The last 48 hours

The last couple days have been really weird here at the Neal house. I decided I would get my haircut on Thursday night. One of the hardest things about moving to a new place is finding doctors and hairdressers that you really like. You just really don't know. Anyway, I found a coupon for this place which I thought was close to our house, so I made an appointment. I was just planning to get a trim, but somehow the lady talked me in to highlights. Now, if you would have seen the place, you would have told me to drive past and pretend I never made an appointment. Can you say that I am WAY too nice and WAY too trusting of a very large, VERY southern talking, short-bleached blonde-haired lady! What was I thinking!!!! I walked out of there an officiall blond. Tim kept telling me I looked like Kirstie Alley with the big blonde streak in the front of her hair. HORRIBLE. ANyway, thanks to great advice from my sister-in-law JoAnna, I went to CVS yesterday afternoon and bought some Clairol dark brown and dyed over the crazy highlights. So, for less than 24 hours I was a blonde. I wish I had a picture to share, but I guess you will have to try to imagine me with bleach-blonde East TN hair.

And, Tim and I had our first date night here in the new city. A friend of our family goes to ETSU and she babysat for Isaiah and Ella. We went out to dinner and did some Christmas shopping. It was a great night. We got home and sent Courtney on her way and put the kids to bed. About 20 minutes later, we hear Isaiah get up and we go upstairs and he was throwing up all over the hallway. We got him to the bathroom and after it was all out of his system, we inspected the damage. He gave a new meaning to the term "blow chunks" (sorry for grossing anybody out). So, we spent the end of our date night evening, cleaning up Isaiah's puke. But, he felt much better and was happy as a lark, so luckily we all got some sleep.

And, Alyssa had her first sleepover last night. I was REALLY nervous about it and wasn't sure we should allow her to, but Tim talked me into it. It just seems that she wants to grow up so quick. Freaks me out!