California here we come

For Christmas last year my parents got Mik and I annual passes to Disneyland (seriously one of the best gifts!). All year we have been trying to take full advantage and use them as much as we can, so for my birthday/Halloween it was no question that we needed to go to Disneyland one last time before they expired (we are both obsessed with Disneyland in October). We flew out for the weekend and stayed with Kortni.
Sunday we decided to rent a car so we could do a little sightseeing and visit Tyler, I think the rental car lady had a little crush on Mik and upgraded us to this orange lovely. Mik was like a kid in a candy store!



We love ourselves some Sprinkles Cupcakes. How cute are these Halloween ones?!



Tyler took us to the Getty, it's a museum on a big hill in LA, normally you can see the whole city but it was super cloudy and night time so it was spooky and felt like we were floating on a cloud!
Monday we went to Disneyland, we had a blast and we loved all the Halloween decorations!




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Catching Up

I feel like I always go in spurts with my blog posting. October is my favorite month of the whole year and it has flown by! Here is a little of what Mik and I have been up to.... Sister Kortni ditched us and moved to California to go to FIDM (jealous!). Before Kortni's big move she cleaned out her closet. Keely and I found some serious gems!

Mik drove to California with Kortni and Keely to help with the big move. They also managed to sneak in a few hours at Disneyland


Poor Kyler hurt his ankle skateboarding. Luckily Stehly was around to sweep him off his feet.
Speaking of Stehly, if you have met him you know he is a big guy (he plays football for BYU). For some reason the boys in my family are obsessed with wrestling. So of course they had to take on Stehly, 2 against 1 and Stehly still wins. It definitely makes for an entertaining evening!



Speaking of BYU football Mik has been enjoying going to the games. I caught this pic on the tv when he and Kyler were watching the game in Texas.
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California Adventure

In June I got to take a long weekend and meet my family in California (Unfortunately Mik had to stay in Utah because of work). I started the trip off in Anaheim where we went to Disneyland.


This was Karson's face after Toad's Wild Ride. I laughed so hard when I saw this picture!


It was so hot at Disneyland so we all cooled off with a Dole Whip float, my mouth is watering just thinking about it!

Saturday we drove to Huntington Beach and stayed there the rest of the trip. We ate delicious food and relaxed on the beach. It was perfect weather, here we are after church.
Me and my pastey self with my black sistah's

I missed Mik but it was fun to go solo and be able to spend more time with my siblings especially my sisters and build on those relationships. Kortni, Keely, Karly and I stayed in one room together which was really fun. It was quite the adventure! The room was wheel chair accessible, so we were greeted with this doorbell.....it basically describes our room experience.

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Urban Light

While we were in California, Tyler gave us a mini tour. As we were driving around we passed this light display, it's in one of Mik and I's favorite movies, so we decided when the sun was setting we would go back and get pictures. The light installation is at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, it's a sculpture of 202 restored cast iron antique street lamps and is actually really cool in person. Here's a dump of all our iphone photos.

Oh us just being love birds.




Mik and Ty Ty lovin' eachother




On our way to get a Sprinkles cupcake. There may or may not be drool in the corner of my mouth. Thanks Tyler for the tour we had a blast!
(p.s. i recently discovered instagram and am obviously obsessed!)



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Bumble and bumble LIVE!

Last weekend we had the opportunity to go to Bumble and bumble LIVE in Beverly Hills. It was fun to get all dressed up and spend time with a group of amazing people in my industry. The event started off with a cocktail reception where we got to mix and mingle with the best of the best. Mik's highlight of the hour was chatting with Peter Lichtenthal the president of Bumble and mine was meeting Amanda the face of Bumble's Thickening campaign (picture below).






Mik's brother, Tyler let us stay with him while we were in California and we had an extra ticket so he joined us! After the reception we spent 3 hours in heaven (haha I don't think Mik would agree with me, but i was LOVING it!). Howard McLaren (Bumble's head stylist) did a big presentation showing us videos he put together, did some live haircuts and left us with some inspiring words. I left feeling motivated, inspired and ready to conquer the salon world!

We were seriously star struck when we met Howard! We were fumbling over our words and makin' a fool of ourselves! But he was a good sport and was extremely nice, I'm sure he deals with salon dorks like us all the time.
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ROAD TRIP!

Way back in November one of my friends was getting married in California and I really wanted to go but Mik couldn't get work off so Kenzie and Kortni volunteered to road trip there with me! It was quite the adventure! There was lots of driving...

and more driving...

We decided to cut all that driving in half so we stopped in Las Vegas. A family member has a house there but is trying to sell it so unfortunately he moved all the furniture out, but since it was free we decided it was better then nothing! These were our comfy sleeping arrangements.

We woke up bright and early the next morning due to a bad nights sleep, stiff necks and backs from our sleeping arrangements. Good morning!

This is what happens when you have no chair, ladder or any type of useful furniture...

Since we were up so early we decided to hang out in Vegas for a little bit and do some shopping. We found the best outlet mall!

And you can't pass through Las Vegas without stopping at IN N OUT!

We managed to make it safely to California and were lucky enough to stay with the California Roneys! Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures but they kept us very entertained! Never a dull moment with all those little girlies! The next day we decided to shop it up some more. We stopped at Nordstrom for some delicious lunch.

We also made it a priority to get cupcakes from Sprinkles! Yes that is my arm and thumb. And yes we brought some home to share! (unfortunately Kenzie's had a little accident and didn't make it. Such a shame!)

Between all that shopping and eating we made it to the wedding. Ashley was a gorgeous bride (i'm in LOVE with her dress!) and she had a perfect wedding!

Kortni getting on her groove on the dance floor.

On the way home from the wedding we saw this in the distance and couldn't figure out what it was...

We got closer and realized it was a car completely on fire. It was definitely one of the highlights of our trip! Unfortunately we got so distracted we missed our exit!

On the way home one night we happened to drive right by the temple! So we of course had to stop and get a picture (we definitely get that from our mom). Some old man took it for us and unfortunately it turned out a bit blurry!

It was quite the adventure and we made it home safely! The End.