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Weekend pics and an update

By sunshineandholly on June 2, 2011

Weekend pics!

Chocolate Bar!

Laser Show!

Headed to the Braves game!

Lacey and Jack are Braves fans too!

Sorry my blog has been mostly pics lately. Apparently, I only have a lot to write about when my job’s not going well. 🙂 But honestly, work’s actually been pretty good. I’ve been super busy (which makes the days go by super fast!) and I just spent the last few weeks on-boarding a new employee in our department (which means I get to use some of my Human Resources skills that are going to waste!). So I’ve actually been happy with my work-life.

As for my personal life, things couldn’t be better! We’ve been doing tons of fun stuff (as you can tell by all the weekend pics) and we’ve almost finished the kitchen renovation. I’d say we’re about 99.5% done! 🙂

On a completely separate subject, I need to renew my teaching certificate. Yes, I’d rather die than teach, but I don’t want to let it expire – it’s a good back up career. But MAN – the Georgia Professional Standards Commission website is SO confusing! Hopefully I’ll figure out what the heck I’m supposed to do before the end of the month!

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Weekend Pics!

By sunshineandholly on May 26, 2011

Oakland Cemetery’s Tunes from the Tombs:

Atlanta Zoo:

Super fun weekend despite the 90+ degree weather!

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Happy Mothers Day!

By sunshineandholly on May 8, 2011

Happy Mothers Day to my strong, sweet, caring mom!!! I love you!

And Happy Mothers Day to my other mom – my mother-in-law!

And Happy Mothers Day to my sister, who is expecting baby #3 in November!!

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New Hair!

By sunshineandholly on May 5, 2011

This past Saturday, I did something very uncharacteristic.

I changed my hair.

I’ve pretty much had the same hair since I was in middle school: long, parted on the right side, strait, natural color.
Typical “Holly hair”:

Except –
One time I put in blonde highlights (When I went to the Bahamas in college).

One time I dyed it red at home. (Thank GOD that was a temp color and washed out after 30 washes. It looked terrible!)

One time I dyed it red at the hair dresser. (And that actually looked pretty good.) 🙂
Red hair:

One time I chopped it all of for locks-of-love. (That’s when I realized I look terrible with short hair.)
Short hair + chubby face = not pretty:

But other than that – the same hair! I’ve layered it differently – but pretty much it’s been same old-same old. But on Saturday, I decided to get bangs. It was a spur of the moment decision. I didn’t tell anyone – not even Josh! And you know what – it was WAY more traumatic than cutting off all my hair for locks-of-love. At least when they do that – they cut off the hair behind your back. So you don’t actually SEE the scissors chop it all off. But with bangs…it’s right in FRONT of your face. CHOP! A lock of 10-inch hair…GONE! Right in front of my eyes.

Scary! My heart literally fluttered when she cut it off. “WHAT HAVE I DONE?!?!”

And at first it looked terrible! It looked like I had a mop on my head! I was trying not to freak out in the hairdressers chair.

But then she finished styling it…and I was better. I still didn’t LOVE the bangs…but they looked OK.

Josh loves them. He was so cute when I got home. I’m glad I decided to surprise him. 🙂 And all my friends and coworkers have said nice things about the bangs…

But…I still wasn’t sure about them…

Until today.

FIVE days later I finally got used to them. Today they finally stopped tickling my forehead…and making me think I had a huge bug on my head. Today I can finally look in the mirror and not get freaked out by the stranger with bangs. Today I finally think I styled them right so I don’t look like I had a libmon mop on my head.

So now…I think I like them. 🙂