Alys in Real Life

I love to pamper myself, on a budget of course. But what girl doesn't? I promise I am in no way high maintenance, hence the fact all my clothes come from Wal Mart, I'm obsessed with guns and I love the outdoors. But there is a side of me who loooooves to get her nails did and spend too much money on all the pretty makeup. My friends own a beauty school here in my town and I get all my beauty services done there, 1, its a really good price and 2, the students need to learn and I am not picky! Plus some of my friends work there and its fun to see them! I also think it might be a problem when the receptionist knows its you on the phone... Since school is destroying my life I haven't been to the salon in forever!! Also, my bestie JP moved away and we would go get our nails done every two weeks. Last week I decided I NEEDED a microderm. Basically, a microderm is someone with a sandpaper machine going over your face with it to get rid of dead skin cells which can result in glowin...

Last weekend was a huge family history conference in Salt Lake City called RootsTech. I have heard of it for many years but since it is usually in February I never wanted to go because of the snow. This year Chris's cousin Cody lives in Utah so we planned to stay with him, that way if it snowed I could back out and not worry about the hotel fees. It didn't snow but it did rain, a lot but I survived the drive and didn't die. RootsTech was AMAZING! The conference is four days long but we only went down for one day. Next year I would like to go the whole time. Buddy from Cake Boss was there to talk about family. He talked about the American Dream, his grandparents coming over from Italy and his family run bakery. Buddy is one of the nicest coolest guys you will ever meet. So down to earth and so kind and helpful. I loved hearing him speak! I learned some pretty neat things about DNA. DNA testing is big in family history right now. Your DNA can tell you so much about who you ar...