Crazy Life

28 June 2014 - On Thursday my new boss, John, stepped into my office and asked if I wanted to see a forest fire.  So we hopped in the company Tahoe and raced over to our neighbor Apache County.  As we got closer John started reminding me of Dad, twisting his body to get the perfect picture!  We turned onto a dirt road and were being followed by a big forest service truck.   We came around the bend and there was a sheriff's office road block.  John reached over and flipped on our red & blue lights (yes, my work vehicle has cop lights) and we passed the road block and pulled over to talk to the officers.  They got us up to date and told us that we needed to go down to the local fire station because that is where the command post was being set up.  They would be able to give us more information and let us know if there was anything that we could do.
We pulled up and were drafted!  John was asked to be the operations section chief (make sure things were running smoothly) and I was asked to be the logistics section chief (keeping up to date list of resources available and what everyone was doing.)
To make a long story short, it was exhausting but a very eye opening experience.  The fire is still burning but seems to be under control for the most part. 

Unexpected Surprise

Now that the weather is warming up, we have been going on early morning walks.  We usually leave about 5:15 and get back around 6:00.  We walk through the back fields and usually see a few bunnies and some killdeer.  This morning we rounded the bend to start on our way home and as we approached a large tree (I have no idea what kind) a huge owl burst out of the branches and flew away.  It was enormous!  Wow!

They flew the coop!

Well, our little family of robins has left but we wanted to share some recent pictures!  They aren't very good and close because the parents were REALLY aggressive and would fly at our heads when we got too close.

 

 

 

 

If you look closely you can see the worm in mom's beak.

Getting Bigger

They arrived!!!

1 June 2014 - We were sitting on our back porch enjoying a beautiful evening when I noticed a robin fly into our apple tree with a bug in it's mouth.  So we went to investigate. 

 

Scott made a little whistle sound and....

Our Quadruplets

Just some pictures of our latest family members.

 

She really hid her nest.  I don't know how Scott ever found it.

 

 

 

Mom was not very happy that we were invading her privacy!

The Plunge

There comes a time, I believe, in everyone's life when change becomes a necessity.  Most often, I do not like things to change but every once in awhile there is nothing better.  Look at this picture (not really the greatest picture I know).

I have looked pretty much the same since I was about 14 years old.  I love my hair, mainly because I remember my life when I didn't have any.  My hair used to be so thin I couldn't even keep it up in a ponytail.  When I was 9, we chopped it off and somehow that created a kind of explosion and immediately I had hair and lots of it!  I did become quite attached to it.  I think all of us are attached to our hair. Literally.  At our Stake Conference adult meeting, I was sitting by myself waiting for Garrett to arrive.  A very nice older gentleman came up to me and asked if I lived in the Stake.  I told him I did and what ward I was a member of.  Then he asked if I was just getting ready to start college.  He was shocked when I told him that I was married, had five kids and my husband was the bishop.  He honestly did not believe me until Garrett walked in and became a second witness.  I was grateful for his compliment but it was at that point I decided I needed a change.  It was time to move on and take on  a new look completely different from high school.  I was ready to take the plunge!

My neighbor chopped off 10 inches that I was able to donate and then she just kept snip, snip, snipping!  My hair is really dark now because the part you can see hasn't seen the light of day for 20 years.  I don't really like the way it is done in these pictures so I am still discovering how I like to style it.  It is so fun!  I'm loving it!  Lots of other people have told me it is a sin, I should be excommunicated, what was I thinking.  I was thinking, I had long, thick hair that made me sweat all the time, gave me headaches, was hard to clean, and made people think I was still in high school.  Garrett was 100% supportive.  Emerson was not.  He is slowly warming up to me again.  So, what do you think?