Chopped up

Despite everyones good advice and words of encouragment, I cut my hair. Well, I didn't personally cut my hair, but a friend of mine did (she's a hair school grad.) I am actually very excited about this new look. And actually, even though she cut my hair in a different style than I had it before, it looks almost identical to how it was in High School.

That's a big pile of hair!



I was so excited about my hair cut, I had to take pictures and post it on my blog asap.


The boys had fun watching me get my hair cut. Juddah was as unpatient as I was to see the end result. He kept asking "are you done yet?"
I hope you all like it, because I love it!! And I promise to stop complaining about my hair all the time!

Can I get some help here?

I am having a bad hair month. It is just not looking good, no matter what I do. I am seriously contemplating cutting it. I need some feedback. Should I cut my hair into a choppy bob? Or should I trim it and hope that solves some of the problems? Should I change my shampoo? What to do?
My problem with my long hair is, is I never know if I am going to have a great hair day, or a horrible hair day. I do the same thing about everyday, and depending on, who knows what, it either looks great or bad. Which, isn't a problem when I am just going to go to the grocery store, but then when we have friends over, or I want to look good, I don't know how my hair will turn out. Here is my "hair" routine: Shampoo/condition with products that are suppose to control frizz and bring out your waves, brush with a soft comb, put in wavy hair stuff, scrunch, let air dry. Like I said before, sometimes it looks great, sometimes it looks terrible. When mom and dad were in HR, I used a blow dryer for the first time in about 4 years. It made my hair look great one day, then the next not so great.
The perks to short hair, if I remember correctly, is it looks great no matter what. Even when I would cut at it myself, not wash it for weeks, put lots of product or no product in, it looked alright. But then, it is the same everyday, and I like to think with long hair I have some versatility, even if I have no control, or how-to-fix-it knowledge. I try to be as free, or easy going with my long hair as I was with my short hair, but the results of not doing anything with long is so drastically different than with short.
Ug, I suppose I need to stop obsessing. Maybe someone will have some good advice for me out there, maybe, please, help, ahhhh.

Strawberry Fields Forever

Look what we found in our garden today!! We have been waiting and waiting for these strawberries to be ready to eat. Every time we water, Juddah inspects the plants looking desperately for a berry to pick. Today he announced there were "tons" of red strawberries. We each got to eat one berry. They were so sweet and juicy. I am so excited for the other green bulbs to ripen. We are suppose to get strawberries all summer. I hope so!


Mmm, this is good


Are there any more?


"Can we check for berries tomorrow?"

Fun with Jonah

Well, Auburn may not be as exotic as Hawaii, but it is still fun to have visitors! Jon's brother has been here since Wednesday evening visiting his son, Jonah. Jonah is ten, and Juddah and Zion are absolutely in love with him. Ryan and Jonah have had lots and lots of fun touring Seattle. We have enjoyed both of them at our house. Jonah played all night with the boys. They thought he came over just for them.


They played forever in our [awesome] backyard. They would come running inside, out of breathe. Juddah would beg, BEG Jonah to come play another game. Jonah even let Juddah play with his game boy. Juddah didn't exactly make anything go, but he sure looked cool with the headphones on, and game boy in hand.


With so much excitement the boys have had a hard time sleeping at night. Zion loves his uncle Ryan and Jonah so much. Night #1, Zion cried and cried at bedtime saying "uncle Ryan, No sleep, play guitar, Now. I need it." Night #2, Jonah got ready for bed the same time the boys did, so when Zion went to sleep he said, "Night Jonah, don't let bugs bite."




I think Jonah is staying the night again. Maybe I will snap some more photos. How fun to have a cool cousin so close to us. I hope he will come and play again!

Dandelions

I have been waging an all out war against the dandelions growing in the yard. My front and back lawns are virtually covered with these dang weeds. When I heard that vinegar was an effective way to get rid of these pesky plants, I tried it out. The day after my "test spraying" of some dandelion leaves, the dandelions were brown and dying. I danced a little jig, made a special trip to Safeway, and bought a ginormous bottle of the sour smelling stuff. Yesterday while the boys were napping I started on the front lawn. Gosh, there were so many plants to spray. I went through 32 oz of vinegar, and I didn't even get them all. Not to mention I watered the vinegar down before I started spraying. I am so pleased with how effective it was.



See all those brown dots? Now I need to invest in some grass seed, and a scare crow so all the neighborhood birds won't eat my yard up.

I know dandelion leaves are suppose to be nutritious, and people drink dandelion wine and tea, but why, why, why did the Pilgrims bring dandelions with them? Didn't it take over their herb gardens back in the old country?

Nap Time

How'd I spend nap time today? On hold, waiting for the "next Specialist to be available." I needed to do a change of address for my US Bank account (whoops, we've been here for a month and I still hadn't gotten it changed!!) I motivated myself to listen to the gauntlet of touch tone prompts. Once I finally navigated my way through, I had three and a half minutes for the next available operator. Not too long to wait, right? So I did a quick toy pick up, moved dishes to the sink to load... still waiting. Then I was connected to an operator. She couldn't help me so she transferred me to a "specialist." Sheesh, this change of address stuff is complicated. I had to wait fifteen minutes. All the while listening to "do do ba boom ba, la la la la, We appreciate your call. All specialists are with other customers right now. We are doing everything we can to help you take care of your banking needs. Please hold... Do do do do bop, wa wa" Over and over again. I even had time to snap this photo of me waiting.


I look so official playing spider solitaire, waiting to get my call through. Awesome! Anyhoo, banking stuff done. But the elevator music is still playing in my head. AHHHHH

Grandma and Zion. I wish I had a picture of Juddah and, Zion and grandma