Mary Kay anyone?

Hello to the few and faithful! Thanks for visiting our blog.

I have a question today and would really appreciate feedback. If you only have 30 seconds, I don't mind bulleted lists or incomplete sentences, I just need some thoughts.

I am considering becoming and Independent Consultant for Mary Kay and want to know your makeup preferences and purchansing prefernces. I am wondering of you readers, who uses Mary Kay and why. And if you don't what is your reasoning (cost, accessability, brand preference, etc) Also, do you already have a Consultant or can I be yours :o) ? If you have friends or family (or yourself) that have sold Mary Kay and you'd like to tell me their experience, I'd appreciate that too.

I think my biggest goal in possibly selling is to prevent the Letting Go syndrome. If I were selling Mary Kay it would be in my job description to look nice. Right now I have the tendency to wear pjs all day and never wear any makeup, so I want some motivation to look decent. I feel frumpy and need more than just a self discipline boost. I also think it would be really good for my psyche to meet new people and help them feel beautiful and motivated. I also just love the idea of seeing and talking with adults on a regular basis and hopefully can make some friends in the process. Of course, the income would also be helpful, especially when Kevin is back in school and we have no income, But for right now, my goals are mental health centered. I know I can't and won't be the pushy sales type, so I'm not planning on big profits.
(Oh, and I just learned that they have a satisfaction garantee on all their products, and I know I can stand behind something with a garantee. I have a few of their products that I really love, so I am excited to experiment with some others knowing I can return things I don't like.)

Any opinions? Please feel free to be completely honest. I won't be offended by "Kristen, I hate your stinking guts and with the way you look I'd never buy makeup from you." Those are the kinds of things I need to know. Right now I feel kind of excited about this and need some bubble bursting or ideas of how to be successful.

If you want to just post a comment on here, great. Otherwise, I'd love to get an email (kristenskeen@gmail.com) with your thoughts. I really appreciate this. Thanks!

Burley Idaho

On Friday Kevin, Madi and I got to take a day trip to Burley, Idaho to see our dear friends the Mellings who were visiting Burley from New York.

We spent the early afternoon at the Fair watching the locals show steeds (not cattle, not cows, not beef, I learned). It was actually really fun. I love seeing the activities that others have participated in. I am such a pavement girl, but given the chance I bet I would have been pretty into this livestock, 4H, FFA stuff. So cool.

Then we went to John's parents' house to visit and let the babes get some sleep. These pictures are from when cute little Janelle crawled over to visit her new friend Madi who was just waking up from a cat nap on the floor. Janelle is almost 9 months old and the daughter of my childhood best friend. We became friends when our families both happened to move to Washington from California. We have been close ever since. Although we are very far apart now, we hope our lives will bring us closer together and our girls can be friends like we have been. Mellings, we love you guys! Hope to see you again while the girls are little.

Do the Olympics count?

Addictions are bad. If I am addicted to the Olympics does that count?

Early to bed, early to rise. But I can't when the Olympics run till 2 in the morning.

The proud will be cast down. But I am proud. Proud of our athletes and proud of how cool it is that the whole world can come together for something.

I love the Olympics, but I must admit I am anxious for them to be over so I can get to bed again.

I think your mower's sexy!

Happy 3 year anniversary Kevin!

This picture is from a few months ago while Kevin was still working at the Baseball fields. I was amazed at this mower - 16 feet of shear mowing power...makes me wanna growl! Rrrarrr!

I love this girl!

Madi is such an awesome baby! I'm so glad she likes tummy time.

Happy Baby!

Madi has been smiling in her sleep since the day she was born, but she is becoming a lot more intentional now. This morning she and Dad were playing and we finally caught a smile on camera. We LOVE this baby!

Potholes!

Every summer my family joins up with our dear friends, the McDonalds to go to our traditional camping spot. We camp on the beach of Potholes reservoir for 3 days and get in as much R&R and S (skiing) as possible. I personally, am not a huge skier, but love the family time and will definitely take my turns behind the boat. (Proof may come later, the picture is on my Mom's camera.)
Part of this 16 year tradition is that every year there is something new added. Until last year, the best addition was a biffy, but last year Brett and Sommer brought the first of the next generation. This year, Madi was the new addition.
Here is Auntie Jenni with Madi observing the beautiful sunset.

Grama got Mosquito nets for Madi so that the squiters didn't get her while she slept. Amazingly, she slept great while we were camping. This picture is in the morning when the sun woke Kevin and I up, but she kept sleeping for another hour.

The tent village at sunrise.

Here's the Skeen crew Saturday afternoon. We were missing Andrew and Rachel, but glad Brian was able to join us Friday night and Saturday.

Overall we had a blast. There was a pretty wild storm on Friday and then some winds that ruined the water Saturday, but we really enjoyed the sun and the quality time together.

Props to our loving Mothers who make this all possible and our Fathers who make great sacrifices to leave work behind for the long weekend. We love family! We love Potholes!

Catchin' some Zzzs

Someone was tired, and apparently it wasn't Madi!

Don't mind the blog

I was trying to play around with it and messed it all up. I'll be back to fix it. For now, just turn off the aesthetic portion of your brain!

Hey Look...photo recap

I'm here sitting at my father in laws computer and I'm going to steal some pictures that he's taken to fill you in on a couple events immediately before Madi... Here we go!

Here's the bunch of us that Graduated in April - Kevin, me, Rachel (Andrew's wife) and Jenni. Wahoo for all of us! But, we are very sad to no longer be together in Provo.

Okay, I don't want you all to see how cute we are on workdays, but here is a picture of round one of the move (Yes, I am the round one, too). After graduation, Kevin's Dad took a trailer load of stuff to Boise. We thought it was pretty impressive how loaded the trailer was... little did we know what was to come.

Here is what was to come. Please don't judge quantity, we have realized we have too much JUNK and not enough quality stuff, so now that we suffered through moving it all I am finally going through it all and getting rid of LOTS. (Sorry to all those who helped us move it, and a huge thank you for your patience!)

Well, there are some other fun pics on this computer, but I'll save them for another time. Thanks for visiting!