New Dos, Part 2

When I had my hair done, the beautician told me that I had a lot of natural curl in my hair, so I should try and style it like that. So here it is, with some mousse in it. Sorry, Savannah took the picture. She thinks that she can do anything.

I also decided to try to give Melanie a little ponytail.
She finally has enough hair for me to pull it up into the tiniest ponytail!

A New Trick

Last night we were finishing up Family Home Evening and I told Savannah to fold her arms so we could have the prayer. Melanie was playing on the floor at the time and I happened to glance at her. She was sitting there with her arms folded too! So we were able to snag a few pictures of her doing her new trick. She won't fold her arms every time that she's told, but she'll do it about half of the time!

The New Do

Saturday night Jane took me to get my hair done. I was really quite nervous about the whole thing, so I ended up not doing anything too drastic to my hair. I did get it layered and had about 3 inches taken off in the back and a lot more taken off in the front. I also got some blonde highlights. So feel free to tell me if you like it or not. Maybe next time I'll be brave enough to have it cut short!
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Which is which?

My Dad keeps saying that Melanie looks just like me when I was little. So he gave me a picture of when I was little. Can you tell which one is me and which is Melanie?

Okay, so the quality of the pictures kind of gives it away.

But don't we look a lot alike?

Memory - Ada Fire

I have a little bit of extra time and so I thought that it would be a perfect time to share a memory. I'm hoping to do this on a regular basis.

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The Ada Fire

I was looking through some old pictures and came across these. During Jon's second year of law school one of the buildings in Ada caught fire. It was a very large fire and at first I thought that it was one of the old church buildings in Ada that was on fire. But it was 3 stories tall. The top 2 stories were apartments. I think the fire started in one of the apartments or attic. There were a few businesses on the bottom floor. We often went to the Movie Rental place that was on the ground floor, even though you could only rent the movie for 1 night. In the picture below, it was where all the windows are busted out and all you can see is bricks and debris. There was also a tattoo parlor right next to that, but they were lucky enough to have moved to a newer location about a month before the fire. If you look closely, you can see a For Rent sign in their window.

I remember that the entire town was filled with smoke that night. Also, because there was such a large demand on the water and water pressure that it did something funky to the tap water. The water was all cloudy for a couple of months. Main Street had to be closed off for a few weeks and then the building just sat there like this for a while. When Jon and I came back for our 3rd year, the building had been demolished and there was only a vacant lot there.

Movie Debut

The parent's of a good friend of mine made our wedding video. Her dad is also a fireman for the city of Mesa. His fire chief put him in charge of making some water safety commercials. So, Melanie and I get to star in one of their six commercials! We went today and strutted our stuff for about an hour and a half. Melanie did great! She was able to crawl over and stand up to the bucket of water that I was using to mop the floor. I must say that she was a natural, unlike myself. I was quite nervous. We didn't want Melanie to start crying when I had to scream her name, so we decided to call her Katelyn instead (which also happens to be my niece's name). But luckily they didn't have too many complaints about my poor acting abilities! The commercials are supposed to be finished by the end of next week. I assume that they will start showing them shortly after that. I was told that they will mainly air on Channel 11, which is the city of Mesa's channel. But there is a possibility that they will also air on other channels.

Ponytail

Savannah has been so picky about how I do her hair lately. She only wants ONE ponytail on the top of her head, with her hair down in the back. But I did manage to put all her hair up in a ponytail the other day. I thought that she looked so cute. However, she hasn't let me do it again since then.

A Big Kid Bed, Part 2

I decided to check on the girls before I got into bed last night.

This is how I found Savannah. I knew that she'd have trouble staying in her bed. I'm just surprised that it's taken a week and a half before she fell out.

Building Blocks

Yesterday, Savannah wanted to build a castle with her blocks. She wanted it to look exactly like the picture on the tub. I think that we did pretty good. And having those blocks for about 2 years now, I'm surprised that we were only missing 2 or 3 of them!

Swim Lessons

Savannah started swim lessons yesterday. She was very excited to go, especially wearing her princess swim suit. She loved the first day! She enjoyed kicking and blowing bubbles. She had a lot of fun. Unfortunately, she had to go under the water today and she completely hated that! She started crying and didn't want to get back in the pool. She says that she doesn't want to go back, so I'll probably have to bribe her to get her to go again tomorrow.