Another year, another chance for Ashton to run in the Shamrock. This year he has insisted on wearing this goofy ass headband. He insists that it looks "freakin' cool."  Whatever. 

Kaiden decided she wanted to try out for Show Choir at school this year... on top of Panther Elite Chorus, District II Chorus, Sports, etc.  Show Choir is basically another name for Glee Club.  You have to be able to sing and dance.  She made it.  She freaking made it... and not only made it, was chosen as the lead girl.  This is hilarious to me.  ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS.  I cannot wait to see the final performance.  Should be THRILLING!  They will be performing a montage from the movie "Footloose."

Umpa Tim (uncle extrordinaire and the kid's Godfather) was an audience member at Jimmy Kimmel Live and was chosen to play in an audience game show. He won $200 and some pretty amazing street cred!  We LOVE LOVE LOVE Umpa Tim!!!

Todd has worked his ass off on our house this summer.  He ordered us all new siding, soffit, gutters, metal for the windows, etc. He ripped all the old gross wood off the house and he, along with the help of my brother and some of the people that work with and for Todd, he made our house look amazing.

It looks absolutely amazing and I am so beyond grateful for how hard he worked on this project.  It was NOT EASY.  It is not completely done, but it is about 90% there.  We need to replace a vent over the garage, paint the front porch, finish wrapping the windows/door frames in metal... but the HUGE task of siding, soffit, and all new gutters is finally complete.

And he hung up our super cute new light fixtures and my new address sign. I cannot even put into words how happy I am with all he did.  HE IS THE BEES KNEES!!!