Sensational Day Six

Today was wonderful (=
This morning, Rea woke up in a really good mood, and since we had gone grocery shopping, I made her eggs with cheese for breakfast. That girl, she eats so much cheese. If I were to have a peice of cheese in one hand and candy in the other, she would go for the cheese! As for me, I ate a toasted bagel, with cream cheese, and home made blueberry jam! It was so amazing, I LOVE blueberry jam. I can't wait to go home and eat it all the time! Chrissy asked if Rea and I wanted to come with her to Wal-Mart, so we did and I ended up getting  new case for my iPhone. I loved my old one, but it was coming apart. I picked out a super cute Kermit the frog case! I also got a "leash" for Rea. I never want to lose her, and I have NO problem putting the cute little puppy backpack on her with a leash connected to it. After Wal-Mart, we came back to my house, and I sold my washer and dryer, and I am glad I did. Even though now, I have to go to one of my friends houses to do laundry. Chrissy got her haircut, and while she was doing that, I put Rea down for a nap and baked a batch of oatmeal crasin cookies. I had planned on only making a half batch, because I always end up eating way too many if I make a whole one, but half way through I realized that I had been mixing all of the ingredients for a full batch.. oopsie (: I knew that if I had kept the cookies here, I would have eaten all of them, and I knew that I did NOT need to do that. So I texted one of Zach's really good friends, the one who is gonna help us with our insane housing situation, and asked if he liked oatmeal cookies. His reply was "I fucking love them!" So, I bagged up about half of them for him, and put the other half on a plate and headed over to Chrissy's house. Chrissy had been wanting to color her hair, and since she had just gotten it cut, she decided she wanted to do it at home. We headed back to Wal-Mart, I didn't plan on doing anything to my hair, but when we got to the hair dye section, I decided I needed something new as well. So I picked out a caramel blonde high lighting kit. Chrissy on the other hand, chose a BRIGHT red, for the under layer of her hair, and a brown for the top. By the time we got back to her house, both of the kids were cranky and hungry, so she heated up some chicken nuggets and we started the bottom of her hair. This was the first time I had ever bleached someone elses hair, and let me tell you, it was STINKY! Once the bleach was done, we added the red hair dye. It was SO red, and it got all over the place. Apparently, one of the gloves I had on had a hole in it, so my right middle finger is bright red. It looks hilarious. When she went to rinse it out, it took so long, and never ran clear. Before we did the top of her hair, we put mine into the silly cap that comes with the high lighting kit. It took forever to get all of the needed strands out of my stupid hair. It's so long, but I am not cutting it. I am so determined to have super pretty long hair for our wedding renewal! Once we had the dye in mine, we went back to Chrissy's and I did the top portion of her hair. During this time, the kids stayed in Cameron's room. They were being so GOOD! There were a couple of times that I checked on them and they were giggling with each other, like they were talking and enjoying themselves. I loved it. I just wish Brittany's son Mason was there! Her husband came back today from training, and I am super excited for her, but I still wish she was there! I had this crazy bag looking thing, that made me look like I had cat ears over my head, so we couldn't really see what my hair looked like, and when Chrissy finally got a peak, it was so BRIGHT blonde it freaked her out. I immediatley ran into the bathroom and looked. It was so bright, it was almost yellow. I rushed to rinse it out, and hoped that it wasn't gonna turn out looking like crap. Once I got it all rinsed out, I blow dried it a little and ended up loving it! I made some of the front streaks bigger than the rest, and that turned out looking really cool! Chrissy washed hers out when I was done, her red hair is so red! The brown is pretty, and helps calm the red down, so they go together well. Rea was extremely tired at this point, and Cameron had been sleeping for almost an hour. So after some girl talk, and facebooking, I got ready to go home. As soon as I put Rea in the car, she passed out, and then Zach called. I was so happy! It was morning his time, and he was getting ready for the day. Before I came home, I dropped off cookies to Adam, and he got to talk to Zach for a bit too. Now that I am home, I feel like I got hit by Mr. Sandman, and I feel like I got hit HARD! I'm off to bed.

Dear Deployment,
Days like to today make me think I can stay in Texas and enjoy myself. I know that I need to be home with family though, because everyday will not be this good. I feel  like i'm on a winning streak that you will never end! I love hearing the sound of my soldiers voice, and because of you, I don't get that everyday, but tonight I got it. Tonight he called to say goodnight. Tonight, I go to bed with butterflies in my tummy, and a smile on my heart. You can't win deployment, simply can't. Love, Elsa...