The Toothless Wonder

They're dropping like flies! At this rate, she won't have any baby teeth left within a month. The last tooth came out via soccer ball. Here's exactly how Lily tells the story:

"I was playing in my soccer game and this girl kicked the ball and pegged me in the face."

She was pretty awesome, she just yelled to me on the sideline "Mom, my tooth came out!". She brought it over to me, rinsed her mouth out with water a few times and jumped back in the game. What a pro.

Sofa Makeover

Oh my gosh, our couch is so gorgeous now!! Most of you will remember the couch in its previous state. It was a light khaki color, BUT there was some serious color damage. For some reason, big patches of color would rub off and our couch ended up looking like a dirty splotchy mess. It was driving us crazy and it got to the point that I was literally embarrassed to invite people over. So, we decided to undertake the huge project of re-painting our leather. We ordered all of the supplies online and after 6 days of back breaking work (mostly done by Darrin), this is the finished product. I LOVE IT!

First Day of School-2010

Lily's first day of first grade and she's so excited!! Connor's first day of 5th grade (kind of) and he's so over it!! He's already at that "school is lame" portion of life...it's gonna be a long 7 years!

Cutest First Grader Ever!

I don't think Lily could look more excited if she tried!

Carefully disguised disdain.

Walkin out the door.

Mom's FREE!!!!!!!

Last Days of Summer-2010

Yeah yeah yeah, I know I'm way behind (surprise surprise). Just a couple pics of our last few days of summer...seems like an eternity ago.

This was the last day of summer vacation. Lily, Connor and two of our neighborhood friends loved having monster water-gun fights in the front yard. This one lasted about two hours and my kids slept like the dead!

The week before school. It was gorgeus outside so we headed to the beach. Not sure if you can tell by the look on Con's face, but the water was FREEZING!

Lily and Logan sitting in their homemade "pool". This is something Lily loves doing. We go to the beach and dig out a big pit, when the tide comes in it fills with water and Lily calls it her pool. We didn't have Darrin's muscle with us, so our pool is pretty small, but they still enjoyed the novelty.

Things that Make Me Smile:

No pictures for this post. I was thinking about how this blog is basically the closest thing I get to a journal, so I thought it might be a good idea to put some thoughts down that weren't just pictures. Lately there's a handful of things happening around here that just make me smile. In no particular order:

1. Lily and her church purse dilemma. She has a small little bag that she takes to church with her Book of Mormon every week. In true Lily fashion, she also feels the need to take a pet with her. The rules for the pet are "if it fits into your bag, you can take it". This hasn't been a problem since she has about a gazillion little puppies that fit perfectly. But she's been getting more and more daring with her pet choices. They began peeking out of the bag little by little, each pet bigger than the last...until last week I walked by her room on Sunday morning and she was diligently trying to cram her stuffed "Thumper" (ya know, the rabbit from Bambi) into her bag. Thumper is over a foot tall and really, his little bum just barely fit in the bottom of her bag. His entire torso and big ears were sticking up out of the top. But Lily looked up at me in the most triumphant manner... I almost let her take him.

2. Connor's morning "cartoons". Most kids get up and eat cereal while watching cartoons. Connor gets up, eats cereal and watches "Quick Pitch" on the MLB network. For those of you who are wondering "what the heck is that"-it's the non-ESPN version of "Baseball Tonight". He is AWESOME!

3. Lily's morning "cartoons". Lily never complains that Connor is watching "Quick Pitch". She just goes downstairs with him, eats her cereal and reads....the Marvel Encycolpedia! Even more confused? This is a thick book that contains the pictures, stats and stories of every Marvel Comics character...from X-Men to Fantastic Four. She is AWESOME!

4. Music music music. My kids love music (and good music too!). Both of them are literally incapable of doing anything that's not accompanied by music. So whenever they are doing ANYTHING in their room, from getting dressed to making their beds to doing homework, even if it only takes 2 minutes, they absolutely have to turn on their cd players. It's not odd to wake up at 8:00 on Saturday morning to the strains of Julian Plenti, Interpol, Postal Service, Broken Bells or David Gray. They are AWESOME!