Day 24

A photo where my hair looks good...Ok how about one in the humidity of Cancun? I don't think my hair was completely dry the entire week.

Day 5

A photo me - but from when? 30 years ago? 30 weeks ago? 30 day ago? 30 hours ago?

I opted for 9 years ago - when I last had my short hair. If I remember correctly, I started growing it out after this last cut. Oh yeah, I was a lot thinner then too. hehehe

Thanksgiving #23

I am thankful for my hair. Yeah I know that sounds lame but I have truly been blessed with incredible hair and I know it. I have a hard time growing finger nails and it is nearly impossible for me to lose weight but man I can sure grow the hair. I love it when it is short, and I love it when it is long. It is just that middle length that drives me crazy. I know that next time I cut it I can easily grow it back out. I have gone up and down several times. I am just so thankful I have been blessed with what I have.

Au Naturale

I decided to see what my hair would do if left on it's own....


Yeah, it's getting creepy long. Just in time for Halloween I suppose.

Cousin It

Little Caesar's

The first day in Vegas we decided to head out to find somewhere to eat.

We walked through Planet Hollywood, Bally's in front of Bellagio and into Caesar's Forum shops. We ate at some mexican restaurant there that was good.




Caesar's has add on to the forum shops during the last few years. Ok maybe it has been 5 years but I don't go to Vegas as often as I used to go. This area has twisting escalators. We were up on the 3rd floor and had to go to the bottom floor. It was a ride for my tummy. Yes I am that big of a wimp when it comes to heights.




Rick took this photo of me...I don't realize how long and how much hair I have until I see photos like this. It kinda freaks me out to be honest. My hair is naturally curly/wavy too.

Hair-Looms

For those of you that don't know, my grandma's maiden name was Hair. We have had a long running "joke" (if you want to call it that) about things being Hairlooms rather than Heirlooms.
Today I had a really neat experience with my Hair genealogy. I have not worked on genealogy probably all summer. I have just had other things to do and sometimes I get so overwhelmed with what I am working on that I need to stop and take a break.
A few weeks ago, maybe even more than a month ago, I received an email from a guy in Australia asking for some information on this Hair line. (hahaha no pun intended) I have my family tree on ancestry.com BUT it is private. Most people that ask for information I ask them what they are specifically looking for and I never hear from them again. This guy wrote back to me. I wrote to him a few times and yesterday I finally sent him some information. I didn't have what he was looking for as he has come to a dead end right about where I had. I actually had one further generation back but still, not very much information. I was able to send him the personal history of his great great grand-uncle and a photo. This had all the information I had used to find out where his parents had lived and were buried. He was VERY specific on where his mother was buried like under this tree near this rock etc. I hope someday to get to England and check it out. (It is a bit further north than where I went when I was there.)
Anyway~ I sent this to the Australian "Cousin" and he wrote back to me thanking me. Saying that it was more than he could have ever hoped for in research. I have learned that you just don't find a person's personal history when doing research very often. It usually needs to come from someone. I am very lucky in that my grandma had a lot of information this way. Her sister, my great aunt who never married spent a lot of time working in the genealogy library. All of her information was also passed on to me. (When I was 13 I spent a few nights with her. She had to work so she took me to the library with her. I was able to roam and search through anything I wanted. It was pretty cool being able to read those really old books.)
Included are photos of this specific ancestor and his second wife. They were both Pioneers who came to Utah from England. I am thinking that I might need to start up on all this again.
Yes they are buried right next to the bathroom. It is great for Memorial Day to be able to make an easy pit-stop. It makes it even easier to find their headstone. (Which my grandma actually had placed in 1998. Until then, they were in an unmarked grave.)