WinMeals, Lightning Bugs, & Chick-fil-A

This last week has been absolutely nuts! I wasn't even the one graduating(I graduated a year ago) and still it was crazy. WOW. Graduation was awesome Yellowstone with Johns family was Super Awesome. And now we are driving. Driving, driving, driving. Kinda Awesome. HAHA! Here is what I have been looking at lately...

These are Windmills. I pronounce them Win-meals. John likes to make fun of this. He says I spent too long in Idaho and Utah and have a funny accent when I say some things. I hope I lose my Utah accent soon. Every time we pass these babies I practice pronouncing it correctly.

Windmill. I got a little confused though and recently have started calling them winmills. I just can't win.

This little guy. Oh man. He has it SOOOO easy. All he does is sleep all day and eat our leftovers from the meals we get. Rough life. He is in doggie heaven. He spends all day sleeping on my lap and then all night barking at people in our hotel. The joys of traveling cross country with a puppy. But he is pretty cute. So, I'll keep him. Plus I kind of like that he is forced to cuddle with me in the car cause he has no where else to go.

So yesterday night we stopped first in Omaha, Nebraska then in Glenwood, Iowa to visit with two of Johns favorite families from his mission. It was nice to finally meet them all. John always talks about these two families. We went to dinner with the family in Omaha. YUM we went to this grill/brewery and they had the most amazing truffle fries and the best adult mac and cheese. YUMM. Roadtrip food has never been better!

Then we stayed with the family in Glenwood and it was so fun because they have a puppy too so carlos got to run around and play while we talked and caught up. ALSO, on the drive out to Glenwood from Omaha I was kinda tired, it was about 9pm and we had been driving since 9am. All the sudden out my window I saw a flash of light. So small and quick I swore it was a headlight bouncing off my window reflection. But then again and again I kept seeing this light, with and without traffic. Sure enough it was lightning bugs! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE lightning bugs. I think they are so fun and so interesting. Its like the Earths natural way of sparkling! Anyway I got super excited and freaked out and John just kind of laughed at me for being excited for bugs.

This is a picture of Glenwood. CRAZY. The exit we got off on 29 was the last one open due to flooding. There were so many fields underwater. and I don't mean like oh a puddle. Like Completely drowning in about 4-6 feet of standing water.

After driving through Iowa all day we finally saw a sign for Chick-fil-A. OMG YAY!!!!!!! It has been way too long since I had Chick-fil-A and let me tell you for someone traveling across the country that doesn't eat McDonalds or Burger King. You kind of go hungry. So we detoured off I-80 and drove 20 minutes through ghetto Illinois to some random mall and got me Chick-fil-A. Heaven in my mouth. It was so great and so worth the 20 minute detour.

Anyway It has been a crazy week so far. I need to find time to post about our trip to yellowstone and graduation and update my photo challenge! but that will have to wait till we are in VA. Which might be tomorrow night. Late tomorrow night. So I probably won't blog again till maybe Sunday. Sorry! It just depends on when our "pods" of stuff get to VA and unpacking and all the other fun stuff that goes along with moving. Joy.

Hope everyones summer plans are going swimmingly!

XOXO

THE MRS.

PERM!

SO recently I decided that with going back to the massive wave of Humidity of Southern life that I A) needed to get a haircut where it costs a good $100 less, and B) get a hairstyle that is more manageable. My solution? A Perm. I know it sounds so 1980 right? But Perms have come a long way since those crazy kinky curls of the 80's. They even dare I say it... have NON chemical perms! Cool huh? I was lucky enough to get in with an experienced stylist that came very highly recommended by many people. If your in the Rexburg area and need anything for your hair done go to Brodi. She ROCKS! (but make your appointment early she books 6 weeks in advance).

Anyway so I went and met with her to decide if my hair would hold a perm and what type of perm I should get. She suggested since we didn't know exactly how well my perm would hold that we try a loose curl and a non chemical perm so that way I wouldn't damage my hair and if we needed to do something stronger we could still do it. So we jumped in and 3 hours later my hair was gloriously curly! The great thing about a non chemical perm is you can still heat style it after putting the normal heat styling creams in and you can actually straighten your hair or curl it with a curling iron for more defined curls. Here are the two products I recommend for curly hair!

This is TIGI's CATWALK Curlesque. It is a tacky cream that helps keep moisture locked into your ends and defines your curls. Put this on when you style your curls.

This is Moroccan Oil treatment. IT IS FABULOUS. I've been using it for a little over a year and it just helps keep hair from being dry and definitely helps prevent split ends. Its definitely on the pricy side but one product I'm willing to pay for!

I tried to get a picture of the front and the back. I had my bangs cut and permed(but with a HUGE rod) to give them volume and then my hair just air dried and is a wavy curl. I love it! As I play around with styling it I will post more pictures!

xoxo

The Mrs.

BUSY TIMES

Oh my gosh you guys I have all these pictures and things to post about and I can barely catch my breath! I finally caught a moment to hop on today and help a friend figure some blog stuff out and figured I would let ya'll know that I'm still kickin' ! It has been so crazy the In-laws are here and we are packing! I'll try to update my photo challenge pictures later tonight but we will see! Anyway its off to another meal with the family! PS. if you want go find me on Pinterest and Instagram! My new two favorite things!

xoxo

The Mrs.

Day 18

BAHAHAH! Isn't this picture funny? Todays picture was Eyes, I took this picture cause It was so funny and then I got to thinking as I looked at it more and more... Isn't it so weird how animal eyes reflect so much light? Makes me wonder if they all have been taken over by aliens like in The Host??? What if were next? BAH!!!!!!!!!!

xoxo

The Mrs.

Day 17

Pretty huh? We have a glass coffee table in our living room currently and the Sun rises right outside our window and shines right through the edge of the coffee table every morning and makes this beautiful little rainbow pattern. I love little things like this rainbow that remind me of how intricate and perfect the world really was created!

Also I thought I'd just update for anyone new to my blog, I'm doing a 30 day photo challenge that can be found here: 30 day photo challenge. Just so new comers don't think I'm like super boring and weird for all these small random posts haha! I swear I'll start posting normal stuff again eventually after the move probably! Whew... only 12 more days to Virginia!

xoxo

The Mrs.

Day 16

Todays challenge is the first that I am using a photo that I didn't take. I kind of feel like thats cheating but I don't own any mason jars ok? However I LOVE mason jars. I had them as my centerpieces at my wedding even. I just think they are so whimsical and homey and they look SO COOL when they are lit up! I have a whole Pintrest board dedicated to Mason jars if you don't believe me! Anyway I currently am a little obsessed with the picture above and thought I'd share!

xoxo

The Mrs.

Day 15

Today's challenge was ACTION! So as I was sitting in the car with the AC running waiting for John who was inside the Gas station getting treats I was playing with my hair which I just had permed and a stray came out. As I was looking at it in the light and blowing in the AC in the car I thought it just looked so pretty. Almost like a crazy gold thread! And the way the AC was blowing when I took the picture made the hair a little blurry. I was impressed with my Photography skills for just having an Iphone with me! Just proves that everything is moving and changing all around us all the time!

xoxo

The Mrs.