Dearest Children

Well I have a secret and I want to share it with the world!! It's called "The Secret". It's about the law of attraction and attracting things into your life. I believe this is very true and works! If you have not heard of it there are a couple of places/things you can do to read into it: there is a book called "As a Man Thinketh" forgive me I do not know the author but our LDS Prophets and Apostles have quoted from this book, there is another book/movie/book on tape called "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne.

I know this works because I have seen in work in my own life. I attracted my husband to me. Granted he was "attracted" to me but in terms of The Secret I attracted him to me. I was tired of dead beat guys and knew I wanted an awesome guy that could take me to the temple and I could marry him there and be sealed for time and all eternity. I wanted someone to treat me like a princess and completely blow me away each and everyday. I wanted Prince Charming. I got him the week after I decided to rid myself of everything that would keep me from that. I watched chick flicks all the time and listened to sappy love songs. I knew what I wanted and and it insight. I knew that through Heavenly Father's blessing and the help of the law of attraction I got what I wanted and could not be happier.

Jose and I have decided to try this out to the extreme with helping us make our two become three. As most of you know we have been trying for some time now and we have yet to get pregnant. The law of attraction says to emit what you want into the universe and the universe will say "your wish is my command". I have started a new blog in addition to keeping up with this one. I titled it "Dearest Children". The link is http://ourherrerababy.blogspot.com/. I am going to try at least once a week to write a letter to our future children. The law of attraction says to act as if you already have what it is you want. So I will apologize ahead of time if some entries seem confusing and cause to think we have a child, or children. As of right now we do not know if we are pregnant. I will try and post pictures once a little one does decide to share their life with us, so no one will get confused(They will probably be belly shots or something of the sort.) The law of attraction also says to see everyday what it is you want, we are going to print a random sonogram picture and a positive pregnancy test picture (Thank you to whoever we find on the Internet or if you would like to "donate"/give us permission to print your picture if you would like to help our good cause :) ).

We decided this last night and today I almost felt as if I could be pregnant. I was happy. I was constantly thinking all day of baby patterns and little baby things. I felt as if I was planning things for our babies nursery. It was exciting.

I'm so excited for this new little chapter in our life. Hopefully it will be little but if not our children will have wonderful letters about them before we ever knew them they can read. Hope you enjoy sharing our journey to parenthood with us.

"Oh Christmas Tree!"

Is the song Jose busts out in whenever we turn on the tree when walking into our house(apartment I like to say house because it is our home :) ) because our tree is plugged into the plugin that is conected to a light switch by our front door. It's so funny and always makes me smile.

I'm starting to get more and more into the Christmas Spirit. But not full on excited about it yet. Not like I was last year but it's ok I'm sure I'll get there.

Our tree went up the day after Christmas and we've decided to make it a tradition in our home.
We got the chance to go with my parents to help cut down their tree since they always cut down a real one every year. It's always fun because all of us kids try and pick it out but we always go with the one my mom picks. She's so funny she always wants a 7-8 ft. tree but their ceilings not quite high enough to get a tree that tall and still put the star on top.

From left to right. Mom, Dad, Nathan, Sophia, Kamie, Jose, Ashton, Kevin, Porter, Casey

Jose and I thought we found the perfect one, we were wrong.

Standing:Nathan, Casey, Porter, Kevin, Ashton
Knealing:Sophia, Jose, Kamie

The "kids" with the perfect tree.


I think only my family would trust a 10 year old with a hand saw. Porter's arguement was that
he had his witling chip in Cub Scouts so he was qualified for the job.

Timber!! Porter and my Dad.

It was fun to get to go with my family to cut down their tree. I've told Jose I want a house with two living rooms. A formal one and a family one so we can have two trees and I can have a real one in one room and our fake tree in the other. We'll see if he really goes for it. Although I'm sure he will I got him to finally admit yesterday that we probably will have 6 kids instead of 4!

Happy Christmas everyone! I hope it's a good one for y'all and everyone is safe and warm this holiday season!

Holiday Season!

I typically love the holiday season but this year I have Grinch-syndrome. Our tree is up we've bought presents but I'm just not too excited about the holiday festivities.



My brother Ben (Not Jose's brother Ben my brother Ben confusing I know) got married on the 13th of November in the Dallas Temple to Juliana Johnston! It was a beautiful day and beautiful ceremony, and beautiful reception. I had the joy of doing her hair and being able to go in the brides room with her and her mom to fix up her hair and do little touch ups on her make-up. I love that room. :)

My oldest brother Nathan and his wife Casey were able to come down for the wedding. I was fun to get to see them we rarely see them but like once a year but this year we got to see them twice! Back in May for my little brother's High School Graduation and then again for the wedding! It worked out good for them because Nathan got a job in Washington D.C. working in communications (he's in the Navy). So they had to move from Washington State to D.C.

Jose had finals last week and passed them all!! yay!! I'm so proud of him! Now for some down time until he starts up clinicals and then it's all down hill from there-in a good way of course. I can't wait until he is DONE with school completely. Even though he loves learning and will probably always be studying something. I am looking forward to no more working till after 10 at night, no more not seeing each other until he gets off work late, no more Kohl's. I quit Kohl's back in October ( not sure if I've mentioned that oh well if I did) and I love it! I am so much more less stressed out! I love having Mondays to do whatever I fancy, or just simply get stuff done!

I was released from Primary. It was a sad day. They called me as Relief Society First Counselor. I can't say I'm totally thrilled about it not like I was when they called me to Primary Music Leader. I'm terrified. I can handle children they don't scare me. But women can be vicious. I teach my first lesson of the first Sunday of the new year, no pressure right? But I think what I've got in mind for the lesson is going to be great.

Is that a GRAY hair?

luckily there was no gray hair but ever since my birthday last month I've sworn I've seen them. I turned 21 and you know what they say after you turn 21 things change.

Shawn, Seraph and little Parker (even though he's gotten so much bigger since Spring Break) came down for a week. And it was so much fun and so good to see Seraph and talk! I even loved that Parker some what remembered me I guess because I was able to take him in Wal-Mart away from mommy and go find a toy while she printed pictures! (Seraph when you read this ask Shawn when y'all are moving to Texas! haha.) Hopefully we'll see them again soon!

Jose had his PTA Conclave Conference the 23-24th of October. Which was tough for me because it was my birthday weekend and we had our last practice for the Primary Program before the big presentation of it in Sacrament Meeting on the 25th.( He knows he owes me big time though, last year around the week after Conclave we were moving into a new apartment and I got the lovely task of trying to pack everything and this year being my birthday weekend and the Primary Program being Sunday) Luckily Jose was able to sneak out early and get home a tad bit earlier safe and sound. With only one minor mishap while he was getting gas at the gas station with an older lady wondering if he had any spare change, but that's a pretty funny story for another day that he may just have to tell himself.

The Primary Program went splendid. Despite only 3 kids showing up for the Practice and 2 showing up as we finished (even though I had to improvise for those 2 on Sunday because they weren't able to make it). But Sunday made me sick to my stomach nervous, I was even shaking. I wanted everything to go just right. I'm just the Music Leader but somehow I got it in my head that I was in charge of planning the whole Program myself, only to find out from the Stake Primary that it was one of the Counselor's in the Primary job. And all I could think was "are you kidding me? I stressed over all that and it wasn't my job. gee wiz!" As I sat in Sacrament Meeting while the Sacrament was being passed I know you're supposed to be thinking of Christ but I was counting children and 4 were missing. So I was thinking up a game plan. I knew 2 of them I could have other kids do in place of because it was just one part each but the other 2 there was no way. As the Young Men went back to their seats and the members in the waiting area were ushered in I knew Heavenly Father answers prayers, because the 2 children I was worried about walked in! I got all the kids situated on the stand and then had to rush back down to in the congregation because I left something and all I could think was "how embarrassing." And then we started the Program and I think I was more nervous about remembering the words to the songs more then the kids were because I know every other Sunday at least one kid says "This song again?" or "Do we have to sing this song?" But they did awesome! And said their parts marvelously. I wanted to do something a little different too. You know how you always see a teacher or a leader help the children read their lines, well as I was proofing the Program and such I thought the Valients can read why not have them help the younger children! It was genius and brought the spirit that much stronger! This years theme was "I know that my Savior Loves Me" and one of the songs the Primary had to learn was hymn "Come Follow Me". I've lead the music before in Sacrament Meeting in the same exact spot I stood during the Program but I have NEVER felt the floor beneath my feet shake. It was an amazing feeling and almost brought me to tears, but I knew I couldn't break down because the Program wasn't over. It was a wonderful experience and I hope everyone in my ward thought so too.

I had an amazing birthday two days later on Tuesday the 26th. And by amazing it took me forever to read all my birthday wishes and came home to a very happy surprise. Since my birthday was on a Tuesday we had to celebrate that night which was fine with me because I went to work (yes I went to work) since Jose had school and I'd be spending my birthday alone at home if I would have stayed home, and who wants to do that. So Jose told me I couldn't be home until 5:00 p.m. and I had to be home by then no exceptions. Even though it took a little longer then planned it was still close enough to 5. So I come home and open my front door and I hear the most silly, happiest "Happy Birthday" song ever and see a trail of little hearts all over the house (I say house even though it's an apartment). Laying at the foot of the trail in a very cheesy poem with one of my presents (I always said that when I have kids I want to have every Dr. Seuss book ever published because I have the last one "Hooray for Differndoofer Day!" it wasn't published by Dr. Seuss but it is technically his last book, and since Kohls has Kohls Cares For Kids they had some Dr. Seuss books) it was the first on my 4 Dr. Seuss books I received and the poems Jose wrote were very Dr. Seuss-ey. I followed the first trail to the dining room and found another book and some very pretty Daisy's with glitter on them too, along with a poem and a book. Followed the next trail to our room where I found a book, a poem, and a Birthday Disney Princess Ribbon. Followed the last trail to the door of Jose's man room which was closed and found another poem and a book. And then I opened the door and got my photo snapped and blew out some candles and ate a lil bowl of brownie and ice cream Jose found at the store which was very yummy! My final prize was to dress up super fancy and go to either a place like Sho Guns or Red Lobster. But since it was my birthday I was already fairly dressed up so I opted to skip the fancy clothes and picked to at at Matsus, since neither of us had ever been there. Even though I had already had sushi and fried rice and Asian salad for lunch I wanted more, but we didn't get sushi, Jose's not a big fan. I love me some asian food though.

The next day I went with two of my friends from work to Dallas to go shopping! And I was very proud of myself I barely put a dent in my birthday money. But then again it's kind of sad because I used to love shopping. I still do just I look at the price tag and to see if it's on a good enough sale before I buy it. But the shopping spree was a success needless to say.

When Life Gives You Lemons

...sometimes the Lemonade is sour....

I have to be the most emotional person to ever walk the face of the earth. Lately one certain subject always ends up making me burst into tears and sends me in a downward spiral. This is probably due to my health situation that I've been diagnosed with since I was 12. I try to take the subject with a grain of salt, but it's hard for me to not let the comments cut through and then the salt burns the wound. The past 4 months have been particularly trying though.

I'll be 21 on the 26th and I know I'm still young but I won't be around forever, and ever since I can remember I've always wanted children. I even remember (I don't know if it was when my mom got pregnant with my little brother when I was in 4th grade or if I was younger) standing in my parent's garage rubbing my tummy thinking there was a baby inside just growing and then when I got older my tummy would just get bigger and I would have a baby. It made sense in my little mind that that's how it worked.

I've even gone to the point where I'm doing lots and lots of research, even though the statistics I've found are not encouraging. And then when I really let myself just go and think of all the "what ifs" and the go to extremes. I get discouraged because I think about the 50/50 chance of any children Jose and I have, having (in my opinion) one of the worst things ever, because of me. We've even talked about how we would deal with it if it came about it one of our children, and it makes me sick to my stomach because we won't be able to fix it with a band-aid, a kiss where it hurts, or one of their favorite things.

In the reality of it all I guess this is just another way of Heavenly Father teaching me patience. And if it's not too much to ask please pray for us that everything will turn out for the best.

Lots of stuff.

Did you know that after 2 1/2 weeks of the embryonic stage, a babies heart starts beating...
During the first trimester of the fetus, the child begins to make sucking motions with its mouth...
By 20 weeks the child begins to have regular sleep/awake patterns and a regular heart beat....
normal bowel movements can range from 3 times per day to 3 times per week...
1 out of every 5 people in the US has some from of urinary frequency or urgency...
13 million Americans are incontinent and 85% of these people are women...
roughly 1/3 women/girls that you know have some type of incontinence...
Moles are never malignant before puberty...
Well...now you do...

Anyways..those are just a very few things that I have learned so far in my first week of the semester. Oh the wonders of what else I may learn.

On another note. I finally had the chance to eat dinner with my wife tonight. We had a giftcard so we ate at Jucy's. It was ok. I love my dear wife very much. She is my reason for working as hard as I can and my reason for being as happy as I have ever been. Where would I be without her.

Thats all for today.

Boquets of Freshly Sharpened Pencils.

Jose started school on Monday. And it made me extremly excited and sad at the same time. Excited because only one semester left after this one which means he'll be done with school 9 months from now in May! Sad because since my job has picked up I never see him. But I know it will all be worth it once it's all done. There will be more time to spend together more time to actually cook dinner and no more working till 10 at night or later.

In the past month I have done 4 perms. So some of the girls at work like to call me the Perm Master now. Now if this were back in beauty school I would have said I hated perms, but now I love them. I love seeing the look on peoples faces when they see their fabulous curl after it's all done. I love it, cause I know they love it. I love my job.

There is hope.

It's amazing how people you don't know can some how influence your life the most. I was looking around on Facebook and came across a note someone had posted a while back but I didn't realize it was a song. So I looked up the song and listened too it and it makes me realize that everything will be okay. There is hope that this pain inside will go away and I won't have to worry anymore. No more tears will have to be shed over it. Yes I hope things will work out the way they should but after years and years of begging and pleading for change you give up hope that they will change. Luckily there is hope that we can be happy once it's all over and done with, no matter what the change is.

Jose had a birthday shout hooray!

The 26th of July was Jose's 24th birthday! We started the birthday off by working an overnighter together from 10 pm on the 25th to 6:30 am on the 26th. Originally I wasn't scheduled to work just Jose but at the last minute one of the girls we work with called and wanted to switch for my truck shift. So of course I took it so I could spend all day with Jose on his birthday! Otherwise I would have worked 8-4:30 on his birthday. So we got home and went straight to bed. We woke up and just kinda hung out. We had gotten a giftcard to a steakhouse in Bossier City, LA so we decided to drive out that way for his birthday dinner. We got to the Boardwalk in Shrevport and decided to eat there instead of drive another 30 min to the steakhouse. So we ate at Pietros. Which Jose says was the perfect birthday dinner. Pizza. We didn't end up buying anything but we almost bought a hermit crab. We saw some on our honeymoon in San Antonio at a lil shop and we thought it'd be cool to have one. But I remembered when my sister had one and when it was maulting (I think thats how you spell it, it's what it's called when they shed their skin and claws and grow new ones) we didn't have enough water or somethin in the tank to help it so it died and we didn't realize it until it started to stink.

Changing Lives, Changes Yours.

The past couple weeks have been interesting. There's a guy in our ward that, well lets just say he worries me in ways I never knew I would worry about someone other then my family or Jose. And today something amazing happened. Jose went and picked him up from his house (he doesnt have a car) and brought him by the salon for a haircut. I cut his hair and I immediately saw his confidence boost (I love that feeling, when I know I made someone feel good on the inside and out). Before we got out of the parking lot, Jose pulled up next to me and said he was hungry and pulled out some Arby's coupons from our mail, so all three of us headed to go get us some Arby's. We went and ate and this guy went on to tell us every detail of his life, like he always does, and then I got a sick feeling in my gut that I had to do something right then to help him or else I couldn't sleep or eat knowing his current situation. I called Jose (we drove separate cars) and told him to only answer yes or no. I told him what was going on and to meet me at Wal-mart when he dropped him off at his apartment. So he did and we got what we needed to help him out. We go to drop Jose's car off at home so we could drive just one car over to this guys place and we show up with all this stuff and I can tell from his facial expression he has no idea how to react. We get inside and help him put everything up and I could not help but think how blessed we really are. I knew there was a real reason as to why Jose got a ton of hours at Kohls this week, it was to help this guy out. It was quite humbling because while I would sit here and think we had it tough but then to find out I'm practically living in luxury compared to him made me sick. But his help has only just begun, and I've got somethings up my sleeve to help turn his life around, and know it's ok to accept help when its offered and to know he can ask for it as well.

Heat, Heat go away, come again another day.

June:
Jose had clinicals for school pretty much the whole month of June. He "worked" in Tyler 7 days on and 7 days off Wednesday-Tuesday. He loved it! One week he even got to see some wound care patients. I would have gotten sick but he was in awe about it all. It was really weird having to go the two Sundays without him to Church, even though we don't ride together to Church it wasn't fun not seeing him there cause he had school. It was very trying, but taught me a new kind of patience. It taught me that in May 2011 this will truly pay off, because I have my dream job and he's working towards getting his and I need to keep motivating him to do his best. Seeing him do these clinicals and come home and tell me about his day, really made me happy, because I could tell he loved helping patients with therapy.

The first Sunday he had clinicals (he had to go three Sundays) I had the opportunity to go to a haircolor class in Tyler and get continuing education as well. I hate that most classes like this are on Sundays but I can't exactly help it. :( The class was amazing. A Redken Platform Artist and Educator taught the class. His name is Patrick Fitzwater and he is a color genius. He said he barely couls pass High School chemistry but now he helps create hair color designed with low ammonia and hardly any odor, have and amazing texture to it (it's so creamy! I love it) and he basically could tell you the PH level of any hair chemical. I learned so much and got my continuing education hours to renew my license. It was awesome. I was the only one that was able to go from my salon but I just so happened to sit at a table with a group of people from another day spa in Longview and they were having a very private class taught by Patrick the next day and was invited! It was GREAT! I learned about knew tools and things they discouraged in beauty school but were really okay to do because I was able to think about what I actually was mixing up in my color bowl and not be scared to add stuff too it. For instance (I doubt any of this will make sense) if you choose the haircolor 5Br since Redken color has a blue purple base you already have 2 blues to 1 red in the bowl but since it is a 5Br which is a medium brown red you have 3 blues and 3 reds in your bowl. I've always been a little nervous to do any sort of red on clients especially if they wanted just a hint of red because I would never mix it dark enough but now I know what is really going into my bowl! :)

This month so far:
We didn't get to do anything for the 4th because I worked that Saturday and Jose had clinicals. Which was okay I guess. I got to really just sit and think about how grateful I am for this great country. I went to our ward's 4th of July breakfast they had on the 3rd. Instead of the usual pancakes they made breakfast burritos which were really good. I went on booth rent at the salon this month too which I was really scared about because I was on commision before and my boss got 40% of what I did, and now she just gets $130 flat a week plus a small fee for the use of credit cards and giftcards. But so far it has been a huge blessing. Because it has really paid off, and made me and Jose feel more secure about finances.

We bought me a small sewing machine which I love. It is nothing special but it sure did come with a crafting bug and it bit me hard. I've wanted to pretty much re-decorate our whole apartment. Especially since I've had to make a couple trips to Hobby Lobby and I've decided I need to stay away from that store for a while before I get myself into trouble. I've wanted to buy everything in site. I think I even some how collected every free little how-to project slips they had hanging around the store. My last projecr was a quilt for Ben Jr. (his name is really Jeremias, Ben and Michelle's baby boy but I like to call him Ben Jr.) It turned out so cute. I forgot to take a picture of it so next time I know I'll see them or if we go over to their house I'll have to snap a picture of it. My next project might be a new bed set for our bed. I've got a crazy idea to make a quilt with the Dallas Temple on it but it would be really big, I mean really big, and with 4 inch squares. Needless to say it would not be good for my right or left hand since they are already starting to cramp where carpel tunnel gets you. And it's no fun right now, and I know it's way too early for this too start. Atleast I'll have a wonderful Physical Therapist Assistant to give me some therapy. But I am determined to make this temple quilt even if it takes me like 5 years to finish.

My brother got engaged! My brother Ben got engaged on Wednesday to Juliana Johnson. Oddly enough they really were unofficially officially engaged because they already booked the temple for November 13th ofthis year and but money down on a place to hold the reception all before my brother acctually popped the question.

Summer Begins

Jose finished school last week on Thursday and is free for two week until clinicals. Last Thursday we also got to go to Michelle's pinning ceremony which was pretty neat. The salon was ridiculously busy last week, but in a good way. I had so many people in my chair I didn't know what to do with myself. We had officially moved in on Tuesday and were operating in the new 4,000 square foot edition. Which is amazing. And it's huge. Or it aleast seems that way from what we had. The Salon was also on the news a couple of weeks ago. Our receptionist was just telling the news crew about how we're going to send all of the hair we cut to this company in California and they are going to make these "hair booms" and send them to the Gulf of Mexico to help the lil fishies and soak up all the oil.

On Saturday Jose and I will celebrate our one year anniversary. He's so cute. We have a calendar on our fridge that's a dry erase board and he redid it for the month of May and wrote "One Year of Happiness" on our anniversary. It made me smile really big. We plan to go to the Temple and eat some place fancy. I just can't believe it has been a year already. I guess time really does fly when you are having fun. Or it makes you realize life here on Earth is too short and makes me grateful that I have all Eternity with Jose as well.

Today we found out we are going to be the proud Aunt and Uncle of a lil BOY!! Ben and Michelle are having a lil boy and boy was he sure not shy about letting them snap the picture proving he's a boy. And if he comes out a girl, I'm switching eye doctors. I already bought fabric for the lil guy to make him something...but that's a surprise. :)

Change.

So as of this past Sunday May 2nd Jose is officially the 2nd Counselor in the Bishopric in our ward. Which means I'll really never see him. Luckily he only has one more year left in school and then he'll be able to have nights and weekends off, so we'll be able to see each other a little more (making real money will be a plus too). Like today for instance. I barely saw him this morning before he left for school cause I'm getting over a cold and could barely open my eyes I was so tired and I won't see him again till after 10:30, because I had to work late at the salon and he had to be at work at 6:30, and I'm pretty sure he has to study for a test so I really won't get to see him. But like they say with harder callings comes bigger blessings right? June is going to be a really hard month for me because he starts clinicals in Tyler working 7 days on 7 days off 10 hours a day which is really 12 because of the driving and then on Tuesdays when he is there I really won't see him because he's going to try and go to institute there. Luckily I'll only have to put up with it for 3 weeks total. Hopefully I can make it. The weird thing about it is that our new bishop's daughter is only 5 years younger then Jose. Ron Works is our Bishop now with Mark Thompson as first counselor and then Jose's the second counselor. But if the Lord thinks we can handle it then I say bring it on!

football

So I (Jose), just got beat by an 8 yr old and a 10 yr old in a game of football....I think its time to get back to workin out.. lol. in all fairness its hard to pass to yourself and juke out the defense at the same time...On the good side Kamie and I made some brownies before I went out to play and now I get to enjoy it. WOOO HOOO!!!

Parent's Of Three For A Week

Yesterday Jose and I became the proud parents of three boys for a whole week. Lucky us. McKay is 13, Garret is 10, and Tyler (he likes to be called Ty) is 8. Yesterday I was just waiting for one of them to pull out a paper from their backpack and say they had a project due or they needed 5 dozen cupcakes for school Monday morning. Luckily the papers waited till today and I spoke too soon. Garret handed me a paper that said he needed a snack for the whole class on Friday, so we took care of it today and luckily they can take it to school early or else I would most definitely forget about it. Ty also handed me a paper and he said "Can you tell me what this says?" It was a reminder about their class trip to the zoo on Wednesday. Luckily he's 10 and hopefully won't mind too much about going to the zoo twice in one week. We're going again on Saturday. Needless to say it's been an interesting two days and I've barely kept up with the boys. I don't know how my mom kept up with 6 without pulling her hair out. Or becoming an alcoholic.

And then there's Barkley. Their dog. He's a boggle. Half beagle. Half Boston terrier. He's crazy. And spoiled. He had hamburgers for dinner with us tonight.

The past few weeks have been crazy almost a month ago we were in Utah for spring break which was really fun and a much needed vacation for the both of us. Then the next two weeks at the Salon were pretty much insane for me and I'm pretty sure I worked like crazy both those weeks, but the sad thing is, is that it took me two weeks of working at Kohl's 25 hours a week to make as much as i did at the salon in one week working less hours. but it was so worth it cause next week people will start needing their hair done again. Cause last week was dead. But it's OK it was a good break. I got to just chill at the Salon.

Last week Jose dyed my hair bright red. Yes, Jose. It's not a joke. And he did an amazing job. But it's faded tons. so I'm gonna have to have someone freshen it up. I love it being red. But I'm not gonna lie when I woke up the next day I scared myself when I looked in the mirror cause at first I thought I looked like a clown cause no joke it was fire engine red, with some coppery-orangey-red. But it looked awesome. Jose loved it!