Hairchop?

Here I am in my new hair cut. Ted loves it however I am disappointed with my top weave. I had the same thing done as last time by the same hairdresser and the light parts are too light and the dark ended up too dark. I didn't go in expecting to loose so much hair either but my hairdresser twisted my rubber arm to do a strong bang and, what you can't see, a lot of layers. The cut is 'kind a' cool but the color should be warmer and lighter. My hairdresser said I to come back if the excess color doesn't wash out and Ted keeps arguing that it's beautiful and that it's fun to do things a little different. I guess I'll give it a week before making a final decision to go in and have the color fixed or not.

This weekend was supposed to be family picture weekend until I found out last minute the kids had chess, then it was too dark when they got back, now Ted is leaving the next two days to California. I was hoping to use the photos to make cards like I did last year, now that will depend if I can get the photos done Wednesday.

Most of our outside lights are up and all my gifts to be sent are wrapped. Now I somehow still have to package everything up and get it ready to go.

Of course with all this to do we have started painting again. Can't wait to show you all the colors I picked. I am trying to pick desert type colors and am having a lot of fun with it. This however means no one is allowed to visit my house because it is really embarrassing how messy it is with boxes of decorations all over and furniture out of place along with painting stuff all over my counters. Oh well, it'll get done when it gets done and eventually look fantastic.




I am leaving you with a picture of my snowman family for my yard that I guilted Ted into buying because we don't have enough stuff after all these years to even light up the whole front of my house. I can't say I feel guilty about any of it myself cause their just too cute.


I wish you all peace, patience, and happy moments during this stressful, beautiful time of year.
Hugs and kisses,
The Sfikas Family

Flashback!

I was having a moment where I was thinking about where we were last year this time in our lives and brought up these pictures, especially because I have no new pictures at this moment. Get a load of how much my kids have changed in just the last year.


It's almost Thanksgiving! That means if I want to blend in with other Americans I have to have all my Christmas decorations up this weekend. Scary or what?
Things have been a little slower around here lately. Hera took part in her first Chess tournament last weekend. Kids who go to these things are usually really good so you can imagine how proud I was when Hera won one of her games out of the three she played. I would put them in more if our weekends weren't full of soccer, tennis, and super group (weekend chess).
Athena is finally feeling better after taking her to the doctor with a bad cold to have her tested for strep. When we had her tested the doctor said she was negative so I started teasing Athena that she was going back to school only to have the doctor say he was concerned that she had the first stages of pneumonia, put her on a round of antibiotics and said I really need to keep her home because she is really sick! He even wrote me a note to excuse Athena from school.
Isi had her shots this last week and started crying ' Sorry, sorry!' at the nurse as if to make her apologize. She couldn't have broken my heart more. Isi is also officially in potty training! I didn't expect her to be ready yet but thought I would let her wear her new princess panties a few hours a day to get used to the idea but now as long as she is home she wants to wear panties and is willing to use the potty. She has been using her own potty all week and even ran to it the other night without me asking and bringing her. We are so proud. Now to get her trained outside the house.
Ted spent the last week in Vegas and is slowly recovering. This week we are going to watch the LA Kings play the Coyotes. It should be a blast.

I hope everyone is doing well and
Happy American Thanksgiving!
Love The Sfikas Family

How is everyone out there? Hopefully still checking in now and then on us. We had a really fun Halloween and hope you all did as well. My pumpkin carvers in the last Blog were, Hera - Mummy, Athena - Skull, and Ted - Bat. We discovered that the Arizona climate makes your pumpkins shrivel really fast. Good thing we did them only a few days before Halloween.


Here are my girls all dressed up. The girls had to meet up with friends after Chess therefore they never made me up like they wanted too. I can't say I am too upset by that. Isi is now a candy addict and harasses me for more junk all day long. On Halloween night she would yell, 'Come back!' at the top of her lungs (sounded mad) at all the kids who started walking away after getting their treats. She also thought when she went up to people's doors to trick-or-treat that was her cue to try and get in their house. Because of the weather everyone in the neighborhood grabs lawn chairs and sits in their driveways to hand out candy and chat with neighbors (at least that saved on how many houses Isi tried to get into).

Isn't Hera smart and beautiful in her new glasses? I am so happy she can see better and she likes her glasses.

Finally we had Isi's birthday, Souvlaki party. A few people we invited never made it due to illness. Isi must think a birthday lasts a whole month. While she opened her gifts the other kids had to be right in there helping her tooo much. Good thing she doesn't mind yet.

I had to put this picture up because every time I look at it it cracks me up. I can't get over the silly expression on her face and that she is covered in pop and food. Must be a sugar high.

Isi is blowing out her candles all by herself. We put on the number two and two regular since she has so much fun blowing them out, one just wasn't enough. I made her a 'Baked Alaska' cake. My meringue wasn't as stiff as it should have been, I guess I had too much wine before trying to make it and added too much sugar.

Till next time,
Love From the Sfikas Family