SHANNONCUTS

So I've never been to Cosmetology school, but the first month of college late one night this guy Mike let Natalie and I cut his mullet (no I'm not that old but for some reason he had a mullet in 1996). Unfortunately I can't find any pics of my first try at giving a haircut, but I did go on for the rest of my freshman and sophomore college years to cut all of my guy friends' hair. I learned how to cut hair with scissors and clippers, fades, and use thinning shears. It was pretty lucrative business at $5 a haircut, and they had to clean up. I probably did about 15-20 haircuts a month.

It's been about 10 years since I had done any haircuts (other than one haircut for Dave a few years back when he couldn't get into his hair stylist), but I excitedly busted out my clippers when Sam decided he wanted to shave off his hair.

Here's a shot of some of the hair gone, and it looking like he was a member of the Flock of Seagulls. I told him all the high school girls would love his hair like that.

Here's the finished cut. Pretty simple. I know I look like I'm midget in this pic but seriously I'm standing up and over 5 feet tall.

Sun, Snow and a SWEET condo to "boot"

Friday afternoon, I stuffed 5 girls (including me), 4 snowboards and ALL of our luggage into the car and headed to Mammoth for a long weekend. There were two other cars heading up later that afternoon/evening.

Check out this packing job...

Saturday morning outside our condo before hitting the slopes.

Janet, me, Jen, Tim, Allison, Nickki, Steph, Ellie, Diane and Rose.

Jami's not pictured as we needed a photographer.

It was a beautiful "spring" weekend in February with clear sunny skies and 50 degrees. God definitely blessed us with a gorgeous weekend as earlier in the week it was a cold 20 degrees and this week its expected to snow every day and be around 20 degrees again.

We had a lot of community eating over the weekend. Here we are at Canyon Lodge for lunch on Saturday.

back to the slopes after lunch

more community eating when we headed to Roberto's for dinner - great mexican food!!!

Sunday we headed out again for another day of boarding. I think this shot might have been taken after we got off the Stump Alley lift, fell and got tangled up with legs and boards at odd angles. We recovered. Jen had some rough encounters on Sunday with an icy sidewalk, arm of the ski lift and our entanglement. Check out her blog for her boarding war wounds.

We gathered for church on the mountain at McCoy Station.

It was pretty amazing to worship surrounded by God's creation. The picture says it all.

Here's Pastor Justin playing the guitar during worship. He began his message with the fact that there are no two snowflakes that are alike just like God's children. God is truly the most amazing creator. There were 72 people at the service (Pastor Justin asked Janet to count how many people were there).

Here's a shot of me with Rose and Janet. We all met this fall through bible study. Rose is a die hard snowboarder (she might actually go to Mammoth even more than my friend, Heidi) and Janet was a super awesome skier this weekend after having not been on the slopes in 20 years.

I didn't get alot of shots of the SWEET condo but it was super nice (think of The Real World houses) and had a private jacuzzi. Here we are relaxing after two days of snowboarding.

Jami took us to her favorite childhood breakfast spot, The Stove, before we headed out of Mammoth.

It was definitely THE breakfast spot in Mammoth. I highly recommend the french toast (good pick Steph), Sierra Sunrise and the pancakes. More community eating...

Jami (aka Hi-mae, yep its going to stick...), we <3 The Stove.

Happy Birthday, Dad!!!

Happy 65th birthday, Dad!!!

Sorry I couldn't be up there to celebrate the day with you, but glad you had fun seeing The Bucket List with mom and dinner.