Value Village Finds!

On Friday April 8th Value Village was having a 50% off sale for all clothing and accessories. I texted Kim to see if she could go with me. I had to drop Jack off at Hansi's birthday party and she had brunch with her mom so it worked out for her to go. I picked her up at her mom's and we headed out around 3:30pm. Normally if I was going shopping on a 50% off day I would want to get there as early as possible to avoid the crowds, but it really wasn't bad at all. The dressing room lines were fine...in fact I think I only had 2 people in front of me once. The rest of the times I just got right in. Kim and I were there until after 6pm and it was such a fun time. Afterwards we went out to eat at La Costa in Burien. It was such a great spontaneous girls day out! 

And this was my haul! Left to right....two grey coats (they were coats that were given out at the Hot Chocolate race in Seattle), a black and white dress from The Limited, pair of Spiderman snow boots for Jack, black and white Old Navy striped shirt to wear with my leggings, purple Nike sweatshirt type shirt, pair of Old Navy jeans for me (I also got a pair of Levi jeans for Michael he's just holding them), red and white dress, blue and white dress from The Limited, white dressy shirt, white sandels for me and a brown purse that Zeke is stepping on. 

I got Ella this cute shirt that she absolutely loves....she wore it for 2 days! I also got her these cute dressy flip flops.

The only thing that wasn't on sale was this absolutely adorable fire hydrant sprinkler. I wasn't sure if it would actually work so I asked the lady if I could bring it back if it didn't and she said yes. I tried it out right when I got home and I was so happy it worked. It's got 3 settings. Water can come out the hose, it can shoot water out toward the side or water can come out the top and make it spin around. The kids are going to love it this summer! I didn't even think about it until later that it's super funny for us to have this since Michael works for the water district! 

So for 16 things I paid a total of $50.84!!!!

Ella's Second Haircut!

Back in April when I made my haircut appointment for later in May Ella told me she wanted to get her haircut. I had actually been thinking it would be fun to get it cut, but I wanted her to be the one to tell me. She was sure she wanted it to be as short as mine! At first I was all for it.....I'm daring with hair....it grows! But after thinking about her curly locks I was thinking that she might want that now, but in a few days she might change her mind. 

This is only the second time Ms. Bridgett has cut her hair. Click here to see her first haircut. The only reason she got her hair cut the first time was to even it out after her surgery since we were having family pictures. 

I have trimmed her hair a bunch of times since then just to even it out, but nothing major and nothing done by a professional! Her hair really did need some of that dead, dry hair cut off the bottom though. 

Ms. Bridgett showed me that she really only needed around 2 inches cut off to get the yucky stuff, but I went and ahead and had her cut off 3. 

Ella did great with getting her hair washed and cut. She sat so still! 

All cut and ready to be styled! 

Ms. Bridgett gave her a pretty french braid! 

While I got my haircut she got to go lay on the couch and watch an episode of Angelina Ballerina and an episode of The Berenstain Bears! 

When I was finished her hair was all dried and looked so healthy and curly! 

She's got such wonderful hair! 

 And I stuck with the normal haircut I get every time. I love it, love it, love it! I love my hair short, but one thing I love about this cut is it grows out so nicely. I hate getting my hair cut every 6 weeks or so and this cut make it so I only have to get my hair cut about 4 times a year!