Brandi inspired me to cut my hair

At the beginning of the month Brandi came over on her day off asking me to cut her hair. She had decided that she wanted to donate her hair to locks of love and was too anxious to wait to try and find a salon having a drive. So, we looked up the rules and info online and it is so cute. They even have a little video teaching you the steps on how to donate your hair.
So, I cut her hair.
It was kinda creapy cutting off an entire ponytail, especially since her hair is so thick.
The donated hair has to be 10 inches long so that left Brandi with pretty short hair. I cut it with layers all around and it turned out pretty cute. I cut Ross's hair so I figured that would qualify me as a professional so lucky for her, I do free haircuts if the hair is being donated. But, I made her work off her tip by running to the store for a red bull for me.

So, three weeks later and her bag-o-hair is still sitting her on my computer desk so, since I needed a haircut and was cutting Ross's hair today anyway, I decided to donate mine too. I had Ross take a before picture wich we forgot to do with Brandi.

I wish I wasn't wearing a sack dress. You can't really tell from the picture here, but my hair was literally at my waist. The last time my hair was that long was 1994 right before the notorious mullet cut incident! Well, I don't have a mullet this time, but it isn't picture worthy either. This is the after picture but you can't really tell what the hair that remains on my head looks like.

Ross wasn't confident enough to try and even out the cut and put the layers back in so I've got this really stupid looking bob right now. It is short in the back and long in the front (you have to cut the hair while it is banded in a ponytail) and looks just awful!
So, tomorrow morning on the way to the beach I'm going to stop in a super cuts somewhere and get them to make it look normal again.
Ross wanted to give Lily a haircut too because her hair is long enough to get in her eyes but I talked him out of it.
Now here is a great picture of Lily:

She looks like this just about all the time. She loves headbands and bracelets and scarves and pretty much is always covered in dirt (that is from mine & Ross's inability to grow grass in our yard). Those aren't bruises on her face, it is dirt and if her feet could be seen in the photo, I'm sure they were covered in dirt too. Yesterday she was playing in my closet and came out with a pair of fishnet panyhose on her head! I wish I had gotten that on camera!

Spring Break in the Keys & cute videos

Sandy came by on her way to the Keys with her kids to spend their Spring Break with Debbie and took Lily down too. So, while she was on Spring Break in the Keys, Ross and I took a relaxing day to ourselves at the beach. Then, I drove down the next day to join them. We had fun, relaxed and Allison taught Lily how to do a somersault.

Here is a video of her practicing in the yard yesterday

On Sunday we went to a friend's house for brunch. It was so nice. Most of the people were from Zim and most had small kids too. Here is Ross & Lily on the trampoline.

They also had a giant tiger. Lily LOVED it.



Then, Ross let her get in the slip & slide with all of her clothes on!

Lily is talking so much now. She puts two words together and answers questions. It is so amazing to see the progress. Last night Ross was in New York so I treated myself to sushi. I guess Lily thought it was funny because she kept saying it over and over. I thought it was funny too.

I kept trying to get Lily to say that Ross was in the "Big Apple" but she just wouldn't do it for the camera. She'd say it then I would turn on the camera and she would just repeat over and over that Daddy was at work.

Tragic accident over the weekend

Last weekend David and three friends went on a canoe trip. They had canoed this river before but this time it ended in a tragedy. The company that runs the canoe trips had a new employee who made a mistake and dropped them off at the wrong part of the river. They were dropped just before some rapids that no canoe should be on. David and his friend got dumped over about 15 minutes into the trip. The other pair were up the river ahead of them so they didn't know that they had gotten dumped over too. David and Matt were lucky and able to get themselves and their canoe over to the bank. His friends, soon after being dumped out went over a waterfall. The canoe broke and one of the boys didn't come up. After 24 hours of rescue workers searching the river they found his body on Sunday. His name was Craig Bond and I've been searching all over the internet for the story but it doesn't seem to be covered by of the papers. He was the drummer in David's new band.
I woke up five or six times in the night last night feeling sick to my stomach about what a horrible thing this is. I keep praying for his family and friends but I can't seem to get my head around the whole thing. I know that David must be having a really hard time with it. The guy that was in that canoe, the one who survived, lives in the house below Dave's apartment. I keep praying for him too. At some point during the search for Craig, he was told that he was the only one who made it!
David is beating himself up because he and Matt were joking and laughing about how bad of canoers that they were, that only 15 minutes into the trip they had already taken a spill. Not knowing at the time what was happening around the bend. He knows that he shouldn't feel guilty, but he does.
I can't imagine how bad this all feels to those guys.
It makes me sick to my stomach and hurts my heart.