Fun Food & Festivals

We had such a fun weekend! We have been trying to stay cheap with our date nights while still having a lot of fun and I think we succeeded this weekend! We started off Friday night at a cute little Greek restaurant called Yanni's Greek Express. Seriously so yummy and super cheap! Afterwards we headed to the dollar theatre in Sugarhouse. We go there so often it is starting to get pretty ridiculous but who can pass up a movie in a nice theatre for less than $2? We finished our night at Yogurtland where we used our coupon from Living Social. We had such a great night for less than $10. Nothing beats that!

On Saturday I sorted through endless hours of homework so that I wouldn't be stuck doing it during our trip to Denver this coming week. In the afternoon we headed downtown with a bunch of friends to the Living Culture Festival. We watched some dancing, tried tons of amazing food, and then decided to go get slurpees at 7-11 because we were too cheap to buy the $5 slushies at the Hawaiian stand. 
We are getting super excited to head down to Denver with my grandparents for my little brother's high school graduation. I can't believe he is that old! I'm excited to share some awesome pictures with you after our trip! 

Our possy at the festival. Please ignore the warped faces of some individuals ;)

P.S This is where we stayed when we got married. Such a neat hotel!

P.S.S If you ever run out of eggs and want to make cookies just add baking soda to boiling water then too to your cookie dough. These cookies were delicious!

Sunshine & The Birth of Franklin

We have been having the most gorgeous summer weather here in Salt Lake City! It's almost like we completely skipped spring. Today was 93 degrees. I went outside for a couple minutes to give myself a break from studying and I just cooked. So stinkin hot. I secretly love it though. 
Since Tim and I are renting an apartment attached to a home it is kind of weird to go outside since the family is usually out and about out there so we have been going to the park a lot! It has been so gorgeous. 

Oh yeah. Don't let me forget to tell you that I gave birth to a baby boy names Franklin! Apparently this is how the experience went. 

You keep thinking about Franklin's dramatic birth! After about eight hours of labor, Franklin began to go into distress. The doctors said the baby was not in the correct position. They did a C-section, and ten minutes later you were looking at your new baby. You were awake but sedated during the procedure, but you both were able to hold Franklin after a little cleaning up. The Apgar score was 7-8. After Franklin was born, you felt the biggest surge of emotion that you have ever had. When you held Franklin in the delivery room you were amazed that you and your partner had brought this new being into existence.

Doesn't he look just like me?? :)

The Truth About My Job

Today I'm linking up with my awesome friend Kate for the "Truth About" link up. This week is the "Truth About My Job." That would be great except the truth is I don't have a job. I am extremely grateful that my husband is allowing me to be a full time student while he is my sugar daddy and provides me with a roof over my little head. :) Since that is not a super exciting topic I decided I would give you the truth about being an esthetician, since that is something that I am even though I'm not working in that field at the moment. 
1. The downside of going to esthetician school in a college town is everyone assumes you are just going to "beauty school" because you couldn't get into college. This drove me nuts. I remember being at a party and people were asking the usual, where are you from, what are you studying questions and when I told the guy I was going to esthetician school he rolled his eyes and walked away. Like going to school for IT makes you SO much better than me. 

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2. People demand perfection. I'm sorry but you can't tweeze your eyebrows into the McDonald arches and expect to come out looking like a superstar. It's going to take you leaving your eyebrows alone, letting them grow in, and me shaping them to make them look better. I also can't give you flawless skin on one 50 minute session. Everything takes time. You also can't wash your face with an old bar of soap and wonder why your skin is dull and sallow. 

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3. You can't tan in a tanning bed or get scorched outside and complain about sunspots. Yes, your skin is going to look golden and fabulous while you're in your twenties but I promise you once you hit 30 or so all those dark spots are going to rise to the surface and you're going to be hating life. Don't even get me started on skin cancer. It's not just a fairy tale that your mom tells you about to get you to wear sunscreen. It is real and you better believe it. Yes, this picture is of a woman who was a truck driver so half of her face was exposed to a lot of sun. Which side would you rather have?

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4. School was a beast for me to tackle. I enjoyed the homework and the information we were learning but I don't think I was a "typical beauty school girl" and that made the days extremely long. As if 10 hours a day in a tiny classroom didn't already make my days long. 

5. I can't do everything for free. I once was invited to do waxing at some lady's house while she sold jewelry and hand bags or what have you. I spent hours prepping and buying extra waxing sticks, strips, gloves, baby powder, borrowing a facial bed from someone, etc. I show up and she sends me down to the basement by myself. I sit there for an hour and a half doing nothing. I was suppose to be leaving in 45 minutes and then 30 women all want their brows and upper lips waxed. They tell me to hurry up. Uhm...what? I'm pretty sure the last thing you want me to do is wax off your eyebrow by trying to do it in 15 seconds. To make a long story short the lady hosting the party thought that she and 10 of her friends shouldn't have to pay for their waxings because she was kind enough to let me come to her house to do it. My thought process was that I didn't get anything free from her and I just drove over an hour to her house and wasted an hour and a half of my time sitting doing nothing. 

6. I love what I do. Yes, I have to touch strangers feet. Yes, I don't mind "popping strangers zits". Yes, I have waxed the backs of men who have so much back hair that I couldn't see their skin. Yes, people have farted while I was waxing their bikini lines. Yes, sometimes it isn't super glamorous, but I enjoy it. I love making someone feel confident and happy about their skin after they have struggled with acne for years. I love educating clients about what products are really going to help their skin. 

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The Truth About My Body

I have to admit I was pretty excited when I heard about this link-up. My body has some very strange abnormalities and quirks and I just have a grand 'ol time with them. 

• I get the hiccups at least 10 times a day. I never know when they are coming but the loudest shriek just burst from my diaphragm. It has been likened to a taradactyl. 
• I have a birthmark on my knee that is shaped like the letter "Z." I used to tell my friends that Zorro slashed my knee in the night to leave his mark. 
• The hair on the back of my head grows upward for 2 or 3 inches. 
• My right ear has a little point on the tip. I think it might be from the cartilage getting squished in the womb?
• I have the boniest pointiest elbows in the world. If someone were going to attack me I could jab them with my elbows and all would be well. 
• I have never had a nose bleed in my entire life.
• I also have very boney knees that stick out. I go through jeans so fast because my knees wear holes into them so fast. 

• My physical therapist told me yesterday that I have a flat back. Normally your spine is suppose to curve out at the top of your back and then come back in in your waist and jut out again. I guess mine just goes straight down.
• I have terrible circulation. My feet turn dark purple if I don't elevate them when I sit and my legs and feet turn bright red if they get hot.
• I have a huge scar on my hip from long boarding. I was on a date my freshman year of college and the boy jumped on the back of the skateboard. I of course went skidding down the sidewalk. Yes, we were going down a hill. Ouch. This picture is about 5 years after the fact.
  
  

Tulip Festival

This weekend we had such beautiful weather! We decided to take advantage of it by going on lots of walks and going to the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point. We met up with our friend Tyler who was visiting from Boston and his date and spent hours walking around. It was absolutely gorgeous. I was an idiot and forgot to put sunscreen on. Somehow I always get burned the first time the sun peeks out for spring. After that I remember but that first time gets me every time! 
Here are a few pictures of our fun afternoon! Afterwards we went out to eat at this super cute little restaurant called Emmit and Ethels. It was an awesome weekend! 

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Endometriosis Update

As many of you know I have endometriosis and every day it is a pain in the butt. It makes me tired, it makes me irritable, and most of all it just hurts. My back aches and throbs every day and the pain wraps around to my right side and has a stabbing sensation. After trying just about every bc pill there is since I was 15, numerous depo and lupron provera injections anda laparoscopy I was left feeling discouraged because nothing was really working. 
Last week my OBGYN referred me to a women's health physical therapist. I had no idea this existed! After getting their physical therapy degree these doctors go on to more school to learn all about helping women with pregnancy pain, pelvic pain, endometriosis etc. I met with the physical therapist yesterday and went over all my health history. She then felt around my lower abdomen and back while I did some different stretches. She found that I have a slight curvature in my spine and that was pulling on my right side causing the pain to be much worse than it should be. It was also pretty crazy that she could feel all the fluid above my pelvis from ruptured ovarian cysts and endometriosis cells. She taped up my back before I left to pull the muscles in the right direction and sent me on my way. I'm going to start meeting with her twice a week to see if we can help with some of the pain management. I'm so excited and I hope that this can help!
Have any of you with endometriosis tried physical therapy? Did you see much of an improvement?