Words of Wisdom...

I finally got around to sharing this with all of you.

For Mother's Day, Shyler's class did books....they were given the beginning of the sentence and told to finish it, and draw a picture to go along with it...

And that my friends is Words of Wisdom, by Shyler

The Day Has Come...

My baby... he's officially in Kindergarten. I just can't believe it...

First Day of School

Shyler's First Day of 2nd Grade...

She was so excited, she's got a great teacher this year and some friends in her class already. :)

Easton got to wear new school clothes too, even though today was just Kindergarten orientation.

Yesterday I decided...

...to chop off my hair. If you know me, you know that I like to change my hair. A lot. Color, cut, curly, straight, you name it..
Back in 2009, I had this cut and color:

I actually LOVED it...

Recently, I've been trying to grow my hair out so that it will look better when i want to wear it curly (natural). But with all the coloring and styling damage, I was afraid it was not looking it's best and i was getting SICK of it! So as usually is the case, I made a rash decision to chop it again to the above cut.

I decided I for sure needed to color my hair. A month or two back, I went brown from being blonde...but over the weeks, it's faded A LOT. So I hit up the local Sally's Beauty Supply and bought some temporary color. A warm brown. I also picked up a new blow dryer- this time I splurged on a ceramic ion one that the sales lady said should be much better than my cheap-o walmart one...

I applied the color last night, deep conditioned while I slept...and this morning I used my new blow-dryer and a round brush...

WOW! The color really gave some life back to my hair and the dryer truly was AMAZING! I was able to round brush my hair straight, and virtually frizz-free!!! That NEVER happens! Typically I am blow-drying and using a flat iron!

I'm so happy...I think I'll keep my long locks a bit longer. :)

The End

This morning's conversation with my 7 year old

Rrrinng rrringg...
Me: hello?
Daughter: mom, where's the straightener?
Me: I brought it with me
Daughter: *irritated groan* but you have two!
Me: I know, I brought them both
Daughter: *even more irritated groan* why!?
Me: because I needed both
Daughter: *beyond irritated, bordering on end-of-the-world groan* Now I'm going to have a bad hair day!!!
Me: *laughing, full out guffaw, that my 7 year old just said that*
Daughter: *Click*
She hung up on me! Hahaha

Orcas Island

I took the kids to Orcas Island this past weekend to visit my old stomping ground. We had an incredible time seeing a lot of friends and having a lot of fun. I'll post a few of my favorite pictures...

the changing world...

I just got a phone call from my sister Kim who babysits my kids for me... She said she got in her car with the kids and Shyler had a very confuse look on her face and said, pointing at the cassette player, "What's that?". Kim replied, "A tape player" and Shyler said, "What's a tape?" hahaha

Kim explained some and Shyler says, "How does it fit?"... I cannot believe we have entered the generations that don't even know what a tape is... how weird...