Before & After

Here they are! Before and after pictures of my new haircut.

 Before #1

Before #2

(Please ignore the garbage can in the background!! Ha ha!)

Before #3

Peanut Butter Cup didn't recognize me at first (I had been hoping that wouldn't happen, but thought it might), and it took him a good ten minutes to start behaving normally around me after we got back home! :-( My poor little Munchkin looked SO confused!

After washing my hair (before cutting it) the hairstylist, Cat, lifted up the top layer of my hair and told me that I do not in fact have straight hair with a slight wave, but in fact have curly hair! She gave me a mirror and turned me around so I could see, and it really did look like I had a perm! Cat told me that because my hair is so heavy and I always have it pulled back, that probably caused it to be straighter on the top and front, but it may eventually curl as well after not pulling it back for awhile. The back is already curling more (my husband thought I had gotten a perm when he first saw it, ha ha). No wonder it's been so 'poofy' for forever! It's been frizzing because I brush it too much and because of the humidity of the places that I've lived. Now I have to learn how to leave it alone, not brush it, and to use mousse. I didn't even know what mousse was for until yesterday. Yep, yesterday was full of interesting discoveries where my hair was concerned!

And here it is--my 'new look', ha ha!! 

After #1

Peanut Butter Cup was still getting used to the new me in these pictures, which may explain why he looks somewhat quizzical. :-)

After #2

After #3

Anyhow, I think it makes me look more my age than my previous straight, poofy, long haircut did (I looked more like a teenager than a married woman with a baby!). My husband says he is starting to like it more and more . . . I'm just trying to get used to having hair so close to my eyes! :-)

The "Good News"

Sorry it's taken me awhile to get this posted! I've been very busy--and you are about to see why!

Though our hearts are still heavy from the loss of Quigley, we now have a new fur-baby. While he will not take Quigley's place (and to be honest, we wouldn't want him too!), and our goal was not to 'replace' Quigley, he is helping to fill the empty silence and stillness that pervaded the house in Quigley's absence.

We couldn't stand walking past Quigley's empty crate, or seeing an empty spot in the room where it had been. The timing may seem off to some, but we feel like everything fell into place at the time that it did for a reason. We had been hoping to eventually get a mastiff puppy and they are kind of unusual here (as are most large breed dogs here in Hawaii), I saw an ad on Craigslist and replied to it, and eventually discovered that the man that had the puppies was actually one of my husband's old buddies from here before (they had deployed together years ago). To make a long story short, we got a puppy from them.

He is an English/Italian (or Neapolitan technically) Mastiff mix, and is going to be quite a large fellow when he eventually finishes growing (his daddy weighs about 130 pounds, and we have our suspicions that our boy may surpass him--though he may not).

Anyhow, we brought him home last Tuesday and have decided to name him Copper. We are currently working on housebreaking and other basic obedience training (I'll be glad when we are past this stage!).

Without further ado, here he is:

I will add some more pictures of him later, but I just wanted to 'introduce' him to you! :-)

On a totally random side note--it's hard to believe that Peanut Butter Cup's due date was a year ago today! How time flies!!

I'll be getting a hair cut later today . . . I think I'm going to end up with a hairstyle that is completely different from what I am used to--I normally chicken out at the thought, but this time I'm going to go for it! I'll post before and after pictures soon!

Changes

Let me apologize in advance for the rather shocking lack of editing done to the following photos. I don't currently have any photo editing programs on my laptop as my free trial of Photoshop has expired and I'm in a bit of a rush to post this before Peanut Butter Cup wakes up. Now on to the actual post!

So, this is how we started the day off . . . .

Note the 'flyaways,' ha ha. 

And this is how we ended it . . . .

I'm off to find a tissue now. *sniffle*