Just a few bumps and bruises

Poor Gracie fell off the trampoline Saturday evening at her friend's house. She bit the cement in a sad little line up her cute face. So sad. Aside from two slightly scraped knuckles, there's no other injury on her. She took it all on her face!! She's doing great though--she's a good little trooper. She's pretty banged up, but she only injured her skin--which is healing nicely!


As an extra disaster sidenote, I got stung by a bee earlier at Kourtney's soccer game, and the girls shattered our rotating microwave plate all over the kitchen floor, all in less than 24 hours. Not my favorite weekend.

Hair, hair, it's everywhere!!

The girls and I got new haircuts--our neighbor Jeanette did a beautiuful job, and I think everyone is happy with her new hairs. We figure between the four of us we cut off about three feet of hair. Big change!! Here we all are, lookin sassy!

Quirky

The Rules: Link the person who TAGGED you. That would be Amber at http://www.kennyandamber.blogspot.com/
Mention rules on your blog.
Tell about six quirks of yours.
Tag six fellow bloggers to do the same.

1. I hate knuckle-popping.

2. I say I don't want food, and then I eat bites of yours.

3. I apparantly don't consider tuna to be seafood.

4. I file my nails really short, square and even--if one gets a little lower than the others, they all must be filed to match.

5. This is a repeat, but I HATE feet. Ooh, (add-on )I'm also a chapstick addict.

6. People tell me I walk really straight; I've never noticed, and I don't know how to fix it or how to teach you to instill it in your children.

My favorite stalker

I just discovered I've been blog-stalked by my cute little bride friend, Christine, who found the slideshow about "Seven Brides"!! It's been so much fun catching up with her and finding out that she's still cute, but not so little anymore. When we did the play she was sixteen and silly and giggly. Now she's a law student at BYU and married. This is a pic of Christine and I at a Riverton parade. This is Christine with her new hubby--David Beck--looking grown-up and beautiful, but I'm sure she's still giggly and fun. Congrats, Christine!!

BLOG ISSUES

This blog is temporarily under construction.

I'm not sure what the problem is, but I can't put a new, cute background on it.

I'll continue working on it, and keep you "posted." :0

Update: I thought I was going crazy because I've never had such issues with TCBOTB before, but I just went to the website and found this notice on the homepage:

"We're running some tests with a new server so please be aware that you may experience issues with the site such as:-problems logging in.-updated information not showing.-backgrounds not loading correctly.Thanks for your patience. Please try back tomorrow! No need to send an email regarding these issues as we are working on fixing them as soon as possible. :)

Thanks!
Ashley - TCBOTB"

These, by the way, are my exact issues, and I did send an email. SO, I'll try again tomorrow.

All About Grace

Gracie's first day of preschool was Tuesday. She barely makes the cut--Sept. 1 is the cut-off date for the three-year old class, even though Grace looks like she's 4 1/2. She did pretty well. She'd had so much fun on her birthday that 9:00 a.m. class time came pretty early for her;(uh, me too--I had to call Suzanne to drive car pool for me) she was a little tired and nervous. She absolutely refused to wear the perfect first day of school outfit I'd laid out. The outfit she picked out, however, suited her. She looked like a bright little ray of sunshine with her "Smile" shirt and bright yellow shoes from Grandma and Grandpa.
I loved the project they did; that is in fact Gracie's signature at the bottom.
Right before bed on Tuesday night I snapped a pic of the perfect first day of school outfit, (it says "I got an A+ in school) and Grace was more than willing to lay next to it in jammies and smile away.

Grace is 3

Grace's birthday was Mon, Sept. 1--Labor Day. She was thrilled. She's been anticipating her very own birthday since Christmas; we even had to put candles on our Easter cake and sing "Happy Easter to Grace."

Ashley started the big day at 7:45 a.m. with a treasure hunt and a makeover. She got Gracie dressed, did her hair in braid-buns and painted her nails. Here's Grace, happy to get $$ and a singing stuffed animal from Aunt Kerry.

She loved wearing her princess birthday hat and opening her Barbie Mariposa.
We had a birthday party at Grandma Knudsen's for everyone who'd had an August birthday, and Grace got her own mini Belle cake. She of course dressed for the occasion in her new Snow White dress-up and had her hair redone in curls.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRACE!!