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School Days
School is now back in session. Michaela, Anthony, Natalie, and Trevor all started on August 31st but Abigail had a bit longer to wait. It was only a few days but to her it felt so long until her turn...
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Birthday Girl!
Emersynne had a birthday last week. She knew it was coming and was so excited when the day finally arrived. We even heard her around the house singing "happy birthday to me"Emersynne is very much into...
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Ouch!
Abigail clobbered Trevor yesterday. They were outside playing with their swim noodle light sabers. They have a PVC pipe handle and of course Trevor got hit with the PVC pipe end. Poor guy. He knew it...
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A Few days after the attack
Trevor has been a good sport with his fat lip. Just a few days after the event it is amazing how much better it looks.
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Crazy Halloween
The unexpected sure did catch us by surprise this year. The last day of October found all my kiddies home from school because of a snow storm that dumped 14 plus inches of snow over the weekend. The...
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A Book of Mormon Story
Just watched this with my kids and Ethan and Evan from our ward. Great animation. Even better story.
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Our aspiring young artist
Natalie has really taken a liking to the Percy Jackson series. Here is some fan art that she generated.
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Another Year Older...
....and wiser too! Happy Birthday Michaela.Yesterday was Michaela's birthday. Between early morning seminary, school, and the youth temple trip we decided to celebrate Michaela's birthday on Monday....
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Freedom Trail
After living in Massachusetts for ten years we figured it was time for us to experience the Freedom Trail. Since the kids had the day off Jeremiah decided to take it off and we planned for an all day...
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This is what Christmas means
Now I feel bad. I'll take a better picture and post it later, but what you don't see very well here is that Natalie, when I gave her some paper and some crayons, drew a picture of the Holy Birth and...
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Do-bee-do-bee-do-ba-do-bee-do-bee-do-ba
I wonder if my kids would be impressed if they saw who was hiding behind some seldom used icons on the desktop of my work computer?
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Black out bullying
The governor of the state of Massachusetts declared today "No Name Calling Day" to help students understand that bullying will not be tolerated. The schools asked the kids to wear black today to show...
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A new smile!
Abigail lost her first tooth today. It has been wiggly for a long time and she has been waiting and waiting for it to fall out. It had a little help from mommy but is now safely tucked under her pillow...
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Actual Eye of the Dark Lord may vary
Tamara and I had such a blast at the Cheesecake Factory on Saturday. This makes three times that we have met with there some other couple or couples from our ward after the adult session of stake...
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My little young man
Earlier this month Anthony turned twelve. What a big milestone! He got to celebrate with some friends by going rock climbing AND have a family party on his birthday. His request for his birthday dinner...
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Creative Play
Trevor almost missed the bus this morning because he was playing in his room instead of getting ready for school. After everyone left I went upstairs wondering what mess of toys I was going to find. I...
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Music Play
I got some pretty sweet presents yesterday. Two pounds of chocolate (half is really an early present for Tamara), Spam bandaids, dozens of snickerdoodles, new gloves, pens, favorite candies, The Prince...
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Our weekend away
With Jeremiah's parents coming into town for two weeks Jeremiah and I jumped at the chance to get away for a few days and the kids got to spend some one-on-one time with Grandma Vicki and Grandpa...
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Pirate Party
The birthday pirate!I found some cute pirate food ideas online and after doing some prep work I left Michaela to create. She did an awesome job!Croissant crabsOctopus DipThe highlight of the party was...
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It's great to be eight!
Two days after his eighth birthday Trevor was baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was a really big day and he was very excited. He put quite a bit of time and...
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Graduation
Today was a big day for Anthony. He is officially done with Elementary school and will be moving onto Junior High. Anthony had a really good year with straight A's all year long. He's a hard worker...
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Biking
Since March Anthony has been working on his Biking Merit Badge with his scout troop. They've had lots of check rides that have been gradually getting longer in preparation for the two day, 75 mile,...
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Conference Sunday
I guess someone else has given up on posting to the blog (really, she's pretty busy), so here's a little vignette of us. We took a walk around the neighborhood in between sessions of General Conference...
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Creeper Chocolate Bar Wrappers
For Trevor's Minecraft party, we made these wrappers to put on the Hershey bars (1.55 oz) in the party favor bags.I couldn't find a template that fit, so I made one.
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