In fact, we all need a sick day. Every one in our house is under the weather, but I thought I’d do a really quick update with iPhone photos.
1. Hudson got tubes in his ears back in April and he got sick for the first time since then. At first we thought it was just congestion and then I noticed that his ears were draining. The tubes are doing their job, but we still needed to see a doctor. In the mean time, TC got sick, Hayes had a little cold (thank goodness it’s not worse for little Hayes) and now I have it. And if Hudson feels anything like I feel, he has extreme sinus pain and pressure and breathing during the night is pretty difficult. Hudson’s doctor gave him an inhaler with a mask to help clear up his lungs and we also got some antibiotic drops for his ears. Here’s a picture of him using the nebulizer in the doctor’s office. He kept trying to suck his thumb while wearing the mask. So sad!
2. I bit the bullet and dyed my hair back to my natural color. I haven’t ever really seen this color since I’ve been highlighting my hair since the 8th grade. Right now I’m really loving it! But I also don’t feel well enough to really care! But I think I’ll definitely keep it like this for a long time.
3. We got Hudson’s school picture proofs back and I just died laughing when I saw them. Apparently he wanted to go first in his class, so he marched up there and then froze. I’m not at all surprised that he didn’t smile, but I can’t stop laughing at the way he is posed and at his little hands in his lap.
4. I ran to Hobby Lobby on Saturday because all the Christmas and Halloween stuff was on sale. I needed things for Holiday Market decorations and I was going to try to find a couple things for our Halloween party. I found the most adorable plates and lots of Christmas stuff!
5. Erin Condren is on One Kings Lane today starting at 11:00 a.m. If you need an invite, just click here! I don’t know what’s going to be on the One Kings Lane sale, but I’m thinking there will be gift labels, gift cards, lucite trays. Oh my! And I know that Erin Condren is coming out with an iPhone cover. Merry Christmas to me!
Also, visit Jenna, AP, Jennifer, and NCF for Erin Condren giveaways this week!
6. So, yeah. We’re just hanging out at home. Watching Aladdin and Shrek on repeat. Hudson and Hayes are just lying around and doing a little bit of playing. Hopefully we’ll all start feeling a lot better really soon!
So sorry to hear your crew is under the weather – get well soon!!
You poor things. Hope everyone gets to feeling better!!! And Erin, I just adore your hair!!!!!!! 🙂
Love all your hearts!! I just love Hudson’s school pic-so adorable! Speaking of love-you as a brunette.. Amazing!! Your hair looks great! Get well soon!
You look sooo different with your “normal” colored hair, but I think it is really, really cute!
love your brown hair! gorgeous.
you look so different with that new hair – but it is truly stunning! that color looks really pretty on you!
feel better soon family!
Being sick stinks, sorry your whole clan is under the weather! Boo.
But your hair looks AMAZING in rich brown. You look SO different but in a great way!
Erin, your hair looks fabulous! What a great look!
I wish I looked as good as you on my best day;) feel better soon!
Loving your hair cut and color!! Too cute!
That just stinks 🙁 Knock on wood we haven’t all been sick at the same time yet!
I always get anxious to see school pics too. H is adorable even if he’s not smiling 😉
I hit up Hobby Lobby too…never too soon to get more Christmas decorations!
Hope y’all get to feelin better!
hoping you all feel better soon! your hair looks fabulous, you look so much younger (not that you looked “old” before) but if i saw you on the street with no children in tow i would think you were young 20’s!
I love the new hair color!!! I really want to dye mine dark, but I am too scared!
Erin, the haircolor looks great on you, it really makes your eyes POP! You are so lucky you can pull off both blonde and brunette.
Hoping everyone is on the mend. And thanks for sharing Hudson’s school picture, it gave me a good chuckle today.
I LOVE your hair dark!! It really makes your eyes pop! 🙂
Hope ya’ll feel better soon. Your darker new hair color is super cute.
I have an appointment Friday to do the same. I LOVE Hobby Lobby!
I have already gotten some of those glass ornaments to fill with crinkle and
draw monograms, etc on with paint pens for Christmas.
Hope everyone gets to feeling better soon, and I LOVE your hair- looks fabulous!
so sorry you’re sick! That’s probably the one thing I like least about being a mom– no sick days!
This was my Facebook status yesterday! Mommy needs a sick day! Hope y’all feel better soon! We have little mermaid playing on repeat 🙂
Our natural hair colors are really similar! It looks gorgeous on you Erin! Hope everyone gets well!
I hope you all feel better soon.Your hair looks so good! Hudson’s school picture absolutely cracks me up. 🙂
I forgot to say that I think this hair color really brings out your pretty eyes! They are so much more noticeable now.
Hope you feel better soon – love love your hair!
Love the new color! But then again you’d still be beautiful with green hair:) I wish you could pick out my clothes and fix my hair everyday.
Love the hair!! Hudson looks precious..he is so cute!
These type of days for the days I’m extra glad my parents live close by. Moms never get sick days! It’s nice to know I’ve got someone close by that can come and give me a couple of hours to regroup. Hope you guys feel better soon!
Your hair…… makes you look so different! It’s awesome.
Hudson’s picture is hilarious. 🙂
I think the hair color looks very sophisticated. I like it a LOT. Also, I totally giggled at Hudson’s school photo.
Side note: You’ve been highlighting since eighth grade?? Dang! I knew zip about beauty/fashion at that age (and my mom definitely wouldn’t have sprung for highlights for me!). Enjoy your new/old ‘do!
I just laughed out loud @ work when I saw Hudson’s school pic. Soooo funny! 🙂
I LOVE your hair! It’s beautiful!
So sorry to hear you all are under the weather…I just did a post on Sunday with a similar title…great minds think alike! Our family feels your pain after our week of sickness last week! LOVE LOVE LOVE your darker hair…what a great change! Looks like Madison and I will be making a trip to Hobby Lobby after naptime 😉
XOXO
I hope you all feel better ASAP!
Husdon’s school picture is too cute!
Erin Condren is coming out with an iphone cover? I am so getting one! 😀
LOVE THE HAIR COLOR!!!!!!!!!!!!
Missed you all at school! Hope the family gets better…..!
I have also been dying/highlighting my hair since 8th grade. About 9 months ago I decided to try to do it myself (haven’t done that since 8th grade either!) Being a busy mom, it just pains me to go sit in a chair for 2-3 hours – I’d rather be with my family! So I’ve decided to go natural and see. So far so good. I love the time and money I’m saving.
And I LOVE when you post photos of yourself! I think Im about the same “build/size” as you and your photos always give me outfit/fashion ideas/inspiration!
Love, love, love your hair!!!!
Sorry your house has the crud, but your hair looks incredible. So proud of you to be so bold.
I’m sorry that your house has been invaded by The Sickies! I hope everyone is feeling 100% better very, very soon! There’s something about being a Mom.. and being sick. It’s like having the plague! Hope you feel better real soon! But let’s talk about your hair for a minute.. It looks AH-MAZING!! Love, love, love it!!! I’m so glad you decided to take the plunge and go back to your natural color! And I love that open cardi- the color looks great with your hair! 🙂
seriously your hair looks AMAZING dark! Honest!
Love the new hair color and Hudson’s school picture just cracks me up – he looks like such a mature little boy with his serious face and his hands in his lap! Hope all of your family gets to feeling better soon!
I LOVE YOUR HAIR in the natural color! Gorgeous!
That color looks great on you! I’m going back to my natural color in 2 weeks…I’m still nervous but I feel like it will be a lot easier to maintain than blonde highlights! Sorry you guys are sick. The stomach bug has hit 2/3 of my house and I’m praying I don’t get it! Feel better soon!
I love, love, lover your hair color! My hair color is my natural color and has been for several years, but I often wonder how I’d look with a darker color. I did add some lowlights this year, but they didn’t make much of a difference.
I know how hard it is to live a normal life when you’re all feeling crummy! I hope everyone feels better soon! Gavin and I are both battling a cough, but thankfully are feeling okay otherwise.
Feel better!
I must say that I LOVE the brown hair on you! You look gorgeous!
Does Hudson have to keep using the nebulizer? (We went through something similar with my son when he was about one where he had to use one too)
Hope you all feel better soon!
Hope y’all get to feeling better soon & very soon!
LOVE your new color – it looks awesome on ya!
Love your hair… I can’t believe how different it makes you look! Either way, you are beautiful! Hope y’all feel better soon.
Hope you guys are feeling better! I adore your hair color!
Like every other person on here I will say that the brown color is beautiful. It is hard to pick between blond and brown hair on you because both look really good. I just got back from a trip to Paris (blogged about it today if you feel like reading) and really missed reading your blog.
I SOOO need a copy of Hudson’s school picture! He looks so handsome in his seersucker, polo, and New Balances! I just adore this picture 🙂
I am just loving your hair more and more every single day! It looks so fab on you, girl.
I hope your household is starting to feel better! Until then, enjoy the DisneyFest! xoxo
-so sorry you guys have been sicky 🙁
-I LOVE LOVE your hair!
-That picture made me laugh out loud. SO funny and precious!
-I need to get to hobby lobby!!
-EC is awesomesauce
-i wish we lived close
Sorry to hear you are all not feeling well, get better soon. Love Hudson’s school picture, how sweet! Your new hair do is fab! I love the color on you! Enjoy your downtime, feel better soon and enjoy the Disney movies. Happy Fall!
We missed you this morning! Hope your crew gets to feeling better soon!
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your hair!!! 🙂
I also think its cute how Hudson sat up straight when he was posing for his pic. Most kids slouch!
Hope your family gets well soon!!
I LOVE your hair!
Love your hair!!! Hope you are all feeling better soon! 🙂
Thanks for the Erin Condren tip! One step ahead now on my Christmas cards 🙂 And you hair is beautiful!!!
Well, God chose our natural hair colors for a reason – because they look the best on us!!! Your hair looks great! Beautiful! AND, going darker for Fall is SO the thing to do, lol. Sorry your boy is sick, hope he gets better soon!
I LOVE your hair! It looks so good! I hope you do keep it that way for a long time!
Love your hair! Hope everyone feels better soon!!
Love your new hair!
Love, love, love the hair! I think it makes your eyes stand out!
I hope you are all feeling better soon! Your hair does look fantastic! Geaux Brunette!
Love, love, love your hair! Hope you and your boys are on the mend.
Sorry to hear that you’re sick! At least it sounds like your kids have good taste in children’s movies : )
P.S. Hudson’s school photos are HILARIOUS! So cute and so funny!
Your hair looks fantastic! I definitely went a little crazy with the One Kings Lane sale today, it was too hard to resist. I hope you all feel much better soon!
You look SO good as a brunette!!! Love it!
So sorry to hear that your family is not feeling well. However, your hair looks AMAZING.
Love the hair! It really suits you (I liked you as a blonde too though).
Love the hair, and need more pictures please!
I’m sorry that y’all aren’t feeling well- Hudson looks pretty cute with the mask on though. Hahaha, the school picture is one of the most adorable things I have seen in a long time!
YOUR HAIR IS AMAZING! You look like a teenager, people are going to think that you’re Hudson and Hayes’ babysitter
When my son got his tubes (all three sets) the doctor gave us a standing prescription for drops. When his ears drain we just put the drops in for as long as they’re draining plus 3 days. His drain quite frequently due to allergies.
That school picture of Hudson is so cute. He looks so serious. Poor thing.
Hope y’all feel better soon!
I love, love, love your hair your natural color! I actually just went blonde with highlights for the first time in a long time. It’s fun to do something different!
I hope that you’re all feeling better soon!
LOVE your new (or old?) hair color! I think this same bug has swept through Texas and it’s a nastey one. I hope you all start to feel better soon.
I didn’t recognize you at first with brown hair but I love it!! I hope you feel better soon!
I hope you all start feeling better soon! It stinks being sick, especially at the same time as everyone else. I love the new hair color…It looks so fresh and young on you!
feel better, carrolls! your hair color is awesome and makes me appreciate my natural brown color even more. hudson is adorable in his school picture. love the little sneakers!
my girls have all been on inhalers this past month too. so sad to have sick kiddos! 🙁 i feel your pain mama…
and i LOVE, LOVE your hair!!
Your hair looks great!
As soon as I saw how many comments were already posted, I knew they were all going to be about your hair. I love it, but aren’t you concerned it’s going to just wash out? That’s what always happens to me when I go darker. What’s your game plan?
Feel better!
I hope y’all start feeling better so soon! You and your hair are gorgeous! And I love that light blue on you too, beautiful! Hudson and Hayes, adorable! I love that pic of them together on the floor, oh they will be such buddies and it will be so wonderful and fun to watch and listen to their little conversations, so sweet and cute! 🙂 (thank you for the shout out! ;))
I am so in love with your hair!
I love your hair!!!! You have always looked so pretty, but you look stunning!
I love your blog. 😉
xo,
Melissa
love, love your hair:))))))))) hope your boys get to feeling better soon:))
Sorry everyone is under the weather…that’s the worst! But I love your hair color! I think it suits you very well 🙂
I LOVE the hair color.
Hope you guys all feel better soon!
i love your hair!
Your hair looks great…even when you’re feeling under the weather! That’s just not fair 😉 hope everyone starts feeling better shortly!
Your hair is GORGEOUS that color! It definitely works well on you. I am a natural dirty blondish? (I don’t even really know any more) and I always toy with the idea of dying it brown just to not have to deal with the highlights all of the time! SO expensive. It looks great on you, maybe I will give it a go-sie. Hope you and the boys feel better!!
Yes, you’ve heard this but WOW your hair looks great and makes you look younger, (not that you’re old by any extent of the definition) Plus you look refreshed! Good job biting that bullet!
I hope your gang is feeling better! Hudson uses the mask like a champ. They want to put tubes in my sons ears but I am so scared to go through with it. Good luck nursing everyone back to health.
I really love your hair like that. That’s my natural color, too…and how much easier it’d be to maintain! 🙂 Hope everyone is feeling better!
Haha- the school picture is precious and too funny! Hope you and your crew get to feeling better soon. Just wanted to tell you that the new brown hair looks gorgeous! Your hair always looks so healthy and pretty (blonde or brunette), and I was wondering if you would do a post all about your hair sometime soon. I know that you have done a post with a link to the “curl down” video. But I think it would also be nice to hear what the texture of your hair is naturally with no styling, what products you use, what tools (brushes, size of curling iron/hot rollers, etc) you use, what your weekly routine is (do you wash every day, every other day…), etc. My hair is about the length of yours, thick and pretty curly naturally. Unfortunately, I’ve spent too much time with my flat iron and would like some styling tips and products that are healthier for my hair. I’m envious of your silky locks! 🙂
Your hair looks amazing!
I never ever comment, but just really like your heart dark! I think you look younger and thinner. Not sure how that’s possible, but you do. love it.
I’ve got it too…only mine turned into bronchitis. Hope you guys are feeling better soon!
P.S. love the dark hair, especially for winter.
Oh my goodness your hair has me thinking even more about going back to my roots – and by back, I mean going to the root color that I have NEVER seen (went dark blonde/ light brown in my teens when I was already highlighting) save for a few unfortunate times when I didn’t get in to my stylist right away. It looks great on you!
Hope everyone is starting to feel better
I have to know where you got your rug, please, please!
Erin!!! Your hair looks amazing dark! Good thing I’m doing some blog catching up tonight because I didn’t even know you had dyed it. LOVE!!! Hope you and the boys are all feeling better! xo
To be honest, I had to take a triple look at that picture of you with your hair to even recognize you. It looks great! I love it!
Hudson’s school picture… I about died. So cute.
Erin, your hair is STUNNNNNNINGGGGGGGGG!!! You are so beautiful! Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous!
I am just getting caught up on your posts but I wanted to say I LOVE your hair darker!! So flatering on you 🙂
Hope you all feel better soon! LOVE the hair!
You poor muffins. I hope you all feel better asap!!!
BTW I LOVE your hair dark!!! I’ve been contemplating dying mine to match my natural color (somewhere between pee yellow and dirty blonde), but I just don’t know if I can handle the fullness of it. I did dye mine dark brown last year and just LOVED IT. Until it started growing out and fading to my natural boringness.
You poor muffins. I hope you all feel better asap!!!
BTW I LOVE your hair dark!!! I’ve been contemplating dying mine to match my natural color (somewhere between pee yellow and dirty blonde), but I just don’t know if I can handle the fullness of it. I did dye mine dark brown last year and just LOVED IT. Until it started growing out and fading to my natural boringness.