Cute Quote of THE YEAR!

OK, I think this one beats them all hands down. McKayla is my thoughtful kid who comes up with some doozies. Here's one from yesterday:

McKayla was talking about Heaven again and how it was a lot like "this earth we live on." I told her that actually it is way better than anything we can imagine. She thought about this for a moment and asked:

"Is Heaven even better than KISSING?"

My answer was an emphatic yes, what else could I say? The thing Chris and I want to know is, how would she even know how good kissing is?

Cute quote of the month!

So McKayla came up with another cute one! She told me this morning as we were getting ready to go to the mountains her theory of how Heavenly Father blesses us. She said that he has a big picture book of everyone that prays and when he wants to bless us he just blesses the book and everyone inside gets blessed.

On the way home we were talking about how the rain clouds go all the way down to the ground when it is raining. McKayla said that Heavenly Father makes the rain and that he lives on one of those clouds, but his cloud doesn't fall down to the ground.

Too cute!

Student of the Month

On Thursday, Chris and I were given a special invitation to go to an awards assembly and Brianna's school because Brianna would be getting an award. She was named Student of the Month! We are so proud of her! She works really hard in school and I'm glad she felt recognized for it. She has also gotten an award for being a Student of Character too!

A trip to the mountains

For Labor Day we went up to Big Bear (finally) and took a ride on the ski lift and hiked back down the mountain. The day was cloudy and much cooler than down in the valley. In fact, we were greeted at the top of the mountain with a thunderstorm. Still, my girls were up to the adventure and we went ahead and hiked back down instead of taking the ski lift. It was 1 1/2 miles and pretty steep. We had to break out the umbrella a few times, but overall it was pleasant. The mountains were beautiful and we decided we have got to visit more often!

All I want for Halloween?

It's official, Brianna has now lost her two front teeth (top and bottom, though one of the bottom ones is in now). She had a loose top tooth for a very long time and finally she decided she wanted it out. It only took a quick twist and it was out. The new tooth was already sticking out when the baby tooth came out! Well, the one next to it was beginning to get loose, this was about 2 weeks ago. We've been checking it, but it was still in there pretty good.

Here's the part we'll not forget: Today Brianna and I were playing hot potato with her soccer ball when the ball hit her in her open mouth. She told me that it hurt and when she pulled her hand away from her mouth there was blood on it. It took a look at her mouth and her tooth was gone! She was very excited because she said it hardly hurt. We took a quick look in the grass and found it. So, it looks like a little fairy will be coming to our house tonight!