Garage Sale Find

Our neighbors had a garage sale.  I love going to garage sales!  Unfortunately, we had other things we needed to take care of, so we didn't get to go...until we got home from our errands, that is!

We looked around, said hello, chatted, and were about to leave when Tanner and Elena noticed this SnowCone Maker.

Price?  $4.

Sold.

We had our first snow cone ice today.  It worked great! 

Garage Sales can be wonderful!

Birthday Time!

 Alia turned twelve today.  She made most of her own baked Alaska.  (It was delicious!)

 She wore one of her new outfits from Aunt Marilyn with a necklace from Grandma Madsen.

And she tooted her own horn.  (Ok, so the photo is from yesterday when we had her party, but she played her new trumpet today! :)



Happy Birthday, Beautiful!  We love you!

 So there are a couple of news items this week.  First of all, Elena lost her first tooth!  Her adult teeth have been growing in for some time now, but the front lower baby teeth haven't wanted to come out.  She was playing legos on Thursday and used her teeth to separate two pieces (a normal thing, really) and snap, the tooth came loose.  It only took a bit more work to get it all the way out.  The other front tooth is now really loose, too.  Hurray!

 Jessica and I spent the fourth of July re-finishing our dining room table.  This is what it looked like a few weeks ago - it has gotten pretty beat up over the last 10 years or so.

This is the re-finished top.  We didn't do the whole thing, so it only took a bit of work to get it cleaned off and re-finished.  Here's to another 10 years!