Hi.

Wow. Time for my semi-monthly repenting and to regale you with all the thrilling things the Warners have been up to. Because we are always involved in a multitude of exciting, monumental things. Of that you can be sure. We've all been accomplishing great things with our lives. Here's a quick rundown, to spare you a novel.

-We celebrated Father's Day. I love my dads and Jessie, but due to my laziness and lack of preparation, they do not get their own post. Or pictures. But let's face it, our moms are better looking anyway. But I love my dad, Jessie's dad, and Jessie for being brave enough to have children. Maybe I'll extol their virtues another time. Just know they are awesome. Really awesome. So awesome that if I tried to explain their awesomeness I'd have to kill you.

-Madeline discovered our smoke detectors. At ten o'clock at night. They freaked her out and made her want to sleep in our bed. But after a lot of heart to heart conversations, she is now excited to point out every smoke detector in our house. If you ask her about them, she will probably tell you something like this: "There is a smoke detector! Madeline is scared of smoke detectors. We put a sticker on the smoke detector so Madeline can be brave. They are good. They help us. It is smoky and then the smoke detector goes BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! And we put out the fire!" We are so proud and fire educated around here.

-Kimberly got cranky. Then she got a tooth. Now she's only half cranky. We're thinking maybe another tooth is coming. And she finally learned to take a bottle, and there was great rejoicing in the land. And she's starting to get mobile. Scooting, reaching, climbing. She has yet to regularly roll over, but we're thinking maybe that's just because she's a freak of nature. We love her anyway.

-We went to Lehi's Grand Parade. Not sure why we hadn't ever done this before, except that I thought Lehi Days were exclusively about rodeos and I was trying to avoid being sucked into the cowboy mania. But apparently there's a lot to Rodeo Days besides rodeos. Madeline loved the whole experience. She loved getting candy, seeing bands, "princesses", horses, motorcycles, and all other parade fanfare. Kimberly enjoyed sitting in a chair and chewing on candy. (Through the wrapper. I am not a complete failure as a mother.) Madeline even got to take a pony ride and gleefully eat the nastiest snow cone ever. Successful outing.

We probably did other stuff. I can't remember. Blame it on the heat. Just wanted to let you know we're all alive and kicking and stuff. And ready for more summer festivities. Let the fun times roll.