Toss Her Cares and Curls Away

My delightful Miss V has lots of hair, was born with plenty from the start. At first she'd let us put in little bows and headbands, but as her thick hair grew, so did the cries when we tried to comb her hair. She pulled out the bows, headbands, and flowers. We went to church with bedhead some weeks. I wanted to let her hair grow until she cut it herself or we could donate it somewhere, and recently it reached the minimum length for donation. It was in everyone's best interest to cut it. We've trimmed her bangs, but the time came, as Thoroughly-Modern-Millie read, to "toss your cares and curls away."

I decided to have one more day of blonde ringlets before her first haircut.

Now of Miss V's haircut masterpiece by Aunt Niki

For the most part, the cut helped her hair naturally curl under, and the combing and screams only last for a couple minutes instead of ten or more. We love it!

Var and Forest Porter Reunion

The family of Zak's Great-Grandfather Var and Great-Grandmother Forest Porter gathered for an annual family reunion, with food, a quilt, games, and candies in a jar. Miss V and I made guesses, and won the tootsie rolls! They've been a tool for potty training the last week, because I was not about to try potty training again when our reunion potty was an outhouse. Miss V loved playing with cousin L, especially the wood shaving fight at the end. We just finished pulling the last of it out of her hair. I had to step out a bit to feed Mr C, but when I returned, the family trivia game was in full force. We definitely found some similarities in personalities with the previous generations. Zak and cousin Kyle guessed "Grandma and Grandpa Porter" correctly for half of the answers, it seemed. Thanks for putting everything together, Black and Cowley families!

Mr C Meets the Manwills

While visiting the Porters recently we found out Great-Grandma Manwill was in town between Jaxson's graduation and a trip to Yellowstone. We rushed over in the rain to let her meet Mr C in person.

Memorial Day Moving Prep

My in-laws are getting ready to sell their house in order to get away from the crowd and try out tiny living. They plan to buy and build on some family land in the next couple of years, but want to live in their RV until that house is complete. Their children and families all came together over Memorial Day weekend in order to help clear items to the dump and to their temporary storage unit. They have some hard-working adult children.

When several trailers-worth of stuff had been loaded, hauled, and unloaded, we gathered for pictures and play time. Aunt Carrie and Aunt Niki even did pretend spa treatments with Miss V, which she loved! We will miss Grandma's and Grandpa's house, but wherever they are, home will be.