Haircuts, Staples Style

**** Yes, those are kid-safegard scissors :)

Robert and I don't live by the saying "You scratch my back... I'll scratch yours" but ours is more like "You cut my hair, I'll cut yours". Being poor sucks sometimes but sometimes it is so much fun! For the last year Robert has let me cut his hair!!!! This is a big deal for me because when I was little I either wanted to do hair or be a teacher .. and now I get to live my other life! Don't worry, my cousins and I used to pretend we were hair stylist and cut my grandma's lawn... so I have lots of practice! For the most part his hair turns out pretty good... except the time I cut it in dim lighting, opps! Also, Robert is really good at coloring my hair .....and he's cheap!

Project Sleep.... I mean Happiness

My cute friend Tamara invited me to be part of "project happiness".. click here to find out what the heck project happiness is!!

Day one:
Sleep hasn't been in my vocabulary for the last 2 years.. come to think of it.. sleep has never been part of my vocabulary! Since we moved to NYC I have started all my days Monday through Friday at 5:05AM. Saturdays it is 4AM (to work in the temple).. "Well, Lindsay at least you get to sleep in on Sundays"... not usually! I am not complaining because I have always wanted to be a morning person and this has helped me .. but I do miss sleep very, very much! I have dreams about sleeping.. catch my drift :)

So for day one of project happiness I took and long, unexpected nap!!!!!!!!!!! It was lovely and I was very, very happy when I woke up. I look forward to day two of project happiness.. I have some great ideas!

How cool is he... President Holland (the president of UVU) sent me a personal letter and some extra copies of the newspaper article about my class. This guy seems awesome and I would love to meet him one day. I bleed green now.. I have true UVU pride.

He wrote me!

Lately, my class has been pen pals with the 3rd graders at my old school (Redwood Elementary in West Salt Lake). It has been really neat to see the kids exchange information about their communities. You can see the enormous differences in their cultures. AFENY is 100% African American and Redwood is mostly Hispanic.

One day I was handing out their long-awaited letters from their pen pals. One of my KWLM's (Kids We Love the Most.. aka.. pain in the butt kids) started screeching "Mrs. Staples! Mrs. Staples". I ran over because I thought he was going to hyperventilate. I asked what was going on and he screamed "JESUS wrote me, Mrs. Staples!!! He wrote me!!!". After I roared of laughter for a couple of minutes I explained to him that sometimes people use that as names but pronounce it differently. I think he was relieved that god wasn't writing him personally... he knows what kind of letter that would be.

Yup....

Yes, those are Marti Gras beads. Yes, that is a happy birthday cap. Yes, I did MAKE Robert wear it all around NYC on his birthday. Yes, people did stare at him. Yes, he was extremely embarrassed. Yes, I did spoil him BIG time on his birthday! This is going to be a good year for him.. I can just tell!!!

Happy Birthday Babe!
From the first day I met you in 8th grade you have been my best friend. You were always the person I could tell anything to, the person I could be myself around, the person who believed in me. You are an incredible person. You have an incredible ability to love and serve. Thanks for being a goof and always making me laugh. Thanks for working so hard for our family. Thanks for serving me from sun up to sun down. Thanks for helping me reach my dreams. Thanks for being you. Thanks for being alive!

*** Leave a birthday wish for Robert!

Christmas was Snowsational!!!

My talented BFF took these pics over the break!!!