Bug and I are house-sitting and cat-sitting again. It sure is nice that Bethany goes out of town so much so we can roam around her house and live like kings. We haven’t been here very long though so I don’t have any amazing house-sitting/cat-sitting adventures to report yet. But Bethany does. She had a crazy adventure just trying to get to her traveling destination. You can read about it here.

So far we’ve squeezed in some pottery painting. Then we swooped back home really quick for a hair cut and to attend Whoorl’s super fabulous Gap Party in Beverly Hills. I know. Sometimes I even can’t believe my life. But don’t let me get ahead of myself. First the haircuts.

A while back Annalie and Bug got caught in Annalie’s closet playing with some scissors. I’m sure you can guess what they were doing. Bug has gotten in trouble for cutting her hair before so she should know better but she’s THREE and she watches me cut my own bangs in the bathroom mirror all the time so I’m not entirely surprised that she disobeyed me and went hacking away at Annalie’s bangs.

Of course I was mortified when I saw that Bug had cut Annalie’s bangs within an inch of her skull. Thankfully, Bethany and Troy are easy-going parents and nobody was too mad about it. Annalie ended up getting a cute haircut out of the whole mess and that was that.

Annalie was much kinder on Bug’s hair and only cut a bit of her side hair giving her some trendy side-swept bangs and maybe some texture on the back right side. It was all fine. It would grow out. But then I had to go and meddle with it.

I thought I’d just stop into a little barber shop next to the laundromat one day and ask the really nice barber woman (not to be confused with my regular hairstylist who is in these photos) to blend in Bug’s side bangs with some soft layers around face. It seemed logical to me.

I guess the woman didn’t hear me at all because she hacked Bug’s trendy side-swept bangs in a diagonal chop upwards toward the crown of her head that made absolutely no sense at all. It was shocking. I stopped her right in the middle of the hair cut, thanked her, gave her ten bucks and fled the store as fast as I could. It was a tragedy, not to mention a waste of ten bucks! But I didn’t really see any other way to fix it. I should know better than to just pop into a barber shop that is deserted.

I put up with the weird wedge bangs for about two weeks and then made an appointment with my real hair stylist for Bug and CC and I to get our hair properly cut and styled. We would make a “Girl’s Day Out” of it so that CC and I could have fancy hair for the party later that evening.

For once, I actually had my hair cut on a day that I was going out that night. Usually, I end up pulling my hair back into a pony tail and showering before anyone sees it all blow-dried and pretty.

I think my hair looked better in real life. The lighting was funny in the hair salon or maybe I just don’t match well with black and white hexagonal wall paper. Unfortunately, the swoopy curls fell out about a half an hour after I got home because it’s been extremely humid at my house lately. I tried to put the curls back in with my curling iron but that was just a hot sweaty mess.

CC got her hair cut too. CC has a mass of amazing curls. I like her hair just the way it is and as far as I’m concerned she should keep her hair this way until the end of time. But sometimes girls just need haircuts because they are fun to get. So even though everyone agreed that CC’s hair should stay the way it is, my hair stylist pulled some magic tricks out of her bag and made CC look like this just for fun:

It was amazing. CC looked like a model out of a shampoo commercial. Her hair flounced and bounced and swooped over her eye like a movie-star. But then when we got back to my house, the humidity got the best of her too and her old curls sprung back to her head like a flock of faithful little curly lambs following her wherever she goes. Good thing her curls are adorable.

And then it was off to the Gap Party for CC and I while Bug stayed home with her Dad and had In-and-Out.

What’s this Gap Party, you’re wondering? Well, I’m not sure exactly what it is myself but I think Gap is throwing these parties with bloggers all over the country to help them launch their new line of jeans called “Born to Fit.” I’m just lucky enough to know one of those bloggers who is part of it. What can I say? It’s good to have friends with pretty hair and connections.

It was terribly fun. Drinks, friends, tiny food (Why oh why didn’t I take a photo of the tiny food?!! It was so cute.) and free jeans!

I tried on several pairs and surprisingly it wasn’t as horrible a experience as trying on jeans usually is for me. I actually found more than one pair that fit and CC and I had a hoot taking photos and generally being bloggers about the whole thing. Drinks and cameras are always a good thing in the dressing room, no?

We made some new friends and left the party with two sweet pairs of new jeans.