So we’ve got a couple quick announcements for today…

The first announcement is that we saw the seasons first snow today. Now in case you’re wondering, I’m not excited about this. I’ve got a couple weeks left worth of work to get done on the yard so I really need the snow to just back off. Today’s snow didn’t stick at all, but I’m not too optimistic about how long it’ll stay away.

Now for today’s second announcement…

This one is a bit more fun than the last and involves my brother Scott’s new ride. Over the last couple years he’s been upgrading cars slowly, but yesterday he went and picked up by far the best one yet… his bright new Chili-red Mini Cooper S.

He let me drive it around the block and I think I may need to get me one of those.

Today I lost my first tooth. And by lost, I mean it’s gone!

I was eating some Marshmellow Mateys this morning when my tooth decided to come out in the middle of a bite. The only problem is that it decided to fall in instead of out and now it’s resting in my tummy with my breakfast.

I was a little worried that the tooth fairy wouldn’t come because I don’t have a tooth to put under my pillow, but I’m going to fool her by putting a drawing of my tooth under my pillow instead. Now I just hope she remembers to bring my thousand-million-hundred-thousand dollars.

Check out the pictures of my new smile hole.

On Friday Hailey called me from school to tell me that she won a bike.  I was a little confused so I asked her how. She told me that she wrote an essay about being safe and wearing a helmet and that the office ladies wanted to know if I could come pick it up.  I didn’t want her to think I didn’t trust her but a bike is not the kind of prize I got in school. So I asked her to ask the ladies if I could pick it up after school just so I knew that the office was aware of this “prize”.  Sure enough they said after school was fine.  So we met Hailey after school to pick up her bike at the office.  I still didn’t know if I could believe her,  but a very nice office lady wheeled out her brand new purple princess bike.  We found her teacher so that I could get the whole story.  Hailey wrote an essay about being safe all by herself. She sounded out the words she didn’t know and everything.  It is a very cute essay and I would love to post it but it is currently hanging on the wall at school for all too see.  She is very proud.  And she knows that Wally will think her bike is neat even if it has a princess on it. So thanks to the donation from Ken Garff we have a very happy first grader!!

Just a quick little note to say happy birthday Em. We all love you and want to say thanks for being such a great wife and mom.

Our kids are super lucky to have someone who loves them so much and who is willing to do anything in the world for them. Even though we don’t always do what we’re told, we all have nothing but love and respect for you.

My family jokes all the time about how they can’t understand how I got so lucky to have fooled you into saying yes. We all laugh and joke, but I truly do feel like I lucked out. Thanks for being you.

So apparently Hailey doesn’t just have one loose tooth…

SHE HAS 2!

Today, while chomping on a cracker before dance class, she noticed that one of her top front teeth is also loose. So now, as she quite excitedly announced to me, she thinks she’s going to get two million-gazillion dollars.

I just hope the tooth fairy has the foresight to swing past Fort Knox before coming to pick up her teeth.

UPDATE!!!

Make that 3 loose teeth. Both of her top front teeth are now loose.