going to be a great aunt

I  dont think i wrote about me going to be a great aunt. my niece found out a few weeks ago that she pregnant. yes i am happy about it. at first it hurt that i am going to be a great aunt before being a mommy but it doesnt hurt so much now. i know my niece will make a great mommy and i know i will be a mommy soon enough. and i think she was meant to be a mommy at this time. who knows maybe i will become pregnant soon and our kid will have a little cousin closer to its age to play with lol. my niece texted me a picture of the ultrasound she had done today and my great niece or nephew looks like a little turtle. you can see the sack outline around the baby and it looks like a turtle it is so cute. so i am going to call it turtle from now on. and i am going to do her babyshower in chickens and turtles. got to have turtles in it lol.

i just can not believe i am going to be a great aunt though. i knew it was getting time for me to become a great aunt. but i am glad to become a great aunt at the age of 32 instead of in my 20s. because i think that is a prefect age to become a great aunt lol

trying to grow my hair out

i have been trying to go my hair out. i have a album on facebook to keep a watch on how long it is growing on there but some of my friends doesnt have facebook any longer. so i thought just incase they still follow my blog. i would start to post on here. as you can see in the picture that i am holding a measuring tape from the top of my head and you can see about where my hair ends around 14 inches. so as of right now it is around 14 inches starting at the top of my head. i know some people to do not measure their hair like that but i did.

maybe you are wondering what all i am doing to get it to grow out. first i am trying to not to use a lot of hair products. like moose, hair spray, hair gel, or anything like that.second i use a vinegar rinse  cleaner that i got from amazon. it is called just natural vinegar rinse. i use it every two weeks. third i only wash it every other day. i have heard and read that washing it every day is not that healthy for your hair. fourth i do not straighten it or blow dry it all the time. i usually only straighten it when i am going out on a date with my hubby (but sometimes i curl it on some of those dates) and like if i am going to a doctor or something like that. the heat from the straighter and blower dry can damage your hair. fifth i take a multi vitamin. i try to take this every day but some days i forget. (actually my vitamins is a prenatal vitamins. and last but not least the sixth thing i do is i try to take a Biotin  everyday. you can find that in the vitamin sections in the stores. i got my at walmarts. i dont take it everyday but i do try to. oh yeah i can not forget to mention that i do one more thing to my hair and that is trimming it every 9 weeks. i have been told you can trim your hair every 6 to 8 weeks so i am going with 9 weeks.

so this is my post on my growing my hair out. hopefully this time next month there will be a little bit more of a change to my hair and you will be able to see it.

last day of the hair challenge

today is the last day i am doing the hair challenge. i will try to redo the challenge in a few months. and we can compare the styles (that is if i do the same ones lol) or maybe i will be able to do some different ones. okay for todays challenge i washed and then blowed dry my hair. then i brushed it out and made sure there was no tangles. then i started to twist my hair in some small buns and pinned them up using bobby pins. and this is what i got. i really like this look. it is quick and simple. i think it took me maybe a total of 20 minutes to do and that is counting blowing drying it.

hair challenge day 7

today is the day 7 of this hair challenge. i am about to run out of ideas to do with my hair for the length it is. so tomorrow maybe last day of this challenge. going to try to think of something neat to do and that will be it for a few months. need to let it grow out somemore before i do this challenge again. okay now moving on to the hair.  well first of all i made sure i got it complete wet and then i let the towel soak up some of the water as my hair is really thick. then i put four braids in my hair (i need to get ponytail holders that is the same color as my hair so they can be hide better) then i pulled each braid up and bobby pinned them to the top of my head. and then i pinned my bangs down some so they was sticking it up everywhere. and this is what i got. yep i like i have said better this would look better if my hair was alittle longer. so i tomorrow will be my last hair challenge day until my hair is alittle longer. i am hoping my by the end of sept or sometime in oct. if not then maybe in nov or dec. i will try to do another hair challenge before this year is over with. so lets hope that my hair is alittle longer before then.

hair challenge day 6

today is day 6 of this hair challenge. i really didnt have time and also didnt feel like doing to much to my hair after getting out of the shower today. so i just put some moose in it and blowed dryed and then pulled alittle of the sides and some of my bangs back and bobby pinned them to stay put. maybe tomorrow i will try some kind of updo. like four different braids and then pinning them to my head or something like that.

hair challenge day 5

I was sitting around last night talking to mike about how i was thinking of doing my hair. i told him i was going to do like a princess leia type look but with braids going around the buns. so i get up this morning and start to fix my hair but i have realized that my hair is not long enough for this yet but maybe sometime in the future i will retry it and then post another photo so we can compare them.

hair challenge day 4

today is day four of the hair challenge. i just brushed it out and then parted it to the sides and put a braid down each side and into the back and pulled it up in a pony tail and teased the pony tail. it didnt want to do what i wanted it to do but it is okay. maybe once it grows out some more it this look will be better. maybe will try it again in a few months and if i do i will post a picture so you can compare them.

hair challenge day 3

this is day 3 of the hair challenge. i did the twisting hair around a headband and sleep it to curl my hair. this morning i took the hair band off of my head and spread the curls out and then twisted the top and sides some and clipped them in the back and this is what it came out with. i think it would be a good look for a formal function with flowers in the back. ( i dont think that if i had longer hair and i used the headband trick to curl it i would have gotten this. so this is for short to medium length hair. )

day 2 of hair challenge

day 2 of the hair challenge. first i brushed out all the tangles in my hair and then added alittle bit of mouse to it. and then i parted what i wanted to braid and what i didnt. and then i started to braid the sides and then when i got to where i wanted to stop the braids i put in bobby pins and then i twisted the rest in a bun. it isnt prefect but that is okay. sometimes hair isnt suppose to look prefect. sometimes messy is a good look to lol.

aug already

after i made my hair challenge post i realized it is aug. even though i paid our beginning of the month bills today it still didnt really dawn on me that today was aug 1 or i would have done made my month post lol. you all know what all went on last month so i will write what all we did or what happened from last month. but i will write about what we are hopefully will be doing this month and what i know we will be doing this month. as my last post stated i am doing a hair challenge. i hope it will keep me busy. i also will be going to the gym M-F this month and going for walks with mike on weekends. are also hoping that our house will sell this month but we not going to hold our breath on it. we know it could take a while for it to sell but we can still be hopefully that it will soon. (i really do hope it does so that we can a little extra money a month to be able to save). we are also hoping that we will get to do the fertility drugs this month.  right now i am waiting for the doctor to call me back to find out a few things but other then that we should be a go on it once the doctor calls me back that is.  this month is also my birthday. i dont know what mike is planning for that but what ever it is i hope we have enough money for it. and i am sure what ever he is planning be wonderful as i am getting to spend it with him this year and that is all that really matters.

well that is pretty much all that is going to go on this month. if anything else that comes up i will try to write about it. i hope you all have a wonderful cool month of august.

hair challenge

i decided to do a hair challenge. i am going to start out with doing this for a week and after one week is up i will decide if i want to do it longer or not.

today is day one of the hair challenge. i went with something simple and easy to start out with. (plus i had trimmed my hair by myself today also). i blowed dry my hair and while i was blowing drying i let my hair straighter get warm up. after i got my hair blowed dry i straighten it. and plus brushed it out also. and this is what i got for the finish product.