Remember when I got my hair highlighted early this summer? The highlights were a bit more that I was hoping for.
You see, I have never had great luck with highlights in my hair. My hair gets very dry and damaged when I get them. I only wanted a few to lighten things up but I got a head full.
After going all summer with my highlights, swimming, being in the sun, and the great hard water we have around here, my hair was pretty fried.
I decided to try a different stylist to see if she could fix my poor, poor damaged hair.
She came highly recommended and for good reason! I LOVED her!
I'm working on growing out my hair but I had her cut off what she felt was needed to get it back to health. She also applied three different colors to my hair to blend the color I already had and to make it look more natural. She told me all sorts of things about MY hair that make complete sense but that I'd never been told before. She "thinned" my thick hair in a way that would work better for MY type of hair and MY hair growth patterns.
I love the end result and while this picture really doesn't do it justice, here is the new look!
I'm pretty sure I'm sticking to dark colors from here on out.

Emma Strikes Again

We have a song around here that gets sung on an almost daily basis.
It goes something like this....
"Emma Emma Emma the Destroyer..." (to the tune of the Dora the Explorer theme song)

This was her destruction today.
Minor? Yes.
Did we have to throw away half of those napkins? Yes.
Did she do this while strapped into her booster seat at the table? Yes.

If she can reach it and is left unattended, she will reach it.

Even still... She's so cute and we love her! :)

We got to have Celeste come back to our house today to play while Dalton was at school and both of her parents were at the hospital with her new brother!

The girls had so much fun playing outside. They soon discovered the "garden" area in our front yard and decided to dig. I figured it wasn't going to hurt anything so I encouraged it by giving them shovels and pails. :)

They did this for a couple of hours. No joke.

When Jayden got home, we decided to get swimming suits on and play with the water hose. It's a good thing John was able to get ahold of Thomas to pass on the memo to bring a change of clothes for Celeste before he came to get her - I'm not sure baby Parker (or Heidi) would have enjoyed the dirt/water clad Celeste. :)

Bundle of Joy

Today was the day our good friends welcomed a new addition to their family. I'm only using this picture because with all of the events of the day, this was the only one I had!
I have edited it a bit so he looks a little less clear - for privacy reasons. :)
Also - I won't say his name.
This is a public blog and he isn't my child.
We'll just call him Adorable Baby Boy. :)

We got the call around 2am that they were headed to the hospital and the kids were coming. We set up a slumber area in the living room for Celeste and Dalton and even though they were super excited, they somehow managed to fall asleep rather quickly!
Morning came and as the boys were getting ready for school, we got the call from Thomas that the new little guy had arrived! This is the (edited) version of the pic he sent to John's phone to show the kids.

They were so excited!
Dalton said, "I hope he likes Phineas and Ferb!"

He is adorable and we are so happy for them!!

Phineas and Ferb - movie time

Apparently, Blogger either wants this picture upside-down or like this. I'll take it like this.

In case you don't know, we are big Phineas and Ferb fans around here. Luckily, we have friends who share our love for them - particularly a certain 7 year old boy who is buddies with my 7 year old boy. :) They were so excited for the new Phineas and Ferb movie to come out so, naturally, it had to be a special occasion! They made corn dogs to go along with the theme and we brought fries. Unfortunately, they were a little soggy by the time they made it to their house.

Oh well.

Here are four of the kids (who knows where Emma was at this moment) staring in amazement at the awesomeness that is P&F. :)

Do you see it?

What is this?? Hmmm...
I'll give you a hint.

It has a heartbeat.

It will be here on or around April 2.
Any guesses?

Must Get Motiviation...

Remember how my laundry day is Monday?
I started my laundry on Monday. Did more on Tuesday and then tonight, this is the pile I still haven't done. I just can't get motivated. I'm really tired of looking at it on my kitchen floor but I can't seem to bring myself to put them in the washer!
Ugh. Maybe tomorrow...