First real snow

Yesterday was chilly, but sunny. It was supposed to have snowed several times so far, but only left a thin layer of frosty ice a few weeks ago. Matt and I were woken up this morning by the screams of "SNOW!!!! It SNOWED!!!!" Unfortunately so was Eden. But, we are so excited that winter, or winter weather is finally upon us. We had a great Thanksgiving with our friends from BYU, the Workmans. Yesterday Matt organized the garage (it took 7 hours.) Now we can fit my car in there! This morning we decorated the Christmas tree and now we are about to have hot chocolate...what a great weekend!
p.s. Lucy didn't swallow her tooth after all. The other day she came in and told me she had found it on the stairs while playing outside. I think it's amazing that she actually found it. She did too..she got 2 visits from the tooth fairy :)

The other tooth....lost.

Yesterday the girls and I were out in the backyard raking leaves. While raking I was listing to Lucy play a wooden Peruvian flute when all of a sudden she tossed it on the ground and began to scream. I ran over and looked into her mouth, which she was gaping open at me. At first all I saw was a dab of blood on her tongue. I told her to calm down, she had only bitten her tongue. While keeping her mouth wide open she attempted to say.."I swallowed it, I swallowed it!!!!" All the while there was fear in her eyes. Still not understanding I took a closer look into her mouth only to realize that she had knocked out her other top front tooth with the flute, and swallowed it. Two for two with the good front tooth stories Lucy!

Ugly, Awesome, or both

pigeon lamp..what do you think?

Here are a few pictures of the inside of our house. It is finally starting to come together, although there are many many many more boxes to unpack. Mostly artwork and things for my unfinished studio, or books for the bookshelves we have yet to paint. I wanted feed back on this lamp we have. What do you think? It is in Eden's room. Let me know!

Several people have expressed interest in seeing my newly painted/carpeted basement. So, to give you some idea...it used to be a dingy yellow with a tan ceiling and old old brown carpet. It looks much brighter and welcoming now. Thanks to my Mom and Grandma (Sweetie) who helped me paint and chose the carpet. It was fun to do something new to a space I care about :) Sometime soon we will get some more storage for all those girly toys.

We had a wonderful break from unpacking...going to Disneyland with Matt's parents. Kathy made the girls some amazing witch dresses. It was a blast! Now I'm having a really hard time getting back into the unpacking...a REAL hard time!

I thought I would put up a pic of our house. We are wrapping up the painting and things so that we will be ready to move in next week. I am SOOOOO excited to have this house. I can't wait to have wood under my kitchen table instead of carpet. And a fenced back yard? AWESOME!!!!! I also thought this picture of Eden was funny. I was in my room talking with Matt and this is what I found when I came out. At least I know if anything happened to me, she would be able to feed herself :)

The Environment

"On August 19th 2007, an oil tanker off the coast of Australia split in two, dumping 20,000 tons of crude oil.Senator Collins, a member of the Australian Parliament, appeared on a TV news program to reassure the Australian public." So this is what they say. I'm positive it's not real. But I thought it was hilarious anyway.