The haircut that the hubs hates

 

On the 26th of September I decided that I needed a haircut. I was contemplating dying my hair bright pink… or red… or a combination of pink and blue… but in the end I decided on a cut.

This was my hair on the morning of September 27th. Long, dark, straight, with long bangs.

We cut off the pile of hair pictured above.

This is what my hair looked like after.

I am personally in love with it. Short hair is my favorite, especially in the age of clip in extensions. I love how easy it is to fix it, and leave. I don’t have to spend an hour actually styling my hair.

Husband had a very different idea of my hair thought.

Hubs was upset to say the least. This is his “annoyed/glaring/what the heck is my wife taking pictures of” face.. which is very appropriate to how he felt about my hair.

He’s gotten a little better about it, and hasn’t mentioned the emotional damage I’ve caused him by cutting off my hair.

Sorry Husband. It’s just hair. It’ll grow back. For now, I’ll enjoy my short, easy cut!

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Happy birthday

… to the best husband in the world.

Dear Husband,

Today marks the 5th year that we will celebrate your birthday together. It’s been an adventure going through the years. We have changed and grown a great deal as a couple. Your first birthday was only a month after our first “official” date, and I can still remember you picking me up from work to go to the Underworld concert. I remember, curling up in the front seat of the Avalanche and falling asleep on the drive home. I remember you gently nudging me awake as you pulled up to my driveway. I never thought that I would love you as much as I do today. If on September 11th of 2007, someone told me that in just a little over two years we would be married and building our amazing little life together, I would have never believed them.

23rd birthday at the Underworld concert. We look incredibly young, and that smile of yours melted my heart away. 

24th Birthday, the Avenue Q show at the Denver Preforming Arts Center, where we set next to the awkward old man and his son who couldn’t stop laughing at the “Internet is for Porn” song.

25th Birthday, celebrated in Vail with just the two of us, before coming down to Denver and heading out to a lounge and pool with some great friends.

26th Birthday… I don’t have an actual photo from this day, since somehow our point and shoot got lost. We celebrated the day in Chatfield Reservoir where I got open water certified by a great Dive Master from A-1 Scuba.

Today, we’ll celebrate your 27th birthday with some of our closest and dearest friends and family. I can’t promise that I will not overcook, or that I will not make a big deal of you. But I can promise that this year is going to be yet another great one.

I love you, more today then yesterday and more tomorrow then today.

 Wife

What I’m loving Wednesday

This has become one of my favorite posts of the week… so once again I’m linking up with Jaime from this kind of love to share what I’ve been loving these past week.

I am loving these beautiful shoes. The chunky heels have me sold. I love a heel that is sexy and comfy, and the thick heels do just that. How beautiful are these shoes?!

 

Levity Nicolo Pump

Mojo Moxy Sophia Pump

Aldo Lewi

I’m loving these quotes… each one of them speaks in ways that cannot be explained.

I’m loving that things are changing. That things will always change. I’m not loving that it’s so hard to adjust that we will be all alone in a new place. I’m loving that we will be buying our first house, but hating how stressed I am about the whole thing. I’m not loving that I want everything, yet cannot have everything. And above all I am not loving that by accepting this promotion, Husband and I will not be able to live in Europe like we wanted to… we might never be able to do this due to the nature of his work. It breaks my heart, but I wouldn’t trade his happiness and success in his field with anything… yes even going back home for a few years.

I’m loving this little girl:

She’s everything I’d ever want in a daughter and more.

And as always, I’m loving my handsome Texan, who does nothing but work hard to keep me happy and cater to my stupid whines and needs.

I love you baby! I know I can be a pain in the tush, but at least I know how to cook.

A birthday weekend

… with our best friends.

A weekend filled with lots of laughs, great food, and even better friends. These are the days that make the boring, frustrating and discouraging days so worth it. These are our closest friends, who, over the years, have become our family. I’d literally take a bullet for every single person pictured above. <3

Lesson Learned

I have a bit of a funny story to tell y’all. Today, I had a hair appointment at 10 am, at the same time Husband decided that he wanted to walk over to our local farmers market with his mother and brother. As we were all leaving the house, I told him to grab a spare house key… however he said that he’d use the garage key pad to get in.

Well… around 11:30 I get a call, Husband can’t get the garage door to open, and has no key to get into the house. While most loving wives would rush home to save their hubs from sitting out in the 100 degree heat, I decided that I would take my time and get my hair done… While this seems mean, and my mother almost read me a lecture on how uncaring I was… I thought it was very fitting since I had suggested he take a key with him.

Fortunately, my father-in-law is fantastic and came to their rescue while I took my sweet time getting my hair done, and picking up a birthday cake from Costco. They ended up having lunch in the in the comfort of air conditioning and met me back at the house around 1:30.

I personally thought it was a lesson to be learned and would have/will do it again if need be. I bet next time there will be more than one spare key taken.

On the brighter side, I’ve become a Photoshop nerd and wanted to leave you with a before and after:

  

What I’m Lovin’

 

It’s been a few weeks since I’ve linked up with Jamie for What I’m Loving Wednesday and there are lots of things I’m loving lately so here it is.

I’m loving our new matrass that Husband insisted on buying because I kept waking up with back pain. I’ve been sleeping like a baby, and waking up with no back pain. I’m a little iffy on the height of it though. The matrass AND the box spring sit on top of our platform bed… which means I’m about 3.5 feet off the ground and have to literally JUMP up into bed. 

I’m very much considering investing in a step stool to get me into bed. Maybe I’ll even convince Husband to get us a pup?!

I’m loving this video of my friends pup Kiowa! He’s the cutiest thing in the world, and literally makes me smile on a daily basis.

Isn’t he the cutiest?

I’m loving that fall is right around the corner and that my allergies will finally ease up. I’ve been dying over here with itchy eyes, runny nose, sneezing and all other kinds of nastiness. Plus the fall colors are just beautiful.

Not only are the colors beautiful but I get to wear boots again, and scarves and hats and such. I just love fall.

I am NOT loving that we’ve decided on selling our project car. It break my heart to see that car go. We’ve put so much time and money into it already and the sentimental value of the car is too high. However, there is no way we could move it with us, and it would cost us another $10k to $20k to get it where we want it to be. So, sometime in the near future we’ll clean it all out, take some pretty pictures of it and kiss it goodbye. I hope that she’ll go into a good home with people who are willing to appreciate the work done on the car and the love put into it.

On the brighter note, I’m loving that we’ll have a little bit more cash in our bank account which will allow us to trade in our shitbox Cavalier for a Lancer EVO or a WRX STI, which are both nice little sports cars with all-wheel drive and a back seat. Making it much easier to travel back and forth between states to go visit friends and family.

           

I’m also loving that Husband is totally supportive of the career options I have, and agrees that getting my masters as a “backup plan” is a good idea. So I’m also loving that I will be starting a graduate program in September and will spend the next two years getting my MS in Organizational Leadership.

I’m loving that these beauties should be getting to me sometime today, and cannot wait to see how they fit. I hope well, because I really need a pair of wedge sandals.

And as always I am loving my handsome hubby, who is literally the light of my life. Ha! I sound so cheesy. But I do love him particularly a lot today… might have something to do with the fact that he is in VA for the week without me!

He might kill me for this photo, but I love it! It’s from our first trip to Texas before we were married. He used a hatchet to open a coconut. It was quite an adventure.

Hope you all are having an awesome hump day. Head on over to Jamie’s and link up with what you’re loving.