rachel's continued ramblings

friday again!!! so, here we are, linking up all my totally awesome (and generally mundane) instagram/phone shots from the week… yup, I have an elmo sticker on my steering wheel. don’t say you’re not jealous! horses go for a stroll down our street occasionally! saturday = soccer, soccer, soccer… and in between games, the girls checked out the horses next to the field. just chillin’ with my loyal companion. LOVE. that particular day’s harvest. so excited that the beans are coming on! organizing my kids’ stuff. this is all (well, not quite because there are like 3 more piles on my washer and dryer that are behind me) of the 13 year old’s papers/art projects/awards/certificates/etc. that I could locate. now they are all organized by age/school year and neatly bundled into file folders awaiting the time that I win the lottery and can actually purchase all of the becky higgins products I need to put together his albums… and then I did the same with the other 2. well, the girl’s pil...

so, this is a pretty self-explanatory post… and the pictures pretty much tell the story. I cut my hair. a lot of hair. 12.5 inches to be exact. I will (as soon as I get around to it) be sending it in to wigs for kids . yes, I was freaking out, just a little! the finished product. I tried to get a decent picture, but I kept looking totally goofy. this was the best I got that day. I will say that tina did an awesome job, as always. the next day… I was pleased as punch, when I woke up in the morning, to see that my hair still looked decent. no funky bed head, so I just smoothed it out, re-sprayed it, and called it good! by thursday, I had to wash it, and that meant that I had to DO it. I’m kind of a dummy when it comes to hairstyling, and I’m a total klutz with a hair dryer, but it seems I managed to make it happen. phew!

it’s wednesday again, so here I am, happily reporting that I did not wear jammies all week! and linking up. wednesday: first off, excuse the fact that I’m giving somebody the mom stink eye in this photo… I think I had kids bickering in the hall or something… top: express via thrift store jeans: gap via thrift store black mary jane’s: born I love these shoes. there are very few actual shoes that I like. okay, that’s not true. I LIKE a lot of shoes. I don’t like to wear a lot of shoes. I have very sensitive feet and wearing shoes that actually enclose my toes drives me nuts. in the summer, I live in flip flops and in the winter, I live in uggs. it’s the closest you can get to NOT wearing shoes. socks drive me nuts, too. I think it has to do with years and years of my feet being shoved into these: or these:   for many hours of the day for many years… yeah, sensitive feet. but born shoes are one of the few brands I’ve found that are 100% comfortable (and 100% cute), even t...

I’m so proud of myself that I just have to stop and brag a bit! I have this room in my house… it’s the laundry room. it’s also the “mud room” sort of… meaning it’s the room between the garage and the rest of the house, where we all enter through… where we all take off our shoes and leave them all over the floor… where the boys dump their cycling gear when they come in from a ride… where we all dump the mail, or the groceries, or whatever it is you have in your hands when you come in the door… where boxes and baskets of “I don’t know what to do with this” after moving land… you get the idea. pair that with laundry that needs to be done, laundry that has been done, laundry that is hanging to dry, laundry that needs to be ironed, cleaning supplies, dog dishes, cat box, etc. etc. etc… AND the fact that this room also happens to possess a large, flat surface and you have the perfect storm. the perfect recipe for a disaster zone, and that it was! I really should have taken ‘before’ pics, ...

sunday: dueling floor cleaning machines. I was vacuuming and dave was steam cleaning. monday: layla and micah, sharing a set of headphones and dave’s old iphone to listen to music. tuesday: a relaxing morning spent in jeans and slippers, working on a knitting project… it felt like fall. brrr… wednesday: we had a meeting to attend at church that was paired with dinner. shane got put in charge of grilling the burgers on the big commercial range… we were teasing him about his ‘career training’… “do you want fries with that?” thursday: shane had an appointment at the dr’s office for a sports physical so he can run cross country this fall. he needed one shot (which he majorly pouted about)… poor baby. friday: layla was going around taking pictures that she wants to put in a scrapbook (love this!) and she wanted me to take one of her with ginger. isn’t this adorable!?! saturday: SOCCER!!! layla’s team participated in a jamboree this weekend. they played 4 games on saturday, just to get...