I'd Rather Be Barefoot

Saturday, April 17, 2010

My First Haircut!

                In 17 months of life Calvin had yet to have an official haircut. He went completely bald the week of his blessing (I know right? PERFECT timing.) and since then his hair has not stopped growing. Thing was, it was so uneven that he had quite the mullet going on! Jess got sick of it and evened out the mullet one morning with scissors, and I had been meaning to get him a real haircut for a while, and finally decided to. So we went to Great Clips and he cried pretty much the entire time, but he looks so grown up now!!

                                                          BEFORE: Shaggy and messy!

DURING: Traumatic experience! (But the lollipop helped)

and drumroll please....

AFTER: My handsome grown up looking boy!!

Friday, April 16, 2010

Z is for Zoo

                               On this lovely Friday morning Calvin, Aly, our Mom and myself headed to the Hoggle Zoo. I had never been but have been waiting for a nice day because Calvin adores animals! It was surprisingly freezing once we showed up at the zoo. It's right by the canyon, so very very breezy. We ended up all buying sweatshirts from the gift shop so that we could stand it! Once we were properly attired we had a great time though.



                                      Calvin kept signing "please" because he wanted to pet the prairie dogs!

Rude Giraffe walked away during our pic! He had been standing RIGHT behind us!

"What the...?"

Sorta like sitting in Santa's lap..except it's a gorilla!

Calvin and his 2 mommies :)

Ridin' the Rhino! You can tell how windy it is! My hair is crazy!

monkeys!

this darling little penquin posed for the camera :)

Calvin went NUTS for the penguins! He lives for them :) he was clapping his hands the whole time we were in front of their cage

I was so glad we finally got to go to the zoo before we head to Kansas in about two weeks!!

Monday, April 12, 2010

25th Easter

Aly and I's wonderful day of birth alot of times falls on the first weekend of April, and alot of times around Easter, and always around General Conference. Well this year, it was all three! What a spiritually uplifting weekend it was. Conference was so exquisitely wonderful, as usual. It always lifts me out of a funk I am feeling in, and this year it was the fact that Jess and I would be parted for an entire month. (He left on Easter Sunday which I was not happy about, but it had to be done) Ah, I cannot wait until the conference Ensign comes out, and definitely cannot wait until October conference!

So, 25. Hm..feels kind of weird. But I don't feel 25 yet, I still feel 20, maybe I will feel 25 when I am 30? Oh well, still have 5 more years to worry about that! There is this great short story by Sandra Cisneros called "Eleven" that you should read if you haven't already it's only like 3 pages but so moving. She describes an eleven year old girl on her birthday saying how she doesn't feel eleven yet, but that she feels 10, and 9, and 8, and 7, and 6, etc. That's kind of how I feel, 25, and 24, and 23, and 22, well, you get the point! Every year of life has made me who I am today as a 25 year old woman, and at some moments different ages are brought out in me.

Friday night the 2nd Jess and I went out to dinner with my parents and Calvin who was falling asleep at the table the entire meal (so cute, but no photographic evidence dang it!), then we met up with my bestie and her hubby at the movies and we saw Clash of the Titans in 3D. Not really a fan of the whole 3D thing to tell you the truth but it was fun!

Here we are in our sawwweeet 3D shades!

The next day, my actual birthday was our last day together as a family for a while. So, I wanted to do something fun. We headed to the aquarium in Sandy for a fun filled family day! I had never been, and it's alot bigger than you would expect! Plus they recently just got penguins, and Calvin LIVES for penguins. When we got in front of their tank it coincidentally feeding time so they were going nuts swimming around jumping out of the water and back in. Calvin was mesmerized. It was darling. It is so amazing to watch him light up and get so excited about these new things that he sees and learns. I love it!!

looking at some fish

weeee!!

They have this awesome tank where you can touch the sting rays! Calvin FLIPPED when he touched this one here! His eyes got sooo big and he just looked at Jess and I and went "WOW!"

family photo by the coral

My cake on the left: Angel food cake w/strawberries, Aly's on the right: red velvet. Did I have a piece of both? YES

I am always embarassed when people sing to me...luckily I have never had to be alone on our birthday! Love you Aly! Happy 25th :)

Thursday, April 1, 2010

PS

The entire last post was all a lie! I am sorry to those who thought it was true...just a silly April Fool's joke! Tee hee :)
Wish I really was going to Greece though! Anyone want to take me?

Hopa!!

Well kiddies...I officially am going to Greece this summer! I got accepted into a summer study abroad program through UVU where I am going to school! Words cannot express how EXCITED I am!!!! Greece is my dream spot to visit, so much history, so many amazing ruins and temples still there. And BEACHES!!! Ooohhh!!!! Can't wait :)

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Holi Colorfest 2010

Jess and I headed to the annual Holi Color Festival in Spanish Fork at the Hare Krishna temple. I have always wanted to go, but we are ususally never around. So, I was super excited that we got a chance to experience it. And boy, was it an experience! Here we are waiting for the shuttle from the local high school to the temple.

The Hare Krishna temple! beautiful right? don't mind the port o pottys, they are usually not there. The LDS church actually helped them build it! Cool huh?

A view from the temple steps of just some of the crowd. I felt like we were at some crazy color Woodstock! They are estimating maybe 15-20,000 people were in attendance, and this was the afternoon color throwing.

They are gracious and allow you to enter their sacred temple. After removing your shoes you enter one large circular room. Here is one of the beautiful shrines.

Here is the largest shrine where people would leave fruit

Ready to go with our bandanas!

Some bands played and I sat on Jess' shoulders for a while were I nabbed this sweet shot looking uphill at the temple

This is us after the cloud of color went up. I must say I had a brief moment of panic as it happened. You literally could not see ANYTHING. And some chick knocked my bandana off and I inhaled a ton of the dust, and almost vomited. It was surreal that we had just experienced that! But so cool :)

It took a while for the color dust to settle

My aren't we pretty?

Me on the ride home..well not really ride more like stuck in horrible traffic for almost an hour. I felt like I had war paint on! Oh, and let's not forget the balloon I took from Subway for the buddy :)

Definitely an experience for the books! We are going to the festival now every year! I suggest anyone who is in the Utah area the end of March should go too!

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Nico's Birthday @ Tucano's

In celebration of Nico's 26th birthday, we headed to Tucano's (yum!) We ate lots of food and had a great time! Normally when Jess and I go to places like this I eat wayyyyy too much, so Jess only got the meat and I only got the salad bar, and we shared..cheaper and both of us got to eat what we wanted!