After picture of cabinets

Before cabinets in island

Overheard

I just heard this conversation between Andy and Alex:

Alex, "Boys are stronger than girls."

Andy, "Usually boys are stronger than girls, but the minute you tell a girl that you are stronger than her, she's going to beat you up.  So it's better just to keep quiet."

Wise words my love, wise words!

 

First day of school!!!

 Alex is starting first grade this year!  ALL DAY SCHOOL!!  He is very excited!

 Samantha is starting third grade and is also very excited!

 The "twins" walking to school together.  

Wicked

Because I have the sweetest husband around I was able to enjoy the play Wicked with my baby girl. Andy was supposed to come with me but he thought Samantha would love the play and decided to give her his ticket. She was in heaven!!! We went to lunch before the 2:00 show and I think Samantha loved being the only kid in a group full of her favorite adults. It was so much fun to watch her cute face as she marveled at the scenery, costumes, and special effects. I LOVE that she is at the age where she wants to go to these type of events and she is mature enough to sit through them. She came home, slapped on her iPod and sang Defying Gravity about 600 times!! I love this girl!
Thanks Andy for taking care of your little girl and making her extremely happy!
Oh, and while we were gone andy took Alex to Hang Time to jump around, then to lunch, then home to play cards! Andy taught him kings corner. It was a mighty successful day for the Higham family!!

Wicked

iPad and math games bring the world together.

Samantha's baptism

Andy's parents couldn't be in town for the stake baptism day, so we arranged with our neighbors to have her baptized in their swimming pool on her birthday!  It turned out really fun and great and there was a great turn out of friends and family.  Samantha was a little nervous and after it all you could tell she was a bit overwhelmed, but she looked beautiful and had a great experience! 

Samantha's 8th birthday party with friends

Samantha chose an art theme for her party this year.  She invited 4 cute girls from the neighborhood and they had a great time!  They painted bird houses, made jewelry, played pictionary, played pin-the-brush-on-the-pallate, and ate cake and ice cream.  Samantha seemed pleased with the whole day, so that's all a mom can ask for!!!

4th of July

We had a 4th of July party at our house this year.  The others couldn't do fireworks at their houses because of fire restrictions - lots of wildfires this year!  

We did dinner, slip-n-slide, baby pool, and of course, fireworks!  It was a fun night!

Panda in PJs

Samantha let me sleep with her panda tonight because I had a sniffly nose. Pretty cute!