Goodbye Old Friend

The time has come for Cade to say goodbye to his dear friend, The Truck. It was Cade's pride and joy and in his words, its what kept him sane. (I don't know who could have been driving him insane :) It was a little beat up when we got it so it was great for him to take it out hunting/scouting/whatever and not worry about beating it up more. That poor thing was a bit rickety and lately we have been afraid to drive it out of town. Cade thought since day one that the clutch was going out, but it held on and never gave up on us. The bed liner even flew right out one day while driving down the I-17 and Cade was able to retrieve it and put it back on (Thankfully it flew off to the side and didn't cause any collisions). But as much as he loved that thing, it just wasn't big enough for Conner to sit in safely.

After one hour on Craigslist for $5,900 Cade received about 10 phone calls on it. One man close by asked to test drive it and then offered $5,500. Cade had only been hoping for $5,000 so he took it. It was immediately apparent to me that Cade should have asked for more and let others test drive it and see who would offer the most for it, but he said he was too busy to let everyone test drive it. And again I reminded him of how bad of an idea it was to start this project on the last week of tax season!! But I was at work during all of this so it was already sold and done with by the time I got home and I had no say in the matter. My only consolation is that we bought the truck almost 6 years ago for about $8,000 so it was a pretty good deal overall.

Now that we were suddenly down to one vehicle it was time to buy another. Cade had been somewhat searching Craigslist and dealerships for months so we had a pretty good idea of what we were after. Good thing because we only had about a day to find something. I hate making any decisions quickly, but somehow we are always very rushed when we buy our cars. Cade went down to Mesa to test drive a few, but I had to work and couldn't go with him. But luckily for me Ashley just happened to be driving down from Utah and was passing by my area right about when I was getting off so she made a little detour and picked me up. After a day of searching we settled on this bad boy.



Cade is quickly falling in love with his new truck. He loves that it is lifted and has rims. I personally think it just looks like something is missing, but I'm obviously not into cars and their accessories. But we do love how we can all fit nicely into it and its automatic so I can actually drive this one! The only downside is we wanted a bench seat so we could fit our possible future children into it, but there are rarely any for sale with a bench seat plus all of our other requirements. So someday we may be switching out the seats, but its nice to have the bucket seats for now. I don't know why but Cade decided his old license plate just wouldn't do so he requested a new one so that it was no longer ###-SHE :) The sad thing though is when we got home our garage door was broken so we have to leave our new friend out front for a few days until we are home long enough for someone to come by and fix it. (Cade was going to attempt to replace the broken spring himself, but then he read a strong warning about how easily one can loose a limb or life trying to do so and he quickly decided he would rather call a professional.)

First Haircut

Since Conner was born I have been trimming the hair around his ears and neck as needed. I don't know anything about how to cut hair and have only ever cut Cade's with an electric razor, which takes no skill whatsoever. I had been putting off cutting Conner's because I wasn't about to use a razor and make it that short and I really didn't want to mess it up trying to use scissors. I'm also not about to start paying a professional to cut his hair already. But as you can see, by 4 and a half months, it was just getting too long and difficult to keep looking nice.

So after he fell into a deep sleep one night I did a quick google search on how to cut boys' hair and got to work.

Since this was my first attempt and his hair is his trademark I wanted to make sure I didn't butcher it so I only took a little bit off.

I didn't get an "after" picture because he was too tired and just went straight to bed after. But here is a picture from a few days later at Logan's blessing with Grandma Johnson.





I know you can't really see it that well in the picture but I can tell you that I did a pretty dang good job for a first timer! This actually happened about 3 weeks ago (I've been a little too busy for blogging lately) and its already getting close to needing to be cut again. I'm hoping I'll be an old pro soon with all the practice I'll be getting.