The Trauma has past so now I can post this funny story:)

So, during spring break, I really wanted to highlight my hair. It had been at least a year since I'd last had my hair high lighted and I was pumped! But...It didn't happen. So about a week later I'm a shopping at Lee's Market Place when I pace by some boxes of do-it-yourself hair color that make coloring your hair at home look easy peasy.

I think to myself, Tara, you could do this and it would be so much fun to have your dark blond locks become bright and happy again! So I say, "Self, you are so right". I grab a box of blond that said it would bring out my natural blond highlights and continue on my merry shopping way.

The next morning, I decide it is time! Everything goes pretty well. I think I'm following the directions right. I get the goop on my head and wait, wait, wait.

I start to notice the top of my hair (my dark roots) is turning a slightly different variation of the lovely blond the rest of my hair is turning. It's this, brassy blond orange-ish color. I think to myself 'just wait until the time is up, it's just in the changing process.

End of the changing process, Flaming brassy orange-ish roots with blond every where else.

Mortified Tara goes and cries on Karl's shoulder while he tries hard not to laugh and help Tara feel better.

3 hours later after extensive work from a fabulous hair stylist at Leilana Salon (who may have been slightly annoyed that I took that long and made all of her other appointments back up and made it so she was there way longer than she wanted to be), my hair is now a normal blond color.

Moral of the story: Tara is not good at doing spontaneous things like this on her own without expert help from someone else. And box hair color is not a good idea for Tara

(And yes, I realize I switched to speaking in third person during this post, but it helped with dramatic effect, right?)

Weekend

Hey You Guys!!!

Happy Monday. I hope you enjoyed a fantastic fun filled weekend, or at least a pretty good one. Mine was pretty good. The rain put a damper on the baseball plans. Rain=muddy field=no baseball games. So instead, we spent all of Friday sitting at home watching march madness and eating some delicious Domino's Pizza. Weekend well spent:) I also slept for about three hours. Karl was kind enough not to wake me up, but got really excited when I did wake up because we got to play! It was cute:)

Saturday was super fun. We headed down to Bountiful for a fun visit with my parents and Dash Dash( if my apartment allowed pets and if I was home more than five hours a day that little puppy would be in Logan with me), and then we headed to Salt Lake for Karl's cousin's wedding reception. The food was delicious and it was super fun to get to talk with some of Karl's cousins, aunts, and uncles ( he has a lot and I mean a lot so I was lucky if I even picked out Karl's family from the groom's family).

Then on the way back from the reception, we went on an adventure to find Highland, which Karl has apparently always wanted to explore. We never found Highland, but we did go on an exciting venture down Parley's way. I lived 20 minutes away from it my whole life and had absolutely no idea it existed. I gotta get out more.

And then we got to go back to my parents house to visit with my sister Shae whose guts I love and who I hadn't seed in a long time so it was good to catch up. Plus, we got to eat dinner with my parents and I have to say, my mom has a lot more skill in the cooking department than her daughter, who only hopes to accumulate the skill my mother has one day, so it was nice to have a delicious meal my mom made.

Now it's back to another week of school and squeezing other things in between, like grocery shopping, since we have very little food left:)

P.S. I'm super bored with the meals I know how to make. Any really easy cooking recipes for two you guys know? I would love to have some new ideas to try out!

Dreams, and Random Gobldegook

Do you ever go through periods of time where you have super weird dreams that kind of leave you freaked out? For the past month, I have had the weirdest dreams every night. I don't even think I can begin to explain them. But last night, I had a nightmare. I was in hunger games with my little brother and we were fighting against all of these other kids to survive! Then, all of the sudden I was with Karl. He took me to see a play, which was actually the movie Black Swan, which is a movie I have never seen because the creepy commercials were enough to steer me clear.

When I finally woke up, I had the most disoriented creepy feeling ever! Thank goodness for scripture reading and prayer! (That was really the only thing that made the creepy feeling go away). Karl thinks I should write down my dreams and sell them to producers. He thinks my dreams are entertaining. Well not to me when I'm having them!

Anyways, here is an update on our life in Logan.

Karl and I are both still plugging away at school and we can't wait for five weeks from now when we will be living large in the summer time (or both working at least two jobs, but hey, it's a nice change)

Karl is helping assistant coach the Mountain Crest Freshmen Baseball Team. It's frustrating for him at times, but he is a lover of the game of baseball and he is having a blast hanging out with his brother Brent, who is on the team.

My cooking skills have improved slightly. I can follow a recipe pretty good. Now I just need to plan meals in advance so that when I find a good idea...I actually have the ingredients to make it:)

Logan is cold. I don't think I remember having such a hard time with winter last year. Grant it, it might be because I was dating Karl and in my own little world, but I think winter was not this cold or forever long last year.

I have discovered that I enjoy cleaning. It is a form of therapy for me literally. I will clean our apartment so I can take a break from studying. Who knew?

I am super excited for this weekend. Karl's cousin is getting married this weekend so we will be going down to American Fork for that and the freshmen baseball team might have a tournament in the same direction which will be fun to watch. (unless it gets rained out which is highly likely).

Mostly this has just been a bunch of my random thoughts, but I hope you enjoyed reading them:)

P.S. I don't like the layout of my blog at all. Anybody have ideas? I'll probably just keep messing with it.

Toodles!

FHE

Karl and I have been having fun doing a Family Home Evening on Monday nights. Last night was Karl's turn and to start, he picked a primary song for us to sing. He picked Give Said the Little Stream, but before we sang, he prefaced our singing with a story. When Karl was little, he thought the words were 'Give said the Little string'. He said he could imagine a little string dancing down a hill. Karl was a really adorable, loud, little boy. I can totally imagine him sitting in a primary class belting 'give said the little string'. I laughed through the whole song! (of course we sang Karl's version). It never ceases to surprise me how much I think I know Karl, but there is so much I am still learning about him every day. We are having a grand time on our eternal adventure:)

In other news....

I am an Auntie for the first time!!!

I think I am ok to post this now that Talon and Nicole have. My little niece Adalyn Julene came just a week ago, which is a lot earlier than her due date which was in April. She was pretty sick when she was first born and still has a ways to go, but according to her happy parents and grandparents, she is getting stronger everyday.

My niece is a fighter!

I can't wait to meet her in person! Hopefully my little niece will help me not be so scared of new born babies. Not that I find them scary. they are just so little and look so fragile that I'm afraid I might hold them wrong and hurt them or something. I always have to hold a baby sitting in the same spot, without moving until someone else comes to claim their turn.

Well, hopefully I can get some practice holding my niece before she moves to Missouri.

Anyways, life is good.

I hope all of you are having a splendid day!

(despite the snow that dumped all over the semi-spring atmosphere)

The Groundhog Lied

Spring is just around the corner eh mister groundhog.

Well I got a bone to pick with you!!!

I'm staring out the window at huge piles of snow that don't seem to be getting any smaller!!!

AND...

Every weather forecast I've read to day (I checked several sources) says that we have chances of snowfall throughout this week and next week (my spring break that will not feel very springy here in Logan).

It's still very chilly outside my friend.

Early spring?

I think not!!!

This my friends, is the face of an untruthful furry weather forecaster!!!