Everything in groups of twos

That's right folks. Seems like everything around here is in groups of twos. Twins are the obvious starting point for that trend.
Now its two teeth lost, in a span of two days, by two little girls. And tomorrow there will be two golden dollars instead of one.

Sarah lost her loose tooth this morning at breakfast. She was thrilled as you can see. They are getting so big, so fast I hardly know what to do. Enjoy it while I can, is all I can do. I hope you enjoy the photos.

Tooth lost, dollar gained

Hey everyone! Theresa lost a tooth yesterday. It was dangling there for a couple of days. Grandma helped it pop out. I don't know if you can tell, but the hole is on the bottom right.

Here she is this morning with her golden dollar. She was squealing with glee. She keeps going between calling it a golden coin, a dime, and a dollar. She really has no clue what it is worth. Don't we all sort of wish we could be that innocent about money again?

Sarah is next. As I am writing this one of her top front teeth is also dangling by a thread. Check back tomorrow for more pics of golden dollars. That tooth fairy is going to love us!

The world has a new scrapbook!!!

Hi, everyone. I haven't blogged in awhile. I need to let you know what we have been doing. My niece Kristi went on a special trip last month. She was nominated to go to Hawaii because of her amazing grades in science and her physical abilities. (???) What was that you ask? Physical abilities? I asked what that meant and she said she doesn't know. I asked if she has an A in P.E. and she said yes. OK. Moving on.......

She got to go to Hawaii!!! She learned, discovered, ate, swam, hiked, boated, made a basket, and saw her some lava. WOW! She saw a lot for a 13 year old. So to keep it all in one place for her we made a scrapbook. Here she is with the finished product. It is so cute and pink.



She came over last week on Sunday and we worked on it from Monday till Wednesday. We got a lot done in 3 days. You can't tell but that sucker was thick. Duane helped us put it together at the end and we had to use 3 sets of post extensions. WOW!

Here we are frantically clipping, cropping, slicing and dicing. Oh, and adhering. We were doing the journaling at first, but then we stopped and she promised to do that at home. (Kristi, are you doing that at home? You had better. You don't want to forget the names of people and places. You don't want to forget the names of the foods you ate. You don't want to forget the fun.)

I had the presence of mind to take a pic of the pile of photos only after we were half way through it. So look, then blink, then double this pile. That is what we did in 3 days. It was 190 photos. We did make 2 of them 8 1/2 X 11", so those were easy to scrapbook. I hope we did the trip justice. By the end we were a little frantic and hurried. Her dad had to patiently wait for us to finish when he came to get her. (Thanks Ross!)

Oh yeah. Here is my dining room while we were working. What a mess! But it was a fun mess.

Thanks to Pam and Ross for letting me borrow their kid. She was a delight. You are doing a good job of raising her. She has her head on as straight as you can have it at 13.

To be honest we also went swimming, ate a ton of food, went to Archiver's twice, went to Costco once, and watched Project Runway.

Thanks for the fun Kristi!

Whats up?

Hey there everyone! What is up? We are having a much more quiet week than last week. Duane was home with us every day last week. We tried to squeeze in some sort of activity or errand every day. I had jury duty yesterday morning. I got dismissed. Duane only missed like 3 hours of work.

On Sunday night I burnt my arm on the top wall of the oven. It is a 2nd degree burn that bubbled up. Sweet! I couldn't get a good pic of it. They all turned out terrible. Don't worry. I am fine. It stopped hurting that same evening and hasn't hurt since. I will live.

Here is the best photo I got from the Broomfield fireworks display. I need a tripod if I'm going to attempt this again. I took more terrible pics than good ones. We enjoyed the display none the less. Sarah and Theresa were unquenchable that day. They crashed hard when we got home and slept in the next morning. We hope you all had a great holiday weekend.

Today we are back to our normal schedule. We are going shoe shopping for Aunt Marie's wedding. Wish us luck. I've been looking for shoes, for the girls, since May and can't find what I'm picturing in my head. Hopefully today we will hit the jackpot.

Love you all out there!

Happy Fourth!!

I realized to day that I still haven't posted pictures of Marie's wedding shower and it was almost a week ago. We had a lovely time. Thank you very much to everyone who came. Below is a pic of the party favors I made from the scraps leftover from making the wedding invitations.
I love it when I use scraps instead of throwing them away.

Here are some pictures of her opening some gifts. She got a lot of beautiful ones.

We had lots of yummy food and drink. We played a couple of fun games. We all held Edward and delighted in his chubbiness. Thank you all for coming and making the day special for my sister.

We hope everyone has a safe and fun Fourth of July. God Bless America!!!!!