Toothless and Binkyless

Rebecca lost her second top tooth yesterday. She's now lost four bottom teeth and two top teeth. I was worried that she would look awkward with all of her missing teeth, but she's still just as cute as she was before (at least to me anyway).

This Dorito-faced boy is now sleeping without a binky. I never plan these things - I just couldn't find a binky for him to use one night, so he had to go to sleep without it. He did a lot better than I thought he would. He asked about it a few times the first week or two. I would just tell him that it was lost and that he didn't need a binky anyway. He doesn't ask about it at all anymore.

If I knew it would be that easy to take away from him, I would have done it a long time ago!

New Ride

I think I mentioned that our 1998 Camry died, so our plan this year was to use our savings and tax refund to buy a new (used) car. Kevin's parents had this car that they bought for Kevin's Granny Bowman who recently passed away. Their son Brandon was driving it, but he's leaving on his mission in a few months, so he decided we could have it.

It's a 1995 Chrystler Cirrus, but it only has 59,000 miles! I think Kevin's granny drove it to the grocery store and the temple, and that's it. It's always been parked outside in the sun, and the paint was in bad shape, so we fixed it up with a new paint job.

I love this car! Right now I carpool, so I have to drive the big car to school most days, but I think when I'm done carpooling, this will be my car. It looks more like me than Kevin anyway. ;)

Christmas in February!

I was going through some pictures I recently took on my camera and realized that I never posted my pictures from Christmas! I just have a few to share.

Here are the kids on Christmas Eve in their Christmas jammies from Grandma, freshly bathed and ready for bed.

William and Braden got light sabers from Santa. These boys are obsessed with Star Wars lately, and every time we passed these sweet light sabers in the Target toy section, they had to turn them on and wave them around a little before we could leave.

Rebecca loves Polly Pockets and Disney Princess Polly Pockets, so she got a castle for all of her Polly Pockets for Christmas.

Christmas was just okay for us in 2011. Kevin had to work on Christmas Eve and Christmas day, so I think that's why I never posted anything here about the holiday. The kids and I did a lot of Christmassy things together like visit lighted neighborhoods and The Festival of Lights at the Las Vegas Speedway, but it wasn't the same without Kevin. We're hoping he's around for more of the holiday this year!