Summer Cuts & Mohawks

I've been wanting to get Hyrum a mohawk for a long time and I keep telling Ricky but it just hasn't ever happened..

We started cutting Hyrums hair at home the last two haircuts he needed.

Well, we are going camping this weekend and the subject of haircuts has been running around our home to at least trim up Hyrums sides for camping.

Today, I decided to make the move and take care of it myself....

So... Off to Sport Clips Hyrum and I went!

I had his 'sides' trimmed up all right!! :)

more photos of the new dew

Hyrum was saying "mommy, where hair?"

(cheese)

She's My Best Friend

Who can honestly say that they have had a best friend for 15yrs with zero falling outs, and never having to 'reconnect' after a period of time apart.?

!!ME!!

Jess and I met when we were in second grade on the school bus going home.

We lived in the same neighborhood, two streets apart.

It seems like we kind of became instant friends because it wasn't long before we were spending every weekend together at each others house.

We spent many hours riding our bikes around the neighborhood, jumping on our trampoline, dreaming of making a 'band' together, playing Donky Kong on super nintendo...

Before Jessica, I had zero tollerance or appreciation for Country Music.. Her mom was a country music fan, so I was stuck listening to it any time I was with them. :) Of course I became hooked, but I also opened Jessicas eyes to a new world of music as well

alternative, rock, pop, R&B... (anything but country)

All throughout our school lives, we never once had a class together because of course she was much smarter than me. And once in High School, I left to do my schooling at an alternative campus that better suited me.

We still stayed strong best friends and had our weekends together.

After we graduated High School she started her college career and I moved off to Utah to start a new and diffrent type of adventure of my own.

Still.. did that rip us apart? Of course not!!

We had myspace and then facebook, and of course txting to stay in touch.

All of my visits home consisted of LOTS of Jessica time! Though she was practically married to her long time high school sweatheart by this point and living with him, her and I continued to have our sleep overs..

We would kick him to the couch and her and I would share the bed. (thanks William!)

There were our fun, crazy trips to the beach where we pretended to be rock starts (cuz we are.)

And we can't forget about going to Buzz Fest concerts at the Woodlands Pavilion for Jessica's B-Day.

if ever an argument, we can agree to disagree and not let it get in the way.

We were always able to finish each others sentances, could sit on the phone together and never say a word cuz we knew what the other would say or what they were thinking.

 

Though I ended up moving yet even further from TX and ended up in WA, married to Ricky and started a family, our friendship never faltered..

Jess is now almost graduated from college, finally (really) married to William, they have just baught a peice of property AND a new house to call their own.

Me, I'm of course married to Ricky, an on-site apartment manager, and a mommy.

We both have a full life ahead of us to live.. I don't know what I will be doing 10yrs from now, where I will be, how many kids I may or may not have, or if I will have a college degree..

One thing I DO know for certain, is that 'I', will still have My Best Friend!!

!!Miss you Jessica Sue Shannon Brown!!

Traumatic Memory.?

For all of you who know my mother know that she is TERRIFIED of opening 'cans' of biscuits or anything of the sort in the following type of tubes.

 Any time I see one of these at a store, or in my fridge, or when I have to hold them and open them my thoughts are immediately brought back to my childhood.

If and when my mother braved the can on her own she'd always end up screaming, jumping, and dropping the roll of biscuits on the counter top.

or... she had me, or one of my siblings open it for her, subjecting us to endure the inevitable surprise 'POP' when you reached the certain point in the unravel.

I don't think I was ever scared of it myself, but these days I am very aware of my thoughts and feelings when holding one of these tubes in my hands..

I now anticipate the 'POP' and move forward with caution...


(LOVE You mom!!)    :)



Summer.?

I think Hyrum over heard me talking about how awesome, warm and sunny, this weekend is supposed to be!

It's a miracle that we will actually be having 2 nice days to play with.

I may have mentioned going somewhere to play in the water or swim..

Well, Hyrum ran to his room and decided that this was going to be his outfit for the day.

He's excited to be able to go swimming this summer.

He asked if we could go bye bye to the water.

The weather isn't nice enough to do such a thing today... so I improvised..

..and he had a BLAST.!!

Swimming in the bathtub.! Does this give me  'cool' mom points..?

Here is a video of how excited he was to be able to swim in the tub... splashing around while the tub is filling up!!

Untitled from Laurie Leiser on Vimeo.

Why is Dad on MY fridge.?

My youngest baby brother is graduating from high school this weekend!

 Because of that, I received the typical graduate invite and senior pics of my brother.

I have his senior picture stuck to the front of our refrigerator.

For the first week of having his picture up I kept finding myself slightly puzzled and confused as to why I had a childhood photo of my Dad hanging on my fridge.. (no, I am not exaggerating)

It's no secret how much  Dad and Warren look alike in photos from when dad was in Jr.High and High School, to Warren now..

This is just one of the photos my dad had up on his facebook account that I decided to 'steal' for this post.

I chose it because Warren is hard to find with a smile on his face, and the expression on my dad's face in this photo is a classic Warren look...

or... is it a classic Dad look..???

?...hmm...?