Alisha's Locks of Love

For about a month, Alisha has been saying she wanted to cut her hair really short. I figured it was a passing phase, and let it go. She kept talking about it all month, so I finally caved and let her. Since she was going to cut so much off, we decided to donate it to Locks of Love. She had about 13 inches cut off, and it's pretty thick. She said she wants to give it to a baby that's bald. I don't think that's quite the idea behind it, but she knows it's going to go to good use.

Christmas 2008

Here are some pictures from Christmas. We took the girls to downtown San Jose, where they have a Christmas village every year. There are carnival rides, trees decorated and donated by local organizations, performers, ice skating, and of course, Santa.

For one of Megan's Christmas presents, I bought her a fancy dress and we went to the Nutcracker Ballet in San Francisco. We went with some friends and had a great time.

























Chris's firm had a holiday party for the kids, and they had a face painter there. Megan loved the Snowflake Fairy look. Alisha didn't dare try it.
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Is it red in here, or is it just me?

So, being generally kinda bored with your life is sometimes a dangerous thing. This is what I did over the Thanksgiving weekend:
(And yes, I know, it's not the greatest pictures of me, but you get the idea.)

Before:

After:


So what do you think? It's not a permanent color, so it will wash out in about a month. I'm festive now, since I have red hair and green eyes.

Halloween

Halloween came and finally went. Megan dressed up as Catwoman, and Alisha was a pink butterfly. Chris dressed up as a disco guy, and I was a "Good Witch," while my friend dressed up as a "Bad Witch."

We had a big day/week. We had our church party the weekend before. The week was filled with parties and activities. Both the girls had parades at the same time at different schools, so Chris and I split up to see them and get pictures. Alisha had a little parade around the school, and then came back to their classroom to sing us a few songs. Megan's teacher dressed up as Snow White, while the other 3rd grade teachers dressed up as his dwarves. It was pretty funny. I went later to help out in Megan's class for their party. We went Trick-or-Treating after dinner, although it was cold and started to rain a bit. The girls got enough candy to put an elephant into a diabetic coma, so we whittled down their loot and sent the rest off to work with Chris.

Cute cousins

Lori and Ryan came out to stay with us for a few days while she had to go to some training for work. Ryan and Alisha had a blast together, cracking each other up like only another 4 year old could. We went to a pumpkin patch and they had fun playing with the baby animals and going through the hay tunnels.