the hair cut

It happened. It finally happened.
All these curly locks had to get a trim and I knew it.

You know it's time when you find your self able to do this:

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Before we came back to Klamath we stopped in the cutest hair cutting shop and all four of the kids got hair cuts.
But his was the one that was the hardest.
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When it was all said and done, we really didn't even cut off that much. It wasn't until the girl handed me a clear pouch full of his blond curls that I got a little sick to my stomach.
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(After)

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We still think he's pretty darn cute!!

Bear Lake - 2012

On our last leg of our big trip we headed to the lake. Our brother in law, Straton and his family own a cabin on Bear Lake and they were very nice and let us all come stay again for a few days.
We love this lake. Such fun memories made here.

 

The legend of the Bear Lake Monster still lives strong up here.

 

 

It has changed a bit since we were here last and the water is extremely high. Sawyer and Macie could have walked all the way out to those buoys in this picture above before it gets deep.

 

 

The weather was perfect but so smokey from fire's all across Utah that we couldn't have any fire's ourselves.

 



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Macie is always within arms reach of Grandpa.

 

 

These boys played and played hard!

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Oaklen is such a sweet boy. I love that Sawyer has someone so close to his age.

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Thank you Gerber family for keeping us very entertained. We loved every minute of it. Next time...parasailing?

Temple Square- SLC

I am reminded every time I step onto the grounds at Temple Square just how special it is to be there.

 

We really wanted all of our kids to get to experience the history. We met up with a great friend of mine and her cute family.

Suzanne's husband Boyce used to be in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and we asked him to be our tour guide.

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(This was Sawyer shushing Oaklen in the Tabernacle)

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(And then giggling about it)
 

This was my favorite day of the entire vacation.

I don't think I could ever live there, but Utah really has some amazing places to visit.

Discovery Gateway Children's Museum- SLC

 

While in Utah we took a day trip to Salt Lake City because the kids had never been there. Our first stop was this awesome children's museum.

I wish we would have known how cool this place was because we might have made SLC a 2 day trip because of it.

Macie was pleased as punch that she got to pretend she was a real cowgirl and was able to "feed" and sit on a life sized horse.

 

Sawyer loved all the cars.

 

Oaklen on the rock wall.

We all took a turn at the news desk.

Ellie was a natural.
And you can't tell me you wouldn't want to watch this boys cute face every morning!!

Out on the roof was a helicopter.

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It had all the buttons and levers and made life-like sounds.

It was a favorite spot that day.

LOVED this Museum!! Gonna have to go back.

Logan

On to Logan Utah!
We stayed with Nana who we love dearly and don't see nearly enough.

She made cookies with the Great Grandkids and told stories from when Grandpa was little. The kids ate it up!

And of course Auntie Lauren, Uncle Straton and Oaklen!!

(or in other words, Sawyers BFF)

These two boys got along so well. They held hands and had 2 year old chit chat back and forth the entire time.

Adorable.

Yet another part of our family that needs to be closer.

Blackfoot with the Weilands

We finally got to Blackfoot Idaho and jumped out of the car to the smiling faces of our Weiland cousins. We really do miss living close to Niki and Greg's family.

 We had a few days to spend with them so we packed in as much as we could.

We had movie nights, watched a whole lot of Downton Abby, made amazing treats, went to a fabulous water park in Pocatello, and then spent a day at the Lake.

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It was so hard to say goodbye to them. We talked about it and we all think they need to MOVE TO OREGON!!

Idaho-2012

Our great big trip this summer was in August when we went to see Greg and Niki in Blackfoot and then went on to Utah to visit all of my family in Logan.

We left at 3am that first morning and drove straight to Boise Idaho.

 We stoped at a cool kids museum there to let the kids stretch their legs.

 

 

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I loved the mini shopping center.

 

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The big kids, even Scott, loved the bed of nails.

 

 

Sawyer's favorite part was carrying a dog brush around everywhere and brushing things.

 

 

Cute little place and a nice break in the trip.