All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth...

On Tuesday morning, Sophie told me that she was going to pull out her tooth. I said, "hurry up, it's time for school" not thinking she'd actually do it. I was wrong!




So we put her tooth in a plastic bag and she carried it everywhere with her. But then, right before bed, much to her dismay, we LOST the tooth. I explained that the tooth fairy still honors lost teeth, you just have to write her a note:

The tooth fairy delivered and she got $2 for her tooth!

The remaining tooth was just kind of hanging there and I tried to get her to pull it out, but she wouldn't. Then, last night she was jumping up and down in the kitchen (a very normal thing for Sophie to be doing) and the tooth just fell out of her mouth. It doesn't get any easier than that!

Just don't ask her to say "seven silver swans swam silently seaward."

What do you do when there's no snow?

Weekend Roundup

We started our weekend with Emma going to her good friend Annie's 8th birthday party. It was at a really neat place called "Almosta Ranch". The theme for the party was "Fashion" and the girls were all supposed to dress fashionably. This is what Emma came up with. She bought the cute hat at the Beehive Bazzaar on Friday with her own money. I think she looks adorable.

Saturday evening was spent at InstaCare in Orem. Poor Sophie got a sinus infection and an eye infection. She looked like she'd been socked in the eye, with tons of goop oozing out all sides of her eye. Yuk. No pictures of this doctor visit, sorry.

Sunday evening we went to Grandma & Grandpa McRae's for a birthday dinner for Joseph and Amy. I hope everyone knows that Joseph has a twin, but if you didn't, you do now. Ann provided a delicious dinner, and the kids had a blast playing with their cousins. Happy birthday you two!

Happy Birthday Joseph

Cool then...

Cool now:

I love you babe.

O Christmas Tree . . .

Monday evening Suzy, Ryan and Allie came down to Provo for our annual "buying of the Christmas tree" ritual. We started out by heading over to Baum's Christmas Tree lot in Provo, our very favorite place to buy our trees.

Suzy & Emma looking cute:

I found our tree in approximately 3 minutes. Suzy, on the other hand, took about an HOUR. Poor Ryan . . . how many trees did he have to hold up?

For some reason, there was this kid by the lot riding a pony. I wanted to get a picture of my kids by themselves, but I couldn't get the other kid to get out of the picture. It also appears that Sophie has a future in horse whispering. She seems to have a "connection" with this pony:

After we bought our trees, we headed over to the pizzeria for a yummy dinner.

After dinner we headed home to put the tree up. Thanks Ryan for helping me get it in the stand.

Sophie apparently couldn't wait for me to get the ornaments out, so she made some custom ornaments:

When I finally did pull the ornament box out, we couldn't get Sammy out of it:

In fact, four days later, the ornament box is still sitting on the kitchen table because I don't have the heart to take away Sammy's new little bed.

The payoff:

Our Thanksgiving

I know I'm a bit late, but here is the recap of our fun Thanksgiving weekend.

We started our vacation with a trip to the movies with Suzy & Ryan. I felt like the last person on earth to see this:


It was good. Even Joseph liked it.

On Thanksgiving morning Joseph & I decided to take the kids to see this:

It was great. Funny, action-packed and even a bit tender....it could actually bring a tear to your eye.

We discovered that no one in Utah goes to the movies on Thanksgiving morning. There were only about 4 other people in the theater. In fact, the mall doesn't even bother turning on the lights. Whatever...

After the movie, we got ready for dinner. This year's guests included Aunt Carol, Uncle Bob & Taylor, Kiara & Yoda, and Ryan. Auntie Carole made an appearance a bit later. Here are some random shots of the evening:

Emma made adorable personalized name-tags for everyone. Should I feel bad that mine was personalized like this:

Shocker!! Joseph is napping!

Mom & Dad celebrating the last Thanksgiving in the Pleasant View house:

Suzy's deviled eggs:


My beautiful mandarin orange cottage cheese salad:


My delicious spinach dip made with REAL mayonaise.... yum:



Sophie modeling with the turkey:

I hope your Thanksgiving was as fun as ours.

Watch out Christmas... here we come!