Happy Birthday Ethan

Today we celebrated Ethan's 8th birthday with just family at our house. He loves veggie tales so I made a Veggie Tales cake and we blew up the slide and just played. Here are a few pictures.. Rachel and Hunter took over his toys after they were opened as you can see.

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more pics see link below..ran out of room!

American Girl Boutique and Bistro - Dallas

For anyone with girls this was great! We timed it perfectly with the new release of the Kit Kittredge movie.. which I highly recommend for both kids and adults (well girls at least).. It was the cutest movie about Kit who grew up during the depression.. Rachel loved it. For those who don't know each doll is in her own time during history that tells a little story that relates to major milestones in American history.. ex.. Colonist, American Revolution, Native Americans, WW11, etcc.. We went to see it on the first night there.. then the next day.. American Girl Store.. and with the new movie they had a huge Kit play house and tree house and Kit stuff everywhere. I let Rachel pick which character she wanted or if she wanted a Just like You doll.. Ofcourse after seeing the movie she wanted the Kit doll.. which looks like her so she got both... We ate with her other dolls when we first got there at the Bistro and then shopped afterwards.. Her Bitty Twin girl got her hair fixed up.. Bitty Baby got her face, legs and arms cleaned up and a ribbon.. I know it's sick.. I got so into it and bought way too much stuff.. but it was really really cute.. I hope the pictures do it justice.. I also put pictures of what Rachel calls the Magic Elevator.. It started off indoors and then went to face nothing but the outdoors *kind like Willie Wonka" and we got to look 30 stories high over downtown Dallas.. she loved it. and it would go fast enough down that your stomach dropped a little.. here are a few pcitures.. again.. if you haven't seen it yet go see the Kit movie..

4th of July

We spent our 4th of July with some of our neighborhood gang... Every year instead of buying a bunch of small fireworks we all pull together and buy the biggest ones we can.. this year we had another great show and the kids loved sitting in the field watching the fiireworks.. Hunter did burn himself with a sparker, but I could have predicted that! Here are a few pictures..

Where'd IT GO!

well after many restless night. oragel, teething rings, etc.. it is nice to know all that hard work just fell out! HAHA>. just kidding! Luckily Rachel was a great teether.. I remember walking her in her stroller one day and looking down and saying holy cow.. she has 3 teeth and I didnt' even know they had come through.. yeah and that was the first three how bad is that?!?! .(but they were small, not all the way in.. . Point of the blog tonight is that on July 2, 2008 Rachel lost her very first tooth.. She has pried, wiggled, and messed with it for 2 weeks now.. and it finally gave loose and was barely hanging on. We were outside shooting off boyscout rockets when it decided to dangle.. she wouldn't let me touch it, but she let one of our neighbors attempt to get it out.. and poof.. It came out and she didn't even know it .. We had to show her.. So an excited little girl bounced around to show everyone her missing tooth hole.. Angel gave her a dollar already and we came home and got ready for the tooth Fairy.. here are a few pics!