Hair Begone!

The other day when I picked the kids up from school, they all jumped in the car and Ethan's first words were... "Mom, can you cut my hair?" He was just way too hot. Sweat was dripping down and it was really gross! I wanted to make sure that he had thought it out. He has been growing it out for such a long time and it is almost winter. Kira and I tried to convince him otherwise. I asked him if he was sure several times... In the car, inside the house as I was getting the clippers out of the drawer, as I was plugging them in, as I was wrapping a towel around his neck, and finally as I had my clippers on and ready to cut. He was definately sure. "It is just hair, it can grow back!" he said. I know that...but not for awhile. We took some before and after shots. It is amazing he looked like a different kid! What makes me really sad is now Canaan is talking about wanting a haircut. So far he hasn't asked me at a time when we were able to do it, but I'm afraid that sometime soon I'll be making a similar post about Canaan, because after all...it is just hair!

Big Birthday Bash!

So I thought I would go through the pictures in chronological order. This is the problem I have with scrapbooking too...I can't get my mind to work any other way and then I get behind, so I just do nothing. We'll see what we can do about this.
In September, my Grandad turned 90. My aunt and uncle hosted a birthday party for him at their home. Most everyone who is reading this is probably thinking...uh huh...old news, Kara already talked about this so I won't bore you with the details, but as I already explained this is how my brain works. As we were getting ready to go, I realized that I had not taken any pictures so we took turns having our picture made with Grandad.

What...did Kelcey have a new post?!

Ok, Ok, Ok...it has definately been awhile! I am not going to make any promises here, but Eli left town for 5 days and you know what that means...Kelcey gets a chance to use the computer. This is usually when big time blogging happens. I thought I would start off with Hayley's tag, since my pictures are still being copied to the hard drive. Here we go!

As a recipient of this award, there are rules to follow. I have to answer the following questions with one word answers and one word only! Then I must pass it on to seven others! (Which is a rule that I am pretending that I did not read)
The questions are as follows:

1. Where is your cell phone?kitchen

2. Where is your significant other? Texas

3. Your hair color? brown

4. Your mother? Kay

5. Your father? Don

6. Your favorite thing? scrapbooks

7. Your dream last night?crazy

8. Your dream/goal? lighter

9. The room you're in? bedroom

10. Your hobby? scrapbooking

11. Your fear? snakes

12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? sane

13. Where were you last night? home

14. What you're not? bored

15. One of your wish-list items? dishwasher
16. Where you grew up? middletown

17. The last thing you did? sat

18. What are you wearing? pjs

19. Your TV? Thursday

20. Your pet? stinks

21. Your computer? mac

22. Your mood? good

23. Missing someone? yep

24. Your car? clean
25. Something you're not wearing? slippers
26. Favorite store? thrift

27. Your summer? busy

28. Love someone? lots

29. Your favorite color? purple

30. When is the last time you laughed? today

31. Last time you cried? movies

Summer slideshow

Here are just a few highlights from the summer. Enjoy!

Back on the blogging wagon!

It has been pointed out to me that I have forsaken the blog world. Yes, I repent it is true. No great excuses, just the busyness of life I guess. I thought that the kids being out of school would provide more time for such things, but no. I think that I enjoyed the vacation just as much if not more than they did. School is back in session now and we are starting to get into a routine. Kaya started Preschool and it is going well(she hasn't even need to use the "emergency clothes" that are at school). I was worried after the first day, she didn't seem too eager to go back. The apple that we made with all of her favorite things on it was just too much fun. She didn't want to leave it at school. Her teacher let her make another one, because she couldn't part with this piece of art that represented her. The name tag was for my window, until they learned what kid went with what car. When I ask her what her favorite part of the day was she usually says "Playing outside and finding treasures in the sandbox." Which is interesting because that was Canaan's favorite part too. He still has a yellow cup in his room full of sequins, and holiday shapes that he found in there daily. Classes at the charter school for Kira, Ethan and Canaan start this week. Then we'll really be on track! Thanks for bugging me to get on this...you know who you are!

Back after so many years...

Eli was invited to speak for the Church in Chico. They were having a family retreat at Sierra Bible Camp. We thought it would be fun to all go and show the kids where we met. Ethan said "So if there was no Sierra Bible Camp, we(meaning the 4 kids) wouldn't be here? Thank goodness for Bible Camp!" I guess that is one way of looking at things. We had a great weekend. The girls and I stayed in girls cabin 3 and Eli and the boys stayed in Boys cabin 7. It was pretty funny to be chasing my kids around on the logs up there. Who knew?! Ethan got quite good at Ping Pong while we were there. He was always trying to get someone to play him. Eli asked Kira on the "midnight hike", but she turned him down, so he went with Ethan. It got so cold on Sunday night that I took the little ones to bed before the devotional. In their class on Sunday, they were talking about helping one another and they went all over the camp "feeding the hungry, giving clothes to people, untying people from trees..." Kaya and Canaan loved the costumes and wore the mustaches almost all day.