Thursday, June 23, 2011

First Lost Tooth

Vincent was wiggling and wiggling it all day long and it finally came out yesterday. He's been asking me all day today when the other one will come out - all. day. long.

Father's Day 2011







As is annual tradition, the kids singing "I'm So Glad When Daddy Comes Home". You'll have to search back the last three years to see other videos as I can't figure out how make a hyperlink to them. Enjoy!

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Things We've Been Up To

Lauren got a haircut and has to know how cute she is. Gentry makes me nervous for the terrible twos.
Brooke gave Gentry a much-needed haircut!

Trip to the tidepools.


Chubby dimpled elbows.

Taping a hole in the front window from Vincent hitting whiffle balls.

Playing house (note the baby sleeping in the bed).

Impromptu tea party with Ada after school.

Mommy & Hadley getting yogurt together one night.

8 girls ages 14 and under laying on the stairs waiting for Lauren to roll the giant bean bag over them.


Family Night

Daddy took the whole family miniature golfing. The kids loved it!

So nice to have two little girls who loooove to use the camera & want to take pictures of mommy & daddy. Of course with that I am constantly deleting pictures of every random object in our home as well.

Girls Nite

For Father's & Sons camp out this year Chris forgot the camera -- so I took my own pictures. What's that you say? That is the best picture you had? Well, yes. Nothing beats a shirtless one year-old having her ticklish nails painted. Molly & I had grand plans of watching Anne Of Green Gables with the girls and doing nails, etc. We found ourselves more wrapped up in the movie, remembering how good it was, how cute Gilbert Blythe is, etc. The girls need a few years until we try that again.

Temple Trip

We met Grandma & Grandpa at the Los Angeles Temple for their ward's missionary tour. A.Lorina & Uncle Brookie came too! The kids had a wonderful time. We enjoyed a brief, but chilly, tour of the grounds by sister missionaries where the kids really got to be interactive. Followed by a program inside the new visitors center. It was a lot of fun and the kids have begged to go back ever since. Right where mommy & daddy came out almost 10 years ago!
The kids were so reverent & attentive during the program. Never mind Gentry's fish-lips. She couldn't get enough of the Christus statue and didn't want to leave it when the evening was over. What a new fond memory I have now of the LA Temple.


Wednesday, June 1, 2011

OVERHEARD

HADLEY: Mommy can I tell you something I learned in school today that I'm really upset about?
ME: (calmly) Sure what is it? (inside: freaking out ?!?!)
HADLEY: Butter is an 'extra'.

Apparently since it is nutrition week & they've been learning about the food pyramid, blah blah blah - she was seriously bummed to learn that butter wasn't good for you - like cookies. I wish I could capture her serious tone when she said 'butter is an extra'. Not to mention the relief I had that that was it.