Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow.....

We were lucky to have a visit from Grandma this week, and as always, she helped out a ton and we loved every second of her visit!  Not only did she help out with the cooking, cleaning, and laundry, but she also gave lots and lots of love to Coop.  And..........she made the "suggestion" that we should think about cutting his hair.  We did agree it had been getting a bit scraggly lately, and we even had a friend mention that he liked the grunge look we were rocking with Coop!  So after a weak attempt of Andy and I trimming it with large kitchen shears, Grandma and I stopped in to good ole' Super Cuts.  I was still having a hard time with the fact that we were cutting my 6month old's hair, but it was necessary. 


Check out the before pic below, you'll see why.

  

Waiting to get my hair cut with Grandma

Thank goodness I got to sit on mommy's lap at least!

I had to have a little taste of my smock of course!

 

And the After Pic.....Coop isn't quite sure about the new dew





Love love love this shot.....I came around the corner and saw this scene, and just had to capture it.  I just loved the fact that my mom was in my kitchen making a delicious dinner for us while my precious angel was just hanging out with her, playing at her feet.  Thanks mom for being our cook and babysitter at the same time!!

Over the past week we also celebrated two big moments in our sibling's lives.  Bryan played in his final college football game in Des Moines, Iowa and Kristel celebrated her 30th birthday! Bryan has played 8 years of competitive football which included a State Title, several injuries and some surgeries, and hundreds of amazing tackles and plays over the years, we are so proud of him!  As Andy put it, "thanks for living out my dream for me".  What an accomplishment!  And Kristel, well, 30 is 30, enough said!   We are lucky and blessed to be so close with all of our siblings and share in their lives.   And of course we captured numerous pictures of the moments......

The whole group cheering on Bryan at Drake



Check out our studly brother, top left





Coop was pretty excited that GG and Grandpa were at the game too, who would have known!?

Thanks for keeping me warm GG. Love you!

 Taking a snooze in GG's lap

 Taking another snooze in Grandma' lap.  Wow, these grandmas are really good at putting me to sleep!

 Aunt Heather giving me some licorice, this is awesome, mom never lets me have this stuff! You are the best, Aunt Heath!

Getting in some good bonding time with Grandpa B.

 Hi Uncle John! (ok technically "future" uncle, but that's too many words for me to say right now)

Awww, you two are cute.   Happy 30th Kristel!

And just because I realized we hardly had any pictures of Dad (and he was feeling left out after checking out the new post) we had to add this one in.........here I am trying on a new hat.