Drastic Lengths

Last Thursday I finally decided to do something I have talked about for a long time, but never done. I got my hair cut! I've kept it long since I was 14 and decided that it was high time for a change of pace.

It was the perfect week to get it cut since we had a roller skating party that night and the Young Adult Convention on Saturday. Everybody got to see it and I got a lot of shocked looks! Mom took before and after pictures. It's been quite a change for me!

In case you're wondering, no I didn't get high lights or anything, just the cut!

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This was sent to me by Laurie Bluedorn asking me if I'd post it here.

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Greg Wallace's Benefit

Last weekend we went to a benefit for Greg Wallace. A lot of fun things were planned for the evening. There were many silent aucion items to bid on throughout the night. We really wanted to win the free dance lessons, but we were out-bid on that one!The Bluedorns organized the event and did a spectacular job!
Jason was one of the auctioneers at a benefit last year, and even though..."interesting" things came out of his mouth, they still asked him back again! Melody was also asked to auctioneer, so she and Jason worked together up there. They bid against each other, started the bidding at a really high amount on an item they wanted, made wisecracks, bid against themselves, and...well...you get the idea. I really enjoyed watching and listening to them, and, judging by the laughter, I think everyone else did too!
Some of the yummy desserts for the live auction!

There were approximately 170 people in attendance that evening--it was great turnout!

New friends-Sage, Mandy, and John

Helena and John (with his coat inside out)

When this Jason and my brother are together it can be confusing.

Danielle

The evening ended with dancing, and this Swedish dance was quite interesting.

The pie eating contest!~

Jason has participated in many pie eating contests. In many of them, the winner was the person who ate the entire pie (he's won all of those), but the goal in this contest was to see how much pie you could eat in 60 seconds.

This is definitely a fun event to watch!

If you're a die-hard, you really get messy!

Where's the messy face, John?

Ah, there's one! The guy in the above picture won, and I don't think Jason really cared. He looks a little sick to me.

One of the raffle items was a violin made and donated by the Wilson family. Melody really wanted to win, so every person in our family bought tickets for her. When one of her ticket numbers was called, she gave a little scream she was so excited. She couldn't wipe the grin off her face the rest of the night.

John has played fiddle for many years, so he helped her tune her new instrument.

Friends

We were glad to be a part of this special event. The total amount raised for Greg was over $25,000!

Our pictures were all accidentally deleted, so we used a friend's photos from the evening. We were disappointed because we had some really fun shots, but accidents happen. If you want to see more pictures, check out the link on our blog to Trivium Pursuit.

Hats

Remember that post this summer about the hats we were making?

Operation Christmas Child has started up again for the year, so we needed to finish sorting the hats and get them ready to deliver.

The Kalebaugh girls made some hats too, so they brought them when they had their lessons last week and helped Mom and Melody separate and bag them up.

Can you tell Melody is the artistic one in the family? She doesn't like to do the same thing repeatedly, so each one of her hats was unique.

Modeling our work Would you believe I was the one who suggested making a weird face? We thought Crystal looked awfully cute in her "baby" bonnet. Smile, Beck!
We sorted the hats by size and put them in garbage bags. It was fun to see all the different colors and varieties of hats spread out on the floor. As of that day, we had a total of 414 hats, but Mom is still making them since we're not done packing shoeboxes yet. We'll put up pictures of the packing soon.