Vaseline!

So while Brian & I had a great day away from the kids, my mom was struggling with Allie! We arrived home from our Fishlake date to find my mom feeding Allie, again. I think that after her morning she just buckled her in the high chair and kept feeding her to keep her out of mischief! When we walked in the door the first thing we heard was "Look at her hair."

Apparently Allie was very tired so my mom layed her down to take a nap and left her alone for approximately 20 minutes. She was very quiet and my mom figured that she was a sleep. When she went to check on her, she found evidence to the contrary! As she opened the door to the bedroom, everything appeared normal. Allie was laying on the bed wide eyed and stiff as a board. Then mom noticed the shine! My mom had just bought a great big tub of Vaseline and it was sitting on her headboard, Allie doing what any toddler would do, opened the Vaseline and had a hay day! My mom found Allie covered in Vaseline from head to toe, along with the sheets, headboard, Allies favorite blankey and everythng else in the room! Allie just lay there still as could be, I think she must have been playing dead! My mom started to clean up the mess, and Allie was very helpful as she pointed everywhere that there was more Vaseline! Needless to say, the sheets and clothes were ruined and McCoy's favorite pillowcase! My mom called my grandma and together they washed Allies hair twice to try and get the Vaseline out, it didn't work! That's when we arrived. Allie's hair was very greasy... We could do almost anything we wanted with it. We decided that we would try to put some cornstarch on it and see if that would bind to the Vaseline enough to pull it out of her hair. What a mess! Allie loved every minute of being rolled in powder and even helped put it in her hair. We washed it with clarifying shampoo and hoped for the best... Nope, we still have plenty of Vaseline in her hair! Hopefully another cornstarch treatment or two and we will be back to normal... Sorry my mom didn't get any pictures of the Vaseline, because she was in such a panic, but we will post some great one's of the cleanup!

Fishlake Date

Yesterday Brian and I had a great date! We borrowed my dads Cherokee and went to Fishlake. Brian had never been there before and I thought he would enjoy it, I hope he did! We left Allie with my mom and McCoy was with his dad for the weekend, so it was just us. I forgot how much fun I have just being with Brian. We got to the lake about 10 am and just kind of took in the scenery. We didn't have a boat and the place where we wanted to bank fish was really crowded, so we decided to go up the road a bit and see if we could find another spot. We drove to Johnson's and decided that it looked pretty fun to hike around and drop in a line. Off we went! It was fun walking through the trees and we finally found a spot that looked pretty good. We no sooner got our line in and I had to go to the bathroom... So much for fishing! We loaded up all of our gear and headed back to the jeep. Brian said he wasn't disappointed because he didn't think that we would catch a fish anyway, I hope he wasn't. After the "potty break" we drove around for a while, always keeping an eye on the temp gauge so the jeep didn't overheat, and saw some really pretty places. There was even and "Old Spanish Trail" monument being put in and we stopped for some pics!

I had been bragging about the Bowery Haven Cafe and so we decided to eat there. It wasn't all that I remember it was, and a little pricey if you ask me, but oh well it was fun! We liked looking at all of the pictures of proud fishermen on the wall and enjoyed listening to the local gossip as we ate! After lunch we took a ride to the Fishlake Lodge, just to say we'd been there, and discovered that it could use some renovating! The Fishlake I remember as a kid is long gone, and it looks like it could use a facelift. I'm not so sure that Brian was impressed.

We decided that Fishlake wasn't all that great and decided to head back to Salina, taking the scenic route through Gooseberry. We were just onto the dirt road when we saw a fun little stream and decided to walk it for a while and see if we could find a fish. We did! Of course the were few and far between, and very small, but they were fish! We putted around there for a while just enjoying each others company and a lazy day together, and then headed back down the mountain.

It was a great time, and I enjoyed the conversation! It's amazing what a day a way from children can do for your relationship! Brian even made the comment that he had fun too, and that we should do it again, yay!