Beautiful At Any Length - Paige's Haircut

Paige had been asking for awhile now to go get her haircut short so we decided to start our day with her haircut over at Sweet & Sassy. When Paige first mentioned getting her long Rapunzel like hair cut off I explained that she could donate her hair to someone who needed it. Paige loved that idea and was really enthusiastic to make a hair donation. On top of helping a great cause she can also get a Girl Scout badge to commemorate her good deed.

There are a couple different charities you can donate your hair to, after hearing about the Locks of Love program that makes hairpieces for children it seemed right for Paige's hair donation but Pantene also has a great hair donation program called Beautiful Lengths that makes hairpieces for women with cancer.

So 13" of hair was cut-off to make Paige's new super cute short hair style and is now a pony in a bag ready to be donated.

It was such a big exciting change, it's so different to see Paige with her short hair and I think it made her look a little younger (want to keep my oldest as young as I can for as long as I can).

Adorable outfit by Loves Me Not Clothing

...just after the rough cut for the donation

SO CUTE!

Tickles & Giggles at Bedtime

This past week I had a plan to keep my camera within reach and take pictures of the everyday stuff, this night in particular was bedtime.

It was when I looked at these pictures I realized how much fun we all have together in those last 30 minutes before bed.

tickles from daddy

tucking her little lamb into bed

giggles

running around

silly girl

First Day of School - Paige is in 1st Grade

Today was Paige's first day back at school, seems like yesterday I was dropping her off in her Kindergarten class and now here we are already in 1st Grade.

Paige was really ready to go back to school so this morning was filled with so much excitement, lots of pictures, a few hugs and some throw-up from Harlow (Harlow has a cold, ear infection?).

Here are some pictures from this morning, I can't wait to hear about her first day back.

Paige had a few first day clothing choices but she quickly chose to wear the Sparkle TEE I made her which can be found here

Paige got this messenger bag at her birthday and decorated it all herself; she was so excited to use it today (although I do have a new backpack headed our way as well).

Aiden was not as excited to have to say goodbye to his sister and friend for the day

Here's a few from Friday at 'Meet the Teacher' night

Paige's shirt and ruffles are from eden's bouquet's Saturday Market Collection

Well off to play play-doh with my little man Aiden before an early nap.

Paige & Harlow Model for Two Monkey's Designs

It was so exciting have my girls get to model for such a beautiful clothing brand like Two Monkey's Designs, it's a bonus that the fabulous designer Karen lives just a few minutes up the street from me.

The photographer Jael DeYoung took some amazing pictures at the photoshoot at Chestnut Square in downtown McKinney.

Big thank you to both Karen for letting my girls model for you and Jael for capturing some amazing pictures of my girls. Both the memories of the photoshoot and the pictures of it are priceless!

If your interested in purchasing any of these gorgeous outfits from Two Monkey's Designs new Woodbury Collection it can be found here in her Etsy store.

My favorire picture, can't wait to get this one in a frame.

I have a cd coming my way with more pictures so stay tuned for another picture share.

Girl Scouts ROCK

Paige's Girl Scout Troop got together today for a rock themed craft and party. The girls each got to decorate their own guitar and then formed a super cool 'all girl' band and played rock-band together. I even dressed up Harlow so she would be rockin' the themed party.

I could totally see Paige in a band someday

Harlow had a great time dancing to the music

Paige did a great job on the drums

Harlow just wasn't in the mood to stay still for pictures today