Denver Adventures

Man, I wish I had more pictures of Denver...

But truth be told, we haven't had a chance to do much exploring. I work Monday-Friday and I'm pretty beat once I get off work. Plus, Jayson works until almost 10:00pm and he also works on Saturday, which is my only day off... So we hardly ever have the chance to get out of our room and see the city.

I managed to take a picture of Downtown after I picked up Jayson from work

 (the quality is horrible because Jayson was driving while I took it)

We had the chance to see the temple a few weeks ago :) I picked up Jayson from the far end of Highlands Ranch (which is the same area that I work) and as we were driving home, I saw the Angel Moroni from the freeway and got super excited! Ever since then, I had begged Jayson to take me to see it :) Since Sunday was really our only day we had time to go, and we were already dressed in appropriate attire, we decided to drive over. Luckily the gate was open, so we walked around the temple together. It was beautiful. It took my breath away and reminded me just how lucky I am to be here on this earth. 

Denver Colorado LDS Temple

Last weekend we had some time to our self for once, which was super nice! Our hotel is right next to the train (which is basically the Metro Link or the TRAX). We decided to take it down to County Line to chck out the mall. It was fun because we got to hang out with Jayson's co-workers, the Carolina boys - Joseph and Tyson. We had taken it downtown the week before to check out 16th street which had cute little shops and took us right past Broncos Stadium! So cool to finally see that stadium... I can't wait to go to a game some day.

Today of all days has been a lot of fun. Last night, we moved into a house that we are renting with Jayson's co-workers- Jesse, Joe, and Dane. Being in a house of all boys is pretty interesting... haha. It's a good thing we all get along so well or else we would have problems ;) I love these guys. I'm actually going to be kind of sad when the summer is over, because Dane is getting married and who knows where he'll go, Jesse will be in Utah and Joe will be back on the east coast :( Sad...

 But I'm still excited to go home and see my kids that I nanny, The Holts!! 

Blond Hair Don't Care!

Dear Genetics..

Why did you curse me with a lions mane?

frizzy-can't-decide-to-be-curly-wavy-or-straight hair
WHY?!
Why can't I have beautiful, natural hair?!?! 

-_-

Well, fine then
Good thing TRESemme makes amazing products

before & after

I use TRESemme products for my hair. 
It's amazing
really
I use Split End Remedy Shampoo & Conditioner
and it does WONDERS for my unbelievably damaged hair

Every one gets split ends
but mine are SOOO BAD because I straighten my hair every day
and I basically fried it when I dyed my hair dark dark brown in the beginning of January.. 

-Flash Back Friday Moment-



So like I said, 
my hair is was fried
and it took a HUGE process to get back to blond.. 

Once I started working at the Bridal shop I had to wear black every day,
and having dark hair wasn't cutting it for me anymore
Luckily, the manager at the salon next door was nice enough to help me out!
She gave me a FREE Vitamin-C treatment
which basically brought the shine back to my hair and stripped some of the color out of it
and then she gave me a wicked discount and stripped more color out of my hair 
and started to dye it back to blond
:)

So I rocked the faded gold with caramel highlights and brown undertones look
But that was the last time I had anything done to my hair.. 
5 months of untreated, grown out roots, split ends, messy hair is just...ridiculous
..and boy did the back of my head look ridiculous...
And I knew Jayson missed my blondness so much
So today, I fixed it :)
and I am one step closer to being completely blond!

I still have some caramel/brown highlights and undertones

because my hair isn't quite ready for a full blond overload

But I did get a pretty stellar cut!

I'm growing my hair out

but I reallllyyy wanted to cut it because I get headaches from my thick head of hair

and the wonderful side of this is that I can still have long hair

and have it thinned out too!

As you can see,

 I added some choppy layers

and got some pretty cool bangs!

I've never had thick bangs like this before

It's so bizarre... 

I'm not used to it at all

They're a little too short

and I cant get them to calm down and not stick straight up

but I love them :) 

..and boy did I miss being blond!