Haircuts 'N Pancakes

So I was sitting at the computer last night, preparing a lesson for church. I had just cut the boys' hair earlier that day, and my own. In fact, I cut my hair with a #2 attachment on the clippers--shorter than ever before.

In the midst of a rare moment of stillness (for him), Jonathan was sitting on the couch that was next to the computer, observing my preparations. All of the sudden he said, "Dad, when I grow up, I'm going to be bald just like you!"






Does anyone remember the ward pancakes/parades we participated in when we were kids? With Willie Hammond, Jack Macdonald, etc. under or overcookin' the food, and the games, and bike decorating, and stuff? I thought they were awesome, and could NOT wait to pull out my bike every year to decorate it and ride in that parade. Then eat pancakes...

Well, our ward did something similar for Flag Day this year, a Parade and pancake breakfast. Being the lazy dad that I am, I forgot to let the kids know in advance for the bike decorating part. It's all good though. The parade route was about 100 feet long, from one side of the church parking lot to the other. And back. Lots of times if you were ambitious.

At least the pancakes were good.

Reminds me of the pancakes Jon, Jackson, Cooper, Grandpa Gray and I enjoyed a couple of years ago in Thousand Oaks for one of their ward breakfasts. They were so good that Cooper and Jackson had to fend off Grandpa the Pancake Thief.

Happy Day, Emily!

Ok, so this post is WAY late in going up. But that's alright, since all of us Utah Grays (except Stephen--and both Jon and Dave are no longer Utah Grays) forgot to wish Emily happy birthday ON her birthday. (Enough pandering already?)

Happy Birthday Favorite Sister/Single Aunt in the Whole Wide World!!

Old Town San Diego

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Farmer's Market, Oceanside

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So, I think I should finally put a wee pic of my new car on here, since some of all y'all live on the wrong side of the country! Enjoy that, ya hear?

Beach!

Yep, so I am a beach bum! I don't know why, but my ideal vacation is nothing but sittin' on the beach. Maybe playing in the water. A little.

Anyway, this was our first day at the beach. The condo is about a block away, and couldn't be more perfectly situated. This was Spencer's first experience at the beach, and he is an expert at beach-tasting. The doctor says that eating beach is not harmful to his health. I guess that's a relief. Maybe eating sand on a regular basis would help his digestion.

In any case, it was pretty amusing to watch Jonah's progression in depth. On the first day, he would only get his feet wet. Each day he would progress further and further out, until finally on the last day, he made it as far as his knee level in water depth! Needless to say we were quite proud of him.

A quick comment on the pictures of Grandpa Gray: no, he did not sleep the whole day away at the beach in that one spot. It just so happened that for the few minutes I actually had a camera in hand, that was his post--holding up that rock wall. He actually took a lot of these pictures with his own camera.

Oh yeah...a couple of those houses on the beach were for sale. Bargain price of $4.99 Million.

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Legoland, Vacation Day 2

Hooray for Legoland! Grandma wanted to get this out of the way so we went our first full day in CA. It was superfun and we all had a great time. It took about 10 minutes to walk from our condo to the entrance to the park, and about 10 minutes if we drove instead. Much better than the half hour plus shuttle ride at places like Disneyland. Thanks to Grandpa for the fun Legoland memories!!

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