Time Out for a Haircut

Let's take a break from camping to see some adorable pictures of Jackson getting a buzz cut.
This was also done a month or so ago - so most of his hair is back now.

I just found the pictures and thought they were too cute not to share.


I think this is his 2nd haircut - he sits really still, and loves it.

Now its Daddy's turn!

Mohawk etc.

Jasper had a mohawk for a few brief days. . .

before he and Jackson both shaved it all off.

My One Year Old

Jackson turns one today! We had a birthday party for him last Sunday at Grandma Bennett's home. He wasn't quite sure what to do with the cake, but he seemed to have a good time.

We have another party planned for the McKinnon side soon - once my mom is done with the flu.

This year has just flown by. 1 year ago today, I was induced after being a week overdue, and he was born after hours of labor, weighing in at 9 lbs 14 oz. Two doctors had to yank, push, pull and forcep him out of me to avoid a c-section. It worked! Hopefully all my babies will not be so HUGE.

I sure love him.

4 months old in his little jumping swing

What else have we been up to in the last little while?

I tried cutting Jasper's hair - me who has never cut anyone's hair except my sister Becky's when I was 12 or so, and it ended up in disaster. David said to just use the clippers. Well I just used the clippers, and it was quite a sight. Jasper put on a brave face and went to school anyway - oh, and did I mention it was picture day? Ha, yep. So the next day I had the great idea to cut it again. I always wondered how hard it would be to cut a mohawk. It is hard - if you want it to look good and if you are cutting Jasper's hair.

So, it looked awful, but he loved it. I ended up buzzing it all off, David buzzed it off that is. And while he was at it he decided he wanted to buzz Jackson's hair too, since he needed a trim. It is coming back now, and he's just a cutie pie. I had a post envisioned with all three (David buzzed off his hair too) of my boys and their bald heads, but it never happened because my camera isn't working and yada yada blah blah.

Jasper's football team has had enough losses that they won't be in the playoffs/finals. I'm sad for Jas, but happy because that means football will be over much sooner, and Jasper will be home much more.

David is now working 4 10 hour days, which means he gets to stay home with Jackson one day while I work. He is really enjoying it.

Jackson watching The Wizard of Oz

Football Win!

After losing the first three games of the season, Jasper's team had its first win last Saturday! Go Jasper! They played great. We have had so much fun going and watching and cheering. The games are every Saturday at 9am which is exactly when Jackson usually takes his first nap of the day. He is exhausted but has so much fun watching and clapping and saying "Hi!" to everyone.

Jasper is a lineman again this year and he is playing so well! He LOVES football, and is such a good sport - never complaining about going to practice. He loves all the new bruises he gets every week.

And yes, in the picture below he is sporting a mohawk (story to follow).

This is what Jackson looks like on the way home every week, after 1 minute in his car seat.

Halloween Flashback

Becky and I at the Clinton parade. Becky is cowboy #1 with red bandana, and I'm cowboy #2 with the hat and brown overalls. Our mother loved us so much she gave us matching boy haircuts that year. I'm not even sure this is Halloween. I think its some kind of Cowboy parade. Oh and if you look really carefully I think you can see Heather in the far background with the mullett and red bandana and my dad with a blue Co-op hat and sunglasses.

Baby Mama

For my birthday, David took me to see Baby Mama with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. If you like these two on SNL, then you will like the show. It wasn't David's kind of movie at all - what a nice guy to take me to it anyway. We went on this date while my mom and dad watched Jasper for us. When we came home, there was a 4 man tent up in our living room. They all went to REI and I guess my dad couldn't resist. Poor Jasper has sure done a lot of shopping lately - Target with me and his mom. Ikea, and maternity shopping with me and my sisters and now REI. He is such a good sport.



I taught the lesson in church Sunday. I haven't taught for quite a few weeks and so when I got up in front of everyone, the mini podium somehow missing, my pregnant tummy seemed to be the focus of the room. When I looked out into the sea of white puffy hair, I saw 30 pairs of eyes staring straight at my belly. I'm now officially out of the pregnancy closet. Not that I was trying to hide the fact that I was pregnant or anything. Its just werid to figure out when to tell people, or if you should, or if you even want to. One woman did come up to me after the lesson and just said "Congratulations!" I was really tempted to reply with "Congratulations for what?" And deny pregnancy, just to see what would happen. But that would've been mean.


So I finally decided that my slicked back ponytail and barely combed hair look, is not really in anymore and decided to get a haircut. It has been so depressing lately looking in the mirror. All I see is zits, and grody hair. Zits and grody hair. At least I can take care of the grody hair part immediately. The zits might not go away until post baby.



Ta da! My new do:

And here is my pregnant self. Me at 18 weeks.

New addition

Some of you may know already, but recently our nephew Jasper has started living with us. His mother is not well enough to care for him for the time being. He's been living with us for a little over week now and we are all adjusting to our new lives. With just the two of us, we'd begun to get pretty lazy and unstructured. I cooked at the very beginning of our marriage, but found that I never had the right ingredients to make dinner when needed so we ended up eating out a lot. Now we have a new reason to cook every night and have family home evenings and family scripture study. So my mom and sister Becky have both been helpful in compiling recipes for me that are easy and delicious, and I did a weeks worth of shopping last Monday night. My cooking isn't too shabby, I must say. Jasper is giving our life some more meaning and we love having him here. Last week we enrolled him in school and Sunday he got to go to his new primary class. He said "That is the smallest primary I've ever seen. Why did you guys move into a house with only old people living next to you?"


Right now David is giving him a haircut. Jasper said he wants it cut "military style" like his Uncle Mark's hairstyle. He also strongly noted "NOT SHAVED!" David said "okay" and gave me the look of "what in the heck is military style?" I warned Jasper, "what if David messes up?" (I should never have put that doubt into his mind, but this stuff is all new to me!) and he looked at me incredulously, "He can do it. David can do everything."

When David was almost done cutting, I said to Jasper "maybe you should just jump into the shower real quick to get all the hair off of you." He didn't seem too keen on that idea and said "OR, I could just dump water on all the hairy parts, and run around outside." Hmmm, which idea will we choose??