I need your help - HAIR CUTS

I'm dying to do something to my hair but I can't find any do's that I want to do.  Does anyone have any ideas/pictures of any hair dos that you have seen and/or had that you absolutely loved.  Here's the criteria

 

- has to be easy (I'm pretty much 100% hair incompetent

- has to work with relatively thick hair. 

- can be any length from short to shoulder length (since that's where my hair is now)

 

Send photos (or links to them!) so that I can see what they look like. 

 

THANKS FOR YOUR HELP!!!  may the best hair-do win!!!

Preciousness Exposed

Two of my sisters and one sister-in-law are pregnant and I guess I got jealous.....














So we got a puppy!!!!!

Meet Shalom. Our newest bundle of joy!!!








But no, I'm not pregnant. For now, I'll just love on my boys!!!

Congratulations! You've won...

I would say in the last month or so, I have probably entered 50-75+ contests/sweepstakes for everything from a $5 gift card to a $28 grilling set to a $1400 treadmill to a vacation package for 6 to Puerto Rico.  What did I win?  A sample pair of Hanes Her Way hipster underwear. In white. Everyone's favourite. Jeremiah's response:  "Way to go - now we've lost all chances of winning anything good cause you wasted our luck on underwear" (not word for word, but you get the drift.)

 

Jeremiah enters one lousy contest -- a link he found while browsing through the www.Drudgereport.com website.  Yesterday, he received a voicemail and an email saying "CONGRATULATIONS! You are our first place winner! You've won..." blah blah blah...

 

SO WE WON!! We're on our way to a three day, two night vacation for 2 to Fairfax, Virginia, complements of the Virginia Tourism department.  We fly from Harrisburg to Dulles, get a three day car rental, 2 nights stay at the Crowne Plaza Tyson Corner hotel , get a nice supper out on Saturday night, free breakfasts at the hotel, and 2 tickets to see Les Miserables at Wolf Trap!!

 

Check out the details for yourself at http://www.virginia.org/musicpromo/lesmiserables.asp

 

YAY Jeremiah!!!

 

(And don't worry -- I'll continue to enter any contest I come across!)

It's here!

You've waited with bated breathe. Now here it is. Enjoy the virtual tour, and when you're ready, jump in the car and swing by for the real thing!! Serious!

Pictures to come!

Hey! For those who are wondering where we are living now, pictures are to come very soon!!!  The house is pretty much put together (just need to get some pictures up on the walls!). We are LOVING it!!! Oh my goodness, we are so blessed.  Despite the fact that the bills are pushed tighter together than ever, we feel so rich and blessed.  God is good!!! 

 

 

Now that I said pictures are coming, hold me to it!!  We've meant to take them a couple of times and it hasn't happened!!!  Tonight we'll straighten up and by tomorrow, pictures!  Ok???

It's closing day!!!!!

...and it's pouring rain!!!

Closing day on our house is TODAY!!! YAHOO!!!!  That means we move tomorrow (and lose the apartment as of Monday. Here's to hoping the 50% chance of rain for tomorrow holds off because we have to do it anyway... we'll just probably lose most of our help!!!

Here are some things that I will NOT miss about the apartment:

1- No more squeaky floors! (house has cement floors, no squeaking!)
2- No more worrying about scaring the downstairs neighbour to death by
dropping something (she's really sensitive -- we really may have scared her
to death!) --
3- No more stairs to the doorway! (house is completely one story living)
4- No more parking under a tree and being constantly speckled with
"helicopters" and bird doo! (house has a garage)
5- No more road being flooded when it rains (while this was amusing, it will
be nice to know we can get out -- even in the rain!)
6- No more laundry in the kitchen! (house has a laundry room with a door and
everything! no more dust in my kitchen appliances!)
7- No more running toilet every 20 minutes! (the apartment toilet needs new inards but we never had them come to do it)
8- No more having to remember to touch the dial on the dishwasher when it gets to the rinse cycle (at the apartment, the dishwasher is broken. It stops at Rinse and you have to nudge the button.  They are replacing it as soon as we're gone -- could have been a couple weeks ago, but we didn't want the hassle. We just ran it when we were home to "help it along"
7- I wish I could say no more ugly couch, but we've had to put buying a new
one on hold indefinitely. It'll come -- in its time.

We're pretty excited about the move (can you tell???)

TEN DAY COUNTDOWN!!

WOW!! The 10 day countdown has begun!!! I cannot believe it is happening so fast! (or that there is still so much to do!!!)

 

Of course, we've continued to peak in the windows...

The kitchen cupboards are in (bonus)

There is a fan in the living room as there should be (and the one they hung in the wrong place is still there... hmmmm... think it's too much of a bother to take it down??? I am fine with them leaving it there...)

The tile is down and grouted (spelling?) in the entry way.

The vinyl flooring is down in kitchen/dining room, laundry room and bathrooms

Grass is growing (and so are a few weeds.. think they'll take care of this before closing???)

 

 

Stuff we know is still to come:

Sinks in kitchen and bathrooms

Bathroom paraphenalia (rods, towel racks, tp roll holder, etc)

Closet/laundry room shelving

Installation of appliances

spot painting (a couple spots they cut through drywall never got repainted properly)

Switch out door to green door

Hang shutters

Clean sticker gook off windows

Mark backyard

 

I'm sure there is more that we cannot see from our window vantage point.  Hopefully 8 days is long enough to get it all done :) We do the final walk-through on Wednesday!!!