Bob

Lily got a bob.
Her hair was getting long and stringy.
She wasn't too happy to have it cut.
She wanted it to be "long like Mommy's".
Too bad it's WAY cuter short.



As you can see we cut quite a bit off!

I was kind of freaking out when I was watching her cut it!



If only I could get her to look normal in a picture.
She's always doing something funny with her eyes or mouth.

She's still cute though.

Thanks Mandi for the cute bob!

Stay tuned for Christmas pictures tomorrow!

Beach Buzz

A few things going on here last week!
Cannon got a new haircut.
It was supposed to be longer, but the barber (a.k.a. Dave) had the wrong blade on.
I'm kind of liking the buzz look.
It sure is easy to manage those cowlicks with a buzz.



We spent the weekend camping on the beach at Carlsbad State Beach park just north of San Diego. It was fun!
There were about 150 of our friends there and we enjoyed being with everyone!
Our kids loved the beach, and I loved the boogie boarding with girlfriends!
I am hooked.
I had only tried it in Florida, where the waves aren't as big, and I never understood why everyone thought it was so fun, but it was FUN, FUN, FUN in the California waves!

color change

I went dark.
I kind of went dark in January, but it faded a lot.
So I went darker yesterday and I'm liking it.
I'm sure this will fade a lot too.
Every time I've ever gone dark in the past I've done it in the winter, but I think summer is a much better time for dark . . . don't you?



Thanks Marianne!

Haircuts, Tutu's and Kisses

Lily got an adorable angle cut bob from my friend BROOKE today. Amazingly she sat quite still and ate her "lollipop", as she kept calling it. She looks so grown up with the new haircut . . . she's gonna be two in three weeks!


Cannon-baby-ball (that's Lily's name for him) got a haircut too but I haven't taken a good post-haircut picture yet. You can see below that he is in desperate need of a trimming! I didn't really want to have to cut my three month old's hair, but it was just gettin' scraggly.

Lily is loving Cannon these days. This morning I was getting ready and Cannon was laying on our bed hanging out. I went into the another room to get a skirt to wear and I come back and Lily has jumped on the bed and is doing patty cake with Cannon's feet. And yes, she's listened to me do it and knows all the words (imagine that). Cannon was just giggling at her . . . it warmed my heart right up!


Here's my little man's flirtatious smile. It takes little to no prompting to get a smile out of our Cannon.


This is a picture of Lil' (before the haircut) that my sister-in-law Kristi took. Isn't it cute?

I love my babes.

In other news, I'm back to work part-time and liking it . . . for now. It's been interesting trying to build relationships with new brokers. I haven't done that for years, I've just maintained existing relationships. We'll see how it goes. It's definitely worth trying to make it work. My company is letting me pick my brokers, work 20 hours/week, have benefits, and work from home! I'm trying to stay motivated but it's hard when I just want to be with the kiddos!

Dave is still loving work and is very busy, so that's good! We haven't really made any new progress on the house, but Dave's brother and good friend Phil are coming over tomorrow afternoon to work on the yard. I'll post some updated pictures of the house soon!

It was time.

I swore I'd never be that Mom who let their kid have a mullet because I was too sentimental to cut their hair, and I was exactly that! I couldn't cut Lily's hair, it was too cute, mullet and all. But, Dave had been bugging me to cut it for over a month, so I finally gave in. Dave did most of the cutting, and thoroughly enjoyed it. He's thinking about changing careers, and going to beauty school.

So, here are the before and after pictures. I admit, she looks cute, but I'll be loving it even more once it's about an inch longer!

She seems to enjoy the hair, don't you think?