Chop Chop!

I got a haircut! (Actually, I got all of them cut, hehe) (You know it was funny)

My last cute pictures with long hair:

The night before:
After:

I got more than 10 inches cut off. My neighbor Sara is amazing at short haircuts and I have been wanting to get rid of the locks for quite some time. The only problem was, she was scheduled out 3 months! (See, I told you she was good) After she took the first whack she scooped up the hair from off the floor (I took Rachel with me and Rachel thought the hair on the floor made good stomping grounds) and there was at least enough hair to outfit 3 mannequins. Then she finished all the trimming and lo and behold, on the floor lie enough hair for another mannequin! Sadly, I couldn't donate my hair (or maybe with the economy the way it is I would've looked to make a few bucks) because over the past 3 years I've gone back and forth between blonde and brown too many times. Oh well, at least it's gone. (By the way, Sara told me she'd never seen someone so calm having so much hair cut off. It was time.)

Let It Snow!!!

Last weekend we finally had a free day to go get our Christmas tree! (I know, December was halfway over, but at least we got to have some fun snow to play in.) It was snowing quite a bit and there was a lot of snow on the roads, especially the canyon roads where we ventured off to find our tree, but our trusty 4WD pickup handled it with ease. I am proud to say that I cut the tree down and hauled it down the mountain (okay, hill) all by myself.

No, Jeff is not a wimp, making his wife cut down his Christmas tree. He was busy taking Jaki back to the pickup and saving her from frostbite after she took off her gloves and bare-handed the snow.

Rachel loved sledding behind the pickup!

As soon as we turned onto the canyon road she and Jeff sledded while I drove and then after we cut down our tree Jeff drove and she and I sledded.

She was fearless! We figured after Jaki seemed to be so miserable after getting her hands frozen she would have nothing to do with the snow, but she saw Rachel having so much fun and wanted out for more action.

So Jeff piled the girls on the sled with him and they had a blast! After Jaki was done we still could not get Rachel to get off the sled so she and Jeff stayed on and I drove as fast as was safely possible (note the word safely) to see if Rachel would get a little scared and want to get off, but she just loved it more and kept yelling, "Faster, faster!" We finally got her off after we got back to the highway and she was almost completely covered with snow!

The next day Rachel's friend and our neighbor, Tanner, came over and asked Rachel to go outside and play in the snow with him. They had a blast! Her Uncle Matt went out and played too and they all seemed to have a lot of fun.

Train Ride to Temple Square

Yesterday our family followed the recommendations of Jeff's parents and caught the train in Farmington and rode to Temple Square to see the Christmas lights. (We found out when we got to the train station that we could've even cought the train in Brigham City, and hour closer to our house, but oh well.) The girls had a blast! Rachel loves to ride airplanes (not gonna happen much anymore since we have to buy her a ticket now), and busses (doesn't really happen very often either) so we knew she would love a train. And she did!

It was fun to get all bundled up and enjoy the beautiful lights. It wasn't even that cold so we were lucky. Sadly our camera battery died before we actually got to the lights, but we did get a couple at the train station.