Tanner's football team has a "buzz cut" day before the practices start. I didn't get a good "before" shot, but I thinkyou can tell how long his hair was before- not too long, but not that short..

So he ended with this....for a few minutes. Then someone yells out, "that was just the first round, you need to sit in the other chair"....so Tanner thinking he is so funny sits down again....

and goes down to this!

This morning when I looked in his room before I left for work, it looked like he had no hair!

My new read

Finally finished my last book and now I on to this book. I have heard great things about this book.

I started reading it about a week ago and I am not done yet. Possibly because every night I come home and want to pick up the book, I look around the house and see huge messes the kids leave me...they come in and help me (sort of) but then I have laundry, dinner, etc. and when I finally sit down to read I am too tired and I fall asleep...does this happen to anyone else?

a day on the wharf

these are the only pictures I got of our trip to Santa Barbara. We walked along the wharf one day and had lunch...Tanner & his friend Daniel are not in any of the shots because they were busy at the skateboard park!

American Wife

Has anyone read this?

I am currently reading it and I am right in the middle...I am having a hard time with it...in that is seems to be dragging right now. The beginning of the book I could hardly put it down, now I don't want to pick it up and read it, but I do so I can just finish the darn thing!

Santa Barbara

I haven’t been very good about posting, but I don’t think anyone has noticed…

Our trip to Santa Barbara wasn’t what I had hoped for, for many reasons, and while I hate to be negative, I have to say I was not impressed with the few wineries we went to. Now, we are not wine experts by any means, but we have been wine tasting MANY times, to Paso Robles, Sonoma, Temecula and Santa Barbara, so we kind of know the drill- if you know what I mean....

Our first stop was Brander- they are known for there whites (which we don’t drink). We didn’t know that little bit of information or we wouldn’t have stopped, because the gal pouring the wines was so uninterested in talking to us. Maybe because we didn’t want to drink her white wine? They had two reds that we tasted.

Then we thought it would be fun to stop at an Olive Oil tasting directly across the street from Brander. We drove in, got out and waited & waited & waited. Their dog greeted us, but no humans, so we left.

Then we went to Roblar- that was another waste…the girl pouring was kind of rude and their prices on wine were absolutely ridiculous, especially since the Pinot Noir that was not very good was $48.00. The pourer couldn’t figure out that we wanted to taste only the red (which they had 3) and we paid for 7 tastes at $15.00 a pop, I think. We asked if we could each have a glass and taste the 3 reds and we would actually have 1 taste left, but she thought she couldn’t do that. She ended up saying she could, but not without some irritation from her.

We ended at Bridlewood. The gal pouring was SO nice, she made up for the horrible experiences at the other two. The grounds at Bridlewood are beautiful- they have a horse drawn carriage that takes people on tour of the grounds. And their wines were wonderful. We picnicked on their grass- nice way to end the day….

Not sure we would ever plan a trip back to Santa Barbara….