Me, Blonde.

I was looking through past pictures and stumbled upon this "gem." Yes, it is me with blonde (yellow-orange) hair. What happened was that I had gone to my friend, a hairdresser, to get some blonde highlights. I was horrified to see that when she was done, I had what looked like grey strands all throughout my whole head of hair! I felt like I couldn't confront her about it, so I decided that since my siblings were all blonde, surely I could look half as good as they did with blonde hair! Boy was I wrong. Well, 10 bleach kits later, this is me. I know it looks bad, and I had black roots in 2 days, but it was fun for a while.

VEGAS, BABY!!

I wouldn't consider myself a Vegas type of person. The gaudy gold lights, the plethora of smokers, the white trash permanently parked at slot machines, and the general feel of gluttony has never appealed to me. However, when you add going with friends and a U2 concert into the mix, you get a totally different experience! This was a much needed, very therapeutic trip for us. We played, laughed with our wonderful friends the Hansens, went to a Cirque du Soleil show, learned how to play roulette, slept in, ate out, explored all of the hotels and shops, and of course went to the U2 concert. My wonderful cousin Melissa watched our kids and they LOVED her and had such a fun time without us! Here are some pictures from our trip. Some of them are poor quality because they were taken on our phone.

Life Isn't Fair . . .

The following item by an anonymous author, with numbers which are only approximate, has been widely quoted for many years, and puts some things in perspective:

If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following. There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
8 would be Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would
be from the United States.
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
ONE would be near death; ONE would be near birth
ONE would have a college education
ONE would own a computer.
When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, you recognize that you are indeed among the fortunate......

And, therefore . . .

If you woke up this morning
with more health than illness,
you are more blessed than the
million who won't survive the week.

If you have never experienced
the danger of battle,
the loneliness of imprisonment,
the agony of torture or
the pangs of starvation,
you are ahead of 20 million people
around the world.

If you attend a church meeting
without fear of harassment,
arrest, torture, or death,
you are more blessed than almost
three billion people in the world.

If you have food in your refrigerator,
clothes on your back, a roof over
your head and a place to sleep,
you are richer than 75% of this world.

If you have money in the bank,
in your wallet, and spare change
in a dish someplace, you are among
the top 8% of the world's wealthy.

If your parents are still married and alive,
you are very rare,
especially in the United States.

Aren't you glad life ISN'T fair? Because it's all skewed in our favor! I'm so thankful for my life--

Savannah, Bridals

*Keep in mind that the actual color and quality of the pictures is better than you see on my blog.










I had the wonderful opportunity of taking Savannah's bridal pictures. Savannah is my brother's wife's sister. Isn't she beautiful?