Hang Out Night Movie!

This week was a busy week for me! I am pretty tired too. I tried to get everything done but the week ran off with me. I think I lost Thursday somewhere on the way too. My whole crazy week ends tonight though. It's hang out night! And this weekend, I am watching a movie!

Here is one of my favorite movies from my teen years. ENJOY!

Fiddler On The Roof

Fall is in the Air! The Leaves are Turning Colors! OH YES!

I am so excited! Fall is finally in the air and the leaves are turning beautiful colors. I was outside with the girls and Nikky, playing in the leaves and I took some fun pictures to share with everyone.

Here is a brightly colored tree on my street. I took this one to show the kids when they get home from their trip, just in case all the leaves have fallen.

Here it is next to all the other colorful trees. Isn't it BEAUTIFUL!?

Nikky and the kids racked the leaves into a big pile so we could fill bags our landlords bought. Of course, you can't just fill the bags without...

JUMPING in them first! WOOHOO!

Nikky crawled into the leaf pile too and they had a leave attack! It was so much fun!

Here is an awesome picture of Nikky! Love the hair, girl! Love the hair!

And then the kids buried her in leaves MWAHAHAHAHA!

But popped out long enough for smooches on the cheek! Awwww, they are adorable!

I managed to get this wonderful picture of all three of them in the leaf pile.

OMG! Where did they go?

Of course, I had to get in on the fun too! I ended up being leaf attacked by GIRLS!

And dogpiled. They totally dogpiled me... and tickled me!

I made it out alive, if not a little leafy LOL

Then we got to the part we actually raked the leaves for... filling the bags! Linny wanted to fill them all by herself! she did a great job!

The sun was starting to set by then and I got this awesome picture of the evening sky!

And finally... we have pumpkin bags for decoration! 

Aren't they cute!

I'm a Writer! Not a Beautician!

First, before I start, in my defense, I am not a beautician! I am a writer, a blogger, an author... see a pattern emerging? I can describe things and explain things in ways you never imagined. But ask me to style hair and you might end up with something like this...

Because the extent of my hair expertise as a mom with boys is, take clippers, add attachment, turn on clippers, run through hair.

That being said, my friend asked me to try to give her a pixie cut. I googled how to do a pixie cut, speed-read through the directions, and I was set!

Here is her before picture so you can see how lovely her hair is :)

It's a little blurry, but you can see her beautiful locks falling gently onto her shoulders and flowing calmly, framing her face like a well made picture frame. SEE! Writer!

Now before I show you the after picture, let me defend myself by saying, she knew better! I have done her hair before. This is the fourth time and the first three weren't that wonderful!

Let's see, the first time I dyed her hair and well, it wasn't very nice looking when I got done. We'll leave it at that.

The next time, I bleached her hair. I am not sure how to bleach hair so I followed the directions (for the most part) and wrapped it like it said (or close to it) and waited the allotted amount of time (give or take a 1/2 hour). She ended up with some bleached spots, some orange spots, and a few red spots here and there sprinkled throughout her hair. She went to a salon to get it fixed correctly.

The last time I did her hair, I was giving her a perm. If ever you need a perm, I am NOT the person you should ask. NEVER ask a person with A.D.D. to come perm your hair when you have an interesting TV show on. I followed the directions (kind of) and then started timing. 30 minutes, three hours... they both have a 3 in them, right? Then I had her wash her hair out. I laugh maniacally when I say that, because, LITERALLY, she washed her hair out. As in, it fell out in clumps. To this day she still has a bald spot from my A.D.D. perm timer.

And STILL, she asked me to give her a pixie cut. So with all my hair cutting knowledge, that goes something like this: Hold scissors in one hand, hold hair in other hand, start cutting until it looks like the picture... I started cutting the cutest pixie cut ever!

Although her hair didn't turn out like what I was picturing in my head. Instead, this is her after photo...

I am off to make her some hats now. I think I owe her that much. Hey, it's hair... it'll grow out! Right? Right?

That four Letter Word: SNOW!

I am excited! I think I am the only one excited though. There is SNOW on the mountains! This means that winter is coming. It's just around the corner. Heck, it's peeking around the corner at me and teasing me. I can TASTE it!

Okay, so it doesn't look like this:

But there is definitely snow on the mountains in Libby! My friends saw this and they definitely are not excited about the cold weather coming. Me though? I am flipping EXCITED! I can't wait! 

I have my SNOW boots out, my snow pants ready, and I am waiting patiently for SNOW! 

Lexii let me know that there was flurries outside on her walk so, I took a special trip to the gas station at midnight just to see I could see any. I even did my make-up!

Hmmm, wonder why I am single...

Sadly, we didn't see any snow flurries. But, we did run into friends!

And kissed them on the cheek

And took photos with random strangers we just met

And I think we scared the gas station attendant a little LOL.

Oh yea! That is how crazy I get about SNOW! Hey, Wendy, my neighbor, told me not to post about SNOW... She says it's one of those four letter words! Sorry, Wendy... Had to do it! 

I LOVE SNOW!