My baby gets a haircut!

So the day has come. Kenzie got a haircut. I know. You're wondering why not before this. Well, we just loved her hair and I never wanted to cut it. So it is, that she had her first haircut at 5. And we loved the golden highlights at the end of her hair. But she began asking to get her hair cut so because of that, I took her a couple of weeks ago. She was very excited.


The before shot......see those pretty highlights?

Could not have been happier...felt like a big girl.

There is the first cut.

I know. You're thinking "that's it? What's the big deal? Her hair is still long." It is. But she just feels older to me somehow. So that's it. It's done. And she loves it.

Melkam Genna!

Thursday was Christmas or Genna in Ethiopia. We celebrated today with traditional food at the Ethiopian restaurant along with about 40 others from our potluck group. Ethiopian food is served on a large platter to be shared. You do not use utensils but rather pick up the food with injera. Injera is served with every meal and it is thin, and is a bit lemony and sour. It also lines the platter in the above picture. We had a sampling of items including Dora Wat, the bbq looking dish in the middle of the plate, a few other meat dishes, greens, and some other veggies. The Dora Wat is spicy and delicious, my favorite. The girls don't love the food as it tends to be very flavorable and sometimes spicy. Mason liked a few things.....

This is the owner of the Nile, Abby. She is from Ethiopia and is roasting coffee beans to complete our meal with a coffee ceremony.

Goofing around.....

This is the coffee served is these itty bitty cups along with popcorn. The popcorn? I have no idea.

Not much else going on around here. We are settling back into the routine of school mornings and the kids are enjoying their new toys from Christmas. If your not a weather freak like me, you may not know that we have had freezing temps for the last week. It has been a record weeks of temps both during the day and night. On Saturday, many places close to us actually got snow flakes....not kidding. I have loved this weather. The girls....not so much as they don't like wearing pants and fight me every morning. They want to wear skirts when its 29 degrees out...good grief.

So Melkam Genna or Merry Christmas (or something like that translation) again......