Farewell Curls!

The day has finally arrived. We were trying to last all winter long with the boys' hair before chopping it off for the summer. Although I think they could have waited longer Shea has been dying to cut their hair, so I gave in and off to Karen's we went.

These first pictures show the boys' hair before the...well it's not really a cut. A cut would have left hair on their heads!


Here are some closer pictures so that you can appreciate the curl carnage that was left on the floor of the hair dresser.

And now for the aftermath. Here you will see the pile of curls as seen by my cell phone and it's amazing, better than SLR camera. You will also see what the boys look like now! I guess it is a good thing that winter seems over in Utah!

Friday Night Out

Tony and I went out last night to a farewell party for one of his friends at work. Overall, it was a good time. We were planning on picking up the boys at the sitters around 10 and the party was all but over at 8. So, we decided to actually have a sit down dinner at a restaurant without kids climbing all over us! The thing that made me laugh is we could have gone anywhere. Trying to decide where to go went something like this....

Tony- Where do you want to go?
Me - Um...Olive Garden?
Tony - Eh..
Me - Outback?
Tony - Eh...how about Applebee's?
Me- Eh...(OK, so many restaurants listed later)
Tony - how about IHOP?
Me - SWEET!

So..out of all the places we could have gone without the boys, we chose IHOP. We had a really nice pancake dinner together.

The Ogden Treehouse

I have heard about the Ogden Treehouse from a few of my friends, but I didn't realize what the boys were missing out on until we went today for the first time. I can think of a few words to help describe this place..huge, fun, huge, amazing, huge (you get the picture). Anyways, I pictured it as a glorified library. Maybe instead of reading in a chair, you could take your kids to the top of a treehouse. So not the case. Well, you can do that, but who wants to just sit and read a book when you can be a Doctor, an Indian, or a firefighter. This place literally has hundreds of costumes, books, and play areas to just let your kids run loose and use their imagination. It was a fantastic way to spend a Friday afternoon.

Now, this wouldn't be a complete post if I didn't include pictures for the grandparents, so here you go. Please note that they are not the best pictures. It was hard to keep the boys still long enough to capture anything spectacular.

Ok, so this picture just makes me laugh.

Grandma Linda was trying to show the boys how far away Virginia was from Utah.

The boys in the Oval Office.

And, finally my favorite pictures...



The boys were playing with the babies in the hospital area. Call me bias, but I think Isaac makes a cute nurse!

Happy Love Day!

We hope you all are having a super Valentines Day! I just had to share a few pictures of the boys opening up a Valentines Gift from their Grandma Cathy & Grandpa Doug. Even though this was an INCREDIBLY huge mess, the pictures were totally worth it! Enjoy!

Rocking Valentines

Last weekend I casually mentioned Valentines day to Shea, and what a HUGE mistake that was! It sent us into a huge argument about the day in general, gifts, and my inability to care about crap like that. A few days and a few hurt feelings later we decided to get Rockband for each other as our Valentines present. After all, nothing says love like a horrible third rate imitation of has been rockers!

In all fairness the game is MUCH better than third rate and there are some pretty recently released songs in the game. For anyone looking for yet another way to humiliate the loved ones around them, or a great drunken party game, I would highly recommend this game. For those of you that don't know what Rockband is, it is like guitar hero with drums and a microphone. For those of you still scratching your heads, it is a game that plays songs and gives you notes to play. You can pick lead guitar, bass guitar, drums, or the microphone. You can play with up to four people at the same time. The instruments look like the real instruments and are about as close to actually playing as I am personally ever going to get.

To give you an idea of how the game works, and because we think they are really cute, here is a video of Taylor "playing" the guitar. Ignore our own personal American Idol Shea in the background doing her best to murder the songs playing! Also, please ignore the mess. I have been meaning to have a word with the maid, but keep missing her on account of the fact that she NEVER comes to work!

Here is an example of the drums, and another video because, although they look the same, we actually do have two kids. No, it is not a camera trick!

Snowboarding Tips

Shea and I went snowboarding for the first time on January 19^th. Unlike most of our friends, however, we chose to take a two hour lesson. It was either that or somehow get on and off the lift then get stranded at the top with no clear picture of how to get down. The lesson actually helped quite a bit and, although we fell our fair share for sure, we did quite well for our first day. I almost looked like I knew what I was doing by the end of the day...yes I did say ALMOST!

Now we come to the part of this blog that is the tips the title promises. The first tip is never trust your friends when they say "it's just down here." What we thought was a short run turned into two hours later and the ski patrol following us off the mountain. Shea bailed on me at the middle lift for a snowmobile ride back to the lodge where she got to sit and watch me stumble and face plant my way back to.

The second tip is a simple one. Make sure you put your key in a jacket pocket that you are NOT going to fall onto repeatedly throughout the day. Imagine my surprise when I went to shower that night and saw the wonderful bruise in the picture above! Amazingly I never felt it when I fell on it, and the bruise wasn't painful.

For all of those people claiming that advil or some similar pain reliever is needed after the first day, you are all pansies! Although we were both a little sore the next day, mostly because we are WAY out of shape, we still functioned well and even managed to take the boys swimming for a few hours!