A Buzz Party!

After Elsie's blessing on Sunday, we held a Buzz Party. This post is mostly pictures, but it started with an invitation:

Then there was the 4-foot tall Mr. Lightyear, who JP was thrilled to finally get to play with. When we got in the car to drive to my parent's house, he saw Buzz in the back and said, "Mine Buzz! Mine friends got it for me!" We just laughed and said, yep, your friends did get it for you!

The brave souls before the clippers came out: 

I got to shave Josh's hair first. JP pretended to help.

Then it was Josh's turn to shave Matt's head. Anyone else see the Mr. T resemblence??

Then Matt took to Mike's head... Mike refused to shave his nasty rat's tail on the lower right side of his head. With his bald head and this section of long hair he just looks silly, but whatever, he's a teenager and we all know that means they are cool.

Jessica got to shave Greg's head, but then Greg decided it needed to be shorter...

So Josh took over.

 All the while, JP and Mike were striking poses...

And showing off their muscles!



I don't have a picture of Blaine or JP getting their hair buzzed... I'll find some and post later. I did catch myself choking up when I was buzzing JP's hair. When everyone else was shaving their heads it was all fun and games, making silly hair-do's before shaving it all, but when it came time for me to shave JP I just couldn't do it without crying. My sweet boy's beautiful blonde hair is gone. My dad saw my tears and scooped up a handful and saved it for me. I know it will grow back, but in the meantime my boy doesn't look like my boy and that makes me cry.



After everyone was shaved bald JP got to find some presents - a Buzz dish set and an awesome Buzz cup! One of Josh's co-workers bought JP the Buzz cup at the new Disney store in City Creek just for this weekend. Small gestures like that remind us how much we are loved.

All said and done, he's a pretty cute bald boy!