Little Haar As Opposed To Big Hair

I cut my hair last weekend. It was time. I had been wearing it in a French braid which Laney really liked, so when I came home with short hair she said, "Mom, what did you do to your haar? It's little!" She was not too happy about the change, but I'm liking it. I had it this length in college, so it was not a shocking change, but it has definitely been a while. The photos are for my grandma who wanted to see. I wanted to Photoshop them to erase the freckles and a few creases, but Sam said I couldn't because someone was just criticized for doing that. So, here you go Gua, the new me with "little" hair and big freckles.

In His Defense

A few weeks ago, while Sam and I were giving Laney a bath she, in her usual opinionated manner, made it very clear that there was only one way to rinse her hair...

Me: Can you believe that someone so small can have so many opinions? I mean, she is just 2. She is such a force. Have you ever seen anything like it?

Sam: Yeah, I'm just used to dealing with the 32 year old version.

For Sam's sake, it is really is best that there are only two of us.

No Foolin'

Today Sam and I have been married 8 years. Yes, I know it is April Fools Day, but it really was the day we were married - no foolin'. The thing was, we had known each other a long time (I was 17 when we first met) and we didn't want to wait any longer to get married, so he proposed December 24, 1999 and we were married April 1, 2000. April 1st was one of the few dates the church was available (can't imagine why) and it worked with every one's schedule, so that was the date. The crazy date aside, oh, and the air horn used to summon volunteer firefighters that sounded during our church ceremony, we had a great celebration. It was a small wedding by today's standards, about 90 people, and, with the exception of the ugliest wedding cake ever, I wouldn't have changed a thing. I remember while heading off to our honeymoon, Sam and I tried to figure out how we could recreate the day because it was so wonderful. Little did we know the days would only get better. I don't think it ever would have occurred to us that 8 years later, at 32, we would have 3 children, 1 on the way, and be living in Michigan in our little old house. But, here we are and today the only joke is the number of wrinkles we have accumulated in the last 8 years.

I always enjoy seeing other people's wedding photos, so I thought I would share a few of ours.

The pretty old Episcopal church in St. Helena, Ca.

This is Father Mac and we are literally tying the knot. I think the air horn sounded sometime just after this. I look at this picture and all I can think about is having a waist again!

Here is a decent picture of the dress that my mom, grandmother, mother-in-law and I found at the end of a long day of shopping in down town San Francisco.

The reception was held outside on a patio in a rose garden at my mom's house (a.k.a. Greenie) in Calistoga.

My mom/Greenie.

Her house.

The view.

The patio (Laney now looks at that nude statue and says "she needs a diaper").

A few glasses of champagne later.

Finally, a picture of the ugliest wedding cake ever. I gave the woman a picture of a gorgeous fondant covered cake with butter cream roses I had saved for years from Victoria magazine. Imagine my surprise when this was sitting on the cake table. I told you it was ugly!

Our April Fools was really a great day with no jokes (other than the cake), but lots of great memories - no foolin'.

The Red Carpet

Picture me: Dressed in this:

Photo From Amazon.com

Saying this:

Wow, I am so honored. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Kim at Today's Creative Blog - without her, this post would not have been possible. Her blog work is, well, inspirational.

A big thanks to my family - my husband and my three wonderful children for eating all of the dinosaur chicken nuggets I serve you to make some of these posts possible.

I would also like to thank my mother (my voice would start to quiver here) who bought me my first pair of scissors. I know I cut George Washington's head out of the dollar bill you gave me, but it was that experience that lead me to where I am today.

Thanks to my fellow bloggers for giving me the time of day...Catherine at Red Shoes, what? (the orchestra would start to play here) I'm out of time...

All joking aside, thank you Kim for featuring my blog. If you haven't been over to Kim's blog - head over there and check it out. She has a whole lot of goodness in one spot!