Lizzie's Baptism

Grandma Hadley made this baptism dress

This dress was trimmed with pearls from Grandma Heidi's wedding dress.

This is Lizzie's friend from school, Angelie.

Liz got baptized with two boys from her Primary class: Eli Solorzano and Eli Farley. (Notice that all their names start with "Eli." They call it the "Eli Club.")

Lizzie's Birthday

Lizzie requested orange rolls for her birthday breakfast

We had a BBQ after the baptism

Cake and ice cream!

Presents

Grandma Miller

The kids had a lot of fun playing with Grandma Miller while she was here. They built with blocks, played baseball and soccer in the backyard, went swimming at Grandma's hotel... Owen even got to have a sleepover one night.

They also spent hours building this K'next roller coaster that Lizzie got for her birthday from the Bakers:

Meanwhile, Mom tried to keep Owen occupied and out of the way by playing with some of the new toys that Grandma brought with her:

Random

Nice shorts, right? Except that they're actually William's jeans!

After breakfast this morning, this guy climbed up on the table and started eating everyone's leftovers.

Oscar Meyer Wienermobile!

The Oscar Meyer Wienermobile came to town this weekend. Woohoo!

Georgetown Outing

We went to a nice, big park--and all William wanted to do was play with the garbage can.

Happy Birthday, Harry!

We had a little birthday party for Harry Potter's birthday. We played a few simple games, had a "potions" lesson, sang "Happy Birthday," and ate cupcakes and drank "butterbeer."

(Red sprinkles for Gryffindor)

We also took some of the Harry Potter quizzes online (like, what is your patronus?, what House do you belong to?, etc.), and it turns out that Emily is a Hufflepuff. (!)

Our Week

At the library's Western-themed "End Pfest" (to celebrate the end of the Summer Reading Program):

Don't you just love that Owen is flexing his muscles? He totally came up with that pose on his own, lol.

We played with lots of different friends this week:

All I Want for Christmas...

This kid lost 2 teeth in 2 days.

Night #1, the tooth fairy delivered Heidi's money to the wrong place with a note of explanation. (In reality, the tooth fairy completely forgot and had to get creative to make up for it.)

Night #2 Heidi left a note for the tooth fairy, asking for a picture. This is what she got.

How does he do it?

Seems like a pretty precarious place to take a nap!

Aargh!

The piano keys were sticking. Bad. I was pretty sure the kids were to blame, so I started poking around inside the piano. Look at all the "treasures" I found:

(I also found a 25-year-old love letter, which I have chosen not to include here so as not to incriminate anyone, lol.)

P.S. I'm pretty sure I also saw a dead scorpion and a dead spider in there, but they gave me the heebie jeebies so I didn't get close enough to thoroughly investigate.

Pioneer Day Party

Tug o' War

Watermelon Pit Spit contest

Making ice cream

Heidi wasn't a fan of the ice cream, lol...

...But Owen liked it!