We decided to go to the Grand Canyon…since we have never been.  Hard to believe that neither Jason (since 1992) or I (since 1996) have never been.  We knew it was time to go.  So we got together a picnic.  Invited Emily, Brady, and Jaylee to come with us.  Then drove the three hours to the national park.  

It was so amazing.  I know it’s “just a big hole in the ground”, but unless you have ever gone it’s so hard to comprehend just how amazing it can be.  I definately want to go down to the bottom someday in the future.  

We had to keep reminding the girls to be careful of the edge, but they did pretty well.  I even got a couple nice pictures of Jason and I near the edge.  I will have to post those in another blog post.

Jason picked her up from school and brought her home.  She threw up one more time.  She slept from 7pm until 3am.  When I couldn’t get her comfortable again even after Tylenol I put her in the tub.  She liked that and fell back to sleep pretty quickly after the bath.  When I looked at the clock again after she fell back to sleep it was 5:30am.  Lucky me…I got to go to work tired.

Jason took care of Elizabeth while I went to work.  I called him after work and he informed me that she had a temp of 103.  I talked to the school nurse and she said as long as she is keeping fluids down she should be okay.  I came home and shortly after I got home her fever broke.  I guess it was a 24 hour bug after all.

Elizabeth is feeling much better and even went outside for a few minutes this evening.  She’s playing on the X-box and hopefully she will feel even better tomorrow.

When we got up this morning Elizabeth immediately went looking for the puppy.  Jason explained to her that sometimes puppies like to run around and when they get hungry or tired they return home.  She took it pretty well.  Nikki was told by her sister that the puppy was gone so we didn’t have too much drama over the puppy.

Dear Nikki,

In the land of enchantment filled with wishes and dreams come true.  I look forward to the magic of sunsets.  From a cloud I sit in my rose covered swing, knowing once again I will do what I love the most.  You see I am the Tooth Fairy!

I have been to your house and even remember, long ago, visiting your mother.  Soon, I will be visiting your sister!  I do hope that you were pleased with the gift that you found under your pillow.

Now, I don’t normally do this, but I wanted you to know that I am delighted to find that you learned to ride a bike.  I love visiting children and when I see a talented girl like you, I know that I have the best job in the world!

For this reason, before I left your house I waived my magic wand and sprinkled your pillow with stardust.  Nikki, try your best at everything you do.  And remember-with a little stardust dreams really do come true!

I will be looking forward to visiting you again,

The Tooth Fairy

P.S. With your missing tooth, your smile is even more beautiful!

Nikki the toothless wonder

Nikki lost her other front tooth today.  She lost the first top front tooth about a month ago.  When she lost the first one, the other one was loose.  We have been trying to get her to pull the tooth for a month.  Finally today she pulled her front tooth.  She is so excited to be missing her other front tooth.  She called herself “toothless wonder.”  Just like Junie B. Jones.  Her adult tooth is already starting to come in, but it’s not as close as the first one was.  She is also waiting for the tooth fairy to come visit tonight.  Her note to the tooth fairy reads:

Dear Tooth Fairy,

I lost another tooth, so please give me another treat.  I got another treat for you.  It’s my tooth.  I hope you like my white tooth.  It’s so bright you might blink.  My grown up teeth are coming in and they’ll be so bright when you might see them some day.

Love,

Nikki

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This is a picture I took in my living room of Grammy and Papa with 8 of their 10 grandkids. It was nice to get a pretty good picture of Mom and Dad with all their Arizona grandkids. Now we just need to get Keith and Mandy out here with Logan and Alyssa. Then we will need to get Mom and Dad here too. Then we can have a picture with all the grandkids. It’s so nice to have most of us here now.

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At the same buffet that Jason had frog legs-Elizabeth tried sushi for the first time. Jason gave her a piece of his sushi. Elizabeth liked it at first, but she only took one bite so I’m not sure if she decided she didn’t like it very much.  Elizabeth and I were just talking about this picture and she says…”It was good.” and gave me a thumbs up!

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We went out to dinner at a Chinese Buffet. Jason found frog legs and decided to try them out. He said they were okay. I didn’t not try them because, I am not that daring. Plus when Jason isn’t very big on something I know there’s no way I’m going to like it.