New Hair

My sister has been begging me to post my new hair cut so she can see it. So I also gave Keith a hair cut this week and thought we'd compare the difference in free hair cuts given by untrained wives and very expensive hair cuts given by real professionals. See if you can tell the who did whose hair. At least Boys can wear hats.

San Diego Break!

Happy New Year!

I can't believe how fast the winter break went by! We had a fabulous time enjoying the sun in San Diego at my parent's house for Christmas. We went to six flags magic mountain and survived many scary roller coasters. Unfortunately my fear of heights may have increased. We also went to a car and aerospace museum in Balboa, then seal beach, bike riding at mission beach, and we saw the tide pools in Point Loma. Though it seems we were busy, the activity we did most often was EAT! WE had lots of family parties with yummy food and desserts. My mom made a see's chocolate topiary tree with a couple pounds of chocolate on it and Keith ate the majority of it. Keith knew he was going to gain a lot of weight while we were there so he weighed in before and after to see the results. We were all shocked at his amazing 19 lb increase in less than two weeks time! Not only can he gain weight quickly, but since Sunday was fast Sunday he found he lost almost 10 lbs from missing only a couple meals. Who knew it was possible! Probably only for Keith though. Bummer.
For the last weekend we headed up to Idaho to see Keith's family in the cold snow. You don't understand what cold means until you've experienced a day at 30 degrees below Zero where the high warmed all the way up to 13 degrees below zero. Despite the temperature Keith's sister Deseret and I enjoyed sledding down hills we found in the backyard of the Ranch. We had such a fun time. We were sad to leave, but at least this is our last semester of school!

Graham Cracker Houses

Last night we made Graham Cracker houses with some friends and somehow while the girls were making the sugar glue and frosting the boys were left in charge of the building and designing. Here's what Keith made for us:





And this is our tree from the Ranch!

I guess I didn't know the extent of Keith's creativity, I'm sure my house would not have turned out as cool as his truck.

Thanksgiving Pics

We had such a wonderful Thanksgiving on the Ranch with Keith's family! The break was way too fast and now we only have another week of school and it's Christmas Break! Just to recap some of the Thanksgiving happenings:

Keith and his brother Clay shot 4 muscrats (he tried to explain what they are to me, they build little dirt and stick pile houses on water? I get made fun of a lot for not understanding about wild life animals, but it's not my fault I wasn't raised on a ranch!) and caught several skunks in traps that were way too close to the house making his mother and I upset when the door opened all day.

Keith's mom and sisters made wonderful pies and a feast that we ate for days! That was my favorite part. Keith's sister Deanna made the cutest place cards for our fancy dining set up and we also made little cornucopias out of ice cream cones to put as a favor with candies flowing out.

Keith's little sister Deseret likes the game Life so we played it several times during the week. The girls all enjoyed it, but let's just say don't play games with Keith.

I almost forgot we also drove up the mountains on the ranch and picked out our first Christmas tree! keith's mom gave us our first ornament too!

Anyways we had so much fun and it was hard to come back to school!