lunch for breakfast

Lily: Mom, I awake.
Me: I know.
Lily: I want breakfast.
Me: Yay! You called it breakfast. (She usually calls it lunch).
Tyler: Lily, what do you want to eat for breakfast?
Lily: uhhh... lunch.


Lily: I want a dog to pet me.
Me: You want to pet a dog?
Lily: No I want a cute ito (little) dog to pet me.

Isn't she cute? Does someone want to come over and put her to bed for me?

dragons

Ella is learning to write Chinese Characters at school. Sometimes, however, she gets distracted and decides to draw a snout-nosed, cheesy dragon instead. Don't let his smile fool you. Can you see the 2 dead people on his tail?

$2 Tuesdays

Lily had a great time with her cousins at Thanksgiving Point today. We haven't told Ella about our field trip yet. She was at school and would be very disappointed that she missed an outing with Cait. Can you tell I feel guilty about going without her?

Open for tours

I know I haven't invited anyone over to our new house yet. It's not because I'm forgetting about you, but as you can see in the picture above (taken less than a week ago), our house has been kind of, well, actually a TOTAL a mess. Just when I thought we were starting to get settled, we'd have to pull everything out of all the closets to finish baseboards, or paint, or finish another project here or there.

Although we are not completely finished building our house, I finally, today, am officially inviting anyone who would like to come over for a tour of our new house to come on over. Please don't expect anything grand, we still have a ways to go on the decorating, and we aren't finished un-packing yet; but we are finally starting to feel a little settled.

*Tip: Don't ever move into a house that isn't finished. Especially if you have a toddler.

Garage Sales

I've been having fun shopping at garage sales this summer. Above is what I bought at an estate sale today. Everything shown in the picture above was purchased for $19. I was just thinking yesterday that I needed to start collecting trinkets like this for a display I'm working on for the Craft & Hobby Show I'm attending.

Here's a mirror (left side) I purchased for $5 a few months ago.

Another mirror I bought a few months ago. This one I painted green.
$15.

Above is my first garage sale purchase ever. I painted this $10 mirror yellow, and it looks so cute in Lily's bedroom.

Dayna's Baby Shower

Dayna (the new mom)

Grandma & new baby

Beautiful Decor

You Would!

We went furniture shopping on Saturday. Ella noticed the painting above.

Ella: Mom, look at that picture. Who in the world would ever hang that in their house?
Me: I actually kind of like it. The colors wouldn't match, but otherwise, I like it.
Ella: You would! You do like Lily's scribbles.

Breanna's Baptism

Breanna got baptized Saturday.