Family Pictures

Yes I know I'm way behind but super quick, some results from our family photo session.

LOVE Danielle's pictures. She gets the colors so bright and everyone looks good.

Family Pics

Ten on Tuesday - the 10 second edition

1. I'm trying to see how fast I can put this together before I have to go make cookie dough so it can chill before I let my kids roll it and cut out Halloween shapes.... yes I'm a bit nuts.
2. Sarah learned to ride on 2 wheels a week ago. YAY! She is now learning how to stop. She gets tired of riding pretty fast but Daddy is working on it with her.
3. Andy's Halloween Haunted House at school kicks off in just over 48 hours. He has an hour or so until he gets his precious Art rooms to put it all together in under 48 hours..... He's definitely a LOT nuts.
4. I made pumpkin bread yesterday and need a new recipe. Send me one if you have a good one. The one I made needs a bit more spices to it and more moisture.
5. Will has learned to talk back..... like a 13 year old girl..... or maybe am almost 6 year olf girl because that would make more sense. UGH!
6. My 3 weeks of working 5 mornings at the preschool is over. It was fun but exhausting. I am happy to have my days at home with Will back and my 1 day off back!!! YAY!!
7. I can't wait to clean up the backyards. We have the winter lawn in and I'm ready to freshen up some pots.
8. I got a Kindle for my birthday. It's kind of a weird thing. I didn't ask for it but Andy thought it would be cool. It's pretty cool. I think I will use it mostly for traveling. Do people take e-book readers to the gym???? I think I would accidentally drop it or something.
9. Will just found (as I was typing this) the GeoTrax North Pole Express in the Fisher Price Catalog that he found in my room and was looking through. Guess what I'm going to be hearing about until next year.... Woohoo!
10. On another note though, I'm happy that they are making more GeoTrax things and that it's not going away. I also like that I've seen some commercials for it. Will's Christmas list will probably be GeoTrax and Monster Jam Trucks - an interesting combination.

And I'm proud to say I threw this together in less than 10 minutes. Woosh!

The Tooth Fairy is on Vacation

Well at least at our house she is. With the first 8 teeth out, the tooth fairy is done for now. Sarah lost her 8 front teeth over the period of just under a year. According to eruption charts, these are supposed to come out over the course of a year or 2 or 3 and not really supposed to finish up until 8 years old or so. She also has 3 of her 6 year molars in. It's a bit rushed and a bit crazy. I am hoping we can take a long break until the rest start coming out.

The tooth fairy has gotten a bit creative with paper dolls and nail polish and bubblegum. Luckily it has been easy to sneak into Sarah's room and even better that Sarah likes to leave her tooth box on her nightstand instead of under her pillow. Here is our toothless girl last night just after losing her 8th tooth. She was super excited.

Holding up 8 fingers for 8 teeth.

The oh so beautiful close up of her teeth.

Finally....

Yes I know I'm way behind. There's just been too much going on around here.

So let's jump in and play catch up this week... starting with a rather normal 10 on Tuesday.

1. Are they sure monsoon season is over? I know the end of it was Sep. 30th but I don't think it ever really started until now. We finally got a decent thunderstorm today and yesterday.
2. It's official. We are killing the summer lawn. YAY! Hopefully we can get the winter lawn working this year. Coming soon - scalping the summer lawn.
3. I am starting to really dislike Halloween now but that's a whole different blog with pictures. Halloween threw up all over my house and yard and it's not going away until October 29th. Yep You read that right. This is what happens when your husband takes on a 6 room haunted house for his job on the 28th of October. He made this out of papier mache, chicken wire, and an old large playground ball.....
4. It's zoo time!!! The mornings are finally cool enough to do the zoo and do it fast. We have always loved going to the zoo right when it opens and it's empty. I am still a bit surprised that more people don't partake in this early morning fun - maybe they don't have early rising kids. The weather is cool, the kids can run and the animals are active. I think last weekend may have been our first trip without a stroller (unless you count Daddy's shoulders) and it went well.
5. We have 1 Halloween costume decision down and 1 to go. Too bad, the hard decision is the one left. Will is going to be Scooby Doo. Sarah would like to be about 20 things right now. We are going to make a final decision this week because I don't want to run around the week before Halloween. Oh and because I'm sick of Halloween. UPDATE*** Wrote that 2 days ago and now Will wants to be a bug. UGH!!! Make that 2 costume decisions to go. Maybe that will be this evening's challenge.
6. Survived my first teacher Open House and have a new found respect for teachers at Open Houses.
7. Will's brainwashing is complete....We were at a family baby shower yesterday and sitting at a table across from a large TV in the large family room with a football game on. I wasn't paying much attention to the game because the sound was off. Will was finishing his food and looked up across the room and said to Andy, "DADDY, DADDY!!!! LOOK!!! The Chargers are on TV." I then had him yelling (his own doing) Go Chargers after all the touchdowns in a room full of Cardinals fans. Cue evil laughter!! That's my little man.
8. Tried a newly remodeled Fry's Grocery Store this week. It was simply lovely. I even let Will wander the fruits and veggies helping me. The cinnamon smell that greeted me in the floral department as the doors slid open and the classical music (NOT elevator) just put me in a calm mood. We wandered for awhile in there. Will was so good and I found everything I needed. Loved it!!!
9. Steven Tyler and Ziggy Marley are going to be on the Wonder Pets in an Alice in Wonderland episode in a week or so. I'm sure Will would be super excited if he had any clue who these people were. I must admit that I do like it when famous people choose to lend their voices to cartoons. I think it must be so much fun for them. It's not like the kids have any clue. I like trying to figure out who it is when I hear a familiar voice. Some fun ones: Conan O'Brian on the Backyardigans as Santa Claus (on the phone), Alicia Keys on Backyardigans as an alien and then singing an alien song, Ricardo Montalban on Dora many years ago in The Missing Piece.
10. One of my favorite things about living in Phoenix is the storms. I love that it might be sunny in my neighborhood but that I can see the storm clouds AND the rain they are dropping only a few miles away. It's an awesome site. It can make for unpredictable storms and some difficulty with the radar. Half the time the radar map shows rain over our house and we have none.

Ten, I mean 5, I mean 1 plus pictures on Tuesday

1. School is starting....well everywhere but in this house! We have a couple weeks to go and it seems like ages away still. I'm supposed to find out this week which teacher Sarah has. Can't wait!

So... since not too much is happening this week.... some old pictures in no particular order at all: Enjoy!

Sarah's First Halloween 2005

Our boat.... yup we owned a boat called Permanent Waves.

Will - 4 months (forgot how big and bald his head was!)

Sarah's 1st camping trip - age 2 1/2

Sarah 15 months

Sarah 13 months

Will 15 months

Will and Sarah - Easter 2008

Will at 1

In a cave September 2007

Camping Snap Shots

Camping at Kaibab Lake. Game invented by a 4 year old and enjoyed for almost an hour by all ages. Hilarious. Up and down the street with all children insisting on turns at riding and pulling and pushing!

Our friends pulling the Klemmers.

Payback!

More to come soon.....