And here’s the second little one to join our extended family last week. Creed arrived on the same day as Owen and has almost as much hair (although it’s quite a bit darker). His vitals are below.
Weight: 7 lbs 9 oz
Height: 21 inches
Congratulations Ben and Holly!
Well, we finally got some pictures of Shelley and Adam’s new addition. Shelley was induced on Wednesday and after a few hours of waiting Owen decided to come via cesarean. His vitals are below:
Weight: 7 lbs 13 oz
Height: 21 inches
Congratulations Shelley and Adam!
It really happened. Today my family came and laid our sod. It was so exciting. After 3 years of very hard work we only have to wait a week more and we can have a picnic on our own lawn. (unless it snows!) Mike has worked so hard on our yard. We had to build a huge retaining wall all around our house. Then we had to fill the yard in to level it out. Mike has done an amazing job of getting it very level. I don’t think it could get any flatter! All the neighbors told us that it makes our house look different. I think it does too. Now it looks like a home.
A huge thanks to my dad for all the help and the sod. Our family has been great to come and help us with our big project. We are so blessed and loved.
We can’t wait for Spring now. The girls have all kinds of plans for summersaults and cartwheels. No more dirt castles and hopefully less dirt in the house. In fact today I swept the floor after the yard work and instead of just finding a big pile of dirt like I usually do, I found little blades of grass mixed in. It was so exciting. So, bring on the grass stains!
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.
