Feeling a little home-makey...

We found this great site for girls hair dos - and we've gone there the last few weeks before church to pick out pretty little dos for the girls!

What makes this special, though is - a few days before, I got together with a few friends and my sister-in-law and we made hair bows - well, sort of - I sort of ran around and got nothing done, and Jolisa made the bows for me, and the other girls made little flower clippies - I did make headbands - but didn't get a chance to make bows - until about 5 minutes before we left for church! So here are the 'dos with little flowery clippies!



I just love the one of all 3 girls, Brynn is so adorable!

So while still on my home-makey kick, Kiersten wanted me to make a swim suit cover-up...she picked out both the pattern and the fabrics. Sorry about the one-legged pose, I had to catch her off guard to get a picture of her...she thinks she has a big dipper on her forehead...uh - okay - well, it DOES look a little astronomical...but we're looking at the DRESS here! Cute, huh?
We saved some material in case she wants to make a headband or scrunchie or something.

Quick picture update!

I put Kali's hair in corn rows last week. Her other friend from swim team has braids all over her curly locks - so we had to do the same thing (we generally do this once a year anyway.)

And then, of course, the little mirror, Brynn wanted braids in her hair, too! Yah - imagine that, the best picture I could get from her! Snoozing, something she NEVAH does!

I put Coby in a parent child swim class - mostly just to keep her cool from being in the heat for so long, and ended up taking her out because when I dipped her feet in the pool, she didn't like it...apparently, it's a feet only issue, because once her whole body is immersed, she LOVES IT!

Of course, it looks like she's sleeping, but that's because it's so bright outside!

She was giggling and kicking and splashing it up! So I signed her back up again!

Also here are a few pictures from Ross' San Diego scuba trip. These pictures include those blue fish - whatever they're called...there's a bat ray in there, (you can see the little bat-like ears) and him sitting on the boat, not sure if this was taken before or after he lost his sea biscuits - yep, motion sickness found him.




Mostly he enjoyed himself, they saw a whale in the distance - blowing out of it's blow hole - and coming out of the water quite a bit - also dolphins surfed the boat's wake! He really enjoyed himself with his friend (the photographer!)

Look what mommy made!

I got a wild hair last night while in Walmart (I understand Walmart has that effect on people, I don't normally frequent the store, but I was looking for dill weed - a SPICE, not my husband) and thought I'd take a look-see at what other things they might have there.

I passed by the fabric part of the store - and saw this really cute sun hat pattern, which I've been wanting to get one for Coby - so I thought I'd take a gander at the fabrics. I LOVE the bow in the back of it!

Yah - I'm not a good fabric-picker-outer, according to my kids, the outfit (color pattern) makes her look somewhat clown-like - but I think the hat is ADORABLE!

And although I made the dress reversible, I don't think we'll ever use the striped side, cause, yah - too clown-like - I wish they hadn't said anything cause I liked it until I related it to a clown.

I didn't know what fabric to do the bow on the back of the hat with - so I made two bows, and just turned this one into a headband...

ANYWHOOOOO - the emerald buttons (on her shoulders) belonged to my "Grandma" (great great aunt) Nancy who I miss dearly! So now the dress is special to me - cause it has gramma's buttons on it!

And - Ross couldn't help but take a picture of his new punk rocker son playing guitar hero! HAA! Kind of fitting!

Well, Thankyouverymuch to everyone w/ suggestions!

I added a medium ash color - 5A - it's actually processing right now - ooops I must rinse it out...don't want to tempt fate & turn it green or some other awful color?!

Okay - so there, I did yet another color - and I think I've toned it down to acceptable...will post the picture at the bottom of this post - so you can compare it to yesterday's shot!

Since I had the camera out, Kali & Brynn looked so cute reading a book, I had to take pictures of them. LOOK at how long Kali's lashes are!? That should be illegal!


Brynn was trying to sit "criss cross" and it's a complicated thing, she had to request help from hands to get those legs in just the right position!


Then I told her I was done taking pictures and she blew me a kiss goodbye!


So - while I'm coloring my hair today, Howie asked me why I didn't like it purple, and I told him I didn't want to be a punk rocker, like his cousin Balin, click here and scroll down to post on May 22nd and he needed me to show him the picture, which was the coolest thing in the world, and decided he wanted to copy his dear sweet cousin...so I figured, what they hey, it's summer, when it's time for school, I'll chop it off to make him look like a little boy again! (sort of looks like mug shots, huh?) Can't WAIT to hear the comments in church tomorrow! HAA!









And here's my hair now (scroll down a smidgen to see it yesterday) A little better, but not what I am wanting, I guess that old saying "what's the difference between a good hair-do and a bad hair-do? Three weeks. I guess I need to do some serious hair washing & chlorinated swimming! I'm sure I can find one more shade of unnatural before the summer is up!

Sara-Lynn - HELP!!!

Look - I am not going to even tell you why or how it came to this - but PLEASE - what color do I use to get it back to the color in the FRONT of the head? (Brown) not TINKY WINKY PURPLE - or whatever color that is red?

And Ross wants it lighter - like an ash blonde - but I think if I tried to get an ash blonde, it'll go PINK cause it'll lighten what I have there.

So what color do I use to fix it back to normal. Jason called me {{Gasp}} Sheryl?! He's heartless - my hair's much longer than hers!!! hulp, pleeeze!?!