How cute is this?

Em lost a tooth today at school and this is the letter she wrote to the tooth fairy (she is a little long-winded, you've been warned). Here is the translation:

to the tooth fairy
I have been wating to loose this tooth so here it is. It's been wiggly for about a month. So it is my verey first tooth I have lost at school and my verey frst tooth that I have poled out by my self. So today at shcool it was rilly wiggley and so it started to blead. and I got a cleanex and I wiggled it and then I looked at it and it was out. and then I taped on my friend and she looked at it and she qigley raised her hand and my teacher said did it come out and I nodded yes. So everyone was trying to see it and nathan R. helped me get a bag to put it in. So I was rilly exsited to loose this tooth. so pleas right me back a note if you can and I hope you leave me something good

love Emily!

Notice how the exclamation mark has a tooth? She cracks me up.

A great Easter...

This was a fun Easter. The kids' "requests" were pretty simple - all Ryan wanted was a non clip-on tie and he was thrilled with what he got. I've never seen him so excited to get ready for church. It's huge, but he didn't care. All Emily wanted was a hollow chocolate bunny. Success!
We also colored eggs with cousins. It was a fun weekend.

Wishing I could freeze time...

Sunday drive...

We took a little drive up the canyon tonight and saw some great winter scenery. Does anyone know what the swimming animal is in the middle shot? Ryan says badger, I say beaver, Em says otter. It was probably a duck. This is a beautiful time of year!