Here are two of my favorite pictures from Everett's session. They are really small because somehow I stole them from the website, I really am not sure how I did it. Hopefully you can kind of see the picture. He did a really good job especially after having to wait for 20 min and being tired. This is his big cheesy grin that he always does, he doesn't know how to smile with his mouth closed.
Well, it finally happened to me.....I honestly never thought it would. We were having a family pizza/movie night on Fri. and so we were all just watching "She's the Man" and hanging out. Elijah decided he wanted to color and went and got the bag of crayons and colored pencils and Austyn thought that was a good idea and joined him. Well the movie ended and I started to watch Psych and got caught up in that and didn't realize that Austyn was no longer sitting in front of the T.V. with the bag of crayons. After the first commercial break I turned to see what she was doing and saw that she had found the last pair of scissors in the bag and was cutting her hair. Yes, she had been sitting there for 5 to 10 min just snipping away. And since her arms aren't very long, she only got the front......doesn't her haircut look beautiful! Her hair is probably only half and inch long in parts. She got it good.
I honestly don't even think there is a way that I can blend that in unless I shave her head. And of course her hair is so light and thin that it sticks out. This is just the majority of it, not all of it. After I got her out of her hinding spot, I put her on the couch and tried to see all the damage. Hair just kept coming out all over my couch, and I can't get it off without some type of lint roller, which I now have to go purchase. This just showed me that as long as we have this furniture, we will not be getting an animal. The really hard part about it is that she looked so funny it was hard not to laugh when I was trying to be mad. She just kept giggling, and I am sorry to say that I did not have a good poker face.
Oh, and just so you know, this is not the wind blowing her hair, she really cute that much of the front off. I don't know what I am going to do with her......
A couple weeks ago for her reward for sleeping in her room, Macayla chose a Hannah Montana wig. She was so funny with it, after she first put it on she decided that she was the biggest Hannah Montana fan because she sings like her, she has dark hair like Miley, and she now had the wig like Hannah. So of course like every girl would she put on the wig and wanted to do a concert, but not without a photoshoot first. We honestly took like 20 photos, but I didn't think that we needed to upload all of them, you pretty much get the point with the couple I put on. She was excited to get all dressed up like a rock star and this is a scarf she got two Christmases ago. She called it her Hannah Montana scarf back then and wore it everywhere, so as soon as she started putting on the wig she was asking for her scarf. I think she looks pretty cute, and she did an awesome concert.
Here she is in another rockstar pose.....we even did a couple with her looking over her shoulder, you know the red carpet pose. This one I thought showed more attitude, which is definetely something Macayla had plenty of with the wig on, but not in a bad way, she just walked around strutting her stuff.
Here she is "pumping up the party." She was so funny during the concert, she watches Hannah Montana religiously and so she tried to do a lot of the dance moves that Hannah does for the songs. She totally did the hip move when she lip synced the song "Nobody's perfect" Katie, Kylie, or Krystal can demostrate those moves for you all if you're not sure what I am talking about. For those of you not near those girls I am sorry, maybe if you really wanted to see the move you could look it up on youtube :)
Here is my sweet Hannah during the photo shoot. I just thought this picture was a really good one of Macayla, not that she takes bad ones, she is so photogenic. Anyways, she had a blast and wants to do another concert but of course because we got her wig at Walmart it didn't last more then 3 days before it was a nasty rats nest. I need to find her a good wig that isn't too expensive that I can get her for her birthday. If you have any ideas of where to get one I would appreciate you passing it on. Hopefully by that time I will have guilt tripped Joe into getting a video camera and I will be able to put a song from her next performance on my blog. She had soooo much fun, and I loved watching her. Plus without the wig she looks a lot like me, but with the lighter hair, we are like twins when I was that age. What mom wouldn't love that!!
Here is a picture of two of the most important people to me, outside of my husband and kids, my parents. This picture was taken last May outside of the Nauvoo temple, where we were able to spend three incredible days with Mom and Dad. These two amazing people are very special to me and I just felt that since I have posted about the other important people in my life, that they too deserved their very own posting. So here are some reasons why my parents are my heroes...
They are always there for me no matter what, no questions asked. I can be my true self around them, no pretending, because they really know me and love me in spite of my quirks. They are wonderful examples of what I want in life, and for my marriage. They are very supportive of Joe and always have been, except for that time before we started dating when both Mike and Dad told me not to give him the time of day. (Joe had told me to give him a call because he was "avaiable now".) I am glad that I didn't take that advice :) At Joe's request I need to say that there is more to the story but I am not touching that because this post is not about him, now, back to my parents. My mom and dad continually try to find the best in others especially their children, which trust me can be the hardest job. They help me to see the silver lining when I need them to and they lift me up when I am in "the depths of despair." My mom is one of the few people that I can talk to that knows exactly what I am going through with my kids. Having the four as close as I did things get really crazy over here. I can call her up with my problems and she will listen and comfort me because she has been there and survived, and she knows I can too. And there have been a few times when I call to talk to my mom and my dad answers the phone and talking to him makes me feel like I can make it through the day.
Mom and Dad thank you for all you do for not only me but all of us kids, in-laws, and grandkids. You are the glue that keeps us together. But for me you are more then that you are my examples, my mentors, my heroes, my friends. I love you!!!
Well, I am sorry that I have been absent for these last 10 or so days. I know that my whole 6 adoring fans have really missed me, and that makes me feel so loved. The reason for my absence is because my AWOL husband finally came home. He was gone for the whole month of June except for 7 days. He was basically gone all week long and then home on the weekends. Anyways, this was the first week that he was home since Macayla was out of school so we decided to make the most of it. Joe had the entire week off because we were supposed to be in Beatty, NV with some of our family, but with us getting wet and needing to do some repairs and with gas prices what they are we couldn't afford it. So, we stayed in the area and filled our week with all sorts of activites, we went to the movies and saw Wall-E, which we loved. We went to Chuck E Cheeses, we went swimming, shopping, and of course to the local parks. We ate our favorite summer treats, snow cones, and tried out some new restraunts. We just had a lot of fun, the kids haven't been able to spend this much time with Joe since Christmas so they were loving it. And it was good for Joe and Everett to get to hang out. And of course in and amongst all this fun there was a trip to the the 24 hour clinic here in town. We were sitting around our table eating frostys when Elijah tried to show me his cracked foot. Let me back up a little and explain that when we bought our new table we decided that it would be a good idea and more efficient to buy four chairs and a bench with our table. So we have the two chairs at the ends, two chairs on one side, and the bench on the other. So Elijah was sitting on the bench and was trying to lift his foot up to show me the crack when he fell back and somehow twisted so that the side of his face hit the tile floor. He was wearing his glasses and totally tweaked them up.....see
He tweaked his glasses and they went right into his forhead, you can see where the hinge part is next to his wound. Anyways, his face was bleeding and Joe and I couldn't see where it ended so I got up and took him to the clinic. A really good thing about living in a small town is that there was noone else in the waiting room and we were in and out in 1 hour. He didn't have to get stitches because it was a small puncture. When it was clean you could tell it was pretty deep, but it was no bigger then if you stuck a pencil tip in his head. The Dr. but a steri strip on it and then a bandaid and sent us on our way. Here is a picture of Elijah's wound, you can see where he is bruising on his cheek bone and under his eye. He looked pretty banged up the next couple days.
We took Elijah into Eyemasters to get some new glasses and while we were there I asked the Opthomologist could check Macayla's eyes because I have been worried about them for a couple months now. Just a side note this guy really freaked me and Joe out. He kept saying how cute our kids were, but he said it in a way that made my skin crawl, we will definetely not be going back to him to get our eyes checked again. He took us right in and then after checking our insurance and saw that we all got free eye exams he gave us all one. We all passed except Macayla....here she is with her way cute new glasses.
I think she looks really good in them, but it is like pulling teeth to keep them on her face. She has even lost them once already, we only got them 5 days ago.
So that was our fun filled week and why I didn't update my blog, but thanks for checking in to see if I had, it makes me feel so loved. We did have an awful lot of fun it was really great being a family again after being apart. But as always, Joe and I are just really grateful that the separations are not for 6 months and he is not going into a danger zone.
