uhm, guys....

I PASSED!! i freaking passed. this is a big deal. who wants to celebrate?!?!?!?!?!?!??!
p.s. Melinda passed too. we're baller. i can say that because this is my blog. :)



xoxoxox, Las Vegas' newest Certified Redken Haircolorist. :)

love.

my beautiful mamma and niece.


i love sitting at home on a saturday night with my mom watching prison break shows.
i love my friends...i have some really good friends. and im getting to know some very cute new ones. i need girls. trusting fun girls.
i love dexter.
i love my huge comforter and 3 blankets on my bed.
i love christmas time.
i love being in the salon and behind the chair.
i love my cats. they are getting extra attention from me since yogi passed.
i love boots. i think i have bought 3 pairs in the past 2 months...whoops.
i love nativities.
i love my new nephew Lincoln. He's beyond perfect.
i love words with friends, even though im horrrrible.
i love my sister even though she steals alllll my clothes. ugh.
i love pedicures.
i love testimony meeting. especially this month.
i love missionaries.
i love my cousins.
i love lots right now. im so blessed in my life. i need to take a step back more often and give thanks to heavenly father for all that i have. He is the light of the season and the meaning of our celebration. He is the best gift, and the only one that really matters.




doesn't his little wrinkly forehead melt you're heart? he's so cuddly and cute.

thod.

so i have this friend...he's got a good eye for photography and editing. ;) must be in his family blood or something. we had fun on saturday posing for the camera.




check out his new blog! :)

thodson.blogspot.com

blessings.

Im jumping on the bandwagon of gratitude posts today. i know ill be mad if i look back in a few years and i didn't post anything. Im blessed with so much!

1. Im greatful to be in hawaii with my family this year for thanksgiving. its been such a blast! I love this place. its so beautiful. our thanksgiving dinner at Roy's wasn't to shabby either. ;)
2. I have the best family in the world. Im greatful for my brothers and their wives, and their babies. im so blessed to be an aunt! :) i love my sister even though sometimes we want to strangle eachother. we're very different...but in a way a lot alike. im so greatful for my parents. they are so supporting and loving and i just love them.
3. my job. I've been lucky this year to have a great teacher who has turned into a best friend. Melinda has taught me so much, and been there for me through all sorts of dilemmas. haha
4. My friends. I feel like we're all so far away from eachother, and we are all at different stages...some are getting married, some are going on missions, and some like me are just hangin out...lol. i love them and their sweet spirits, and that we can always be there for eachother through boyfriends, loss, sadness, heartbreak, and celebrations. their the best.
5. Im such a sap but im greatful for my pets! Im still so crushed about the loss of our puppy yogi. its funny how animals can bring so much to life.
6. the gospel, and atonement of jesus christ. Im greatful i have a testimony and so greatful for the book of mormon. Im also so greatful for my bishop, and my ward. i love it.
7. My car. i love my trusty honda and its great gas milage. he never fails me.
8. dt. coke
9. airplanes
10. new shoes
11. iphone
AND last but not least...
12. Lincoln Danger Davis who will be here in 9 days. :)


Happy Thanksgiving and ALOHA from Hawaii!

dear santa...

i need these. puhhhlease.




xoxo, leah.

R.I.P.

rest in peace Yogi. 11/14/10. you will be so so missed. :/
thanks for you're constant love and happy spirit the past 14 years. i don't remember life without you in it...you're irreplaceable, and you will never be forgotten. <3

confession.

Taylor Swift's new album "Speak Now" has been playing nonstop in my car, in my room, on my ipod. I can't stop. I honestly haven't listened to anything else since the day it came out. This new album seriously feels like it was written just for me...sometimes it freaks me out how right on some of the songs are.

On the way to Overton last week my dad and i rocked out to the new CD. he is a pretty big Taylor Swift fan...for the reason being that he is an english major...and he thinks she is an awesome poet. i agree. im glad he appreciates. :)

SO maybe you think this post is dumb because im kind of confessing my love for Taylor Swift...but i don't care. its my blog right?
Her music is inspiring, and honest, and forgiving, and simple, and hopeful. so thanks Taylor...for inspiring me to trust, let go, and love. see you on tour next year. im. so. there.

Pomegranate Harvest 2010

My grandpa and grandma live out in Overton Nv, and have a ton of pomegranate trees. every october all the family gets together for a big feast and pomegranate picking. this year we also had my sister in law's baby shower. it was a ton of fun!

this is where we had the shower...inside the fig tree! isn't that the coolest?





i think the baby's name has officially been decided... Lincoln Danger Davis. haha, dont ask. that's my brother for ya! personally i love it!

after we started the picking!
last year we decided to prune back the branches a bit to help get rid of all dead stuff, and this year we could really tell in our numbers we didn't have quite as many but, we were still happy to have what we did.




i love my family. im so glad we are all so close and get together so many times a year. :) I feel really blessed! i love this time of year.

The Big Apple.

Melinda and I got to go to New York this past weekend to take a color certification test for Redken. It was really awesome, and scary, and exciting, and overwhelming all at the same time. i get my results in like 6 weeks...so we'll see. luckily there are retakes if you don't pass a portion. lol




Anyway, after we got all our testing out of the way we hit the town. on saturday night we went and saw West Side Story which was awesome! i really liked it. we got pretty cheap seats that were kind of far away but hey...its all about the music right?



On sunday we went and saw Mary Poppins...it was by far the best show i have ever seen. dare i say, i liked it better than Wicked. Im a sucker for Disney. It was so great. Then we walked around a little street fair...ate bomb italian sausages, then we walked like a billion blocks...lol, (my feet were tired) to Washington park and shopped around a bit and then went on a haunted tour. it was pretty fun. not as scary as i hoped...but there were some interesting stories...haha.





On Monday we shopped around some more, had lunch at a cute little place and then headed for the airport. it was a pretty quick trip...but we got everything we wanted accomplished. :)

Traveling buddies that work well together are hard to find. but i must say melinda and i are a pretty good match. we like to do all the same things. She's adorable.

baby boy.

This is my sister in law Krista...and my soon to be nephew. Isn't she adorable? She is due December 4th! I hope i'm at least half as cute as she is when i'm prego. She wanted a few pics of her belly so we made our own little studio. :) My digital camera did a decent job i think.

We can't wait to meet you baby boy! hurry up!

yogi bear.

this little girl makes my heart melt. this is my 15 year old half golden retriever, half german shepherd...Yogi. She is the sweetest!
she is struggling these days...her legs don't work like they used to, her eyes are getting cloudy, and she doesn't quite hear the way she did. she is always happy and still gets so excited to get the mail with me though!
I don't really know how to handle this situation...i know she wont be here much longer. :/
whats a girl to do?!?!?

i love you yogs.

vegas baby.

my two best friends from utah came to visit me the past weekend!! Amber and Katelin. it was such a blast!!!
we went out to breakfast, shopped till we dropped, went down to fremont street, rode the stratoshere, hit up ciao ciao's...and they came to church with me on sunday! it was so fun to see them again, and i had SO much fun shopping! i got some new fall goodies i'm really excited about. no more shopping for me till christmas now!!
here's a few pics. these girls are so beautiful! inside and out. i don't know how i got so lucky. they are one good thing that came out of me living in utah. ;)

katelin-jane.

so i need to give a shout out to my best frannnn katelin-jane. we met at byu summer term right after we graduated and have stayed friends since! she is so fun and smart and beautiful! she has always been there for me and i've tried to be there for her. we've been through a lot and i wish i would have listened to her more when it comes to things in my life. some of my best memories with her are, coke runs, hot springs, drives through provo canyon, sharing a 5x5 room at liberty square, borrowing eachother's clothes, dressing up as donna and jackie from that 70's show for halloween. hahah, taking a ride on my collapsing bed, vegas trips, watching tv alllll day, cooking yummy new dishes. fondue night, boooooobs, john mayer concert, standing up to bitchy girls, hahahah, and so many more.
Katelin just got called to serve a mission in RUSSIA. she leaves jan. 12th. and im so excited for her. she is going to be amazing! not to mention the most fashionable, beautiful missionary there. she has an amazing testimony and im so excited she has taken chances and is going for it.
she is amazing and im so greatful she's been in my life.
not to mention she knows exactly how to cure my problems...

genius right? and yes...that is my bed. hahaha


love you katelin-jane.

just puttin' it out there....

i neeeeed this watch.



or this one....



im kind of obsessed right now.
oops.

girls night.

we had a girls night last weekend and can i just say...i have some really cute friends. seriously, i love them! everyone needs a little girl time, right? i sure did.
limo rides, margaritaville, dancing, pictures, getting dressed up, eating smokies, pretzels and m&m's. make up, girl talk, laughs, pj's, and sleepovers.

i can't say it enough...

my dad is amazing. he gives the best advice. he loves me no matter what. he challenges my ideas and pushes me to do better and learn more. he really is the smartest person i know. i can go to him anytime for a father's blessing, and he'll have a white shirt and tie on within mins to "rescue" me. he is so silly! he holds me when i cry. he comes into the salon to have me cut his hair. he fills my tank with gas when its low. he reads the newspaper everyday and reads all the important things i should know out loud. he hates my red hair and wants me to be his little blondie. he spoils me. we watch golf on sunday afternoons and has forgiven me for still cheering for tiger. he's a keeper. i love him.