Kirsten's Booties! Thank You Lisa!

Believe it or not in the above picture there is a rainbow on ground! Just above the white pickup truck is a very faint rainbow. It was about 1/4 of a mile past the end of the street! We had just come back from an errand. It was 4:45pm. I saw the rainbow and sprinted into the house, grabbed my camera and ran back outside to snap a photo. In that minute it took to grab my camera, the rainbow was so pale that I could hardly see it. Oh well. It is the first time I have ever seen an arched rainbow on the ground!

Will these do the job? Hmm. I've been running 2-1/2 miles barefoot in my house in the mornings. I am leaving for Utah for awhile to visit our two daughters, Michelle and Julie, and their families. Woohoo! I need running shoes. Michelle runs and so I didn't have any running shoes. Today I picked some up. I put these shoes on and ran half a mile in the house and I have to tell you, my feet felt heavier! My knees kind of let me know they were there. Barefoot is so much nicer! This may take some getting used to!

Lisa made Kirsten these pink booties for her birthday and she has 'loved' them! She likes wearing them as they are so comfy! She prefers them over her shoes. Well I asked Lisa if I could hire her to make two more pairs. That meant I had to send the original ones back. Kirsten missed her booties!

When I opened the package that arrived today and showed Kirsten her booties she had the 'biggest' smile on her face. Drats! I should have had my camera ready! She didn't mind me putting them on her feet at all!

I had Lisa make her a tan pair and a blue pair. The blue pair are almost finished and will be sent as soon as they are done. Can you tell by the picture that Kirsten 'doesn't' want me to take them off?!!
I picked out the buttons and liked the design on them. The blue pair Lisa is making are a navy blue and have a lighter blue flower shaped button. I wanted all her booties to have different buttons. The booties fit her perfectly and she still has them on!

I tried to capture her smile 'before' that thumb went into her mouth! Thank you Lisa! Kirsten 'love, loves, lovessss her booties!!! :o)

Happy Easter!

These pictures are in reverse, oh well.
We had a little Easter egg hunt for the grand kids. The kids looked out the window into the backyard and said, "The Easter bunny didn't stop by!' We told them that he probably had but he's hid the eggs really well. Actually we hid them in the 'front yard'! They were so cute hunting the eggs. Adelaide was a little shy. Tilly stopped to 'snack' on her goodies. LaRue made a 'haul'! We hid 96 plastic eggs for 6 kids. When they were done we had them come into the house and divided them up so that each had '16' eggs. They were so good about it! The Easter bunny had slips in some of the eggs. They said: ' Grandma would play a game with them; make something in the kitchen with them, read them a bed time story, etc.' We tried to honor those the best we could.






















We have an island of a sort for our kitchen. You look over the counter out into the living room. The kids have a blast running through the kitchen and breakfast area and around the edge of the living room, over to the front entry and through the dining area and back through the kitchen. They squeal with glee and laughter! It can get quite loud at times but they have so much fun running and chasing each other! Their big smiles says it all!

The night before Julie and her kids left, Zachary went up to grandpa and asked, 'Grandpa, can we play with your train?' Well of course grandpa set up his small HO train track and a couple little trains and they were in heaven! Brynnly built some LEGO bridges and the boys helped and thought that was great! They had a ball!

Sniff, sob! All our company is gone and we sure miss them all! Lisa and Jordan and their girls and Julie and her kids, all went home. Thanks for coming and brightening our past week!

Happy 20th Birthday Kirsten!

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Long hair vs. short hair - Kirsten :o)

I have wanted Kirsten's hair to grow out so we could donate it to Locks of Love. My plan was to do that in July during the Family Reunion. Sometimes plans have to change...Kirsten has thick hair and it takes a good 20 minutes to blow dry her hair. Kirsten is NOT fond of having her hair dried for that long...but when it's long and thick it takes time! This was taken within the past week or so. For the past month her hair has been falling out. Every time I shampooed her hair and then drained the tub there was more and more hair each time. Her hair was heavy and she's been having a lot of headaches. Part of that is due to sinuses and part of that is heavy hair. Hmmm, long hair vs. short hair. By July Kirsten would have had the required 10 inches to donate. It was a nice thought, but practical matters took over.

Saturday I had her dad hold her still while I chopped 5 inches or so of her hair off. Kirsten did not enjoy that activity at all. She has a very tender scalp and cries very easily when you take too long to do her hair. Today I took her in to have her hair 'evened up' and trimmed. It took 20 minutes. They cut off another 1-1/2 inches. The gal told me I had done a pretty good job cutting it even in the short amount of time Kirsten put up with me. One side a little shorter than the other so the gal had to cut off one more inch off the back, which was fine. The shorter the better! I just need it long enough to put Kirsten's hair in a pony tail at night so she doesn't have it soaked with drool when she awakens each morning. Kirsten was so compliant and easy going and hardly moved the entire time, however she was softly sobbing and had tears, red eyes and a runny nose. The gal felt so bad. I told her it was okay. I explained that Kirsten has a very tender scalp. She was so sweet and gentle with Kirsten. I kept talking to Kirsten and giving her kisses and telling her it was 'okay to cry and we loved her so much.' When we got home I gave her a bath and shampooed her hair and blew dry it which took 7 minutes! Hooray! However it took 10 minutes to use the curling iron. Kirsten was so good for me! I hope this will slow down the hair loss process and some of her headaches. It's so much easier to do her hair now!

It only took 12 snaps to finally get a good picture! Whew! Kirsten doesn't like to have her picture taken. I could have used an extra arm or two. I was trying to keep her 'thumb out of her mouth' and snap a picture. My camera has a 3 second delay and when the battery is going down, it's seems to take forever! So this is the best picture I could get. Enjoy! She's so pretty! Side note...Kirsten turns '20' on April 2nd. Wow!