the modern day beehive updo

This is how the girls of my grandmother's day wore their hair--the Beehive.

This is how girls are wearing their hair today...

I call it the modern day beehive or the BIG bun.

(it looks even bigger in real life)

To get this "beehive" look, all you gotta do is:

1) Put your hair in a high ponytail

2)Tease your hair by taking strands of it and back-combing it with a brush or comb...this makes it nice and big, and full of knots! ;)

3) Take your teased hair and swoop it around in a counter clockwise fashion

4) Pin it down and secure it with bobby pins.

And that's it! Have a go! It's super easy and very cute!

xoxo

Winter Wonderland

Last night Alex and I, on a friday night, stayed in our bed from 5 pm to about 9 pm

watching Friday Night Lights on Netflix.

Boring, right? Wrong!!

That show is so good...we love it.

Then we decided to go out and get slurpees from 7/11.

When we walked outside, it was a straight up blizzard!

It was snowing so hard and it was absolutely beautiful!

Today I woke up to this:

It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas!!

xoxo

A J Biebs Cover

So if you guys have watched The X Factor at all,

you have probably noticed the incredibly talented Drew Ryniewicz

(or however you spell her last name).

Anyway, for her first audition on the show she idd a cover of Justin Bieber's Baby, but messed around with it and made it her own.

I did a cover of her version and here it is!!

I hope you guys like it!

(ps notice the homemade capo I made out of a pencil? haha)

Happy Wednesday everyone!!

xoxo

fall cookies= pumpkin cookies

I am so behind, but last week I made chocolate-chip pumpkin cookies

and they were soooo delicious!!

...and healthy?

Do you see the orange? Mmmm... pumpkin!!

Add the flour...

Chocolate chips and cinnamon? Yes please.

Kitchen Aids are great.

You should make some because they will make you oh so happy.

xoxo

red robin...yuuuuuuum!

I don't know if it's because I grew up in Hawaii with tons of good food and few chain restaurants,

or if my dad--a midwestern by birth, a food snob at heart--never liked chain restaurants,

so we never went to them, but I have never really liked chain restaurants.

I guess when I was a kid I liked 'em, but every kid just likes to go out to eat--it doesn't matter where.

Restaurants like Applebees, Chilis, Dennys, etc etc etc have never really been my thang, if you know what I mean?

Im more or a sushi- curry-lettuce wraps- gyro-kind of girl.

I guess you could say I'm a food snob in some sense.

(I blame my dad.)

So what's my point?

My point is, when Alex asked me if I had ever been to Red Robin and my response was no,

he was astonished.

"Everyone has been to Red Robin!" he said.

Well, not me, and I wasn't ecstatic about trying it on Saturday night.

I wasn't mad we were going there, just a little bit skeptical.

But, we sat down with our friends at a table, ordered our food, and then ate our food.

Funny huh? At a restaurant...who would have thought?

I got the Boneless Buffalo Wings with Ranch dressing...

and it turns out, they're one of my favorite foods.

I just LOVE the spicy, distinct flavor they have...they're just so good!

Really bad for you, but very tasty.

I guess I'm trying to say that not all chain restaurants are gross. :)

I would still choose sushi 100 times over wings, but I'm more of a fan now.

Well, keep on enjoying those high-caloric, greasy, I'm- gonna- barf- as- soon- as- I-get- up- from- this- table- because- I- ate- that, food you all eat at one time or another!

I have got to hit the gym!!

xoxo

halloween is over (cue the sad face)

...and I dont even have any candy to get me through the month of November!

Sucks being an adult and not getting to go trick or treating, right?

While I don't have any candy,

I do have this hilarious video about parents telling their kids that they ate all of their Halloween candy.

Take a look!!

The last kids are priceless huh?

Alex and I are totally doing this to our kids one day...

xoxo

A freakin' night to remember!

Last night Alex and I went to the Halloween party of the year...no ever!

Literally, this will probably be the biggest thing we have ever gone to!

People fly in from out of state to come to this party!

It was at a film producer's house--aka the biggest house I have ever seen in real life!

Think four stories with a home theatre, dance studio, "play room" with a stage and real performance lighting, flat screens in multiple rooms, balconies, a pool and pool house...yeah!

I would like to live there, thankyouverymuch!

So this is a private (guest list and all!), pirate-themed party and, man do they go all out!

Our friends that we went with said it takes about a month to set up everything!

First you walk in and there is all this stuff--projectors (the same ones they use at Disnleyland!) with ships and seas on them that look amazingly real, a ship with a talking stone girl at the head of it, a mausoleum with a ghost in it--I don't know how they did it, but it was sick!

There was also amazing decorations inside including a ghost head in a crystal ball that talked to you, a skeleton that played the piano, and not to mention they had actors, like Jack Sparrow, walking around and entertaining.

So funny story, we were walking by the pool and we see someone swimming and I said, "Is that someone swimming or do they have a freaking mermaid in their pool too?" I said it jokingly of course and the next thing I knew a mermaid swam up to us and started talking with us. So cool!

They also had a live "pirate band" that walked around playing and a professional photographer that would take your picture, edit it, and print it out for you! So fun! ...oh yeah, the food was catered, of course!

Here are some of our pictures:

Oh yeah, did I mention that besides all the scantily-clad middle-aged women--welcome to the Real Housewives of Utah-- flava flav, the "hid yo wife, hide yo kids", and Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite were there? What!?

I mean they are D-list celebrities, but nevertheless it was sick and they were really nice!

Everyone was!

Well I hope you Friday night was as fun as ours! Have a Happy Halloween!

xoxo