Most Expensive Hair Cut Ever

So back in October Ben and I went to this luncheon for the Idaho Falls Magazine and won a door prize for a $150 hair treatment and cut and $50 in product.  On Wednesday I finally redeemed this prize at the Brian Young salon.  It was really interesting.  Brian Young is the salon owner and the only stylist.  He schedules one person to be in his salon at a time.  This isn't creepy though because the space is big and open and has floor to ceiling windows facing the street.  

He first had me fill out a little questionnaire about my hair, then he brought me some slippers to wear.  The hair treatment was supposed to condition and remove build-up from my hair.  So he put all this product in and then put me under an Ozone steamer thing for 15 minutes while I ate mint chocolate truffles and drank bottled water.  Then I got a shampoo and a cut (Hollywood style according to Brian) and a professional style.  It was really fun!  My hair felt great afterward and even today after washing it with my new fancy shampoo!  So it was actually the cheapest hair cut I've ever had (free) besides the one I gave myself in first grade, but if I could ever round up the $150 to blow on a hair cut, I'd do it again in a second!

It was a long day in the hospital.  We went in at 7 a.m. for a scheduled induction, everything went well during the morning.  I got the epidural around 11 and started pushing about 4 p.m.  Julia was facing up in the birth canal so I had a lot of lower back pain and she really didn't want to come out that way.  Her heart rate stayed ok though so they let me keep pushing until around 7 p.m. when she suddenly turned and crowned.  So for like three hours the nurse and Ben and my mom were all telling me to push! push harder!! and then all of the sudden I wasn't supposed to push anymore until the doctor got there!  I was pretty much delirious by this point, but I remember yelling, "Get the doctor right now!" or something to that effect and slapping my leg.  You do funny things when you're half naked in front of half a dozen people, high on anesthesia, and extremely exhausted!  Anyway, Dr. Huggins got there very quickly and I got to push some more.  The cord was wrapped around the baby's neck so the doctor quickly cut it and the nurses started working on her to make sure she was breathing well.  

So little Julia was born at 7:28 p.m. on November 25, 2008.  She weighed 7 lbs 4 oz and was 20 1/2 inches long.  She is the most beautiful thing in the world!  She and I are both doing very well.  We just stay home and veg most days.  We are best buds! 

So this is an awful picture, but it's the only one we took of me pregnant.  This is two days before Julia was born and I was huge!