The kids doing pysanky with Gramma Jean for the first time!

They’re a bit behind—I started at age 3! They were both excited to sit down and do it. Gramma gave them a quick lesson on how to hold the egg and kistka, but unfortunately both of them forgot and ended up grabbing the hot metal end…which is why you see tears on some of Katie’s close up pics. They both had fun and enjoyed doing two eggs—I was only going to watch but then couldn’t help myself and had to jump in and “do a quick egg” which of course turned into more time than I planned and I ended up sitting there finishing mine while the kids were done and outside playing. 🙂 (Note: The eggs are done but are still at Gramma’s house being varnished so the finished product photo will come later.)

2017 Marine Corps Birthday Ball

Turns out we have zero good lighting spots in our house for pictures. Which means I should have gotten out my real camera…

So we did a selfie and hope that our actual ball photo will be better (they took professional pics but they were free so we have no idea when we will get them).

Doh! The first time ever we could bring our own wine and I forgot.

 

It’s always fun to get dressed up and go out but I never know anyone so it’s honestly kind of awkward. We ended up leaving early because we were both tired…

Time to revamp the mermaid hair!

The color didn’t last nearly as long as I’d hoped and I was not loving the bleached blonde look so it was time to fix it…and I wanted it done for the birthday ball so today was the day.

The new, more subtle colors. We opted to not use the same teal I had before so I could use a dark blue shampoo which will hopefully help the color last longer.

At this point (just about halfway in) she already needed to go mix more color. Yeah, I have a lot of hair.

Time to rinse and wash.

  

I know my hair is long but it looks sooo much longer when it’s professionally blown out and straightened.