SHE'S 3

Well this past weekend I was up at my mom's house and I was getting ready to leave on Saturday morning. I really needed my hair trimmed. The girl who normally cuts my hair is back east selling security systems with her husband, so I decided that I would quickly run to Fantastic Sams and get my hair trimmed. I usually take Rilee to Cookie Cutters...a children's hair cutting place, but I decided to take her with me. After all we were just getting a trim. Well, we get there and after a short wait they took me to one chair and Rilee to another. I told the lady, I just want you to trim up her ends. Well the girl cutting my hair was busy cutting off my many split ends, and when I was finally done I looked up and could not believe it. No...my hair was fine, but when I looked at Rilee she had bangs....and kind of ugly ones. I walked over and grabbed her out of the chair. I was very mad. I said, I did not say to cut bangs. The lady cutting her hair said, "Oh, she told me to." I replied, "She is 3." I was furious, I didn't even let her finish cutting them, I just took her and left. Luckily Rilee is soooo cute that any hair style looks good one her, but I had been growing them out for a year and they were finally almost as long as her hair. I will have to post some pics later of them. I did however finally break down on Sunday and trim them a little better and at a little of an angle. So the moral of the story, don't leave your 3 year old alone when she is getting her hair cut!!! Thanks goodness she did not say that she wanted to be BALD!!

Lake Powell

Another fun vacation that we had this summer was Lake Powell. Cody's family has a house boat there. This year about all the aunts, uncles, cousins etc went and we had as many as 50 people on the houseboat at one time. It made for little room but a lot of fun. To make it even more exciting our house boat was parked next to the Madsen's (another equally large and crazy family from Gunnison). It was a blast. I always love Lake Powell. It is so relaxing. The kids had fun although Payton and Rilee were kind of afraid of the water. Talan was just his normal self and just hung out in the water and did not make a fuss. Cody and I decided to bring a tent so that our family could sleep in it at night and we would not have to worry about the kids waking everyone else up. Well on the last day we packed up out tent and there were 3 scorpions under it.. Freaky!! We did some tubing and skiing, played a lot of games, ate a lot of food, and had tons of fun. Lake Powell is something that we look forward to every year!!

Martin's Cove

Oh wow, it has been a really long time since I have posted. Sorry these posts are a little out dated, but summer has been kinda busy. The first exciting adventure of the summer was Martin's Cove---the pioneer trek. We took Talan on it with us, and he (and I) both did well. It was an awesome experience. I would recommend going to any one who has the opportunity. Cody and I were Ma and Pa's and we had some big strong boys that pretty much pulled our handcart the entire way...it was nice. Our "family" was so helpful with Talan also which made it even better. We did see 6 rattlesnakes, one of which was camping under one of the girls tents...AHHH! Luckily though no one got bit---I was the medical personnel, so I was very grateful to not have to perform any first aid or IV while there. The pioneer trek made me appreciate so much what the pioneer went through. It really was a great experience.