Who says I can't still play with my little girl's hair? I'm very proud of her for donating 10 inches of her hair last month, but it's sad that there are so many hairstyles we can't do these days because of how short it is. Well, I'm bound and determined the cute hairstyles and fun we have trying new things in her hair will continue.
Here's the latest style I tried on LA. It starts by parting the top of her hair into 4 sections and braiding each section. Then the braids on the far sides are pulled directly back into 2 ponytails while the 2 middle braids are first criss-crossed over each other and added to the opposite ponytails.
We added a couple of pink ribbons and it's done. I was actually amazed at how well this style stayed in her hair all day! Despite tons and tons of playing.
And I'm told she received tons of compliments at VBS on how incredibly cute her hair was.
Who can resist such cute side piggies?
Last night I made the "beer meat" once again that my family absolutely raved about, otherwise known as the crockpot lady's Hirino Psito Slow Roasted Pork.
With the help of a silly little 3 year old, of course, who always comes running to the kitchen to help me when I'm cooking because he loves to pour in all the ingredients.
This time the only changes we made were eating the shredded meat over potatoes instead of on rolls and I had to buy, believe it or not, gluten free beer! It turns out only a handful of beers are made GF, including Redbridge by Anheuser-Bush. We called around and one of our local Albertson's actually carries a small case in stock because they have another customer with celiac who requests it every once in a while.
Because it was the very first day in over a week without rain, and because it was projected to be the only day like that this week, and because IK is away at camp all week and SD was working, I thought I would take this opportunity to cut the grass that really needed some attention.I usually leave this chore up to the boys because of my extreme grass allergies, but thought it might be nice for SD to come home to this chore already done for a change. I managed to get the front yard done and the perimeter and a little of the back yard done when the mower stopped. I couldn't figure out what was wrong with it, but about that same time a severe allergy sneezing attack started and I knew it was time for me to jump in the shower and get all that grass off of me. So at least I got some of it done for him.
When SD came home, after riding his motorcycle in to work that day, he insisted that he would finish the mowing and that I needed to jump on my bike and go for a ride while the weather was nice. I think he felt kind of bad that it's been another month and I haven't had any time to ride again because of our schedules & the awful weather.
So I jumped on my bike, and despite KW's perfectly articulated sentence of, "Mom please stay here," I went for a ride on a beautiful sunny day! No agenda, no timeframe, just out for a ride wherever I wanted to go. I ended up riding about 35 miles by the time I came home and it was so relaxing and fun.
SD had also blown up the little pool I had bought and promised the kids they could play in if they finished cleaning their rooms, so I couldn't resist a few action shots. They speak for themselves.
As I finished making dinner SD finished mowing the yard for me...and left me a little message in the back yard when he was done. Love grass, you gotta like that! I mean, how many people have ever expressed their love to you in lawn care before, huh?
The girls thought it was pretty funny to see a giant heart in the backyard.
Yeah, it is funny, and it made me smile again when I woke up this morning and still saw it in the back yard. Who needs expensive gifts or Hallmark cards when you can just cut the grass?
