Vegas 1/11

I went out to Vegas a few weeks ago to teach a makeup class. While I was there, my friend Tara invited Monica and me to see her new show "Vegas! The Show" and it was awesome! Good old fashion show with the dancing girls in head dresses with feathers and brilliant singers. There were even these tappers that blew me away! You don't see good tap training that much anymore. Tara was the headline dancer! She blew everyone out of the park! Go Tara! We met up with her after the show in the club attached to the theater, and all Monica and I kept eyein' was the dancing pole at one of the tables. So sad that the whole time we were talking and praising Tara, all we could think of was getting a picture wrapped up on that pole. Tara could sense the anticipation so she had the pleasure of capturing our "hot mom pole" picture. Or at least our "mom pole" picture. Funny enough, our mom was super jealous she wasn't in it with us. Next time, mom. Anyways, it was a fun trip. Thank you, Tara!

And the Legend Continues...

I promised myself I would never force my daughter to dance. Until, one day, those beautiful words came out of her sweet little mouth... "Mommy, I want to go to Ballerina Class!" I got so excited when she asked. Really, it was only a matter of time until she figured out Barth girls dance... and we're good at it. (Sorry... bursting a bubble. But it's like breathing for us.) It was so fun buying the tights, the shoes, the bobby pins for her hair, teaching her positions 1-6, etc. In fact I may have gone overboard with preparing her. After all, she is 3. She loves it! And she's good! Every night in her prayers she asks to go to dance class again. Let's hope it sticks. My mom's mom danced, my mom dances and me. I don't know why she didn't just dance out of the womb! Loving this new and fun experience with her!

On our way...

We got there a bit early. The class was quite full. I totally turned into one of those crazy mom's my students used to have. Makes sense now...

Portoflio - Jen 1920's

I'm fasinated by vintage...ness! Anything vintage, hair, clothes, makeup, I love. So now that I have my camera, and other resources, I'm starting my portfolio in vintage makeup. This is Jen, my friend and hair dresser. I had seen some other pictures she had taken before and was amazed at how well she was in front of the camera. With her babydoll face, I knew I had to use her as my flapper/20's model. I waxed and concealed out her brows and gave her pouty thin ones. I wish I had more money to fork out on good wigs, but unfortunately, the ones I had worked decent enough. She did an amazing job displaying the right character for me. I got some good shots. Check them out! (I'll be doing '30's next month...)

Jen will kill me for posting this...

Her brows are really dark, so it was tough "erasing" them. 

Final result.

Love.

Hawaiian Christmas- EXTRAS

Love this shot! 

We tried to get some family shots, but the weather was so unpredictable. 

Out on one of many dinner dates!

We asked for a cab, the hotel gave us a limo. We looked pretty good going to the movies!

The boys in the limo!

At the end of every day! They were wiped out!

We went to church at this beautiful building! 

Movies with Papa.

Fun playground close by.

Summing up out amazing time. Aloha everyone!

Hawaiian Christmas- Part 5 POLYNESIAN CULTURE CENTER

If you every plan on going to Hawaii, you MUST visit the Polynesian Culture Center. BYU Hawaii has organized this visitors center to help international, polynesian students pay for their schooling. It's not religious by any means. It's just a beautiful "theme park" that teaches the diversity of the polynesian culture. Tahiti, Samoa, New Zealand, etc. It's an all day event with a luau and an amazing show at the end of the night. (Check out the hula dancing at the end!) Full of entertainment! I love this culture. So family oriented, full of laughter, and they know how to eat! It was POURING most of the day but we had a great time in our stylish ponchos. We got a chance to see the temple, too. It got a bit crazy with the rain, but I was really proud of the kids. They did amazing and had a great time as well! Thank you to my mom and dad for treating us to such a special day!

One of our tour guides from New Zealand. All of the workers call everyone "cousin."

My attempt at art. 

Garrett trying Poi, kind of a Hawaiian sweet potato dish, without the sweet.

Knox tried it too.

Reaction.

Hula lesson.

Tattoos.

Samoan teaching how to make fire. He was hilarious.  All of the shows were so entertaining!

Poi balls. My dad has a real bad memory of these.  Nuff said...

Knox even did good in the rain.

Visitors center at the temple.

The Johns were the only ones brave enough to take their picture in front of the temple with the crazy weather conditions.

Amazing show at the end of the night. The kids only saw about 5 minutes of it. They were out like lights from the crazy day! Highlight of our trip!