COURTLYNE'S BIRTHDAY

JULY 6TH 2009 To my oldest daughter,

You are such a spark in our family! You have a great "rockin" personality. You love to dance and sing all around the house. Your favorite thing to do this summer was have band practice. You wrote your own songs--which were awesome, and you were, of course, the lead singer. Carter played drums and your friend Stephanie played guitar and sang back up. It was great while it lasted. You like Hannah Montana, watching the Disney channel on TV, beakdancing, gymnastics, whatever Allan thinks is cool, and spazzing out with your sister. I wouldn't say you are the best at cleaning up your room, but you are awesome at inventing things to build, decorate, and crafting. You always come up with the best Barbie doll fashions. I can't believe you are nine years old and heading for your teenage years sooner than I would like. I am so glad you are my daughter and I have loved seeing your personality grow and change. You make me proud when you let your unique personality shine and you do not follow the crowd. Remember to always be yourself and stand up for what you believe in. Dad and I love you lots!!
Your are the best!
Love, Mom

Carter's 2nd tooth

July 4th 2009
Here is the tooth that hung on and on and on--

Finally, after much wrestling and wiggling I had had enough of that gross, dangling tooth in Carters mouth. She didn't want to eat because it hurt to bite stuff, and she didn't want to pull the tooth out because that would hurt too. She didn't care about the tooth fairy coming, she just didn't want anyone to touch her tooth. My mom would try to wiggle it and sneak a tweak or two in there, but soon, Carter would not even let Grandma try to wiggle it for fear she would try to pull out her tooth.
Well ,I caught her completely off guard. She was fighting with someone who was trying to get her to let them wiggle her tooth--She was kicking and trying to get free when I just reached down grabbed that little tooth and pulled it free! Her big tooth was almost completely grown in behind the baby tooth--so that tooth really needed to come out. I am really not looking forward to the rest of her teeth getting loose.

Summer #6 Family Reunion

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

This was our only real vacation of the summer. We went to Brianhead for a few days over the 4th of July weekend. It was a family reunion with my Dad's family. A lot of uncles, aunts and cousins were there for a good time.

My Dad was in charge of it and he planned some good games and activities. Some of the other things we did--we went hiking--we went swimming in a hot tub--we watched some gorgeous fireworks in freezing cold mountain weather--we slept in a really scary room the first night--we learned a new game--we played at the park--we flew airplanes--played tetherball--it rained a lot!--we watched movies--and spent time together. ]

All in all it was a good time. I am glad to be part of such a great extended family that enjoys spending time together.