tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752795873185257912024-03-05T02:07:38.802-08:00The Pyper Familyhome to all things pyperThe Pyper Famhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05830502591580033430noreply@blogger.comBlogger857125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-875279587318525791.post-71665783569989719802019-04-13T00:04:00.000-07:002019-04-13T00:04:55.789-07:00Long time no blog...Jackson in Spring Baseball...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Someone started baseball for the first time ever; and loved every minute of it. I am so glad we decided to put him in baseball this early. I was told with Tucker to wait and I know once he started, he always felt that the other kids were so much better than him. They really just learned the basics today and I forgot that you really have to start from square one and just tell them how to hit, throw and where to run even!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTthBC7WQ4s6Ixh476ohdx58m7fdq0IqpKHFNLx1qbLaTao7aHSO1absvPFxY0u0lTYRiI9wKP1eZyG_zwq1IahCTWvq-l2qMxPIliWyuQz42ffY5MvUCrdAp4VxUgiRB5t-mVYUDwtBE/s1600/wGadduGlTVy%252BcwMT0LzuqA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTthBC7WQ4s6Ixh476ohdx58m7fdq0IqpKHFNLx1qbLaTao7aHSO1absvPFxY0u0lTYRiI9wKP1eZyG_zwq1IahCTWvq-l2qMxPIliWyuQz42ffY5MvUCrdAp4VxUgiRB5t-mVYUDwtBE/s320/wGadduGlTVy%252BcwMT0LzuqA.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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Jackson's coach is Steve Raab, his buddy Blake's dad and he was so good with the boys. Like really good! I feel really fortunate that he is so invested in teaching these boys a thing or two.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLkvIU6Jne2n_oXcOTQxZokzTmAh6Z94hUqnJXhBErBNrtbxpMyKV6x4nUBjxqpejm7mTuFft3KHAm1L2W_KGq9nG-z1jHIxrtxuXLKZl1A_bur6CZJtjnwvbsYGI8zO0c39aNbMEfg7Q/s1600/Ysw6ia4CSO%252BUkgybFzs9jg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLkvIU6Jne2n_oXcOTQxZokzTmAh6Z94hUqnJXhBErBNrtbxpMyKV6x4nUBjxqpejm7mTuFft3KHAm1L2W_KGq9nG-z1jHIxrtxuXLKZl1A_bur6CZJtjnwvbsYGI8zO0c39aNbMEfg7Q/s320/Ysw6ia4CSO%252BUkgybFzs9jg.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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There, of course, was a lot of playing, too. You have to with boys at this age! :)<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigddLzCYjAJVsEnsDdMckA1jKK0IVTogX3HeJvsuIPc1UlfGRyLXD2YT7vBxX7kXAak-TWaml7yp6zV9nM3g0pj2-_WTRt7uRsgriK5yfqN4DMU4FTnBvgKbAc5o-CfS3HTNMaW_O-u5Q/s1600/8FBHjUOtRLGMM%2525LHxItyug.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigddLzCYjAJVsEnsDdMckA1jKK0IVTogX3HeJvsuIPc1UlfGRyLXD2YT7vBxX7kXAak-TWaml7yp6zV9nM3g0pj2-_WTRt7uRsgriK5yfqN4DMU4FTnBvgKbAc5o-CfS3HTNMaW_O-u5Q/s320/8FBHjUOtRLGMM%2525LHxItyug.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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Taylor even got to get in on the action and play catch with him for a bit. Parents and siblings were invited to play with the boys. It was a lot of fun! Made me totally wish we had done this with Tucker.</div>
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Practice was at Morningside Park and it was so fun to run into so many friends while we were up there. Tucker has been begging for years to move up there because he is so social, and wants to be close to his friends; and being up there and seeing so many friends made me really consider it tonight, I love the community feel!</div>
<br />The Pyper Famhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05830502591580033430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-875279587318525791.post-18993446266175828812016-04-09T09:53:00.000-07:002016-12-28T21:11:59.833-08:00On the road again...<div style="text-align: center;">
The very next weekend, we headed down to Milton-Freewater for Stormee's baby shower. I always love going to Milton-Freewater because it brings back so many childhood memories.</div>
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This guy was being a stinker the whole way. Man, I don't know what I'm going to do with him. I love him so much but he is BAD. He laughs when he gets punished and he does things exactly the opposite of what he knows that I want him to do. </div>
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Also, the weather decided to get REALLY hot the day we left so I had to turn on my AC for the first time of the year. Of course, when I turn it on, it doesn't work. And it was 78 degrees! We had to ride the whole 3 hours with awful heat in our van. It was a nightmare. </div>
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We finally got to M-F and met grandma at McDonalds to have some nice cold Ice cream cones after being in a heater for three hours.</div>
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Grandma took the kids for a few hours so I could immediately go meet Stormee for her Maternity photo shoot. Grandma took the kids to the park while I was gone and I found out after that they did some fishing with a random guy named 'Lebron James'! haha</div>
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My mom took these pictures and I was a little concerned that this man was helping my child so closely fish in this random nasty pond.</div>
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But Tucker caught a fish and he was SOOOO excited! Totally legit way of fishing, too with a stick and a string and all!! :)</div>
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Meanwhile, this is what I was doing....</div>
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Ben thought that this maternity outfit was totally ridiculous; I thought it was fun and I've seen a lot worse. He's not used to seeing things like this. Anyway, I thought Stormee looked beautiful. It was just fun to spend the evening with Jr, Lisa, Stormee,Trinidy, Larissa, Allee and Shalisse.</div>
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They were all there and we were having a great time at Lisa's parents house in their orchard taking the pictures, but I did notice that one MAJOR person wasn't there, Nick. </div>
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Anyway, Lisa told me later that Nick and Stormee were seperated, that Stormee kicked him out just the week before. He was totally abusive and had threatened to kill her and all this nasty stuff. I felt so bad for her. I mean, not surprising, but just sad. This time of her life should be happy for her, and I could tell she was just sad.</div>
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Anyway, we took that little fish back to Scott and Kathy's and Papa and Uncle Scott taught them how to gut a fish. They were pretty impressed....haha!</div>
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The plan was to fry up those fish, but then Kathy told us that the fish from that pond are so dirty they shouldn't be touched. So, we quickly threw that thing away and Tucker totally understood! :)</div>
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The kids love Uncle Scott so much. Uncle Scott and Tucker always stay up late and eat ice cream together when we stay there. Tucker looks forward to it every time. We had a nice relaxing morning and Stormee's shower was in the afternoon. </div>
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Stormee's shower was so nice, it was at the Walla Walla Country club and it was so nice. Larissa, Lisa, Shalisse, Allee, Storm and Trin are so fun. I rode over with Kathy and Kathryn and we had a great time. They made me drive my dads truck and that was an adventure. :)</div>
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Me, Stormee, Kathy and Kathryn; just some Campbell girls...</div>
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Stormee & Kathy...</div>
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And Stormee with her two grandmas:</div>
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And cute Trinidy and Aunt Kathy...</div>
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And that's really when when the shit hit the fan, so to speak. The rest of the weekend kind of sucked. My mom watched the kids again while I was at the shower, and after I called her to see where we could meet up so I could get the kids back. Also....on a side note; Mr. Kramer had told Tucker that he should go to 'the Modern' for dinner while we were there. He said he used to go there as a kid with his grandparents. And it was so crazy because as soon as he said he wanted to go there and what Mr. Kramer had told him, I had the exact same memory from when I was a kid. We used to go to the Modern with my grandparents when I was a kid for like birthday's and such. Anyway, my mom kept on telling Tucker that she would take him and we had decided on Saturday night. So, after the shower I called my mom to tell her we were done and she tells me that she wants to take the kids to Randy Michelle's house for a BBQ. WOW. Long Long story short. I was infuriated. I didn't even know if I was invited, I felt like I was put in a really awkward place and that she knew about this BBQ all along and was just stringing us along telling us about going to the Modern. So, I told her that but she was already on her way to the BBQ, and so the kids went, and I didn't really have a say. The BBQ started at 6:30 and it was 6 and they were on their way already, so we decided that she would stay there until 7 and we would meet then at The Modern. I really didn't care about going to the Modern, I was just pissed that she railroaded me. I went into the weekend really wanting to be ok with her life and wanting to be open to being a part of her and her husbands like and maybe getting to know him, but after this weekend, I realized that I need more time to digest everything (even though it's been years)! </div>
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Anyway, we had to get a picture with the sign to show Mr. Kramer. And luckily the kids still had a great time doing whatever, and they were clueless about anything going on.</div>
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They ended up spending the night with grandma that night because it was already arranged, but I think that in the future, I will just keep these guys with me when we're in M-F. </div>
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But we did meet up with everyone and go to the Maple Counter in Walla Walla, and it was really good!</div>
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The whole gang: Jr. Kathryn, Dad, Kara, Tucker, Scott, Kathy, Jackson, Mom and Taylor:</div>
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The next week was half days for conferences for the week before Spring break. Which, by the way, I hate! It just is such a hassle having to plan around half days and entertain the kids for half days knowing that spring break is the very next week! But anyway, the week was full of this naked boy. He had to wear that hat all day long this week. It was so cute. And, of course, always shaking his booty.</div>
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He is so fun! I love having him be my little buddy all day. He is just so funny; he does his own thing, in his own way and just chats and chats all the while.</div>
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I just love that naked booty!</div>
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T&T also had a dr. appointments. Can't believe that these boys are both so big. Every time I walk into the 'Valley Little People's Clinic' I think of Tucker when he was a newborn and I had no clue what the heck I was doing and I always had so many questions and concerns about his growth. Now, we go in, and Dr. Simmerman is like family and things are usually really good and easy. I am lucky to have happy and healthy kids! </div>
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On Tuesday we had Morgan and Jason come to Sky High with us. They didn't open until like 1 or 1:30 or something, so we had to kill some time. I took the kids to McDonalds to get ice cream cones....these children don't know how good they have it.</div>
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Cute Morgan and Taylor:</div>
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We met up with Tristan and her girls there. So we all had good friends! :)</div>
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Jackson, of course, found the basketball hoop right away. The boy is OBSESSED with basketball!</div>
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This boy just wanted to play pool the whole time. Stinker kept on asking me for moneys! :)</div>
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My cute little athletic lady. She loves her athletic clothes these days and I had to get a pic. </div>
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And I had a few more mornings to hang with this child:</div>
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This is what our mornings look like a lot of the time. Playing with the selfie stick:</div>
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This is also a common view for me these days. I love listening to Tucker play the piano and I love that he loves to play it. Now we just need to get a better piano!</div>
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And this is what your laundry looks like when you own your own business:</div>
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So...mother of the year award. On Tuesday when we went to Sky High was the day of Tucker's parent teacher conference with Mr. Kramer! I was stuck downtown with extra kids. I'm so dumb! So, I had to cancel and I'm sure he wants to call CPS on us! On Thursday I went in with the kids for Taylor's conference with Mrs. Beschta and I was going to sneak in after real quick to talk to Mr. Kramer, but he was with a parent the whole time. Anyway, while we were at the school, Taylor was so proud of her artwork that was on the wall, so she had to get a pic with it. </div>
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Luckily my two smarty pants had great meetings. Well, one great meeting, and Mr. Kramer and I ended up just emailing, because he said that would be fine with Tucker because he's doing just fine. Lucky I got two good, smart, happy and pleasant kids. Their teachers love them and know them and appreciate them and that makes me so happy! So, Ice cream it was!</div>
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Thursday was a full day because I also grabbed this guy real quick and took some pics of him for his Eagle Scout Court of Honor Invite. It was a quick half hour session up at camp Caro. It was quick and easy and they turned out great! Max Skidmore is one of Tanner Christensen's good friends and his mom Shannan just wanted pics like Tanners and didn't want it to be a big fuss.</div>
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Also on Thursday night, after the photoshoot, this started: </div>
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Taylor was so excited! And so was I, it meant that we can finally get outside again and the spring is upon us! I sure do love Taylor's soccer coach and that she has found a little team. I guess coach Jeff is going to get back surgery, he messed it up during Christmas break, and so Brenda, Ali's mom is going to be the coach this season. She is awesome though, so it should be a great season. It was fun sitting and chatting with Tristen and Malia again! :)</div>
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We woke up on Easter day and the Easter Bunny had come. yay! :) I think what I'm going to do in the future is do all the bunny/eastery things on the Saturday before. Then Sunday can focus on the real meaning of Easter and the Savior. But for this year, we were all about the bunny in the morning.</div>
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Since we hadn't even dyed eggs yet for the season, we did that Sunday before church. </div>
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The cuties before church in their Easter finest. Jackson and Taylor insisted on wearing their hats and I thought it was so cute! :)</div>
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This is what picture time really looks like...</div>
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We had a wonderful Sunday at church and just a nice relaxing afternoon. I love Sunday's where we have something to ponder and focus on. Dad and Kathryn joined us that night for a delicious Easter dinner. It's always a blast when they come over, we are always laughing and they are always loving on us, so it's a win-win, really! :)</div>
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These guys sure are a lot of work, but a lot of fun, too! And I just love them so much!</div>
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And we ended the wonderful day with the Easter cake I made. Taylor helped me decorate it with the bunnies and M&M's. I sure do love this side kick of mine. Happy Easter Ya'll; I love this time to focus on the last week of the Saviors life and his resurrection! How lucky I am!</div>
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We got home from Portland and I realized I hadn't even gotten any Easter or Spring decorations out. I am usually all over things like this, but I tell you, this year I suck! I don't know what my problem is, I am just lagging in all the extra little things that I usually love doing. Let's hope my motivation returns sometime here!<img alt="20160321_142929" height="360" src="https://c7.staticflickr.com/8/7080/27292227262_8980365208_z.jpg" width="640" /></div>
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I only had one week to get done all of the Eastery things that I had planned and that I usually do. We did an Easter Egg craft on Monday night for FHE...</div>
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Oh my gosh, look at that face! He is so cute. I just love this stage he is in right now. He is getting so chatty and just fun to be with all the time. Everything is exciting right now and he wants to everything himself.</div>
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We did our weekly McDonalds lunch with our friends. It's really the only thing we can do in Spokane this winter. Jackson made himself this really cool long straw by putting all the straws together. I was impressed with his creativity! :) ha ha</div>
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I did want to focus on Christ more this year so, I've been reading these two books about Christ Center Easter celebrations. They were so good, and I loved reading all about the last week of Christ's life. There are also activities, that I will be more prepared to do next year with the kids and as a family.</div>
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Anyway, the rest of the week was pretty norm. We did our weekly McDonalds lunch date with friends, where Jackson made this awesome straw tube. So proud of him. </div>
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Funny story about the nails. I had gotten gel nails done for the wedding, and was showing them off and bragging to the girls about how wonderful they are and how long they last. As soon as I got home I looked down and one was gone! I was dying, so I had to share! </div>
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The adventures I have with this boy every day are so fun. I just love this time I have one on one with him. He is always talking to me and laughing with me. </div>
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And getting into things... getting into things....all...the...time....</div>
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I was pretty proud of these little snacks I made for Tucker one day. He's also been into making gourmet snacks and always experimenting in the kitchen. He's on a BLT kick like all.the.time. So, we did a little play on them...</div>
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Somehow I got roped into doing the Relief Society skit with my friends from the Evergreen Ward. The theme was something about shoes through time and so Janette and Mariane made a skit and dance. Janette is the choreographer and Marianne is so creative and funny, she made it like a Bill and Ted's excellent adventure thing with pioneer ladies and they go to every era and we did a dance at every era from that particular era. It was so fun. It was a lot of work, meeting for a few weeks before then but so fun, I loved meeting with my girlies every week. Here are Marianne and I backstage during one of our changing times. We had this awesome dances choreographed and it was just fun! So different from what I've been used to for the past 4 years in the Spanish Branch.</div>
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70's theme. These ladies are so fun!</div>
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And here are the 80's: {Man, I love these girls}</div>
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After the RS Anniversary party, we decided to have Marianne run through this awesome sign to celebrate that it was over, and I was supposed to video it, but I accidentally didn't and got these pics. </div>
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Since we had worked so hard on this RS project, we decided that we deserved a girls night out. Of course, it was wonderful and I believe it was even karaoke night, so there may have been some Celine Dion, Mama Mia and Total eclipse of the heart. And of course, there was a Maverick stop in there, too.</div>
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Just wanted to document it that this is what the house looked like when I got home. I love my husband so much and appreciate that he lets me go out with my ladies; but really!?! :)</div>
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For Young Women's this week we decided to Easter egg bomb some members in our branch. We went out to the Burleson's in Post Falls and then to the Wiberg's in Liberty Lake. We were going to go to the Zavala's in Rathdrum, but we got a late start, because the girls spent too much time making these eggs. But they were really cute. I had also found a great quote from one of the books. The girls had a blast, (except when we ended the night meeting at the Fred Meyer parking lot meeting Lacey Lopez who was a little bit pissed that we were late--oops!)</div>
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Friday afternoon we met up with Carmen and the girls to go to this little Easter celebration at one of Jared's nursing homes. Jackson was enjoying the Wiberg back yard...</div>
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It was so cute, this little nursing home was all decked out with all these activities, go fish, egg drop, face painting, cake walk and a magician and lots of carnival types of food. The kids were in hog heaven!</div>
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I can't remember if this was Jackon's first time or not, but he wasn't sure about this whole face painting thing! :)</div>
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He got a dinosaur and Taylor became a bunny...</div>
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So, that Friday night I had a girls date with my lady friends to go see a play at Hannah's church. Her husband Justin was in it and it was a depiction of the last week of Christ's life...</div>
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Oh how I love these ladies! And I love that I got to see Grace perform! :) It was a really good play and I was happy to be there supporting Hannah, it was just a bit odd coming from a non-mormon perspective. The last supper wasn't even depicted, the part of the woman crying and washing Christ's feel with her hair was very sexual and erotic and was like the longest scene. And the crowing moment of the play was when the spotlight was on Christ hanging on the cross all bloody for like a half hour, and just very little mention of the resurrection. It was odd, and I tried to go in with a great attitude, but I just couldn't feel the spirit and I couldn't help but laugh about a lot of the events. </div>
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After the show, Jesus was walking around like Mr. Rico Suave celebrity. It was hilarious, Marianne, Dori and I wanted so badly to ask him for a picture, but we chickened out. These sneaky pics are all we could get. Hannah told us that he grows his beard out and gets hair plugs a few months before this production just so he can play Jesus. And he walks around like he's the real thing! :) ha ha</div>
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Anyway, it was a lame Saturday before Easter. And I meant to take the kids to the Evergreen ward's annual Easter egg hunt that is really big. We went to it last year. There were also a few other egg hunts at local church's that I was planning on taking them to, and then the day game and we just hung out a home and had our own egg hunts. They had fun that day, but the next day when they asked me when we were going to go to a real egg hunt and I told them that what we had done on Saturday was it, they were just a little disappointed!</div>
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While we were out there in the back yard I noticed that we have some beautiful flowers coming up, finally! Woo-hoo!</div>
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That Saturday night I went with Meg and Avery to the General RS broadcast at the stake center. It was so nice and it was uplifting and so great to be with wonderful women and friends in the stake. On our way out, I looked over at the temple and it just looked so beautiful! The picture doesn't do it justice! It was a great ending to a great week of thinking about and remembering my Savior. </div>
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Sadly, Sunday morning we had to head home. We were thinking of staying another day, but Ben had to get home to get to work. </div>
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Of course, little man was his grandma's shadow all weekend long and loved having her here with us all weekend long.</div>
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We did head out to the OMSI on our way out. And I thought I had been there recently, but apparently it had been awhile because I didn't remember the place at all. It is so cool!!!</div>
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And, as you can see, this little man thought it was pretty cool, too!</div>
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And there was another little man that thought it was pretty cool:</div>
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It was a long day for this mama, and I had started eating the kids snacks. I opened up one of the Wal-Mart fruit snacks and it was like the heavens were smiling down on me and gave me a little treat to get me the rest of the day! :) ha ha.</div>
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And, of course, out of all of the attractions at the OMSI, this girl found stuffed animals and collected all of the foxes. I just don't know what I'm going to do with this little lady. She is OBSESSED with animals.</div>
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It was a fun family day at the OMSI and it was actually a pretty quick trip home. Minus the fact that Jackson threw up in his car seat right outside of Hood River and it was so bad that instead of trying to clean it all, we stopped at a gas station and asked them for one of those big black garbage bags and put it in the bag and we threw it in the trunk. </div>
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Poor little man didn't have his car seat to fall asleep in, so he ended the trip like this:</div>
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The next day was Britanee and Brady's wedding. And it was so fun! I love the Portland temple, and I love being with the Walton's. I was the photographer, and it was a bit difficult just because I had never taken pics at the Portland Temple, but it was also fun and I just love that temple. Anyway, Brady's family was great and fun, so that was nice.</div>
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And here is the entire Walton clan and aunts & uncles. Ben and I went to the sealing while my mom stayed at the hotel with the kids. I wanted them to come to be with everyone, but it didn't work like that. Ben took off back to the hotel and I stayed to do pictures. Then they all met up with us later at the reception.</div>
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And this cute little Jayden girl was a little flower girl...</div>
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The Walton siblings:</div>
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And the spouses, looking all serious...</div>
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And my beautiful Aunt Sherri...</div>
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The beautiful Walton girls...</div>
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And then I got to do the couple's pics, and it was so fun, they are so cute. So, crazy thing; Britanee is 29 and Brady is 21 fresh off his mission. So she's totally a cougar! :) But Sherri says that they are both about 24 in the maturity department, haha! :)</div>
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The reception was at this cool building, it looked like it was at one point a church of some sort, but now is like an art gallery or something. It was a cool building.</div>
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And look at these cute little succulents were the party favors:</div>
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It was so fun, too. After the reception, our hotel was pretty close to the reception, so we took Jayden with us to come swimming and these girls had so much fun! Ryan and Lindsay stayed to help clean up and then they just swung by and picked her up a few hours later. </div>
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Jayden is the funniest thing ever and watching these two second cousins playing together made me so happy. They were like two little peas in a pod:</div>
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We got in on Thursday night and had all day Friday to play as a family. Best breakfast ever at the hotel before we left. Marriott did not disappoint. Seriously, build your own omelet and waffles etc. My sweet Taylor contemplating what she wanted to eat. Of course, we got as much food as we could!</div>
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And, of course, Tucker has to pester!</div>
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And now he has to calm himself with some meditation. And poor Jackson still has an awful haircut! :)</div>
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Our only activity on the docket for the day was the Oregon Zoo. The best zoo ever! We hadn't been here in forever, and I had forgotten how big and fun and beautiful it was! So Northwest, I love it!</div>
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And of course, we had to be bundled up in true Portland fashion. And, I do love it when grandma is with us because she is a great photographer and it is the only time I ever get pics with my little family.</div>
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To say that Jackson loved the animals would be an understatement. It was so cute and fun to be there with our little family.</div>
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And, of course, little man loved having his grandma with us. </div>
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I was happy to be the one to stand back and take pics. You know, animals aren't my thing! :)</div>
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There was a new carousel at the zoo that we had to test out. You know, they try and get you every which way they can!</div>
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The penguins were so much fun. They were playing and showing off for us.</div>
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The kids were just running around chasing the penguins.</div>
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So were the polar bears. They were being so much fun. It was a good zoo day.</div>
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Then Tucker got a hold of my phone and took some great pics...</div>
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I love the finger in this one! :)</div>
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The monkey's were so friendly, also!</div>
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I love how he feels he has to point out in the picture what he wants you to look at. :)</div>
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OK, the porcupines were so cool.</div>
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Taylor and I got to get a way for a bit and see some monkey's of our own. I sure do love this girl of mine.</div>
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This guy sure was interested in Tucker...</div>
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So, when Tucker was just a few years old we took Tucker to the Oregon zoo while we were down visiting my dad. We took a picture of him on my back. It's one of my favorites of him and I. I made him recreate this picture of the two of us! :) ha ha. He's just a little big bigger now. :) </div>
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When I got home from Portland, I put the two pictures together, and they were so cute. It's crazy to look at how he's changed and so weird to think that he was Jackson's age at this picture.</div>
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And then we took this silly pic. This is closer to what our photoshoot was like, since he is so big now.</div>
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We made it to the bats right during the time of their feeding. The kids thought that that was so cool.</div>
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These two sure love each other!</div>
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It was a long day at the zoo and we were definitely ready to head back to the hotel to do some swimming.</div>
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This guy was more interested in playing around with his brothers glasses.</div>
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I finally got him bathed and ready for bed and he again just wanted to play with the glasses.</div>
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On St. Patrick's day the fam bam headed down to Portland for Britanee's wedding. I was so excited to go on a little road trip with the whole family. Ben doesn't get to go with us on many of these types of things, so having him come with us was so fun!</div>
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The drive between Spokane and Ritzville always has the best clouds and you know how I love me a good cloud picture!</div>
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We plugged into the Hoo-Too's and we were off. It was seriously the best and easiest trip ever! They each watched a movie and Ben and I got to enjoy our trip!</div>
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Oh, and I got me a new pair of shoes before we left and I love them so much that I had to get a pic with ma new kicks!</div>
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We stopped in Tri-cities to pick up grammy and she joined us for the rest of the trip. Family selfie...</div>
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Of course, Jackson had to grab the selfie stick and take a pic with grandma...</div>
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My handsome hubby...</div>
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Once we got to Portland we stopped at McMenamins for dinner. I had never even heard of it before and we didn't even plan it, but it's an Irish pub and it was St. Patricks day so there were Irish bagpipers walking around. And it was so much fun! The food, eh. But it was fun. And, Tucker threw up as soon as we walked through the doors, but I think that that's from traveling all day and he was starving, so it wasn't a great combo. Anyway, it also had just this cute little grassy area all around the restaurant and little lights strung and people chatting around a bonfire. It was very cute and quaint!</div>
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Oh man, do I love these people! We had such a fun trip together. We loved having grandma with us!</div>
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After, we went back to the hotel and got the kids all situated. It was so cute, Tucker was just telling them stories and they were just laughing and laughing at his stories and he would keep on going. It was really cute! I just love these kiddies of mine!</div>
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They just love each other so much!</div>
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For some strange reason, being sick last week made me motivated to get this kid out of his crib. He's ready for his freedom and I'm ready for him to have it! He's a good little sleeper, so why not, right? I just took off that side and just like that, he's a big boy! He LOVES it!</div>
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I hadn't seen Heather for a while, so we decided to give Taco Tuesday a try again. We went religiously every Tuesday last year for a good few months. Our favorite is the Taco Truck downtown right outside Sweet Frosting Cupcake shop. So, it's only natural that we get taco's and a cupcake. My favorite memory of doing this with Heather was a few years ago when I was helping her plan Madison's wedding. We were going to check out the mansion in Browne's addition that she wanted to have the reception at, and since we were driving right by downtown, we had to stop at our fav place! :) I think she had called me last minute to come with her, so I was still in my pj's. Well, my sweats and very UN fancy clothes. Jackson didn't even have any shoes on. But we stopped. So, I had to carry Jackson in the place. No biggie. But on the way out I had a box of cupcakes in one hand and my child in the other, and he was starting to slip. They were making fun of me because I wouldn't risk losing the cupcakes, but my very own flesh and blood was slowly sliding off my body! :) Luckily, he survived. Anyway....back to the present...Heather and I headed to our favorite joint. We may have decided to get the cupcakes first this time. he he... And while we were there, we noticed that they sell sandwiches now, so we just decided to do that, and we didn't do our taco truck. The sammy was SO good! I think we may have discovered a new favorite. :) Another funny story, is that Jackson didn't want a cupcake, and he wanted the macaroons. I asked the lady how much they cost, and I swear she said 69 cents. So, he wanted a variety of colors, so I let him choose a few, and I think he chose 5, and I figured he could share them with Taylor. I personally can't stand them, but I think he just liked the colors. Anyway, I go to check out, and it comes up to be a lot more than I had anticipated. So, I asked her again how much the macaroons were, and low and behold they are 2.25 a pop!!! So, Jackson got $12 worth of macaroons that day. Total waste! :( sad face. But it was a fun outing and so great to catch up with Heather. I love her so much!</div>
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That night, I had been asked by my friend in the Evergree ward, Sandy Ross to ask Nadia Appleton in our ward to see if she would come do a Zumba class for their young women. I knew that Nadia doesn't speak English at all, so I knew I was going to have to come and translate. So, I had to run out to Post Falls and pick up Nadia, because she also doesn't drive that distance, only around town, and bring her to the church and translate. It was actually really fun. It was long, and the kids were going crazy, but it was fun to watch Nadia in her element. She is SO good! It actually made me want to try Zumba. I had to snap a few pics. It was also fun to be with the Evergreen girls. I know so many of them from camp, and then of course, Avery was there and she is like my second daughter, so that was fun!</div>
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I also learned that the Cumbia is a dance that started in Colombia by the slaves, and so you'll notice that in the steps there is usually one leg lagging behind and that is because on the slaves, that was the leg that was in the shackle! Crazy, huh! </div>
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I kept on telling Taylor that we were heading to Milton-Freewater to see Aunt Kathy and Uncle Scott in a few weeks, and she was so excited, that she made them this card at school. I had to take a picture of it before she gave it to them. We are going down in a few weeks for Stormee's baby shower.</div>
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I am so glad I got this picture of Tucker's black pinewood derby car. It would be it's first and last. Ben and Tucker had been working on this thing for days. And it was sitting so nicely on our kitchen counter ready for the Pinewood Derby on Wednesday night when we got home from school that day. Then Ben got home from work early to help put the finishing touches on it before the derby. I'm not even exactly sure what went down, but somehow Ben did something as he was trying to make it better that actually ruined it. Whatever he did, he couldn't fix. Desperate since it was so last minute, and if we didn't get to the church soon, he wouldn't be able to weigh in, he grabbed his car from last year. LUCKILY Tucker has a great sense of humor about things like that, and while he was upset a little, I could tell, he was mostly giving his dad a hard time for ruining his car. He still had a fun night!</div>
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It was really funny, on their first race, the boys were asked to introduce their car, their inspiration, etc..whatever they wanted to say about their car. Tucker got up and said, something like, this is called my car from last year because my dad ruined my car this year! :) Everyone was laughing at that one!</div>
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And at the end, they each got an award. Tucker's award was 'Best Design' AKA...we are making these up for each kid, and this sounded good! :) ha ha. I'm just so glad that he has a great sense of humor and can take these kinds of set backs in stride. He really is such a great kid! And he still had a fun night and I'm super proud of him for that!</div>
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Next up is Portland! Woo-Hoo! We are heading out Friday to Portland for Britanee's wedding! SO excited to have a little getaway with our little fam!</div>
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Since grandma was in town and had to stay a few days extra for a Dr. appointment we decided to party. We spent a good part of Monday just recovering from the weekend. These two love to snuggle.</div>
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My cute little cheeser. Ben cut his hair this weekend and I was SO mad! It made me so sad. I loved my long haired boy!</div>
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We decided to take the kids to a movie on Monday afternoon because Tucker had been begging me to take him to Star Wars. We had wanted to go to it since Christmas Break and I figured it was high time. I was surprised that it was still in the theater. So, while I took Tucker to Star Wars, my mom took Jackson and Taylor and her friend Lyndsay. I even took Tucker out of school early to be able to go. And it was so fun. He loved it, and we had a great time together. I was glad to have this time with him. And it was so nice to have grandma here to take the littles to the kiddy movie. Lyndsay's mom had texted me to take her after school, and we were happy to have her join.</div>
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These cute kids were happy to be on a fun afternoon movie date with grandma and mama. </div>
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I didn't get a good photo of Tucker and I, and I tried to get one of the girls, and this was the best one I got! :)</div>
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I sure do love this boy of mine. And, like I put on Instagram: 'Because some days you just need to skip school and go to the Star Wars movie that your mom has been promising to take you to since Christmas break! Yes, it was both our first time seeing it, yes, we are the last people on the planet to FINALLY see it, yes, we had the theater to ourselves and yes, we both loved it!' </div>
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That afternoon we got to see Tay Tay do her thang at gymnastics. I love this girl so much. She is so good at gymnastics. She keeps her body tight and toes pointed, and I am so impressed at how far she's come in the last year, it's so amazing to me!</div>
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That night for FHE, grandma wanted to take us to Chuck E Cheese. Papa and Kathryn met us there and we had a great time. It's funny, because I was remembering when I would take Tucker to Chuck E Cheese at this age, and I would seriously take like 50 photos of him playing there. Poor third child. :) I did bust out my camera for a few good ones. The boy is obsessed with basketball and wanted to do this with grandma the entire time. Grandma didn't mind, and it was so cute to watch how excited he would get at making shots. </div>
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I love this boy so much!</div>
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Tuesday we took grandma to lunch at Cafe Rio. We were both in the mood for it, even though I hadn't been there in so long.</div>
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These two sure do love their grammie:</div>
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We also did a little shopping that afternoon. I do love me some shopping while my mama is in town! :)</div>
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Got some new kicks, and I was so happy! :)<br />
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Making some yummy Orange Chicken. Actually, grandma was the only one who really liked it. It wasn't my fave... I love how Jackson gets so emotional and excited about things. Even little things like stirring the chicken. His face says it all! :)<br />
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I don't know why this child insists on eating things out of their containers while on the ground or counter. He's like a little dog!!! Ugh! :)<br />
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Then we thought it would be fun to try a little science experiment that Grandma got us for Christmas. Making our own slime! It was fun!<br />
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Wednesday morning I woke up like any normal day and got to work on the house because it was destroyed from the weekend with grandma and the family here. And I started cleaning and cleaning. I noticed like half way through the day that I wasn't feeling so hot. My stomach would drop here and there and I wasn't interested in eating AT ALL! No big deal, I pushed through it.</div>
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On the way to pick up Tucker, I seriously thought I was going to have to pull over on the side of the road to puke. Luckily, I didn't. I puked right when I got home. Ugh! I spent the rest of the night puking and in bed! Ben came home early from work and we both skipped out on Youth that night, which I was actually sad about because we were going to the Mission home to talk to the Mission president and his wife.</div>
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Here are some treasures we found while cleaning up the house. I forgot Jackson had gotten this at a birthday party he went to while I was in Florida. I had put it away and we found it. It was actually pretty cute. He went to a dinosaur party and they got to bring home this Tupperware full of sand full of those little plastic dinosaurs to dig out. It entertained them while I was sick!</div>
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So, funny story...the next day I woke up feeling a lot better. I got up, got the kids out the door to school and started finishing cleaning up the house since I didn't get to all of it on Wednesday. I was cleaning toilets, and scrubbing floors and folding laundry. Jackson was in his diaper on my bed watching a show, I was just in an oversized sweatshirt of Ben's and after all that exertion, I kind of wore myself out. Probably around 11 or so I decided to just lay down and rest for a bit because I was feeling a little light headed. Totally didn't mean to fall asleep or anything, but I must have dozed off for a bit because I all of the sudden jolted awake and looked at the clock and it said 12:18. Since it was late start, Taylor gets out of school at 12:10. But I had it in my head that she got out at 12:15, probably because I just kind of always give myself 5 minutes, and think I'll be ok if I'm 5 minutes late. But in my head, that turned into 12:15, so I was thinking I had time to run to the school and get her. I grabbed Jackson, only in his diaper and I ran downstairs! No bra, no pants, no shoes. I hopped in the van and took off. I didn't have time to do anything because I knew I was already cutting it close. Well, of course, on my way there, my phone rings. It's the office. They have Taylor in the office. I said to her, oh, I'm so sorry I didn't think I was going to be that late! And she said to me, well, Kris, the duty, only had 3 minutes out there with them before she has to come in to help with lunch, so you should probably start planning on being here 5 minutes early rather than 5 minutes late! :) haha! I was dying! Lesson learned from the secretary! :) So....I had to turn around, go home to put some pants, a bra and some shoes on! :) Such a wonderful mother moment, I was so proud of myself! :) ha ha. I had to laugh about it, because what else can you do in those situation? right?!</div>
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On a side note, when I did hop in my car to get Taylor, Ben had left this on my seat in the van. Isn't this so sweet? He knows I love me some Cranberries, and they just came out with this new CD, Roses. I am so out of the loop on the music scene these days, but he is totally up to snuff on what's happening in the music world and good new (and old) music. What a sweetheart-I just love him!! :)</div>
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Also, something I have noticed since we moved in, but I don't know if it was the sickness and being stuck in the house, along with the deep cleaning mode I was in, but these light switches. I just don't understand why EVERY SINGLE ONE OF OUR ROOMS upstairs has to have a different type of light switch. Is this weird to anyone else? :) ha ha! So random!</div>
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Luckily, Thursday night I started feeling great, and I was ready to tackle playgroup the next day. Of course, it was at our house the week I get sick! :) So, I didn't prepare a lot, but they're three year olds, so I wasn't too concerned! :) Usually I just throw them downstairs for a bit and they have a great time! We did some St. Patrick day coloring pages and had yummy snacks. This picture cracks me up because Cambria refused to smile. She looks so sad and depressed, but she is so cute and sweet! :) All of these little cuties are so fun. It's been a fun year in playgroup, even if I do forget about it about half the the weeks! :) ha ha </div>
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We had George for a little extra time at our house while Dori had a Dr. appointment. It was so fun and the boys love each other so much. It was so cute, I just heard them saying 'cheers, cheers' over and over again. I looked down and they were cheering their drinks and then drinking over and over again. </div>
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Friday night was pretty low key. Ben went on a man date with Jared. I stayed home with these turds and we built ourselves a pretty freaking awesome little people city. I need to get down and play more. I played with Tucker every single day, all day. These poor two second and third children they have each other and I don't get down with them nearly enough! But I sure do love them!</div>
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I also taught Taylor the great art of friendship bracelets. Something that took up many a hours in my years of ages 10-15. It was fun to do it with Taylor and teach her. She is just like me in that sense, she loves anything crafty or creative.</div>
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Saturday night was date night. We were supposed to go to Laserquest with the Mortensens and DaBells, but Meg got a concussion that morning at dance practice. (Evergreen Ward's RS birthday dinner in March and they always do a dance skit. Janette was asked to put together a dance, and somehow I was roped into it. I was supposed to be at that dance practice that morning, but was skipping it in my bed sleeping...shh....don't tell. Anyway, her and Marianne bonked heads!) :) So, she wasn't up for the laserquest thing. We went downtown to MOD pizza which is totally yummy! Walked around Nordstroms for a bit, and ended the night at FroYo arm wrestling. It was totally fun and we are so lucky to have such great friends! :) Even doing the most casual thing like walking around Nordstroms is a GREAT time. Ben even got to sit next to a homeless person at MOD downtown! :) He sat down right next to him and mumbled to himself the whole time and even got up and walked out with us when we left, we all thought that he was maybe coming with us, but he went his own way. :)</div>
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These arm wrestling matches were pretty epic, I tell ya! :) I love our friends!</div>
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Sunday night Michelle Cartagena texted me these pictures from BYD at their house. I love our branch. I love the great people that we get to work with. Ben and I have to rotate who goes to BYD, most of the time it's him because Yulissa can usually always go and Jared most of the time can't. At least this time he got to play pool out of it! :) ha ha</div>
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This week was pretty run of the mill. Nothing too exciting, but the whole point of this blog is for my kids, to remind them one day that we had a great little life and to remind them of the fun things we did, even if they were mundane sometimes.</div>
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Monday night started with Family Home Evening. Since it is Leap Year, I decided it would be fun to do a little Leap Year time capsule thing. Not a total time capsule, but just like some questions and answers from our kids and put them in an envelope. It was pretty fun.</div>
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Here's is Ben helping Jackson fill out his form.</div>
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And we had to take a family selfie to put in there, too! :)</div>
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After that, and dinner, we roasted some marshmallows. I love hanging out with my little family. I want them to remember that we had fun together as a family.</div>
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This week at school was Dr. Seuss week to celebrate his birthday. The kids were encouraged to bring all their Dr. Seuss books to school and we realized that we have a lot of Dr. Seuss books, and I don't even think that this is all of them. I want them to remember that we loved to read together.</div>
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Tuesday was crazy socks day and we tried to get a shot before school.</div>
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Jackson always likes to help me get ready in the mornings...</div>
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I want them to remember we enjoyed the little things.</div>
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Tuesday night Ben and I went to the Dave Ramsey seminar and it was pretty good. I really enjoyed it more than I thought I would. We went with Kirt and Emily, and that is always a treat. :) Emily really enjoyed herself that night. Dave Ramsey was really good, I thought. And I want to remember a funny story. Dave was so inspiring that night that at the end of it, I was telling Ben that we should pay off our house soon. It is our only debt that we have left, and I asked Ben if he thought we could pay off our house in 5 years and be debt free. And he was like, YEA, we totally could, and I was like, ok, what do we have to do? All excited. And he said, well, the kids would have stop all of their extracurricular activities, like sports and piano etc... And I immediately responded, nope. no. not happening. He immediately started laughing at me and my response to that. We will one day be debt free and hopefully it will be soon.</div>
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I want my kids to know that we tried to be good with money and worked really hard to create a stable financial home for them.</div>
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Wednesday was Wacky Wednesday. We tried our best to make them as wacky as possible. </div>
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Jackson, of course, had to have her picture taken, too.</div>
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I love this stage with the kids where they enjoy doing the fun things like this. I want them to remember that I was a fun mom that encouraged things like this. </div>
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Wednesday night was Young Women's. Woo-Hoo! :) They made modest dresses out of random things. Tin Foil, Newspapers, Tissue Paper, etc... Kylah was the beautiful tin foil model.</div>
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The tin foil dress unfortunately ripped before the picture, but you can see it in the big ball there, but here were the others. I was so impressed with some of them, they were all beautiful!</div>
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I want them to remember that I magnified my callings, and worked hard at them.</div>
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Ben had had the Young Men at our house for their activity and I came home and casually went to work on something on my computer, and found this guy just hanging out right in front of me. I screamed so loud! It was a prank by my wonderful husband! He has to always keep me on my toes.</div>
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Thursday morning Papa stopped by to say hi and hang with Jacksy and I. We always love it when Papa comes to play. I want the kids to remember how fun it was to live close to Papa and the great time we always had when he visited and how lucky we are to have him close.</div>
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Then I tried to get things done around the house. Like fold laundry. But this little turd is my anti-helper. He is such a little stinker and purposefully gets in my way to impede my work. Sometimes I just have to stop and nibble on him he's so cute!</div>
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Sunrise had a guest author come in and read to them. I didn't even know who the guy was, or his books, but it inspired Taylor to come home and write her own book. No, we don't have a dog named Max, but this sure was a cute book. Tucker helped her with the words on each page. I just love my little creative girl.</div>
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Thursday night my mom got in town and we went to Kjersti's baby shower. She is having a little girl in May, I believe. She looked so cute pregnant, she is glowing. I just love the round pregnancy glow.</div>
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Cousins and aunts. Rachel came in for it, and Josett flew up all the way from Texas. All of us were going to Time Out for Women the next day, too! Taylor sure did love hanging out with the big girls all night. We stayed out way to late chatting. But it's just too fun to have fun cousins in town.</div>
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The Maughan ladies. All pregnant right now. KJ is 27 weeks, Josett is 17 weeks and Rachel announced that she was 7 weeks! :) So fun! I want my kids to remember what a wonderful family we have. Even extended family. And that I love them so very much!</div>
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Friday was Sunrise day and the kids were supposed to wear their sunrise gear. They looked too cute together to pass up a photo op.</div>
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Of course, Tucker always teasing Taylor...</div>
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And her just loving on him...</div>
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I love it when my mom is in town because I get to go into the kids school and I have someone to watch Jackson. I went to help in Tucker's class that morning, but also stopped into Taylor's class on my way to say hi. Her and Giles. Cute little buddies...</div>
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Of course, the one morning that I get to work in the class room, they are having a Dr. Seuss assembly. And the School Superintendent was there. The kids had won a chance to cover him in a Chocolate Sundae. So, that is what I got to do for an hour. Attend this wonderful assembly! :) ha ha. Wish I would have planned that better, not that elementary assemblies are awful or anything! :)</div>
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I did get to go to recess with this guy, though. And that totally made up for it. I got to play wall ball with him and his buddies, Nico, Kaden and Noah. It was so much fun and I could tell Tucker was in heaven having me there. I want them to remember that I tried to get into the classrooms as much as I could, and that they went to a pretty great elementary school and had wonderful teachers.</div>
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After Taylor was done with school, I picked up grandma and Jackson and we headed to Subway and brought Tucker some lunch. I love being able to visit him at lunchtime. We are kind of like a circus when we do this, but I have to remember that it's worth the hassle and work. </div>
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That night my mother and I got to go to Time Out for Women. I was REALLY skeptical about it. And am still not a HUGE fan. I feel like it's a way for these people to sell their items, and I question their sincerity, ya know. But it was fun and it was great to be together with my mommy, auntie and cousins. I love these women. </div>
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Friday night there was this speaker named Tim, who runs the operation for saving children involved in sex trafficking. It was a really neat story and a really great thing that he is doing. So, that was really cool. Also, funny story on Friday night, I was taking a picture with my friends, and my mom was taking it, and this random girl walked up to her and asked if we could give her a ride back to her hotel after the session that night. My mom looked at me and said, well, she drove...and I was just stunned. I didn't know what to say. I'm sure I just looked stunned. That's when my mom finally offered up the info that this girl was from her ward in Milton-Freewater, and knew her. It was just a funny situation because we were all just stunned and even my friends didn't know what to say or think. Anyway, it all worked out and we gave her a ride to her hotel after the session. I felt bad that I had a bad attitude, and maybe that's way I needed to go more. But, I still just didn't LOVE the whole idea of the conference.</div>
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The next morning we went back, and I was really not looking forward to being there at 9am. But we went back anyway, and a lady named Lisa Valentine Clark was speaking and I was really excited to see her, too. She is really funny and a 'Mormon mommy blogger/comedian' So, it was really good to hear her. </div>
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I looked over at my mom and Aunt Lorraine and couldn't help but laugh. These mother and aunties that I have are just too funny. My mom is writing all of her notes and checking her march Madness scores on her phone and my aunt is crocheting. They are just themselves no matter what! :) </div>
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Me and my mom had to take a selfie on our way out. We had to leave earlier than everyone else because I volunteered to work at the gymnastics meet that was at Taylor's gym. And Amarae was coming up to compete in it. </div>
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That afternoon my mom and I and Taylor headed to the gymnastics meet. It was so much fun to be there watching the older girls compete. They are so good. Taylor was awe struck. This was the first time I've ever been to a competition and since I was volunteering, I got to really figure out how they are run. </div>
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Amarae did so well!</div>
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She got 4th place over all and it was fun to see how these cute little cousins just picked right back up even though they hadn't seen each other in a while. I didn't realize how long gymnastics meets are, we were there for 2 hours! And this was only the session for the level 8's. There are sessions all weekend for levels 3-10!</div>
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Amarae did so well though, and it was fun to see her in her element. She got 4th overall, and that's pretty dang good!</div>
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Oh. My. Gosh. Amelia is such a crack up. She has us all in tears this weekend. She is hilarious. Her and Jackson together were even better. She would just say and do the cutest things and it's obvious that she is used to ruling the roost wherever she goes.</div>
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We were going for a picture of all the kids after the meet, and Josh and Tucker had the same idea at the same time, totally separately to photobomb my photo! The punks!</div>
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And, of course,Tucker wouldn't cooperate for a photo. As per usual.</div>
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To say that these kids were loud and excited to be together on the drive home would be an understatement! </div>
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We came over to our house after the meet, and Kjersti and Josett and Rachel and Uncle Brent and Aunt Lorraine met us there. It was fun that we were all together for the same weekend in Spokane and got to hang out together. I'm super sad that I didn't get a photo of all of us cousins together, but I did get one of these cute girls. These girls got along so well, and it was so fun to watch them be such cute little friends. It totally reminded me of me and Alicia when we were their age! </div>
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And Jackson just fell in love with Josh. We all love Josh, and Josh was so sweet with Jackson. </div>
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Of course, a cousin dance party had to happen!</div>
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Sunday morning, Janell had to go compete, she's in level 3 and I was just exhausted, so Ben went to church and the kids and I stayed at home to hang with our cousins. It was a really nice relaxing day. We were ALL really sad when they left that afternoon.</div>
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And here's one with me and my buddy Amelia. We became BFF's. I'm not looking the cutest, but man, that little Ameila is the cutest!</div>
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Life got right back in the swing of things with having to cook for the Blue and Gold Banquet THE DAY I GOT HOME! I got home on Tuesday around noon and Angie, Maria and I had been asked to be in charge of the food for the Blue and Gold. Angie had gone to the grocery store the day before and we cooked for like 4-5 hours that night! We made some delicious Barbacoa Chicken though, if I do say so myself! I am so lucky that I get to learn to cook from some of the best cooks I know! And I get to hang out with some pretty awesome ladies while I'm at it! :)</div>
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Taylor was such a great little helper that night. She ALWAYS wants to be in the kitchen with me! </div>
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I mean we're talking pounds and pounds of chicken here people! Those Hispanic people don't really know how to cook any other way!</div>
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The next night was the Blue and Gold Banquet and Juan performed. He is so awesome!</div>
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I had to get a pic of these besties. They love each other, and Ben even gave him a little smoochie to prove it! :)</div>
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Notice the only adult in the mix with all those kids....ha ha....only Ben!</div>
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After the Blue and Gold Banquet was over, I basically wanted to stay in my pj's for a few days and recover from all the traveling and cooking! :) ha ha. Luckily, I had a few days to just hang with these kids. Get the house cleaned and organized, get unpacked and back to reality.</div>
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I had to love on this boy as much as I could. My little bubba.</div>
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Taylor and I kind of obsessed over the Maroon 5 video SUGAR. Where they go around for the day and crash as many weddings as they can in one day. It is such a fun video and Taylor and I watched it on repeat for hours! :) It was so nice to just hang with the kids and enjoy them after being gone. </div>
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Taylor was so inspired by the performances that they put on at the weddings, she decided that she needed to put on her own performances. I love that about her. She gets so inspired and so creative. I just love her!</div>
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Friday was mustache day at school and Tucker wanted his to be like the guy on the PF Changs logo and Taylor wanted hers pink. So, they both got what they wanted. I'm just glad that they are both still in the stage where they want to do things like this.</div>
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Tucker is reading an almanac book that has a chapter about feng shui and Chinese traditions etc... One of them is about how it is good luck to put three pillows on your bed and then the animal of what ever the animal of your birth year is. We looked up all of our birth year animals and Tucker was adamant about making our beds just as such. </div>
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He was born in the year of the dog:</div>
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Taylor is the year of the tiger:</div>
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Our year was the year of the lamb:</div>
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He made sure all of us had good luck.</div>
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We had a few dance parties. I love these babies of mine. It was so nice to just be back with them. I really just wanted to hang out with them all day.</div>
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I also had to take some time to thank all my wonderful friends who helped watch my kids. I think I had a total of 9 friends helping me while I was gone. </div>
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Saturday night we went out to dinner with my dad and Kathryn to celebrate that we PAID OFF OUR LOAN TO HIM! WOO-HOO! We went to Cedars in CDA. It was such a fun night and I don't think I've laughed so hared in a LONG time! Of course, Ben had to hold my dad's hand for the pic. </div>
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Ben's thing with the kids is that after church he takes them home, and they love to ride in his truck with him after church. Well, this week after church, Ben let Jackson drive and so now, you know what he is going to expect after church every week! :)</div>
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The next day was FLORIDA!!! Woo-Hoo! So, people kept asking me how the whole Florida trip came about and so...let me start at the beginning. Last October after our ward Halloween party, we were all hanging out at our house. Me, Yulissa and Carmen. The idea of going to Florida was brought up to visit Ludi, our old Relief Society President who just retired to Florida with her husband, Cliff. Carmen's husband, Jared, and Ben were both there, and they both TOTALLY agreed to it. I don't think that they thought that it was going to really happen, so they were all about it. Well, the next week Ben went to Phoenix for work, and Carmen called me and said that she found good tickets and asked if she should get them. And I said YES!! I called Ben later that day and told him the tickets were bought and he, of course, thought he could have found a better deal, but he had to deal with it! :) ha ha. He had already said yes! As the months went by, I didn't think about it much and it didn't really seem real. Then it was here and it happened and it was so amazing! So...we headed out and of course, had to take a photo pre flight. I was feeling pretty embarrassed the week before, telling people that I was going to Florida. Like who gets to go to Florida for an extended weekend with no kids and just girl friends, ya know. I knew that it was good for me and it was a break I needed, but I felt guilty leaving, and especially because I pawned off my kids to a lot of my friends to get through Thursday, Friday and Monday. But it all worked out and my kids were well taken care of by my wonderful friends and husband and I got to go enjoy a weekend free of whining and pestering! :) It was heavenly! </div>
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These two ladies are the best! We had such a great time. Starting off with the flight. Well, this flight was wonderful up until the last 30 minutes or so landing in Denver. Denver, I tell you is cursed! I can not stand that airport or now the air above the airport. It was the worst turbulence any of us have ever been in. It was literally like a roller coaster. And the motion gave me a huge headache and we were all feeling sick and gross for the rest of the flight. But here we are, pre- nausea...</div>
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Anyway, we finally made it to Orlando at about midnight. And we were kind of punch drunk at that point and saw this guy sleeping in a box and we just couldn't figure it out! THEN we realized that he was fake and couldn't wrap our heads around it! :) ha ha</div>
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And FINALLY we were with Ludi! :) It was so much fun to see her finally. I forgot how fun she was and sweet and warm and loving! I just love all of these ladies so much!</div>
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That first night we stayed up until 4 am chatting!!!! It was so much fun! We were so hungry when we got into Orlando because we hadn't eaten in Denver because we all felt sick, so by the time we landed in Orlando we were starving and made Cliff take us to Taco bell at midnight. Little did we know that by the time we got to their house, an hour and a half away, she already had an entire meal ready for us, so of course, like most hispanic women, made us eat again! :) She played the piano for us, and we chatted and laughed and ate most of the night! And, being with 4 hispanic women, we had lots and lots of delicious food!</div>
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The trip was a good mix of relaxing time hanging out at their house and chilling and getting out and seeing fun things. The first day we slept in and stayed close and went to the Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge and went on a little boat tour. It was nice and short and close and free! :)</div>
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It was really pretty and swampy and we just floated through the everglades...</div>
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We were still all pretty exhausted and so just went back to the house and hung out a bit. Cliff made us a delicious steak dinner and we GORGED ourselves. But it was just such a wonderful evening. Perfect weather and great conversation. It was wonderful. Ludi's sister, Judith was visiting them for a few months and so we got to know her and hang out with her, too!</div>
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We went to bed early that night so that we could play hard the next day.</div>
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The next day we headed over to Daytona beach. Ludi packed hats for all of us, so we had to humor her and wear them for a photo! :) I love that woman! It wasn't the sit on the beach and bask in the sun type of weather. I didn't think that Florida ever DIDN'T have that weather (if that even makes sense). It was a little windy and still a comfortable 75 degrees. But the water was FREAKING cold! We had a delicious picnic lunch on the beach while Carmen and I tried to get a little sun. The others huddled under the umbrella's to stay in the shade. We were making fun of Yulissa for being a grandma.</div>
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My very first time in the Atlantic Ocean! Woo-Hoo!!!</div>
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Carmen and I sent a few pics to Jared and Ben together, and Ben had sent back a text asking where our topless pics were, and so we sent him back this one of Cliff being topless. It was pretty funny! It ended up being an inside joke all weekend.</div>
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So while I was playing on the beach, this was the picture that Ben sent back to me showing how his weekend was going. ha ha. Can't say that I was missing this. The kids yes, the whining and attitudes, NO! :)</div>
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Since it wasn't the greatest beachy weather, we decided to head north to St. Augustine. The oldest city in the US. On our way, we stopped and Cliff and Ludi bought us blizzards (they really treated us like their daughters all weekend) We also realized it was the year anniversary to the day of Yulissa's divorce being finalized. HALLELUJAH! We had to cheers to that and snap a pic. I am so glad that she isn't with that beast of a man anymore!</div>
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I thought St. Augustine was pretty cool. There is this old Castillo there from the Spain conquistadors. We brought along my selfie stick, and apparently I need some major help in using the thing. All of our pictures turned out like this: ha ha</div>
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Then we walked around cute downtown St. Augustine. It was so quaint and charming. I loved it. It was like the weather of a perfect summer evening here in Spokane and we just enjoyed window shopping and spending time together.</div>
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We passed this pizza place that claimed to be the 2nd best Pizza in the US according to some CNN report. We HAD to stop and try it and I'm so glad we did. Carmen was the driving force behind stopping, and we were unsure weather it was going to be worth the wait or not, but it TOTALLY was. It was seriously the best pizza I've ever had! We had to rub it our husbands faces that we were eating delicious pizza.</div>
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Apparently this is a bad word or saying that I was totally clueless about. They just stopped and had me take their picture. Ben had asked me before I left if I was going to feel left out because Ludi doesn't speak English very well at all, and I told him no, that I'd be fine with the Spanish that I know. But he was right. I didn't feel left out, but there were definitely more moments that I thought where I had to stop the conversation and make sure I was understanding everything! :)</div>
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Since it was an hour and a half to two hours back to their house that night, we decided to stay in and relax the next day since it was Sunday. Ludi, Carmen, Cliff and I went to a flea market the next day. Poor Yulissa, I didn't realize her migraines were so bad, but she was struggling with them all weekend, which I guess is a pretty common occurrence for her. I LOVE flea markets. I love trinkets and cheap jewelry. And boy did I find some. I came home with some treasures.</div>
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That afternoon, Cliff made us yet another delicious dinner. Shrimp fettuccine something or other. It was divine! We chatted and had a wonderful afternoon together. Ludi and Cliff have some friends who are looking to retire in Florida, in their community. So Cliff has been looking at houses for them. He really is the nicest guy! Anyway, we all wanted to go on the house tour, and so we all did. It was so fun! We just toured their neighborhood looking for houses, and looked at this one house on the inside. Cliff introduced us as his daughters. He never had any kids of his own, but he is the sweetest old man, we all just fell in love with him!</div>
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Yulissa, for some reason packed like 50 coats to go to FLORIDA!!! We were all laughing at her. I mean, I thought I was an over packer, I am an over packer, she is a great packer, with everything else, she was spot on and totally conservative, but then had like 50 coats! :) Also, those were the sweet bunk beds we stayed in while there. It was so much fun. Carmen had a single twin and Yulissa and I on the other wall in the bunkbed. I got the top because I am not a pee-er in the middle of the night. Apparently both of them are, so they had to have easy access to the bathroom. It was so much fun all being together and staying up late every night talking and laughing. We all shared so many stories from our lives and just loved it! It made me feel like being in college again! :)</div>
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That night we went on a walk at sunset and it was so fun! We just chatted and it was beautiful weather out and we were in great company, Judith came with us. She is Jehovah's Witness so we didn't know how she would be with just us. But we were able to talk about everything; religion, jobs, families, Carmen told us how her family came to the US (illegally) but then became citizens. Yulissa shared with us her psychic story from when she was in the DR last summer. It is CRAZY! This man knew so much about her life and what she was going through. He saw a man in her future, so we're on the look out for someone who makes her feet tingle! :) I told them the story of my mom calling one when I was in HS and he said that I would marry someone who would go bald at a young age, and at the time I thought it was going to be my boyfriend, Tim Burningham! :) ha ha </div>
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It was the perfect Sunday evening walk. I am so blessed by these women my life!</div>
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That night I got another text from Ben about how his Sunday went. HA HA This is what he had to deal with at church....sucka.....</div>
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And, of course, got sucked into doing all the touristy things...</div>
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I took these for Tucker. Amazing Lego sculptures.</div>
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Downtown Disney was where we were sitting when we heard the news of the death of Ludi's nephew in Colombia. We knew it was going to be any day and we almost felt bad for being there with what was happening with her nephew. But she told us that it was a great blessing that we were there to keep her distracted and then have love and support after he had passed. She had gone to visit him a few weeks earlier, so at least she was able to say good bye. :( </div>
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After downtown Disney, we went to this great little Latin American place that Carmen found. Luckily we had Carmen, she was like our tour guide. It was SOOOOO good. Everyone was able to have great food from their country. Ludi had Colombian food, Yulissa had Dominican food, and Carmen and I actually shared a few different things. Both of our favorite was the Cachapa. It was SO good. I definitely need to learn how to make them! They are from Venezuela. </div>
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Our real reason for going to Orlando on Monday was to hit the outlet malls. Victoria Secret, North Face, Ann Taylor, Express...lots of goodies. I went a little crazy. This dude tried his hardest to sell Yulissa a hair straightener. He was a little bitter when she told him that she wouldn't buy one that he quit half way through her hair! :) ha ha. She had half straight half curly hair for the rest of the day. I may have gone a little crazy shopping at the outlets. I had been so good with my money up until this point. But the shopping was just so great! :) ha ha. The issue was getting it all home! :) I had to borrow space in Yulissa and Carmen's bags. :)</div>
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Two more photos I got from Ben on Monday:</div>
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He bought a new TV table for the basement while I was gone and they had roasted Marshmallows on Monday night. I was starting to miss those little turds! :) ha ha</div>
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It was seriously the best weekend with the best friends. So much fun laughing, eating, making new friends and sharing our lives together. I'm go lucky to have forever friends like these ladies. From Yulissa's 50 coats to Carmen always 'having an oil for that' to them always having to translate for the whitey (me) in the group. From Cliff and Ludi living on De-Puti street and Ludi needing 'Bo-ne-les' chicken and Cliff's call from Un-kon to being Cliff and Ludi's daughters on home tours. From our Sunday walk sharing our psychic stories to the roller coaster of an air plane ride that will forever give me anxiety over turbulence, we shared so many fun times and memories. So many delicious meals and late night chats (even the one about Yulissa's rich future husband) :) From celebrating the year anniversary of Yulisa's divorce to being there for Ludi during the loss of a loved one. To Ludi yelling at Siri to find us a place to eat and watching them be so in love and sing love songs to each other. The trip was the best!</div>
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I had ordered myself a new swimsuit before we left in hopes of being able to lounge by their pool. I was so bummed when it didn't come before we left, but of course, it came while we were gone. I didn't end up needing it anyway, since we didn't get to lounge by their pool. (they hadn't turned on the heater) and the ocean was so cold. But I had to send them a pic when I got home and it was there for me. I'm still up in the air on weather I like it. I guess that's the risk when you order a suit online.</div>
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I had gotten this one in Florida at VS. Can't tell which one I like better. Good thing I have some time to figure it out!</div>
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I also came home to this. A note from Taylor's primary teacher. I was so proud! :) :)</div>
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Back to reality it is with a little more patience than I had before thanks to my little get away. I have the best hubby ever for supporting me in things like this and holding down the fort. The kids were, of course, in heaven with him since he is clearly the favorite between the two of us!</div>
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After we got the V-day weekend done and all that hullabaloo, we could focus on our little girl. Monday was no school so we decided to take advantage and get some things done around the house in preparation. (I know, lame mom, once again!) For her birthday treats at school this year she wanted brownies. Heart Shaped brownies. With sprinkles and conversation hearts on them. A lot to ask for a domestically challenged mama. But we got to work. Three boxes of brownie mix and a few attempts at cutting a brownie with a cookie cutter and we had it down.<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27690989@N08/24801524274/in/dateposted-public/" title="20160215_170506"><img alt="20160215_170506" height="360" src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1655/24801524274_d92f2b8996_z.jpg" width="640" /> </a></div>
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I could only get 10 brownies per batch with the little ones for us. We had lots of crust leftover though, so that was yummy!</div>
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This is Jackson's cute smile face these days. He really is a happy boy but when I ask him to smile it looks like he's being asked such a hard task and he's miserable.</div>
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Finally....the work was done. We had 30 hearts which was perfect. 24 for her class and 6 for her little party. Don't say I never did anything for you Taylor Rae. These were definitely a work of love. I'm no good at this sort of thing!</div>
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Ben had picked up our traditional 'Nothing Bundt Cakes' cake which we love. I had leftover blue food coloring spray from her Elsa cake last year, and she wanted her Paw Patrol on her cake this year, so I let her have at it decorating. I have discovered that it is so much better when they get to decorate their own cakes. It may not be the prettiest, but she was SOOOO pleased with it!</div>
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This little guy decided to take the day off of school to hang out on Taylor's bed and read. I love him so much. He is so funny, and fun to have around. He is just my little buddy all day long and makes life so fun!</div>
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I also took advantage of the day and got the YW New Beginnings gifts done for the girls that will be coming into the YW program this year. I had to make 7 of these cute little frames with the theme in them. I love being in Young Women's! (Just one more thing I had to get done before going to Florida, on top of getting ready for Taylor's birthday and editing the thousands of pictures for the Grady's from the wedding the weekend before! No biggie!) :)</div>
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Oh, I also had to get packed. I had done absolutely NO packing and I was leave on Thursday morning for Orlando! Well, got one thing in the bag....my new fancy shoes! :)</div>
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Tuesday morning I had to get to the mall to get some things before I left and I wanted to take advantage of a GAP coupon before I left and since the only GAP we have is downtown (sniff sniff) Jackson and I went on a little shopping trip. I swear, he is the funnest little partner in crime. He was so proud to be wearing his backpack and it was so nice not even needing a stroller, but just walking hand in hand doing some shopping with my bud.</div>
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Tuesday night we went out with Papa and Kathryn to celebrate Taylor's birthday with them. They were both going to be gone on Wednesday night, so we went with them a day early. I want to always remember the sweet thing Taylor did on HER birthday. This is SO Taylor. We had decorated her cake and I had asked her if she wanted it for dinner with Papa and Kathryn, or if she wanted to have this cake with her friends on her actual birthday on Wednesday, and she told me she wanted to wait until Wednesday with her friends. And that was fine. It was just sitting on our table. Well, Tucker really wanted to take it to dinner with us this night and I told him we were waiting to eat the cake with her friends on her birthday the next day and weren't going to take it to dinner. He, of course, whined and complained, and I said, sorry dude, it's Taylor's birthday she gets to decide. So, Tucker finally dropped it but you could tell he was bummed. Well, sweet little Taylor comes over to me and says, mom...let's bring my cake to dinner tonight to surprise Tucker. She was so happy and excited to do something fun and nice for her brother even though it was her cake and her birthday. Just one of the many reasons I just love her!</div>
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I never get in pics with my kids and so I had to grab this one and just squeeze him. He looks really excited!</div>
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Finally the big day came and my little lady turned 6. I can not describe how much I love her. She is the perfect little friend and daughter. I love her so much. She is my animal loving, gymnastics flipping everywhere girl. She is strong and athletic. She is so sweet and kind and sensitive. Here she is posing with the little diji bird that Kathryn and Papa had given her the night before.</div>
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I didn't know how I was going to get her brownies to her, because Sunrise is so strict about little siblings going in the classrooms and I hadn't gotten anyone to watch Jackson. So she was happy taking them with her in the morning. And I didn't even get to go into her class to watch them sing Happy Birthday to her. She didn't seem phased by it at all.</div>
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For her friend party this year all she wanted to do was go to Jump and Bounce and McDonalds. And with AM Kindergarten, it was SO easy. I picked up her and 6 of her little friends from her class after school and we went jumping and went to McDonalds. It was SO easy and Taylor loved it. She kept on saying over and over again that this was the best birthday ever! :)</div>
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I had her take a picture of all of her friends in the car with us. She had to sit in the front seat because we didn't have enough room for everyone! :) But shhhh.....don't tell! :)</div>
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We headed to Jump and Bounce and I hadn't been there in SO long. It was so fun! I think it was Jackson's first time and he didn't know what to do with himself! :) I had so much fun with her and her friends. It was just fun to sit back and watch them run around and be crazy.</div>
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Of course they had to try the velcro wall which is a nightmare when the kiddies can't even jump with the suits on so I had to get up there and throw them on the wall. My weak little arms could barely handle it. :)</div>
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After a fun hour of jumping, we headed to McDonalds for lunch and Taylor and her cute little friends were dancing and singing in the car and having such a great time! I loved it!</div>
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This was seriously the easiest, simplest party ever. And we were done by 2:30! :) That was the best part!</div>
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The partiers...Aidree, Addie, Giles (the lone boy), Taylor, Lyndsey, Sasha and Jackson...</div>
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Then I dropped the kids off at their homes and it was a perfect little party. Especially with SO many things going on this week!</div>
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I had to get a little selfie with the birthday girl while we were waiting for Tucker after school...</div>
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And I couldn't believe how many gifts she got from just 6 friends. They each brought like 2-3 gifts. And it was so cute. When she opened up her from Giles, he said, I know that Taylor loves Paw Patrol, so I had to get her Paw Patrol! Then Aidree said, I know that Taylor loves Beanie boo's and so I had to get her a beanie boo! And then Lyndsey said, I know that Taylor loves doggies, so I had to get her a diggie. And I just kept on thinking, do they know my girl or what!? :) It was very sweet. She has so many sweet little friends and they all know her so well and love her. Makes a mama's heart so happy!</div>
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I felt so bad leaving her on her birthday but we had our New Beginnings program that night and I had to be there because I made the gifts for the new girls. And Tucker had a Scout field trip to Home Depot. So she got to hang out with daddy and Jackson for a bit. </div>
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This girl is just so sweet and I will never forget the day she was born with her big round melon head and her huge chubby cheeks. And Tucker meeting his little sister in the hospital will forever be one of my most favorite memories. She has grown into the sweetest girl. Everyone who knows her jokes that she is just everyone's biggest cheerleader and fan. She makes you feel like you are wonderful! I am so grateful that she is my little lady and forever best friend.</div>
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Tucker and his buddies. The only ones from our branch are Dean, Tucker and Maddox, and you can see Dean kneeling beside him, they are like bosom buddies. So much alike, it's scary. But I'm glad he has a little buddy in the branch that he loves so much!</div>
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<agfsdhtsdhsf data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27690989@N08/24692428694/in/dateposted-public/" title="20160208_172737">Trying to get ready for Valentines day class parties and Taylor's birthday were my big agenda items this week. Of course, the week started out as usual, gymnastics on Monday's and Wednesdays like usual. I love it and I hate it. I love it because she loves it and I love going and having some chat time with the other mom's whom I love. I love it because she is getting SO good and I love watching her do something she is good at and loves to do. I love it because I really do love feeling like part of a community there. All of us moms and coaches there are friends and family. I hate it because it is an hour and a half two days a week!!! Ugh....</agfsdhtsdhsf></div>
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Tuesday was the 100th day of school and the kids got to dress up as old people. Tucker, of course, was totally up for it. Taylor didn't want to. Maybe next year she will be more excited. Stuff like this is right up Tucker's alley though, and he went all out.</div>
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We tried to make his hair grey with baby powder. It didn't work quite as well as we had wanted, and even after multiple showers, it was coming out everywhere!</div>
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Tucker: 'Taylor pretend to push me over and I don't have my cane.' This boy!</div>
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I screenshotted a pic of Ellie, my friend Abbey's daughter. Her personality is VERY similar to Tucker's and Abbey and I called it long ago that they will date in high school. These two just crack me up! :) One day we will get to show them these pics and we will all laugh! :)</div>
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Jackson had to try on all of the old man clothes that Tucker wore and wanted his picture taken like Tuck.</div>
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Tucker was so sweet, and checked this book out at school for me so I could read up about Florida before going there! :)</div>
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Class parties were on Thursday this year because they had a snow make up day on Friday and didn't have school. I love going to the class parties. I may not get in to help much, but I can go to the parties! :) ha ha</div>
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I love this girl so much. I love going to her class and watching her with her friends and teacher. They all love her and I don't blame them. 'Ice skating' on hearts.</div>
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Getting to decorate a cookie:</div>
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And finally getting to open up her Valentines!! Woo-Hoo! I love reliving things like this with her. She gets SO excited about things like this!</div>
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Up next was Tucker's party. Luckily, because Taylor is in morning kindergarten, I can help in both classes this year. Next year I will have to split.</div>
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They played this really fun dice game that I am going to have to remember. They go really fast exchanging/stealing/giving candy to each other.</div>
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There was also a photo booth and another mom took pictures of them and printed them for us.</div>
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They got to make their own frame for the picture that was taken of them:</div>
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He got to make a Valentines day monster:</div>
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And finally, got to open this Valentines with his buddy Caden.</div>
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Friday was no school, but Tucker went to his friend Cody's house to play so that meant that the littles and I got to make the brownies that grandma sent us:</div>
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They live for things like this and since I was a lame mom and didn't plan anything, this was what they got to do. It ended up being perfect.</div>
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I FAILED majorly at Valentines this year. I was so busy, that poor Ben got the short end of the stick. In my defense, he was sick, so I cancelled what I had planned for him. We were going to do lunch and massages on Friday since that was the only time I had to celebrate during the weekend. Then we both got sick and he got it worse than me, stuffy head cold stuff. I cancelled our massages for a time when we were both feeling better. That left Friday night AND Saturday night busy for me and him home with the kids. poor guy.</div>
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Friday night they asked me to take pictures at the Adult Stake V Day dance. Woo-Hoo! :) Ben came with me that night but only lasted there for about 20 minutes since I was in the back taking pictures all night. He wasn't feeling well and he wasn't feeling IT. :) Yulissa was at our house with our kids and he just left early to go home.</div>
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He did have me take his picture before he left though! :)</div>
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And I did convince him to take one with me.</div>
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I thought these chairs were so cute. I was coveting them. And I did have some friends show up, so it wasn't all that bad. But for next year, I think I'm going to have to pass on the V day dance pictures. </div>
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Saturday I was busy from noon to 10pm doing a wedding. I love doing Temple weddings, and it was a fun nice day, but I wish I would have realized sooner that it was going to be the day before Vday and that both Ben and I would have rather spent the day together. But again, lesson learned.</div>
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I did get to spend the day with this cute couple:</div>
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And that wasn't so bad. It was a long and exhausting day and I was happy to have Sunday to just relax.</div>
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Sunday we had a Regional Stake Conference broadcast from Utah. I opted to stay home with the kids. I know, it's bad. I just have no desire to take kids to Stake Conference type of events. I never get anything out of them. Ben went alone. So, while Ben was being spiritually fed, I got to spend my morning with the likes of these crazies:</div>
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Oh, and this one:</div>
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Ben came home and we did a little family puzzle...Happy Valentines day to us! :)</div>
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Then I didn't even plan anything fun for dinner. I failed SO hard this year. So, tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches it was this year. Taylor wanted to make a salad to go with our meal to be 'healthy' and so she gathered up some 'healthy' items and put them together for her salad. It included:</div>
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cut up apples, cut up carrots, cut up mozzarella cheese sticks and croutons. YUM!</div>
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And just so you know, this is me failing to cook at my failed V day dinner meal. Tomato soup all over the stove! :) Ben cleaning it up for me. :) My sweet Valentine. I should also note that I woke up on Sunday morning to chocolate, Roses, cards, a new chopper, a new bedspread and a new scale. All things I had been wanting. He is so good at gift giving. I had nothing for him. NOT A THING. After I cancelled our lunch and massage, anything romantic related left my mind as I prepared for the weekend. I gave him a rain check. Totally lame.</div>
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But, I sure am lucky that this is just one of many many many Valentines that we get to spend together! :)</div>
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This week was a fun one! Started out the week with a fun FHE with the Wiberg family. We love them! Home made pizzas were a big hit! I just got one of those 12 packs of Naan bread at Costco and viola! It was perfect for the kids and adults! And oh so yummy! I love them with just a little bit of butter and garlic.</div>
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Even cute little Alina was in on the pepperoni action! Oh my gosh, I love her!</div>
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And of course, Jackson....</div>
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Tuesday morning Jackson and I just relaxed all morning. I've been trying to focus on him more instead of just trying to keep him busy while I get things done. I played and played with Tucker so much when he was this age, and poor Jackson gets jipped in this department.</div>
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So, me and him watching a movie in my bed in the morning. I love my time with just him. I was laughing so hard when he put his arms up like this!</div>
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We also busted out some of our valentine display. I knew Taylor would be so excited to come home to valentine decor. I did realize that we need to update our photo banner. Poor Jackson, gets the shaft again, on that, too!</div>
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Wednesday came and Tucker was 'sick'. He had came in the night before late and told us he didn't feel well. The next morning he was still playing it up. And even though, I knew that, I still played along. Sometimes kids need a break every now and then. I was happy to have him home for a day with me. Right around 10 o'clock he perked right up and wanted to know what the plan was for the day.</div>
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I decided that since we all knew that Tucker was playing hookie, we might as well enjoy the day together. Subway for lunch, ok!</div>
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Stop by to Owen's house to bring him a milkshake because he just got braces? ok!</div>
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I love these cute little friends. They've been friends since they were babies and are more like brothers.</div>
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A few other errands (like a stop to Katrina's house to bring her a soda because she wasn't feeling well, and dropping off some photo discs), Gymnastics and then off to Young Women's it was. I love these girlies. We combined with the Pines ward to plan our New Beginnings program. The beehives are in charge and we are going to do an Olympic theme.</div>
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I was looking forward to Thursday all week. Pedicures with the ladies. This was actually my very first pedicure. I hate people touching my feet and even here I was squirming and not enjoying it. I saw all of my friends relaxing and enjoying it and I just couldn't. Michelle got induced on Friday so this was her makeshift baby shower since she was in the hospital for her last one! I love these ladies. They are really the only reason I ever think about not wanting to be in the Spanish branch. I really do love it, but when I think that I could be in the Evergreen ward with these friends of mine, I get kinda bummed!</div>
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Meg, Janette, Marianne, Michelle, me and Angie....</div>
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After Pedi's and diet cokes, I came home and Taylor and I got to work on our valentines. She is so sweet and wrote a little v-day note for every class member and, all on her own, sealed them up in envelopes. So they are like legit cards. She also wanted to give out Swedish fish which I couldn't find in individual bags, so I had to get bigger bags and divide them up! And, of course she had to add stickers and stamps and glitter, because when this girl crafts, she CRAFTS! And that's one of the reasons I love her!</div>
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I also made my v-day cards for my young women. I was so giddy doing these. I found this meme on line and printed them out and taped a treat to them! I CAN NOT wait to give them to my girls! :) ha ha! I love me some Ryan Gosling!</div>
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Friday after school Tucker had Caden over for a late night and we had pizza and popcorn and watched the movie 'Inside Out'. Caden had never seen it before. After Caden's mom came and got him, Ben impressed us with a floor routine. He really missed his chance at stardom, he could have gone places with his talents! I didn't get great shots because it was so dark, but you get the idea! :) The kids were laughing so hard!</div>
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Ben let me sleep in on Saturday which was wonderful! I am so lucky! I woke up to everyone hanging out watching cartoons and Jackson making himself comfortable in daddy's 'hole' is what he calls it! :) </div>
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Then Ben took the older two to his office to do some chores to make some money and it was just Jackson and I at home all afternoon. I thought I would be able to relax some more, but I should have known that there would never be a dull moment with this boy! It was so sad, I heard him around the corner saying, 'there's no mirror in there.' MOM! There's no mirror in there. So, I went to see what he as looking at. When I turned the corner I saw him like this, and realized he was saying, 'dere's no me in dere.' I had never seen him sad like this and he was so distraught. He was pointing to a picture that he wasn't in! It broke my little heart! I quickly showed him a picture of our family with him in it, but it took him a bit to get over it.</div>
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I tried to console him, and this is the look I got!</div>
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Next up was jumping and swinging on Tucker's bed. A favorite past time of his right now, especially when big brother is gone!</div>
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Getting upset at mommy when she wouldn't let me play with her phone. (he has it so rough!)</div>
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OH! Finding mommy's goal chart and completely RUINING it!!!</div>
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Getting on the counter and drinking the last of the milk...</div>
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Mommy's changing the garbage? I better investigate this a little more...</div>
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This boy is go go go, and I love him for it! It keeps me on my toes, for sure!</div>
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Ben came home from Costco with the big kids and we all headed to the stake center for Luna's baptism. Ben was baptizing her, so we kinda had to be there! :) ha ha. I realized that I had taken pictures of my self with Tucker and Jackson before my last two Saturday dates, so I took a picture of me and Taylor this Saturday. Ben and I had gotten a babysitter for after the baptism to go out, but decided before the baptism that we really just wanted to get in our pj's and watch a movie after the baptism, so we cancelled. :) Totally my kinda night!</div>
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I realized when we were on our way home, that I forgot to take pictures of Ben and Luna. :(</div>
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We did stop by the car wash on the way home and Ben was determined to get Jackson to like it, even though I warned him. </div>
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And although, he WAS very concerned, at least he didn't scream and cry this time! :) I just love his little worried look. And, of course, whenever he is nervous, he puts his little hands in front of his mouth and it is so cute! :)</div>
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The next day at church, I made sure to get a picture of Ben and Luna together. He had to dunk her twice because he said a word wrong, and the poor thing doesn't like water to begin with, but they got it done, and it was a very sweet baptism, and then for her confirmation, he gave her the sweetest blessing, and I'm so glad he was able to do that for her! I hope that she remembers how she felt!</div>
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Sonia was leaving right after sacrament meeting to head back to Tri Cities, since they had just moved there, but I was glad to see her for just a few days. Luna had really wanted Ben to baptize her, so they had come back just for the stake baptism!</div>
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Since I was already in the foyer doing pics, I told Antonia that I would take a pic of them, too. Baby Mia del Carmen was blessed, and she is the CUTEST little thing in the world!</div>
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I will never forget her hair during her blessing, it was so wild! I just love her!</div>
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Also, President Lopez wants me to start doing a spotlight on a family each month to put on the bulletin, and so I also took a photo of the Lisseuir family. Another great family in our branch! I took the photo and interviewed them and fount out that hermano isn't actually a member. I had no idea!! They aren't married, so he can't get baptized, but they've been together for 18 years and I just love them! Their sons are two of the young men that spend a lot of time at our house with Ben and they are seriously the best boys! I just love them! Looks like we need to get Domingo on the roll of marrying Lili! :)</div>
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After church was the SUPERBOWL! The past few years we've just spent it with dad and Kathryn and it's perfect because we get to enjoy the game and the commercials, and have YUMMY food!</div>
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Even though Cam Newton is a punk, because he played for Auburn, we kind of always cheer for him, so once our Seahawks were out, we were Carolina fans. Even though I do love Peyton and was kind of hoping he'd get a ring, but don't tell my family that! :)</div>
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Taylor is a loyal football fan, so here are some signs she made...</div>
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I enlisted the help of Jackson to mash the avocados for the guac and he broke my bowl! Who knew he had superhuman strenght! :) I've made guacamole in this bowl a thousand times, and have never made a scratch and he puts a HOLE in it?!</div>
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And, of course, Kathryn makes everything oh so cute. This is the cake she made! It was a fun evening watching the game and eating yummy food and of course, between my dad and Ben, laughing our heads off! Until dad takes it too far and offends people!! :) HA HA</div>
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Well, this week started out absolutely wonderful, baby Cade Lucas made his debut! He is so cute!!!! I was just dying over all the cuteness that was being sent to me via text! I mean, look at that face!!! Love! But then some scariness, Angie had some complications, and you know the way Nathan communicates, we were all clueless. First it was very casual that Angie was having some bleeding, so they were taking her back to check it out. Then it was well, they might have to operate, and then all the sudden we're getting texts like she might need a hysterectomy!!! Luckily, they didn't have to do that, and they figured it out and she is just fine! And now her and little Cade are home and healthy, from what I hear, so all is well! I just love it when I get a new baby in the family, they are the best! Can't wait to love on him!</div>
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I knew it was going to be a good week also, because we woke up to this fun heart attack from the sister missionaries on our door Monday morning:</div>
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I was itching to get out of the house. I feel like I have been a hermit the past few weeks, and as I was reading through last week's blog post, I realized I had way too much information in there about a not all that exciting week! :) ha ha. But that's real life, they aren't all always exciting! But anyway, this week definitely was more exciting, and I was ready to party! :)</div>
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First up, on Monday was a lunch for Michelle Spear. It was supposed to be like a baby shower luncheon for her, and then she had some complications with her Crohns and was in the hospital, and wasn't even able to be there. Man, that lady is a tough cookie! She has so many medical problems and takes it like a champ! Her baby is going to be coming next Friday, and they might have to do a surgery on her at that time to take out her large intestine, and she would have to wear a colostomy bag for the rest of her life. Anyway...didn't mean to get on a tangent there. Poor Michelle, was in the hospital on the day of her baby shower luncheon, but we still had it, and planned ways that we can help her once she's out of the hospital and has her baby girl!</div>
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We had it at Angie's house:</div>
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I busted out the selfie stick:</div>
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Love these ladies! Meg, Angie, Me, Marianne and Janette.</div>
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Angie has a massage table and she tried to get Jackson to test it out, he liked it until she tried putting his face in the little face holder. Then he wanted out of there! :)</div>
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Taylor's first practice after the meet. All the little girls were on cloud nine from their meet. It was so fun to watch. I am so impressed with my little Taylor lady, she is quite the gymnast!</div>
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That night for FHE, dad was really excited to take the kids to newly remodeled Pizza Hut. Ben thought it was super funny that he wanted to take us there of all places. I thought it was fun for the kids since they had some reading coupons from the school and they get a free personal pan pizza. We went to pizza hut all the time growing up, it was one of our go to places, and I don't think Ben realized that and was giving my dad a hard time. I was laughing. But, as usual, we had a great time! Dad and Kathryn are hilarious and so much fun to be with!</div>
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I had to take a picture of these two together with the newly remodeled sign! :) ha ha</div>
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It was a great 'FHE'. :)</div>
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Tuesday we had my cousin, Rachel's kids all day. Her and her husband are on a cruise for their anniversary and Uncle Brent and Aunt Lorraine are watching them for the week. She had called me the week before asking me if I would take them for a day or two. So, after I worked out on Tuesday morning, I headed up to the Maughans to pick up the kids. It was fun having them. At first they were pretty unsure about coming with me, but once I picked up Taylor from school and they reconnected, the kids had a great time! It was our McDonalds lunch date with friends, so we went there for lunch with Dori, Marianne, Amber and Hannah. I love those girls and I always love our lunch dates. And this time I had 3 extra kids. It was a bit overwhelming, and it made me happy to not have 6 children, but we did have a great time. We came home and I just wanted to stay in for the rest of the night! :)</div>
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Here are all 6 kids eating dinner. Her kids are so good though, so it wasn't hard. I was happy to do it so they could enjoy a getaway! :)</div>
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Wednesday night was Young Women's. We have one activity a month with just our girls. And we are going to try and do it at either ours or Yulissa's house. This week was at our house. Katia came early to meet with the sister missionaries at our house. She is not actually a member, but we consider her one of our young women because her dad is a member and she comes with him every week. She just moved up here from El Salvador, and I think she enjoys having the friendships, I don't know how interested she is in the church, but hopefully, little by little. We had a great discussion with her before the other girls showed up.</div>
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Yulissa, with the help of the sister missionaries, Hna. Brown and Hna. Birdie, made us a delicious meal of fried chicken and plantains. It was delicious! AND I tried my hand at tres leches cake for the first time, and it was perfection! I will definitely be making that again! YUM! Katia was supposed to make it, but when her step mom emailed me the list of ingredients the night before I saw that you have to let it sit in the fridge for a minimum of 6 hours and I knew that I had to do it or it wouldn't be ready. And I'm so glad I did! It was perfect! Can't wait to do it again!</div>
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Jackson flirting with his second mama.</div>
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Katia stole my phone. She is a facebook/selfie queen. I just love her fun personality!</div>
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President Lopez stopped by for a bit!</div>
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Katia and Jessika, two peas in a pod!</div>
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Thursday was lunch with Carmen and Myriam. Myriam is Carmen's sister visiting from Phoenix and it was so much fun to finally meet her! Carmen and I had been talking about going to Hna. Zavala's cafe in Coeur d'Alene, and it was SO freaking good! I will be back many many times! Not to mention it was a wonderful get away with no kiddies! </div>
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Friday was the day we had all been waiting for! TWIN day! woo-hoo! I have to tell the funniest story about miss Taylor Rae. She had gone to Aidree's house the day before while I went to lunch with Carmen and Myriam. And they were going to figure out what they wanted to wear. First of all, the Rassmusens, Aidree's family, are from Boise and BIG Boise State fans. So, I went to pick her up that afternoon and Tristen had decided on these cute red GAP sweatshirts, and it was basically because she had two of them. But, for some reason Taylor's attitude had totally changed. All the sudden she didn't want to do twin day and she didn't want to wear the red sweatshirts. She was adamant. But, I still took the sweatshirt from Tristen and told her I would figure it out when I got home.</div>
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So, when we got home I asked Taylor, why she didn't want to do twin day? Did she not want to be twins with Aidree now? Why did she not want to wear the sweatshirt? I was just trying to figure it out! She told me that she did want to be with Aidree. But when I asked her about the sweatshirt, she got a little embarrassed/upset and finally yelled out, I DO NOT LIKE THE BRONCOS! I just started laughing so hard! She thought that it was a Boise State sweatshirt! I was laughing so hard because who would have thought that two 5 and 6 year old girls would be such die hard/loyal fans to their dad's favorite football teams??? HA HA. I told her that first of all, red is not a Boise state color. That Boise State's colors are actually the same as Auburn! And that it was a GAP sweatshirt from the store in the mall! :) ha ha! After that she was totally fine and happy! I called Tristen to tell her the funny story later, and she told me that Aidree is a pretty loud and proud Boise State fan, so that might be where she got the idea from! :)</div>
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It all worked out and look how cute they looked! I just love these girlie BFF's. I'm so glad Taylor has found Aidree. She has never been a girls girl. She's always been friends with boys and I'm so happy she has a BFF! She even wanted them to curl their hair together! :)</div>
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Tucker, on the other hand, of course, had to do something crazy and unique. A few weeks before, before I even knew twin day was coming up, he came home from school and announced that him and Jason wanted to be twins on twin day together and they waned to be thing 1 and thing 2, which I thought was so cute that they thought of this on their own! So, last Saturday Jason's mom, Lynea, me and the boys met at the dollar store to get supplies. They didn't have what we needed, so we went to Hobby Lobby and got the red shirts and blue hair day and then headed back up to their house and printed out the shirt pieces. And I think it turned out SO cute! Lynea and Jason came over before school that day and we did the hair and they were good to go! I also love this cute little friendship. Jason is such a good kid, and I hope they continue to be buds!</div>
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Obviously, both of these boys are going through that awkward phase where they don't know how to pose or smile for pictures! :) ha ha!</div>
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The insta picture of both of my twinsies together! :) Grateful that they are still young and innocent enough to want to do fun things like twin day.</div>
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Friday I got a sweet letter from Jessy in the mail. I love her. </div>
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And, like I posted on instagram, 'Even after 24 years of friendship, Jessy notes are my favorite. Although now, instead of passing them to each other during classes at Horizon Jr. High, we have to send them across the country. Love you Jessy!'</div>
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I should have also added that now, instead of passing them during classes at Horizon Jr. High AND emailing across oceans during college. Because we did a lot of that, too! I still can't believe how long some of our emails were back then. Like every day we would write novels to each other. I just love having a friend like her! And yes, I've always been jealous of her perfect penmanship!</div>
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Kathryn brought me these beautiful flowers to brighten my week! Aren't they beautiful and aren't I lucky! It's so wonderful to have family so close. Especially such wonderful family that we love!</div>
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Saturday came and was so nice for a break. Tucker had been wanting to learn chess, so we spent some time learning/playing chess. He wanted to play non stop, which I secretly love. I hope he continues to play and get better and better. It's a good game for him. </div>
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We really didn't do much else! Tucker had a birthday party that night, so we got a babysitter for the littles and headed to dinner. It was his friend, Cole's birthday and it was Star Wars themed AND a game truck and Tucker and his little buddies were pretty much in hog heaven all night. He did not want to leave when we finally picked him up at 9 that night. I love his group of buddies.</div>
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I was having a good hair day for our date, so I had to document it:</div>
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And today we had a wonderful dinner up at Papa and Kathryns! It was the perfect ending to a great week!</div>
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Such a tender moment between my dad and Ben. My dad feeding him the leftover butter from the bottom of the salmon tray. YUM! These two together are trouble, I tell ya! But we have nothing to complain about and a pretty sweet thing going on here! :)</div>
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I just love her and she was so cute up there!</div>
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Look at that back bend!!!</div>
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Then they put them into two 'teams' and split them all up evenly and one group did one event while the other did another.</div>
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This is what Jackson decided to do during the meet:</div>
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Cute daddy and Jackson:</div>
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Taylor's first event was the vault:</div>
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I was so proud of this girl! She is so strong!</div>
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Her and her teammates, Harper and Shyra:</div>
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Again, what Jackson decided to do during the meet:</div>
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And, like I posted on facebook: 'Mom, does this angle make my cheeks look big?' I'm so funny! :)</div>
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Next up was floor:</div>
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A little over rotation, but beautiful nonetheless:</div>
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I loved that her little tongue was sticking out the whole time:</div>
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Daddy had to take off-the meet was over two and a half hours!!!!Ben couldn't stay that long. I don't think either one of us thought it would be that long. He was there for her floor routine, which is her favorite!</div>
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This girl loves her daddy so much!</div>
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Papa and Kathryn were also there, but they toughed it out, and were there for the long haul! :) It was nice to have extra hands with Jackson since I was trying to get some good pictures! We are so lucky to have Papa and Kathryn close who love our kids and stick it out at events like this! :)</div>
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Then her bar routine:</div>
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Next up was the beam. And I was surprised, but they had actual judges there like taking off points and tenths of points for certain things! Like, they really got judged and points! And she had her coach there by her side the whole time, spotting her when she needed it!</div>
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Then they got on a score and got to go on the podium and got a medal! It was cute!</div>
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Her and her team on the podium:</div>
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Here are her actual hot shots team: Anaya, Kennedy, Taylor, Lilli, Harper and Shayra:</div>
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These girls are so cute, and it's been so much fun going through this with them and their mama's. I love having friends to chat with while our girls are at practice, and the older brothers get to play pokemon or on their tablets. We've become like a little family! Their mama's are the best! Can they just stay this little forever, please?! :)</div>
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I had to also get a quick pic with my girl and superstar gymnast!</div>
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And her awesome coaches: Maddie and Izzy. :) (although we were missing James on this fun morning!) :( </div>
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I can't believe we're already three weeks into the year! Monday was no school for Martin Luther King Jr. day. I always love me a good excuse to relax at home and get things done around the house. But I was feeling kind of guilty for not having anything planned for the kids. I used to always go go go on days off and have fun activities planned. I've been majorly slacking lately and used the day to get caught up. On photography, Young Women's, Blog etc. things like that. <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27690989@N08/24564390882/in/dateposted-public/" title="20160118_111228"><img alt="20160118_111228" height="360" src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1658/24564390882_91688567a4_z.jpg" width="640" /> </a></div>
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Ben called and wanted to take us to McDonalds. Fancy, I know! :) ha ha! So, we did get out of the house for a bit. While we were out, we stopped and got the boy's haircuts because they've been needing it big time lately!</div>
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My handsome boy. My other handsome boy wouldn't pose for me. :)</div>
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After gymnastics class for Taylor and a nice little FHE lesson, Taylor helped me FINALLY put our names on the FHE chart we have in our living room. They've been empty for years now. Maybe we'll finally use that chart! :) ha ha. I can still remember the little house my mom had when we were little and each of our names was on a magnetic heart and they got rotated every week. My little crafty girl was, of course, very willing to help!</div>
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Tuesday morning was back to life as usual. This girl here below. I don't know what to do about her LOVE for all things animal. This is how her bed looks when I wake her up every morning. No joke. EVERY morning. And this is not how it looks when I tucker her in at night! Her animals are so precious to her, she treats them like real animals. We so need to get this girl a real animal!</div>
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We often play 'zoo' or 'pet store' in her room where she sets them all up and after I choose the one I want to take home, she tells me exactly how to take care of it. She's obsessed! I love this type of play and I love her imagination, though! :)</div>
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Perler beads are also a big hit right now with her. I also love Tuesdays because we have nothing on Tuesdays and the kids get to come home and just play and be kids and we don't have anywhere to be!</div>
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I've also been working out at MUV while Taylor is at school. So, I go to the gym right after the kids leave in the morning, and usually am done by 10:30ish, and I thought I'd take Jackson to a story time at the library. This was his first time ever! When Tucker was his age, I was taking him once or twice a week to the library for story time. Poor third child! :)</div>
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He, of course, loved it! I think we have a new weekly tradition here. (hopefully!) :)</div>
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I'm not a wake up before everyone to cook a big breakfast type of lady. I actually usually don't even eat breakfast, which, I know isn't the best, but I'm just never hungry in the mornings. Anyway, we're a cereal type of family. Every morning. Jackson even likes to double spoon it some mornings! :)</div>
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After the gym on Wednesday I went to Walmart to pick up my online order. At Christmas time I had ordered Kathryn and my mom some things from The Pioneer Woman's new dish line at Walmart. </div>
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I had actually forgotten about the dishes, since it had been so long! They told me before Christmas that they would be in on Jan.3rd. But we were so excited to see the dishes that we busted right into the boxes, and a big THANKS to Walmart for still using those annoying popcorn packing pieces in their boxes. The stuff immediately went everywhere, and the kids, of course, loved it! It was a nightmare to clean up and I am still finding popcorn pieces around the house. Ugh! It literally took like 3 hours to clean up! And Jackson was no help, jumping into the piles as soon as we had even a little bit piled up!</div>
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I got them this cute bowl and pitcher pieces. I was a bit jealous and wanted to keep them for myself!</div>
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Gymnastics Wednesday. I've been starting to stay during her classes. Tucker now has some other older brothers to play with and I have a few good friends, and fellow moms to chat with; and as long as I remember to keep my eye on Jackson, because if I don't, then he runs out onto the gym floor and </div>
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Wednesday nights are our busiest, and we go straight from school to gymnastics to young mens/womens and scouts for Tucker.</div>
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This week we had our quarterly pie night. Once every 3-4 months we let the girls throw pies in our faces for Personal Progress. The girls get to put their name on a ticket for every Personal Progress requirement they finished over the last 3-4 months. Then each one of us leaders pick out a name to throw a pie in our faces. I'm not sure why we put ourselves through that, but the girls love it and if it motivates them, then I guess it's ok! :) haha</div>
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Brenee came prepared with goggles:</div>
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Kylah was chosen to throw the pie at Sis. Carlstrom:</div>
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Karinna weaseled her way to get to throw a pie in my face! :) ha ha</div>
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And she was the only young woman that rubbed it into my face!</div>
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Luckily, I love her! :)</div>
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Yulissa's face during the whole thing was just priceless. I don't think she quite knew what to think about all of this! :) ha ha!</div>
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We came home that night and Tucker showed off his whittling skills that he had learned at Scouts that night.</div>
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And, of course, Ben had to one up him! </div>
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Jackson had to get in on the selfie stick action and I just love the look on his face in this picture! I love this Turd so freaking much it hurts!</div>
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And I just love these sweet little notes that Taylor leaves us every now and then. On our beds and on my desk. She is the sweetest little thing. I'm going to miss this when she goes through her stage of hating me! :) ha ha</div>
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Thursday night was a wonderful RS activity about family history and a delicious dinner of a sweet potato soup, which I normally would never have tried, but it was delicious. Hermana Zavala is the best cook and everything she makes is delicious! It was a wonderful evening and I ended up having to translate the whole night. Melissa Peterson's brother and sister in law just moved in with them for a few months and she doesn't speak Spanish, and either does Melissa, so I was their interpreter. It made me grateful that I don't have to interpret very often! :) It was fun to get to know Ashley and Melissa better and it was nice to get away for a bit.</div>
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Friday night was spent at the Temple with Kathryn and dad and then a delicious dinner at Rancho after. It was a fun night with them and we always have a great time with them. We are so blessed.</div>
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Saturday morning was Taylor's first gymnastics meet with the Hot Shots. It was so cute, but I took so many pictures, that I have a whole separate post about that. I just still can't believe that my baby girl is so big and freaking good at gymnastics! :)</div>
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Saturday night was spent as per usual in front of the computer making the sacrament program for Sunday. I usually don't get all the info until really late Saturday night and it usually takes me a few hours to compiling everything together. Info, announcements, hymns etc.. And then I have to translate what I have in English into Spanish and what I have in Spanish to English. Anyway, it's a long process! But I enjoy it, and it's not hard. I'll probably have this calling forever because it's something I can do while I have any other calling! :)</div>
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And one last one of my stinky boy! He is such a stinker, but I just love him so so so much! He was such a turd today at church. Ben went to the Indiana Branch downtown, because one of his former Young Men is leaving on his mission, and Ben wanted to go to his farewell. For some reason, Ben thought it would be a good idea to stay all three hours down there, and I should have said something, but I went with it and church was horrible. Well, sacrament meeting was. He just knows he can get away with anything and has started getting to the point in his 2 and a half year old life where he really enjoys pushing every button on every single one of us in the household. And he loves every minute of it! And that is mostly my fault because he is just so stinking cute, I let him get away with anything. Things I would never of dreamed of letting Tucker and Taylor get away with! The benefit of being a third child!</div>
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I should have known it was going to be an odd week, when Monday morning came and I was pouring milk into the cereal and at the very bottom of the milk carton, I found this. Apparently when we had ordered pizza the week before, Jackson felt he needed to add one of his pepperoni to the milk and it had been in there for a few days unbeknownst to me. YUM! It actually scared the crap out of me and I screamed when I saw it. I thought something alive was crawling out of our milk carton while I was pouring. Having a toddler is never dull!!!</div>
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I knew it was going to be a low key spend time at home day because I offered to watch my neighbor Jessica's two littlest ones while she went to the dentist. I had them all morning on Tuesday and it was so much fun snuggling baby Hunter. He is just the sweetest little guy and fell asleep on me. I just sat on the couch with him snuggled up on me for a good hour or more. I couldn't move and although I had things I wanted to get done, I got my baby fix in! :)</div>
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Another day we watched my friend Tristan's girls while she was at the doctor. Jackson loves Bridget and we had her all morning, and Aidree is in Taylor's kindergarten class, so I picked both of them up and then had both girls for a few hours. It was so much fun and I love these cute little friends of Taylor's and Jackson's. These girls seriously play so well together, and rarely argue or aren't having fun together. It is such a blessing because for some reason Taylor can be pretty anti social with girls and she's finally found a little BFF.</div>
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I did some re arranging while Ben was at work. I moved the chair from our room down to the living room to the hole where the tree was. It just looked so bare and empty. Now I can put something on the wall above it and it will look so good. I feel like our living room is finally looking complete!</div>
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I moved my mirror to the place where the chair was. I will miss having a chair in my room, but I like the space for the mirror better because that mirror was in our closet and it was pretty squishy in there!</div>
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Ben's happy that half of his clothes aren't covered up by a mirror now. I figured since I knew I was going to be home for a while, I might as well get some stuff done that I'd been wanting to get done. I really do love home days. I'm getting more and more hermitish the older I get. I love me a good cozy home day! :)</div>
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Being at home this week also afforded me the time to make 175 mini cupcakes and whipped topping AND cupcake toppers for them all!!! It was a lot of work, but they turned out so good, and so cute!</div>
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It was all for that YW activity that we have coming up this week that Susan and I have been in charge of. We are introducing the theme for 2016. I just got square stickers and actually I already had them for my photography, and I never use them because they don't fit the discs, so I finally got rid of them! :) And they looked so cute stuck to little toothpicks!</div>
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Speaking of that activity, it was a success!!! WOO-HOO! The activity that we had planned to introduce the theme was an iron rod activity and it was pretty nerve racking because we were dependent on so many other adult leaders to help and do their part that we didn't know how it was going to come together until the night of. And it all came together perfectly, a few little hiccups of things that we would have done differently, but everything ran smoothly and the feedback I heard was that the kids really enjoyed it and got a lot out of it. Brother Draeger, the YM president made these pvc pipe rod holders that were awesome. When I saw those, I knew we were going to be just fine. And he got a rope and we strung it through the gym. And honestly, when I saw it all put together, It doesn't look like much. But since the kids are blindfolded, I knew that for them it would be a lot more difficult. We had 6 obstacles throughout the course and some obstacles were going through one of those kiddie tunnels, or having to maneuver over or around or through a pile of boxes and a big tire, or a whole bunch of hoses on the ground all piled up. Anyway, it was way fun. Every leader had a role. Every obstacle had a helper and a tempter. The helpers were there just to warn and whisper that they could get through whatever it was that they were facing. The tempters were there to tell them to just give up and let go and go around an obstacle. Some of the obstacles were just flat out lies by the tempters, like, 'let go and I'll give you a $50 gift card to best buy' or wherever. We, of course, put Ben as a tempter and he sat on a couch tempting them with playing video games and resting. At one point he even started playing music on his phone to tell them to come party with him. Needless to say, he was a great tempter. :) We had Dru Lopez as his counter part as a helper. It was great. Every leader did their role wonderfully! Brent McAllister was the one in charge of a repentance station. If a kid let go, I would lead them to the repentance station where they waited for the rest of their families to get. It was near the end. Once the kids got there, they were led off of the rod and Brent talked to them about the Savior and repentance and how when we let go of the rope, like all will do at some point in their life, repentance is the way to get back on. Then they were all put back on the rod as a family and finished, and went into the 'after life'. And this was Susan's work, she had set up the Primary room all white with white lights and we had pictures of the Savior and Temples and music playing and they got their little booklets that I made and pens and they were able to write down some of their feelings as they were on the rod, and at the repentance station and then as they walked into this peaceful room and were told, 'well done thou good and faithful servant'. And the spirit was really strong in that room. It was a great ending to the night. I'm so glad it was successful and the kids seemed to enjoy it and learn from it. Whew!</div>
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-Youth Temple Trip on Thursday night. I love being in the Temple and I love being with the youth. Because of a scheduling mix up, I ended up being baptized, like I was one of the youth. Which was fine because we only had 2 girls there. Efrain Lopez was the one who baptized me and he is leaving on his mission next week, so that was cool. It was wonderful being in the temple with so many youth and leaders I just love from our branch and the Indiana branch. </div>
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-Kindergarten homework is the best! Well, I have a love/hate relationship with it. I love it when it's days like this, where Taylor gets to retell us stories she's learning at school:</div>
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This was the gingerbread man with the stick puppets she made at school. I kind of want to shoot myself when she has to sound out words, and then she gets frustrated and I get frustrated. It was much easier with Tucker, he loved to read and WANTED to learn. I don't think that she has any desire to read. But, we are getting there. Slowly and surely.</div>
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This guy finished the Chronicles of Narnia this week. I'm so proud of him and I love that he loves to read so much. We are currently reading the Lemony Snicket series, 'All the wrong questions' and it is such a fun book. He has a different book that he is reading, but this is one that we read together every night in his bed. I'll come and lay with him and we'll read. We're on book #3 out of 4. I can't keep up with him and books. I just went to the library and got a whole new stack of them, so I'm hoping they last a few weeks at least.</div>
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He was so proud, he came down to tell us when he was done.</div>
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Tucker had his last basketball game. I'm going to miss this little team, and all the fun families. I'm not going to miss being here every Friday night. Tucker had the BEST game. It was his best game of the season, and it made me sad that it was over. He even made 2 baskets.</div>
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I'm not going to miss trying to wrangle this one on my own. Since Ben was the coach, I always had the two littles on my own. I can't tell you how many times this one ran out on the court before I could catch him. Where was his MOTHER???</div>
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There's my #6!</div>
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Ben had a little after game, end of season cake party right there at the HUB. Here are Brayden, Tucker, Cody, Max, Tyler, Derek, Andrew, Corey, Henry and Chris. Cute boys waiting for their cake. I thought it was pretty genius to do it like this. We could do it right there in the HUB and get it over with right after the game. Ben bought a huge sheet cake and it was perfect and easy and cheap! :) And the boys loved it!</div>
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Ben gave them their little award and mentioned something about each one. I was so glad that all the parents loved Ben and he loved coaching and it was a great season and a great experience for them all.</div>
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And I'm also greatful that now my weekly schedule looks a little bit more like this and not so crazy busy! Although, it does seem to fill up pretty freaking fast, as I am sure is the case with most people. This {almost} blank week just made me happy to look at! :)</div>
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Saturday was a relaxing and a having a friend over kind of day. Tucker worked on his own mixel creations that he was pretty proud of:</div>
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I got ready for my hot date with Ben and took some selfies on the kitchen floor with Jackson:</div>
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We were supposed to go to the temple for our monthly Branch temple night. But there was some kind of miscommunication and Ben didn't think we were going. He is in the process of looking for a new work truck and I called him at 5:15, he was out running errands and we had to be at the temple at 5:30. Well, he was still in Coeurd 'Alene, so the temple was out. But we did go to dinner and shopping when he got home. It was a nice way to end the week. Even if it was more of a low key week, it's still nice to get out of the house with the hubs.</div>
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Well, the first official week of 2016 is in the books, and it was a great one! Lots of ups, and of course, some downers.</div>
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I spent all day Monday in a meeting planning the the combined YM/YW activity that we have coming up next week to introduce the new 2016 theme for the youth, which is 2 Nephi 31:20 that says, 'Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the words of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life.'</div>
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It is a scripture that I love and that I'm super excited to focus on this year with the Young Women. Susan Shepard and I were asked to put this activity together to introduce the theme, so we've been meeting to go over it. It's a pretty intense and cool activity. We are going to have the kids blindfolded holding on to an 'iron rod' and they will face temptations and trials. And they will be able to repent when they 'fall off' the rod. I'm super excited about it and we are both just praying that all goes smoothly and as planned. She is the YW president in the Pines ward, and since our branch combines for activities with them, we were asked to plan this by Bishop Anderson. One of my callings in the branch is the liaison between our branch and the Pines ward. Part of that calling is that I get to go to the BYC meetings for the Pines ward and that's how this all came to be. And with my calling as the counselor in YW, it just happened. Anyway, luckily Susan is a good friend and we've been working hard on this. Our short little 1-2 hour meeting ended up lasting most of the afternoon, but we got it all hammered out and feel good about our progress.</div>
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I went outside to get Tucker from school and as I was bringing in garbage cans, I noticed this beautiful ice on our bush by the garage. It might be hella cold and miserable, but I guess there can be beauty in it! :)</div>
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Taylor had gymnastics on Monday, as she does every Monday and Wednesday. Yes, my 5 year old does gymnastics 2 times a week and for 3 hours a week. Some days I think it's crazy to have her in that much, but she loves it, so I'm going with it. Kathryn happened to call me and told me that my dad wasn't feeling well and that she just wanted to get out of the house for dinner, and wanted to meet us at the mall for dinner since Taylor's gymnastics is close to the mall. And since I'm always up for eating out, even if it is just the mall, we obliged! :) ha ha I didn't think twice of it. </div>
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BUT! When I got home, I found this beauty in my kitchen! I can't tell you how happy she makes me. Sometimes I find myself just staring at it with a big cheesy grin on my face. SO in love. No more ice cube tray's. No more having to put most of our food in the garage because we don't have the space. She is just so beautiful! :) That dang Ben, I should have known something was up. Kathryn was totally in on it. (I did think the mall was a pretty random place, but...) :) Seriously a game changer for how dinnertime will be from now on.</div>
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Also, on Monday night, we had to say good bye to this one. I can't believe the time is already here for him to leave. He got set apart as a missionary and they stopped by here on their way home to say good bye. It's going to be so crazy without him in the branch or coming over to our house and laying on our couch and eating all our food! :) ha ha.</div>
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He sure loves these kids of mine, and I love him for that. And we love him! We will miss him, but he will be so great as a missionary in Mexico!</div>
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Also, I couldn't do the Christmas decor for a second longer. It all came down and I was done. I kind of liked the bare walls and sleek and clean decor with hardly anything up. I put up just minimal stuff. But I couldn't help make it a little bit more springy than I usually do right away. I am already ready for the sun!!! (even though there is currently a few inches of snow on the ground) A girl can dream.</div>
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We FINALLY finished our Star Wars marathon this week. We started it over Christmas break and finished #6 on Wednesday afternoon. I'm not sure why I was never into Star Wars, I mean, I knew the story and the names and I'm pretty sure that I had watched them when I was younger, but really wasn't into them. I'm sure it was because I just considered myself 'totally not into sci-fi' and alien types of movies and just wrote it off. And I'm so bummed I did because I freaking fell in love with these movies. I had no idea how the whole saga turned out with Darth and Luke and Leia. I just loved it. And watching all 6 totally put the story together for me and I just fell in love. I can't wait to watch the new one! Tucker really wanted to see the new one that just came out in the theater, but I told him he should watch the old ones to appreciate the new ones. (mainly because I wanted an excuse to watch all the old ones) So, over break we were to have a marathon and watch them all and then go to the new on in the theater together since Ben had already seen it. We didn't quite make all 6 during the break, but got close with watching 4 of them. This Wednesday we finally finished watching the 6th one and had plans to go to the theater for the 7th one on Saturday. I ended up getting sick (more on that later) and our date had to be cancelled. But I am SO freaking excited! Serious Star Wars fan for life here!</div>
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Watching the 6th one with my boys. Our whole family got into them and it has been so much fun to watch them as a family and get all pumped about the new one.</div>
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Thursday morning they had a free throw competition at Sunrise for 3-5th Graders. Tucker was so excited to try. I just love his enthusiasm and excitement about things like this. Even if he isn't the most athletic kid out there, he has heart! :) A lot of his good buddies were also there in the morning. </div>
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They each got to shoot 10 free throws. Tucker made three. That was probably the average. :) Most of these boys aren't used to shooting on a 10 foot hoop and it's a lot different. His good buddy, Jason, in the blue Nike shirt is the one who ended up winning, he got 6. And his other good buddy, Brayden, on his basketball team got second with 5. They both got to go to CV on Saturday and compete against other boys from other elementary schools in the district. </div>
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The biggest news of the week--Ben got LASIK eye surgery on Thursday afternoon!WOO-HOO! He has been wanting to do this for so long and just could never justify spending so much money on himself. And I am so glad he finally got it done. Funny story though. At the beginning of November he went into a free consult to find out prices and stuff. We were paying cash, so I think he was hoping for a great discount for paying cash upfront. It didn't end up being a great discount and Ben was bummed. It was $2000 an eye and only $200 off per eye for paying cash upfront. He wanted it so bad, but just wouldn't spend the money on himself. This was the same doctor that Ben made a video for years ago. This Dr., Dr. Fillmore, has a yearly video competition and the winner of this video competition gets free LASIK. Ben had made a silly video and a video ended up winning that was more emotional/ heartfelt. Ben was too bummed out to every try again. Anyway, his free consult was at the beginnings of November. And Ben told me in that consult, that just as a joke, he told the nurse or medical assistant, whatever he was, that if Dr. Fillmore was interested in a trade for a fence, Ben could do that! :) Ben said the dude didn't even give him the time of day about it and just went on his merry way. Well, fast forward a few weeks, and Spokane is hit with this nasty windstorm. And Dr. Fillmore calls Ben himself telling him that his fence was knocked down, and asking him if he was interested in a trade!!! It was such a huge blessing for Ben and I am so very glad that it worked out for him!
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He went in on Thursday afternoon. I was going to take him, but the night before he found out that kids weren't allowed even in the waiting room at the surgery center. I felt really bad for not being able to come, but it was kind of too late to figure out kid schedules and babysitters. Plus, it was only like a 20 minute surgery, and Kirt offered to take him and bring him home to our house. So, I waited to take care of him when he got home. It was kind of like having a blind man that first day for a few hours. He had to stay away for 2 hours, putting eye drops in his eyes every 10 minutes. So, that's what we did. He was still his Ben self and said that his eyes just stung.</div>
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I had to go pick up Tucker from school, but Jackson was in charge of keeping him awake for the 10 minutes I was gone.</div>
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He didn't know what to think of the whole thing, and about daddy wearing those goggles. :) Taylor was freaked out. When Ben first walked through the door, she ran and hid in her bedroom. I finally found her and had to force her downstairs to see Ben. I think the whole thing just freaked her out, and she didn't know what to expect from him. I didn't understand her reaction until I picked up Tucker from school, and I reminded him that daddy had had the eye surgery that day and Tucker asked me what color his new eyes were. I wasn't sure how to respond to that, but apparently Ben had told them he was getting new eyes and they thought that he literally was getting new eyes!!! :) ha ha. So, Taylor was freaked out by it and Tucker just wanted to know what color his new eyes were. Our poor children and having to deal with their father! :)</div>
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Every 10 minutes for the first day, even after he woke up! He finally got to go to bed and slept until about 11pm and woke up and said his eyes felt great and he could already see better!!! It is so amazing to me that one little surgery can have such an effect on him! It's amazing! After being up for a few hours, they were getting sore, so he went back to bed and woke up the next morning being able to see perfectly and feeling great! It was a great recovery and this is what I get to sleep with every night for the next two weeks. He has to wear the goggles at night for 2 weeks so he doesn't rub them! So sexy!</div>
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While Ben was sleeping, a package from Grandma Glo came with some more Christmas presents. Our house was littered with little toys and spirographs, and googley eyed glasses, and floating discs, and stuffed animals, and iron catapults from castles in England and blow up dinosaurs and books and all sorts of goodies! We love packages and my kids are so lucky to have such fun and loving and wonderful grandparents. Tucker said, 'MOM, this is like our 4th Christmas!!!' :)</div>
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And another one with her coat and backpack. This is what I get to kiss goodbye every morning and she is such a sweetie!</div>
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Then I got to hang out with this turd for awhile. I had places to go and things to do, but I just couldn't help but sit her and take pictures of him while he colored. He has just recently gotten into coloring and the way and intensity that he does it just makes me smile so much!</div>
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And he really could color for hours. He really has started to love it! And looks especially cute in his 'Dinosaurus' hat! :)</div>
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Friday afternoon we had our McDonalds group playdate lunch. I love these lady friends of mine! It was Hannah's birthday and would have been a perfect excuse to take a picture of us, but of course, the only one I got was of the kids 'cleaning' McDonalds! :) We were so into our conversation that none of us noticed for a while what the kids were doing, and we looked over and they were doing this:</div>
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I am so very lucky for Hannah (and Paige), Dori (and George and Giles), Marianne (and Crosby) and Amber (and Maggie). I love our friendship and the love and support these ladies bring to me and my life. They make me laugh so much and we all just click and I feel very blessed to have them as friends. We've made it through a windstorm together, we can get through anything!! :) Marianne's grandma had just passed away the day before so we were crying and laughing with her talking about her sweet grandma. And it was Hannah's birthday so we were munching on cake pops and I just love these women so much!</div>
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Friday night basketball. Love the basketball, don't love that all of our Friday nights for the past two months have been spent here at the HUB. Even a day after his surgery, Ben was there coaching the kids. They love him so much and he is such a great coach. And the parents love him too, which I'm happy about! :) I feel like Tucker is finally coming around and getting to be a better player. Now that there is only one week left of the season! :)</div>
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But really, I'm just glad that he is enjoying it and gets to play with some friends, and have his dad as his coach.</div>
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Friday night was a double header, 5:15 and 6:15. Marianne was there for the 5:15 game and so I was distracted and enjoying myself. She headed out after the first game and Mike came. And during that second game, my head really started pounding. I could tell a Migraine was coming on. I had woken up at 5 on Thursday to go to a class at the gym with Abbey and Meg, and even though they both wussed out, I still went. So, I don't know if it was the early morning combined with the late night with Ben the night before or what, but something hit me hard and it was a bad Migraine. After the game, I was able to get the kids outta there pretty quickly, I really just wanted to get home and go to bed. We were going to go out with the Mortensens, but I told Ben I couldn't. He ran to the store really fast and I took the kids home. I didn't even make it home before having to pull over to the side of the road to puke out my door! It was so lovely. Migraines make me puke. That is what I'm learning. I've only had 3-4 in my lifetime, but they are miserable and I'm afraid that I'm just going to keep on getting more and more as I get older! POO!!! I was going to take Tucker to the new star wars movie on Saturday and to see his friend Jason in the free throw competition, but everything on Saturday got cancelled, and I stayed in my jammies all day with a headache. I took Migraine medicine on Friday night, but I've also learned that a dull headache usually lasts for a few days after. Plus my body was just so weak and sore after barfing so freaking much. It was a bad barf!</div>
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I was able to wake up on Sunday morning, still with a little headache and I went to the general session of stake conference, BY MYSELF! It was so wonderful and I'm so glad I went. I almost let my headache keep me home. But Ben said he would stay with the kids and let me go since he went the night before. I just wasn't up to dealing with the kids through 2 hours of having to sit still. :)</div>
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Sweet Taylor left these two pictures on Tucker's bed. She is so thoughtful and always wants to create things for others. </div>
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Jessy texted me and asked me if I could make a baptism announcement for her son Will. That is totally my thing. I spent a lot of the week working on this, and I just love doing stuff like this. It's so fun for me, and then I can email her the print and she can do what she wants with it. It was so fun! </div>
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Although, I'm not sure how I get anything done with this guy always at my feet:</div>
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He doesn't like me to have my attention on anything but him and will yell, MOM MOM MOM over and over again until I give him the attention he needs! :)</div>
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I did however manage to get a few other things done this week. Little booklets we will be giving out at the YM/YW activity next week:</div>
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I was pretty pleased with how they turned out! :)</div>
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Also, Stake Conference inspired me to write down some goals that I've had in mind. I have a lot of things floating around that aren't offical goals. Like going to the gym more, (3x's a week per Ben or my new membership to MUV fitness is bye bye) and blogging weekly so I can remember the little things better and to better keep track of a 'family journal' type of thing. (like remembering that Jackson calls dinosaurs dinosaurus's right now) But the number one thing I'm working on this year is my spirituality. So, I've come up with 2 things every day, 2 things every week and 2 things every month I'm going to do. They are simple and easy things, and things I should be doing anyway, but they are the things that are so easy for me to skip for some reason, so I'm holding myself accountable.</div>
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Ready & Pray every day.</div>
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Sunday School & FHE every week.</div>
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Fast & Temple every month.</div>
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So far, so good for the year. I love the change I feel in my life when I'm doing good at these little things. I know that they make a BIG difference! So, here goes! I even made myself this pretty little chart to color in every night!</div>
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Of course, we started our day with a pajama dance party...</div>
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And our destination for today was the Mexican Mercado. It was so cool. It's a downtown area, like a street block of Mexican stores, kind of like a flea market and restaurants. I loved it, I loved the bright colors and the shiny banderas hanging from the ceiling. It was awesome, totally my kind of place!</div>
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In the restaurant we ended up going to to eat, there were even some nuns in the entry way selling jewelry for their church...</div>
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I mean, these shiny banderitos, were so beautiful just strung up EVERYWHERE! I loved it!</div>
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So funny story about this Mariachi band. They just came over to our table and started singing, so we just thought it was part of the restaurant atmosphere, and we were singing and dancing along with them having a great time, and I was going to tip them a few bucks, but when they were done they just started at me, because I was the one speaking Spanish. And so I was just staring at them and it was a bit awkward, and finally one of them goes, 'that's 15 dollars!' We were all just laughing because we didn't ask them over, like who does that? But it was still fun, the kids had a blast!</div>
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And honestly, just looking back through these pictures and seeing all of the drinks on the table. We were SO freaking hot from walking around the mercado, that I just remember being famished by the time we sat at our table and we were all just dying for water. The humidity there is bad, just like in Alabama. And when you're out in it in the middle of the day, it's killer!</div>
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This little mister loves his cousin Kenzie. He always wanted to hug her and love on her. It was really cute!</div>
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I love how his face is so serious in this picture, like he loves her so much! :)</div>
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And then he really starts to feel it. I mean, the eye close and everything!!! haha</div>
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After lunch grandma offered to let the kids get their faces painted in the little outdoor walkway of the mercado. The older ones all wanted it so of course, grandma gave in! :)</div>
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That night Jason and Kayla had plans to go to Lady Antebellum. Jason had gotten Kayla tickets for her birthday. So grandma and I were left in charge to babysit the kids. I'm glad they got to go out and have a fun date night. And it was even fun for us to just hang with the kids after a long day. It was fun helping Kayla get all dressed up for her country concert! :)</div>
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I don't remember what movie we watched, but the girls got to make this cute little pallet bed together and had we had a great time! We tag teamed them and it wasn't actually that bad!</div>
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Like I said, we loved our lazy morning dance parties with our cousins!
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I love this girl; she is the BEST!!</div>
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We spent Wednesday at Sea World again! Day 2 in Sea World was just as fabulous! I swear I love Sea World so much! I wish I lived in San Antonio just for Sea World!!!</div>
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I was just in heaven watching all of these beautiful whales and dolphins doing these amazing tricks. I could have watched it all day. </div>
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OK, I was laughing so hard when I was going through all of my pictures. I had about 50 of me looking like this:</div>
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It was so freaking bright out, that whenever I would go to take a picture of something I couldn't even see it on my phone. So, who knows what I was actually trying to take a picture of, but Here's me looking REAL good!!!</div>
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Next up on our day was the Shamu Show. So cool! The Stadium is huge and the whales are amazing! We got great seats and even got wet at some points, which Taylor hated! :) I was just in awe of these amazing animals. </div>
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And even Burton loved the show!!! It was fun going and having time to go to the bigger shows. Sea World has SO much to offer, I could go every day!</div>
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After our trek in the hot hot sun, we stopped at the really cool little kid area. It is so cool, with water and fountains and slides and play areas galore! Although, I think it took me like an hour to find Tucker when it was time to leave, it was so big with all these different levels and nets and slides and ladders. But it was perfect for the kids! Too bad we're covering the entire play area up in this very lovely picture of us ladies! :)</div>
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Next up was some more fun in the water park area. I swear, I would live in this place if I lived this close. And another fun time was had by all at the water park. Poor Tucker, was just dying to go on the big slides, but doesn't have anyone his age to go with. I usually had to help with babies, and so he was stuck playing in areas that weren't as 'fun' for him. I did get to hang out with this cutie and that made my whole day!!</div>
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Tucker and I ran real quick to the penguins while Kayla and grama got the car and by the time that Tucker and I were out to meet them at the front, this one was gone. That's when you know it's been a good day at Sea World!!!</div>
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Next day was down day to hang and relax. AKA...FREE Chic-fil-a!!!!
WOO-HOO! I can not tell you how much I love Chic-fil-a and how sad it makes me that we don't have one in Spokane. Anyway, it just happened to be free chic-fil-a day if you come in dressed as a cow. Of course, we had to do it!</div>
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I would seriously eat there every day if I could. And seriously, their free meals that we got that day, they like go all out!</div>
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That night our big plans were to do family pictures downtown at the San Fernando Cathedral. I also wanted to see the Riverwalk since everyone told me how cool it was. Downtown San Antonio is so cool. It was just so nice walking around. The weather was nice in the evenings. The City is so cool and has a lot of history and really cool buildings. So much Mexican culture. The Riverwalk is awesome. But first up was the pictures. The Cathedral was so cool, and I think we only spent a total of like 15-20 minutes on the pictures. But they turned out super cute!</div>
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Oh my gosh, I just love that Burton! Kayla is so freakin' photogenic!</div>
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After we did the family shoot, we had to do a sexy session of just Kayla. I mean, just look at those lips!!! hahaha</div>
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I'm not sure what Tucker is doing in this pictures. Maybe he was sad that we had to wait like an hour for a table at The Hard Rock Cafe. But it's grandma Kelly's favorite place, and she always wants to go there when we go places, so we waited it out and just hung out by the riverwalk while we waited.</div>
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And here is grandma and her grandkids...</div>
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Finally we were in. And, of course, it's a really cool restaurant and we had a great time! And grandma requested her favorite Led Zeppelin!!! HAHA</div>
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And the kids all got milkshakes, which they loved!!</div>
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It was a fun day and evening exploring SA and eating delicious foods! :)</div>
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