The final countdown!

Ok...we are ready to go!
We finally have the list collected and submitted!! The bank will hopefully give us the $$$ Monday. We will buy our shoes..decorate our store and OPEN!! We are for Sept 12, or...19th!

I AM SO EXCITED!!!!

Sole Envious? WHAT! WHY?

Starting a business is really hard...point blank.

1. I never thought I would do this..and now I want to rip my hair out
2. People are idiots. In general I think most people are complete retards!!
3. Everyone is on their own time table..and they just really don't care about MY TIMETABLE!
4. The money just keeps flying out..not in? Question: WHY

Ok...so that is the update. It will maybe hopefully...possibly...start in Sept. 5th, that is already one week after we planned and that is if everything goes as planned, which I'm finding out never works because I have plan, Malcolm has a plan, GGP has a plan, Andrew has a plan, Zion's bank has a plan, Soda shoes has a plan..and none of these plans co-exist.

Maybe next year Malcolm and I will decide to buy a gold fish...an adventure..but just a small one.

This is our logo....basically just the plain box one...it just came down to the simple. I like it though, it just fits. We might do some sort of flower on the bag, but this will go on the front of our store.

2 year Anniversary

Happy Anniversary!
Today is our two year anniversary, and I CAN NOT believe it's been two years. It blows my mind how quickly the first year went and...I blinked and two years have gone by. Malcolm and I have actually been together for almost six years, and that just seems plain weird. He's my best friend in the whole wide world, and even though we fight like cats and dogs sometimes, it just WORKS! Malcolm and I are always talking...I LOVE THAT! I want my marriage to be about me and him..not just working through life to make it work, but working together day by day to enjoy the moments. That is what I love most about our marriage, and I hope it never changes. We spend every moment we can together...which means from five on we are together. Sometimes things come up and we have a choice to spend time apart...like guys play nintendo, or s just shopping, but really we never want to. We talk on the phone his entire lunch, usually we spend it together, and then he comes home and we work together on our projects. I LOVE IT! We have a great marriage, and I feel so lucky to have him as my husband. He is so good to me, and so understanding and MAN I just feel gosh dang lucky. I want to thank him for just being him, my best friend in the whole wide world!

so...some exciting moments of our second year of marriage.


1. Baby Mckay being born! HOLY COW! yeah, this qualifies as number one by the way..takes the cake. For those who have kids you will understand. There is nothing more spiritual than when you baby comes into this world physically and takes it's first breathe and...wow, it is amazing!

2. A couple of weeks ago Malcolm and I were having a "girls night"..that's what we call it when we rent a chick flick. We got P.S. I love you...for those of you who haven't seen it it's about a and her husband dies..he writes her letters..it's super cute (kinda a tear jerker). That night we got into bed and Malcolm was crying. It was so cute, he told me how much he loved me and how sad he would be if I died. Ok...this was a first for me, usually he just complains about my sobby movies, but he was adorable and totally sincere I didn't know what to say, I just cried and we just held eachother all night. It was one of those unforgettable moments.

3. Cruise...Malcolm and I went on a cruise together in March and it was so nice to just me a couple again. It was like we were again..sleeping in, lounging, talking, laughing. I started to feel like a queen and he was my king, and when I'm with him, I just feel like I could conquer the world..ya know? He just installs that in me, and I hope I install that in him. I tribute him to much of my success in school and business..and I think we just make a perfect team.

Well, there were lots of other good times..but those just take the cake. I know I have a terrible memory so I might just post later about some of the other good times.
For now, I just want to publicly say I LOVE YOU MALCOLM!! I'M SO EXCITED FOR THE YEARS TO COME! I HOPE WE HAVE MANY MANY MANY DECADES OF FUN TOGETHER!

Sole Envy logos!
these are the new updated drafts. let us know what you like the best...we are narrowing it down!
Click on it and it opens a screen where you can actually see them.

My Nevernever land is never more

I woke up today at five o'clock because I couldn't sleep. I was restless. Malcolm and I got into a little tiff last night and I totally blew up. I feel awful about it. I was totally out of line. But, truthfully, I don't think I've been in line for a long time. Malcolm and I don't always fight, that not what I'm talking about. I'm officially never going to grow up!
Last night I kept saying "when are you ever going to grow up" and the karma just came full swing, it only took about 8 hours..I HAVEN'T GROW UP YET!! I don't always throw tissy's and I'm not always hitting the other nice boys. I just haven't grow up yet. I woke up today and realized I'm fighting this adult thing tooth and nail. I'm stuck, I'm still 17. I have a baby, a husband, a mortgage, I'm starting a business, and still I'm not an adult. I'm flying the other direction as fast as I can.

I work at a day care. I love it, and totally I think I'm weird. I play with the kids, and I have so much fun. I'm actually the favorite of all the child care providers and most of the kids now me by name and come to me when they are sad. I've always had a harder time talking to adults. Real adults, you know like teachers, sometimes other parents, leaders--and it's because in my head I'm still a little child. Now, I know I'm melodramatic. But seriously!! Today is the day that I finally realized, I need to grow up.

How do you grow up. All of my friends, my close friends are grown up. They just did, gradually I guess. What if you missed that bus. What if I missed the classes? Am I supposed to just decide to be an adult, have adult conversations, do adult things? All of the sudden?

These are difficult questions. And this proves my maturity level. As I'm sitting here blogging because I have no one to talk to about this at five in the morning..I'm assessing how sucky it is to be an adult. You don't get to have fun. You have to spend your life doing stuff for others--cooking cleaning, child rearing. Not that those are bad, but WHAT ABOUT ME! I want to pursue my dreams, I want to do what I want to do. Ok, I've proven it. I'm a child. I don't want to be a child, I don't want to be an adult. I have a dilemma.

I need to grow up. I need to grow up. I need to grow up. Life isn't make believe, but I wish it was. Honestly I don't know what to do. I know that I'm 21, going on 22 and really honestly it's becoming pathetic and I hate it myself, but this process of shedding the child and becoming you-know-what just isn't coming easy for me. I know I need to do it, and I want to do it. But, the question is how to fly home from your never never land, when everything you've ever known is holding you back.

Life shouldn't be this hard. Life should manage it's self. ( here I go again with my childhood issues) I don't want to grow up. I don't want to give in to that beast...I just want to be, ME. Who is me, I guess I don't know. I guess me will just have to fight this inner struggle on my own, because seriously, anyone who reads this will probably think I'm crazy. And heck..I totally agree.

SOLE ENVY LOGO

Sole Envy

Like many of you know Malc and I are opening a shoe store in the Provo Towne center mall in..like 4 weeks. We are pretty much down to the nitty gritty now..ick! We are FINALLY having our logo designed, and these are the seven concepts. We have unlimited revisions with the design company we are working with, but I just thought I would ask the like....5 people that read my blog which one they think is the cutest..or the one that is moving in the best direction.
THIS IS MEGA IMPORTANT!! please help me out, my artistic skills are bare minimum.
p.s. they won't copy well because of all the legal stuff we have to go through at the end of something..anyways we don't have the final files yet, so just get a basic idea.
THANKS!

McKay's first trip to the ER

On Thursday, McKay and I were just at work having a wonderful day..and then suddenly BAM! McKay lunged for a toy and hit his head on the corner of a cupboard. I thought at first that it was just a little bump, but when I went to pick him up he was bleeding everywhere. I, of course, freaked out and didn't know what to do. Everyone at the gym were such dolls and helped me get McKay to the hospital. When we got the hospital McKay had stopped crying and was acting just fine. The bleeding kinda stopped, and I thought that we weren't going to even need stitches. I was still shaking and in shock when the Dr. started the stitches--10 beautiful stitches and 2 underneath because it was so deep. McKay was so brave, and I have a feeling this is only our first trip to the ER. My baby is so active and wild, I can't even fathom the things that are going to happen from now until he is two or three.
p.s. thank goodness I'm such a chill mom, I thought I would be freaked out a lot more, but I did really good, but a tribute that to my brave child. McKay wasn't freaking out, so I wasn't!