birthday wishes and bored on the Sabbath Day....

 This first set of pictures really needs no

explanation...."Happy Birthday to You!"

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Now this next set of photos is what happens when

you have 9 to 12 church, and a brother with

really long curls, and a sister with a straightener

who is really bored and wants to see what

happens to said brother when she

sits and straightens his hair.  Let me just

say when I walked into the basement I almost

peed my pants (yup, really!--it doesn't take

much after birthing those babies!) ...but I

almost did when I saw Josh I was laughing that

hard.  In fact, our Home Teachers arrived

shortly after said straightening and Josh

was JUST within my peripheral vision.

Every time I glanced SLIGHTLY his way,

I had to stifle a hiccup of a laugh that

threatened to spill out of my mouth at

every reverent and serious moment of the

lesson.  I think I bit the insides of my

cheeks bloody holding back the laughter.

So we thought we would share our

good laugh with all of you today.  It looks like

a wig, or a hairstyle gone bad, or both!  This kid

has got "nappy", almost African-American hair.

It hit somewhere at puberty and has just

kept getting curlier and curlier.  I LOVE it, his

and girlfriend loves it and so I guess it's good.

And lest you forget what he NORMALLY

looks like, here is a refresher below.  Pretty

good looking kid if I do say so myself.

Above??  Not so much!