Another exciting endeavor!

I only have about 4-5 weeks of school left, just depending on if I can make myself get in a few extra hours a week. I can't believe that I am almost done! I have been thinking about what I want to do once I graduate, and I already have a couple of things lined up. Since I will be an aesthetician and laser certified, there are a ton of options for me. But in order to make myself even more marketable and open up even more windows of opportunity, I am going to get certified in permanent cosmetics in May, and I AM SO EXCITED!!! I had my lips done several years ago, and I have always thought that it would be fun to get certified. Scott and I were talking about it the other day, and he said, "Why don't you just do it?!" So, I did! The money that you can make from that is insane. You can charge up to $500 for each procedure (lip liner, full lips, eyeliner, or brows).

Also exciting, the garden is completely finished! We planted carrots, tomatoes, jalapenos, squash, bell pepper, beets, lettuce, onion, cilantro, watermelon, cantaloupe, and pomegranate. It is so fun to go out there every morning and see the progress that our garden is making.

Drive It Til The Wheels Fall Off

About a year ago Scott decided that it would be fun to buy an old Turbo-diesel Mercedes. I'm still not sure what he liked about those cars, but I have never liked it. I'm sure that it was fast in it's day, but it's days are long past. I have always hated driving it, but it was nice to not have a car payment on it. It had a brand new motor, so it drove well and the A/C worked. Scott said we would just "drive it til the wheels fell off". Well, I drove it until something fell off, but it wasn't the wheels. On Wednesday I was driving down the freeway on my way to school, going about 70 in the left lane, when all of a sudden I heard a really loud noise, followed by a horrible scraping sound. I looked in my rear view mirror and saw smoke and sparks flying out everywhere. So I got off at the next exit and pulled into a parking lot, got out of the car, and saw that the whole muffler and both tailpipes had broke loose and were just dragging on the ground! So I called Scott and he came and picked me up and took me to school. "Okay Scott, you had your fun, now I want something that I can drive without worrying if I am going to burst into flames!" I said. We had been talking about getting a new car for a couple of weeks, so this wasn't a horrible loss to me :). I'm just glad that the car didn't catch on fire and that I was able to get off the freeway right away. Can you imagine driving behind someone on the freeway and all of a sudden the bottom of their car falls off?! It was pretty comical, more so now then it was at the time. We kept going back and forth about what car we wanted to get, and I was getting pretty frustrated with Scott because he kept changing his mind. Little did I know that he already knew what he was going to get me, and he was just terrorizing me on purpose. When I pulled up to my house coming home from school last night, I was super surprised to see a shiny Jaguar in my driveway!! Scott was standing there too, just laughing at me because I had just lectured him on the phone 10 minutes earlier to make up his mind because he was driving me crazy. Anyone who knows Scott knows that he likes to tease me, but I'm just glad that he made up for it this time. :)

Bachelor Party

Scott spent this past weekend in Colorado snowboarding for his brother Tim's bachelor party. They had so much fun, Scott really needed to go have a break and hang out with the guys. Scott got so crazy that he actually broke his board and had to buy a new one!

Almost done!

I am almost done with school! Hallelujah! As much as I have enjoyed it, I am ready to be done, take my state boards, and start working a couple days a week. I have about 5 weeks left, which I'm sure will fly by, just like the last 9 months have. We are doing some really fun stuff right now, things that made me interested in Aesthetics in the first place. I am taking my laser class, which includes laser hair removal, photo facials, fractional laser, etc. I am also in a clinical aesthetics class, where we are learning epidermal leveling, LamProbe, and injectables. Yesterday I did an "Epi-Plus" on my friend Erin, which is an epidermal leveling followed by a pomegranate peel. Her skin looked so incredibly amazing, it was wonderful! Today I am getting an Epi-Plus, and I can't wait. It's like Christmas Eve. What epidermal leveling is is basically removing the top layer of the skin (the disjunctum) with a razor blade. Sounds crazy, huh?! The results are awesome, and believe it or not, there is no pain with the treatment (unless of course you do a peel). Part of the cost for our laser class includes getting 3 areas done. So last night I got my first underarm laser treatment. I am also going to do bikini and legs. There are only 2 other girls in my laser class (that is what the above picture is from), so we get to let loose a little bit and just have a blast (no pun intended). I LOVE what I do!!

Zoo

Today I took the kids to the zoo, and we had so much fun! Marley spent last night and today with my mom for some special Nana time, so I "just" had 4 kids at the zoo. Scott is in Colorado snowboarding for the weekend for his brother's bachelor party, so we decided that we needed to go do something fun instead of just sitting around the house. It was Ryan and Jenna's first time, and they loved it. Their favorite animals were the orangutans, and Macey and Heidi were crazy about the stingrays. The weather was so nice, it was the perfect day to go to the zoo.















Here are some cute pictures from the last couple of days.

Garden and Sickies

Scott is almost finished with the garden! He will finish painting it this weekend and then we will plant everything. We are also going to paint the chicken coop. We let Macey and Heidi pick what colors we are going to paint everything, and Macey picked turquoise and white for the garden and Heidi picked purple for the coop. We are going to have a colorful backyard! Here are a couple pictures of the construction process.



I am making good progress on my projects as well, but I don't want to post any pictures until everything is done. :) But I absolutely love how everything is turning out! I start my laser course at school tonight, and I am so excited! We do laser hair removal and lots of different laser treatments for the skin, including vein removal and wrinkle reduction. Can't wait!

The kids have all been passing around hand foot and mouth. These poor kids have been miserable! High fevers, no sleep, blisters, yuck. Ryan and Jenna got the sickest. When Jenna had it, she screamed for 3 days straight. She wouldn't sleep or eat, we were all exhausted. When Ryan had it, all he wanted to do was sleep. He would just fall asleep wherever he was when he felt the need for a nap. It was actually pretty sad. Marley got by with a few blisters, she didn't get a fever. Macey and Heidi both had high fevers and only a couple blisters. The only thing that would cheer the little ones up was Elmo. Let me tell you, Cinderelmo is even more annoying at 2:30 in the morning!



Jake must not have been feeling very well either. :)

Sick Jenna, surrounded by Elmo, watching Elmo, trying to eat something.






Nana brought everyone ice cream cones to cheer them up and soothe their sore mouths. These were the twins' first ice cream cones!