Sugar Skull

My sister asked me to go to a Dia De Los Muertos party with her and she wanted to paint a sugar skull on her face. I went to the Halloween store to pick up some make up. It was nice because it was Novermber 1st and everything was on sale! I got A LOT of makeup for $18. 

I looked up online some pictures that I liked and these are what I found...

They were all beautiful to me but I decided to use the 2nd one as my inspiration. It took an hour and a half to paint my face! Finally my sister decided it took too long and we didn't paint hers. This is how it turned out...

Well I had so much fun painting my face, while Zach was at work the next day I painted it again and then again haha!

These are the 2 I did that day. 

Needless to say, my face hurt that night from all the make up that I rubbed off. That stuff stays on good!

I took some pictures to show how I did it, in case anyone else wants to try!

1. Find a picture of something you like. This was mine. 

2. Start with a fresh clean face! The makeup lasts longer and looks better on a clean face. Pull your hair out of your face. 

Tools needed:

Makeup in the colors you want to use. 

Black eye liner. 

White base makeup (it doesn't have to be white or you don't need a base makeup if you don't want a color underneath)

Makeup sponge. 

Small paint brushes. 

Water. 

3. Paint your face with the base color. 

4. Choose color for eyes and paint the shape you want then outline it with the eye liner. 

I didn't paint over my eyebrows. Just filled it in with the eye liner. 

It's all pretty easy! The hardest part for me was doing the left side of my face because I am right handed. You just draw whatever designs you want! 

One thing I found to help was make an outline then paint the inside then outline again because I always tend to mess up an go outside the lines!

Don't buy cheap makeup if you want it to last a while too. The make up I bought was great! The colors didn't blend together. It dried fast!

This was my favorite, I think it turned out good! I can't wait until next Halloween now. It will be fun. I want to do something scary on Zach and me! 

Pictures

The next few posts will be pictures :)

My two favorite of Zach and I. 

And some more. 

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On Friday I woke up and had to go to the airport with my mom to pick up some more family. It's probably the most people we will ever have sleeping in our house! Every room was full and all couches and we have a large house!

After picking them up at the airport we went to my sisters house to see if Zach could find out what is wrong with my parents car. Shortly after getting there it starts to rain. And I don't mean just a rain shower, it seems more like a monsoon! The roads were flooding and looked like rivers!! It had been raining all week and the weather did say that it was supposed to rain on Saturday as well. I had decided that if it rained during our wedding I would be ok. I have actually heard rain on your wedding day is good luck. 

Zach was not able to figure out what was wrong with my parents car so we had to get it towed to a shop and luckily they were able to fix it that day. 

Everyone was hungry and decided to go eat so I stayed with my dad to wait for the tow truck while we watched the rain just keep pouring. After that we headed home so I could get a few more things done when my dad and I decided to go get some food ourselves. 

Our rehearsal dinner was that night. Zach had told people to come at 5 I had told people 6 haha! Bad communication there. Just like everything with the wedding we were scared but the rain was no where to be seen and not a cloud in sight. It was good because we were having a BBQ outside for the rehearsal dinner. Everything went great! Other then I didn't have any of the food because my dad and I had such a late lunch. 

Waking up on Saturday morning, it was raining. Oh no. We decided to go buy some umbrellas for the wedding so those who would come didn't have to be wet. Our decorator called and said she couldn't bring the stuff until right before the wedding because of the rain. As long as it is up by 5! 

This day went by so fast! We needed to start getting ready at 12:30. I didn't even have time to shower!! As Lizzy was doing my hair everyone's phone went off. It was a flash flood alert! Are you kidding me?! My phone has never done this before and it is on my wedding day! I look outside and there isn't even any rain. Huh? We had outside pictures starting at 2 in my wedding dress. I didn't want to be wet walking down the isle!

Well by 2 there was not a cloud in the sky and not a drop of rain touched our house. All the prayers had been heard. 

I was scared if it was raining that a lot of people would chose to stay home, especially if it was flash flood raining. But we had the perfect turn out. 

We came home and started taking the family and bridal party pictures. I was really angry with the photographer. I had emailed her the Monday before the wedding to get a timeline figured out for the day and had not heard back from her. I called her 2 times on Friday (the day before the wedding) and no answer. Finally I had seen an email from her in my inbox saying she will meet us at the park at 2 the wedding day. I was disappointed because for the engagement and bridal pictures she was so professional and even went to the locations before and figured out poses and places to take the pictures. On the wedding day she was 15 minutes late and didn't even know where the park was. We had to tell her all the poses and pictures we wanted done. Believe she should have known what poses to do an directed us. He just stood in he back and waited for us to tell her to start taking pictures. 

After all was said and done, the pictures turned out wonderful. I love looking at them. They will be included in the next post :). 

Crazy week!

Just like everything with the wedding planning... It seemed like everything was going to go wrong but then it turned out perfect!

I am going to start with the week leading up to the wedding. 

I worked Monday to Thursday that week. I wish I could have taken the whole week off but my work does not get done when I'm not there and I was taking the next week off for the honeymoon so it was not able to happen. 

Of course I was nervous that I was not going to be able to get everything I needed done and I will admit for the most part it was just my body that was present at work haha! I got what I needed done and that's about it. Thankfully my parents were here the entire week so my mom cleaned and helped out a lot and my dad cooked dinner! They helped out so much.

Then on Wednesday night Zach got a piece of paper off of the front door and brought it to me. It said that the power company was going to be working on the power lines in our neighborhood and that the power would be out Saturday (the 14th) from 8 am to 5 pm. My worst nightmare!!! We need power for the wedding! To get ready, to keep the house cool because it was pretty hot and also all the food we had in our fridge and freezer! The wedding started at 5 and who knows if it would be on for sure by then or not. 

Thursday morning I called Rocky Mountain Power to see if there is anything I could do. Basically they said that there was nothing they could do because it's a big job that needed to be done and that's the only time they could fit it in and that it would take all the hours they had said it would take. I was trying to hold it together on the phone with the guy but eventually started to cry. He was super nice about it and told me he would see what he could do. He told me he would contact the job foreman and call me back later that afternoon. After hanging up I just had to keep crying. I was embarrassed about bawling at work. Many people saw me crying and I have the ugliest crying face that lasts for hours after I am done crying. 

I ended up having to leave work a few hours early to just go take a nap. By this time, some family from North Dakota were here. I did want to see them but I snuck into my house because I just wanted a nap! They had read my mind because they were already napping!

After waking up from the nap I got the phone call from the foreman at Rocky Mountain Power, they said that they still needed to do the work on Saturday but they promised to be done by 12 noon. Ok I can deal with that. I thanked them for everything. 

I had lots to do that night and was meeting my mom and sister for a spray tan at 8. They had just come from a dinner at my sisters with all the family. Then my mom gets a phone call from my dad saying their car isn't starting. Oh no! It costs a lot of money to fix cars too! Luckily we have a lot of extra cars because we had a lot of family here. 

My next post will be about the rest of the week and leading up to the wedding!

Changes

Hey! I'm married now and don't blog. I always think about it and have a lot of post ideas but just forget about it!

I need to write a blog about the wedding but am still waiting on the pictures so as soon as I get them I am going to blog it! It was the best day of my life and we had a lot of fun. 

This post is going to be about how I feel being married...

I feel the exact same! Ha!

Zach and I have been together for 4 years now and have lived together for 3 of those years. 

To me the hardest part is my new last name! I am proud to be a Smith now. Zach has a great family! But all of a sudden having to write and type a new last name is so hard to me. My new drivers license looks weird with the name Krista Smith on it. When saying my name in the phone now it's Krista MoSmith! Haha I am definitely going to have to get used to this new name!

It makes me so excited to think that now I am part of this new family. A family of 2 with the love of my life and eventually having it grow (EVENTUALLY! For all those people who ask constantly haha)

Friends

I have been thinking a lot lately about the meaning of friendship. Through planning this wedding, I would say I found out who of my friends are there for me no matter what. 

I hate when people say "I found out who my REAL friends are" if they are your friend they are your "real" friend. If you enjoy being around someone and would like to maybe hang out again they can be considered a friend. 

There are those friends though that won't go somewhere unless it benefits them in some way. That's who I am talking about now. 

For the most part I consider myself a good friend. I usually go to everything I am invited to. I will listen to you when you have problems and try to help you out. I celebrate and I mourn with them when something happens. I even go to birthday parties and baptisms of their children. (This is not my definition of a "good" friend it's just something I think that a person close to another person would do). 

Some of the people I thought would come celebrate my marriage with me are no shows for every event. And it makes me wonder if they will even come to the wedding? It shouldn't matter because Zach and our families will be there but it does make me sad. I really wish I could celebrate with all of my friends too. 

I will continue to do what I do and going to all the things I am invited to because I know what it feels like to hope someone will come and they don't. 

Alright, no more whining for me! 10 more days till the wedding and I am so anxious, nervous, happy, stressed, basically any emotion I am feeling it! I can't wait till the day comes I can be Mrs. Krista Smith with my husband holding my hand. 

Bridal shower and weekend fun

This past weekend was pretty fun! It was non stop. I never had a chance to just relax at home but it was full of fun activities. 

Friday night my sister had a birthday party at my favorite bar, Cruzrs. They have karaoke there on Friday nights and that's what we go for. It was a good time and we sang lots of songs. 

Picture of my brother and me. 

Zach is too cute!

Saturday was my bridal shower. It started at 1. It was a fun time! There was about 20 women there. All of which are great friends and family! We played 3 different games. 

The first one was the guess the amount of candy in the jar game. It was a jar of Hershey's Hugs. My favorite candy! There was 225 in the jar about. My guess was 111. I did not win :(. 

The second game, my sister asked Zach and me about 15 questions and then she read the questions to the guests and either Zach's answer or my answer and then they either had to hold up a mustache or lips for who they thought the answer was. It was cute! 

The third game was bridal scattagories. You could use the letters K M and S and you had 3 minutes to come up with words for the things listed. So one was...

Something a guest wears and you could say a suit or a mini skirt. As long as it started with the right letters. I'm horrible at that game. I cannot think when I have a time limit!

There was a yummy potato bar and a great cake!

The cake. 

I asked instead of gifts to get money from people so I can prepare for the wedding (examples.. Getting my hair done, nails tans etc.) Some people are so generous. I was spoiled and have a lot of thanking to do. Barb though of having everyone grow me a "money tree" all the guests hung the money on the tree for me. 

On Saturday night me, my mom and my sister went to the Alan Jackson concert at Usana amphitheater. It was a good concert and we got to spend time with my mom. The last time I went to a concert with her was 2002. 

On Sunday I made breakfast for everyone   My parents had to leave back to Las Vegas so we said by to them. After that I went to get my nails done by Shaliece. 

Zach made a very yummy dinner of beef stroganoff. And we say down to watch the movie Flight. I fell asleep but from what I saw of it, it was pretty good. Zach said he liked it. 

Now I'm gearing up for another very busy week! No relaxing at home for me for a few days!