Before and After

I couldn't take it anymore; I was so tired of not being able to see my sweet Ryanne's face I cut her hair! Ugh! I am so wierd about that. It just about killed me to see the 3-4" of curls falling to the floor. My friend asked if I wanted to keep them so I must have looked pathetic while she was chopping away. Here are 2 before shots of her unruly do!
I mean seriously I couldnt even get a comb through it!
Here she is SO excited about her knew look and ready to dress up for Halloween. I didn't think it was possible for her to be any cuter but now that I can see her beautiful blue eyes and that trade mark gap in her teeth I am certain she'll get away with murder from people.
I think these curls should be illegal! Yup, Dan is going to die when he gets off shift and see's all of her hair gone........bat those baby blues at him Ryanne!! Halloween pictures to follow tomorrow!

Just For Laughs

So this kid all of about 10 or 11 was walking around the neighborhood offering to paint your address on your curb for $10; since I am a huge fan of kids earning money the good old fashioned way (dare I say it, "work") I decided to hire him. After he got the old address all painted over he looked up at me in all his years of kid wisdom and said,"Did you want the same number or a new one?" I didn't want to break his heart so in all the seriousness I could muster I thought for a minute and then said,"na' I think I like the old one!" It was a $10 well spent, I got a newly painted curb and a great laugh. Kids are the BEST!!

A Day At The Museum

Smoke Free Fun

When you are a daddy who has been on fires all week you sleep...........

When you're little girls who have missed their daddy all week you climb on top and watch cartoons! Dan's going to love that I posted this picture. ;)

We decided after Dan's strike team got released we would run for Palm Springs for the day to try and get away from the smoke. We went to lunch and to the Children's Museum which the girls LOVED!! Morgan got a lift from daddy on the pully.We played dress up too! I know, I know you thought I really wore that hat on the average day huh?Chef Morgan served us up some pretend pizza. Really good since thats the closest I have come to pizza in a year! :)

All in all a good time was had. The girls especailly loved painting the old Volkswagone bug which by the way I am sure is going to come back to haunt me. I made it REALLY clear it was the ONLY car I ever wanted to see with paint on it! Did I mention I got suspended my senior year for painting a rivals school letter on their hill? Hopefully the apple falls really far from the tree. More pictured below!! Have a great week everybody!

Guess Who I Met?

I get this phone call last night from Dan Saying,"guess who I met?" I got so excited and yelled "The President?" Dan calmly said,"no." I said,"oh, oh the Terminator!!" Dan was getting frustrated at this point so he yelled out,"no, Clint Eastwood!" As you can imagine I was very confused by this point. Clint Eastwood? I thought you were fighting fires? Dan proceeded to explain that after coming down the hill they came across a movie being made by good ol' Clint and when he heard there were firemen around the set he wanted to meet them and thank them for all of their hard work. Dan is by no means a star struck kind of guy but whether you like Clint or not you have to admit meeting an old time movie legend is kind of cool. Dan's rookies are never going to want to leave his station now that they think this is how crew 222 REALLY lives everyday....cute!

Is The End In Sight?

I took this picture off our back patio last night as the sun was trying to set in the smoke filled sky. Pretty, but unfortuantly really unhealthy.
Dan got to come off the mountain last night after 3 days of fighting fires so the girls and I took him some clean clothes and made his crew some muffins that they were more than happy to take off our hands. :) The girls were really excited to see daddy and since my mother in law was with me everyone was fighting for air space to talk to him as you can imagine. He's tired but hoping to be released on Friday morning if everything calms down.
On the way home I decided I needed to kill a couple of more hours so the girls wouldn't kill each other so we stopped and played video games and ate pizza!
We made the most out of our week being all screwed up, Dan being gone, & we had just some good clean fun indoors away from the smoke! :)

Calm Before The Storm!

Ok, so all weekend I was so excited because we had NOTHING to do. We had nowhere to be (except church) and it was great! We have been SOOOOO busy with swim meets and Dan's races etc. that it felt so great to do nothing. We got up Saturday morning and in anticipation of Dan coming home made this huge breakfast and then sat out on the back patio and enjoyed the warn sun and wind.
The girls were so happy to get to play with their toys which you guessed it included dirt and mud.
We thought is would be nice to invite Dans mom down from Lake Arrowhead for the weekend to hang out with the girls; little did we know what the week would hold for her and thousands of other families. It's funny becuase I kept thinking,"ahhh, this weekend is to calm, to mellow, to delightful. Surely something is coming." I swear I am a "glass is half full" type of person but this weekend I just had this feeling.
So around 6am Monday morning I get a call from my mother in law that she needs to come move in & my husband moved out! Ugh!! I want my cozy, sleep in, make pancakes, watch my girls play in the sun weekend back. Whaaa! Seriously though, I am praying for all you firefighters and wives who hold the fort down. Be strong! And to those of you who may have lost your homes or know someone who did? God is faithful and we will get through this. We're Californians, we're tough!