Clowning Around and Lagoon.

My current read is "A Man Called Ove" by Fredrik Backman.  I love his writing style.  I'm captivated by the story.

I highly recommend it, and I'm barely halfway through it.

Every Tuesday I sit in a the same orange waiting room, hoping for the best for my daughter and her life.  

Facing the reality that my ex will never really care about anyone aside from himself.  

Cryptic?

Yes.

While I'm more than happy to talk it out, my daughter isn't.  

So I keep her privacy, while still noting here that it's happening.

Two weekends ago I got up at 5:00 in the morning to arrive at Fear Factory to play with some clown makeups for an event.  

Clowns are hard.

Legit hard.

I tend to run out of ideas quickly.  As we have a huge clown section at Fear, that's probably something I should be working on, conceptually.

 

And then we took The Circus to Lagoon on major discounted prices.  The only way we can ever really afford to hit Lagoon.

This was also the trip where I officially wrote Lagoon off my list forever.

I'm too old.

Even on a Dramamine, I was struggling with motion sickness, and when Colossus left me feeling like my brain had been rattled and my eyes were still spinning, even after getting off the ride,  I was done for the day.

No more for me.

West feels the same.

Tayler and Brynn, our timid ones, have finally grown into a love of riding roller coasters.  You still won't catch them on the giant big rides with Sean and Cali, but at least they're not hovering around the kiddie section anymore.

Over the Weekend We: Soccer, Volleyball, Moab and Prom (with a side of Fear Factory)

Saturday was full of supporting the kids.

We kicked it off first thing with Tayler's soccer game (I'm still planning on making a big soccer post where I'll post all her soccer pictures that I've taken over the last few years.  It will be interesting to see how she's grown up in the sport).

Tayler has not interest in making goals, but loves playing defense and is all about getting in the fray and making the block.  She's really good at redirecting the ball away from the goal.

They won their game, plus also, it was a gorgeous morning.

The chill of spring lasts much too long, and Saturday we felt that summer might finally be pulling through.

After Tay's soccer game Tay headed to the mall to celebrate her birthday with her friends, and The Man and I headed over to Jayme's volleyball tournament.  I don't have any pictures to post as I took them on my big camera and not my phone, but I do have these pics from a tournament a few weekends ago.

I'll also be making a volleyball post for all the pictures I've taken of Jay paying volleyball over the last year or so.

This weekend they nearly missed winning the silver.  It's amazing to watch Jayme and the control she has with the ball.  She comes alive on the court.

After volleyball I dropped Cali off at a friend's brithday party.

At this point in the weekend The Man decided to take some friends up on a last minute invite to head down to Moab for the night.

They did a night ride on Hell's Revenge and then spent Sunday in the Behind the Rocks area.

This one is West:

This one is his friend, Byron:

Casidee went to prom with Levi.

They went to a silver mine for their day date, then out to sushi and the dance.

And lastly, I attended a training at Fear Factory where we went over emaciated anatomy in the face for "shruken in" looks, as we use those quite often with zombies, victims, and even vampires.

This makeup wasn't "picture ready," but more just a learning process.  They're heavy because I traced over them several times with my airbrush, trying to memorize the feel of the lines and how the bones are shaped, and then how the skin would fall.

So, in simpler words, these are just practice photos, I know it's not a great makeup, but it was never meant to be.

Gosh, I love being involved with this.

With Saturday being insanely busy, Sunday was a crash day.  We went to church, I went to a camp meeting (I'm serving as Stake Camp Director), and then we crashed and watched all the chick flicks we could while Sean holed up in his room with his phone, and West was in Moab.

All in all, I think we all earned our down time with each other.

The Enduro Challenge And Zombies. Not At The Same Time.

Over the weekend The Man headed over to Herriman City's Enduro Challenge.

Which overall was pretty cool to watch, especially when they put teeny, tiny 5 and 6 year olds on itty bitty dirt bikes that could barely clear (and in some cases not even) the first small log.

The four wheeler and rzr rounds have given The Man ideas, so we'll see what happens with that.

Also, over the weekend Fear Factory was cranking out makeups for the Salt Lake City Zombie walk.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, I'm no fan of zombies.  Ever.  At all.  Unless it's a little bit in Warm Bodies, but even then the whole brain eating thing gave me the willies.

I can't take the garbage out in the dark after The Man has watched an episode of The Walking Dead.

And I walked out of the room when the first time he rented World War Z.

I just have no love for zombies.

But, that being said, they kind of come with the territory of doing makeup with a haunted house.

And so I often find myself surround by zombies.

The pictures are grainy because I stole them from a fellow makeup artists facebook post.  Thanks to her for actually attending the walk and getting some pictures.  As you know, I hightailed it home as soon as the makeup fun was finished, because there was no way I was going to hang out downtown with the lot of them.

These makeups are mine.

And this one was featured on the Salt Lake Tribune's website.  Which, if you ask me, is pretty dang cool. (Again, a grainy steal).

Haunting season is just around the corner.

My goals for this year are to get a better handle on a shallow cheek shade, figure out what I can do with my new air brush, and get faster at the prostetics so I can use them more often.