Whoops

Grey has been giving himself haircuts for the past 9 months. Before that, he had other friends cut his hair. He is not unfamiliar with the process. He knows how to cut his hair. He know the layout of his hair. He knows how to tame the thickness and the cow lick that appears every once in a while. He. Knows.

However. On Sunday, he had a hair mis-hap. Being the wonderful husband that he is, he was sitting outside cutting his hair on our back patio when this happened.
Please don't scream at the horror.



Yep, so Grey ended up cutting all of his beautiful locks and gave himself a buzz cut. I call him my army boy now. :)

(This is an awkard picture...he was leaning over cleaning his fish tanks and I just popped up and blinded him) WHAM!


On the other hand, a big CONGRATS goes out to Susan and Will!!! Grey and I are so excited about your engagement! Congratulations!


Love y'all!
-B

Anyone want green garlic?

THE. CUT.

Yes. I got my hair cut.

Yes. I love it!

Yes. I cried when she cut it.

Any other questions?

Before:




During:





AND After! Angie - you are amazing! Thanks for styling it like you did!

Here comes goodbye!

When I was in kindergarten, my parents decided that my style of hair should be a bowl cut, thus preventing me from repeatedly cutting my own hair when ever I pleased. I was traumatized, especially when I was tattled on for going into the girl's bathroom because I resembled a boy so much. Life was hard.

As many of you may know, I'm quite attached to my hair. I've grown it long for as long as I can remember. The last time I remember having it even to my shoulders was in the 4th grade.

Saturday marks a first for my hair journey. I've had several friends (Kait and Sue) grow their hair out and donate it to Locks for Love. Each time one of them has done it, it's made me desire to do the same thing even more.

As attached as I am to this thing growing on my head, I've realized that it's just that - a thing growing on my head. It has no special powers or effects - in fact, it's dead. Dead dead cells.

So why not bite the bullet, cut it off, and donate it to someone who REALLY needs it? Someone who is fighting the battle between life and death and just wants to look normal for a little while?

I'm sold.

Saturday - 12:30 - I'm cutting my hair off and donating it! I'm SO pumped now and can't wait! Be on the look out for pictures!

Going on month two

I love married life.
Really. I love it.

Two months:
I love how I can see the gospel played out in a different light. I love the sacredness of our marriage. I love our prayer times and our "talk about what we're reading in the bible" times. I love coming home and cooking dinner. I love our snuggle time. I love love love it.

Two months:
It's been an adjustment. I've grown already so much. I'm more clearly seeing how my sin affects someone else on a daily basis and how it hurts us. I'm seeing how my bad attitudes and frustrations play right in to the devil's attempt at breaking us apart. When I'm frustrated and annoyed, I pull away from him and it creates more walls in our marriage instead of breaking them down.

Two months:
Already, it's SO clear that we need Jesus in our marriage - that the only way to survive and stay together is to keep Him first and foremost. I'm so thankful that we have hope and faith in something that never fails.


How can you be praying for us?
*We desperately want friends around where we live, friends for each of us and then a couple that we can hang out with on a monthly basis
*We desperately want a church. Right now, the churches that we've been to either don't preach the gospel or we disagree with too much of their theology.

We love y'all!
-B

Superbowl Spread

In case you're curious as to what we're having for the superbowl, lemme give you the spread.

Mozzerella cheese sticks
pizza poppers
homemade potato skins
homemade chili cheese fries WITH bacon
mom's cookies
mint chocolate chip and cookie dough ice cream
wings
chili

Be. jealous. (that you didn't consume all those calories)

-B

P.S. I haven't forgotten about my promised pot pie review. Be patient people. :)

The melting pot

This semester, I have kids from the following countries:
-Mexico
-Italy
-Brazil
-Guam
-some other spanish like speaking country that I can't remember.

It's VERY cool. I love love love having diverse classes.

Now on for dinner tonight - I'm trying my first pot pie ever, homemade crust and everything. It's called Joe's special pot pie and it comes from one of my favorite cooks. She makes amazing cookies, cakes, and brownies, but this is her first non-baking cookbook and the entire thing is filled with potpies and only potpies. I'm SO excited. I'll keep you updated, don't you worry. :)