Hair Hair & More Hair!

Cute girl came in, wanted something done up for a concert she was going to.

 

 Cosmoprof Hair Show

Paul Mitchell Team

The most incredible hair stylest I've ever seen or met. His name is David and he is unbelievable. We were so lucky to have him come all the way to Utah from Florida to teach our school. 

Updo for Homecoming on beautiful Hannah

This beautiful lady is my instructor Natalie. You can see how curly her hair is in that picture. That is her natural curl. With a Brazilian Blowout, you can relax as much curl as you want. I did this Brazilian Blowout on her and this is what it looked AIR DRIED! Amazing right? 

Goodbye curl, Goodbye Frizz!

(but of course, she still has curl if she wants to scrunch it or curl her hair)

The Week in Review

I'm seriously the worlds worst blogger! I miss always having something to blog about but lately I am so bad at it! I guess there is always something to blog about but I just get too caught up and busy that I space it. So to my readers, I am sorry! But now I finally have some down time, so here I go spilling everything out I can remember about this past week.

1. Weeks go by so fast and yet so slow. I feel like this has been the longest week ever since the week before I got married. I put 45 hours into the salon, so that's probably why. It's tough going so much but I need to graduate asap. I've been there a year too long and it's time I get out of school. So for those of you reading and thinking "Man, Emily is still in school?" No I'm not a terrible hairstylest, I'm just a terrible student. Ok that's not true either. I LOVE HAIR. In fact, every day I am so grateful that God gave me this gift. It's my passion. It's my hobby. It's not even a job to me. It's what I love! But with Shawn coming home a little earlier than planned from his mission (due to sickness) and then getting married and being gone a lot for planning and honeymooning, my hours have been dragging. But I promise I'm good at it, and I promise you can trust me to make you look and feel beautiful. I've got tops 6 weeks left if I don't miss 1 single hour. I have to go 45 hours a week and I'll be finished! Hallelujah!
Another reason why this week has felt so long is because I don't see Shawn til 7 o'clock at night so that makes my days feel like weeks. Why can't we just be zillionaires and be together all day every day?

2. Thursday I went to Shelby & Scott Hickenloopers wedding and can I just say pinterest couple? Their pictures were incredible and they are the most beautiful couple I have ever seen! It was so country and hipster. I loved every single thing about it. and then when I got home (Shawn didn't come with me because he went to the gym, and I went to the reception with my mama) Shawn made dinner even though I told him he didn't have to, and there was a plate ready for me-bacon, eggs, and hashbrowns with a cute note by it that said "Babe I love you". -he's the cutest.

3. Friday was the most ridiculous night of my marriage and I can't help but share with you how pathetic I am. So get ready to laugh and I won't be upset if you do because I think back and laugh at myself. So, Shawn and I planned this date to go to The Pie in Salt Lake because he has never been before. and well, I haven't been since my 16th birthday! I was so excited to go Friday night. All day at the salon I was talking about 'our date' and getting all cute for 'my date with my boyfriend' ;)
Shawn got off of work at 12 to go to his parents house to help them replace their kitchen sink, stain the deck, and fix a fence. And he said he'd be done on time for 'our date'! Well around 6, he texted me and said "Babe, I'm so sorry. this is taking a lot longer than I thought. I don't know if I'll be done on time. So If I'm not I promise we'll go out Monday". So I was so mad. I was selfishly mad because I so badly wanted to go on a date with my husband and how dare he go to his parents house to help his dad! What a terrible person he is!! NOT! hahaha oh don't worry, I only get worse. He kept texting me and calling me telling me he loves me and that he is sorry and all this but of course being an emotional dramatic girl, I just continued being grumpy. He even told me to come over to his parents house to hang out with him and eat pizza. So what did my awnry butt do? Stayed home and watched TV. hahaha. Honestly, I didn't feel good and didn't really want to leave the house but why would I tell him that? I just wanted to be mad. haha! I'm so dumb.

SO THEN. He got home at 10. and came in the door saying HEY BABY! and I thought "dont you hey baby me. I'm mad at you remember?" and so I didn't even look at him. hahaha oh gosh. and he came over and kissed me. but I just kept being mad. so then I took NyQuil and went to sleep.

Yup. I didn't even want to talk to him about it. I was being so stubborn. but really I was totally okay that he was there. I mean, how could I be so selfish and so mad at a sweet and generous man that is so willing to help is parents. I mean, he was bummed too but he is so kind and willing to help people any time of the day. But nope, my stubborn attitude got in the way of seeing that. It took me to all night to have nightmares about him to wake up the next morning and admit to him that I was wrong! I'm ridiculous.
Married life at its finest right there folks.

4. Shawn and I went to the BYU vs UTAH game Saturday. Did you know I hate the utes? I hate the utes more than I hate losing. Yeah BYU lost. Shocker. But really, I was kind of surprised. At the beginning, BYU came out with a bang. We were stopping them left and right. Our defense is incredible. I mean, 6-0 at half time? Only because Utah got two field goals? It was an intense game. The refs were TERRIBLE. It was the most frustrating game I have ever seen. It got to the point where BYU fans weren't even MAD. We kept laughing because the refs were playing the game for the Utes. They would never flag Utah but always flag BYU. We easily got two touchdowns that apparently ''didn't count''. I mean, it was unbelievable. Me and my dad almost got in a fight with this Ute Fan. He was so obnoxious. He wanted to ''meet my dad after the game''. hahaha what a joke. And Ute fans are the worst. I have absolutely no respect for  disrespecting someone's religious or personal beliefs. What in the heck has that got to do with sports? Mocking baptisms, sacraments, wearing sacred (to some) clothing...etc, etc. has NO place in any school program....let alone sports. I fault the coaching staff and directors as well as the team.....after all....if this is a "holy war", then Mr. Whitingham whose side are you on? See how ridiculus this has become? I'm glad now that this is finally over, at least for a couple of years. I love Notre Dame. There is a real class act.......something that Utah and yes BYU can take as a model if you want real sports!!! Character is more than if you have a beer or not. Character is respecting someones religion and separating that from the competition of talent. The opposing teams and quests at a Notre Dame game are treated with respect and welcomed. Something you will never find on a Utah campass!!!! Enough said

Nothing New

Alright, lately I've been the worst blogger ever and to be honest it's because I don't know what to blog about! Our lives have been so busy and so repetitive lately.

Wake up;
Go to school/work;
Come home around 7 or 8;
Eat Dinner;
Watch One Tree Hill;
Sleep;



Really, our lives are so exciting. I wish I had something fun to tell you, but I don't. I have friends traveling the world and going out with celebrities; and we are just trying our hardest to get through school and making money. One day I'll have what my friends have. Okay not the celebrity thing because 1. that's luck 2. I'm married but I will travel the world. I don't know if you know this, but Shawn's going to be a surgeon one day and then we will have it really good. It'll definitely be worth it when we are living on airplanes traveling the world!!

 But I love what we have and I love our busy busy schedules because the best part of my day is coming home to my husband after a long day.

So there's an update. When I have more stuff, I promise I'll post.

Ta-ta for now. 

Linda's Legacy

Saturday I witnessed something very special and I'm so glad that I could be a part of it. My aunt (Anissa) has been trying to have a baby for 4 years and recently found out that they can't. Can you imagine hearing your doctor say those words? What a heart breaking feeling.

So one of my other aunts (Tauna) and Anissa's best friend found a 5K race called Footsteps to Fertility. and at the end of the race there was a drawing: 2 lucky winners get a free Invetro Treatment and 4 people got 50% off.

So now lets back track. Me and my dad woke up bright and early to go do this 5K. Once we got to Liberty Park in Salt Lake City, we met up with my dad's side of the family. Little did we know, that they had prepared us some unique outfits.

A bib: On it, it said "A Linda's Legacy Baby". For those of you who don't understand, Linda is my grandma; Anissa's mom. Linda passed away a few years ago suddenly from a heart attack.

A diaper: On it, it said "Baby Brown" because well, the family is Jason and Anissa Brown.

So we put those on over our clothes without Anissa knowing. We wanted to completely surprise her. Once we were ready, a group of us strutted our stuff over to the table where Anissa was. Tears filled her eyes when she realized who the crazy people in diapers and a bib were. And then she bursted with laughter.

So now it's race time and this is the first time I've ever participated in a race. And actually, it was a lot of fun. Even though we all stayed in a group and walked it, it was really neat to be there with the family supporting Anissa and Jason. And of course, getting all the looks from other people dressed normal.

After the race, we gathered together to listen for the winners. ABC 4 was there as it started to get it on the news. The lady that won it last year is pregnant with triplets! She got up to the microphone and said some stuff, but lets be honest all of us didn't pay much attention. We were too excited to hear the winners.

There was a giant gold wheel that they spun with 1100 papers inside of names. Anissa's group had 87 names out of that 1100. After all the yada yada talk and thank you's, they finally started. When the lady got up to announce they were going to begin the drawing, tears filled our eyes. First they were going to announce the 2 lucky winners of the free In vetro treatment. A lady spun the wheel and pulled out a name and what seems like, walked very slowly to the microphone.

"Team Allen" she said.

And our heads dropped. One more name.

Another lady came up and pulled out a name. Walked slowly to the microphone and said,

"Team Jason...(Anissa's face turns to Jason)... and Anissa"

Jumping. Screaming. Crying. All from a group in diapers! Unbelievable. Out of all the names, she was lucky enough to get this. She deserves this more than anyone I know. Camera's were on our group and the lady from ABC 4 was crying. What a miracle.

You could feel the warmth from Linda. Without a doubt, I know she was there and handed that card to the lady at the gold wheel.

(Click on link below to watch our crazy family jumping up and down. It's at 1:15 and 1:07)
Witness a miracle

Waiting...

 

Grandpa

 The Group

I was really excited.

Me and Anissa

My uncle Darren

Grandpa and Cameron

Uncle Todd and Uncle Chad

Best Friends.

 Me and my dad

The Little Things

I'm really lucky to have the relationship that I have. I know I'm such a cheesy blogger but isn't that what happens when you're a newlywed?

I decided to stop comparing my marriage to other marriages. Everyone's relationship is so different. and just because someone posts on social media that "their husband is amazing because he sent me flowers" or the husband posts a cute picture on Instagram telling his wife he loves her, doesn't mean their relationship is perfect. No one's relationship is perfect, everyone has ups and downs.

But their relationship is perfect to them. And my relationship is perfect to me. He might not send me flowers, or post cute things on social media, or buy me new things. But he does so many other things and its about time I appreciate those things; focus on only those things instead of what other husbands do. Because lets face it, I did marry the best man out there.

Like when he gets home from work, he gives me a huge kiss and picks me up like a baby and cuddles me on the couch. even if I'm awnry from a long day at school.
Or when I get in the shower and come out and he's cleaning the whole kitchen. like reeeeally cleaning it. Clorox and all.

But lately I've been really grateful for mornings. Shawn just started school and is going full time plus working full time. So he has to be up at 5:30 and out of the house by 6:20 to get to school at 7am. And even though I'm barely awake when his alarm goes off, he always kisses me good morning. Then he takes a shower, eats breakfast, gets ready, makes lunch, and then right before he leaves, he comes in our room to wake me up just to tell me he loves me and kisses me again.

It really is the best way to start my morning. Remember when we were just dating and I complained about leaving him at night, or waiting all day to just even see him? Well no more of that. I start and end my day with him, my best friend.

We've been married 2 months and 5 days now, and I fall more and more in love with him everyday. 

Too Cool For School

First day of school! First day of school! 

Last night I told Shawn that I had to take a picture of him on his first day of school and he just started laughing at me thinking I was such an idiot. But HEY! It's what you do right? I always had pictures on my first day of school, so I thought it would be cute. Shawn's going to SLCC (Salt Lake Community College) because he needs to finish up his generals and then he's going to head over to the University of Utah. and then.. Med School. 

and then and then and then. hahaha. We have a lot of school ahead of us! School is so fun (rolling eyes now). 

So here's my hot husband guys. 

Oh and Go check out my Beauty tab at the top. I finally uploaded something. Follow it to see my passion. Hair.

I love what I do. I'm terrible at remembering pictures but I'm going to start doing a lot better. I want to show off my work. 

Married Campers

All summer long, I just wanted to go camping. It's not summer if you don't go camping atleast once right? Well, Wednesday I got home from the Salon and Shawn had the cutest smile on his face. You know, the one with a secret; the one like he really wants to tell me something. I immediately asked him what he was thinking and he asked, "You get home from the Salon tomorrow at what time?" and I thought, I get home the same time every day why is he asking me this question. Then the conversation sounded something like this

"Why??"-me
"Ohhhhh just because"-him.

Over and over.
Finally I got it out of him. He wanted to go camping! Hi, so not a big deal to you guys, but as a blogger and a follower of many others, I always complain to Shawn that we are so boring and never do anything fun. All I wanted was to do something fun before school started for him. So this is fun. and I really wanted to go camping. So even better.

So now Thursday:

It's like, 7am and Shawn still hasn't gotten up for work. I'm half awake as the time keeps dragging but I don't want to wake him up. I just want to snuggle all day right? So I pretend I'm asleep. He then gets out of bed-dang it-and goes to the bathroom. I'm thinking, alright he's going to work. Then he comes running into our bedroom and jumps on me and says "Surprise, I already got work taken off. I'm going to lay here and cuddle you". K cutest husband EVER.

so he spent the day getting ready for our mini vaca while I went to the Salon.

We finally left around 5 and headed up Farmington Canyon.

And if any of you actually know me, you know that I haaaate that canyon. I've been up half way a couple times and always make the person turn around because I'm such a wuss. I scare myself too much. And if you haven't been up there.. its a skinny road that fits one car and a huge cliff off the side and if another car is coming... well figure it out.

SCARY.

So the whole way up I'm scared, tense, anxiety is kicking in bad but I'm staying calm for Shawn. I mean, who wants to be married to a wimpy girl right? I still gotta be cool for him. ;) But inside I'm freaking out. So I play Candy Crush to get my mind off it.

We drove aaaaaaaall the way to the top! You know where the Radar Towers are? or if you live in Utah, the 'balls' at the top of the mountain? yeah. we went UP THERE! Soo high, and so beautiful.


That would be me, scared out of my mind.
It's fine, clearly I survived.

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How pretty is this view ehh?

and this view??

K he's mine.

And now I can say we kissed on top of a mountain.

Ewwww Grossss!! We're kissing!!!

Lunchables on the mountain. :)

And then we got to our camp spot. It was nice to get away for a day. No cell phones, no outside world. Just us. It was so quiet and so peaceful. I love camping.

Trunk Tent.

Cool huh!

My attempt to winking...

                                                                 FAIL!

                                                                       

And then we roasted mellows :) Huge mellows.

And then we fell more in love.

Split Second

I'm going to apologize ahead of time for this sappy post but it's been on my mind for the past two days and I really just want to let it out.

Being married is the best. It really is. When I was just dating Shawn, and I watched a lot of my friends get married it got me really excited but of course, I had no idea it would be this great. I was told all the time from friends how much fun it is, 'Married life is the best'. So obviously it got me more and more excited. It really is great. Want to know what I love so much about marriage? A lot of things. 

I love waking up to him every morning and starting my day with a kiss. I love coming home to him every day after a long day at the salon. I love having a best friend to spend every single day with. I love getting in arguments and watching him try to make me laugh by sitting on me and tickling me until I'm done being 'awnry'. I love making him dinner and then hearing him tell me how yummy it is. (I'm just starting to cook so that's a big deal to me) or saying thank you for the littlest things, like putting away the groceries. I love watching 'our shows' together on Netflix every night. I love going to the gym every night and watching him lift weights and him watching me try to lift weights. 

The list goes on and on.

But how about other things like;

Talking about our future together. What we are going to be like in 10+ years, what we are going to look like, what cars we want to drive, what house we want to build. Planning our kids names and how cute we I am going to dress them. Where we want to live when he goes through Med School, our future careers. 

Newlyweds do that. We think about the future. Growing up I always dream't about my wedding day and I was so giddy about it. But I never thought that something else would make me happier than my wedding day. What makes me SO happy and SO giddy, is knowing I get an eternity with my best friend and imagining all the fun and exciting things we will do together.

Where am I going with this? 

I hope I'm warming up your heart before I continue..

Now what if, what if all that, in a split second- disappeared. Think about it. Everything you've ever wanted, just disappears. It'll never happen with that one person you want it to happen with. Everything you ever planned with your spouse just... won't happen. In a split second everything changed and you never, in a million years, thought it would happen to you. 

Yesterday at the Salon, my friends and I were talking about a very sad story that recently happened to a girl my friend knows. She just got married a couple months ago and on a trip to Lake Powell, she was boating with her husband and some friends/family. The water in Lake Powell is very shallow right now and her husband was on a tube. The tube hit a rock and he flew off. My friend wasn't quite sure when she was telling the story, but she was pretty sure that he got ran over by the boat. (and if someone knows this story better than I, I'm sorry if I'm getting the details wrong) Long story short, he died. They've been married only 4 months and everything they wanted, was gone in a split second. 

I couldn't help but tear up when I heard this story. Nothing scares me more than the thought of not spending the rest of my life with Shawn. 

When I heard this story, I ran home to my husband to give him a big kiss and wrap my arms around him because you never know when someone you love so much is gone. There are a few things in marriage we take for granted. The little things. and no more will I ever take anything for granted.  

Now, whoever is reading this. Go wrap your arms around something you love very much. Husband, wife, siblings, mom, dad, a best friend, kids. Anyone you can think of. Because life is short and precious. It's too short to hold grudges, or throw it away by doing stupid things. 

and to my husband;

I love you more than you will ever know. Thank you-for everything.

My heart goes out to the wife, family, and friends for their loss. And they are definitely in my prayers.

The welcome home video-

This morning I was on pinterest, and someone repinned a picture of a girl hugging her missionary at the airport. And it got me thinking about when Shawn was on his mission. So, I wanted to watch the video that my friend made at the airport.

WATCH IT HERE:

http://vimeo.com/57047681#

It's so obvious in this video how much we love each other! 

And while I was watching it, I got a little teary eyed thinking about the fact that I actually waited for him. That those two people in that video, hugging at the airport after not seeing each other for 2 years, are now married! I knew when I was sixteen that I was going to marry him. And I remember before he went on his mission, we talked about me waiting day after day after day. What I'd do while he was serving, planning our letters, planning our future when he got back, and now it's all happened. It's amazing to me to see how far we've come. I love looking back at old pictures and seeing how little we look, and even in that video we look so young! Even when Shawn was on his mission, there were so many people that doubted us but I told them time after time that I was going to be with Shawn. Now look at us, we are married and couldn't' be happier! But then again, we become happier and more in love every single day! 

Mrs. Boring

I've seriously just been staring at my screen thinking about what I should blog about. All morning I've been reading blogs, and I realized something. I'm so boring! Or maybe I just come off boring. I've been married for a month and it seems like we already are that boring old couple. That needs to change pronto! Summer is almost over and our schedules are going to become so hectic, so it's time to live-it-up; go on adventures; take more pictures. 

Another thing on my mind that kinda-sorta relates, I'm having a love/hate relationship with money. I love money, but I hate it because I don't have any! There's only 2 things (at the moment) that I really want;

new clothes

and a nice camera.

Most of the blogs that I follow are fashion blogs and photography pages. And if they're not photographers, most of my friends have super nice cameras and post the cutest pictures. I want to capture life's beautiful moments. Moments I spend with Shawn, adventures we are about to go on, future babies (don't worry, not any time soon), and who knows what else. but I've always dream't of being a photographer and I know that it's super late to start because most photographers start like when they are in high school, but I'd seriously love it. 

Another thing on my mind is that I'm sick of this blog being just a page of ramble. I feel like it's turned too much into a 'diary' and not a page to share with the world things I love. That's why I created those tabs at the top. But as you can tell, they are not done, but especially the beauty tab. I love doing hair. It's my passion and I'm terrible at taking before and after pictures but it's about time I start. 

So coming from Mrs. Boring over here, don't mind me if my posts are still snoozers. I'll work harder on that, but I'm going to start posting new things. Shawn and I are YOUNG! We need to live life more. And even though we are poor newlyweds, there's so much we could do. We don't need to travel the world (right now), I don't need a million dollars (even though that'd be nice), we just need each other.

Spend a little more time creating memories

& a little less time catching up on One Tree Hill.