we have less then 2 weeks left here in rexburg before we head home to calgary. there is a short 7 week summer semester that matt won't be taking any classes in. so we are going home for most of that time, and to my parents place in arizona for the rest. we are excited to be able to spend time with our family in calgary, and time around the pool in arizona, but we are actually going to miss it here in rexburg. we have had a good time here. we just have no idea where the time has gone. it's hard to believe that this semester is coming to a close.
we have a little bucket list we would like to do before we leave:
eat at cafe rio.
go to the sand dunes again.
finish decorating chets room.
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matt got his hair cut by a gay man named yan (pronounced yawn) this week. there are dress and grooming standards at the university. boys are required to keep their face clean shaven and their hair can't be too wild. matt's hair was getting a little long so he made his way to the paul mitchell hair school. i was nervous for him to get his hair cut by a student. but other then the fact that it took over an hour, yan did a good job. he even gave matt a head massage! poor matty. you know what i think is really silly about the grooming standards? boys can't have beards, or goatees, or even be a little scruffy on his cheeks. but...he can have a mustache. weird.
the weather has been perfect. so we spent saturday morning at rigby lake. it's not the prettiest lake and the beach is kinda rocky but we have really been craving jumping into water lately, so we took what we could get. it was chets first time at a lake. he didn't go in the water for fear that he might get angry, but soon enough he will be taking a plunge. i definitely want him to like water. 
chet has recently realized that he likes taking a bath. it makes it a lot less stressful to give him a bath when he's not screaming the whole time!
chet has recently realized that he likes taking a bath. it makes it a lot less stressful to give him a bath when he's not screaming the whole time! 
matt and i were mathcy matchy on saturday night - cut off jean shorts and grey tops. if only chet had some cut offs too...
we had our neighbors that live across from us and below us over for sunday dinner today. we made pizzas and salad. and alexis (in the pink sweater) made a tasty cake. after dinner we played apples to apples. alexis won. we were pleased with our succesful dinner party. we have been meaning to invite them over since we moved in, but i was always too chicken. and now i'm sad we didn't do it sooner. 
