I need your help!!

Has it really been five days {already} since I last blogged?? I didn't really mean to let that much time slip by. Oops! But we were definitely kept busy with the extended weekend, which turned out to be both quite fun and productive.

Our family fun this weekend included a movie night with the kids (How to Train Your Dragon), playing lots of Uno {and some Sorry!, too}, an afternoon of Wii games (bowling* and carnival games), an indoor holiday weekend "cookout," lots of ice cream bars and frozen treats, and our town's Memorial Day parade on Monday morning. DD marched in the parade with her Girl Scout troop, and DS marched with his Cub Scout pack. My hubby and I accompanied the Cub Scouts, hauling the 1000 American flags that the boys handed out to spectators along the parade route. I'm happy to report that the weather cooperated for our parade march!!

* Ever since noticing that the Wii Bowling game labels two strikes in a row a "Double" and three strikes in a row a "Turkey," we've been wondering what terms are used for higher numbers of consecutive strikes. Well, it turns out that the Wii game calls four- and five-consecutive strikes rather unimaginatively "fourth strike" and "fifth strike," while six consecutive strikes is called a "six pack." Go ahead and ask me how I know!! Well, it's because yours truly rolled six consecutive strikes in one of our games (with a grand total of nine strikes for that game). So now we know!! Of course, I suppose we could have looked it up on Wikipedia, but this way was much more thrilling. ;)

As for our productivity, we managed to install all of our window air conditioners for the summer season (just in the nick of time!), replaced all of our dimmer switches with standard light switches to make the ceiling receptacles safe for CFL light bulbs (generally not recommended for use with dimmers), and I spent some blissful time playing with paper in preparation for some upcoming DT commitments. It was all good!!!!

OK, so I wasn't pulling your leg with the title of this post. I really do need your help!! So here's the deal: after being two months overdue for my annual haircut, last week I finally took the time to rectify that situation. This time I went a lot shorter than I usually do (in preparation for the hot summer months ahead, I guess, but also because I wanted a little something different). I also got new glasses (OK, that's not a terribly recent occurrence--more like from last November), but now with two "big" changes in my appearance, I figured it was time to update my blog profile photo. With my new 'do fresh from the salon and still looking decent, I had my hubby and kids take a few photos of me. The problem is that they all have pros and cons, and I can't decide which is best. That's where you come in--I need your help to pick one!!

Here are the contenders:

Photo 1

Photo 2

Photo 3

Photo 4

So, which one do you like best? Please leave me a comment letting me know your choice!

By the way, I had worn my old glasses (yeah, go ahead and scroll up to my "old" profile photo to check them out. I'll wait.) for about 7 years, so my kids don't remember seeing me in anything else. When I got my new glasses and asked the kids what they thought of them, my 8YO son told me that I "look meaner" in my new glasses. What?!?! Wasn't expecting that!! I guess he thought that the rimless portion along the bottoms of the lenses made the frames along the top look more like a "unibrow"--the universally understood "angry look" in all the cartoons. I think he's adjusted to them now and realizes that I'm still the same old cuddly mom that I've always been. :)

OK, enough of the chit chat. Please go vote NOW!!!