"hey sista.........."

Let's quit our jobs and just shop for shoes!!!!!!!!!! :)
This is me and my OLDER sister. Me on the right, Donna on the left. I think I was about 3 yrs old and she was about 5? (Mom.. verify if this is correct!). Our mom used to make us matching outfits for everything. I loved it! Explains alot about why I love clothes now! And these outfits were pretty amazing!!!!! We were adorable! I remember this day...................Easter at my Aunt Sherri's house...................

"crazy and hectic"

Where do I start?
Well, I'm WORKING WAY TOO MUCH!!!! for starters..................
Nicole wanted the purple out of her hair because the Sadie Hawkins dance is coming up in 2 weeks.............No time to do it with school, work and basketball...........
So we had a "kitchen intervention!" Last Saturday night at 8:00 pm we went down to the salon to get the supplies to take the purple out of her hair. I knew it was going to be a big job.
Much easier putting it in, then getting it out. Hair clips/extentions would have been MUCH easier!
We started with a color remover (test strand of coarse!). Ummmmmm.........turned her hair green. Not good...........
Plan B.....................bleach with 40 volume developer.................very harsh on the hair but gets the job done! Of coarse it turned her hair canary yellow (which I knew it would). Only took me 3 hours in my kitchen starting at 8:30 pm on a Saturday night. I was tired and wasn't really excited about doing it...................but of coarse I did.
Knowing I had to put color back in her hair I told her to go to bed with yellow Big Bird hair and we would go to the salon on Sunday and finish it. So 2 hours later.................
Back to her natural, beautiful, gorgeous hair.
(I really am a miracle worker!!!!!) We agreed to leave it how it is for awhile :) And now it matches her hair extensions for the dance. 5 hours of work on my days off................no wonder I feel like I didn't get a day off!! We were tired and getting silly. It looks like we were having more fun than we really were.

Not my 1st "kitchen intervention"............

Easier to do at the salon because we have hooded driers. We had to make it work and do it the old fashioned ghetto way. My arms got tired so I made her do some of the work!

I finally got all of my "snow" decor down and decorated a little bit for spring. That's pretty much it. hahahhaaa.............But it makes me happy.

Before we had the hair intervention last Saturday we ran up to Salem (I let Nicole drive on the freeway for the 1st time!! yikes!!!!! but she did good) looking for very specific shoes for the dance.

She wanted bright royal blue slillettos. Not easy to find. Went EVERYWHERE.

Found a pair she loved at Nordstrom.

Didn't have her size.

Oh. And they were $90.00.

Are you kidding me? I am NOT paying $90 for a pair of shoes that will be worn for 12 minutes. Because as soon as she gets to the dance I can guarantee they will be off. Cause they are too high to dance in and will kill her feet! Not worth it just for pictures! I should/won't/should go on-line and see if I can find them. Running out of time. Already out of money!

So I went to Kohl's (they usually have the worst shoe selection)..........found these. LOVE! On sale for $29.99. I bought them and brought them home. Nicole said "they are cute, but not what I wanted.". My response was "I know dear, but this is what you have, and they will be the "backup" shoes incase we find something else you like.". So pretty much she is wearin' them. hahahhaaa...........They are pretty FAB! And way more sparkly in real-life.

When a teen girl gets something in her mind..........that's all the matters. But she liked these shoes and can wear them again.

I want to buy a pair for myself and wear them to the grocery store!!

And now my girl has strep throat. Bad. Urgent care said could possibly be mono. Really...........can you give me an answer please? She is a hot mess...........but her hair looks great and she has some fab shoes she can wear while she is laying on the couch!

Humor and a postive attitude is keeping me alive. Maybe I should try wine?

Tyler is just playing basketball and trying to stay out of the crazy that is his life..................hahaha

"mega-watt smile!!"

The braces came off yesterday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can't believe she had them on for 2 1/2 yrs.
She looks gorgeous (and so fit!) and was excited they are finally off. Now she wants the purple out of her hair. ha hahahahah........Always something!
And she turns 16 in a few weeks and wants a car.
So I said.................."hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, braces cost $5000............that would have been a nice car!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" She didn't find me very amusing.........

"the mystery has been solved!!!!"

The culprit was my SISTER!!!!!!!
I had a feeling it may have been her with the mystery package, but everytime I asked her she just didn't answer the question!!! She said it was fun messing with me!!! ahha......She finally had to fess up today. I flat out asked her again!!!!!! Thanks sista :)
And I believe no one is safe now that I have a scanner. This is Donna in 1987 as a senior at South Albany High School. Damn girl..............you were hot!!!!!!! (but why are you rolling around in a field? hahahhahaaa) Way more oldie pics to come. I've been going thru old pics and having hubs scan like crazy!!!

"cutest kids ever!!!"

8 years later.....Tyler, Gunner, Nicole, Drake..........Christmas Eve 2010Seriously......................the cutest kids ever.

Nicole, Gunner, Tyler and Drake.....................Christmas Eve 2002...... Scary that the two oldest ones are now old enough to DRIVE!!!! Where did the time go?

I was supposed to be cleaning up my room (like I tell my kids to do!) and found some old pics and got distracted and didn't get my room cleaned. ha haha

But I had the hubs scan a bunch of OLD pics for me. Can't wait to start posting them.

"I got a mystery package today........"

So I got a text from the hubby today that I got a box from American Greetings Photoworks? Ok......I didn't order any pictures...............Even though I need to from Christmas and that's on my to-do list! It's actually a cutting board with these fabulous pictures of my family!!!! So there is NO enclosure.
No note. Just says "3rd party billing"........
So obviously it's one of my awesome friends that reads my blog because I don't post new pics on facebook and I'm sure Nicole doesn't have any of her brother on her facebook page. So.........I determined someone took them off of my blog???????????
And how do I properly THANK the person if I don't know who it is??????
What a wonderful, thoughtful gift. I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
So who ever sent it THANK YOU.......and if there was supposed to be an enclosure.....there wasn't! hahahahhahahaa
So nice to come home from work to such a lovely gift.......................thanks friend...........

"holy mother-of-purple..."

I guess when you are the daughter of a hair stylist you can choose that you want purple in your hair!
And you mother is willing to do it.
It's very VIOLET.... (she claims it's kinda blue). Photographs a little blue-ish. But trust me......it's purple!
Either way.............she can rock it! Very bold and edgy........
It's just the front not all over. And it was a lot of work....had to take out the red we put in it LAST time..........and a fresh hair cut....but I got to spend 3 hours with my daughter and we laughed alot.
She has been begging me for a month to do this. I finally had some time (well......not really, since we left the salon at 9:00 pm last night!) But if purple hair is the worst thing I have to worry about with my 15 year old...........I'm in pretty good shape! (and I'm praying it doesnt fade to an ugly ciolor in the next 2 weeks!)