First and Foremost...you know that Japanese straightening perm I mentioned before? The one I used to get in Taiwan and am in love with? The one that fancy schmancy American hair stylists charge $500 (!) for? Well, notice my hair in the below pictures. This is my hair after just a touch of blow drying and no straightening with an iron. I repeat . . . no straightening iron was involved! I found the straightening perm on the internet and bought it for $65 and my sister Eileen who has NO BEAUTICIAN EXPERIENCE (gasp) performed the procedure. So, sorry to all you fancy schmancy beauticians out there who insist that the Japanese straightening perm is akin to rocket science and can't possibly be done by the lay person and most certainly cannot be done for less than $500....well....it can. Just admit it, you charge $500 because you can. I'm okay with that. And I forgive all of you because now I can do it myself (okay, my sister can do it herself) and sure, you could probably do a better job, but not $435 dollars better.
Grandpa and Violet at the wedding.
Lily the flower girl and Brianne the beautiful bride.
Me and my hunk (who has lost 45 lbs. since July!)
Violet looking mighty suspicious.
Thanksgiving with the relatives. Grant standing in the kitchen to look helpful, but not actually doing anything.
Felipe and Violet. She looks more like his daughter than mine.
Alma and Helaman pretending it's still Halloween.
Me on the job.
Violet's gorgeous baby blessing outfit sewn by my mom.
The boys showing off.
Grandma and Violet (who is sporting yet another amazing dress sewn Grandma).
And in the middle of all this activity we somehow found the time to make paper hats.
Eliseo and Dad at Elie's baptism.
Whew! It was a fun month of visiting family and I'm sad it's over. At least there is Christmas to cheer me up. Or depress me, depending on which angle I view it from.
9 comments:
Looks like you had a great month. Your hair looks amazing! I love how shiny it looks. Yea for Rune, and I am a little jealous that you were with so many of our relatives this month.
oh and if I could have found a $3 Christmas tree, I would have jumped on that!
Wonderful pictures full of fun family time! Your kids are all so cute and your mom is quite the seamstress! Love your hair!
That's cool how you figured out the straightening perm thing.
Congratulations to Grant!! That's so awesome.
I don't know why everyone thinks your the amazing one for figuring out the straightening perm, I am the one that did the perm. You just sat there! :)
I love your hair! Way to go on finding the perm online!
It's always fun to see pictures of Sally the Mom and Grant the Dad since my memories of you are all from our college days!!
I've loved looking at your blog! It's been very fun! You have a beautiful family. Violet's blessing dress is absolutely exquisit (I enlarged it on my computer so I could see the details). You look beautiful, too. I'll write you a long, newsy e-mail probably after the holidays. I miss you!
-Andrea
great hair-do! ;)
I also love the trampoline picture...perfect timing.
Wow, I can't believe you squoze (is that a word?) into your trip to Utah! I loved seeing you, though. Blogs are great, but in person is so much better. Here's to us all making it to the reunion next summer!
And I'm so glad you had time to make the paper hats...
p.s. I think your hair looks great too, and tell Grant congrats on the weight.
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