Making Kids Happy!

Today I did two things to make kids happy. The first for others kids and the second for my future children.

1. I donated my hair to Locks of Love. 16 inches of dark blonde thick hair that will make some little girl suffering with cancer feel pretty. I like my new short haircut, but let's be honest, I am a long hair person. Am I going to grow it back out? Much to my dad's relief, YES! Thanks you so much to my lovely sister-in-law who cut my hair for me. Thanks Kirsten.
Nathan wanted to experience this with me but alas his hair was not long enough so we just cut off the side-mullet he had been growing.

Before

It's kind of gross, right?

The after. A rockin A-line.

Side Mullet

The disappearing act

That is a lot of hair.

2. I bought a doll house! Every little girls dream. I saw it and had to have it. I hope we have girls, but if we only have boys they can use it for a fort for their army men because I had to have it. My future posterity (and the little girl inside me) NEEDED it. Be jealous.

Front

Back

Cool stuff for inside

Hikers

So lately it seems most of our dates end up being hikes with my family. I am fine with this. Nathan, who does not love hiking as much as I do, is good to accompany me.

A few weeks ago we hiked Lady Mountain at Zions with Dad, Robert, his love Claire and the Jensens. It was pretty intense. You could see Angels Landing and the people there looked like ants. We could see the tops of all the mountains around us. It is also a lot more exposed than Angels Landing, meaning there are lots more places you could fall to your death. FUN, right? Luckily no one died this time around. It used to be a park trail until they closed it in the 1940s...something about being too dangerous. We live on the edge. Here are some fun pictures. I put my hand in some of them so you would have something to scale with it is not that I am the worst picture taker ever.

Zions Park Lodge from less than 1/2 way up

Robert and Claire sittin in a tree...

Metal wheel points to all the other peaks

I was told there would be a register. I was lied to.

There are trees on top of the mountains at Zions. You just never see them, unless you're a bird. We did see birds flying below us when we were at the top.

Yes I am wearing brown books with black pants. What?

Lady Mountain

Then we had the Davis family reunion, which was awesome and while everyone else played the super intense soccer game which Nathan and I accidentally slept through the beginning of ( probably an effect from the Lady Mountain hike the day before) we took Jimmy up the mountain.

Then last weekend we woke up way too early for a Saturday so we could hike up to Big Falls at Mt. Charleston with Dad and Amy. Yes that is snow that you see in the picture. It is just starting to feel like summer here. We have been really lucky weather wise.

Jackets in June..in Vegas?!?

Yes, Amy and I are both rockin our GC T-shirts.

Guess how I got down the mountain.

Tomorrow I am off to Kolob to do some more hiking at Girl's Camp. My family was supposed to go up this weekend to help set up as per tradition, but it ended up not happening with all the snow that they got the roads were worse than what we thought was safe with the van. Not going to lie, I almost cried. I LOVE that tradition, and it was probably the last year Amy Linda and I would have been up there with Dad. Oh well, during the Millennium I am sure we will go camping there again. That mountain is part of my soul. I am pretty sure I helped with it during the creation. I probably could have still gone up by myself, but it just wouldn't have been the same. This week I came to the realization that what I really love about Kolob is Girls Camp and all the wonderful stake people that I love that are there, but mostly it is that I had a whole week each summer to spend working alongside my dad and sisters. I am going to miss that.

My mountain home