10 Days

Only 10 days after her sixth birthday, Grace has her very first loose tooth. She found it this morning while brushing, and it was all I could do to keep her still long enough to check for myself. She is beside herself with happpiness, and I think she may expect it to come out today. I don't think she realizes that it is a little scary to loose a tooth, but I will play up the excitement as long as she is unafraid.

Happy 6th Birthday!!

Six years since I received my best Valentine present ever! I can't believe where the time has gone. We had 3 days of celebration, so I am officially tired. Tonight we had the missionaries over so Grace could open presents with them(by her request). Then we ate dinner and had cupcakes. Blowing out her candles! She is so big now. She loves Taylor Swift and knows all the words to every song.

We had a small party for her on Saturday. She had 5 friends come over and we had a craft party. We made pillow cases and painted and played with stickers.

Eating lunch with all her friends.

She is such a fun, smart little girl. She is reading at an almost 3rd grade level and wrote her own talk to give in primary yesterday. For her birthday she got a new bike that we are trying to teach her how to ride with no training wheels, and an IPod shuffle that she walks around the house with, singing all her songs. She is an amazing girl , and we love her so much.

Blizzard 2010

We have dug ourselves out and are back to normal. It was a pretty exciting Friday. The kids didn't have school so we had lunch with dad (we braved the roads!) and played in the snow. Here is our lawn before the madness began. During the "storm". The kids were more excited for snow than for Christmas. They loved to watch if fall and would get really excited when it started coming down hard.

A glance at our accumulation. This tiny snow cancelled schools, colleges, state offices, and closed roads. I guess when it only snows every 15 years...

Olivia thought it best to use her time in the snow playing T-ball.

Grace and Jed spent their time throwing snowballs and running from each other. Good good fun.

We now are snow free and had wonderful weather yesterday. It was fun to have snow for a day, but I realized I don't really miss it that much.

Not to alarm anyone...

Not to alarm anyone, but we are expecting some snow. And NOT just flurries, we can have up to an inch! We are bracing our selves for the shut in and hoping we will get a little lucky and get to use the fireplace! I don't know how we will dig ourselves out or get to work, but we will persevere and find a way. As for me, I am on may way to the store, I want to at least get all of Grace's presents before the storm hits. Just a few pictures to tide you over til we are back to normal!

Hope you all have a great weekend, we will update you if we don't lose power!!! Cindy, I know you feel bad for me.

UPDATE!!! School has been cancelled for tomorrow, and all of Grace's presents have been bought. Now onto food storage for the next week until we can get back on the roads!

Avon Walk for Breast Cancer

I have always thought it would be cool to do a walk for something, but never really had anyone to walk with or a great cause, but this year an opportunity presented itself to me. My friend Joy wanted someone to walk with her in the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. I decided to go for it, and get to spend a whole weekend with just her catching up on all the last years! I can't wait to see her again, and am very excited. Except now I have to raise at least $1,800!

I know a lot of people out there have been affected by this disease, so when you all get you tax refunds, remember me and my effort to raise money, and it is tax deductible! Don't think you are getting off easy with this one little post, I will be doing this for almost a year, so you might as well donate now, and I will get off your case. If you need more information, PLEASE leave me a note or send an email and I will give you all the details.