HOLY Roots Batman!!

New year and a refresh of my hair do!  This is the first time since my 20's that I have repeated a hair color / style 3 times in a row. I had so many comments on this style I had to do it one last time. You know you're hair is a hit when you're at dinner and a stranger comes up to you and ask if they can take photos of your hair to show their stylist ... lol made me giggle but it was very flattering. 

I know I say this every time but man getting older sucks. When I was young I was always a natural platinum blonde. Now days I have to dye my hair to get that look again .. lol life.

One last time with the platinum and black color!

Have a great day!!

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!

Spring hasn't Sprung ... So we add color to me

Spring just isn't feeling like it right now and I just needed a pick me up!  My amazing cousin is a hairdresser on on her day off she let's me come over so she can do my hair.  With Rick gone the boys were able to play while she did my hair.  Of course 4 kids always lead to no peace but we made it through it.  So I gave myself a new blonde do and for fun we added some peek a boo pink on the side!  I thought it would be fun, heck I work at home so I don't have to worry about a dress code why not?

Here are some shots of my new do.  Ok so this is late at night and most of my make up was washed off from rinsing my head in her kitchen sink.

Side with just a pop of pink

Front mostly blonde

Side view with more pop of pink.

the back

(yikes my bathroom mirror needs to be cleaned)

Look I'm popping my collar ... lol

What the heck ... hehe

This is how I wear my hair most days so 

I can walk with out hair in my face

you can really see the pink.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

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!

The Reveal of the New Do!!

I'm so excited about my new do it turned out so cute.  She colored and styled it to fit me and my personality and I'm just love love loving it!!  She was even sweet enough to cut the boys cuts too for school!!

Check us out we are a styling family!  What do you think?

Fall Color Time Again

Most of you know I love to change up my hair color with each season.  I know we're still in Summer but I only get my hair done every 8 to 10 weeks so I wanted to be ready for a fall color.  Ok I just want something new and I'm going with it!  My amazing cousin is a hair dresser and she is so sweet and allows me to come to her house on her day off and she does my hair.  I love it, I get a great deal and I like that I can give her the cash instead of the salon where the owner probably would take a chunk of it.  She is so sweet she is even going to cut the boys hair so they are ready for school which is coming up in 12 DAYS!!!  Thank you God I didn't think this summer break would EVER end.  Remember I work at home and having them home along with a hubby that is out of work makes for FUN days for me!!!

So on to my new do!  Since my 30's hit I've always done shorter do's, to avoid the pony tale look which I do if I have long hair since I'm hair lazy.  PLUS working at home I get to wear PJ's and bed head so short hair goes great with my head set ... What it acts like a headband!

So I hit up my board "Make Me Over" on Pinterest and came across this photo.  I loved the cut and the colors so I sent a note to my cousin and we are all set for tomorrow!  I will have to reveal the finished product when I'm done and of course with good lighting (that is key in my world).

What do you think?

A New Do for Another Year Older

Well I’m back to blonde look!  Sorry about the crappy picture for some reason my iPhone doesn’t take the best close up pictures (yes I’m sure it’s the operator but let’s go with it).  I did have a nice time talking with my cousin.  It’s always nice to talk to someone who knows you and the members who play the roles in your world.

Thank you for my amazing friends who took the time to send me birthday cards.  You all are too sweet, I’m horrible with cards so forgive me that it takes everything I got to make sure to get Christmas Cards out.  Tonight my Tuesday dinner friend is so sweet and is having dinner for me.  It meant so much to me that she wanted to make sure I had a special day.  You got to love friends who do the little things that mean the world!

Yes it is true I will be 36 years old tomorrow!  This has been a crazy year for me personally.  I have thankfully been very blessed with a job that keeps me very busy and takes very good care of me!  Rick sadly lost his job but has been helping with the kids. I have been on a weight loss journey and of last week’s weight in down 23.8 lbs.  It has been a slow go but I can feel the difference in my clothes.  I try to go walking at least 4 or 5 times a week.  I wish I could say I’m dropping like 5 lbs a week but it’s a slow go of usually 1 to 2 lbs.  I may not be skinny girl by the end of summer but maybe next year … lol.  I have to keep it in my mind I’m doing this right and not to let the green little monster in me get jealous if I hear a story on FB of someone loosing 20 lbs a month … ugh.  Ok back down green monster … lol.  So there you have it a year of craziness but some clarity and needing to better me.  Here’s to another year ups and downs I’ll take them all as long as my weight is the down one … hehe!