We Have A Visitor

My mom came to visit for the first time this past week and we tried to pack in as much fun as we could in just a few days. Here's what we did!


I picked her up from the airport Thursday afternoon and we met up with Jake for lunch. Later that night we walked to the nearby red box to rent "Wreck It Ralph"


Our first day we spent the morning at the pool, relaxing under the palm trees


Pedicures were next on the list. We went to see "Admission" that night


Saturday we went shopping in Scottsdale and went to "The Croods"


Sunday morning we took Jake to the airport and decided to spend the last few hours at the pool again


Guess what we found in the water...?


The whole weekend I spent time searching for a new pair of shorts since it's getting quite warm here. I didn't have much luck, and of course Jake comes up with the most obvious idea to use an old pair of jeans and cut them. So after we spent our last hour at the pool my mom helped me cut my jeans into some great shorts!

Thanks for a great weekend mom, come back soon!

Trivial Problem..

I'm at a crossroads with something so minor and unimportant that I need professional advice (from my friends and family of course)! I have been growing my hair for a very long time. I'm not a carrier of the "super fast growing hair gene" so little by little I've become very attached to the amount of hair on my head. However, we live in Arizona now.. warm, sunny, never ending heat squelched Arizona; and I can't decide if it's time to pull the plug on my hair and cut it or try to survive the summer in pony tails like a 7 year old girl.

Someone needs to help me or give me a little courage to make this non life threatening decision!

Here are my only references:


The shortest my hair has been, 4 years ago


The length of my hair now ( even though this is an old picture)

Oh what to do, what to do!

Recent Events

Not much has been going on here, it's mostly just the norm; Jake spends his days working and I spend mine trying to stay as sane as possible! We did have a chance to experience the Scottsdale arts festival which was a lot of fun, and we spent a week in Utah for Josh and Melissa's wedding. Now we're back in Arizona enduring the early heat! thanks to everyone who fit us into their schedule so we could reminisce and congratulations to Josh and Melissa! We hope we can come back again soon.


Scottsdale Arts Festival


just enjoying life