The Salon

Sydney & Hayley were due for haircuts this week.

As Hayley was getting her trim, I looked over to see this sight...

Upside down magazine, no less. But she was just flipping through those pages looking at all of the LONG hair styles. I jokingly asked her WHICH long hairstyle she wanted done with HER long hair.

Then it was time. Time for a little trim. You're wondering WHAT POSSIBLY we could trim on Addy's follicley (is that a word) challenged head?

Well, her piggy tails were starting to get a little fuzzy in the back. And there was ONE hair on the top of her head a little too long.

It does seem like as soon as we do the first little fuzzy haircut that the girls' hair has seemed to start growing like crazy. Wishful thinking in this case too.

A Knot of Toads

Did you know a group of toads is called a knot? Well, we have a KNOT of toads by our house. Wholy KNOT! (I count 40, 40 tiny toads. Mwahahahahaha!)

And yesterday, the neighbor kids came over and brought a Knot of toads from by their houses too. So we had a Knot of Knots.

I guess toads are a good thing to have around. They can eat thousands of insects (so with 40 toads in our yard, that's 40,000 fewer insects!!! (They can eat up to 3 times their weight in insects and slugs EVERY day! Bring on those toads!)

Some people recommend putting in toad houses. But these toads seem to enjoy living under our step on our patio. (Note to self, this fall find out how to move that thing to clean under it. I'm sure there is some toad droppings to clean out).

The toads especially like to climb around Jeremy's new rock wall in the back of the yard too.

Small Town Days

It was the BIG celebration in the little hometown of the man of the house last weekend. We happened to be in town for another BIG celebration (Happy belated Birthday, Aunt Joan & Good luck in the BIG city!)


The girls had a blast at the parade!
Can you see those whispy piggy tails on Addy? Her mullet just keeps on growing in the back. SOME day I'll HAVE to take her in for a haircut. But the piggies are just TOO cute!


Sydney & Hayley had a blast collecting candy from the parade. If there is a shortage on tootsie rolls around the country this week, I think they were all at this parade!

Somehow Hayley got ahold of a water balloon. That is her papa sitting in the front of the golf cart. Completely unaware that Hayley's balloon has his name written all over it. (She chickened out before throwing it though.)

This adorable little pony cart was in the parade. We chased it down on the golf cart so Hayley could have a ride. The pony didn't quite want to stop, so this boy had to stop it so Hayley could get on. She thought it was pretty cool!

Art Gallery

The girls are really enjoying drawing this summer. When we were in New York Nana bought them each an "Ugly Doll." Have you seen these things? They really are ugly, but cute too.
Here are what they actually look like:
Plunko



Ugly Worm





And here are the girls' drawings they made for Nana as a thank you:
Attempt #1 By Sydney

Hayley's Drawing of Plunko. Except he is green instead of orange.


I think this Ugly Worm is looking for LOVE!!!

And check out Plunko in his HOT bikini!!! Is that a pool of TAR he is swimming in?

Happy 4th of July

We had our second annual (we can call it annual now that we've had two) 4th of July party. And of course I was so busy running around that this is the only picture I was able to get. We had about 40 people at our house and Jeremy's fireworks display was awesome. We've been asked to choreograph it to music next year (Thanks a lot Missy- you know it will happen now. Jeremy can't be outdone!)