my new do

A couple of weeks before Kelly decided to cut her hair, I got a new haircut too.

Mine was not quite long enough for Locks of Love though...

My friend Monica who works at Twenty Four Twelve Fillmore did it and I love it!

My baby likes it. He keeps pointing to my hair and saying "pretty" ~

And best of all, my husband REALLY likes it! I think I will be getting my hair done more often --

my red hair

I was supposed to be born a redhead.
My brother and both of my cousins on my mom's side are blonde. I'm not. My grandmother had red hair, so something got switched around, messed up or something.

Well, when I was around 15, my mom was touching up my grandma's hair for her and they had left over color....
I was hooked!

I think I have been every shade of red  imaginable --

but I think this was my favorite haircut and color. I wish I had a picture of  the back -- it was super cute and especially when my hair was blown out straight.

The cute boy was a friend

 that I worked with. His name is Per and he is from Sweden.

I was Red until I was pregnant with Kelly. I didn't live close to any of hairdresser friends and it was too much of a hassle to try and do it myself with keeping it off my scalp. Up until then, I was crazy about being Red. Wanted to be as bright as possible and worried about it fading --

Well you have know, when The Little Mermaid first came out, I LOVED it!
She was the first Disney Princess with
Red hair ~

I even had the soundtrack on tape and listened to it all the time. Three different people gave me the movie the day it came out on video.
Yes, video.



When Paige was little, her
movie to watch was Homeward Bound (over and over and over and over and over and over and over again)
DJ wasn't really into any one movie,
and Kelly, after a short Mulan  stint, now loves MY movie!

blue eyed ancestry

Lately, I have been working on our tree adding the old photos from Aunt Betty. I have also been filling in information I found on the back of them and doing new searches on that set of Hopper's and Lively's.

I think my favorite thing to view on the ancestry.com website are the original WWI and WWII draft cards. They are usually in the individuals own handwriting, which I find really cool, and they sometimes have more information than just the name and date of birth. It might have *name of individual that will always know your whereabouts* which is helpful in making sure it's your Thomas, John or David. It usually doesn't say their height or weight, but instead asks -- tall, medium or short, and thin, medium or stout. It does ask for hair color and eye color.

My mom and her mom had blue eyes, but her dad had brown. My dad and his parents had brown eyes.
I have hazel eyes -- and most of my girl cousins on my dad's side do also.
My brother has brown.
Paige has hazel eyes, like mine.
DJ's are blue. And like I said, my mom has blue -- and DJ's bio dad has blue, so it was not a surprise that he got blue. It's funny, DJ looks like my brother, but with blue eyes.
Kelly has brown like Mike's, but lighter.
Mikey has blue!
We have been laughing about it for 17 months! Who figured we'd have a blue eyed baby? Oh, and they are blue. We even thought he could be a red head, since Mike and I each had grandmothers with red hair. We will see. That is, if he ever gets hair!

Now... I have been digging around all these draft cards and realized that there have been many blue eyed men in our family -- on both my sides.
My grandfather from my mom's side had brown eyes, but his father and all those male relations were blue. So my mom and her brother got their blue eyes from both of their parents.
My dad has brown eyes, but his grandfather on his dad's side had blue eyes and so did all those male relations that I have been able to track down.

Next I will be tracking down the blue eyed Aissa's!