Ponytail Girl

I guess all parents have the trouble of the "what the heck happened to your hair?" For some reason Ava can go to sleep with nice combed, newly shampooed hair, and then wake up looking like the Rats of Nimh was filmed in her hair. Honestly, some mornings I don't even try to run a brush through it. We'll just let Nana look at it for the day! ;) But seriously, it is a mess. I am so torn because I want it to grow out, but at the same time, it is begging for a trim. So tomorrow after school Ava is headed to the beauty shop to have a good trim before vacay. So in honor of Ava's haircut tomorrow, here are some pictures from one afternoon when I was tired of the crazy hair and stuck it up in a ponytail.

March comes in like a...blizzard?

March here started with a freak snowstorm that came through on Saturday night. We were home and at Joe and Anne's during the snow. It was beautiful, but by Sunday afternoon most of it had melted away. Our church's services were cancelled due to the weather. They say that our area got 6-7 inches, but I don't think our yard got quite that much. Ava actually enjoyed the snow this time. The funniest quote came on Saturday night when we got home during the middle of the snowfall. We came inside and she said, "Mommy, I have a snowman on my shoes!" She was really concerned for the poor snowman. I had to explain that it was just snow and not the actual snowman on her shoes!

And these limbs you see poking out are the remains of the ice storm way back in January!