My pictures are in!!

Ok so I need you all to go to this web site www.theportraitplaceweb.com and go to client proofing and enter the password brothers all undercase there is all of our pictures I get to choose 4 of these so let me know what you think.

Redken Specialist Connection

So on the 10 and 11th of February was day 1 and 2 of my Redken class. We went over the WHY behind the cutting. Then we went over a lot of business strategies. It was a very good class. But basically if I try and explain what I actually learned no one would understand unless you were a Stylist as well. I will say that now I feel more confident in knowing why I am cutting a haircut. Before this I could and can cut hair really well. I know that if I cut this piece it will fall like this. Now I know why. I might be saying this wrong but now I am not just doing the motions I know why I am doing the motions. My next 2 days are in March. That class will be covering color techniques and more business strategies. I would like to thank my family for financially supporting me in taking this class. And my wonderful husband for staying home with the kids all weekend and picking them up on Monday and not complaining about it. : )

The Gypsy

So the story behind my silly sisters in their silly outfits is this. I am actually not really a Ross. I am a Gypsy. My real family left me on the porch of the Ross family when I was a baby. They said they would come back for me when I got married. So the night before Tom and I got married they came. They blind folded me and kidnapped me. They put me in the back of an SUV and took off with me. Tom had no idea. Him and his parents (I was at their house at the time of the kidnapping) were left in shock as to what was going on. They then drove me around for awhile and took me to Cold Stone and told me that they would let me marry Tom because he is such a wonderful guy. So that is my version of the story, if you want another version you will have to ask Winny or Linny.

Silly Boys

So I gave Oliver a haircut this week. (he has had about 5 so far) And he did so good sitting in the chair by himself. And to my surprise I cut all of his brown hair off. You cant really tell but he is my Blondie boy. Now I have 2. I know it probably wont last long but I am living it up right now. Tom having black hair and me being a "Natural Blond" I figured they would both be dark haired brown eyed boys. So I am very happy they take after me a little.

Oliver in the Kitchen playing with a spoon. Ethan is definitely rubbing off on him at a very early age. He even tried to jump off the side of the couch this week.
This kid is just a nut. Need I say more.
He is always having a blast until I take out the camera. We got family pictures taken on Saturday. I think it went well. Ethan started out begin good. (we bribed him with a blizzard) I told him I would get him a big blizzard and he told me " I am too little for a big one, I need a little one." Fine with me. So anyway, half way through he was done, but when he saw Oliver being to good he decided to take more. I got to see a few of them and boy are they cute. We get too look at all the pictures and choose 3 that we like in two weeks. I cant wait.

Daddy and Oliver

I found this picture from Christmas time and thought it was really cute.

Also, today we got a new dishwasher. When the guys were here installing it Ethan was taking a 3 hour nap. When he woke up he came down stairs. Me and Oliver were in the kitchen. Ethan says "Hi Mommy" he looks at the dishwasher puts his hand on the handle and says, " Oh that's new!" It was too funny.

My Sisters

As most of you know, I have the best sisters. I am currently going through some SERIOUS sister withdrawals, (so if any of you call me and I don't answer its because I am busy crying and I cannot compose myself.) I am looking at the calendar and there is no time in sight that I will be seeing any of them. Which causes a very big problem for me. Some of them will be seeing each other soon, which makes things more difficult for me. So any of you please just come visit me. Or just move here so I don't have to deal with the withdrawals anymore.

Snow that sticks????

So we woke up today with about 2 inches of snow. Then is snowed about another inch. 410 was shut down so Tom got to stay home with us today. I got to take a 2 1/2 hour nap. So nice! The boys got to go for a short ride. Oliver didn't like snow so we went right back inside.

Tom had fun getting to play with Ethan. He likes getting pulled around the yard. He wanted to build a snow man and then sword fight with it. Luckily he forgot by the time the snow man was built.
We finally got to use the snow suit Ethan got when he was a baby. He was just too big or to small when we needed it so Oliver got to wear it. It was pretty cute.
The wonderful snow man Tom built and Ethan watched. The snow was pretty dry so it was a little hard to stick together.
Tom was very proud of his snow man.
Here is the sleigh ride the boys when on. Good thing no one fell off.