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I've been blessed with an amazing husband, and today was his 25th birthday!! Birthdays were always a big deal in my family growing up, so I always try to make it a special day for the people I care about!

The fun for Zachary's birthday actually started last night, when we went to an impromptu soccer game for the LA Galaxy team! We ended up going with a few friends of ours, and it was great time, even though our team only won by one PK point! Haha.

But the fun REALLY started after the game when we were trying to leave the parking lot, and no one could move, it was so packed!! Sooo, we decided to have a parking lot party! We turned up the tunes, and started dancing and honking our way out of the parking lot!

Once we were fiiiinally out, we met up for dinner at Nick's on 2nd. Zac and I had this amazing hickory bacon cheese lettuce wrapped burger that was so yummy! I definitely recommend it! Also, today happens to be our friend Craig's birthday as well, so the birthday boys decided to have a little dessert, and blow out their candles together!

This morning we woke up, and I made Zac a (gluten free) pancake breakfast with eggs and mango, and tangelos, and we watched church online from home! Then, upon his request, we went to see the Croods! It was such a cute movie! We really enjoyed it!

Today was such a nice and sunny day out, so we decided we should not waste it, and do something outside! So we went to play mini golf! I haven't played in years, so I was pretty terrible! But Zac did very well, and ended up beating me by 20 points! (Don't judge).

Right as we were finishing up our last couple holes, we started feeling really hungry! So we headed to our "most important" part of the birthday day- a trip to get all you can eat Sushi! Every time I asked Zac what he wanted to do for his birthday, his response was SUSHI!! So, we had sushi! It was delicious, and made us really full and tired, so we REtired to our home to watch yet another movie, eat ice cream, and drink hot coco.

Needless to say, I believe the birthday was a success! I love spending time with this guy, and I love that he's mine to celebrate! Happy 25th to my Zachary!!

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If you've known me longer than a year, than you've probably caught on to the fact that I love to change my hair, and I do so quite frequently! Being a hairstylist only adds fuel to the already massive fire! It's like being a bar tender when your an alcoholic!

About 6-7 years ago when I was in cosmetology school at Paul Mitchell, I had my hair cut very short in order to be a model for a few different hair shows. That was the first and only time that my hair had ever been above my shoulders in all my life! Until now!

So for the past 6 years, I had been determined to have looong hair! I mean, I wanted Victoria Secret, lovely long and flowing, dreamy hair! When I finally came to the realization that nobody has that hair in real, everyday life, and that was a goal that was probably never going to come to pass, I thought, ok- why not have a little fun then?!

In October of this past year I decided to take a big leap and chop my hair right above my shoulders in super blunt bob. I loved it! Although I had cut at least 6-8 inches off, it was a good fresh change! But then, I had a dilemma... Do I grow my hair back out, or cut it shorter?! I figured well, I'm only getting older, and if I want something fun and funky, I better do it now! Soooo I did! I cut it SHORT! It was scary, but I just did it!

I can't tell you how strange it is to realize how much of your outer identity is caught up in your hair! At first I felt like I had lost all my femininity! But I quickly realized that I didn't loose it, it had just been adjusted, and redefined by doing things like finding cute earrings, and paying more attention to my makeup and eyes. It's surprisingly a ton of fun to have short hair! It's almost like you can just do whatever you want with it because you've already been brave enough to chop it all off! Aaand (surprise surprise), I've already made plans for cute cuts during the grow out process!

Of course I miss my long hair, but who doesn't love having beautiful long locks?! I'll get there again one day, but in the mean time, I'm going to really try and enjoy the all the phases of having short hair!

Below are some pics of my hair just with in this past year, and my inspiration pic for my current cut and color! Hope you enjoy! And go be brave and take chances with yourself!:0)