Hair cuts for all of you

Pre Hair cuts

My big girls have so much hair.  Their hair is usually very tangled.  When it is brushed, it is so beautiful.  When it is not brushed, which is most of the time, the girls look a bit...well...homeless.  

After more than one awful hair brushing session, Matt was over it.  He took the girls and got their hair cut off.  The hair cut only took a few minutes but the pre cut hair brushing took almost 30 minutes.

I love, love, love the new cuts.  I look at them and notices that we had given them my hair cut.  Meet my two mini mes.  

we all have the same hair cut

Happy 9th Birthday Will!

I can't believe Will is 9.  He is still my sweet little boy, but he is almost up to my shoulder.  He is tough, has lots of questions and remembers everything (like things he heard about the Ukraine on NPR three days ago).  If you catch him at just the right moment, he will give me a hug or sit next to me on the couch.  Most of the time he is to grown or busy for that. 

For Will's birthday, we took a group of boys to see Sherman and Peabody.  The boys sat in the row in front of me and Matt, only acknowledging that we were there when they needed more popcorn.  We also took Harper and Abby.  Harper got to be in the picture. 

That is so hot.

Matt and I have been married for 11 and a half years.  In that time, we have had 2 cats, 3 houses, and 4 kids.  By my math, we have changed the sheets approximately 1 million times.  

I am pretty particular about my sheets.  They need to be tucked in really tight and perfectly lined up.  Matt believes that they should not be either of those things.  I am pretty sure he would barely notice if I left the sheets off the bed.    

Nothing, nothing is as hot as this man tucking the sheets in.  What is even hotter?  Changing the sheets while holding the baby.  Awesome. 

Lunch with my big kids

As a working mom, I don’t make it into school for lunch very often.  On this very rare event, I made it in to have lunch with both of my kids and a small selection of their friends.  My main take aways from this event were:

a.       That cafeteria is so, so loud.  God bless the teachers and the cafeteria workers who go there every day.

b.      I love school lunch.  There is just something about pizza cut into a rectangle and corn that takes me back to a happy happy time.

c.       My kids are pretty funny. 

d.      (this should really be B2) Conversations with 3^rd grade boys and grown men are basically the same.  Lull in conversation?  Ask them who they think will win the superbowl.

I am so glad Christmas is over...

Is that I put away the singing toys.  I think I am the only one who is happy.  I actually think the singing toys are pretty cute.  My kids love them too.  The only problem I have is when the kids set them all to go off at the exact same time.  Even that is okay once.  But not the 25th time.  Good buy Christmas toys, until this time next year. 

Christmas 2013

1.      Christmas!

I love Christmas.  This Christmas was even more special because Matt has a new job and wasn’t working crazy hours.  We were together as a family.  The kids had a great time with their pictures and their Christmas pageant.  I couldn’t get enough!  My favorite Christmas present (besides the great jewelry Matt got me) was my smiley 1 year old, my sweet 4 year old, my feisty 6 year old, and my inquisitive 8 year old. 

My birthday...because i am so grown up

How do you celebrate the slow marching of time?  If you are me, you go shoot a gun for the first time and then go out with your great friends and end the night at a formal Christmas party. I enjoyed every minute of my 33rd birthday.  I rang in the new year by trying something new and spending time with great friends. Thanks for helping me feel young even though I know I am getting old. 

Shooting my first gun ever

Zombies were the targets

My friends "supporting" me on my birthday

The very formal party.