play in it. The way it makes the world sparkle. Sweaters, puffy coats, boots, scarves, mittens, hats, hot chocolate, fluffy socks. Every year all I want for Christmas is a white one, so please please please snow already.  

baby hands

I love this picture, it just shows why I no longer can wear earings, necklaces, my hair down, eat with her on my lap in peace. It's so fun to see her explore the world at an arms length! 

Rice cereal anyone

Teagan didn't know what to think of this thing called rice cereal. 

My laundry helper

It was so cute first she started pulling my socks over her face, then any thing she could reach. When that got old, STEAM ROLLER, into the pile. Teagan cracks me up! 

Twilight... and more

Well I saw it! No I was not one of the mid night viewers, or some one carrying around a vile of my own blood around my neck. But I was amongst a crowd of overly excited women (not girls) that saw it Saturday afternoon. 

I do have to say that I did enjoy it. I didn't know if I would like Robert Pattinson, Cedric Diggory, as Edward but He did well and I did find him very attractive. They stayed pretty true to the book, and it's always fun to see characters come to life. Probably the most entertaining part was every time a character was introduced the over zealous 40-60 year old women would cat call, scream, profess their undying love. Which just added extra laughs. 

What really gave me the chills literally up and down my arms was the trailer to the 6th Harry Potter The Half Blood Prince. I have to say that this and the 4th are my two most favorite books of the incredible series. There will always be a special place in my heart for Harry Potter since our relationship runs really deep. We've known each other 7 years now. So since I no longer have the next book to look forward to coming out, I now have the movie. Opening night any one down?

5 months!

Today Teagan asked if she could borrow the car and when I told her no she turned around, stomped into her bed room, slammed the door and yelled how I was ruining her life.... No that was just the flash forward I had as I sat watching my precious little baby rolling across the floor. I can't believe she is 5 months old today, but what a GREAT 5 months we love you Teags. 

Welcome to being a home owner.

Monday was going to be a great day. I planned to do a couple loads of laundry clean up the house, maybe get in the shower by the time Devin gets home. You know one of those great bum around the house days. So I put my laundry in first thing to get a head start. Go about doing other things. Go down to put the load in the dryer... Squish Squish........ umm....    

                                                                                                                                                                                                       

Yes that was the sound as I stepped on to my CARPET in the basement. My heart stops, sure enough the drain that is supposed to DRAIN was so completely backed up I almost started to cry/ vomit at the disgusting water sitting there mocking me. 

I call Devin to tell him that we have a flood, then I call my mom since she just recently had one so she would have  the trusty roader rooter number. I get that all set up. Call Aisha to borrow their shop vac to try and salvage our carpet. Go down and bail up the nasty back up water. Smartly go up stairs to clean the toilet and use it. Oops all the water I just bailed right back up. So I can't use any water great. couple hours later I'm about to have a bladder infection roader rooter comes. Tells me that our beautiful tree roots are growing into the pipes and that's what is causing such distress. 

So all day the words of  the relator that was selling our house rang through my head. "Welcome to being a home owner. " Because part of the closing they were going to replace the water heater. It was all set up to be done the day we were closing. Didn't happen, we move in on a Saturday no hot water Sunday no hot water Monday Yeah he is to show up between 9am-midnight. Doesn't show up. The relator comes by to get her sign and give us a key, so I tell her that lame contractor hasn't shown up. she turns to me, being 6 months pregnant had to basically sponge bath myself all weekend  with water that I boiled, and says "welcome to being a home owner" I could have smacked her. 

Now it's makes for great memories, that hopefully our first flood will turn into once it's all over. Thanks again Aishi and brad for the fans and shop vac.  Oh and did I mention that I have this incredible sinus infection that was just throbbing all day! ( just had to add a little more drama to the story. ) Good thing I started a blog so I could vent about this!!!!!

Dear Swaddle

Since we are in the month of November and gratitude is on my mind I thought that I owe you some thanks. When Teagan was just 3 or 4 weeks old we took you seriously and thats when she started sleeping 5 hours through the night ( and now even more). You keep Baby Teags oh so warm on these wintery nights, and when nap and bed time comes around you have taught Teagan that it's time to sleep. I will be forever grateful for you my dear friend and hope you stick around for along time. At least until she's 18 and on her own... But even then she might appreciate you every once in a while. 

Yours Truly

Emily 

She only makes it better...

I kind of thought that our lives would end as soon as Teagan was born, no more movies, eating out, traveling. Well I was wrong (thankfully) It's definitely changed our lives but I can safely say it's worth it. We just got back from Seattle couple weeks ago, and it was so fun. Thanks again Aimee and Scott for the fun weekend. After doing some of my most favorite clients hair. We packed up the car and drove to the most beautiful rain forest,Lake Quinault, the weather was so perfect and sunny. For a place that is know for it's rain we were lucky. 

  Here we are in front of the Lake isn't it so beautiful I wish I was a writer and could describe every inch of this place.

I'm not being patient enough to load more pictures but we drove to the coast the next morning. Teagan was great on the plane at least the way home. And after driving to Idaho Falls California, St. George, and flying to Seattle. I conclude that really now is the time to do this stuff while Teags is still young and able to sleep anywhere. 

Return of the Halloween

Just like the Jedi, I think Halloween may return in spite of Trunk or treats (worse thing to happen to Halloween) and the many attempts to destroy the holiday like prohibiting kids to wear mask in their school parades.  This holiday was as close to dead as the Halloween movie franchise after Halloween 3, Season of the Witch. It seems like year after year there are less trick or treaters out on the streets in search of the prized full candy bar houses, but this year seemed to have picked up a bit, or maybe Halloween seemed to make a comeback like New Kids and BackStreet Boys because we have a kid now, and we get to dress her up in fun costumes. Devin is way against any costumes for Teagan that are neither as cool as Scott Heffernan or as scary as Leprechaun in Space.  We came to a compromise and went with a bat. Teagan enjoyed wearing the costume until she started profusely sweating in it.  So she had it on for about an hour.  Here is a picture of our little bat, and come on we need to bring Halloween back like Wu did Wallabee Clarks.

 

HELP

I really want to be good at this blog. I told my self if you start one you have to keep up on it... But I haven't been because I don't know how to post pictures. Maybe I'm trying too hard. Or maybe I'm computer illiterate and we can be grateful I haven't blow up my cute lap top yet.  So it's up to my community, I come to you. HELP just want to show some pictures. tips, pointers, guidelines. I'm a quick learner.  thanks

Welcome to my world

As my new blog is born I feel like I need to introduce myself. Here are somethings that you don't have to really know about me but who doesn't love learning odd things about someone.

1. Before I fall asleep at night I have to lay on my right side for a little while before turning onto my left to then sink into slumber.

2. I started drinking V8 juice 6 years ago, and I think that now I can say that I enjoy it.

3. My favorite color is blue.

4. I always wish that I learned ballet.

5. I've thought about starting a blog for months but was too nervous, now that I have I think it will be a good thing.

So world wide web thanks for allowing me a space in your world.