Makeover(ish)

I am bored with my hair but not willing to go too risky. I always miss my long hair when it's gone but occasionally find myself willing to part with it to enjoy some change and bring some life back to my hair.
I would love some opinions, if you are into this kind of thing...if not then revisit in a few days and I will post some kid pics or recipes or something of more interest to you than my silly hair makeover. ;)

I did an image search on line for hairstyles, here are some ideas I have for cut.


Here are some ideas I have for color.

I'm thinking I want to go darker. As for the picture of the gals w/ asymmetric hair I don't want to do the large chunk of red she has but some fun dark red or eggplant color peeking out here and there from the dark color is fun to me. I like to other color ideas too and the hints of caramels or reds.

What are your thoughts?

Life as a tourist...

It's fun to live around so many things to do.
This past weekend we went to Ballard Locks to watch boats transport between fresh water and salt water and each body of water is a different "height" (not sure how to phrase that), so basically the locks are a man made way to help the boats cross from one to the other without problem. I haven't quite taken the time to understand this but it was cool to watch in action.
They have also made a Salmon Ladder which helps the salmon swim upstream and cross from one body of water to the other, although I cannot remember if they are going from fresh to salt or vice versa. I'm no expert (obviously) and I'm too busy chasing a 3 year old & asking if she needs to go potty to spend my time reading signs. Adam reads them & then tries to explain them to me and these are my muddled & confused explanations. haha
Here are some pictures.


We spent Wednesday in Seattle. We road the train, along the coast from Edmonds (which is a town very near our home) to Seattle and then back. It was cheap and fun. We enjoyed the water and the outline of mountains on the horizon. I wish we had taken more pictures, but we were busy having fun & making KJ hold our hand against her will.


All you moms out there can rejoice with me that we are on day 3 of no diapers with KJ, not even at bedtime! I decided to just go for it in the city & prayed we would find bathrooms when we needed them. I was very aware to ask her when I saw clean bathrooms(Thanks Bob A. for the "Always Try" FOCUS advice, it has forever heightened my awareness of bathrooms when away from home. LOL.)

Dance Twirl Sing

This is our house, if KJ is awake. Dancing, twirling, and singing - and the singing is LOUD! If you are not projecting you are not singing, I think this is KJ's philosophy anyway. She LOVES to dance. Next week she is starting a ballet and tap class so we used her birthday money from Grandma,PopPop and GG to purchase her dance shoes and leotards. I'm telling you this girl is on cloud 9! She keeps asking when dance class is and why she can't wear her tap shoes all day. Here are some pictures of KJ modeling her new clothes. Thank you for the birthday money wonderful Grandparents, you have a very happy granddaughter!

K Turns 3!

Labor Day we took a Ferry Ride to Kingston and ate yummy crepes, we walked around a bit but there really wasn't much to see on foot near the ferry. Then we rode back. The ferry ride was fun and the kids enjoyed it. Daddy took KJ to the top of the ferry to check out the view. When asked what she thought of it she said, "It's kinda like a pirate ship!" (Thanks to Jake & the Neverland Pirates on Disney she is forever in love with pirates & she hasn't seen the show in months!)

KJ helped we make the batter for her birthday cake and I let her play with the little batter leftover & make cupcakes, which we did bake but did not share because she licked her fingers WAY too many times. LOL

Here are some pics from our week.