What's Up?

I'm done crying about the first day of school. Landon, however, is not. It's been a tough transition, but my tears have dried up and I'm taking it like a real woman. I tell him to buck up and face his fears. He has and he's winning--we all are.

For the last month and a half, Taylor has been on the naughty list. But she is now back to the top of my favorite persons list. Today I started to say, "Taylor, you know why you are so great?" And without missing a beat or even looking up from her lunch she said "Because I smell like flowers and I'm so beautiful."

Audra is loud. She talks loud, she whispers loud, she sings loud. I could listen to her sing forever. She is a temporary member of the naughty list, but hasn't quite made permanent membership because she's so blasted cute.

Erin's my man. Oh, how we love that we get to see him. We see him before work, we see him at lunch, we see him afterwork, we eat dinner with him, he helps put the kids to bed, and then I still get time with him after the kids are asleep. He's a busy guy trying to organize and train new dental assistants at work, trying to organize church stuff, trying to organize our house, and coach soccer all at the same time. He's awesome! And he's got a tan--woo-hoo!

The ball under my shirt keeps getting bigger and bigger and should be popping out in the next few weeks. We have yet to even think about naming this one.

Here's what we've been doing:

Cocock's Nail Salon

Girls night out we went to Cocock's. Best foot/leg massage ever.

I've never had nail art. They did cranes and flowers.

American Village

We can walk across the street from our home to American Village. It has lots of little shops

and restaurants and live performers and the beach. And a little ice cream place

with the best ice cream.

Rain Storm #1

The new family on the block and we're already jumping in

rain puddles in our underwear. By the way, when a rain

comes through it is awesome. It's torrential for a short period--enough to enjoy--and

then it's sunny again.

2010 Typhoon

We were on lock-down in preparation for the typhoon. It was very

exciting as we anticipated the worst. But our hopes were dashed as the

storm went north and ripped apart that part of the island instead.

Our awesome friends came over and brought most of their house, since

we didn't have anything but couches. So the boys played wii...

...possibly the whole time...

and the girls played dress-ups...

and games. Thanks S family! We had a blast!

Audra's BFF Alyssa

Sunset Beach

This is the beach we can walk across the street to. This was a couple

Friday's ago. We just headed there right after Erin walked home from work.

Unfortunately, they were preparing for a storm and didn't allow any swimming--the kids still

had fun though.

Landon dug tunnels and...

...the girls made beds.

Audra tried to make a bed by herself...

...and sweet Tay came over to play the mommy