A New Home (the Adventure begins)

So for any of you who follow my blog know that in the past year we have moved twice, and have one more move planned this summer and then we will be in our duh duh duh “Dream Home” we had quite a bit of drama finding exactly the right lot and the right floor plan and the right price…but we think we did it!

Sorry this picture is crooked! we set it on the car hood to get our first “family picture at our house!”

Notice all the green, these were taken after we got the lot, and on St Patricks day, since then we have picked out all of our flooring colors finishes etc! I cant wait. now we are just tweaking our plans and having them redrawn, looks like we are about three weeks out from dig and then you will really see the pictures start! Three weeks feels like forever to wait! But it will be just as we ( Book Worm and I ) get back from Texas we are going to San Antonio for a Speech and Debate Comp that she was invited to called the National Individual Events Tournament of Champions!

Thanks for Sharing in my excitement…

Heather

Book Worm goes to the Prom!

Wow, Long time no post! We have been incredibly busy and crazy the last year, the last day of school we found out that we had to be out of our house in 30 days because our landlord was selling our house :0) so we moved into my parents basement, and with the 8 of us sharing one bathroom it left little time to “play with hair” but we are now in a little twin home while we build a house! Yep I am finally getting my dream home! Happy 20 year anniversary to us (it should be done in August). I have also been the Speech and Debate Team mom, and I have been crazy busy with that but super excited to share an incredible Sr. year with book worm! She has qualified for 2 national tournaments (the first person in Utah to qualify for the NIETOC using the bid program) and Little princess had a rocking good freshman year in speech and debate and also made the JV girls Basketball team!

But now that you’ve gotten caught up with us! lets get to the prom!

Of course my Dh had to get a picture of my tongue  hanging out, it just does that for pictures, I don’t know why!

So I just split her hair up into sections to curl, like the glove, I feel like Michael Jackson! to bad its not white and sparklie

My neato glove is blending in to her hair but you can see how big of a piece I am taking in this picture if you look close!

Then you just take the awesome clip-less curling Iron and wrap the hair around it, in a spiral, not on top of the other hair, it takes a bit to get the hang of it,

Now, my Curling Iron is just a Wal-Mart clipless curling Iron I have been coveting the Enzo Milano, but its 120.00 and until I can find it for 30 dollars (like my chi) there is no way I can justify paying that much! This one works really well, its ceramic and heats up to 410 so I make sure I use a heat protectant!

Then this is why you have an awesome glove to hold those little ends to the curling Iron

Next I did a waterfall braid on this side, and then curled the pieces that I pulled through! (remember I do the cheat waterfall braid!) click here for the Video tutorial!

Here she is all done! I must admit it turned out really cute!

Here she is with her cute date, they had a great time, and I used enough hair spray that she slept on it and it still looked cute the next day for church! (and yes that is snow on my lawn! I wish it would get to be spring!

her “fancy prom shoes” what a cute bookworm!

Ropes and Braids bun

Todays Hairdo on The Little Princess will be a super quick hairdo that you can do up before school no problem!

First an easy two pony's close to each other in the back, leaving the front “bangs” out

Now Dutch braid the bangs back on both sides and rope braid the ponies!

Wrap one of the ropes around the other one and secure with pins

 

fill in the center with the second rope

Wrap the braids around the bun securing with pins

and your done! I didn’t get a front view! Sad

Thanks

Heather

Double waterfall Braid

This is a tutorial for a double waterfall braid, done the easy way! cause I am a cheater when it comes to waterfall braids and no one has to know, unless I tell you all on my blog!

so I start by sectioning out the top part of her hair and then do four Dutch braids starting at the front and ending in the back, I am not super fussy about the parts because they are going to be hidden anyway!

After I have all four braids done..

I braid them into one braid, going down the back of her hair just to finish it off

Then this is where it gets easy, just section out the very front piece of hair and put it through the first section of braid, on both the top and bottom braid using your topsy tail,

Keep pulling a small section at a time until you have all of your hair through

And your done!

tied pigtails

These are so simple, I really should have just done a video to show you but with baby Mermaids Touretts it stresses her out and then we have crazy jumping coughing etc..so here are step by step pictures!

Section out the very front piece of hair and have your darling assistant hold it,

Then take the same piece from the other side,

and hook it to the piece from the other side where you want your pigtail to start

then you just repeat hooking it on the other side

Then you take the next section, across and under the pigtail to hook on the far pigtail

Keep going and your done!