Christmas in Colorado

Aside from this being our first christmas as a MARRIED couple, we got to spend the holidays with my wonderful family. We drove to Colorado where we spent 5 fun filled days with my parents and sisters. We started out our Christmas partying by going to the movie Little Fockers on Thursday (P.S. SO FUNNY) and then we came home and had a home cooked meal...by me. but we did stop by the store and found this when we got home, the boys playing a round of mortal combat lol Friday which was Christmas Eve the girls decided to go shopping and the boys went to a shooting range for some male bonding. Me and my sisters and mom all went to Park Meadows and finished our last minute Christmas shopping. On the way there I caught this awesome video: sorry its sideways (pause my music to watch)
Afterward we went to Carino's for our traditional Christmas Eve dinner. After being incredibly full and fat we all watched It's a Wonderful Life. Such a great Christmas movie. Christmas morning, we of course took turns opening presents and we were EXSTATIC to find my mom bought us a Wii!!! We are so excited to finally play super mario brothers and mario kart from our own home. Also my sweet husband got me this perfume that smells like Heaven in a bottle. Goodness I love that man. Here are some of my favorite Christmas present reactions: The rest of our Christmas was awesome. Enjoying our tradional holiday meal put on by my mom (which by the way is the BEST christmas meal you could ever eat) lounging around, and just enjoying the day. Also enjoy this little video of sweet little Goosey getting in the holiday spirit haha:


Oh yes, and Sunday we all went and got family pictures taken. They are going to be so cute I can't wait. Once the Photographer releases them I will put them up. I love Christmas and can't wait till next year.

It seems to me

It seems to me that a majority of "liberal people" on the earth, especially in the United States are a little more than hypocritcal. Im not the kind of person who likes to publicly discuss politics or BLAST my social viewpoints all over my blog or facebook. I know what I believe, I know what is relevant in my life is true, and if you want to believe what I believe then wonderful. If not, well that's fine too. But today I spent a good hour and a half looking at a high school friend's blog. I usually dont have that much time to sit and look through pages of someones blog, but today we are in Ogden visiting Scott's parents for 3 days, and we are doing nothing but relax.

So here I am looking at this "friends" blog. She is unmistakably liberal, pro-choice, and all for social justice, and I noticed that most of what she is blarring on her blog is as hypocritcal as the people she is calling out. All over this blog, it is filled with Anti-white supremacy cartoons (she is white), anti-homophobic quotes, and news articles on equality. She says thing like "of you don't support this, or are not angred by this, there is something wrong with you" or "If I see you post this or suppost this or that, I will unfollow you!" In many of the posts she states that if you are not all for Gay and Lesbian rights you are a terrible person and basically better off dead. If you are a rebuplican you are ruining the world, that if you are relgious or believe in god you are "f-ing stupid" or an idiot. At one point I even recall her saying something to the affect of someone not having liberal views, being "the scum of the earth, worse than scab eaters." But my favorite is a quote posted by Kurt Cobain- “If you’re a sexist, racist, homophobe, or basically an asshole, don’t buy this CD. I don’t care if you like me, I hate you.” hmmmmmm preaching love AND hate are we?

At this point I was rather confused considering that a few pages later she had a quote saying "Be kind to others, even those who you may not understand, and you will start a revolution."

Where is that being put into action?

She is screaming for equality, she is screaming for acceptnace, she is screaming for TOLERANCE. Yet she demostrates none. It just seems to me that you cannot play both sides of the field. You cannot demand tolerance of people who are different that you, or have different view points, and then turn around and not be tolerant of those who don't believe the same way as you. That is called hypocricy.

I am not liberal. That I am sure not a surprise. I am rebuplican I guess. Moreover I suppose to simply vote for legislature and presidents who's goals and morals fall in line with those similar to mine, no matter the party. I didnt not vote for Obama because he was black. Who cares if he was white, black, hispanic, asian? I didnt vote for him because he bleieves in half life abortions. I didnt vote for him because he believes in Health Care reform, which screws over good hardworking people like my parents. That is why. No other reason. I believe in marriage being between a man and woman. But I do believe if you are a man, you have all the right in the world to love another man. That is your perogative, and I don't think there is anything wrong with being liberal. Everyone is entitled to their opinion.

I don't have a problem with that girl, nor am I caring to attack her. The blog just got me thinking though. My problem is when you get mad at other people for doing exactly what you do. You demand to be understood, but do not care to understand them. Being an extreme liberal confuses me. Intolerance isn't just being racist, or homophobic. Intolerance can also be a liberal hating other people for not being liberal JUST LIKE YOU. Liberals says "let people choose" "let people decide for themsleves"

You can't be mad when they do. You are calling the kettle black.

Songs of my life

So my friend Vanessa put up this blog about 100 songs that has been inspirational to her in her life. I thought this was a good idea simply because I LOVE music and I love being recommended new songs to add to my collection. I hardly believe there is 100 songs that I could put on here, but these are the songs that have had the most meaning to me, have marked a certian time in my life, and are most important to me. If nothing else, you might find some songs you have never heard before and just fall in love with them. Enjoy

.You Could Be Happy- Snow Patrol
.Mama's Song- Carrie Underwood
.Pretty Eyes- Jason Reeves
.If I Die Young- The Band Perry
.Come Home Soon- SHEDaisy
.Baby Mine- Alison Krauss
.Hope Now- Addison Road
.Diary of Jane- Breaking Benjamin
.Angry All The Time- Tim McGraw
.Caught In the Crowd- Kate-Miller Heidke
.My Wish- Rascal Flatts
.Dream- Priscilla Ahn
.Wonderwall-Oasis
.Rainbow Veins- Owl City
.The Adventure- Angels and Airwaves
.Boston- Augustana
.Suspension- Mae
.Mirror- Barlow Girl
.Smash Into You- Beyonce
.Not The Same- Ben Folds
.Out From Under- Britney Spears
.Bruises- Chairlift
.Starry Night- Chris August
.Battle- Colbie Callait
.Long Trip Alone- Dierks Bentley
.Starry Eyed- Ellie Goulding
.Cry- Mandy Moore
.Speeding Cars- Imogen Heap
.Say- John Mayer
.Unbelievable- Kaci Brown
.The Good Stuff- Kenny Chesney
.Happy- Leona Lewis
.Back To The Start- Lily Allen
.Kings and Queens- 30 Seconds to Mars
.Hold On- Wilson Phillips
.Super Trouper- The Mamma Mia Soundtrack (this one just makes me smile)
.Grown Men Don't Cry- Tim McGraw
.Comatose- Skillet
. Light in Your Eyes- Sheryl Crow
.Your Not Alone- Saosin
.The Seeds- The Roots
.Its Not Over- SecondHand Seranade
.When Our Hearts Sing- Rush of Fools
.Forever Young- Rod Stewart
.Laughing with God- Regina Spektor
.Vanilla Twilight- Owl City
.Far Away- Nickelback
.Embers and Envelopes- Mae
.The Climb- Miley Cyrus
.Waking Dream- Natalie Walker
.We are Golden- Mika
.Home- Michael Buble
.The Fear- Lily Allen


So there they are. If you havent heard some of these, trust me. You need to. Allllll AMAZING. :)

Food obsessions as of lately...take 2.

Its time to play another round of "What crap are the Allens eating now?" Well I will tell you the things that have been addicting like kryptonite, and those things making apperances a lot lately in our home.

1. Candy Cane Hershey's kisses
Is it so wrong that I ate most of the bag between 2 and 5 pm today? I submit that it is not!



2. Rice-a-roni Fried Rice
knock off asian cuisine, rice-a-roni style. I dig it.



3. Southwestern Ranch Dip
This needs no explination. Try it yourself.



4. Cookies
Im not totally sure through which medium these things keep getting in our house, in every awray of types. I think some of it is my school, some of it our friends, some of it is our neighbors. Im not complaining. But my weight lose goal before Christmas has been devestated. We all make sacrifices for the greater good.

Park City, Temple Lights, & friends

Well we have had another busy couple weeks, as I suspected this month would be. Scott and I are preparing to go to Colorado to see my family for Christmas. We are leaving on the 22nd and coming back the 27th. Scott is finishing up the semester and preparing for finals, and I am indulging in every minute of "The 12 days of Teacher Appreciation" at my school and getting the awesome gifts from the PTO and student counsel.

Besides that not much happens during the week except worj and school. Oh! My blog stalker Katie wrote me another crazy pants message this last week on facebook, pretending to be her sister. oh goodness. Everytime she writes me she looks more pathetic I feel more bad for her and the life she must be living. That poor thing.

On to a funner topic, my school had our Teacher Christmas party which was WAY fun. We had dinner from Zupas (Martinellis included) and exchanged secret santa gifts. VerDaun the front office lady who is in her 70's or 80's was seriously the life of the party. We she was saying the funniest stuff (most of which I cant repeat, lets just say she is very sassy for an elderly woman) and she actually made herself cry from laughing. Other people were chatting, but Me, Ashley, and Amanda were rolling arounf in laughter. I havent laughed THAT hard in a long time. I love my co-workers.






Then on Friday we went up to Park City with a bunch of our friends, and stayed in our friends really nice house overlooking the ski resorts. This has been our 4th stay at this house this year, and we love it everytime. We played the wii, played the Adams Family game again, and had an awesome dinner. The next morning we had breakfast, and headed down to the outlet malls to look around.






By this time I was not feeling very good, and we had to make a pit stop, but Scotty got me a Peppermint shake, since im OBSESSED with perppermint. He is so sweet. Scott and I then headed to Salt Lake where we were meeting up with our friend Bj and Aubrey, and Craig and Stephanie. Before we got together Scott and I went and saw the movie Joseph Smith, Prophet of the Restoration. I had never seen it, and let me tell you, if you have not seen it, you must. It was the most powerful movie I have ever seen. I cried, Scott cried. It is just so touching and after watching it you just have such a greater love for Joseph Smith and all he did for the church. He truly was a man called of God. After we were done, we met up with our friends and walked around temple square, hit up Carls Jr, and went Ice Skating!






Here are some pictures of ice skating:)(the last picture is my favorite)







After we went and got some Hot Chocolate from the Salt Lake Roasting Co. yummmmmy. We had an awesome weekend and CAN'T wait for the next few. We are so blessed to have wonderful friends, especially during this holiday season.

Tis the season...

Brittney Spencer

My lastest Bride I did hair and make-up for. Photos from her bridal session.






Next up on the 20th of this month...Brittney (soon to be) Hudson.:)

Real Love & Bliss

Yesterday while driving to school I saw something beautiful. A truly, passionate, heartfelt, straight out off the movie screen kiss. And they didn't even know I saw them.

I was driving through a neighborhood in Provo, driving slower than normal, considering I was not actually late this time, and there I saw it. On the front lawn of a small house, a young woman, probably 20 or 21, stood in her peacoat, looking around the corner of the house, obviously searching for something. I watched as a man, probably around the same age or older, sneak up behind her, startle her and then they both smiled. He put both hand on the sides of her face, and then proceeded to give her a kiss like I had never seen. She responded quite well, she recipricated by placing her hands around the back of his biceps, and pulling him in closer. The kiss was not rushed. The kiss was not forced, hard, or sloppy, it wasn't even playful, which would have matched the scenario its seemed they were just previously in. No one else was around, they werent showing off for friends or family. Weren't taking engagement pictures, just loving eachother unaware of bystanders.

It was genuinly beautiful. I smiled as I kept driving, and I felt happy. I felt peaceful. Peaceful knowing that with all the crap that happens in life, there is only one true pure and genuine thing left on this earth. True Love. That couple was in love. There no doubt about that. It might be dumb to assume from one simple kiss I saw driving by that they were in love. But if you saw that thing, you would just know too. Besides I can safely assume they were married considering that I travel this same route everyday to school and for the last 2 months there has been a jeep parked outside that house with "JUST MARRIED" on the back of it.

It made me think of how amazing true love is. Not the phoney high school "ohhh you are my first love, we are going to be together forever, even though half the time you hate me and tell all your friends that, and half the time I ignore your phone calls when Im with my friends because you annoy me with your jealousy" kind of love. Real love makes everything in life better.

When I was a little girl, my biggest dream was to grow up and have boobs. Big boobs. I would dream about how awesome I would look, how boobs were so womanly and if I had them I would be a real woman. I would go out of my way to measure my boobs everyday compared to weird objects just to see if they were growing. I was 9. Where am I going with this? When I thought the whole world revolved around boobs, if I was having a bad day I would say to myself something like "its ok...Im gonna have boobs." or "in the future if anything bad happens to me, I can take comfort in knowing I have boobs. At least I will have boobs." Yeah I was weird. But anyway, that is how being grown up and marrying my husband felt. My boob comfort blanket was replaced by husband the comfort blanket.

If I am having a bad day, when I think about all the hard things I have to go through in my life, and I don't even know what they are yet, I take comfort in knowing that I have Scott. That no matter what happens, its gonna be ok, cause I have Scott. There is NO better feeling in the world.

Yesterday I was happy. Not just from the kiss, but actually happy...throughout the whole day. I was blissful infact, euphoria like. I dont think I even told my husband how happy I was. Was my situation any better than it was the day before? not really...infact Im pretty sure it was worse. We were more worried about money, our house was dirtier, we had less food, and we both had to go back to school and work. But I was on a high, a high of being in love with my husband. It was the best feeling in the world. I had that mentality that no matter what happens I have Scott, and its an amazing thing when you realize that Someone you can hold onto forever. Even when you are both suffering, the pain feels less in their arms. A lot of people in life never get married, but even a majority of those who do never really find their soul mate. But I found mine. He blesses my life everyday and makes me happy to know that he provides that true love feeling for me.

Don't get me wrong, not every moment is amazing. It would be realiastic if I made it out that way. But it is realistic to believe in real love and know for a fact you have it. Because I do. And once you do find it. You will know. Never settle for less. It will never be the same experience.

Its that complex, yet that simple.

Busy Bee's

The last week and a half has been SO busy. I said it was gonna be busy, but man it was BUSY! Here is a little re-cap of what we have been up to since last weekend! Im so happy we were able to get everything done. But sorry, this post is gonna be a long one! So much has happened :)

Friday the 19th, one Scott's favorite mission companions Mckay had his wedding reception. We attended that in Pleasant Grove and were able to meet up with a few of Scott's other old companions. It was a beautiful reception.







The next morning was Saturday the 20th which just happened to be Scott's birthday! That morning I had to get up early to do Brittany's hair and make-up (the same one I did bridals for.) It was her wedding that day in the Salt Lake Temple. Even though we weren't able to attend the reception because of our jam-packed day, Im sure it was amazing. Brittany you were a stunning bride. I felt honored to be your wedding stylist and thank you for letting me be part of your special day.





After I finished up with hair and make-up Scott and I dashed over to Mckay and Kirsti's sealing in the Draper Temple. I have never seen that many people attend a temple wedding before! But no doubt, since they are both the most amazing people ever! After the wedding we went to Gardener's Village for the luncheon with our friend BJ and Aubrey. Congrats Mckay and Kirsti! We are so happy for you :) (nevermind me, I look like CRAP from running around like a chicken with my head cut off lol)





After we were going to met his parents for dinner and while we waited, we stopped by a tree lot and saw this little guy!



I had never seen a reindeer in real life! Then we met Scott's mom and dad at McGrath's Fish house for his birthday dinner haha we were so full we didnt end up eating though, and we headed home for a MUCH needed night of sleep.



The next day we celebrated Scott's birthday by throwing him a dinner party at our house. I invited a bunch of our couple friends and I made the HUGEST bowl of pasta vodka with chicken, artichokes, and olives. After dinner we played the Adams Family game...(if you have never played it you should, it will definetly make you come out of your shell haha) after we played our game, our friend all went around and told their favorite thing about Scott. I felt very blessed to have such wonderful loving friends in our lives. Thank you everyone for sharing his birthday with us!










Then this week we had Thanksgiving! We went up to Hunstville agin to spend Thanksgiving with Scott's parents since we are spending Christmas with mine. We were able to see both of his sisters, Ember and Jessica, who I just love. Thanksgiving dinner was awesome and it made me think of all the things that I am thankful for, like my family, my friends, my home, my job, and most of all my HUSBAND!!!! Thanksgiving marked the one year anniversary since Scott proposed to me. There is nothing I could be more thankful for. He has blessed my life in unspeakable ways. He means everything to me, and Im so happy that he made the decision to make me his wife.








The next morning was Black Friday. And everyone knows what that means. Yes...4 am shopping. Scott and I got up at 3:30am to go to Target because they had a a tree on sale for 25 dollars. And man oh man did I want a Christmas tree. We got there, got our tree and a few other things we wanted, and booked it out of that hell hole. Utah people get crazy about their cheap deals. Typical. Then I went back to bed until 8 am when I went shopping at the mall with my friend Lyndsey. We got some sweet stuff from Forever 21 and Bath and Body works (mint chocolate and peppermint candles are a must for Christmas this year). Afterward we hit up Starbucks and snagged some Caramel cider and Peppermint Hot Chocolate. We even saw Geffory the Toys R Us giraffe in the parking lot while a crowd waiting for santa to land in the mall parking lot by helicopter. It was a succesful morning, Thanks for shopping with me Lyndsey!



Later that night we fianlly went on our date/Scott's birthday dinner at The Outback, it was so good. I strongly suggest the Alice Springs Quesadilla :) Then we went home and set up our Christmas tree and decorated it, which to me was really special since this is our first Christmas together. Then we lighte some candles, and watch Christmas Vacation. Wonderful end to the night!





The best the best day came yesterday, we met my lovely friend Karli and her fiance Blake for lunch at Cafe Rio..mmmmmmmm....yummmm. And then we finally went and saw, dun, dun, dun....HARRY POTTER 7! It was so good. But really scary and really really dark. Much darker than any Harry Potter before. But after it stared I quickly realized that I had not seen the previous Harry Potter leading up to this one! How could this have happened??? It just slipped by me and I lost track of what was going on. Crap. Now I have to go back and actually watch the Half Blood Prince. Way to go Morgan. Haha. We that's our Thanksgiving update. Hope everyone's holiday was wonderful!