There has been so much happening lately! I find myself coming and going! So about a week ago I went to a hair show! It was a lot of fun and exciting. There is so much stuff to be bought and sold for hair! I was really inspired but what I saw. I really love the RUSK show. I don't think that my pictures do any justice but there fun.

So I have to say that the girls at the salon are so much fun! I couldn't ask for a better group of people to work with.

Memory Lane

It is hard for me to imagine my life without my best friend. Life is good all the time with Owen. I won BIG when I fell in the with Owen. They say marriage is hard work, yes it takes work but I wouldn't call it hard! When you wake up everyday to your best friend how can it be a bad day.



Today we were quizzing each other on dates. When did this happen and when did we do this or that.

Owen: What day did I tell you I love you for the first time?
Melinda: The day you crashed your car, Feb. something.
Owen: No, January 6th.
Melinda: You can remember the very day?! Wow. It only took you 3 weeks to fall in love with me.
Owen: No, it only took me 10 minutes to fall in love with you and 3 weeks to tell you that I loved you!
Melinda: almost in tears

Roller Coaster

Most of you know that we are looking to buy. It is so exciting and fun driving around in a new area. Looking at floor plan after floor plan. I think this is the year for us. It feels right and the market is a buyers market. Money goes a lot farther now. We never thought we would be able to afford a home in San Diego. So it is really exciting. Writing offers and waiting week after week hoping and praying... It is time for a change. I have lived here for 8 years and have worked here for 7. I am getting excited about what I wold keep and what I would get rid of. I am looking forward to the purge! The new start! So if you remember pray we will find our home out there!




The thought of leaving the ward or even being out of the neighborhood is scary but you got to jump to see if you can fly, right?

I LOVE THE SALON

Work is going well and I am so lucky to work there. All the people are so nice and everyone gets along! It really is a fun environment. The salon just doubled in size so I do more running around but I'm not complaining. I wasn't able to take everyone pic but I got a few and I'm sure I will ad more in the future. I am still the receptionist but I know it will pay off. The salon isn't done yet but it looks great. So now you can get a feel of the salon and who I work with.

KATIE had a birthday!

For Katie's birthday the 4 of us went out to Gulf Coast Grill. The food was really great. I think I had the best Clam chowder I've ever had there! So we always get together for dinner to celebrate our birthdays. It is always so much fun! So here are some of my favorite pics. Thanks girls for being so much fun. I think we need to have girls night out more often!

Uncle Biff's

A group of us went to Hillcrest yesterday. We went and sold cloths at the resale shops and walked around in the rain. So after getting back to the car I suggested we go by Uncle Biff's and get a cookie. Knowing how much Owen LOVES cookies. So we pull into the parking lot, park and all get out of the car and file into the cookie shop. I asked Owen what he wanted and then all of a suddent he saids "I don't want one! I am not paying $1.50 for a cookie." Then turns and gos to the car. I was so embarrassed. So I picked out which one I was going to share with my friend and everyone else got a cookie and I even picked out one for Owen. So I get in that car and asked him what the big deal was. He replied by saying," They are a rip off and I will let that cookie rot before I eat it." We went on to have a bit of a tiff about this yummy cookie that Owen hated. I couldn't understand what was so wrong with a $1.50 cookie. Owen says, "It affends me that they charge $1.50 for one cookie, There for I won't eat it.

Well, It didn't rot. And he loved it!

My Crazy Dad

I have to rant so don't mind me. I have a crazy father. I have been dealing with forever. I have always tried to make him proud but nothing is ever good enough for him. I call him and he gives me a hard time for not calling more or sooner. But yet he never calls me. So I try to keep him involved in my life by at least telling him the important stuff. For example, I got my license. That whole conversation didn't end well. He hung up on me. Which mad me very mad. How rude, right? I mean come on. How old are you? I feel like he is the child and I am the parent. Always worried if he is ok. If he got in a accident or woke up today...So for Chritmas despite us not talking I sent him a Christmas card. In my heart I knew he would send it back but at the request of my mother I went ahead and sent him one. Well I was right. It came back.

So what is a girl supposed to do. Just forget about her father... Keep putting yourself out there to get hurt? Or just go along with it. Leave him alone and just move one. Just forget about it and Him??? I guess I shouldn't care after all he has done to me but I do. I do care about him and the fact that he just isn't himself. That my dad doesn't like me for the stupidest thing. But I know I didn't do anything to him. I can sleep at night. And often wonder what he is thinking in his head. I wonder how a father can be so mean to his family and sleep at night. What makes a person so bitter at his family. His family that just loved him? I don't think I will ever know. And even if I did I don't think it will justify his behavoir.