Mustaches (or the lack thereof)

Erik and I have been pretty boring lately, just basically doing the same thing every day. School, work, bla, bla, bla.  Well we've recently had a spike of excitement in our lives:)  Yesterday Erik and I went to an award ceremony for a survey competition Erik participated in for Qualtrics, and Erik got 2nd place and won $100!  So that was pretty fun!  Erik also has been competing in Brandstorm which is a L'Oreal Case Competition.  It's kinda a big deal:)  They do research and case studies to make marketing plans to introduce a L'Oreal product into South East Asia.  They only include a few schools nationwide (I think only 8) in the competition and BYU is one of them.  Erik's team has 3 people in it and they passed the first round and got to be one of 6 groups to do a presentation for L'Oreal executives.  We found out tonight that Erik's group was selected to go to the next round and present in New York City for nationals!  If they win that they get to go to Paris for the international competition!  We're so excited and it's such an amazing opportunity for Erik and a really impressive achievement in the advertising world!  brlaganaba!  I'm just so proud of him!  

Erik has had a mustache for a few months now and was keeping it for the presentation, so to celebrate we had a shaving ceremony tonight! :)

 Before

 In the middle somewhere

 Being Charlie Chaplin

And After!

Yay!  No more mustache hairs up my nose!  

Also, it was Erik's birthday earlier this week and his mom gave him some super cute cupcakes!  I just had to share because they are so darn fancy!  (and tasty too!)

Thanksgiving and Erik's Birthday!

This is going to be kind of a random post because I want to share some of our fun pictures from Thanksgiving but I'd also like to dedicate this to Erik because tomorrow (November 26th) is his birthday!  Yay!  The big 2-4!  But we'll get to that in a minute:)

We went to Hurricane for five days for the Thanksgiving break and it was so much fun to take a break and see my parents and all of my siblings (except Josh):  Sorry to everyone in my family but we all know the kids are the funnest part:)  Uncle Erik had so much fun playing with his adorable nieces and it was so great to finally get my hands on my new nephew Kent!  

Erik and Amanda had a lot of fun playing together and Erik just can't say no to her, which resulted in Erik dressing up like a princess, playing tag with Amanda for hours and being cooked in the oven (which was the couch, they're both being cooked in the oven in the pictures below).

Here are some bonus pictures of cute Grandma and her cute Granddaughters all crammed together in a tent!  How fun!

For Erik's birthday he really wanted a Batman Arkham City game and he pretty much knew he was going to get it.  So, to make things more interesting, I decided to get him a cheap XBox game from DI and then wrap his real gift inside a weird book that I also got from DI.  Mwahahaha!  I wasn't sure how well it would work but i turned out pretty much perfect:) 

He was too nice to complain when he opened a SUPER old Xbox game (that I don't think will even work on our Xbox) and a really weird health book. 

We did learn some very interesting things from the pamphlet that came with the book though! :)

He was pretty excited when he opened the book and found the game and it was pretty much priceless:)  So much fun, I'm glad he thought it was funny and didn't just think I was crazy, haha. 

I Love you so much Erik!  I'm so glad you put up with me and that I get to share all your birthday with you for a long long time:)

Heads And The Like

Okay, so I haven't posted as much of my work on Facebook this year cause most of my classes are either in things that are totally new to me or very experimental, so nothing is really that impressive... so don't get your hopes up:)  

These are some from my Rendering the Human Head class:

black and white on toned paper

   

A couple white on black.

Some fun, quick sketches:)

Here are some from my Drawing III class, also a lot different from what i usually do:

These are of a weird shell thing, in case you couldn't tell:)