The Simple Life

saturday outing...

i can't believe gulianna is getting so old! she will be eight this summer. tonight we went to see the broadcast of the general women's session of conference with our friends jamie and ava! they made cafe rio salads for dinner, and actually bought a lot of tortillas from cafe rio, which made it that much better! it's all about the tortilla. 

easter junque banner...

my latest junque banner...in my etsy shop! 

thepolkadotbarn.etsy.com

i did it...

i actually went through with my hair appointment and highlighted my hair...can you believe it?!

to color or not to color...

i have not colored my hair for 6 YEARS NOW! can you believe it? it's not as dark as in the photos...but filters are nice...am i right! so for over a year i've been debating whether or not to add some blonde. i like my natural hair color, i get maybe two trims a year, and so i just haven't wanted to mess with the low maintenance i have going on. 

here is my hair without a filter...and i have lots of random red hairs too, like pure red head hair. so weird i know! well i booked my appointment for tomorrow, whether i keep it or cancel it, i don't know! too nervous, but i could use a little change! we shall see...

on my desk...

working on lots of custom orders! can't wait to finish wrapping these last few up, so that i can get my room back to order, and then i can start on easter banners. never ending i tell you ;)

bike rides...

riding off into the sunset this evening! love this picture i caught unexpectedly. gulianna was helping isabella balance on her bike, until we got back to isa's bike. (i'm sure because she didn't want to walk any more!) i pushed jeremy in the stroller, and the other 3 rode their bikes. anthony was scared of every dog we came in contact with! 

anthony's staples...

this is the classic warning of "do not run with scissors." which is what happened today. i ran outside for 3 minutes to take pictures of my banner, came back inside to anthony holding his arm, and holding back the tears.

i asked him what happened and he quickly told me that isa ran to get a bandaid so i wouldn't find out. when i came back in the house i even heard her going next door to grandma cherrie's and she was singing. then anthony told me that as soon as i left, she was running with scissors because they were going to "work on a project" but then they started fighting, i'm sure because he just wanted to play with his legos.

when i left outside, she was sitting on the sofa playing with her leap pad, and he was sitting on the floor building stuff with his legos. poor kid. i told him we had to go get his skin sewn back together.

he fell asleep really fast, probably from being so stressed out about his arm .my neighbor brought over butterfly closures because i didn't have any, i squeezed his little fat back into his arm and then we had to wait 20 min til gulianna got out of school. i took him into the clinic, but the doctor was busy for an hour. so we walked over to the e.r. and then he didn't want to get stitches. i told him he had to then keep the butterfly bandaids on for a whole week, without touching them. we then went to the grocery store, and they didn't last 10 minutes with him running all over. so back to the doctor we went. by then they were closing, but he stayed and quickly numbed his arm and stapled it shut. poor anthony, screamed and cried. he wasn't quite numb yet! and with that kind of incision, it stung really bad. he was still very brave, and got an ice cream right after.

springtime snow...

we got snow! and isn't it lovely? it's basically been spring all winter, we haven't had snow since christmas eve. march, in like a lion, out like a lamb, right? this will all be melted by tomorrow. can't wait for greener grass, yay!