haircuts, birthday presents, and a new pool
May 7th, 2010
If you follow me on facebook you might already know that I got a haircut yesterday. I’d been thinking about chopping it off for a while and now I’m wondering what took me so long. I feel like I lost three pounds of hair and I love waking up with hair that looks like it’s partying. I’m already looking forward to a summer of not needing to blow-dry my hair. Ahhh.
Annalie got a haircut too. She’s decided she wants to grow her hair longer so she just got the ends trimmed, but she asked for her bangs to be cut short. She hates it when her hair gets in her face, and I think she secretly loved it last summer when she had to have her bangs cut to about a half-inch after she and Bug played hair salon.
Annalie’s started getting birthday packages in the mail, since her birthday is coming up. She got a really fun package from Grandma Carol and Grandpa Tom with a red-white-and-blue dress, fancy barrettes, cupcake-making supplies, and a marigold garden kit. And Zach, Josh & Alex definitely knew what Annalie would love, and sent her a convertible sports car and a ballerina outfit for her Zhu Zhu pets, along with some adorable hand-drawn cards.
We saw a fuzzy caterpillar on the deck the other day.
We’ve been spending more time on the deck recently because we bought a new pool for Annalie. It’s really too big for the deck—if we filled it full with water it would be very heavy and we don’t want to test our second-story deck that way—but for now we can just fill it half-full and let Annalie play. Later in the summer we’ll move it down to the grass. If you ask me the weather isn’t really warm enough for swimming, but Annalie loves water and will happily splash around in water that seems way too cold to me.
My good friend Angela had a baby girl recently. I crocheted the big blanket for baby Kate Marie, and the two smaller ones for big sisters Gabby & Annie to use as doll blankets.
So…that’s what we’ve been up to lately. I plan on blogging every day but somehow every day ends with me sitting on the couch staring at my laptop blankly, too tired to bother. I need to finish flickring my Omaha photos and then blog about the rest of my trip, and I promised several of you my recipe for spinach pasta salad. Annalie’s 6th birthday is Sunday, and her party is tomorrow, and I’m sure I’ll have plenty of photos to share and stories to tell about that. Blogger’s paradox! I don’t think I ever really get away from it.
Just because this post is already so random, here are some more random photos that I like and just downloaded. Rain on my car window one day a few weeks ago:
The shadow of our minivan yesterday evening, looking like Shrek’s head:
A weird shot I took of me and Annalie at the park as she was climbing on a chain thing:
Finally, I took this picture of the changing table at a McDonald’s a while back. Someone’s either a grammar freak or pop-culturally ignorant. Either way, it made me laugh:
This post is a lot like my life lately: busy, random, with me feeling rather distracted and perpetually behind on my to-do list, yet fairly happy with it all. How are you guys doing?
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fabulous hair cuts ladies! and i’m loving the new dress for Annalie :)
OK, that grammar pulled me out of lurkdom. First, cute haircuts! Someone needs to give that “are” person a grammar lesson. *sigh* You should have crossed the ‘are’ out and rewritten the ‘is’ and cited the proper grammar rule of subject verb agreement. ;)
Cute haircuts ladies!! Glad you guys got the bday package and that Annalie likes it.
LOVE LOVE LOVE the blanket you did. Is that what you were working on while you were here? The hexagon stuff? Beautiful!!!
Happy Birthday to Annalie!
Cute haircuts.
Your crocheted blankets are always so cute. Do you follow a pattern or do you just make it up as you go along? Or write your own pattern?
I’m so jealous! A haircut that makes it look like you’re ready to party when you wake up?! Mine just looks like I eat people!. Happy Early Birthday Annalie!
Love the new style. You are such a BABE Bethany!!!
Uh oh, is that a tent caterpillar?
Those blankets are gorgeous. Blankets are the newborn gifts we still use every day after a year and a half. The doll blankets for the older sisters are a genius touch.
I wish I could pull off a haircut like yours.
Happy 6, Annalie!
Great hair cut, and I love the last photo! I’m totally someone who wants to correct the grammar of the “Bathroom Genius’”, that or hand them a Magic Eraser. Happy weekend!
You sound busy and happy :) Love the haircuts. Have fun celebrating Annalie’s birthday. We’ll be sure to sing happy birthday together on Sunday! Sometimes the kids sing loud enough for you to hear it where you are :P
Worthless. Obviously I didn’t send anything to Annalie for her birthday, nor have I sent my mom anything for Mother’s Day. I am so ready to to finish this stage of my life.
Hope A has a great party!
PS Loved the line about your hair partying while you sleep! Someone’s gotta stay out late!
Love the hair! How did I see you 10 min before the big event without knowing you were chopping? 10 min to wrap A’s present before heading out the door and yet here I am?
Ohh, the blankets are so so so so cute! Perfect for them!
I love your new haircut. When I get time, I will be cutting mine (and donating a whack of hair) so hopefully I will get to do it soon, I am tired of the lack of style.
Happy Pre-Birthday to Annalie! I hope she has a fabulous party, looking forward to the photos.
I am feeling soooo behind. But you only wrote this yesterday so I’m not that far behind. It just feels that way.
And that pool is humongous! What is it made of, the walls look curvyish.
I’m diggin’ the new haircuts! In response to your comment about our pool, you are welcome to come swimming anytime you’re in the neighborhood. :-) I won’t think you’re an opportunist. Promise!
I love how you always make something for siblings too because you feel they should also get something special. My two oldest are still very appreciative of the surprises you sent to them when the baby was born. You are the best!!
Loving your haircut!! I love the color too! So fresh and fun!
So cute. Great hair cut!