Tooth fairy and Flowers

Miss M had a tooth growing in all crazy which was causing her baby tooth to not be loose at all! You know it's bad when they ASK to go to the dentist. So we made an appointment to see the dentist and this brave girl got her tooth pulled! She was amazing. And so excited to loose her first tooth. We have this cute little tooth fairy box that our friends Grandma made for Miss M.

The tooth fairy left special quarters for miss M (Hawaiian quarters) and left her room a sparkly mess of fairy dust. It was in Miss M's hair, Miss A's hair, all over the dressers, pillows, beds. Silly little fairy!
We went to the local farmers market and Miss M was in LOVE with all the beautiful flowers. So, with her money she bought these lovely flowers. And we ran into our friends their girls just happened to be wearing purple too. It was a great family Saturday.

Origami

One afternoon while I was taking a MUCH NEEDED NAP! Keenan showed the girls how to fold origami. They had so much fun and keep asking when they can fold some more. These are the frogs they made, after they were done making them, the had a jumping race to see which frog could jump highest, farthest etc. I was woken up to squeals of excitement.

Back to school recycle shopping

While Keenan is going to school, we are cutting back on a lot of things, ok wait, we are thrift store shoppers anyway! It has nothing to do with Keenan going back to school. We really like to see what treasures we can find in the stores, plus it's a way for us to be "Green" reduce, reuse, recycle. And, now that Miss M is in the 'big girl' section of the clothes stores the prices have gone way up. So, I don't mind finding this great stuff at the thrift stores. Some of the items we found still had tags on them! So, here are the clothes we found for her while she was at Grandma and Grandpa's. She was so excited to come home and have a fashion show.
A few days later on HALF OFF MONDAYS (at Unique) we took her thrifting and she found some more cute tops!

Sweet Girl

My mom and sister were kind enough to take my kids away for a few days to hang out at Grandma and Grandpa's house. Keenan and I got to enjoy a staycation at home! It was wonderful to spend that time together considering how busy our life is about to get.
When my girls came home they had LOTS of drawings, paintings, cards etc for me about how much they loved me and missed me. Then Miss M hands me this gift bag from Hallmark and says, "I even bought it with my very own money!" She was just so proud of this surprise for me!
I opened the box and inside was the pineapple "welcome angel" from willow tree that I have been wanting for a LONG time. Jesica told me the story of how Miss M walked all over the mall
looking at things for herself and had finally decided on Build A Bear. On the way to the store she saw the Hallmark shop and asked Jesica to bring her in there because "that is where Mommy gets her dolls from!!!" She walked up and down the display until she found the Welcome Angel and then used her money to buy it for me. It's really one of the nicest things that someone has done for me. I love that little girl and her appreciation of showing others her love.
And not only had she got be the angel but she also made one that looked like me!
What a sweet little angel I have.

Just A Little Brown Gal...

I know it's one of the cheesy or cute things, you either like it or don't, but I love it when my kids match or when Keenan or I can match them too. (Most of the time I do it unintentional).

Keenan's last week of summer vacation he and the girls dressed alike a lot - but I didn't think to get more pictures. I must have been having too much fun hanging out with my little family. : )

Spreading a little ALOHA at summer camp

Miss M goes to this great little summer camp. We love it because the counselors are awesome, they have fun activities, a lot of her friends from school and the neighborhood go AND it's walking distance from our house.

Again, they asked Mr. K to entertain the kids at camp. There was two encore songs, for the kids that were in Kindergarten with Miss M to sing "Spread a little Aloha" and "Somewhere over the Rainbow." It was cute to see the kids get up and sing and dance, as always Mr. K does a great job of entertaining and I was proud of my girls for getting up in front of their friends to SING and DANCE. I love that they got the entertainment bug from their dad.

Little Dude

Little Dude enjoying his first ever drive thru hamburger! Steak and Shake has these great little sliders it was the perfect fit for Little G. He LOVED every bite.
More proof that 1. I am not a very good babysitter (on top of art table eating a marker)
OR 2. I am the best Aunt ever and let my Little Dude do whatever and explore whatever he wants. (I didn't get pictures of the play dough or how he ate his lunch I don't want to let his mom know we have too much fun)
I like to think #2 And notice, even his tongue is the color of the marker!