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Adam went to Bartlett the week before Sam went to camp. They had some work projects for anyone that wanted to come up and help, so Jamie and Adam went up Friday evening, got him set up, and Jamie came home the next day.</div>
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Before we dropped Sam off at Aspen Ridge we drove up and said hi to Adam. (Okay, yes, his mom needed to see that he was okay.) Of course he was.</div>
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A Madeleine letter to Adam. When ending her letters she always says, "Love Adam" or "Love (whoever she's writing it to)," I guess saying she loves them. So even though I write it correctly, I always have to say that she did it. I love her fun drawings, and that pretty much every sentence is "I love . . ." and "I like . . ."</div>
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<br />Marnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17444735204136349983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7200462350505997429.post-78145771465468687932014-09-14T20:44:00.000-07:002014-09-14T20:44:18.588-07:00Sam at Aspen RidgeWhile I seem to be on a roll...<br />
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This summer we had two boys at two different scout camps. As our family motto seems to be, why be bored? If there is a choice that will create more chaos, we are all over it. :)<br />
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Actually, it was a good thing. Busy and chaotic at times, yes, but it was a really good summer for each of them.<br />
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Aspen Ridge is in a beautiful area near Preston, Idaho.<br />
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Moving Sam's bed down to his tepee. His was the furthest left in the picture.</div>
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Settled in!</div>
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Jamie had been to Aspen Ridge for camp once, and Sam went for a day last year during family camp, but the rest of us had never been there. So we took a bit of a walk around.</div>
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My mother heart strings were pulled hard. Looking back while driving away I could see him standing next to his tepee just watching us. Ouch! From there I wondered every day how he was doing.</div>
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The next weekend we got to find out since we had to pick him up and bring him home for an NYLT course he was helping to staff as a troop guide. When we arrived, the camp staff was in a meeting, and they were on their way to being a team.</div>
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Double Top - Aspen Ridge's big hike. On Wednesdays they wake up at 4 am and start the hike at 4:30 am if their troop wants to do it. Sam said he did it 5 times during the summer.</div>
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This cool bison watches over Driggs.</div>
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Today we headed into Teton for the day. Adam really wanted to hear elk bugling, and this is the first time we've been up there at the right time for that. Talking to a ranger, he said we were there at pretty much peak time of the year, but they don't really get going until about 7:55 pm, but from there they go like mad till about 2 am. Unfortunately, we had about a 5 hour drive home, so leaving at 8 pm wasn't really in the cards. Still, we were hopeful.</div>
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We took a drive out past Mormon Row and found a big herd of antelope. We watched them for quite a while and Adam got pictures through his binoculars.</div>
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We decided to try out this trail. It was 1.7 from the trailhead to a fork in the trail, so we decided to go to the fork and come back. Adam said he heard an elk bugle off in the distance when he first walked over to check out the trail sign and we were still gathering up.</div>
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It really was a beautiful trail! I'm glad we chose it.</div>
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Adam found this bit of what we think is elk fur.</div>
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Several really big boulders along the trail.</div>
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Beautiful Teton view</div>
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Isaac really liked scratching at this tree when we stopped for a few minutes.</div>
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At one point we heard it - an elk bugling! WOW. Adam pulled out his elk calls and tried to get it to talk back some more but it didn't work. Still, I want to hear that again someday. Adam's elk videos have gotten to me. Such an amazing sound.</div>
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Finally up to the fork! It took us a while. Madeleine's little legs have been worked a lot the past several days.</div>
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At the fork Jamie stepped off the trail and around a boulder and discovered a deer. We watched it for a bit and took pictures. Made us wonder how many other things were just off the trail.</div>
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By the time we got back to the car we needed to get on our way towards home, but he decided we couldn't leave without seeing Jenny Lake. I was beat from packing Isaac on the hike and he was sleeping anyway, so I stayed in the car with him. These are my two Jenny Lake pictures. :)</div>
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I must note - we've been playing the license plate game for a few years now, trying to find all the US states in alphabetical order. Going into this trip we were on Delaware, and were confident - it's a national park after all - that we would get a lot further in the game. Early on in the trip I wrote down all 50 states to see how many total we could get. I'm proud to say that we found 49 states! The only we didn't see? Delaware. ARGH! We were even googling it so we knew what it would look like. The last three we needed were Kentucky, Arkansas, and Delaware, so we even got states like Connecticut and Rhode Island before then. We are already talking about driving around Salt Lake City during general conference. Hopefully there are some religious people that live in Delaware, but apparently they don't like to travel, so maybe we'll still be out of luck.</div>
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Driving back through Jackson headed home, Jamie happened to spot Heidi's Brooklyn Deli and about crashed the car trying to get it to. Do you know I'm married to a food guy? He's only seen Heidi's in the Denver Airport, and looks forward to eating there every time. We had planned on eating sandwichy stuff that we brought pre-trip for dinner, but that plan was lost. It was definitely delicious, even though I had to wolf mine down to change a diaper blowout.</div>
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Driving home we had two deer try to commit suicide, but we didn't let them. We barely missed one smaller one that headed right in front of the van, and another was stopped in the middle of the road then decided to go just as we were passing it. Somehow we missed her too.</div>
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Happy to be home as always, but I already miss it again!<br />
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At the gate we were heading in, we learned we couldn't go into Teton very far that way because the road was closed due to the bears loading up on berries right along the roadway. Apparently they thought that might be a safety issues? We decided to drive in as far as we could. It was through the forest, and we saw a young black bear walking along the road, but it took off fast when the car in front of us started driving on.</div>
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Love the Tetons! Just beautiful.</div>
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My cute bunny. :)</div>
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A bit down the trail and around the corner, there it is through the slats of the walkway on the ground. We couldn't think of any way to retrieve it. :( He got that several years ago on a family vacation to Mesa, then later it broke and lived in a baggie for years. Two general conferences ago he had it all put together a few times, but the ends were too short, or just as he was about to finish it fell apart. He finally gave up. Last general conference he put it all together, and has worn it almost daily since. He picked up Madeleine, the magnetic clasp came apart, and it fell straight through the slats. Guess mom needs to search for the beads to replace it.</div>
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When we got back to the van, this beautiful raven was hanging out right in front of it. He posed perfect while Jamie and I took pictures.</div>
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We took a walk through the Norris Geyser Basin, an area that I don't think I've been to before. Steamboat Geyser, the world's tallest active but very unpredictable geyser, did not perform for us.</div>
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That evening we found a place in West Yellowstone to eat. Isaac practiced his driving while we waited a few minutes for an empty table.</div>
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Took a little drive past the campus there, and wow, it's changed a lot since I was going to school there. Then to the temple.</div>
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More selfies</div>
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One checking their selfie, the other taking one. :)</div>
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Would have been wonderful to have the temple there 20 years ago, but what a blessing to the students there now. So close to campus that it's an easy trip.</div>
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They wanted to go all the way around the temple.</div>
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Carolyn trying to get Isaac to crawl all the way up the hill to me. Nope, he didn't want to.</div>
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There is a big grassy area between the temple and the church next door. The kids got some wiggles out racing.</div>
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From there, on to Ashton, Idaho so Jamie could check off a bucket list item - eating a Double Big Judd. Thankfully, not all by himself. Jamie, Adam, and I all split this.</div>
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Keeping it away from those quick baby hands!</div>
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Sam got a jalapeno burger. Look at those fresh jalapeno slices! Even Bob and Emmett are scared! Sam said it wasn't too hot, but when he was done he mentioned he was at the point when he couldn't think straight.</div>
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(We had an episode of that a few weeks ago with a pepper from our garden, a fiesta pepper. Sam brought it in and sliced it up, and looking at it, I decided it didn't look very hot and tossed in a slice. It came back out really quickly, but yowzah, the spice was bad and hung on for a long time. Sam ate one and swallowed it down. A bit later he said something along the lines of, "I can't even think straight," then promptly sat on a play table the girls had been using for a tea party. They had cleaned up the dishes, but it was still wet. I about died laughing. A bit later he mentioned that his nose was numb, and I noticed that yes, mine was also feeling strange. And thus we see, normal people avoid hot peppers for good reason.)</div>
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Then up to Driggs, Idaho where Jamie had reserved a couple of cabins. They were really nice but also really reasonably priced.</div>
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Of course the top bunk was coveted, so two shared it one night and Sam had it the second night. The four oldest slept in here.</div>
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After the littles were all mostly settled I went over to say goodnight to the big kids. They were all sitting on the futon watching "Cool Runnings." I didn't have my camera, but took a picture of all of them with Adam's. We bought popcorn at a local grocery store earlier, so I popped a bag of regular, a bag of jalapeno (yes, he wanted more hot stuff), and a bag or marshmallow popcorn. When I got back to the other cabin with the smell of it all still hanging on me, Jamie and I both wanted to make some of our own, but decided we wanted to let the littles sleep even more. I guess we should have popped some in the other cabin and brought it back.</div>
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On our way! (Missing a few heads!)</div>
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We were shooting for lunch in Idaho Falls, but Isaac was done with the car by Blackfoot so we stopped there and ate at a park. It was COLD and WINDY!!!! Most of us weren't done eating when we decided to pack back up in the car and drive on. We were a little worried about what the weather was going to be like for the rest of the trip.</div>
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At the Idaho Falls Temple we were happy to find that there was no wind and it was much warmer. Thank goodness!</div>
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Sam was in charge of pictures with "Bob Computerton" (left), but he brought a few other friends along as well. After today, sadly Bob kind of got forgotten and stayed in Sam's pocket. But he had some fun here!</div>
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Erin playing some fun temple games.</div>
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Melanie and Sam checking out some Idaho Falls Temple history. The pink paper in front of them is a ticket to the dedication many years ago. With the Ogden Temple dedication coming up, I pointed out how their tickets will be exciting historical items someday.</div>
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Jamie and Marni, with a great photo bomb by Adam.</div>
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<br />Marnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17444735204136349983noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7200462350505997429.post-19835312094470345492014-09-14T15:04:00.001-07:002014-09-14T15:10:43.551-07:00Timpanogos CaveI was reminded recently that it's been a while here since I've posted anything. I've been working on a family history project and have been debating with myself on ancestor family history vs. current family history - a challenging problem. Something else I've been thinking about lately, partially because of the lack of pictures in much of the ancestor family history. What is it about our time now that we need so much documentation? I've taken a couple thousand pictures this year at least. It helps that I have an adorable little baby so it's cute to snap shots of him doing basically anything, but world-wide there is an incredible amount of records being created. Why?<br />
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Besides family camp, our family hasn't taken a really real family vacation for I don't know how long. Last week Jamie's schedule freed up, we decided we could skip some of our homeschool group things, and off we went!<br />
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We started with a closer expedition to Timpanogos Cave.<br />
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Stopping to read about the points along the trail.</div>
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The little girls decided this is a fairy slide.</div>
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Cool to see how the plants work so hard to survive in all these rocks.</div>
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We happened upon a small rattlesnake! The rangers at the top, including our guide (apparently the snake expert), confirmed that. We couldn't really see a rattle, but again, it was probably pretty young. Our guide said there are enough people back and forth along the trail that even bigger rattlesnakes up there usually don't rattle.</div>
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A look down towards the valley.</div>
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Yay! We are getting close!</div>
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Madeleine hiked the whole way up, inside, and back!</div>
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We had an excellent guide! We told him we homeschool, so he said he expected lots of questions. The girls were more than happy to ask away. There was only one other person in the group with us, so it was a pretty cozy tour.</div>
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Of course the inside the cave pictures are never as good as the real thing. Oh well. The guide told us that Madeleine is the perfect height for the cave, that everyone else would have to do a lot of ducking and bending. He was right! Madeleine kept pointing it out. "I don't even have to duck! This is the perfect size for me!"</div>
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Headed back down!</div>
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The other day at the park. Issac learned how to sit early this week!</div>
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Woo hoo! Waiting for our first bird show of the year.</div>
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On Saturday, this guy got hankering for some good food. He found a really great recipe for <a href="http://www.livinglocurto.com/2013/07/bbq-ribs-blackberry-sauce/" target="_blank">blackberry rib sauce</a>, and was all over trying it out. With ribs already in the freezer from a good deal a while back, he was in business.</div>
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Shortly after the cooking was over and we were beginning blackberry rib bliss, this guy came home from being a pioneer for 3 days with some of our homeschool friends. We got to hear some of his stories in between bites.</div>
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In the picture below you can see our favorite s'more method. Those Keebler striped cookies with the marshmallow are much easier and in my opinion better than the traditional graham cracker and chunk of chocolate. The chocolate is well-spread and melts nicely, and the cookie breaks without being getting really crumby.</div>
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This is my favorite picture of the evening. Looking at the picture above, I was sitting in the chair next to Jamie with Isaac on the grass between as, as you see him above. While I was getting pictures of everyone, I turned the camera to get him but couldn't see what I was getting very well. After taking this, I pulled my phone up to see if it took very well. Jamie quickly started telling Madeleine to get her s'more away from Isaac, but apparently his quick little fingers had already grabbed enough to get marshmallow. By the time I turned again (seriously, seconds), it was on his hands, shirt, and blanket. I ran in for wipes, and by the time I got back his pants were involved too. I love the pre-chaos captured here, with Madeleine's hand tempting him with the perfect s'more.</div>
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Today after church I asked Adam what he wants to eat this last week before he heads off to camp again. After dutch oven cooking on the pioneer trail, dutch oven potatoes topped the list. Knowing today was probably more low-key than the rest of the week, we dove into that and had most of the pre-cooking preparation done when Jamie got home from after church meetings. He quickly set us straight on the appropriate dutch oven potatoes recipe ingredients, and the men folk got to cooking.</div>
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Adam wasn't nearly as forgiving, telling her she got it all over the place (mainly where the top of it fell on the counter). Then he realized a little drip had flown across the counter and got on his iPad, and started to tease her about it.<br />
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She grinned and started heading over.<br />
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Adam has a deep fear of sisterly physical contact (and motherly for that matter), so he quickly picked up a chair to block her and started shrieking, "You've repented enough! You've repented enough! Go make your muffins and give service to the world!"<br />
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One of those moments I wish I could have had on video, but without that, journaling will have to suffice.Marnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17444735204136349983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7200462350505997429.post-15342009449766835302014-03-02T16:18:00.003-08:002014-03-02T16:22:48.121-08:00Food QuestYesterday Jamie mentioned being on a quest, though he didn't say for what. A bit later I learned it was a quest to make some delicious salsa. I do believe he succeeded. (Thanks <a href="http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2010/01/restaurant-style-salsa/" target="_blank">Pioneer Woman</a>.)<br />
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He's a great food quester. At least to my tastebuds, he's already achieved amazing brisket and pulled pork, and being married to him, I thankfully get to partake every time he does. There is always excitement in the air when he's on a quest.<br />
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A few years ago my quest was to make good bread. Previous attempts had failed, even with tried and tested recipes. I studied bread like crazy, and can now make a really good batch of rolls. And yet, just like hitting the same note on the piano gets old after a while, most of the household seems bored of those rolls. They eat them like crazy straight of the pan, but cooled off and in the bag, they usually end up sitting for days. I need to start trying some different recipes again.<br />
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My biggest food quest right now is for delicious chocolate chip cookies. <a href="http://sallysbakingaddiction.com/2013/05/13/chewy-chocolate-chunk-cookies/" target="_blank">This recipe</a> is my latest favorite, although for some reason it doesn't seem to make as many as <a href="https://www.theredheadedhostess.com/home-and-family/my-recipes/chocolate-chip-cookie-bliss-a-love-story/" target="_blank">this one</a> (also excellent) or others I've had around long, even when the ingredient amounts are similar. Maybe I have more cookie dough thieves (including myself). Almost every day I think about wanting to make chocolate chip cookies, but I know I eat a whole bunch (cookies and dough), so I can't do it as often as I'd like.<br />
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These are my favorite chocolate chips. I am very happy to eat them straight out of the package.<br />
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Check out the amazing variety of cookies at <a href="http://sallysbakingaddiction.com/category/cookies/" target="_blank">Sally's Baking Addiction</a>. You could spend a whole lot of time trying out all the varieties she makes!</div>
<br />Marnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17444735204136349983noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7200462350505997429.post-49001804444731520942014-01-08T18:17:00.002-08:002014-03-02T16:19:17.628-08:00Millions of Kids, InterestMadeleine - "That would be great if we had a million boys and a million girls!" (She paused to think for a moment, then stated very matter of factly.) "That would be a lot of kids to get doing."<br />
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We got bank statements in the mail, and all the kids were comparing their savings and noticed the interest. They've been joking about those getting a penny every month, and weeping and wailing about those getting more (like a nickel - LUCKY!). We talked about interest and how that works (Khan Academy has videos about it!), then Sammy made this very insightful statement: "There's interest, and pinterest. Satan has sinterest." What a clever, funny boy.Marnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17444735204136349983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7200462350505997429.post-87576439061027128092014-01-08T18:16:00.002-08:002014-01-08T18:16:19.741-08:00And Then There Were 7!(Here I go again - wrote most of this up 3 weeks ago!)<br />
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When we walked into the hospital room this is the first thing we saw. Jamie said his heart melted, so he had to take a picture. His first ever diaper! :)<br />
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I brought a couple movies we could watch, the main one being "Pure Luck," our standard labor movie (it's quite the experience trying to laugh while having contractions), but this time around we didn't ever turn it on. Jamie and I both had books and sat in there reading the whole time. The nurse kept coming in and commenting about how calm I was and how quiet the room was. She would crank the pitocin a bit more and come back expecting something different, but I was still reading away. Not saying I'm tough or anything. Guess it was a really engaging book? ("The Seer and the Sword," and yes, I do recommend it. Similar to "Goose Girl" in some ways. I finished just before baby was born.) Eventually the doc got involved and started cranking the pitocin even higher, but things still weren't affecting me as roughly as she thought they should be. "I AM having a contraction! Right now!" Not long after that it was time to call for the epidural which does move everything faster for me. The doc left for just over an hour, and right before she came back I had the nurse check and we were definitely ready.</div>
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The proud dad! What a blessing to have had this experience with him 7 times now. All those babies don't remember those days, but I do. For the record, my second favorite moment (second only to finally getting to hold the sweet little person we've been waiting and waiting to meet) is always just before each baby makes their entrance. I look up and dad has tears in his eyes, and I know then that the time is very close. Love that moment.</div>
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The kids were all home together, hanging out since that morning waiting to hear the news. Jamie handed me the phone, and when I told them they have a new baby brother they cheered and cheered. Madeleine, who was the biggest "it's a girl!" team member, but she very happily told me multiple times during the next few days that "It's okay that our baby is a boy." She looooooves him. When he was 4 weeks old she told me, "I thought our baby was a girl! But I looked in the window (hospital nursery window?) and he was laying there." She flopped onto her back, then continued, "He was saying, 'It's so hot in here. Why is it so hot in here?" :)</div>
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That night he was born while I alone cuddling our new baby boy (I love and cherish my quiet time the first night when I can soak my new baby in), I pulled up Jamie's facebook page to see what he had said about the baby, and noticed a family picture. Almost startled me - it wasn't right! It had suddenly and sweetly become so outdated. Wonderful how quickly someone so new and little can become so big and important.</div>
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I'm glad that even my big toughy enjoys his cuddle time. He was having a rough time on some of his schoolwork one day and I offered to see what I could do to help him out. He finally obliged, but I told him he needed to hold the baby while I did it. <u>Immediately</u>, the stress was gone and he melted.</div>
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I feel so incredibly blessed! Many times the craziness and difficulties get the better of me, but many many more times I can hardly stand how wonderful my life is. I have excellent, intelligent, creative, crazy children. Every day I do my best to not ruin them by getting in their way too much. </div>
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I'm also married to a great man who loves me and blesses our home. I deeply appreciate his patience (yes, that's not a typo) and his ability to take one-on-one time with our kids doing things like going to the store and involving them with cooking (two activities I should be better at but am always in the "let's get 'er done!" mode instead of the "let's have fun together!" mode). I <u>love</u> it when he tells me about a great book or a great talk he knows I would enjoy.</div>
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Especially right now it's such a special blessing to have another baby in our home. Trying, trying every day to soak in his priceless babyhood. I know from 6 other experiences that it will be gone far too quickly. Love you sweet boy!</div>
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Adam has stopped being compliant when I'm trying to take fun pictures of the kids.</div>
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They have a new water area put in this summer, but since we don't like fighting the crowds during that busy season, we didn't have any idea. The kids had a blast with the jumping water fountain.</div>
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Sam was the best at catching it right in the chest.</div>
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<br />Marnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17444735204136349983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7200462350505997429.post-27759317525246228962013-10-30T15:00:00.000-07:002013-10-30T15:00:03.984-07:00Dice, Biking, Walking, School, and suchI was chastised in a roundabout way the other day for not keeping this updated, so here's a few latest.<br />
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<b>Rolling the Dice</b><br />
You'd think with a 12 passenger van, 8 people could find seats they were happy with. You'd think. After a brief honeymoon of seat happiness, it got to the point that the coveted seat was the one right behind the front passenger (closest to the door for the kids in back to get out). Since it was always the same one or two that ended up getting it and that always involved arguing, I declared that they would have to ask for special permission to sit there so others would get the chance. Apparently this seat is so important, that after a much longer time of that working, I would have people (the same couple that were always fighting in the first place), racing each other to ask me, sometimes 20 minutes before the bus was even leaving. I know I should be understanding, but is the place you occupy for 3 minutes to church so important that you have to think that far ahead to try to secure prime real estate? They were (usually) fine when I told them it was someone else's turn, but in a moment of frustration (and cleverness), I changed methods. I found a 12-sided dice in my dice stash, assigned a number to most seats (driver, front passenger, and Madeleine's car seat spot don't count), and they roll the dice and sit where it tells them. And so far so good! We'll see how long this one lasts. It's been a couple months, and I really like it. Funny, though. The one who still stresses about it the most first thought it would be best to roll first, but now goes to the end of the line. Again, probably my mistake, but I've been known to allow the last person to spread things out instead of having four people packed on the back seat when the other two benches are almost empty. He picked up on it very quickly.<br />
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<b>Madeleine and the Baby</b><br />
A couple weeks ago Madeleine was sitting next to be when the baby really started moving, to the break dancing belly point. I pointed and asked her if she could see the baby moving in my tummy. She looked over and grinned. She would hug and kiss my tummy before then, but now it's even more. One day after she kissed it, she put her hand on the back of my head, told me to kiss the baby, and pushed. I challenge you to kiss your tummy, even 7 1/2 months pregnant when it's closer than normal.<br />
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Adam is positively rocking his BYU-I concurrent enrollment classes. He's gone from telling me two classes plus everything else he's doing is way too much, to really enjoying all that he's learning. I encouraged him to go easy this first semester, so he's taking an English class and American Foundations. He's gotten a lot of great feedback on his English assignments, and the A.F. class has been connecting well with things we're studying in our homeschool group. It's been fun hearing what he's learning, and he's been a blessing to our class by sharing it. I can definitely see the effects our homeschooling has had on him too. It's not something he's doing just to get the grade and move on like I know I did, but really thinking through and internalizing the material. While I've been working on this he's been watching a video for a class, and when I asked him about it, I got a whole lot of response, not just from the video, but his own thoughts too. Love it.<br />
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<b>50 Mile Bike Ride</b><br />
Sammy did a 50 mile bike ride a couple weekends ago with some of the other scouts. It took most of the day, and 10 miles away from the finish he got two flat tires, one that had been fixed over and over already, and had to pull out. But he and Adam rode around the neighborhood later that evening to finish the last 10. He was pretty beat, but he did it!<br />
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This picture was showing off his cool bike helmet hair.<br />
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Jamie and I have both been walking a lot lately. He got a free FitBit through work but wanted one with more features, so he bought himself a better one and gave me the free one. It's pretty fun to track and compare your daily step count with friends, and is definitely a motivator to get out when you see someone is just a couple thousand steps away from you. My time and preggo body don't get me out as much as Jamie, (he has goals he's working on to be in weekly contests through work), but my preggo body hasn't had some of the normal achiness that it has with other pregnancies.<br />
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On Fridays during choir Madeleine and I will walk to a nearby park so she can play there for a while. When Erin and Carolyn are done and we're waiting for the big kids to finish, we'll walk back to the church and get them, and let them all play together while I walk around the outside of the playground. There are some great climbing trees there too.<br />
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<b>Melanie</b> is loving young women's. She has great leaders there and is working away at her personal progress. She's also taken on some of our harder homeschool classes, including an art and lit class. I wasn't sure if she would be ready for it, but she's been keeping up with the assignments really well. Awesome to have my 12 year old reading things like Cyrano de Bergerac and Henry V. Definitely a lot different than what I was reading in 7th grade.</div>
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<b>Just Overheard</b> Madeleine saying in that sing-song tattletale voice, "Adam just put me in the garbage." Followed by lots of giggling from Sammy and Melanie. Just after that he was putting her somewhere (apparently on a shelf in the closet) and I heard her say, "Adam, I'm going to fall all the way down." After he got her down, she told him, "Adam, that wasn't a good idea." Woe is me.</div>
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<br />Marnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17444735204136349983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7200462350505997429.post-49307947883339592992013-10-28T16:11:00.002-07:002013-10-30T15:00:28.063-07:00Awesome Adventures(Just found most of this in my drafts. Oops! Finished it up to post.)<br />
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Adam had a great summer working at camp again and serving as an NYLT senior patrol leader for a week (I need to get on writing about those).<br />
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But since he's been home he's had some much more extreme adventures. My brother and brother-in-law have been training to do the Grand Canyon rim-to-rim-to-rim, and they invited Adam to join them in some prep hikes.<br />
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A few weeks ago they did 21.6 miles to Ben Lomond Peak in 7 1/2 hours.<br />
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On the way up they saw a herd of mountain goats (those little white things).<br />
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Adam is a tough kid, so it was pretty telling to me when he walked in the door and flopped on the couch.<br />
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Over Labor Day weekend they took on King's Peak. The plan was to leave at 3am, arrive at the area at 6am, and get on the trail. They figured they would get home sometime between 9 and 10pm. Jamie offered to drive them so the extreme hikers could get more rest and be safer, especially on their way home after they would be so completely worn out.<br />
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Here's a picture from along the way:<br />
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A view getting close to the top - about 1100 feet to go!<br />
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For a class Adam is taking he had to create a "This I Believe" statement and from that, create a video/slideshow. Since it totally fits with this, <a href="http://www.screencast.com/t/ETJkHaAiukR" target="_blank">here it is</a>.</div>
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<br />Marnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17444735204136349983noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7200462350505997429.post-52921716069901981892013-09-01T08:43:00.000-07:002013-09-01T08:43:53.817-07:00FlabbergastedI was attempting to repent of one of my many delinquent wifely duties this morning by ironing Jamie's white shirts (case in point - I don't even own an ironing board. Got rid of it several years ago because it was just something else hanging around here).<br />
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Madeleine walked in and started watching me. "What are you doing, mommy?" She thought it was funny to touch the fabric after I had run the iron over it. She was surprised when I squirted it, then offered to help with that. She kept asking about what I was doing, and I guess in my concentration to do a decent job (this is not one of my talents), I wasn't providing her good enough answers. Finally in utter confusion she asked,<br />
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"What the heck is going on here!?!"<br />
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Three year olds are so fun.<br />
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A bit before then she was talking to Jamie about different little scabs on her legs. He pointed out a bruise and asked her how she got it. "That's a rock stain." Yes, she's still a rock lover, so I guess it was a pretty good answer.Marnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17444735204136349983noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7200462350505997429.post-74224231599614897622013-07-30T12:11:00.000-07:002013-07-30T12:11:11.348-07:00Learning to ReadIt's been really interesting teaching my kiddos to read. Since the boys were in school through the early grades, I could rely more on the teachers to do their thing and supplement a lot at home. Both were reading really well coming out of kindergarten because they had an incredible teacher and again, me at home.<br />
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The amazing kindergarten teacher moved to Australia of all places, so Melanie had a different teacher. She didn't do much with reading at all, she walking into first grade she wasn't reading much at all. That was the year we started homeschooling. Melanie chose to go to school, but after the first couple weeks, when she came home from school begged me daily to homeschool. I made her do that for two weeks, and let her know that she wouldn't be bouncing in and out. If she was coming home, she was home for the year. She agreed, and we took her out.<br />
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It took her longer to get reading to click, but as I've found with each of the girls, all it takes is the right book at the right time and they're hooked.<br />
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For Melanie, it was "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/ADVENTURES-ARNOLD-LOBEL-Arnold-Lobel/dp/0760709556/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1375211089&sr=1-1&keywords=adventures+with+arnold+lobel" target="_blank">Adventures with Arnold Lobel</a>" (my favorite story is in the Mouse Tales section called "The Journey"). When she discovered that, she read it over and over and I never had to work with her on reading again. That girl always has a book or her kindle in her hand.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXCROUO2EAmylsGNx44ToRsggOyAsa5387s-_joSHUg-zleTe4-jF4WwLfDSyiCNDQ5eodyH4EiNvvD-gVinWfYYjvdb0W8gz7KJK0u55kwuIQpuUkY5KHXcJYVI1-1gBOCRHfwlu-2asl/s1600/jack+janet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXCROUO2EAmylsGNx44ToRsggOyAsa5387s-_joSHUg-zleTe4-jF4WwLfDSyiCNDQ5eodyH4EiNvvD-gVinWfYYjvdb0W8gz7KJK0u55kwuIQpuUkY5KHXcJYVI1-1gBOCRHfwlu-2asl/s200/jack+janet.jpg" width="146" /></a>Carolyn has struggled even longer. The patterns weren't clicking, and she fought with the same words even after she had read them and written them multiple times. A few weeks ago I noticed the book "Jack and Janet" at my parents' house, and asked if I could borrow it to see if she would be interested. Once she got started, she dug right in and would go hide for an hour working through the stories. Hooray! The magic book! Wanting it to continue, I went online and researched other books in the series, ordered the next two plus one a few books earlier for Erin (who has been picking up reading pretty easily). While Carolyn has been waiting for the next one to arrive, she took over "Adventures with Arnold Lobel" and finished that one the day before "Up and Away" arrived. She is now happily working her way through that one and doing really well. I still think there may be dyslexia or something else there, but it's so wonderful that things are clicking for her.<br />
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When the easier one, "Tip and Mitten," arrived for Erin yesterday, I told her we could check and see if she was ready for it. Before I could sit down with her, she parked herself and read the first two pages. Super proud of herself, she read them to me. Same story as Carolyn, she's been hiding herself away working her way through the book. I've had her read portions here and there, and she's doing fabulous. While I was ordering the book between that and "Jack and Janet," she walked in to tell me she's done, and asked if she could read it again. Of course!<br />
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These older learning-to-read books are actually really good ones. The stories are so sweet - most based around a family and the situations they run into together.Marnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17444735204136349983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7200462350505997429.post-34527571718019231152013-07-30T11:34:00.002-07:002013-07-30T12:11:29.993-07:00Favorite Little Books(Started this a long time ago, but left it to see if I would think of any more. Haven't spent much time thinking about it since, so it must be time to just post.)<br />
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When they kids were little they all had their own specific favorite books that we had to read over and over.<br />
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With Adam it was anything with animals, especially horse books. He beat up <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Cows-Identify-Appreciate/dp/0140273883/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1358612486&sr=8-2&keywords=cow+guide" target="_blank">The Field Guide to Cows</a></i> (simple but clever title when you think about it). And oh, the police, fireman, and ambulance books. Over and over and over.<br />
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There are a surprising number of books with a Sam in them. Besides the regular fun, that's partially why Sammy enjoyed <i>Green Eggs and Ham</i> so much. We also read anything trains. Thomas the Tank Engine was his ultimate favorite, but anything with trains was good. I remember reading <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Im-Taking-Trip-My-Train/dp/B000H2MH8E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1358879662&sr=8-1&keywords=i%27m+taking+a+trip+on+my+train" target="_blank">Taking a Trip on my Train</a></i> a lot. <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sammy-Dinosaurs-Ian-Whybrow/dp/0439285119/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1358884005&sr=1-1&keywords=sammy+and+the+dinosaurs" target="_blank">Sammy and the Dinosaurs</a></i> (though it's now <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Harry-Bucketful-Dinosaurs/dp/0375851194/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1" target="_blank"><i>Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs</i></a> - why?) was great because not only does it have a Sammy, but it also has dinosaurs AND trains. Cute cute story, too.<br />
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I read <i>Where the Wild Things Are </i>and <i>Corduroy</i> to the boys a LOT. The girls never latched on to those very much.<br />
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Melanie started the girl round of books, and that has continued through the others. Anything princess. We would search for princess book after princess book at the library. Melanie still loves princess books - anything Shannon Hale, anything Gail Carson Levine.<br />
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Carolyn - My monkey outdoorsy girl, she loves reading about Jane Goodall (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Me-Jane/dp/0316045462/ref=sr_1_13?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1375208919&sr=1-13&keywords=jane+goodall" target="_blank"><i>Me . . . Jane</i></a> is probably my most favorite favorite picture book biography I've ever read. The ending is perfect, gets me every time.) She also loved reading <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Girls-Who-Looked-Under-Rocks/dp/1584690119/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1358884245&sr=1-1&keywords=girls+that+look+under+rocks" target="_blank">Girls Who Looked Under Rocks</a> </i>with me.<br />
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Jamie bought Erin <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Disney-Princess-The-Enchanted-Stables/dp/1423104781/ref=pd_sim_b_49" target="_blank"><i>The Enchanted Stables</i></a> for her birthday one year. She's a daddy's girl, so that was a favorite for a long time.<br />
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Madeleine loved the <i>Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?</i> books, which are surprisingly educational. Funny when a 1 year old talks about whooping cranes. We read those and <i>Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb</i> more for her than any of the others. She also loves <i>Old Hat, New Hat</i>.<br />
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Some of the girls' favorite books include <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Big-Sister-Little-Charlotte-Zolotow/dp/0064432173/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1358882489&sr=1-1&keywords=big+sister%2C+little+sister" target="_blank">Big Sister, Little Sister</a></i>, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tough-Chicks-Cece-Meng/dp/0618824154/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1375208754&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Tough Chicks</a></i>,<i> </i>and<i> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Princesses-Are-Not-Quitters-ebook/dp/B00ATLUIYI/ref=sr_1_157?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1358614342&sr=1-157&keywords=princess+picture+book" target="_blank">Princesses Are Not Quitters</a>. </i>They all love to listen to those.<br />
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We also really enjoy reading <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=piggy+and+elephant" target="_blank">Piggy and Elephant</a> books, pretty much anything by <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=arnold%20lobel&sprefix=arnold+lobe%2Cstripbooks&rh=i%3Astripbooks%2Ck%3Aarnold%20lobel" target="_blank">Arnold Lobel</a>, and pretty much anything by <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=kevin+henkes" target="_blank">Kevin Henkes</a>. They all have a touch of silly that we really enjoy.Marnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17444735204136349983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7200462350505997429.post-88184592779326625182013-06-06T13:01:00.000-07:002013-06-06T14:14:11.702-07:00Family Snippets<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's been CRAZY around here. I thought it would slow down after Vanguard finished for the year, but then driver's ed took over. Super extremely thankful that the teacher was kind and worked with Adam to get his driving done in two weeks, but some days we would show up and he would cancel, or I would get a phone call and he would cancel, or I wouldn't know what time Adam was supposed to be there to drive, only finding out with an hour or so notice. Still again, very very grateful. He was heading to camp for the summer June 2, with NYLT staff meeting all day June 1, so I had asked the teacher if it were possible to be done May 31. He said he would try. May 30 he told me he was going to test him the next day from 3-4:30 (driver's license place closes at 50, and is about 20 minutes away!). When I dropped Adam off I told him I would be there at 4:15 just in case he gets done early. At about 4:07 he called and asked if I was already on my way - turns out he was done, and the teacher had e-mailed me the completion certificate. I was about halfway there and could pull it up on my phone, but didn't know if the driver's license people would want it printed. Turned around quick to go home and print, raced back to get him, he jumped in the car, and we slowly creeped through traffic to get there. Very agonizing. But still, got there about 4:45. We checked in and waited... they called the person right before us... we waiting a few more minutes... Then someone announced, "It's 5:00. We'll have to finish everyone else another day." Supermom (i.e. me) jumped up to the counter and frantically explained that my son was leaving for 10 weeks, and could they please please take care of him? The lady asked me a few questions (when is he leaving, where is the camp, etc.), I think stalling a bit as people filtered out, then told me to sit down and they would see what they could do. They went about whatever they were doing, more people filtering, people driving away. Finally the lady called us up. Long story short, she lectured us most of the time about planning for more time, even after I explained that he had finished his driving and finished the test and we immediately came over, but we got it done. Hooray!</div>
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The girls and I have been enjoying more free time. Their cousins were in town, so we've been at grandma's house playing a lot while we could. Early this week we took a walk on a trail near our home, went to a park, and came home and had a picnic in the backyard. </div>
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For a long time almost every morning Madeleine would give me a hug and tell me it's my birthday. Lately it's been, "Look mom! It's spring!"</div>
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When I walked in the house there were flowers on the table - one bouquet of brightly colored daisies picked out by Erin and another of yellow roses picked out by Madeleine. Dinner was delicious! Steak with sauteed mushrooms and onions, potatoes, rolls, and pie and ice cream for dessert. I was ultra tired (besides the long day, I didn't sleep well camping because I was cold!), so I headed to bed by 9:30pm. That never happens, mainly because I love that quiet time at night.<br />
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Madeleine woke me up at 6:30 this morning to go potty, then crawled in bed and cuddled with Jamie and I for a bit. Sweet Mother's Day wake up.<br />
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Jamie and Melanie made french toast for breakfast (a favorite!) with orange juice and <a href="http://www.nestleusa.com/en/Brands/Drinks/Abuelita" target="_blank">Abuelita</a> to drink (yummy chocolate milk with cinnamon in it) and I helped clean up. I learned several years ago that I am far more discontent if I'm expecting to be served than if I'm celebrating my ability to love and serve my family.<br />
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After that Melanie gave me some earrings she made in activity days Friday (I've been working and working to get the second one in - a mother's love knows no bounds!), a little notebook, and a nice letter. Carolyn gave me a cupcake covered in treats that she made at activity days (the kids very nicely helped me eat it), Sammy gave me a minifigure, Erin and Madeleine gave me little cards they made, and Adam told me he put up my tent and helped take it down (which was wonderful). A month or so ago Jamie got a stereo for the big van and told me happy Mother's Day, but I got another extra present . . . a new garage door.<br />
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Last week I had pulled into the driveway and stopped, leaned down to gather up things to take into the house, and felt a bump. I looked up, and the garage was really really close. Argh! I sent Jamie a picture with a "don't hate me," and he called laughing (a gift all in itself, even though it really wasn't funny). Happy Mother's Day, a new garage door.<br />
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Still, I got my favorite Mother's Day present from him - a card with a poem that he wrote. I didn't even remember that it was coming this year, so it was a pleasant surprise!<br />
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Read this a few days ago - some <a href="http://fromthefrancisfarm.blogspot.com/2013/05/super-mom.html" target="_blank">beautiful Mother's Day perspective</a> from the <a href="http://stillswinging.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-bread-lady.html" target="_blank">bread lady</a> I wrote about a few months ago.<br />
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<br />Marnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17444735204136349983noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7200462350505997429.post-54248587085133050812013-04-28T22:11:00.000-07:002013-04-29T12:21:58.164-07:00Big Girls, Late, Barker KeysDo you ever feel behind enough that it's just better to start again where you are? Me too. Even though it's been mainly the last month that I've slacked, it feels like climbing Mount Everest getting back there. But I will. ...? So here's the latest.<br />
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Yesterday morning at breakfast, for whatever reason Melanie decided she needed to do some motivating for Madeleine to finish.<br />
Melanie: Madeleine, let's race, and whoever finishes first is the big girl.<br />
Adam (already done and apparently only half listening): I win!<br />
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Again yesterday all my men folk were gone. The girls and I were hanging out trying to get some Saturday stuff done, when Melanie (my personal secretary) walked up and handed me a card. I looked at it - an invite for my cousin's fiancee's wedding shower that had started 40 minutes before. (Why Melanie doesn't remember my appointments better is beyond me. Sheesh!) The boys were at an Eagle project, so I got the girls some lunch, found out how much longer the boys would be, got the girls ready to go, stressed about the boys needing to be at the church later for a hike, gathered the girls up to go, the boys got home, I told them to walk, and we headed on our way. We arrived with less than 10 minutes of the shower left. It was at my grandma's house, so at least we could hang out there with her, my mom, and sister.<br />
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Although a few hours later grandma probably wasn't so happy we went to all that effort to go when she discovered the skeleton key from her front door missing. Not so easy to jaunt down to the local hardware store and get a new one of those. It's such a temptation for the kids to play with, and I think Madeleine took the bait. Erin said she heard her playing with it. When I asked her if she played with the keys at Grandma Barker's house, the light immediately turned on. She told me grandma took it from her and put it up high, so she got a chair. Ummm . . . grandma didn't take it away this time, so . . . yah. Looks like we'll be taking another jaunt to see grandma tomorrow so maybe we can help track it down. Thank goodness when we got there we realized she left her shoes home (remember the big rush?), so at least we know she didn't pack them down to the farm with the other kids. And I don't remembering hearing clinking keys outside, so hopefully they are still inside.<br />
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Overheard recently after an egg was dropped on the ground: "The floor is fine, but the egg will never be the same."<br />
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Carolyn was laying on the couch with a headache recently. She was getting up for something and told me not to let anyone lay on the pillow she was using because, "someone with a headache was been laying on it," almost like it was catching or something. Or maybe she was looking for enough sympathy that it would still be available when she came back.<br />
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Sammy came home from the park the other day, walked in the door, and said, "My shoes are FULL of socks." After we all settled down, he told us he meant to say rocks.Marnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17444735204136349983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7200462350505997429.post-774848687305516212013-04-21T11:14:00.001-07:002013-04-21T11:15:31.773-07:00Grandparents<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
March 30 - My Dad's Birthday!</div>
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We have this great tradition in our family that the birthday person/people get to bite the cake first. Here's a great demonstration.</div>
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April 7 - My parents have been going through CERT training. They mentioned one day that they need to check their fire extinguishers because they are old enough that they might not work anymore. A couple weeks later we were over visiting and my dad decided to pull them out. <br />
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It worked!</div>
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Since once you check they leak air and won't be good much longer, my parents took at as a good opportunity to teach our family how to use a fire extinguisher.<br />
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Point it at the bottom of the fire . . .<br />
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Each of the kids got a turn. Pretty cool stuff!</div>
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Then we got the real how-to. You're supposed to have a partner. The person in front with the extinguisher just watches the fire, and the person in back guides them backwards away from the fire after it gets sprayed.</div>
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Carolyn got one more turn, the last little puff of powder.<br />
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A great experience. None of us had ever used one before, so now we have a feel for what it's like. One of those skills you hope you never have to use.</div>
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<br />Marnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17444735204136349983noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7200462350505997429.post-38682107813325935962013-04-07T21:32:00.000-07:002013-04-07T21:32:19.346-07:00Sleep On ItI have lots of notes of things I need to catch up on, but had to get this while it was fresh.<br />
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Sammy was reading about the Sons of Mosiah for class Tuesday, and when I finished, I was asking him what he'd like to do with what he learned to share it at Vanguard. He said he didn't know, so I threw out a few ideas and he tossed around a few of them but couldn't decide. It was after 10pm, so I finally said, "Well, go get your medicine and sleep on it," meaning, well, you know what I meant - think about the ideas, and you can work on it tomorrow. Being my joker, he fell into a pile of laughter. "Get your medicine and SLEEP ON IT???"<br />
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Ha ha, funny funny. Now get ready for bed. I specifically laid out every step for him this time, including lay down on your bed, think about the ideas we talked about, and tomorrow you can work on it. Before he headed, he told me I should "go to bed and sleep on it." Thank you, Sam, I probably should.<br />
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Before all that started, we also decided it would be cool if there was a Book of Mormon tribe called the Flyakites. I told him we need to send that to the New Era. "Daddy, what tribe is this again?" "They're the Flyakites," with a bunch of Nephitish looking people flying kites. Pretty good, eh?<br />
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You're right. I'll sleep on it.Marnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17444735204136349983noreply@blogger.com1