Less Hair Than He Was Born With

So Keegan got the shortest haircut of his life. Almost 2 weeks ago he ended up with a cut on his head that I super glued closed. (With Dr's permission and supervision) Well, to glue it I had to cut his hair in that area. Skip to today, cut healed beautifully but while superglue comes off the skin after about 7-10 days it doesn't come off of hair very well. To get the glue out of his hair I had to again cut his hair in the affected area, which left him with an annoying (to me) bald spot.

Here is is tonight at about 6:30

Midway at about 6:35 with the male pattern baldness going on.

And then the AFTER.

This is the smallest amount of hair this kid has ever had. He was born with a full head of hair and got his first haircut at 9 wks old because it was out of control. It is soooo drastically different that I'm positive I don't like it. He however, doesn't care at all. He thinks he looks like our good friend Tyler. Oh well.

I told him I was sorry and asked if he would grow it back for me and he said, "Well sure, I'll try" I also asked him when he would grow it back and he told me he would do it "while I'm sleeping" and he told me it will take 10 days. I hope it grows back that fast.

You HAVE TO try this, super easy and YUMMY. And honestly I was a bit creeped out by my alien pics.

I have to admit, I stole this from a friends blog. Like flat out copied and pasted straight from her blog. I could have re-written the recipe and taken my own pictures but that sounded like a lot more work. And to be truthful, I was too excited to eat it that I couldn't be bothered with taking my own pictures.

Also, I really wanted to share this recipe with my friend Lisa and since she refuses to check her e-mail I figured it was the only way.

I've been on a kick lately & I eat Georgia Cracker Salad almost every day for lunch. Forgive my pics because I was just taking them on the fly since I had my camera sitting there. Super easy!


Chop up tomatoes and cucumbers. I used about 1/3-1/2 of a hot house cucumber and 1/2 of a tomato. Only because I was too lazy to go get another tomato. I usually like 1 whole tomato, but I digress...

I know you know what cucumbers and tomatoes look like, but in my fantasy I am channeling the Pioneer Woman. If you don't know her...see me.

Now add yourself a little dollop of the mayo! Just eyeball it (channeling Rachael Ray!) but about half of a kitchen soup spoon. Just enough to get things moist.

Ok, so maybe today I was a little liberal w/ it. Shut up.

If you are feeling a little saucy, add yourself some chili paste. :) This is also a good way to keep peeps out of your salad! Although Kaitlyn could eat this whole bowl by herself and it is a good way to get her veggies, so I often forego the spice.

Now add in some of these puppies!! I use about 6 Saltine crackers. Note: When you are serving this to a crowd, put the crackers in and IMMEDIATELY serve! Those suckers only stay crunchy for about 5 minutes.

These are crackers. ;)

Add just a pinch of salt. Pinch I say! But with the pepper...now bear with me...hear me now, believe me later...I use 18 grinds. ~cringing~ I know!! Sounds like a lot! But I tell you, add it a few grinds at a time and you'll see what I mean. When you hit 18, its like magic happens!! I'm not a huge pepper person either. But it just takes it to the next level!! Hopefully your grinder gives you a fine grind. Otherwise, you're on your own.

See what I'm saying?! LOTS of pepper. Ok, now I know this doesn't look too appetizing. And to be honest, I'm not sure if the crackers are in there yet...oh wait...I see some! Ok, crackers are in! More crackers are better but I'm trying to cut back, ya know. Carbs and all that. :)


Recipe is courtesy of Shari and her fun blog listed in my "Fun Blogs To Follow" column.

UFO Museum and Other Alien stuff.

Today we decided we would go to the UFO museum. On our way down the street we passed a few touristy stores. There is a lot of funny stuff to see.

In one of the store fronts there is a alien being autopsied.

One of the many blow up aliens you can buy.

Aliens like Coke too.

This is what the U-Haul company has on some of their U-Haul trailer.

Painting in the Musuem

This is a recreation of the alien autopsy that may or may not have taken place.

Fake alien, Keegan wanted to know why he has "owies" on him

Scary alien. I may have nightmares tonight.

A second Coke machine that supports alien life forms.

A metal sculpture of the cowboy that found the supposed spaceship and the debris that he found.

The boys looking in some of the shops

The McDonalds in the shape of a UFO

Aliens, Aliens and more Aliens

So we made it to alientown. When you first drive into town you start seeing aliens on buildings, fences, holding the welcome sign to hotels. Standing out in front of the KFC.


The front of the Wal-mart is decorated with aliens and spaceships.

They even have paintings of aliens buying groceries. Apparently they like watermelons and McDonalds.

The little house that was rented for us has a fenced in backyard. Keegan decided tonight that he needed to run through the sprinkler.

He wanted the water on really high, as it was it was hitting the house on one side and the fence on the other. Along with the little house is a little yard. But we aren't complaing, Koda loves it as long as he isn't in the sprinkler.

My skinny boy playing in the water.

Here is our 50's retro kitchen. It is small!! The counters are white with gold flecks in it. The sad thing is that it took me over 3 hours to realize there is NO DISHWASHER!! And I know that my in-laws survived a little while without one, but they also used a lot of paper plates and plastic utensils.

Here is a view of the dining room and then living room from the kitchen. It is not huge by anymeans but is clean and works just fine. If you see the TV, just before it on the right is the hallway to the bedrooms. Ours is fairly small, but functional, other than we have no place to put the dog bed. Keegans room is just about the same size and has 2 twin beds in it and has enough room for the dog. So it all works out fine.

So there you have it. Our little place in Roswell. Oh and other than the washer and dryer in the garage, I can't really complain.

So be prepared for a post with as many aliens in it as I can photograph.

Before we left

Here are a few pictures from before we left. Nothing too exciting but they were on the camera so I thought I would share.

Here is Keegan hanging out at one of Jon's soccer games.

We went to our favorite tire store Big O on 7th east and Keegan decided that hiding in the stack of tires was pretty cool.

This is the only picture I got of Keegan on the 4th. He wouldn't hold still for me while we were at Josh's grandparents. When we went home we lit off a few fireworks with the Willis family. Keegan got to do sparklers for the 1st time.

We went to bed right after this since we got up at 3:30 so we could hit the road by 4:00 am.

Roswell, NM

So we are heading to Roswell, NM. Home of the Roswell Alien Festival. Not sure how excited I am about this but I hope the nighmares of green men with big eyes don't las too long.

There are a couple of things to be excited about, the provided housing is actually a cute little house with a fenced yard. Me and Koda are way excited about this. And it has 3 tv's all with cable included and internet too. So now Josh can play video games and I can acutally watch something other than Call Of Duty. Yay!!

We are going to be here long enough to go have a yummy BBQ at Josh's grandparents house and then we leave bright and early Monday morning. Well, it will probably be so early that it isn't actually bright yet....you know what I meant though right?

Camping At Spruces

We decided kind of last minute one day that we wanted to go camping. So we packed up our stuff and headed up to Spruces campground. After searching for the perfect spot we found one that would do. After all we were only staying one night.

We invited our friends Jerrid and Brie to come up and roast hot dogs and then smores. No pics of the eating but I did manage to snap a pic of these two cuties. Keegan and Audrey loved playing in the tent. They were certain that they had to go and get warm.

While we were sitting around the fire Brie looked up and saw this guy. He walked right through our campsite and down to the stream that we were by.

Well, we got up the next morning and packed everything up and headed back down to the valley. We had initally planned on staying 2 nights but the people at spruces seem to think that $20 a night is a fair price. We however, do not! Next time we will head up the canyon a little further and stay at Redmond campground where the toilets may not flush but the prices are much better.

A Little Bit of This.....A Little Bit of That

No news so far on where we are headed but, we have kept busy.

We spend a lot of time over at "Pa's" house. Keegan loves all the puzzles they have.

We have been lucky that we are able to spend a lot of fun time with friends. This is Keegan at Liberty Park on one of the little rides.

Here is Audrey.

We have been fishing on the Provo river. I have a picture of Keegan sitting on this exact log every year for the past 3years.




Daddy let Keegan reel in his fish. And boy was it a "Whopper" according to Keegan

Here we are at the playground by Audreys house. I'm so glad those 2 play together so well.

We have had some really nice weather, we decided to take advantage of it by going to Tanner Park. It's an off leash park at the mouth of Parley's canyon. Koda loves it.

Keegan thought we were hiking, he managed to hike the whole way without complaining.

This is Keegan's new favorite thing to do. He loves the Razor scooter. Which makes me soooo glad that just 6 months ago for Christmas I bought him a 3 wheeled scooter because I just didn't think he could handle a Razor scooter.

We have spent some time over at Josh's grandparents. Or Grandma and Grandpa Cowball to Keegan. (they have a Texas Longhorns football) Here are all 3 of the Viehweg Great Grandchildren.

Keegan, Austin, and Jason

While we have spent A LOT of time over at the Viehweg's, it hasn't always been peaceful. They are remodeling the kitchen and some days it got EXTREMELY LOUD!!! This was the day(s) they took out the old tile floor. The tile floor that DID NOT want to come up.

It got so loud we had to put on ear protection. It just wasn't fun playing Wii while it sounded like the house was being torn apart.

Keegan with his ear protection.

There was even work that Keegan could do. He was a great wallpaper peeler. He worked at it for over an hour.

After all the demo and wallpaper removal. Jon, Josh, Paul and I have been painting, painting, painting and then doing the tile on the floor. It has actually been fun. So here is what we have been working on. After 2 coats of primer and 3 coats of paint it is finally done.

Then on to the tile. This pattern looks really neat once it was finished but it took me following a "map" and the boys placing tile where I told them to get it done. There may have been a bit of confusion and prying up of tile at one point cause I got lost in my "map". In the end it turned out alright, at least I think.

So that is what we have been up to. Hopefully next time I have some more exciting news to post.