Who am I kidding?

I posted those last two posts today. Not on the dates they say. But most of you have probably figured that out. Instead of trying to figure out all the days I missed I might as well just write it all today to catch up. School has been in session for about three weeks now. Tom is so so so busy! He gets up at 6:45am to get ready for work then gets home at about 7:30pm (at the earliest) most nights and then studies until about midnight. Except the other day I found out he studied until 4am (4AM!) and then got up at 6:45am. Crazy? I think so. I've been really pushing for him to quit his job and I think he was considering it until...a RAISE. Oh, no, not just a 25 cent raise...$1.25! What!? For a student!? So now he is making way more than most students ever dream of. Now I'm not convincing him so much to quit (great wife, right? it's a lot of money!) and he's really not wanting to leave now. Hopefully he'll be able to handle it all okay but if not, he really will have to quit. We've decided (Tom decided) we will have to quit our weekend houseparenting job which is a total bummer since it's good money and we were saving all the money we made there for a trip to Indonesia next summer. I'm thinking maybe we'll see if we can be substitutes or something so that we can maybe do it some weekends that they can't fill.

Despite all the craziness, Thomas is really liking the junior core. He likes the stuff he learns and so that's good! We got to go to one of his professor's house for a meet&greet which was really fun. The students had an opportunity to ask their professor and a guest professor a lot of questions in a more casual setting. They learned a lot about what rumors that go around the students in the junior core are true and which are not. And...FREE FOOD! :] Then a few days later, we went to a "Meet the Interns" dinner (free food again!) where the students got a chance to talk to other students who just returned from doing internships this summer. We sat with a guy who interned in the Bay area with Earnst&Young. We aren't interested in the Bay area (more like Sacramento) but we still got some good advice and information from him. Tom also gets to meet lots of recruiters who always give out free stuff! He already got a free PriceWaterHouseCoopers sweatshirt and a really nice Earnst&Young backpack (which he says he isn't going to use for school since probably everybody else will-hahah). I want free stuff too!

Well, my bow business is going okay. I haven't been very good so far at advertising but that's because I want to get more on my website before I send lots of people there to look at it! I've been so bogged down with nannying and MAKING bows that I haven't had a whole lot of time to list them...so I need to get on that. A little girl, Mackenzie, who I watch on Tuesday nights while her mom has a class in SLC modeled some of my bows for me and the pictures turned out so cute! Check out my Facebook to see pictures of her. Kelli and her friend, Kaytlyn also modeled some bows for me on Labor day and those pictures came out really good too (thanks, girls!) However...there was an incident. Kaytlyn asked if she could carry something for me so I let her carry my purse because I was carrying Emma and Emma's diaper bag and then Kaytlyn stepped in some mud and so took off her flip flop and bent over to clean it off in the pond and my purse tipped (and it was unzipped) and out fell the camera PLOP! right into the pond! Ahhh! So...it is broken. Yes, my new camera that I begged and begged for and finally got in May with the understanding that it was my Christmas and Birthday present. Goodbye, camera. :[ Except Kaytlyn is actually getting us a new one so I will someday have one again. I feel really bad for her because she totally didn't mean to do it and the camera was ex-pennn-sive. Poor girl.

Well, I feel like I've updated about as much as I need to (thank goodness!) and I'll try to be better at updating more regularly! This is for you, Jai. :]

And so it begins.

School has STARTED. Thomas went to an accounting orientation today but no classes! We already knew it was going to be a pretty grueling program but they said definitely do not work more than 10 hours a week if at all. Too bad he's working 20 a week now...we'll see how it goes, I guess. I'm looking forward to this school year since Thomas is FINALLY in the program and this means we're closer to being done!...but I'm not looking forward to it because I know I have, as of this day, lost my husband to numbers. Goodbye for a school year, husband!

Work Party!

Tonight, we went to my work party! It was so much fun! It was at Jordanelle Reservoir...we had steak for dinner (yum) and they rented four jet skis. It was my first time on a jet ski and it was so much fun! Tom and I both took the jet skis out several times (together and with kids). It was fun to get to see everyone outside of work even though I mostly just did what I do AT work...played with the Savage's :] Unfortunately, I didn't get any pictures of me and Tom, but here is one of me, Rachel (7) and Rachel's cousin, Grace.

Color Me Mine!

I LOVE Color Me Mine. If you haven't been there before, you should definitely go...for date night or for family night! Go to colormemine.com for deals (such as mommy and me days and date nights where there are discounts on studio fees). Okay so if you haven't been there before, this is how it works. You go to the studio, pay a studio fee (to cover the paints and stickers and whatever you use) then you buy a piece of pottery from them. They have so many things!--figurines, dishes (super nice ones too!), broken pieces you can use for magnets or whatever, jewelry boxes...really anything. So then you get to paint your piece however you want. And they have so, so, so many tools you can use to paint cool things (stickers, books with ideas, designing tools, etc) It is so fun to paint your own piece of pottery! When you're done painting, they take your piece and fire it in the kiln and then you get to pick it up in a few days and WAH-LAH! Your own marvelous piece of artwork! I've been twice with the Savage's now and they just LOVE doing this. And I love it too! It is so fun to have your own unique pieces. I just got the pieces I did a few days ago and they turned out so cute...I love them! I bought broken pieces and painted them all different colors and did all the letters in "wallace" and then one that says thomas and one that says marci. And then I glued magnets on the backs and I just LOVE them. Here they are:



And then here is the piece I did the time before (it's a super cute bowl and we use it to put our keys and stuff)




SO if you live in the Provo area, there's a Color Me Mine in the Riverwoods in Provo and for those of you back home in Sacramento, there's one in Folsom and also one in Elk Grove. Go check it out!--you'll love it!

WEBSITE! :]

I've finally set up a website for my hairbows!--well, an etsy site. Go to marciwallace.etsy.com (or click on the title to this blog entry) to check it out! And PLEASE tell everyone! There are only about five bows up right now but tomorrow afternoon/night, I plan to add about 20 more...or more! So check back regularly for new bows!

THANKS.

:]

Cake and a Hairdo

So Kelli and I attempted to make a cake that I found the recipe for on my sister-in-law, Alyson's, recipe blog (check it out: wozniakgoodeats.blogspot.com...tons of good recipes!) We, unfortunately, failed. It was supposed to be lots of layers but our cake kept falling apart so we just dumped all the fillings all over the cake and made it only two layers. It was still yummy so that's all that matters, right!?




After our failed cake attempt, I really wanted to try a hairstyle on Kelli that I saw on a doll. It looked so cool!...so not CUTE but it was really amazing-looking!





Thanks for letting me play with your hair, Kel!

Farmer's Market

So this whole season I've been doing the Provo Farmer's Market (every Saturday from 9am-2pm for those of you who live nearby!) and I finally got around to taking pictures of my booth!