Haircuts for the Girls in the Family

Yesterday, I looked thoroughly and couldn't find a new pair of jean shorts that I'd purchased in the last month. Then, this morning I was looking for a pair of jeans and realized that I was missing about 3 pairs of jeans from my clothing box. It was then I began to strongly suspect that either we had been robbed (unlikely) OR the kids and I had missed a load at the laundry room when we did those seven loads almost a week ago. I humbly walked over to the office of the RV park to ask the nice man in the office if there was a lost and found for the laundry because I thought I'd lost an entire load of jeans! He laughed and said there was and walked across the parking lot with me to the laundry room and opened up a back room. He looked around and peeked into a black garbage bag. He opened it up wide enough for me to see and asked if it looked familiar. First thing I saw was one of the kid's flannel pillow cases and a pair of Brock's jeans. Swallow...yes, that is our clothes. Hee hee. How embarrassing.

This morning, after taking our bag'o'jeans to the trailer, I had the pleasure of going to Scissor Sisterz, a hair salon that is literally less than 50 yards from where our trailer has been parked for the last week. Betzi, my biker chick stylist, was very skilled and knowledgable which is always great when I'm not sure myself what I want. She was warm and friendly and there was easy conversation. She is nothing like me, but we could relate and she was funny and I really like what she did with my hair. I just got a trim since my ends were terrible, not having been cut for the last 7 months. I also had her give me some highlights to bring up the shine in my hair and help my grays to blend in some. It turned out well and Betzi wrote down the color information for me so I can ask correctly next time (probably next year some time LOL).

Another cool thing was that Brynna had been talking about wanting to cut a drastic amount off her hair because it has been really bugging her lately. She really just doesn't enjoy styling it and it was always getting really tangled if she didn't have it pulled back or braided. She has a lot of hair! Anyways, Betzi was completely laid back about letting Bryn slip in while my color was processing and I was under the hair dryer. I just texted Brock to send Brynna over and she came and Betzi cut about 6 inches off her length. It is still long enough to have a pony tail if she wants. It just looks like a slightly longer than chin-length bob. Bryn said she wanted to let it dry naturally so Betzi didn't really do any styling after the cut and it curled up with nice waves and I think Bryn really likes it too. It's definitely lighter on her head. Both Brynna's and my haircut and color were only a total of $55! It was great. When I commented, Betzi said she could charge more, but she likes to stay busy. Also, if she charged more, she joked, she would have to dress better. We both had a laugh.

When I got back to the trailer after my appointment, there was just enough time to finish up school and eat some lunch. Afterwards, I worked on the next weeks' meal plans and then I took Sky and Bryn back over to the Walmart to stock up again. Nothing too new or inventive, but it always feels good to be supplied.

Tomorrow we head out of this rv park. It sure has been a nice place to spend the past week. It has been wonderful to have the amenities that it offered us.

BOOOOOMM!

Today, we were just focusing on our school work and Brock was conducting a lunch meeting over the internet when there was a huge boom that rattled the windows and shook the trailer. A few minutes later there was a second one. Turns out we are close to an air force base and a missile testing range.

On Wednesday last week, while the kids and I were enjoying the outside common area at the park and doing school, there was a couple of really startling sonic booms. The man from the park office came out to put our minds at ease. He walked out and said, "All right, who did that?" We all laughed.

Tonight I remembered that at the White Sands National Monument visitor center, I heard a ranger say that the dunes road would be closed on Monday (today) due to a missile test. SO, today's booms weren't sonic booms after all. I think they were the missile test! How exciting!

Evidentally the high winds that were in the Pacific Northwest a couple of days ago are moving through our area tonight. We're thankful that we don't drive anywhere with the trailer for the next couple of days. There is a high wind warning for our area tonight including blowing dust. There is a nasty brown haze in the sky. There is a winter storm warning for the northern part of the state of New Mexico. Can't imagine that one will affect us because it was close to 80 degrees again today.

Super Relaxing Sunday

It was a leisurely Sunday morning since the church service we chose didn't start until 11:15. We got there and Spence and Sky decided to go to the children's service. They had a good time even though it was a large church and they were separated into their different age groups after the initial worship period where they were together. The church gave out little welcome packages for visitors so each boy got a balloon on a stick and a little sack with a pencil and a little notebook and a couple of candies. They were also enthusiastic about receiving a couple of tattoos. The big kids and Brock and I enjoyed the service in the main sanctuary as well. I really enjoyed the music part of the service. The youth pastor spoke and started off a new series call Trivial Pursuits for the congregation about pursuing relationships instead of information if you want any change in your life.

Like undercover superheroes, the boys wore their Hulk shirts under their button up shirts they wore to church.

Purple frog and pirate tattoo

Ladybug tattoo

After church, we had an amazing lunch at Rocket Buffet right near the entrance to our rv park. It was an Asian buffet and everything that we tried was really good. There were a lot of different dishes to try and a ton of more uncommon ones for a buffet like sushi, crab legs, steamed clams, and tiny little octopi. Not saying we tried all of those...but there was fried zucchini that was really good. They had lots of desserts including soft serve ice cream. Brighton said he thought it was the best Chinese food we'd eaten on this trip. I think I would agree!

We practically rolled ourselves out of the restaurant we were all so full. We came back to the trailer and all just laid around and relaxed for quite awhile. The kids all plugged in to their electronic entertainment and Brock and I attempted to get a nap.

Late in the afternoon, or maybe early evening, we hit the b-ball courts and tennis courts. Fun times. It was a really pleasant evening.

Such determination

Future McEnroe??

Fierce backhand