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Treasure Teeth One Year Anniversary - ALOHA!

Derren's business, Treasured Teeth has been open 1 year this last September! To celebrate we held a luau for some of the people in our area who have helped build up Derren's business.

We made a real Imu (pit to roast a pit) and yes, had a whole pig butchered.

We had professional Polynesian performers,

and served real Polynesian food.

Plus, I made a super yummy pina colada cake. I know it's not Hawaiian, but it was was tasty!

Everything turned out perfectly thanks to the help we had from my mom, little sisters, little brother, and cute little teeny-tiny neices! Thanks guys for saving us!

My new hair cut...

All kids cut their hair at some point or another, all kids but Levi. Levi decided it would be more fun cutting my hair! The little stinker ran up behind me while I was sitting on the floor and quickly snipped the scissors shut. It's a good thing my hair is layered and his grip on my hair wasn't that big, or I might have been a little upset.

September 2009

As usual, we have been busy. Here are a few high-lights from September.

After living in our house and walking on a lawn full of thistles for four months we felt like it was time to have some grass. Both Levi and Chin Chin love it!



Mommy got to have a break this month. I went to Time Out for Women up in Logan, UT. Poor Josalyn got the flu again while we were visiting at Mom's house.

"Sheesh!"


Chin Chin took her first trip to the groomers, and we couldn't stop giggling about how cute she looked!

Later in the month we drove down to the Denver area for Uncle Ben and (now) Aunt Sarai's wedding. As an extra treat for the kids we visited the Denver Zoo with Grandma Tippets.

The kids were quite stylish at the zoo as the donned cute little hats.


Levi LOVED the monkeys! He went right up to the gorilla behind the glass, bent over with his little muscles flexed and growled out, "Hulk SMASH MONKEY!!!!" This kid is all boy! And yes, I know the monkey in the picture is not a gorilla. I was laughing to hard to get a good picture of the gorilla.

The biggest event of the month was Uncle Ben and Aunt Sarai's wedding. Sarai looked beautiful, Ben looked handsome, and everyone had a great time. We are all SO excited that Sarai is a part of our family now. Good job Uncle Benny!

Sarai's hair was gorgeous!


The Cox side of the family.
The Rayback side of the family.
The kids found their own ways to stay entertained during family picture time. Thank goodness the reception location had a great lawn out back.

And then...we danced the night away. Little Levi stole the show when he had a circle formed around him and had everyone clapping as he wiggled his little booty!
I had to make sure this picture was added.Grandpa and Grandma are such an inspiration and example of how good a marraige can be.



Grandpa Rayback and Adele.

Whew! What a month!

Congratulations Girls!

As an extra homeschool activity the girls entered the local banks, "Through the Eyes of A Child" photo contest. To our surprise all three of the girls won ribbons. Katey and Alyssa both won Honorable Mention ribbons, and our little Josalyn won 3rd place (and a savings bond) out of the whole competition! Josy's picture was picked out of about 150 photos. YEAH GIRLS!!!

Josalyn's prize winning photo of a soccer statue in our field

Alyssa's photo of Chin Chin

Katey's photo of Levi kissing a statue outside Town Hall

A gust of August...

Whew! Is anyone else wondering where this summer has gone to? If time keeps moving at this rate, I'm going to be 75 before I know it.

Derren and I began Aug. with an over-night fishing trip. Our party caught 50 fish. I know that sounds sissy-ish to my Alaskan friends, but I'm pretty proud of the bunch we captured.





One of the high-lights of this month was when Andrea (a.k.a. Emmett) Oliver came up to visit. The kiddos loved her and I had fun taking a stroll down memory lane with her. Andrea and I sure had some good times together.


Shortly after Andrea left, Josalyn decided to cut her own bangs, and for some reason I decided now would be a good time to treat Josalyn to a hair cut at the "beauty shop." I think the final results are pretty cute.

This month we studied ancient New Zealand history in homeschool. The girls decorated themselves like Maori warriors.


Yesterday, we returned home from UT. While we were in UT we visited the Taylors, went to the Salt Lake Parade of Homes, were able to see Uncle Benny, stayed over at Mom's, and met little Baby Reagan for the first time.

Everyone agrees that Reagan is very VERY cute!


As you can see, Katey took most of the pictures at the Parade of Homes.

Uncle Benny flew in for the fun, and made it just in time to see all the kiddos come down with a nasty case of food poisoning.
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