Happy Halloween!!!

Just in case you couldn't figure it out we were Mario and Peach for Halloween. It was a jolly day. Shawn built our karts with his BARE hands, and then we decorated! Amazing...I know.

This next picture I just think is funny. This was at the Walker residence. I find them quite humorous :)

Re-Vibe Fashion Show

I am in this class (Dress & Humanity) that for one of our assignments we had to make a garment from recycled materials.... Of course, the first thing that came to my mind was Coke cans. We have plenty of those lying around our house. Shawn is what you would call a 'sipper' he sips his Coke and somehow half full Coke cans end up in obscure corners of our house. Therefore I came up with a plan to create a dress from Coke cans.... soon after starting I realized I would never have enough cans for an entire dress. This is when digging in the recycle bins at the Taggart Student Center came in handy. We transformed ourselves into homeless people (slightly embarrassing). <-- That is Step 1

ANYWHO- here are the pictures of the birth of my dear little dress

Step 2- Wash the cans

Step 3- Cut the cans 

                                      

Step 4- Attach the cut pieces to the dress

Finally! A dress! HA- This was during the 2nd fitting process... somehow when I attached the final cans on top it shrunk a little... oops! haha As Erin was squeezing into it she said it was like coming out of the birth canal.... haha 

 

VICTORY! She made it in!

Erin rockin' the runway

These were my other favorites

That white dress in the middle was made out of coffee filters- SO amazing, and the one to the right was made out of paper plates and lunch sacks. People are just so creative.

Anywho, the fashion show was great, and we all lived happily ever after

The Car Show

So every year they have a 'Cruise-In' car show which is ridiculously amazing. Working at Riverwoods Conference Center I got an early taste of it. They kicked off their annual show and cruise with a old-fashioned dance called a cob stomp or a cob something... I don't really remember :) But all these people dressed up like in the 50's, it was really quite amazing. Anywho, we had a jolly good time walking around the fair ground looking at a few of the 700 restored cars.

Does this truck not remind you of a sleeping dog?!

The Bat Mobile! This car so SOOO nice, inside it had a GPS system installed and there were no handles on the outside of it anywhere (we think there is a remote control opener somewhere to open the doors but we really don't know)

Somehow I enjoy taking pictures of parts of cars instead of them as a whole :)

This String Ray was Shawn's favorite... as for my favorite...

Is this not the cutest little car you have ever seen? This little baby was the first Mazda to come over to America from Japan. 

Our MAN Garden!

So we have decided that this summer we want to have a garden, unfortunately since we have a tiny backyard that is surrounded by huge trees we didn't have enough sunshine to make our plants grow. There happens to be a spot at the top of our driveway that we 'built' a garden on. My handy husband whipped this up in a few hours.

Stage 1

Stage 2

It's a garden!!

After getting to this point Shawn declared that this was 'a man's garden'.... meaning that NO flowers were to be planted in this garden. So funny....he's such a manly gardener :)

We have started planting seeds in our house to transplant into our lovely garden, they are our babies! As you can see they were starting to take over the world, so....

We upgraded tables, how quaint.

Shawn's Day at the Spa

So my sister Jessica just got a job at K Salon. K Salon is an amazing salon in Logan-very classy. Of course my she give a special discount for Shawn. As we walk in the receptionist asked us if we want something to drink, then as we sit down there is a glass pedestal resembling the picture below with the most amazing-looking cupcakes.

The first thing I hear from Shawn is: "Can we have those?" I opened it up and got him one. Soon enough he is getting his haircut and moments later a receptionist comes by holding the platter asking us if we'd like a cupcake, Shawn's reply: "Yes!" 

This is Shawn with his second cupcake while inspecting the cream that is going in his hair, making sure to keep his cupcake away from any newly cut hairs, I really wish I took picture of him while he was getting his hair rinsed. It was quite a sight. He had a hot towel on his face and one on each of his hands, he was spoiled.

While we were there I didn't want my cupcake, so of course I was going to save it, well.... while walking out to the parking lot something bad happened...

That pretty much sums up our trip to K Salon. I think Shawn was especially thrilled because I sent him to a beauty college the time before and the girl took 7 days to do it. :) And they all lived happily ever after.

Packing for our adventure...

By Shawn...

So, tonight we are packing up for our week-long trip to Indiana to visit my sister Camille and her wonderful little family. Also, we are driving from where they live (near Louisville, KY) to Chicago to see a Duke Blue Devils basketball game. If any of you didn't know, I'm a huge fan. This will be the second time in my life I will see them play. The first was in 2006 when we went to a home game at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, NC. That was a once in a lifetime experience. Cameron Indoor is like the Mecca of college sporting venues, comparable to Fenway Park in the MLB. Anywho... I'm rambling.

Of course we will make a sweet post and tell of our tales of the eastern land complete with photos and all. Laura has been so good with this all and doesn't seem to be too bothered with my obsesion with Blue Devil basketball. In fact, for Christmas she supported it by providing a Cameron Crazies T-Shirt and a dvd with classic games of Duke beating UNC. Pure gold. Furthermore, this past week she found Coach K's e-mail address and told him that we would be attending the game in Chicago and that her husband (me) would really like to meet him. Isn't she so great. Well, nevertheless, she got an e-mail back from one of his assistants informing her that due to time Coach wouldn't be able to make such a visit, oh well it was worth a try.

The real reason I made this post was to publish a funny quote Laura just uttered as we were packing, stuffing clothes and belongings into small suitcase. (ya'll know the drill) She said, "I hate packing my clothes so tight in my suitcase, I feel like they can't breathe... I feel like they like me less."  Ha ha, isn't that so funny!?! Yeah I get to enjoy quotes like that everyday. I love it, I love her.

In cas you are interested the game will be televized on ESPN on Wednesday at 7 pm MST time.