Wedding Hair Prep

On Sunday I headed over to Jeanine's house where her very good friend Casey was meeting us to do some wedding hair trials.  We came as prepared as we could for Casey with pictures of what we thought we would like or what we thought would work good for the big day.  However Casey came even more prepared, with multiple curlers, hair ties, bobby-pins, and more hair products than you could imagine - she was ready for whatever we were going to throw at her!  We started off with my hair first...

Casey was able to replicate exactly what I wanted.  A simple one sided braid into a side curled pony tail.  My bridesmaid dress is a one shoulder so this style is going to work perfectly and help keep my hair out of my face.  Next it was onto the Bride-to-be's hair..

Her style she wanted was a full head of loose curls with some pieces pulled back out of her face.  She  was able to improvise with the pink feather accessory since she doesn't have her bird cage style veil.  Casey did a great job with her hair also, we all were completely satisfied and now even more cannot wait for Jeanine's big day to get here.  This was her first time doing hair for a wedding and she did a wonderful job.  A big thanks to Casey for all of your hair and beauty help on this!

Painters in Training

On Friday the 12th after work, Caitlin and Rachel picked me up at home and we headed to Saratoga for our first Paint and Sip experience!  We had signed up for the "Almond Blossoms" painting.  We arrived a little late, so we checked in, got our smocks on, and luckily there were 3 seats next to each other we could all sit at.  We followed along with the instructors directions and started to mix colors together for the background of our "art-work".  As it was drying, we went up to the bar and got our wine-on!

After our backgrounds dried, we were instructed on how to paint the branches, then the apple blossoms, then the black outlines to highlight the branches, and finally to sign our names.  After each instruction we were free to paint while music blasted through the speakers.  You get to paint, sing your heart out, drink, and spend time with friends - what's better than that?!

All and all the class lasted about 2 hours.  After you signed your name and your painting dried a little, we were instructed to get into the groups of friends we came with for pictures of our masterpieces.  Below is the picture of our 3 pieces...

If anyone is looking for something new and different to try, check out their website to see if you are interested in any of their upcoming paintings and then sign up!  A new location is opening soon in Latham - which will be a lot easier for Albany drivers to get too!

Cannot wait to sign up for our next masterpiece Caitlin and Rachel!

Family Vacation 2013

This past week (Saturday June 22-29) my family + Aaron and Heather rented a house in Narragansett, Rhode Island.  Not only was it a family affair, but the house had a fenced in back yard so the puppies were allowed to join us on vacation!  The house was a raised ranch style and had 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a finished basement, living room, dining room, full kitchen, and a back porch with furniture and a grill.  It was heaven.

Out of the days that we were there Saturday-Wednesday we had sunny, perfect beach weather.  Aaron and I checked out 3 separate beaches while we were there and loved all of them, minus the crazy "entry" fees they charge!  All 3 beaches were different we had an almost empty beach to ourselves, a very crowded popular beach, and then a medium filled beach, but a beach is a beach and as long as we had room for our chairs, blanket, and cooler we were all good.

Besides the beach, one of the mornings we split up from the boys to have some girl time and let the boys do boy things.  Aaron, Steve, and Dad decided to go golfing.  Mom, Heather, and I decided to go do some shopping, drive around the island and find some cool place by the water to grab some lunch.  We ended up at a place called Jim's Dock and sat out back right by a marina.  The food and the view were perfect.  Later that day, Aaron and I decided to head into New Port for the day.  We walked all around and did some window shopping - we bought one thing, and that one thing was of course fudge.  Later on Steven and Heather met up with us.  We walked around with them for a bit and then we hopped in our cars and decided to do the Mansion tour on the island.  These houses were OUT OF THIS WORLD.  As soon as we thought we'd seen the biggest, coolest, most bad-ass mansion, we'd drive a little further and see another one.  Unfortunately I don't have a picture of this one, but the coolest one we all decided was one that looked identical to a castle.  It had stone walls and as we drove past I counted 9 chimneys, 9! - who needs 9 chimneys!  After a while the mansions made us a little depressed so we decided to head back home.  One of the coolest parts of the New Port trip is the bridge connecting the islands.

Another cool part of the trip was the day the family decided to have lobster!  Now I am not a lobster person, I don't believe a person should have to work THAT hard to get to their food, also watching people eat lobster gives me hot mouth, but my family sure loves it so that's all that matters!  This specific lobster-fest was also Aaron and Heather's first time eating lobster this way, shell crackin' and all!

      

Thursday it rained so Steven, Heather, Aaron and I decided to road trip it to Boston for the day.  We got in around 4 and walked around Quincy Market.  We got lunch and tried to stay out of the rain as much as possible, luckily it was just a light rain.  Then we headed to Fenway! Aaron and I have never been to Fenway so we were super excited to go to this game and Steven's a Red Sox fan so their was excitement all around!

It was a 7:00 game against the Toronto Blue Jays.  In the top of the 2nd inning the Red Sox were on fire!  They went on a 7-0 run against the Blue Jays it was awesome.  We even got to see a home run over the Green Monster, the crowd was awesome, it was a good time!  Their was misty rain, the lights were on, our seats were amazing and the Red Sox were winning, it was a really good time.  Unfortunately Aaron and I had to leave the game at the bottom of the 3rd to go home and take care of Muhka.  We were upset we had to leave because we were having a really good time with Steven and Heather.  Luckily we saw all of the Red Sox scoring in that one inning and the Red Sox came out with the W!

With the rainy weather that came in towards the end of our vacation, we used Friday to pack and clean up the house and headed out Friday evening instead of Saturday morning.  Overall it was a great vacation and I'm sad it's over and we're back to the real world of waking up and going to work instead of the beach.  If you haven't been to Rhode Island you should check it out, Narragansett is beautiful!

To quote Steven: 

Steven Sisk

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A much needed week of golf, beach, seafood, baseball, & family comes to an end. Work tomorrow