you're nice you're beautiful and you're fantastic

Joel's been pretty cute lately. The other day when we were out in the backyard he picked a couple of roses off the bush and handed ttem to me with a hug and a kiss and said, "mom, these are for you because you're nice, you're beautiful and you're fantastic!"
He makes me smile.



He gave a talk in church today. He always moans and groans when we tell him he has a talk or something, but when he gets up to the microphone he is in his element. His talk was on preparing to go to the temple someday. He read in the talk that we have to get baptized before we go to the temple. Then he talked looked at the audience and asked those in the audience who had been baptized to raise their hands. At every new paragraph he would pause and ask the members of the audience to raise their hands if they wanted to hear the next paragraph.



We watched fireworks last night that culminated the last night of the Herndon Festival. We let the kids stay up to watch them too and Eli LOVED it. I described a big firework as "ginormous" and whenever another big firework appeared he would say, "look mommy nother ginormous one." If there was a small firework he would say, "look mommy a baby one!" He was so excited about it, it was precious.



Cara wore a cute light blue linen cotton dress today with embroidered paster flowers on the front. It had a peter pan collar and short puff sleeves. She also wore white tights and patent leather black shoes that have shiny black ribbon bowes and a white headband. She looked SO CUTE. I love dressing her up. Girl clothes are just so much cuter than boy clothes. Sorry guys. Unfortunately lately and especially this afternoon/evening/night she has really been teeting. It seems to bother her a lot more than it botheredd Joel and Eli, or maybe I am just forgetting. I feel so bad I can't do more to ease her pain.



Kelly's still working on our playset in the backyard. We've got the slide workable and the boys are loving it. It feels so right to have your little boys playing gleefully in the backyard. I'll be SO GLAD when it is completely finished. It has been such an ORDEAL-- between the deck tear down, digging out the deep cemented in posts, getting rid of plants, leveling the yard, buying supplies here, there and everywhere, building the new structure not to mention the vile, disgusting, totally beyond gross problem of the RATS that we discovered