Karen's Cute Hair

It's been a while since I've posted pictures of some fun things I've tried with Karen's hair, so here are three different styles I've tried. Isn't she so cute. (mommy's bias of course)

All About Me (Jen)

I saw this on my sister's blog and thought it would be fun, so here goes.

Welcome to the 2008 edition of getting to know your friends. Copy then change all the answers so they apply to you, then post on your blog. The theory is that you will learn a lot of little things about your friends that you might not have known!

1. What time did you get up this morning? 7:30 am
2. Diamonds or pearls? diamonds
3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? Mama Mia!
4. What is your favorite TV show? Eureka and Dr. Who
5. What do you usually have for breakfast? there is no usual, waffles, granola bar, cereal, etc.
6. What is your middle name? Sue
7. What food do you dislike? mushrooms and olives, yuck!
8. What is your favorite CD at the moment? Enya
9. What kind of car do you drive? 1997 Buick Century Custom
10. Favorite sandwich? turkey club
11. What characteristic do you despise? lying
12. Favorite item of clothing? jeans
13. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would you go? Europe
14. Favorite brand of clothing? Silver jeans
15. Where would you retire to? retirement community where all my needs are taken care of.
16. What was your most recent memorable birthday? 30
17. Favorite sport to watch? football, esp the UofU vs BYU game when the UofU WINS!!!!
18. Furthest place you expect someone to look at this from? Washington D.C.
19. Person you expect to blog it first? don't know
20. When is your birthday? March 29
21. Are you a morning person or a night person? night
22. What is your shoe size? 8
23. Pets? besides my husband and kids? none cause I'm allergic
24. Any new and exciting news you'd like to share with us? I'm pregnant! (just kidding)
25. What did you want to be when you were little? an artist
26. How are you today? fine thanks
27. What is your favorite candy? peanut M&M's currently
28. What is your favorite flower? roses
29. What is a day on the calendar you are looking forward to? whenever my next trip is
30. What are you listening to right now? the silence of my kids sleeping, aahhhhh
31. What was the last thing you ate? BBQ pringles
32. Do you wish on stars? yep
33. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? brilliant blue with some dark tones
34. How is the weather right now? raining a minute ago, but now just cloudy, now raining again
35. Who was the first person you talked to on the phone today? my husband
36. Favorite soft drink? grape soda
37. Favorite restaurant? Cheesecake Factory hands down
38. Real hair color? brown
39. What was your favorite toy as a child? a stuffed bunny
40. Summer or winter? fall
41. Hugs or kisses? yes
42. Chocolate or Vanilla? chocolate definitely
43. Coffee or tea? no
44. When is the last time your cried? night before last
45. What is under your bed? dust and a pair of shoes
46. What did you do last night? went shopping and then played on the computer
47. What are you afraid of losing? my children
48. Salty or sweet? yes
49. How many keys on your key ring? 7
50. How many years at your current job? 4
51. Favorite day of the week? Saturday
52. How many towns have you lived in? 8 towns and 2 states
53. Do you make friends easily? sometimes, I can be a bit shy, but I'm getting better

The Best Show in Town

This week we took the kids to the circus. Neils was so excited to take the kids that he had a hard time concentrating at work that day. We went with Neils brother and his family and we really enjoyed ourselves. The kids were fascinated and excited by all the things they saw. I actually don't remember going to a real circus, just the circus stuff they show on TV. It was cool to see it all in real life. There were a lot of awesome things and my camera actually did a decent job of taking pictures, so I have several good ones I'll share. My camera didn't work on everything though. A few things I wish I could have captured on camera better were the motorcycles in the cage (they had 7 going at once, AWESOME), the trick horse riders, and the clowns with bubbles (cute show inbetween acts). We had a great time. Hope you enjoy a few of the highlights.

Mountain Con Weekend Getaway

We had a great weekend getaway. We stayed at the Hilton in Layton where the convention center was. It was a beautiful hotel with really nice furnishings. Anyway, the convention center was really nice and big too. Not a lot of big name stars there, but we had a lot of friends there that we've seen at previous cons here and in Denver. We had a lot of fun socializing and going to workshops and just playing. We saw a bunch of people dressed up in everything. People from Star Trek, Star Wars, Lost in Space, Ghost Rider, Snow White, Arabs, Romans, Scottish, Dr. Who, Green Lantern, and Batman. Here are some pictures of the costumes we saw.

Mountain Con

We are gearing up for our local Sci-Fi convention. For non-geeks that means science fiction groupies dressing up and getting together to see people who starred (or were minor characters) on such science fiction themed TV shows or movies such as Star Trek, Star Wars and anything even remotely related like Pirates of the Caribbean. My husband's oldest brother has been heavily involved in the organization of the local convention for the past 4 years and we go to support him and to enjoy ourselves for a couple days.

Here's a couple pictures from our adventures last year. We'll post more after the convention this weekend.