March- the Rest of the Month

We got a bag of clothes from someone and Tyler was quite excited.

Amy made the chickens a 1 year "cake." It was really frozen berries but she sang to them and everything.

We visited Long Hunter State Park with the Tipps. Love those kids!

Cynthia West, Marisa Tipps and Shaelee Palmer and I all went to the temple.

Mabel Tipps likes to come over and collect eggs.

Boys putting down hay in the chicken run.

While Amy cleaned out and refreshed the inside. We had a couple of really cold days in the winter so we had it pretty thick with hay.

Archery! This time Amy and Tyler shot at the State competition.

Archery parents are interesting- you have the deep redneck ones and the ones that act like archery is everything. Then there are the ones who wear binoculars. They always make us laugh because they keep exact score of their child's shots and comment after everyone. Well, for the state tournament, Lee brought his binoculars and I had to laugh. He's become one of them!

Trying to film a video but laughing too hard.

And then there were puppies. A friend breeds these golden doodles and Amy and Tyler wanted to go see them. There were lots of squeals and hugs!

 

March- Lee's Surgery

The day he was waiting for finally happened. Lee's surgery! He had an ablation on his heart. Basically there was a little fiber that was causing his heart to freak out thinking it wasn't getting enough blood flow. They were going to go in through the groin and burn the fiber out.

The procedure went great. While in there, they fixed another little thing that was making his heart beat erratically. But everything was routine and a simple fix. His surgery didn't start and end until late, so for that reason we had to stay overnight in the hospital. But we went home the next day and his recovery went great. 

Mom and Dad stayed with the kids for us. While here they had a fun, money earning, game. You have to be blindfolded and whatever you picked up with a spatula, you got to keep. I was the winner this time around with nearly $20.

 

March- Amy's Big Haircut

March was a busy one for us.... first off there was Amy's hair....

Amy's high school does a big fundraiser every year for St. Baldricks. The organization helps kids with cancer and (long-enough) donated hair gets made into wigs. Kids and teachers cut their hair in front of a large assembly and it's a fun/kind of a big deal. She learned about it her freshman year and decided she wanted to do it the next year. She grew her hair out all year just for this event. Here she is the morning of- before school.....

During school we got a few pics....

Her friend Bailey was doing it as well.

And then it was done! We got several videos from friends and it was definitely exciting waiting on the big reveal.


(This is our friend Aiden Rivas. His dad is Amy's math teacher. His mom is one of my besties. And they go to church with us.)

I was so proud of her. I wouldn't have been brave enough to do that in high school- especially in front of the entire student body. But she didn't care. I love her tenacity and bravery. 

After school we took her to a local place to get the cut evened out. Then after a few few weeks we went to a friends who is a stylist to get it shaped. Well.... that was not good. She ended giving Amy a very layered, very short cut and needless to say- there were many, many tears shed by her and myself! I felt so badly for her! She wore it in a ponytail for about a month to hide it from everyone. I told her that every woman has a bad haircut at least once in their life and she was lucky to get it over with early. We also noted that there weren't any major photos that had to be taken from "the cut" until next fall- so she also dodged a bullet there. We were trying to find any silver lining that we could!

Luckily her hair grows pretty fast. She's currently growing it out so we can eventually get it cut all one length again. We didn't take a photo evidence of 'the cut' though. We don't need to relive that trauma.