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I really don't know what Nicole's fascination is with cutting her hair.
I was in the kitchen cooking dinner and was chatting with my mom on the phone. I made the comment that Nicole was being quiet and I'd better go check on her. I found her in by the cabinet next to Hannah's room. She had drug a stool over to it and was playing with the stuff on the shelves. She immediately turned around and asked if I could put her hair in a pony tail. By the way she was acting, I could tell something was up. I asked her if she'd cut her hair because I could see she was hiding something behind her back and covering something in the cabinet. She told me no. Upon further questioning, she still denied cutting her hair....even after I found the evidence of hair in the cabinet.
After this experience, we had to have the chat about telling the truth and telling a lie. I was so upset with her that I had to bring her upstairs to Dave and cool off while cooking dinner. This wasn't her first experience with cutting her hair. This was her third!
Oh....did I mention in two days we were scheduled for family pictures? Yea....that's why I was a bit upset.
The next Thursday I was scheduled for a hair appointment. I was able to take her with me to get her hair fixed but the family pictures had to occur with the lopsidedness. At least these will be pictures to remember.....right?
Here is the haircut you get when you continue to cut your hair.
My hairdresser did have a nice long chat with Nicole that if she ever cut her hair again she'd have to have it shaved just like her Dad.
And then there's times like this when she's so cute!
I know I have lots of other things that I should blog about especially to try and keep things in "order" but I had to post these pictures today.
We were suppose to have a snow storm start yesterday afternoon and continue through today at 5 p.m. The storm was suppose to dump 4-8" of snow in the valley. Well, we got a bit of snow but it warmed so much that it dumped rain.....and in Mendon it dumped A LOT of rain.
Dave walked into the kitchen this morning and looked into the back yard. He says, "Is that snow on the grass or water? That's water!" He then went and opened the front door to look at the front yard. He comes back very somber and says, "You might want to look out front. We have our very own swimming pool."
I didn't know what to expect. We have lived in Mendon for 3 1/2 years and each year it's a new experience. As Dave was walking out to get in his car, I walked outside with him.....and what do my eyes see? A RIVER RUNNING THROUGH MY FRONT YARD. It was WAY more that I had even imagined in my mind. We even had the full waterfall sound effects as the water was running over the driveway and into the ditch on the other side. I was surprised at how loud the sound was. Incredible.
I had to grab the camera to take some pictures. I would like to say we'll never see this again but like I said, it's always an adventure in Mendon. The pictures do not do it justice. You really had to be there to see it but hopefully you can get an idea of what it looked like.
The girls and I took the lower road to head into Logan and "washed the car" as the girls said as they were laughing as I went a bit fast through the puddle on the road and splashed water up over the van. I talked to Dave and when he left he went up into "town" in Mendon and he said the water was everywhere. He's e-mailing me pictures he took with his phone so I'll update the blog when I get them.
For now.....here's the pictures I took of the front of our house. I'd have to say....it might have been better to have had the 8" of snow instead of the 8" of rain. With the ground frozen the water has no where to go. It's suppose to rain more today through Friday. Pray with us that our sump pumps are working! If you remember......we have three of them!
We're parked across the street looking at our house for these pictures.
Hannah took this one from our driveway looking at the "waterfall" going into the ditch.
Back across the street looking at the waterfall.
Here's a look at the ditch in front of our field. It's plum full!
As we were driving up the road, I thought this was snow blocking the water flow down the ditch. Nope! It's Indian Soap (that's what we called it when I was little) or you might say foam.
We were right on top of it this year! We went as a family and picked out our Christmas Tree the Monday after Thanksgiving.
We did our tradition of going to the Merrill Family Christmas Tree stand. We love their trees. You can get a great tree for a reasonable price.
I think we picked a good one this year! I love the facial expressions on each of the girls faces. Hannah and Ashley were happy to be there. Nicole was bugged. She was cold and wanted to be in the house.
The Friday after Thanksgiving, all three girls performed at the NovemberFest, which is held at the Rec Center in Logan. It's a big craft fair that is held every year. This is the second year TaVaci has performed.
Here's a few photos:
Hannah practicing her speaking part....
Hannah had the idea on Thanksgiving Day that she wanted to get caught on camera jumping.
We would count to three, jump and try to catch the person in the air.
Here's some shots:
to notice that the pen she was playing with had leaked all over.
It seems as though the Holidays are always full of going here and there and doing this and that. This Thanksgiving Holiday was no different but we sure had fun!
Thursday we spent Thanksgiving with my mom in Mendon. Grandma arrived at our house with yummy dips around 2:00. Dave actually had to work so we coordinated our Thanksgiving Feast around him and didn't eat until 5:30. We had a yummy moist turkey that we started slow cooking from frozen the night before. I have decided that I won't cook a turkey any other way. It was so moist and yummy! We also had our famous sweet potato souffle, which all three of my girls loved. I made homemade garlic cheese rolls....another yum. Grandma made delicious mashed potatoes and gravy and a yummy cherry cheesecake. we ended the night by watching a movie and then taking Grandma home at 9 p.m.
On Friday, all three girls performed with their TaVaci group at the Novemberfest, which is a craft show held at the Rec center every year on Thanksgiving weekend. It was such a hoot watching Nicole. I'll post pictures of the performance later in it's own post.
After the performance, it was off to Nibley to enjoy round two of the Thanksgiving Feast with the Welkers. We ate dinner at the church and this allowed the kids to have a large place to run and play. Later in the evening, we returned to the Welker Ranch to enjoy pie and ice cream. The homemade apple pie was my favorite.
Dave took a couple of days off, which is giving him a really nice "long" weekend. He doesn't return to work until Wednesday. It was nice to have a weekend together (we don't get these very often) and to actually have two adults cleaning. Aaaahhhh......it brought a cleaning project of the storage room to an end and the amazing cleansing feeling throughout the body.
We worked in the house Saturday morning and then that afternoon we headed into town for family pictures! The girls did really good. The photographer was amazing with Nicole. The pictures are cute and I can't wait until I can pick them up on Thursday.
Then came Sunday.......now comes Monday and back to work and school.
I love this time of year. I love celebrating Thanksgiving and Christmas. Too bad it goes by so quickly.
