About Roofresh

My name is Kelsey, not Roofresh, but Roo IS my nickname. I live in the Phoenix area with my husband and we are having fun being newlyweds and going on crazy adventures together. We like finding new hangouts, food, art, music and friends; so that's pretty much what my blog is about. You'll find a bit of fashion, design, nutrition and family sprinkled throughout my content, or anything else that catches my eye at the moment. My blog has changed a lot over the last year, but you'll see that it's really just a record of our lives together; our public journal.

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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Santarchy Recap

So this year was as fun as ever at our traditional Santarchy event. I don't have tons of words to describe it...it's an experience that you have to...experience. I don't know, it's a bunch of people dress up as Santa Claus for no reason, so you can imagine how random a whole night of that is. I have to say that it's not the only time this year that we went in public and got pointed at (dinner before hand was really interesting); what can I say, my husband likes to dress up..

Without further ado...

This is probably the most normal picture of the night
OMG all of us trying to get in a group shot...
Jackie "Reindeer" Lopez
I love my adorable husband.
This guy and his beard are on the list of my top 3 favorite people, and he knows it.
My friend Erica is awesome. She always knows how to recreate things and make them her own. Check out this pic of her cute little ankle accessories. 
She made her own hat too!
Sigh, I make this face waaaay to much. I blame Julia Hull for spawning it.
I love me some Santa action. Santa Strothers that is.
Santa Brackie. Brandon + Jackie = Brackie. Best. Couplename. Ever
Some of the crowd.
Omgaaronyouremyfavoriteeverheresyourprofilepic.
Hope you all enjoyed the recap, see ya out there next year!

Keep it real,

Roo

ps. I will admit that I had my totally rad hair extensions in from this post. :)

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Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Weekend Plans {Santarchy}



If you couldn't tell from our Halloween photos, we REALLY like to do it up on holidays!  This has a lot to do with Jim, he has a child-like spirit at times, and loves to have fun and make a deal out of Christmas, Easter, St. Patrick's Day...well, you name it, he's gone above and beyond. 


So I wanted to post this with plenty of time leftover to give people interested a chance to participate. It has become our tradition to partake in an annual event called "SANTARCHY." You may have heard of this, maybe not, but the basic gist is that hundreds of people dressed as Santa, Mrs. Claus, and even an occasional elf or Rudolph meet together in one place to have a bit of fun and claus cause a bit of ruckus...and guess what, Jim just happens to have a Santa costume that he bought TEN YEARS AGO. No reason for the purchase, he was just walking through Target, saw it and had to have it. So this event is perfect for him and now it is our tradition. 


Every year that we have participated it has been in Scottsdale and is more of a pub crawl, but last year we were a little overwhelmed by the amount of Santa's present and broke off and did our own thing. This thing is pretty big, actually it has gotten huge! What started off as a small gathering in San Fransisco in 1994 has now grown to a world-wide event. People in other countries have their own versions of Santarchy and most major U.S. cities are Claus-clad once a year as well. 


What I like about this: whether you want to go all out, or just sport a Santa hat with your friends, it helps you to remember not to take yourself too seriously....and how can you with everyone around you dressed as Kris Kringle?!? That's how people refer to themselves too! 


"Hi, nice to meet you, I'm Kelsey."


Person 1: "Likewise, my name is Kris Kringle."


"Hello, my name is Kelsey, what's yours?"


Person 2: "Why it's Santa of course!"


"I'm Kelsey, I didn't catch your name..."


Person 3 "Oh, well some people like to call me Nick, St. Nick."


Everyone is just happy and in good spirits at Santarchy, that's why I wanted to share it so that you can find one in your city! If your city doesn't have one, maybe it's time to start the tradition. For some people bars, restaurants, and crowds aren't their thing-so just have a Santa party of your own! I mean, everyone is having an ugly sweater party this year, why not spice it up and throw a Santa party? :)


Here is the link if you are interested in the official Santarchy, and for those of you who just want to live vicariously through us, I included some more pictures.


Everyone doing the "Kelsey" face.

So do you want to go now?!?! I know you do, you should see if there is one coming up in your area. If there's not one in your area, you can always fly down to Phoenix and meet up on the 18th! We'll have fun with or without you!

Keep it real,

Roo

ps. photos of this year's adventures will be posted after the 18th sometime..

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Saturday, November 20, 2010

Hair History

So again you might have noticed that I changed a lot on my blog. I've been annoyed lately because every time I would look at my page it has looked so cluttered! Ahhhh, I feel much better now, but I'm still looking for things to nix in order to clean up. :) Anyway, while looking through old pictures on my computer to change my look, I was reminded of all of the times I changed my hair color-I guess my blog was not the only thing I got antsy with! I thought that it was a little comical so I decided to share some of the transition pictures from brunette to blonde. 


Enjoy. 


{Photo taken by Erica Perkins}

This was when I was really dark, almost black-you can barely see my hair! 

{Asher and me}

I figured that my hair was looking too dark, plus I had to dye my roots every few weeks to cover up my blonde the was growing in so I added some highlights...

{My Easter baskets-yes two-from Jim one year}

{San Diego when we got engaged}

So after Jim and I got engaged, it went into hyper drive to switch from odd, in between hair color to blonde for engagement and wedding pictures.

{Having a little too much fun at JB's birthday}

{Us at Disneyland. If you haven't noticed, I really like making that face}

{Out and about at Santarchy last year}

{Graduation, December 2009}

{New Year's Eve last year}

{Our engagement shoot}

{Wedding, May 2, 2010}

So as you can see I've made a lot of changes over the last 2 years, not just the hair either! Engaged, graduated and married! I hope you enjoyed my little transformation of hair history, as well as the transforming of my blog. 

Roo

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