tired? yes. sleep? no.

It is 3:00 am ... and I am awake. I can't sleep. Am I exhausted? Yes!!!! But I have been laying in bed with my mind going 100 miles a minute and I can't calm it down... so what do I do? Blog of course.

It has been a crazy week. Monday started off with a trip to the Draper Temple open house with some friends from high school and their kids. I went a couple weeks ago with my family but didn't take Jack because I was worried about if he would 'understand' it. But all through out the temple all I could think about was how much he would LOVE it! So I got some friends together and we took the little ones out and taught them all about the temple, and what mommy and daddy do when they go. It was so fun to watch Jacks curious face and hear some of the questions that he had. He really is a smart kid, he learns quickly and loves the details.

Later that night I got together with my girlfriends in the ward and enjoyed our weekly BACHELOR PAR-TAY! All I can say is 'drama drama drama!" but I am soooo excited for the finale!

Scotts sister Jenna has been in town for the week. We have had a lot of Randall family time, including another trip up to Sundance for a day of snowboarding. It would have been fun, except that we thought we would be brave and head up to the top (i mean top top, like back country top) of the mountain and see how well we could do. It was a complete ice rink. And of course, I fell right on my tailbone, I landed hard, I think Scott said I even bounced. So needless to say the snowboarding day that I was looking so forward to ended right then and there.

Tomorrow (or I guess today) is my little Jacksons birthday. He is 3 years old!!!!! We are doing a friends birthday party for him, and he is soooo excited! It is all about sports. Football, baseball, basketball, soccer... it fits Jackson. If you know my kid he was born a sports fanatic, but of course it doesn't help when his dad is teaching him all of the teams, their colors, and their nick names. But of course when mom trys to talk to Jackson about it - he responds by saying - "no, just daddy knows those things". Oh-well, I have my little girl. Scott and Jack can do sports, while Clara and mom do hair, nails, makeup and clothes.

I have had major hair disasterssssss this week. Emphasis on the 's' because there have been multiple. It started with me wanting to color it. I can buy all the hair products with my esthetics liscense so I get the 'ligit' stuff and do it. I have my favorite color - it's redken. But I have to drive to Provo to get it, and I was lazy so I went to Sally's and got color there. Once there and looking at my options, I noticed there were very few demi (semi permanent) color options but tons of permanent. So I decided to just go with permanent so that I could get the color that I wanted. I go home and start to apply... it quickly starts to process and I notice it turning dark, much darker than I had anticipated (i was going for a brown)... I watch it closely and decide to take it out early because of the dark color I was seeing. So I wash, I start to dry and what color do I see???? BLACK. Yes that is right, JET BLACK. I freaked. I had to deal with it for a day... and during that time I got a lot of looks, and some sighs and some 'so... you did your hair?'. It was bad. I called my life saver friend Tracie that does hair and always has the answer to all my hair disasters. She said Baby Shampoo (because that is the most clarifying) and 1 tsp of baking soda should help lighten it. I did it immediately, and some of the color came out, but remember... I bought permanent hair color!?! Yeah - this BLACK color was in their good. So then she sent me to get a color stripper. I did it that day - and THANKGOODNESS it stripped that BLACK right out. So then, knowing my hair was compeltly stripped I applied an intense repair conditioning cream and left that on for about 1 hour.... and that was a good thing, nothing went wrong there. But as my hair was drying I noticed it was a bit orange. But honestly - that orange was better than the black, I promise! So then my friend helped me apply the REDKEN color that I love and we were able to get my hair back to my normal brown! Hoo-ray!!!!!!!!

So... for those of you that just read that entire post (don't forget it's 3:00 in the am and I can't sleep), congratulations - you know what I did this week. And for those of you that truely enjoyed it, when I am no longer in bed I will download all the pictures from this week and you can relive this post once again ;)