sunday nap with dad

Taking a nap with dad, while mom was doing Visiting Teaching. SO precious. William loves snuggling up to Richard. He does it almost every morning while I am getting ready. I love my 2 boys!

something you won't care about, but i thought was funny

So a couple weeks ago we were making breakfast for a big group of people and we were making lots of bacon. Deciding that I didn't want it all cooked in the house I rallied up my troops (namely Richard) and cooked the bacon on the grill outside. Well some of the grease dripped down into the grill. So when we lit it up last night and started cooking ourselves some good burgers, this was the result:

NICE CHARBROILED BURGERS!

a new FREE haircut for Richard

So, many things have been going on with us, and we decided we needed to find a few places to save money. So we went to Wal-Mart and bought a haircutting set! Yes, I am going to learn how to cut Richard's hair.
Now, just so you know, we started out and Richard said he promised he wouldn't get mad if the whole thing turned out to be a disaster (which I was kind of expecting). But I don't think he was ready for what really happened. Because no matter what he says, one thing he is very particular about is his hair. It has to be done a certain way, "...cut this length on the bottom, this length on the top, then you have to fade it. but the front needs to be this much longer than the back, oh and don't take the fade too high or it makes my face look wierd..."!
So, to say the least, I was a little stressed to do it, but went for it anyway.
Here are some BEFORE pictures. (actually, I had already shaved the bottom part of his head, so this is before I started cutting the top)


And here are some AFTER pictures

So I think the back looks pretty good

The front is alright, but just wait...

I did the best on the right side, as far as shaving and fading and making it all look even, I guess it is because I am left handed

And here is the left side, the fading wasn't quite as good

And here is a close up of my HUGE folly. OOPS. Got a little too close with the shaving part here.
I know Richard was a little peeved, it was worse than he thought, but he said he could wear a hat.
Richard made sure I didn't feel too bad, he reassured me that it was okay, and he could just wear a hat (except when he goes to church).
He gave me a rating of a 4...he said it would have been a 6 if I hadn't taken a big chunk out of the side of his head. oh well, next time...with a 4, all I can do is improve right?