52 projects #19 - A haircut!

My husband hates to get haircuts... apparently this is the case since he was a little boy.  But, his hair was soooooo long that I had no choice but to try to cut his hair.  I am not a hair stylist.  The scissors and I only see each other when cutting fabric or paper! But, here it goes.

Well, it is long, right?  This is when I was getting ready to cut his hair... Arianna got a little scare and we put a cartoon that she likes so she could ignore the noise.

wow, so much hair gone... and I was just working the back part.

First shot, work in progress... second looking at lot better.

The forehead and side burns were not easy.  For the forehead since he has a widow's peak cut too much and he will have like a hole in the hair.. .for the sideburns... trying to match them is the hard part.  I got so nervous around here, but he was calm like a clam.

Done!  He started making poses too.  You are so funny, sweety.  Now, time to clean.  It looked like I grew a little monster with all the hair!

Random stuff...

Isn't she adorable?  This is Misty and she had not lay down like this in long time.  Well, we did bring another cat in the house...

Remember this plant Evelyn?  It is still budding!

Mike got the pots out of the garage ready for planting... is that a hint honey?

Mike was working in the swing set... he cleaned the space in the garage, put his phone as a radio with some good songs for cheering and just work and work...

Then Arianna decided to speed the process by lending a hand... (She was sooooo excited when she realized that it was a swing.  She kept saying " I love swings") (I will post pictures of the done swing later!)

My mother has a beautiful hand when it comes to knitting and crocheting.  She is so even in her points.  Not too tight, not too loose.  I envy that (in a good way).  I wish my crocheting was as uniform as her.  I guess I need to keep practice :) Aren't these blankets beautiful?

Help nature and other events.

I wanted to start the blog entry with this picture that I took a few days ago. This poor squirrel got stuck in a milk's ring (most likely). Let's remember to cut those things that can injure animals, kids, etc. It does not take too long. I wish I could help this poor squirrel, but he runs just by me opening the door and I am not sure how I could hold him to do it. Plus, I have not seen him since then :(

Into nicer things... This is a banana bread that I started from scratch. My third try. Mike thinks this is the best one so far (my second attempt was not very good)...

More pictures of the yard... I love this honeysuckle, last year it got some type of disease in the leaves and I thought it may died, but it looks great so far. I love the orange of the flowers the most.

I don't even remember if I planted this one or it was here, but I like the poms poms look of its flowers. I guess Ari and I like purple more than I thought.

Another shot of the purple lupine, as you can see it has bloomed more in the top.


Can you see the bi-color in this clematis? I am going to try to buy two more, a red one and a bright all purple. :)

One of my favorite flower/bush, hydrangea. I bought this one without any blooms and I thought it will be pink, here looks more like a light blue/purple/white. It will be nice next to the one that I know it is pink.

Mike finally found a ring to substitute the one he got married with. This year when we go for our renewal of vows, we will ask the reverend to bless the ring :)

Ari wants to help more in the chores around the house, I know I better take advantage of that while it lasts... but here she is helping take the garbage to the front door (then I take it to the curve).

I took these two pictures that follow with Ron in mind... Does the bus look familiar to you? Ari plays with it quite often.


I took these pictures yesterday, she was feeling better, but still had some fever. I noticed that she had something in her t-shirt and I asked her, what do you have in there? She said a K. I looked and yes, it was one of her letters. (Is around her belly button).


She loves the cats (a bit too much), but I like this picture. She always goes to Misty the most because she puts up with her more... And I am happy to say that the fever is gone :).

3 of 3 .... Stuff

Arianna went to visit her grandparents and she was giving grandma imagined food or something. It was cute.

I love this white sweater... It has a flower on the bottom and she keeps telling me "bowel" instead of flower.

Her new thing is to try to fit herself in everything, now it was this box and she stayed for awhile. Later she was calling me to help her out of the box...

Well, her first injury (when she knows that she hurt herself). She cried (whimper cry) when I put some peroxide and the band-aids. Then...(next picture) [For those that did not know, Ari was outside playing and trip and fell on some of the pebbles around the grass]

She remained laying down for about 45 minutes. She wanted me to be near by for support...
(The injury is healing fast and she is ok)

Thanks to Ron for the potato recipe and the ham (that was used in the preparation of this dish). This was the second time doing it, the first time, the potatoes were a bit more crunchy (I made less), but the taste was as good... I made an omelet and put the potatoes on top!

And here it is, the blanket that I made for my baby. As you can see, my husband and Arianna are very happy :) Now, mommy started a new blanket for a future baby from someone that Mikes knows...

Arianna's new spot is playing by the patio door with all her little people... she loves those guys.

Arianna's cousins (Scarlette and Raven in the picture) came to visit and they played outside for awhile. Ari had a great time!

Arianna's favorite lift. My God, if you start to spin her, she keeps saying "go, go, go" and "agi" (for again)!

1 of 3 Part... Ari's stuff!

Ari was taken a nap when I made this tower for her, when she woke up she was very surprised and happy. Well, it took her about 2 minutes to destroy my beautiful art work, hehe.

Arianna playing with her "baby", she started to say baby to two of her dolls, specially the one in the picture and the one that my sister gave her for Christmas.

kids will be kids... She found out that the blue ring fits through her foot and on her leg...
see for yourself. ( I love how she looks in this dress)

She loves the truck that her grandparents gave her for her one year birthday. Now, she is getting better in driving it.

Our baby is growing...

Arianna surprised me by trying in my shoes. I heard about kids imitating adults, but it is the first time that she tried, it was very cute (besides words..)

She loves to scribble away.... Give her a pen, crayon, or anything to write with... We bought her 2 notebooks that she uses for scribbles. I know one day we might just find some type of artwork in our walls, but for now she has been very good. I tried to give her a box with 10 crayons, but she returned them to me and likes to have one crayon at a time... for now anyway.

Since she was scribbling on the floor, we tried the dining table. She likes to sit with us now, and it works, but it is a bit too big for her.


So daddy bought her her own table and chairs :) She was so excited when Mike was putting these together. She sat down, took some books and started to read and then she went for some blocks to play with.

Love this picture of Arianna. Sometimes she makes a mess that it looks like I had triplets! but she is getting better by putting a few things away... Besides, I play with her too, and for the most part we have a lot of fun.

Here is the kitty that loves to sit on top of the air conditioner, he came to the grill and was sniffing some meat I am sure...

It looks like it is saying to me "You caught me!". I sometimes leave a can of cat food around since I don't know if it belongs to someone or is a stray, but she likes to sit "by me". It sees me while I am typing from the air conditioner.



"My" squirrels cannot complain, we fed them quite well... the other day I had not put anything out for them - and it came to the post and reminded me :)
This is a new neighbor to the backyard. Hello, bunny!


And I also have about 2-3 robbins in my backyard, I love their color... I always think is funny how they walk to you as in this is my place, but if you get to close they fly away...


P.S. Arianna LOVES the backyard, sometimes I have a hard time trying to make her go inside!