Three colorful pictures

Ryan entitled this "Rain, Rain, Go Away".

I took this one because Ava and her Daddy looked so cute cuddled up.

Kindergarten registration

Cousins together!!

Here are my favorite pictures from Jana and Juliana's visit.
We had so much fun and didn't want it to end. Juliana is awesome and hilarious.
Lola, Ava, Cora, Juliana, and Stella.

We've also been having waaay too much fun with cousin Cora being in town for a few months.

Haircuts for the Homeless

The girls were starting to look a little stringy, so I convinced them that they shouldn't grow their hair like Rapunzel.

Ava before

Ava before

Ava After

Lola before

Lola before

Lola After

More Random Quotes

To a little girl at the playground, Lola asked, "Do you speak Spanish?". The little girl said yes, so Lola responds with, "Well, I do potty jokes."

To a new little girl at church, Lola and Ava ask, "What's your name?". The little girl says, "Ariel". And Lola and Ava say, "No, what's your REAL name?". Little girl says, "ARIEL". Lola and Ava say, "well then, my real name is Bell and Sleeping Beauty."

"I just saw a guy with a real squirrel on his head!" -Ava (It was actually a raccoon hat..didn't know people actually wear those.)

Lola and Ava say, "woosh" instead of "Feeewwww".

Ava was explaining what plants need to grow. "..Water, sunshine, and lots of love."

The girls sing this annoying song and make up their own lyrics. Most of them are just silly, but the last one had me busting up laughing.
"To make the world barbecue saucy, fill it up with barbecue sauce."
"To make the world scary, fill it up with hyenas."
"To make the world silly, fill it up with jack-n-the-boxes."
"To make the world stinky, fill it up with breath." (..because Ava might have been implying something after I kissed her goodnight.)

"My bum is beautiful and white." -Ava

We were in the mall parking lot and Ava smelled cigarette smoke and said, "It smells like burnt hot dogs". (She obviously didn't know what she was smelling, but the kid that was smoking promptly threw his cigarette into the bushes.)

"Thinger"=finger (It took me a long time to realize that the girls were mixing up "f's" and "th's".)

While putting Ava in time out...Lola comes in and says, "Let me deal with this".

The girls brought home papers they colored in primary that said, "Ask me what I learned about faith". So I asked Lola and she said, "it's something you can't see, but know it's there". Ava came in the room and I asked her what she learned about faith. She said, "Some people are blind".

Lola's new intellectual words and phrases:
"I presume this is mine?"
"Very interesting"
"Apparently"


Can you tell who's who?

Happy B-day Red-Hair-Grandma

Hugs and kisses from Lola and Ava.