Lindsay's Shower

We were lucky enough to be able to host a bridal shower for our soon to be sister, Lindsay! They had flown home to MN for the weekend to do some wedding planning, so we drove down to her mom's house and hosted a shower there. We came in, took over and had some fun, cleaned up and left! :) It was a lot of fun and we were excited that we were able to meet some of Lindsay's family... Rusty popped in to say hi and we even made him join in for at least one game!

Chores!

The kids' aunt Molly (my cousin's wife) invited us to go out to her parent's house and help with the horse chores that she was in charge of while her parents were on vacation. I knew that the kids would love that, even though it was a little chilly to be heading outside... So, with a high of -14 we headed out to help with the horses. They loved it and got to spend a bit of time with their cousin Molly and Auntie Molly!

Hairless Wonders!

I finally got unlazy and cut Braxton's hair on Sunday morning. While I loved the curls that at least one of my kids got, I was not so excited about the bedhead that was an every day occurance! :)

Then, the boys came home from cub scout winter camp and I was going to put the clippers away when I said to Brody "unless you want your hair cut also?" He said, "sure" and jumped into the chair. After I picked my jaw up off the floor and asked him about 40 times if he was sure, I started cutting... Although I wasn't completely sold on the long hair, it was really sad for me to cut it all off... I mean, seriously??? Look at the pile of beautiful, natural highlighted hair that I cut off!! It was wild!!

Of course we had to take some in the middle hair cut pictures which prompted complete embarrassment and the question "you aren't going to put this on facebook are you?" So, I guess I won't put it on facebook, but I will pop it on the blog! :)

And then we had Beau - who I would prefer to cut his hair all the time since it is so thick and just kind of sticks out like a q-tip all the time. He didn't want to cut his hair at all, so I let it be... Then on Monday morning at 7:30, (keeping in mind that the bus comes at 8:00) he decided that he wanted his hair cut. Well, I wasn't going to pass up that opportunity since I knew that as soon as he got home from school he would have changed his mind yet again, so we busted out this bad boy hair cut in about 10-15 minutes... Whew!

Basketball in Verndale

This last Saturday Brody and the 3rd and 4th graders had their last tournament of the year... It was fun to see how much they have improved over the season and just brings me so much excitement for next year. Brody is loving basketball and when asked this year if he is going to do both wrestling and basketball again next year he tells us that he only wants to do basketball. He still has a few years before he has to make the final decision of choosing one over the other, so we will see what next year brings!

Grandpa Stacy

Josh's dad came to visit us for the past weekend and we ran him hard! Roller skating Friday night, children's museum and Chuck E. Cheese on Saturday, Lego movie on Sunday and lots of games and play time in between... We all had a great time and loved having him here!