Groupon helped me meet a Bloggy Friend

About 7 years ago I meet Stacey from Kingston Girl. My grandfather had passed and I was going to Bainbridge Island to clean his estate that is next to Kingston.  We always said we would meet, but since I was always riding with my parents I could never meet up with her. Then she moved to my town! Yes you would think we could meet right up, but with kids and schedules we never have been able to meet up.  She is an amazing lady if you have not read her blog you must. She is a cancer survivor who had twin boys through a surrogate.  Her twins had a rough start and spent a lot of time in Children's hospital.  It is such a touching story.  They boys are now 2, one still has many health challenges. She is always so positive and just keeps going, such an amazing person!  Her new blog is The Twinpeaks Mama.

SOOO on to my story ... She posted on FB a while back she is doing her spray tan business Totally Faking It at HM Salon.  Then a week or so later I saw a Groupon for a hair color service at the HM Salon!  I sent her a message and found it was the same place!  So I schedule a time to go get my hair done and to get my spray tan done before I left on my trip.

Post Tan and Spray tan!

It was so exciting to meet up with Stacey, we had a great time talking and catching up.  And to get my spray tan on I had to strip down to my bra and undies .. oh yes that is the way we roll on our first meeting ... lol

So I got my hair colored and a spray tan on!

Hope you have a GREAT weekend.

New Hair for my Birthday

I've been so busy with the party I didn't get to show off my new hair do!  I usually go really light in the summer but this time I went in a different direction.  I hit my 38th Birthday 2 weeks back and had my hair apt on that day so I went for it!  I have gotten a TON of compliments on it.  I may just do it again!

Happy a Happy 4th of July!

Here it is when I styled it

Here I am when I left after she styled (more sleek version)

Things that are going on ... Spring Break Yeah!

It's spring break and that means boys home while mom is working from home ... oh yes you guessed it! Mom is about to locked into a padded room.  Thankfully Rick is off during the week for two days so I had some help those days.  So while he is home and the boys are kicking the ball against the house over and over I thought I was going to scream.  So I did what any good mom (insert laugh / half cry) would do and went to Amazon and searched how much a soccer goal would be.  I found some cheap ones but they were small the large one's were rather spendy.  So I went to my handy friend Google Images and searched for DYI Soccer Goals.  I found an awesome tutorial on I can Teach My Child.

The project will come soon, but wanted to share!  We're waiting on the net I ordered on Amazon that will hopefully be here today.  The Goal came together in probably 20 minutes and the boys and Rick had fun building it together.

And Mom needed a little refreshing too.  When I was young I was a Towhead (very white blonde hair), the older I get sadly the darker my hair gets.  So it was time to touch up those roots and get my hair done, feeling so much better ... Well hair wise still fighting a nasty head cold.

Hope you all have a GREAT Day!

Re-Make for Business Trip

I'm going to Boston again at the end of the month, yup I leave on Black Friday.  Those who know me are shocked.  BUT since I can do most my shopping Thursday night and early Friday AM and then hop on a plane for Boston.  I'll arrive late night Friday and then I will be there for the event early Saturday am. 

SOOOO that leaves me with roots ... yup you read that correct!  I was scheduled for a hair appointment last month.  BUT I knew I would be leaving at the end of this month and wanted fresh hair.  SOOO ... I went around looking like a hot mess for a month so I could get my hair done closer to me leaving.

It's amazing how I was a toe head for birth until my twenties.  Then the older I get the darker my hair has gotten ... man does aging suck or what.  We are all sick here at the house so a quick post about a refreshed me.  Hope you all have a great weekend.

I'm growing my hair out.

It's getting cold and my ears need to stay warm ... lol

Got my Fall Colors on

New Do Revealed - Blonde Ambition

The new do came out super cute and super blonde.  I love it I don't think I've been this blonde in many years it's kind of nice change and the cut sure is too.  Yesterday I showed the inspiration for the cut and color and now you can see how it looks!

So what do you think?

First we had to process it from all my colors to blonde

the next step went so fast no pic.

Now the reveal!

Hope you all have a great weekend!

New Summer Do with Skinny Face

As most of you know my one real luxury is getting my hair done every 2 months.  I have been very blessed that my cousin is a hair dresser and let's me invade her house kids and all and invade her house for a little pampering for me!  Now that I'm almost at my goal weight I think I'm going to go a little daring and cut my hair very short in an asymmetrical bob.   Now I usually have a bob with the back cut short.  Now I'm going to go pretty short and very blonde.  I'm hoping I can pull this off!  With my face looking thinner I so have high hopes for this one!  So off to google I went and found a cut I like and then I went on a color mission!  So what do you think?  I'll reveal my new look on Friday!!!  For now here is the inspiration:

The Cut

The Color

Wish me luck!

Refresh of Me!!!

Well after a week of going crazy with doing every valentine thing I saw on Pinterest.  Mind you after the following week when I was running around crazy doing items for Caden's half Birthday (summer birthday's get to celebrate 1/2 birthday in school) ... sooo that post will come back next week!  So I needed a little refresh of myself.  My amazing hairdresser / cousin moved over Christmas and has been in unpacking h**l so we had to put off getting my hair done for 2 months.  My roots went from a 8 week need to be colored to almost 16 week trashy girl look ... lol!  Oh yes I was looking frazzled.  And since the scale hasn't budged in 2 weeks I was feeling rather down :(.  SOOO I was super excited to be getting a fresh new cut and color.

So I was watching lifetime (no comments and if you know me your just smiling because I LOVE that station) and fell in love with Candice Cameron's hair when she was in Puppy Love.  So I asked my cousin to give me that color ... and she ran with it and then since my face is looking so thin (her words but hey I agree) we went with a super short and sassy do!  I think this really is the best cut and color I've had in a long time.  And this time I actually can look at myself (I mean really look at myself ... before I avoided mirrors) to admire my cut and heck just the face looking back at me.

The inspiration

And here I am:

(don't mind the zit on my nose .. ugh)

Happy Friday everyone!  I hope you all have a wonderful day!

Getting my Winter Do on!

It's time again to switch up my hair color for the new season ok yes I'm early for Winter but heck it's already pretty cold here so I'm going with it ... lol.  I headed up to my amazing cousin's house yesterday to get freshened up and cleaned up.  

The inspiration

The final look

Hope you're all having a good week!