Our cute selves

Bryan and Jono rock it on their balloon guitars at the firm party.

The before and after the girls gave him a haircut. The only bleeding was when I cut his ear- sorry babe! We used the trimmers on size 6.

Here's Bryan's "magnum" look. Or is it "blue steel"? I can't remember.

Thanks Fosters for the cute hat!

Our Tooth Fairy

Emily lost her first tooth yesterday! We were driving home from our road trip to Washington/Idaho and about 4 pm she said, "Mom, Ashley knocked my tooth and now it's really loose!" I handed her a paper towel and after a few pulls, she pulled her bottom right tooth out. She was so excited to tell the dentist and all her friends.

The tooth fairy came last night and brought her 2 gold dollars and 2 half dollars. She also left little pink sparkles on both the girls' beds. Ashley was mad and wanted the sparkles off, while Emily thought the sparkles came from the fairy's sweater and wanted to keep hers on.

Today the girls wanted to play 'fashion' and got all dressed up. At different points in the morning both girls were mad and said, "You can't be in my fashion," and the other girl would run off crying. Yet in the end they worked it out and even mom got to be included.

We had a fun trip to Pullman, WA and to Moscow and Couer D'Alene, Idaho.

Us 5 and Cameron and Spencer Hanks drove 15+ hours up and back and survived! We saw Drew & Kelly Hanks and their 2 girls, and Kelli and Jeremy Foutch and their 3 kids. We played on Couer D'Alene lake for a couple days- once on a motor boat with a tube and the other day in a paddle boat. In Couer D'Alene the girls loved learning about the Mudgey & Millie story and window shopping. They also loved playing with cousins and friends in the beautiful outdoors of the Northwest. The grown-ups did a lot of talking about what it means to follow Christ and enjoyed lots of good discussions and sharing of ideas.

Hot Summer Fun

This summer my kids have spent the most time in our garage. In our cul-de-sac neighborhood it seems that most moms are willing to let their kids play outside unsupervised if they stay outside within sight. In the summer that means either in the heat riding bikes or hiding underneath Beth's tree (the biggest one on the block), that is until they found my garage. I agreed one day to let them bring their Barbies outside and my garage hasn't been the same since. That half of the garage used to house Bryan's brother's car but since they returned to Utah and claimed the car, open play space. This week it's PollyPocketVille, last weed Build-A-Bear Land.

We have also played a lot dress-ups this summer. We have a lot so it's easy to do. Yesterday we had a theater day with 2 friends over and did "Three Little Pigs", "Three Billy Goats Gruff" and "Tikki Tikki Tembo No Sa Rembo..." They had a blast. Here's Aaron in his first dress-up outfit, Emily as Tinkerbell (the flying fairy), Ashley as Swan Lake (the swimming fairy).