Little Lizey Lou

Lizey has had some excitement lately; last night she lost (daddy pulled) her 6th tooth, so she is officially now a snaggle-tooth. And can I just add that pulling teeth gives me the extreme heebie-jeebies?? Something about a dry paper towel pulling on a dry tooth is like nails on a chalkboard to me. I had to turn my head and stick my fingers in my ears and la-la-la in my head to block it all out until it was over. Thank goodness teeth do not have this same effect on Stephen :)

She looks very cute all toofless. But I'm a little sad for the day those big-girl teeth come in. She will never look the same :(

And she's been cheering for Upward Basketball at our church. She enjoys the practices, but they have to sit during the games and only do about 5 cheers the entire time (it feels that way, at least), and the rest of the time they play patty-cake and put their megaphones on their heads. But they are cute doing it.

Davis is just in it for the snacks.

And, she's been dancing. My, my, this girl likes to shake it. Her new favorite song is "I've Got a Feeling" by the Black-Eyed Peas. I think she learned it on the bus, and Stephen downloaded it for her, and we have a nightly dance party to it, which I must video and post soon. It has become our family anthem :) Here's her cheesing for the camera.

Bless her. And finally, a little Valentine love.

We're back!

Well, I'm a pitiful blogger.

It's been a LONG time since I posted, I know.

But moving in September and house projects and kindergarten and life in general rendered me worn out, just wanting to lay down when I had few moments of quiet. But I'm finally getting back on track, and will hopefullyget myself together and blogging regularly soon!

Here's a brief synopsis of the past 6 months in our lives :)

Pumpkin Patchin October. This is one of my favorite things to do all year.

Luckily, my sister Heather and her fam usually visit this time of year so the cousins get to go together. Here's Eliza, Howell, Davis, Cooper, and Betsy Hart.

Halloween. I'm still a dork for matching costumes as long as they let me do it. Poor Lizey woke up that morning with a high fever that turned out to be H1N1, but she was a trooper. NOTHING was going to come between her and some candy :)

We went trick-or-treating with Cooper and even the little guys figured out pretty fast how the game worked.

Christmas in Dyersburg. I LOVE this pick of the cousins. Here's Ellis, Davis, Eliza, and Owen.

Christmas morning. Ahhhh, the mess. And the excess. I'm determined next year to buy less. Much less.

And finally, last week we finally got a good snow. Well, a few inches of good snow with a 1/2 inch layer of ice on top, which made snowballs and snow angels a little dangerous.

But thanks to the abundance of large plastic tubs we have around here, we had plenty of lids for sledding. And a nice drainage ditch in the backyard that was just the right size for little guys.

Bless her. Lizey Lou was so excited to get out and play that she put on her hat and was out the door before I had a chance to fix her hair.

So, that's about it. We've done several DIY house projects lately, so more pics of those to come soon!