Smokey Eye Make-Up Tutorial by Natalie...

     Hey ya'll!  I love putting on eyeshadow, and it is the funnest part of doing my makeup.  My favorite eyeshadow look is the Smokey Eye.  I usually use the colors black, silver, and white, so it can be a pretty easy process.  I just wanted to make a video to show that getting the smokey eye look can be fun and easy while taking less than 5 minutes.  A few little tips and EXTRA Fun tricks are also included in the video, so I hope this helps anyone in achieving the Smokey Eye!

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Simple things

I (Nic) have had some time during the past week or so to relax. I am still playing on weekends and some weekdays but I still managed to get some time to just sit in the front yard and enjoy the sunlight anyways.

My chickens are all grown up now (ha that sounds so dumb) and I get to enjoy gathering eggs and trying to raise more little chicks. It is just neat to see God's creation. I think its so cool how chickens know that they are supposed to climb into a square box and lay their eggs. They can't understand English so that haven't heard anyone tell them to do that. They could lay their eggs anywhere but they automatically know the right certain spot is THE spot to lay their eggs. Maybe I'm easily amazed, but I don't care, that's cool.  God wired that into them. God put it in their DNA. I think he did a similar thing to us. He put it in our DNA to be happy in the sunlight, in nature, so that we would know that there is someone greater than us. So we would ask questions about creation and know in our hearts that there is a greater being that could have only designed everything to work together so well. Just think, the most complicated thing that we can make is still not as impressive as making a chicken from nothing. A skyscraper or rocket ship is a lot of metal (that God created) and impressive electronics, but humans still have not managed to make something so impressive as a chicken. Just think about what we would do without chickens!! -Nic 

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NO!! Violin Flew Out of Truck! :-(

Me, my sistas and Billy Byrge ("Bobby" from the Ernest movies)

    Ayalin is my violin's new name.  (Aya- "fly swiftly") For the Double Wide Church music video, we were filming a scene of us playing in the back of a truck.  I was hanging on trying not to fall in the back, but then the brakes were hit! I flew backwards without the violin in my hands.  It flew on the asphalt, and I couldn't bear to even look.  Someone picked it up, but, thankfully, it was still in one piece.  There was a large break in the front and on the side. I dropped it by the violin shop today, and the repair man said that it was amazing that my sound post inside did not break.  God was looking out for me because, otherwise, it would probably be unrepairable.  I'm so thankful it did not break completely because I need it this weekend!  It's not everyday my violin takes a hit, but I'm glad it will be bandaged up and will be ready this week!!! It refuses to be shut-up and wants to stay with me a few more years.  I'll keep playin Ayalin as long as she's good to me! -Natalie

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Tennessee Titans

My (nika) 1st Official blog, 

     Well here it goes... My sisters and I were performing at the Hard Rock Cafe in Nashville last weekend, and after we were done performing, we just sat down and were talking to some friends.  One of our friends Mrs. Teresa was there and noticed that some of their very own Tennessee Titans football players were sitting down eating by our table.  So, we got to meet them and get pictures! 

 The first one we met name was Rob Bironas.  His number is #2 and is the present field goal kicker for the Titans.     

                                                                                                                               

The other football player that we met was Craig Hentrich.  His number is #15, was the punter, but just retired this year after 15 years in the NFL.        

Sorry for the shortness of the Blog, and usually if it is your 1st blog your suppose to show off and write a really long one, but instead I have a lot of pictures ;) ha Love you all! Thanks for your support!

-Nika

 P.S. CLICK HERE to see our Live Video at the Hard Rock Cafe performing our upcoming single "God Shaped Hole"!(Please Share!)

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MS Governor, a Bibletone, & Red Heads

       Well as you can see, we made a new friend while playing at his political rally in MS.  You know. No one special or anything ha.  Well I'm being completely sarcastic, of course!  Fixin to be Governor of Mississippi Mr. Phil Bryant(in the navy blue shirt) is sandwiched in by the 3 of us.  Also, the reason I said that we only met one new friend because the man in the white pants is Mr. Howard from the group "The Bibletones" who we've already known(He's Awesome). It was an honor to play at Phil Bryant's rally, and we had such a fun time there because besides the joys of debating, FREE FOOD!  Well I really do enjoy discussing politics when it is accompanied with love and patience.  As Christians, it's hard not to be very passionate about the morality of our country and as people, of course, getting the right person in office makes a HUMUNGOUS difference on our security and economy.  I'm so thankful that God has blessed me to be able to live in America.  We can gather together in public places to praise God.  It's hard to imagine how life would be like without that privilege.  I want to say thanks to the men and women who have served our country and have given us our freedom and also, those who serve us in whatever office they are in as politicians.  -Natalie

Hot Pavement and McFlurries

Hey, its my (Nicole) turn again!! I have had an interesting time since my last post. I have been in so many places that I have never been before in my life. I just get in the car from my house and open the car door and end up in a different place. Everyone is so different everywhere you go, but its a good different. I was so blessed and had a blast everywhere I went.

I had the opportunity to go to states like SD, MN, OK, AL, FL, and etc in the past month or so. All the people are special in their own way and were so kind to us. I got to do things like go to our first Cowboy Church, which was awesome by the way, and I had the chance to do donuts in 107 degree weather lol on the road. So many things happened this  month that I could not write down. I just got back and am resting up  for a few days to head back out. Today's my dad's birthday and me and Nat bought ourselves a Rolo McFlurry to celebrate ha so I better go!!! Check out the videos and see some things we did!!! Just a quick update!! <3 Nicole

On the Road with Sisters...

Hey again, I (Nicole) have been on the road with my sisters for a while now. I have been blessed to travel more than ever lately and have tons of stories about my sisters. We have had, at times, 10 hours in the car straight cooped up together!! That sounds pretty scary for most people, but it is really a blessing.

Here is how it goes usually. Natalie usually takes the back seat, and me and Nika usually are sitting on the middle row of seats. Well, Nika and I have a constant struggle to racing like little kids to the seat that doesn't have to pull down to let Natalie in the back seat. Not that we don't want Natalie with us ha, but 50 percent of the time at a gas stop, you will beat Natalie to the car (b/c she loves coffee and that is the real problem of all this fuss, who likes coffee anyways? huh why did it have to be invented?),and then you have to wait outside the car for her to get in while you have car hair and pillow wrinkles in your face. I remember once while we were on a long drive, Natalie decided to empty her coffee out Nika's window from the backseat. That was not a good thing, especially since we were driving fast down the road and the coffee decided it was going to splatter all over the side of our car. So we laughed all the way to our next stop. When we got out of our car, you would have thought there was 10 gallons of coffee in her glass b/c there was so much on the side of our car!! It was funny and all that, but we still made Natalie clean it up with our ration of baby wipes. That made it even funnier... 

The other day we were heading back from IL going to Nashville for a photoshoot. Before we headed out for the weekend of playing and taking pictures, we packed for the first time ever our whole entire jewelry case and two huge suitcases. We didn't need all our extra stuff for the gigs, just the pictures. We wanted to have everything "just in case", cause we are the "Queens of Just in Case". (That is really not a good title to have because you end up bringing everything in your house and not needing it. Then you force everyone to use what you brought trying to make yourself feel like it was worth bringing after all) We really did not have the room for the jewelry case, but we laid it on its side and realized that if you lay it on its side, it will come unlocked. Sooo... I had to shove pillows all around it and put our suitcases and guitar amp shoved against it so nothing would fall out. I pictured myself riding on top of the car like granny from the "Beverly Hillbillies" because our car was so crammed. (I imagine granny really liked sitting on top of the car getting a tan in the breeze driving down the interstate.) 

But anyways I always have fun on our adventures and look forward to every road trip because there is always something to tell and laugh about!!! 

-Nicole