WARNING: do not do sock bun curls if your hair is naturally curly

I saw a pin on pinterest the other day about sock bun curls.  I visited this blog to learn how to do it.  The theory behind it is that you put your hair in a high ponytail, cut the toe out of a dress sock, roll the sock up into a doughnut shape, dampen your hair with a few sprays of water, and lastly roll your ponytail up into a bun.  You sleep with it overnight and when you wake up your hair is dry and you take it out of the bun and voila, beautiful cascading curls!

Well, I decided to do this last night to change up the look of my naturally curly hair a bit.

This is how the curls were supposed to look.

THIS is how my curls looked when I took them out of the sock bun, except a lot more messy, and I wasn't smiling.  Not the look I was going for.

I tried to fix my hair by brushing it out, which was not a great idea either.  If it were the 80's, though, I would  sport this  look.

haunted rain forest at the aquarium

The Living Planet Aquarium decorated their rain forest exhibit for Halloween.

Mason and I had a fun time looking at the fish and other animals.  He even pet a stingray!  And the best part is that we met a little boy that was born the same day as Mason was.

cornbelly's

utah state fair

I took Mason to the state fair in September.  We had fun looking at everything.

Isn't this cool?

We got to see a sea lion show!

Mason got to do "Little Hands on the Farm".  He picked an apple, planted a seed, harvested,  milked a cow,  sheared a sheep, rode a tractor, and took his goods to the market where he got paid a farm buck that he got to spend on a package of cookies.

the boys went on a trip

Anthony's parents are in Idaho visiting from Ohio for a few weeks, so Anthony took Mason and went to Idaho for the weekend.  I wanted to go, but I had to work.  While they were there Mason had a fun time with his grandparents, aunt and uncle, and cousins.  On Saturday they went swimming at a swim beach and from the looks of it Mason had a blast and Anthony got a funny sunburn!

The best part of the weekend is that a new nephew was born to Anthony's brother Carl and his wife Ashley!  

tin foil dinners

We drove to Millcreek canyon last weekend to build a fire and have tinfoil dinners.  We put stuffed pork chops, potatoes, carrots, onions, and cream of chicken soup in our dinners.  It turned out that the stuffed pork was really disgusting, but the vegetables tasted good!

He had fun digging in the dirt with sticks.

a visit to the zoo

We took a trip to the Hogle Zoo a couple of weekends ago.  They had their Zoorasic Park exhibit, which were animatronic dinosaurs in different spots around the zoo.  There was one dinosaur and its baby that would spit water at people.  We had fun looking at the animals and (fake) dinosaurs, but it was really hot and we were excited to head home and have some ice cream.

This scale was way off!  It said Mason weighed around 70 lbs (before the other little boy was on it)!  He is only 23 lbs.

This T-rex was pretty cool.  I can imagine that it could be pretty terrifying to a small child though.   It brought back memories of when I was little and my family went to Denver to see the Dinosaurs Alive exhibit, which was basically the same thing as this; I wouldn't even go in the same room as the T-rex.

The only picture we got of an actual animal happened to be a picture of the side you don't want to see of the gorilla.

first day of nursery

Mason had his first day of nursery a few weeks ago.  He didn't have any problems with us leaving him there, he just played the whole time (plus spilled water on himself).  We are so happy that he likes to go to nursery!

Mason and his daddy outside the church on his first day of nursery.

Here is what he colored on his first day of nursery!

Another visit to Wheeler Farm

This morning Mason saw a horse on TV and seemed pretty excited about it, so we decided to go to Wheeler Farm to look at the animals this afternoon.  The last few times we went to the farm he wasn't that interested in the animals, but he seemed to enjoy them this time.  Mason was so cute when he tried to crow like the rooster and bleat like the goats!

He just had his finger in his nose

The calf was super cute!

Mason loved the chickens, especially when he heard a rooster crow

He loved petting this little goat, and the goat loved it too!

I like these geese, they aren't mean.

I was happy to see they are putting a playground in at Wheeler Farm!

Chairs

For Christmas two years ago, Anthony's dad made us all kits to build our own Adirondack chairs.  He designed the chairs, cut the wood, drilled the holes, and gave us screws and bolts to put the chairs together.  We just got around to putting our chairs together a few weeks ago and we are happy to have them!

Mason helping daddy put a chair together

Of course there couldn't be a cuter model to show off our chairs!

Trip to the Aquarium

Granddad and Grandma Ealey sent us some tickets to the aquarium for Easter and we decided yesterday would be a good day to go. 

Mason even got to pick out a prize from the aquarium!  

Our Easter

 Mason got to hunt for Easter eggs with Amy and Hailey at the Riverton City Easter egg hunt!

Then he met the Easter bunny!

 The Oaks (my sister's in-laws) had a hunt at their house and invited Mason!

He was so handsome all dressed up on Easter morning before church!