a lost tooth, a bit of painting and some sad news.

Another week has passed and October is almost over! Where does the time go? This morning we went for a bike ride with shorts and tees and by the end we were all sweaty and tired. When we go into the house and drank cold glasses of ice water, Luke said, "It sure feels like summer out there!" And it does. It's hard to get excited for Halloween when you'd rather jump in swimming pool, ya know?

Lukey had an exciting weekend... he lost his first tooth!. I have been saying for about a week now that it's ready to come out.. and it finally did in the middle of Sacrament meeting! There we were, sitting all nicely and reverently in church when it decided to pop out. We were laughing pretty hard because we didn't have a place to put it or a kleenex for Luke's bloody mouth. Aaron ended up putting it in a Sacrament cup and keeping it in his pocket.

Luke has a cute hole in his smile and I have a feeling tooth #2 will quickly follow suit. I was told that babies who get teeth early are quicker to lose them, but children who get their teeth late, lose them late. This was definitely true for Ben. He had four teeth at four months old and lost a mouthful in his 5th year. Luke on the other hand, didn't get teeth until he was a toddler. Seriously, he was probably 14 months old before his first teeth popped through, but he is losing them at the same time that Ben did. So that theory was proven wrong by our boys... FYI, I heard a cool trick to pulling out teeth is putting baby Oragel on the gum before you pull. Pretty tricky. We obviously weren't using it during church, but may need to apply it to get #2 out.

Anyway, our house has been CRAZY the past few days. Our guest room has literally been a revolving door with people coming in and out. I decided to get it painted before the REALLY crazy Holiday visiting time. I bought the green paint that I wanted, but when I painted it on the walls it was so drab and ugly.. much darker than I wanted. Instead of going out and buying a new color, I decided to mix my own up. I added a bit of mustard orange-ish color with some lighter tan and got the perfect army colored green. I am very happy with how it turned out. The only problem I had was that I didn't mix enough paint for the whole room! Aaron was teasing me that I would never be able to match the color, but I did.. without any problems. I asked him to tell where the old color ended and the new color started and he couldn't find it... so I was quite proud. Again, I kinda forgot to take before pictures, so here are a few in the middle of the process..

and the aftermath...

Last but NOT LEAST. While I was uploading pictures for this post, I received some very sad news... Jessie Cline, a dear friend of mine, was killed yesterday in a fatal car accident. He was driving with three other people when his car was struck by a drunk driver. He died Sunday, Oct. 19th. The funeral will be on Thursday morning in Oregon (where his parents live.) I have picture and more information to post, but for now, here are a couple of newspaper articles reporting the crash.

http://www.katu.com/news/local/31255124.html

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008285812_weboregoncrash.html?syndication=rss