Black and White pageant look, flooding, and nightmare haircutting

Kelly had several weeks of lessons and consultations to help her and the other Top Ten Candidates prepare for the Pageant and possible royal service for the next year.

A couple days before pageant, Kelly got her spray tan.

First one.

She was so dark from it and couldn't shower for 8 hours after.

Here's the contrast between her and Lilly.

 That evening, Anthony was in the bathroom while I was napping.

I woke up to him climbing on me and his hands were cold.

I thought he must've been playing in water, but he wasn't wet.

Maggie went downstairs for something and told me there was a LOT of water dripping at the bottom of the stairs.

I went to check on it, and it turned out to be a flood in our main floor bathroom.

Anthony had SHOVED feminine products all the way inside the small part of the inside of the toilet.

There was standing water, even though he had gotten a towel or two to help mop it up.

It took 4 or 5 towels to mop up.

Andy had to put a snake in the toilet that night to get the remaining blockages out.

I had an idea to make Christmas ornaments for the Top Ten girls.

So, I was feverishly working on that all week.

Here are some scraps.

 The night Anthony flooded the bathroom, Kelly hit our retaining wall in the driveway with my NEW VAN (2010, but still!) and popped the rear tire.

The hiddenn blessing here was that Les Schwab replaced it for free because it was one that we had purchased this winter and had warranty on it!!!!

I didn't even think of that, since it was our fault and all.

 My hair has been too long for too long!

We haven't had time, energy, or money at the same time to get it cut.

My plan was to let Lilly do a small trim, then do a small cut, then we could have our hairstylist, Lisa, finish it professionally.

Here's the before.

 I told Lilly she could cut AN INCH.

I showed her how much with my fingers.

She cut off 4 INCHES.

Not nice.

My hairstylist was not impressed.

 That night, we went to the Wenatchee Wild hockey game.

They had Friday the 13th Jason masks for the first 1,000 or 2,000 fans in the door.