Dana's Blog

TUTUS

2009-10-19T11:44:00.001-06:00

TUTUS

2009-10-19T10:55:00.002-06:00

I am making tutus to sell at the Holly Fair in Roosevelt at the Strata Networks Building on November 13th & 14th!! Dayna will be selling blocks, Halle will be selling flower hair clips, Julie will be making aprons & of course I will be makings lots of cute tutus!!!
The sizes of tutus I will have are:
Baby, Small, Medium & Large (which could fit a teenager/small adult).
Each tutu color combination will have a name such as: “Princess,” or “Chocolate Treasures.”
If you are going to buy a tutu from me and would like a specific color combination other than what I have done, please contact me and I will see if I can do a custom color combination for your tutu!!
Here are some photos of tutus I have done. However, I have many more color combinations that I have done and will be doing soon!!!Let me know what you think! :)

TUTUS MAKE A GREAT CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR ANY GIRL!!!

CUTENESS FOR PICTURES!!!

2009-07-20T10:44:00.003-06:00

I've been getting more into photography lately and taking my camera with me just about EVERYWHERE!!! Well a month or two ago... my old camera case broke. The Velcro strip that held it closed broke off. I finally decided I needed to get a new one. I told Todd that if I was going to get a new camera case then I wanted something cute, even if I had to pay a little extra money. Todd just kinda thought it was silly that I HAD to have a CUTE case for my camera. After much debating I bought a black camera case that has a VERY cute black and white inside. It ended up being a little bit more than I wanted to spend ($15) but it's so cute and I don't know anyone else that has it. So that makes it even more cute! I love it!

KARI'S PLACE!!!

2009-07-20T10:15:00.002-06:00

About a week ago, after the Asay reunion, Todd & I stayed at my sister Kari's new apartment. She is so excited to be moved into her new place.
After Kari got off work, she met up with us at the mall. Then we all went out to dinner. Kari picked up some food a Bajos (i think that is what it is called) and came with Todd & I to get food at A&W/KFC. After dinner we all went to see the movie "My Sister's Keeper." It was a pretty good movie. It had it's sad parts but overall it was a good movie.
After the movie we went back to Kari's apartment and we stayed up talking, while she showed us this cool oriental umbrella and fan that she had recently bought at a summer festival.

We had a fun time visiting with Kari & she is enjoying her apartment a lot!! She is most excited to be in her new apartment because she can have visitors stay the night. :)

BRITNEY'S GRADUATION!!!

2009-06-03T15:54:00.007-06:00

Wow! It's so weird to see that my little sister is already graduating and this summer will be heading off to college. I know that is kind of a motherly thing to say, but she is my LITTLE sister.

On Friday, May 29, 2009, my younger sister, Britney graduated from high school. Britney was recognized at graduation for being in the top honors and involved with National Honor Society.

Britney was involved in many high school clubs through out high school including: National Honor Society, FCCLA, Upward Bound, Spanish Club, Dance Club, and a few more.

As long as I can remember Britney has been so smart! When she was little you couldn't ever find her NOT reading! And some days I would even ask her for help with MY homework. Britney is such a great little sister and I look up to her a lot!

Britney is planning on going to UVU in the fall and be roommates with two of her cousins. Britney is a wonderful young woman and I love her very much!! She works hard in everything that she does and is a good leader. Britney will make a wonderful wife and mother some day.

GOOD LUCK & CONGRATULATIONS TO BRITNEY!!!

KITCHEN AID!!!

2009-06-03T15:42:00.004-06:00

When I was little, my mom would always make cookies for us!!! However, many times when she would make cookies, a few minutes after putting in the flour we'd hear her say something like "WHY CAN'T THEY MAKE A MIXER THAT IS STRONG ENOUGH TO MIX COOKIE DOUGH!" Well I guess after many, many times of that, my dad got her a kitchen aid mixer (as a Christmas gift, I think).

Well after I grew up making cookies in my mom's kitchen aid mixer, I got married and well... I think I said about the same thing as my mom did. "TODD WHY CAN'T I GET A KITCHEN AID MIXER!?!!?"
Well after practically begging Todd for one for like EVER, we decided that I could get a kitchen aid mixer for the kitchen if he could get a big saw for working on projects. So, I took the deal! I wasn't going to wait around for Todd to change his mind and not let me get one of the amazing Kitchen Aid mixers!!!

So we ordered one and when it came, I MADE COOKIES!!! It is so wonderful to have a mixer that is "strong enough to mix cookie dough".

Random

2009-05-13T10:59:00.008-06:00

So I know I haven't blogged since forever! (St.Patrick's Day it looks like). So I decided I would do a short little blog. I decided I would blog about a few random facts about me.... weird things i hate.... pet peeves and such! So after you read mine, let me know yours. :)

Random thinks I HATE:

I HATE TOOTSIE ROLLS!!!!! .... don't get me wrong, i LOVE chocolate but it's not supposed to come in the chewy- taffy form. they are just flat out disgusting!!

I HATE BLONDES!!!... well just because... they are so air headed... and most are stuck ups and well guys always go for the them first & obviously there is no good reason to go for them first! (Lucky for me, Todd doesn't like blondes either).

I HATE THE TASTE OF ENVELOPES!!! ... Envelopes have the worst taste in the world! it's like your licking dried glue! it's so nasty! it seriously makes me gag!! (although some aren't as bad as others). But if companies are going to make envelopes that they want to make you lick it to stick it, then why don't they just make it flavored!!

I ALSO HATE CHEERLEADERS!!.... seriously, anyone can go out there and scream for their team! it's just a bunch of girls that want to wear short skirts in front of the entire school! (maybe i think this because i have been in a school that hasn't very often had many talented cheerleaders). But still, yelling "GO TEAM" or "2, 4, 6, 8, who do we appreciate" doesn't take that much talent! Although maybe it's hard for some girls to move their mouths and arms at the same time... but seriously! It takes practice to do stunts and tumbling but... well not many cheerleaders around here can do that.

ONE LAST THING THAT I HATE:

I HATE THAT SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT DANCE IS NOT A SPORT!!!!.... it takes a lot more practice than any other sport!!! It takes just as much muscle, energy, timing and so on! In fact, it's a lot harder than football or basketball or baseball or soccer! Dancing takes technique, practice, flexibility, timing, rhythm, showmanship and the list goes on! Football takes... umm.. running into someone and catching the ball; that's about it! If football is a sport than dance is DEFINITELY A SPORT!!! A wise man once said: "The real athletes perform at half time."

2009-03-17T13:12:00.001-06:00

HAPPY ST.PATRICK'S DAY TO EVERYONE!!!!! You better be wearing green!!!

Things I want to do in life:

2009-02-06T15:18:00.003-07:00

So, I've had this list my whole life of things I've always wanted to do/accomplish, places I've wanted to go, and things I've wanted to see. Well my list just keeps getting bigger; you would think that if I really wanted to do, accomplish, see and experience those things that my list would slowly but eventually get smaller. Well..... it pretty much stays the same or gets enormously bigger! So, here is my list; some of the things I have already done, but they were still on my list at some point or another.

Dana's list of things to live my life to my fullest:

~Get married to the most amazing man ever! (already done that obviously...)
~Have a family of my own 3-4 kids (haven't quite got to that one yet)
~Have my own place to call home (got that one recently! :) )

Ok now that we got the pretty obvious ones on the list, here is my "not so obvious" list:

~Become a dance teacher. (yes, I have wanted to be a dancer teacher honestly since I started dancing at age 8 or 9)
~Have my own dance studio. (still working on talking Todd into that one. ;) )
~Choreograph a dance for a team at a competition/big event (happened last year and will again in March & April, yay!)
~Being asked to choreograph for a dance team besides my own.
~Have my dance team be specifically asked to perform at an event.
~Be in a magazine! or on a billboard/big advertisement for something (yep, i think it'd be awesome!)
~Be fairly well known, positively for something I accomplished (maybe dancing or modeling).
~Ride in an airplane (done it once, round trip to Cali! yes!)
~Ride in a limo!
~Go to Hawaii
~Go to NYC! YEAH BABY!
~Go to a professional ballet
~Ride in a hot air balloon (... maybe i'm kinda scared of heights... but it'd be AWESOME!)
~Ride in a yellow taxi cab
~Go paraselling (i dunno how to spell it lol)
~Have a make-over and sexy photoshoot (haha not too sexy, some say i might've already done that for modeling... i dunno.)
~Go dancing in the rain (done that lots, but that is no reason to take it off of the list)
~Stay in the log cabin hotel at Daniel's summit.
~Have a puppy of my very own! (yup, that is "Oops"- love her!)
~Go on a cruise! YEAH!
~Take my family on a trip somewhere.
~Have 3-4 kids (dancing girls of course and basket player boys)
~Get sealed in the Temple
~Have a happy, loving family always!
~Be a good mom, wife, sister, daughter, granddaughter...
~Witness a miracle!
~Become very successful at what I do.
~Get a tan (*sigh*....someday...)
~Go to four-corners
~Win Over-all Queen or a high point award for dance!
~Live to be 101! (gotta be pretty lucky for that! you'd become famous! lol jk)
~Live with Todd forever and ever!
~Be the girl that people say, "She's so gorgeous!" even when I'm in lazy day clothes.
~Stay small! :)
~Always look young!
~Go to a different country (FRANCE!!! :) would definitely be first choice!)
~Have a jacuzzi tub in my house! (of course that means a master bathroom too!)
~Invent something (even just something simple and little.... wow! I guess I'm really am a true ASAY, lol!)
~Learn photography

Well this is a HUGE list already... and well I'm sure there is many more but I will have to add those some other time. :)

Curly Hair

2008-12-29T16:19:00.004-07:00

So, as some of you may know, my hair is naturally curly. "WOW! So lucky!" is what some people would think; however, when I say my hair is NATURAL curly, that is exactly what I mean.... Natural.. as in it curls however it wants, where ever it wants. So when I wear my hair curly, it may not be as easy as it seems.... lol... However..., after a warm shower......., a little bit of moose.... and clipping it all up for it to dry a bit......., Wahla! Curly Hair!

Kari's Birthday!

2008-11-16T22:12:00.004-07:00

This friday was my older sisters birthday. For the past month or so I couldn't think of a good present to give her; finally I thought of a very exciting thing to make for her!!! I decided that I was going to make her a magnent board. She loves hanging pictures all over her room so I figured she would find this gift very useful and fun! I was thinking of a theme to do for her board, which wasn't too difficult. She LOVES penquins and she LOVES the color purple!!! So, I decided that I could do penquins with purple if I added a little bit ice blue color. It turned out soooo cute!!! and I'm happy to say she LOVED IT and was SUPER EXCITED!!!!

Fall Decorating!

2008-11-08T22:10:00.010-07:00

Last week or maybe it was two weeks ago, I'm not sure, I decided to decorate our house for fall. My mom, whom I had visited recently before, had decorate her house so cute in fall leaves & colors. I told her that I had been wanting to get lots of fall decorations to decorate.... she said, "Oh I have tons of extra decorations that you can have; I have way too many!" I brightened up with a huge grin on my face and my mom let me have plenty of fall decorations. I'm sure Todd wasn't too amused at the sight of me loading a bunch of decorations into the car but... the next day after I had decorated, he didn't seem to mind at all! Here are a some pictures of our house all decked out for fall!!!!

My mom used to make these turkey's & other holiday decorations like this. They are pop bottle covers. They are all SO CUTE!!!

I made these cute pumpkins!! I learned to make them from Britney & my mom! They are actually quite simple to make!

What to do?

2008-11-04T10:24:00.002-07:00

As some of you may know I recently had my sister put caramel colored streaks in my hair. I loved the new look!!! Sadly, I am not very good at doing hair, I’m the type of girl who throws in a ponytail or just wears it down and straight... cuz well that’s pretty much all I know how to do with my hair; well except having it in ringlets or three-barrel curls, but for my hair... that can take a while.... So anyway my point is that I don't have motivation to do/style my hair because I don't know how to do cute up-dos and such. So quite frequently I get bored with how my hair is cut and/or colored.

My long time goal is to grow it out long again... Unfortunately, it’s taking FOREVER! I start to get bored with it so I give it a little trim or add a little color. But this obviously doesn’t last long... now my debate is what to do about my dreadful situation?..... Do I cut it off a bit and get a new style to it? Or do I try to be patient while I let it grow out?? Decisions, decisions....

I supposed if I do wait for it to grow out then I can just maybe change the color more often or.... in the mean time I could stress myself out by trying to get my hair to go in different styles... (its not very cooperative most days)... or do I...., do I what? I just do not know what to do with my hair... if you have suggestions, PLEASE HELP!

Making My Bouquet

2008-10-20T20:26:00.000-06:00

I know... the wedding was almost two months ago but I FINALLY remembered to put the pictures on my computer. So now here I am making a post about wedding preparations. Well it was the day before the wedding and I was beginning to be very proud of myself being that I hadn't freaked out yet and blew up at anyone. Pretty amazing huh? I think so atleast and so did Todd and the rest of my family. Anyway the day before our wedding I spent pretty much the whole day baking potatoes for the family dinner that night and picking up flowers and... MAKING MY BOUQUET! yep! I made my own bouquet and I love it more than I would've loved one done by someone else! I think it was GORGEOUS! So here are some pictures of me making my bouguet...

ODD LITTLE FACTS ABOUT ME:

2008-10-17T11:40:00.000-06:00

So some of you know me quite well and some of you are still getting to know me so I decided I was going to make a list of odd, random little facts about me.

Random little facts about me:
*I write left handed- but almost everything else I do better with my right.
*I can't swallow pills- I always eat chewables or liquid.
*I am taller than my OLDER sister & the same height as my mom.
*I hate having freckles- when I was little I didn't have any.
*I've always wanted green eyes.
*I hate blondes. (for the majority).
*I have a puppy (well bigger than a puppy) called "OOPS!"
*I suck at pretty much every sport EXCEPT dance!
*I have scoliosis.
*I LOVE SLOPPY JOES!
*I only like to read children's books- keep the story short, sweet and simple!
*I used to live in NewYork.
*I HATE tootsie rolls!
*I'm terrified of grasshoppers!!!
*I have done a little bit of modeling (website: www.chinyereinternational.com)
*I've been an extra in a movie.
*I cracked my head open when I was 3 or 4.
*From 1st grade on, I collected Trolls - I had over 100!!
*I also collected stickers.
*I have never ate shrimp and never want to!
*I don't eat ANY kind of meat when it's on the bone-- That is SO disgusting!
Well those are some of the weird, random things about me!

A Little About Me!

2008-10-03T09:31:00.000-06:00

Well, as some of you may know, I've been getting called Dayna all week. Almost everyone who came to my dance signups thought that I was Dayna, Todd's sister; and that I had spelled my name wrong on all the dance flyers.... nope! it's me, DANA Wilkerson, Todd's WIFE! Anyway, so I got thinking that I guess I had better introduce myself and a few things about me: FAVORITES!

Some of my Favorites:
~My favorite person is Todd (of course)
~My favorite color is ORANGE!
~My favorite thing to do is DANCE! (& be with Todd)
~My favorite food is my mom's recipe for Sloppy Joes
~My favorite medicine is CHOCOLATE!
~My favorite day of the week is Saturday
~My favorite ice cream is Strawberry or Strawberries & Cream
~My favorite music is anything that I can dance too!
~My favorite smell is RAIN
~My favorite drink is Strawberry Daquirees
~My favorite soda is Diet Coke
~My favorite cookie is chocolate chip cookie dough. lol.
~My favorite season is.. well spring but usually it goes straight from winter to summer here
~My favorite place to be is dancing or with Todd & my family!!
~My favorite animal is Black Bears, but i still like monkeys a lot!
~My favorite things to buy when I have money are: Clothes, shoes, purses, and crafts.

Well anyway I have lots and lots of favorites (obviously) but my list is too long already. So if you're wondering, just ask. :)

DANCE!

2008-09-25T14:54:00.001-06:00

As some of you may know, I going to start teaching dance classes in October, which is coming up fast. All week i have been trying to advertising and get everything ready for the first day of sign-ups on Saturday! It has been a bit stressful but not enough to go crazy yet... (well todd might be crazy/sick of it already) anyway starting my classes up again reminds me of my team last year and all the fun we had at practices and competitions. I love my dancing girls so much! we were a small team but we loved it. I remember when the girls would just laugh at me when i did something stupid, like trying to show them the correct way of how to do a leap and then i almost fell completely on my face!! We all laughed, but that's what is so fun about it; I'm not just their teacher, I'm their friend too. We had good times last year, some pretty stressful times too but we still managed to win 2nd place at our first competition and then work harder to win 1st place at our next competition. It was a blast!! I think that my dancer girls have improved a lot just over the past year. They have learned to dance better as a team and to just keep trying! "YOU CAN DO ANYTHING AS LONG AS YOU TRY YOUR BEST!!" that is what i have taught these girls and they have accomplished so much!! At our last class we gave out awards: The award "Most Creative" was given to Alicia. The award "Most Improved" was given to Britney and "DANCER OF THE YEAR" was given to Alyse. I hope to continue giving these three awards every year for each class to honor my "originals". I hope that they will continue dancing and striving to accomplish their dreams!

Just Me!

2008-09-25T10:23:00.000-06:00

So I decided if Todd can have his own blog then so can I. :) Although my blog isn't going to be as complicated as Todd's, i don't like to think when i don't have to. Anyway this blog is going to just be about me and my little life!

So far my life isn't too exciting.... I live in Duchesne now that i'm married... I work everyday... sleep in on weekends. sad to say it's pretty much like everyone's life here in Duchesne. But i do have to admit i love being married to Todd and he makes life more exciting and fun! He's the best!

Talking about exciting things... I'm so excited for Saturday because that is the first day of sign-ups for my dance company! I'm so excited to start teaching dance, having my own team and my own company. I love it! It's my dream come true! Since i first walked into my very first dance class at nine years old, i knew that i wanted to be a dance teacher when i grew up. Since then, there has been no question about it! I've always said i wanted to be a dance teacher! "I will teach my kids dance classes and have my own studio eventually" that is what i told EVERYONE! and well that dream will come true fairly soon hopefully. I'm on my way there! And the best thing is, is that so far Todd as stuck by my side the whole way through it! He is a sweetheart and i know he will always help me through anything and be proud of me for accomplishing my dreams!!!