Locks of Love, Easter & a broken arm

Well... I did it. I chopped my hair off and donated my ponytail to Locks of Love. It's a wonderful organization that you should check out.
http://www.locksoflove.org/
I had no idea it takes 6-10 ponytails to make one hair piece or that each piece has a retail value of $3500.00 - $6,000.00 (although the children's families do not pay for it.)


After my hair cut we went to Disney on Ice... we had an awesome time. I didn't get any pictures of the girls... but here is one of David....


Easter was a blast. It was just one of those wonderful days. After the egg hunt the boys watched baseball and the girls played Yahtzee and cards.


Last Sat. night we took Brianna to Urgent Care. She was favoring her left arm for a few days. It seemed to get slightly worse instead of better. Well, she had a broken arm. The x-rays came back that it was 2-3 weeks old. Tough little bugger!

Well, that's the Hightower's in a nut shell.

A 5 year old answers to some fun questions

Thanks Leah for the idea. Here are a few quesitons I asked Ashlynn last night. Keep in mind she is only 5.... These are her answers word for word.


1. What is something mommy always says to you?
A. I love you.
2. What makes mommy happy?
A. When I listen.
3. What makes mommy sad?
A.When I don’t listen.
4. How does your mommy make you laugh?
A. You make funny faces.
5. What was your mommy like as a child?
A.I don’t know
6. How old is your mommy?
A. 1? 2? 3? 4? 5? 6? 7? Are you seven?
7. How tall is your mommy?
A. That’s a tricky one.
8 What is her favorite thing to do?
A. Play with me.
9. What does your mommy do when you’re not around?
A. Go to work
10. If your mommy becomes famous, what will it be for? (I had to explain what famous is)
A. Because your fun
11. What is your mommy really good at? (she had to think really long and really hard to come up with anything…..)
A. Writing (I’m pretty sure she only came up with this because I was currently writing her answers on a sheet of paper.
12. What is your mommy not very good at?
A. I don’t know, you’re good at everything (oh sure!)
13. What does your mommy do for her job?
A. Work
14. What is your mommy favorite food?
A. I don’t know
15. What makes you proud of your mommy?
A. When you made cards for our b-day (she’s seen me working on Brianna’s just moments before)
16. If your mommy were a cartoon character, who would she be?
A. I-Carly (not a cartoon character….)
17. What do you and your mommy do together?
A. Play
18. How are you and your mommy the same?
A. We have the same hair
19. How are you and your mommy different
A. We don’t have the same clothes
20. How do you know your mommy loves you?
A. Because she helps me do things
21. Where is your mommy’s favorite place to go?
A. The mall
22. Where do you play?
A. At home
23. What will you be when you grow up?
A. A gymnastic person

Going, going.... GONE!

Well, he did it. David shaved his head today to help raise money for St. Baldrick's Children's cancer research. David raised $1000.00 and his team raised $6000.00!!! GO ON SEMI!!! I'm so very proud of him. It was a very emotional day!

The before

The during....

The finished product.... (yes even the 5 & 3 year old boys did it!!!!)

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The support staff..... we were all very proud of them!

This Thursday was another successful weight watchers weigh in for me. I was down another 2 pounds for a total of 25.2! Wahoo.... I'm feeling pretty good!

Belgium

Ok, so this is a few weeks late. Instead of tackling our whole Europe trip in one posting I thought I would split it between Belgium & Paris. David was already in Gent, Belgium when I flew out to meet him. He had to work so I had 2 days to explore Gent on my own. It was amazing. The architecture of the buildings is mind blowing (pictures below). Here are a few things I found interesting in Gent. Beer is important. Beer is very important, almost as important as their chocolate. When you order a beer it is severed in its own labeled glass. Example, if David ordered a Leffe Braun it would be in a glass labeled Leffe Braun. Each glass is different in shape, size, and style. Also, all bars advertise what beer they serve more than their name. So looking at a bar you would not notice the name of the bar but you sure knew what kind of beer they had. The other thing that I found interesting is that they served French fries with every meal, and I mean every meal. Gent is one of the few cities that Hitler declared as a “free’ city, so it was unharmed in the war path to Paris.


Here is the castle I toured. It surprised me that castles are no way pretty or romantic, but very fascinating. There are numerous torture rooms with a lot of torture equipment (freaky stuff). It's very dark and very spooky.





A view from the river walk

These statues covered the front of the building.


One of the several cathedrales


Aren't these just the cleverest little statues?

Another river walk view




World's best waffles.... EVER

Weight Watchers - Week 8

I had another successful weigh in, down another 2.2 pounds for a total of 23.2! Yea me! Sorry for the short post... I will try to do more later in the weekend.

Thursdays weigh in

Just a fast note. I weighed in thursday and I was down 1.4 pounds for a total of 21 pounds! Yippee! Going to the cabin this weekend. I will post about our vacation & cabin trip when I get back on Sunday.

My husband is shaving his head?!?!

He is doing this to raise money for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation. It’s a wonderful organization that helps raise money for childhood cancer research. I am so proud of him. There are 5 guys from his work that is doing this. If you want to read more about it here is the link to his donation website. However, if you would like to come to point and laugh at him, please come!
http://www.stbaldricks.org/participants/shavee_info.php?ParticipantKey=2009-349769#

Europe was beyond wonderful. Better than our honeymoon. I will post more the trip this weekend.