Children of Winter!

The proverbial ribbon has officially been cut to welcome winter into my world! Tonight was the yearly pilgrimage to the Warren Miller Film. This year's film was titled Children of Winter. It's 2 hours of completely sick jumps and backcountry skiing & snowboarding. Nothing psychs me up more than seeing these films and planning my winter of trips up the canyon - or back home to visit family with snowboard in tow. This winter's goal is racoon eyes/goggle marks. I find them completely sexy. Here's to hoping for some epic snow days!

PRAY FOR SNOW!

I have hair clips coming out my ears!

When I was in Nashville visiting my friend Sarah, I went down to Georgia (cuz it's close!) and visited my good pal from high school days (& college days) Kristi Gay. I got to hang out with her and her super cute boys!

That's my favorite picture. All the rest were either like 5 miles away or crash zooms. PS - I'm still craving that ice cream we had. The best Mint Chocolate chip I may have ever had. YUM! Thanks for a fun day Kristi and the 3 K's!

While we were hanging out, Miss Kristi and her infamous "gifting" gave me these hair clips that I fell in love with. I got back home to Salt Lake and paid it forward by giving away 2 of them as well and then wished I hadn't because I loved them! So I emailed Kristi's friend Hannah to get more of my own. Since I'm the worst at making decisions between cute and cutest - I just bought one of each! They arrived today and I couldn't be more happy with the sparkle lovliness! See Hannah's site to get your own!

Some assistance required

Okay remember when you were little and you wanted to do something and your excuse was "well (insert friends name here) is doing it?"

Chery Harker (my mama for those of you that don't know I call my mom Cheryl a lot) would aptly reply "If your friends jumped off the roof/bridge (she liked to mix it up) would you do it too?"

Smarty pants Jamie reply, "DUH!" This Californians way of saying TOTALLY LADY!

Here's where I need your help...when it came to fighting off peer pressure, or your mom/dad wanting you to be unique in the crowd - what were some sayings that you heard in your day? I'm working on a project and this is a must have.

Thanks!

Travelin' (wo)Man

This week has been Cuh-razy!
Friday I went to Inspirations Unlimited with Teresa Collins (Teresa Collins Designs) and Layle Koncar (Scenic Route) to teach some Make & Takes in Vegas. It was really fun and I think (hope) the ladies had a fun time. It was a little bit crazy because the only info I had gotten was that we were rotating staions and so I planned my make & take to have the ladies punch stuff themselves to get to play with the paper rather than just glue stuff down. Well I arrived and they told me that they planned for me to do a group make & take. Uhhh bad news because I didn't have everything punched and only brought enough for one table to do it at a time. Never fear!! It all worked out - even though I had to catch a flight back to SLC before my last 2 rotations were done.

Saturday morning I got on a flight to Orlando, FL to go to a trade show with our Sales Rep group there. I taught the same make & take there Saturday night. Sunday was a trade show and afterward we had a workshop where I taught a class. This was really fun - and getting to know the ladies there was SUPER fun. They were all really nice and that made it super fun!

I slept for like 12 hours on Monday catching up on sleep.

Southern Girl in the making...

I just got back from my trip to Nashville! This will be a two segment blog - so pace yourself!
I had SOOO much fun. I got in on Friday and poor little Noah was still SUPER sick. Sarah and Jason ended up taking him to the ER and he got admitted for dehydration! He got to stay overnight and the nurses brought him a Nintendo into his room to play after he started feeling better the next day. (Carson had a suspicious tummy ache and "needed to go to the doctor" after being without Nintendo for a few hours too!) It was fun to have bonding time with Miss Elizabeth who is seriously the sweetest baby you've ever seen. Even teething as she is right now...nothing but smiles from this cutie-patoo-tie.

Carson showed off his biking skills! Can you believe he's 4 and already riding a bike without training wheels!? I was pretty impressed.
Carson is a snuggly boy! I liked him a lot! We went grocery shopping one day just him and I and (reason # 763 why I'm not a parent) - we left there and he had 4 "treats"! I tried to be tough and say "no"...but he would just give me this look and say "Puh-weeeeze" and I was done for!

I was glad that Noah came home. You could tell he felt a whole lot better the second he got home. This was us playing Dinosaur Extinct the night he came home from the hospital.

(video coming soon)

I had so much fun with Sarah and Jason too! Sarah took me to this super FAB shoe store (seriously ladies..Dansko shoes for $35.00!) And yes, I bought 5 pairs of shoes there..on top of the 2 I had already bought somewhere else the other day. Hi my name is Jamie, and I'm a shoe-a-holic.

It was great to relax, and not be at work and get to just hang out with my friend.
My aunt that lives in Seattle was in Nashville for a convention - so I did get to lunch with her which was nice. And I got to see Kristi Lee (installment 2 coming soon!). All in all a very lovely trip. I do love the south. Love the yes sir, yes ma'am and Sweet Tea! YUM!

Other random pictures from the trip. (In order: Carson the snowman, Sarah, Noah Skywalker, My fanny -thanks Carson, Ugly morning face, and Blair Witch Carson). I actually think Carson took every one of those pictures except the snowman! He loved playing with the Camera. Also if you don't know about Webkinz...it's stuffed animals your kids can have that they take care of online. Teaching responsibility without actually having poop! My idea of a good time!

I think I'm in LOVE!

My friend Martin, just turned me onto this guy....(Amos Lee)



Thanks Martin. You made my night.

Out of touch

I get that celebrities are "famous" and probably don't need to keep up with reality in order to be a member of contributing society (sarcasm) but this latest bit by Puff Daddy, (aka-P Diddy, Puffy, Shawn Puffy Combs, Shawn Combs, Diddy) is completely appalling. This guy clearly has a bigger ego than anyone thought possible.

Reasons I dislike the "Diddy"
a) Pick a name and stick with it. With each name change it's not like you're changing your image or anything. Look at Madonna - clearly re-inventing herself all the time, and has done quite well with one name throughout her career
b) Doing Burger King commercials now? So sad! Also, the fact that BK actually has some funny commercials with that King guy - and all their marketing dept could come up with using Diddy was "just tell them Diddy said it's open late". Tragic.
c) Why do you think you're this great music mogul. I literally can name like 1 song you put out, and it was just a sample of a Police song. Your making your money for that damn plane just because you sample everyone else's music.

I feel more bad for the suckers in 1st class that would have to put up with him on their Commercial Flight. I'd kick him in the junk as I trekked back to Coach if he was ever on my plane.