70s Revisited

I'm growing out my hair and as such I haven't had it trimmed since December. As a result, my bangs are diving me nuts! One morning I had the idea to curl them back with the rest of my hair rather than under. It got them out of my eyes much better, however, I can't quite decided if it is a bit too retro for me...

I kinda felt like I'd finally achieved the famed Farrah Fawcett hairstyle:

 

I suppose that's an improvement since for awhile I thought I had David Cassidy hair:

 

 

Can't wait until my hair is more up-to-date!

 

Can you Feel the Love Tonight?

A few days before Valentines I was visiting a sister from Church and she gave me some flowers to float in a bowl. Well, I had more flowers than bowls so I used anything that might work (I have them in 5 different containers around the house). I liked the look of the white-on-white but decided to add a little color to the decor:

Even thought it doesn't look it in the picture, the water's pink. Feeling a little cleaver and creative with this super easy "project."

Our finances are so tight right now it's insane. Thankfully we are meeting all of our obligations and not falling behind on anything but there just isn't room for anything extra. As Valentine's approached I'll admit, I was completely bummed and bothered by our situation.

Regardless, we still had a nice Valentine's Day and managed to spoil each other a little and keeping our financial belts tight and secure.

A personalized CD with some of Dan's favorite showtunes and a card from me.

Some yummy chocolate & toffee candy and a letter from Dan.

To the Redbox for a free 1-night movie rental.

(P.S. We both really liked this movie.)

We redeemed our most current 2-for-1 Blizzard coupon.

Not really good for us, but oh, such a tasty way to send Dan off to work.

Last year our ward did a Family Valentine's dance that was a huge success. The Bishop said he's had several 5-6 year-olds ask if we'd do another dance. Well, we made it a new tradition! On Friday the 15th the Timber Creek ward held the 2nd Annual Valentine's Dance. Dan and I made sure to not to miss it this year and we had a BLAST!!!!! (Last year we were out of town for this event.)

Like last year, they had Just Dance for the Wii  projected onto a large screen and drew names from a basket to get to use the controllers. Then everyone who wanted to would stand in front or back of those being scored and dance along. Well looking around I realized that we had 4 of 5 members of the Bishopric there...Soooooo...guess who was called to perform? Yep, the Bishopric! Of course I made sure to grab my camera to record the moment for future posterity and ward history:

 

Can you see the facial expressions, especially, Dan's? He wasn't hamming it up any either, wink, wink.

 

Their rhythm was so amazing they are talking about taking their show on the road, NOT! I do have a short video of them dancing but Blogger isn't being super video-download-friendly at present so it will have to wait. Trust me, you will want to be sure to enjoy that epic piece of entertainment as soon as I can get it up.

Even if it wasn't like previous years or all we would have wished, it was still enjoyable and we had a memorable Valentine's weekend.

"Snow on Snow, Snow on Snow"

This is my attempt at capturing the beauty of the snowfall a couple weeks ago:

The next morning I was going to be sure to capture the trees and bushes but by the time I was ready to take pictures (after a long phone interview and shoveling a couple of neighbor's driveways) it was all melted from the trees. These will have to do, but they don't really do it justice...

While You're At It, Houston...

We had only a few rows out at the start of the season. By the time we took it down, this is what it looked like: 

 

Bless his heart, Dan took all the light strands off our formerly pre-lit tree. Guess we'll be investing in lights to go on the tree this year...

(Have almost the same issue with one of my 4' trees I keep outside, all the lights are gone on one of those. Just not our year for pre-lit trees.)

Houston...I think we have a problem...

This is how our washing machine has looked for the last couple days.

I realized, after trying to spin a load three times, that the drum wasn't spinning at all...kind of a problem...So we took the cover off (thank you YouTube for the video instructions) to see if we could see anything stuck and blocking the drum. No luck and the end of our fix-it ability. A call to a friend from church and we still don't have it fixed (beyond his skill set too).

Thankfully I just received a call from the place we purchased the washer & dryer and they are on their way to work their magic--they predict it's the coupler or clutch that needs to be replaced--they guarantee they will fix any repair for $50. YAY! I have at least four loads of laundry waiting to be washed, including the wet batch I was washing when I discovered the problem.