our beautiful life

This song is so powerful. I have had it on repeat for the last few days after I heard it for the first time in church. 

Love it. 

Ever wonder what a day for me and my girls looks like? No? That's ok, it's not really for you anyways, it's for me, but I have decided to let you all see the wonderfulness of it ;) you're welcome. 

I wanted to make this video for myself, a "day in the life" video so in 10 years I can re-watch this with Summer and London and all the memories will come flooding back.

Everyday is different. I clean different things daily, but I also clean the same things day in and day out, sometimes, more than not, several time a day. Some days I have toys literally in every room, ALL. AT. ONCE. & I feel like I can't keep up with the picking up. Other days it's actually doable for the most part. Some days we go for walks to the park, take our baby dolls for a stroll down the sidewalk, play on our swing set in our back yard, play with chalk.....none of which you will see on this specific "day in the life" video. Cause on this day of filming it was cold, raining and gross outside, boo. But you will get a pretty good picture of what an average day looks like for us, give or take a little. So if you want, sit back, grab a cup of coffee, click play and enjoy. This video is a bit long, but it's our 12 hour day all into a 12 minute video. I am going to try to do these videos for sure once a year but hopefully, if I have it in me, I'm going to shoot for 2 times a year! I am going to try for a "warm season" one & a "cold season" one. It will be so fun to look back on this as the girls get older. One of my favorite things to do growing up was to watch home movies, all the memories you forgot about come flooding back. I don't ever want to forget these little daily things we did.

Here is the birthday video I made for my dad!

My mini, Summer lost her first tooth the other night. It was very exciting, for the both of us ;). It had been wiggly for about 3 weeks. 

We were at team D on sunday night & when I went to pick her up from childcare her tooth was just hanging there by a thread. We went back to the offices and mommy pulled it out. Although I must say, not on the first or second attempt, it took a few times of pulling & Summer (& mommy) freaking out, (just a little). Finally I did pull it right out and it was so exciting. Summer was beyond excited giggling and screeching. She had to go show all of her many friends around the church, First PAPA of course, (Nana was with us when we pulled it out). Then we went to every-room showing Auntie Jessica, Uncle Tyler, Rylen, and many, many of our friends. 

 That night I had to go on pinterest and think of something clever and cute to put under her pillow  with her cash. I found a cute "toothfairy" receipt on pinterest and I went with that. It was easy & simple, yet so adorable. 

Summer had been talking and talking and TALKING about "when my tooth falls out the TOOTH-FAIRY is going to visit me!!" It was very, very anticipated. So I couldn't mess this up. I probably gave her a little, ok a lot more cash then necessary, but to be fair I was also excited and wanted to give her enough to go get a little something from target if she wanted to. Anyways, the next morning she woke up so excited to announce  "The toothfairy came!! look what she left me! 10.00!! and a note!!".

Later that day she spent a lot of time making a beautiful picture of a rainbow, for the tooth-fairy, in hopes that if she left this picture for her then maybe she could have her tooth back as a keep sake. It worked of course & again Summer woke up so happy to see that the picture was gone and in its place was her beloved tooth. She kept her tooth with her all morning, watching her morning show, eating breakfast & she is very excited to bring it for show & tell tomorrow at school.

 (It can not leave the plastic baggy I will be putting it in ;)) 

She lost her tooth 1 month and 1 day after turning 5. My baby girl is growing up and its going by a little faster then I would like. 

I love fall, besides the fact that it truly does mean cold weather is fast approaching, you just need to overlook that part and enjoy this lovely season! Last weekend we went to the apple orchard and to be honest everyone (mostly me) was a bit distracted during the whole entire day due to having to re-home my sweet pup Henry the night before. I didn't even take any photos or videos while we were there. Sad face.

We are all feeling much better THIS weekend and so it called for a RE-DUE!! Back to the apple orchard we go, it was so much more fun this time around. The weather was crisper, the crowds were fewer and we were all in much better spirits. I love this time of the year, and this is one of our favorite things to do. Defiantly going to become a family tradition.