tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-334173382024-03-13T05:49:15.993-06:00Double TroubleLife is crazy when you're seeing double.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154839819347284939noreply@blogger.comBlogger1109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33417338.post-41506622045981401672015-08-28T19:37:00.000-06:002015-08-28T19:37:01.454-06:00Highlights with Arthur - Week 4<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Arthur taught us to make grilled Nutella sandwiches - AMAZING!</td></tr>
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We managed to make sure Arthur to every professional sporting event possible in the summer while he was staying with us. The last one was a REAL game - on a beautiful night and it was a great game - REAL won 2-0. We loved it!<br />
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Monday we went up to Jordanelle for a little boating outing with the Byers (to celebrate Jadon's birthday and HS graduation). We stayed overnight in these cool bunkhouses and then rented a boat that came with the driver - pretty good gig.<br />
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Kamryn loved going on the kneeboard and got up on her first try.</div>
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I was so surprised that Jared wanted to try the kneeboard but was so glad he did</div>
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He also did great and got right up</div>
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Jadon and Taylor were so much fun to watch on the tube</div>
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We rented a paddleboard and everyone had fun taking that out on the lake</div>
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Poor Paul can never get away from work</div>
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To start out the 3rd week we went down to Provo for Justin's mission president's homecoming.</div>
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Next up was Bastille day, which we learned this year, the French do not refer to it as Bastille day, but as the 14th of July. Just like we say the 4th of July.<br />
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My awesome friend, Michelle, hosts a "14th of July" party every year at her house and this year she invited all the french students and their host families (about 1/2 could come)<br />
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It worked out perfectly that our ward had scheduled the scouts high adventure activity while Arthur was staying with us. His parents were happy for him to go with them. They went to Hinckley Ranch and had a great time.<br />
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The boys were able to shoot guns, go mountain boarding, mtn biking, climbing and repelling. On the way home they stopped at Provo River Falls to show Arthur where we love to camp and hike.<br />
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One of Arthur's favorite things that we did was going to Airborne.</div>
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He did some amazing tricks - he's a gymnast :)</div>
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We all went on the hike to Blood Lake and lots of the kids had fun going off the rope swing<br />
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Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154839819347284939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33417338.post-31595614000084683372015-08-27T12:34:00.001-06:002015-08-27T12:34:39.818-06:00Super SummerEvery year for the past 3 years we've hosted a French student for 3 weeks during July. This summer was no different except that it was for 4 weeks. Most of July we had Arthur stay with us. It was a fantastic month filled with so much fun activities and outings. This year I even made a calendar for him to take home so he could remember all that we did.<br />
Here it is:<br />
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Sorry its a little blurry but you get the idea.<br />
We LOVE Arthur, as we did all of our other French students. He was a perfect guest - very willing to help out and join in whatever we had planned. He handled our extreme heat better than I expected and even went out to play basketball in the afternoon heat - by himself since my boys are too wimpy to do that.<br />
We were so sad when it came time for him to go back to France - he didn't want to go and we all cried. I told him now I have more children in France than I do here. We hope he and his family will come back to visit some day.<br />
Its impossible to share all the photos we took here on this blog but they are posted on Facebook.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154839819347284939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33417338.post-50290142068406061392015-08-26T16:09:00.004-06:002015-08-26T16:09:40.121-06:00Girls Camp<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I love girls camp and the chance to be away and spend good quality time with the girls and leadersLisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154839819347284939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33417338.post-88831907765188725442015-08-26T15:54:00.001-06:002015-08-26T15:54:36.191-06:00I'm a terrible bloggerI'm a terrible blogger these days - my last post was in MAY, yikes!<br />
There's just too much to keep up with these days - posting on facebook and instagram, writing in an actual journal, writing my missionary.<br />
And then having a jam-packed super busy AND fun summer left no time for posting.<br />
No that school is back in and I've only worked one day so far I've had a bit more time on my hands. I'm way behind in everything around home and i'm working to get caught up. I just finished a project for Brooke - to send her some new mission approved music for the last few months of her mission.<br />
I was behind on printing her letters and got that all caught up. I'm still behind on her photo door - I have a map of her mission and then a photo of each of her companions matched up to the area they served in. The map is there but no photos right now. My biggest problem with that is I don't love the map (its not as good as the map we had for Justin and i want to get a better one). I better hurry or Brooke will be home before I get it up.<br />
I've been doing a lot better at personal scripture study and I'm happy about that :)<br />
So to try to catch up on my blog is one of my next goals :)Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154839819347284939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33417338.post-62746195207372581892015-05-27T17:04:00.001-06:002015-05-27T17:04:31.892-06:00BEST.PARTY.EVER!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Said my kids at the end of their 10th birthday party. They haven't had a friend party in a few years and really wanted to do friend parties this year. That's a challenge with boy/girl twins when they are turning 10. I told them they could each do their own party if they wanted to. I really intended to go somewhere and pay for a party but we couldn't find anything they really wanted to do. </div>
Then my friend posted on FB a party she had just put on for her daughter - it was an AMAZING RACE party. That was it! Perfect party for 10 year old boys and girls. We are HUGE fans of the show and watch it every season. Jared and Kamryn loved the idea and started thinking of ideas right away. The only bad thing was I couldn't really involve them in the planning because that would be unfair to the teams. They were ok with that.<br />
They did come up with who they wanted to invite and how to divide up the teams. We invited 16 kids. Everyone could come except one girl who had gone on vacation with her family. We had scheduled it for May 19th but had to postpone for bad weather. And then on the day we rescheduled it for it still rained during the day but was cleared up in time for the party, thank goodness.<br />
Once all the kids were there we had them all gathered in the living room - probably the most people, esp most kids, ever in our living room. They were all excited! <br />
We went over the rules and sent them on their way. We actually don't have too many photos of the event - all video, which will be turned into an awesome show by Justin.<br />
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Everyone was a good sport and waited patiently during the present opening.</div>
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After the gift opening we sang happy birthday, gave the kids some more sugar in the form of cupcakes and then let them just play for a few minutes while parents came to pick them up.<br />
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Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154839819347284939noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33417338.post-21106549491614668242015-05-27T16:21:00.001-06:002015-05-27T17:06:39.088-06:00How to Host an AMAZING RACE partyThis post will actually be in 2 parts. This first part is all the planning behind the party. I spent quite a bit of time planning and preparing for the party and would love to share what I learned and planned. Lots of people have done it already and there are lots of ideas on Pinterest. I took lots of those ideas and combined them into one party that fit our needs.<br />
This was for a birthday party for our boy/girl twins who were turning 10. We invited 15 kids and had 3 teams of 6 each (one team was short and had to do an extra turn for each challenge).<br />
I used many sources that I found all on Pinterest. <a href="http://www.thedatingdivas.com/adventurous-amore/the-ultimate-amazing-race-group-date-night/">This site</a> for the invite and some ideas (I'd still love to do the whole Date idea from this site). <a href="http://www.chicaandjo.com/2010/07/05/amazing-race-party/">This site</a> for their race clue printables and some of their ideas. And <a href="http://www.millionsofmiles.com/2012/11/our-amazing-race-birthday-party.html?m=1">this site</a> for more ideas. Some of the ideas I actually thought of myself :)<br />
I changed up the original Amazing Race ideas to fit our party, which was more of big team idea rather than doing individual tasks. I've created PDF documents of my race and the clues and ideas.<br />
(I'm trying to figure out how to link them on here)<br />
The party went pretty much as planned and took just over an hour for the teams to complete all the legs of the party. There are only a few things I would change and i'll go over that at the end.<br />
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Just before all of the kids started arriving and showing other family members the course and what help I would need. You definitely need help for this party. I took video along with my son. We could have had one more person taking still photos. We had more than one judge at each challenge and probably could have used one judge per team. I don't have a lot of photos of the actual party and most of these photos I took the day after when it wasn't so crazy.<br />
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After gathering all 17 kids in our living room, I announced our teams. We had 3 teams - one all boys and 2 teams of girls. Each team had a color - red, blue and purple. I was able to find sling packs and bandanas at the dollar store. I also found passports with stickers - an added bonus!<br />
Our host Paul went over the rules with the teams and told them to travel safe and sent them out the door to find their gear and start the race. We started the race in the garage (we weren't sure if we were going to get rained on or not)<br />
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1st clue was laying on top of their packs. First thing they were told to do was put on their bandana and had to wear it at all times. The teams were instructed to use their passport and put the stickers in of the countries they visited. They were supposed to show them to that country's judge before proceeding to the next task.<br />
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one you think your team can accomplish.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "AR CENA"; font-size: 14.0pt;">In SHOOT
IT, each team member must make a basket with the basketball. Once each team
member has made a shot and the judge has passed you off, your team will receive
their next clue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "AR CENA"; font-size: 14.0pt;">In ROLL
IT, each team member must run to the top of the hill and then roll down. Once the judge passes your team off, you will
receive your next clue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(none of the kids chose this option since it had been raining most of the day and the hill was all wet, otherwise I think both girls teams would have chosen this option)</span></div>
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4<sup>th</sup>
leg – GERMANY (rootbeer chug) <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;">Make
your way to </span><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;">GERMANY </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif', sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; text-align: center;">( back
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<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;">Once
there your team will receive a bottle of rootbeer and some cups. Everyone in the team needs to fill their cups
and drink the rootbeer until it is all gone. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the judge can see that the bottle is empty you will receive your next clue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">This is one part I would definitely change. 2 liters was A LOT to drink for a team of 6 10 year olds. I knew that going in and had looked for a 1 liter bottle but they don't do that size for rootbeer. Definitely could do half for that age group.</span></div>
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5<sup>th</sup>
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one you think your team can accomplish.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;">In
MEMORIZE, teams must memorize a short poem and recite it together. If you
recite the poem perfectly, you will receive your next clue. If you mess up –
you will have to go back to the poem and start over.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;">or</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;">In PUZZLE
TIME, teams must put together a puzzle in a limited amount of time. If you run
out of time, you must start over.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><b>None of the teams chose to memorize the poem. The time limit on the puzzle was 3 minutes. All teams completed the puzzle in less than 2 minutes.</b></span></div>
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6<sup>th</sup>
leg – CHINA ( Red dragon wrap) <o:p></o:p></div>
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there your team will be given a roll of red crepe paper. Each team must create a “red dragon” by
wrapping their arms with the crepe paper, connecting all team members.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the judge is satisfied with your dragon you will receive your next clue.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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7<sup>th</sup>
leg – “roadblock” EMPTY IT <o:p></o:p></div>
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Roadblock is a task that each team member must compete in)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">You will find a table filled
with cups of snacks, treats and drinks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">One at a time, using only one
hand, each team member will take a turn choosing a cup and must eat/drink
everything in the cup. Each team member
will take a turn emptying a cup until you find a cup marked with an X in the bottom. Once you find that cup
show it to the judge and you will receive your next clue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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8<sup>th</sup>
leg – ENGLAND (tied up tea party) <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Make your way to </span><span style="font-family: 'AR JULIAN'; font-size: 18pt; text-align: center;">ENGLAND</span></div>
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team member will sit in a circle.</span><span style="font-family: 'AR JULIAN'; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'AR JULIAN'; font-size: 14pt;">After
having all your hands tied together, you must unwrap your cake and eat it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">This is one where we could make a change but it worked out. There should only be one cake in a package to unwrap per player. The boys thought they each had to unwrap a package and eat both cakes in the package.</span></div>
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9<sup>th</sup>
leg – “detour” sing it or spell it<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Spell
it </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Or </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Sing
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">A Detour is a choice between 2 tasks. Read each task and choose the
one you think your team can accomplish.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;">In SPELL
IT, the judge will give you a word and you must spell it out loud to the judge
without writing it down.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;">If you
don’t spell it correctly you must wait one minute and then try spelling it
again.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;">Or</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;">In SING IT,
the judge will give you a song to sing and your team must sing it all together
until the judge passes your off.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><b>For this one if they chose to sing it, the judge gave them the option to take time and watch a clip of this song from youtube. One team watched it and one team knew it good enough that they just sang it right off. And the judge did let the boys team write down the spelling after a couple of tries of spelling it wrong out loud.</b></span></div>
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10<sup>th</sup>
leg – AUSTRALIA (Boomerang Train) <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Imprint MT Shadow"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Each
team will be given a ball of yarn tied to a spoon. Using that spoon you must thread the yarn
under each teammates shirt and to the next teammate. Once you’re all connected, the judge will let
you disconnect and then give you your next clue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">I did not get to see any of this in action because I had to hurry back to be ready for the first team back to the pit stop.</span></div>
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Final Clue
to Pit Stop – (printed on <span style="color: lime;">green FAST FORWARD</span> clue)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif; font-size: 28.0pt;">Head
to the PIT STOP!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif; font-size: 28.0pt;">Head
back to<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif; font-size: 28.0pt;">Jared
and<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif; font-size: 28.0pt;">Kamryn’s
house<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif; font-size: 28.0pt;">And
check in at the matt on the basketball court.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif; font-size: 28.0pt;">Good
luck!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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The first place team received a MILLION DOLLAR prize (chocolate bars I found at hobby lobby that said million dollar bar)<br />
The 2nd place team got a 100 GRAND chocolate bar and the 3rd place team received a bag of chocolate coins.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;">I've received lots of positive comments back from the kids and parents. It was definitely worth all the time and preparation. I'm sure we'll do it again - would be a fun group date.</span></div>
Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154839819347284939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33417338.post-23429125634572656472015-05-20T13:09:00.000-06:002015-05-20T13:09:04.906-06:00Mexican Riviera Cruise<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
This post is way overdue.</div>
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We went on an awesome family trip</div>
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to the Mexican Riviera</div>
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on a Norwegian cruise</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">bon voyage</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">vacations are hard work<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">kids loved the fun towel animals left in our cabin each night</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cabo San Lucas<br />
our first port</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">sadly Kamryn got very sick after our day in Cabo<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Taylor eating at the yummy asian restaurant on the ship</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">yummy asian creme brulee</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">taking a stroll on deck to watch the sunset</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">another one of our favorite spots to eat on the ship<br />
O'Sheehans - best burger ever</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">playing spike ball in the airport<br />we had several hours to hang out at LAX on our way home<br />we had this great alcove that was perfect for all of our family<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">proof that Paul can sleep anywhere</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kamryn on the zipline adventure in Puerto Vallarta</td></tr>
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We received an email from Brighton High School a few months ago looking for presenters for their school-wide career fair. I asked Paul if he'd be willing and he said sure. So he signed up and was one of over 30 presenters for the school.<br />
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Paul did a great job explaining his job to the students and had a great powerpoint presentation showing some of the cool projects Layton has built.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154839819347284939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33417338.post-71875156489923340212015-04-11T21:56:00.000-06:002015-04-11T21:56:00.228-06:00Just some random photos<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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We had fun going to this traveling LEGO roadshow at Fashion Place Mall. Very impressive that these awesome national landmark models were built all from LEGOS.<br />
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Jared has been going to cub scouts with Kyson and having a good time in their den. They had a fun activity coming up that Jared was excited about - for their pack meeting they were doing a cake auction. The boys earned points by coming to scouts on time,in their full uniform and with their book. They would get to use those points to "BUY" their cake in the auction. Jared picked out this fun MINION cake to do. He did a great job on it. We made a practice cake a couple of days in advance to make sure it was going to work out. And then made it again for the auction.<br />
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<br />Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154839819347284939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33417338.post-56493836011473583302015-04-11T21:22:00.002-06:002015-04-11T21:22:40.804-06:00Pi Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This year Pi day was a really big deal - because we could really learn about Pi more than just 3.14.<br />
I woke everyone up on a Saturday morning early so we could take this photo at the precise moment of pi (only Jared has his numbers mixed up).<br />
Jared and Kamryn learned about pi at school in math club but couldn't really tell Paul what Pi was - so they had an at home lesson about pi.<br />
I made breakfast pie and pie for dessert.<br />
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We took this photo again at 3/14/15/9:26:53 pm - so we could get it right this time and happy to have help from some of our friends :)Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154839819347284939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33417338.post-47684254870883972262015-04-11T21:17:00.001-06:002015-04-11T21:17:31.086-06:00National Cereal Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Kamryn's room decor finally all finished. It was really fun to work on these projects for her room and we had a fun time making all those different k's.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154839819347284939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33417338.post-85728133074037334252015-03-13T08:22:00.000-06:002015-03-13T08:22:43.061-06:00LuckyToday's journal prompt in Mrs Larson's Juniors English class:<br />
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Shooting STARS</span></li>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">St Patrick's day</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Green</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Fingers crossed</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">A wink</span></li>
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Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154839819347284939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33417338.post-69514208157763869882015-03-04T13:48:00.000-07:002015-03-04T13:48:32.896-07:00The Kids' Essays from SchoolJared and Kamryn brought home their report cards yesterday. They both are doing very well in school. They also brought home their recent essays from UtahWrites, a program they use at school for testing writing skills. I loved their essays and want to save them here:<br />
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"Is it a good idea to pay kids for good grades? Some parents think it is. Others think kids should always do their best without expecting a reward. What do you think? Write an essay giving your opinion and use strong reasons and examples to tell your opinion is best."<br />
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Kamryn's essay -<br />
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"Parents should pay their kids for grades for several reasons. One reason is that if you pay for grades it could make them try harder. If you pay them they can learn to use the money properly. If, they get bad grades they should pay you. You can save up your money for special occasions. Your kids could be working really hard to get and go where they want. Those are some of the reasons why parents should pay their kids for grades.<br />
Now I'm going to tell you a few reasons why parents shouldn't pay kids for their grades. Your kids might expect money for everything like unloading the dishwasher, cleaning your room, and doing chores. Getting smart is good enough payment for education. Your kids might waste your money on silly things. You would be losing your money. You already pay for everything your children use. Plus they would get too spoiled if you pay for grades. Those are some of the reasons why parents shouldn't pay their kids.<br />
I know that my parents won't pay me for grades but I would prefer to get payed for grades to save up money for important things. I would save up my money for stuff like college and a mission. Three or four dollars would be for each good grade I get. Paying my parents would be a punishment for me getting bad grades. I don't care if I don't get payed for grades, but if I had more money I could save up for important things. Those are my opinions of being payed for grades."<br />
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Jared's essay -<br />
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"Parents should pay for grades, and i'm going to show you a few points of view about it. One reason why paying kids for good grades is because it would motivate them to try harder. Another good reason to pay kids is because they can save up for college. One last reason to pay them for their grades is because they can learn to use their money wisely. Those were a few reasons why parents should pay their children for good grades.<br />
Parents shouldn't pay their kids, and I'm going to share a few reasons with you about why they shouldn't. One reason why you shouldn't pay them is because they might waste the money you give them on toys that they won't want when they get older. Another reason is because they will expect money for everything, like brushing their teeth, making their bed and so on. One final reason to not pay your kids is if you don't have the money to do it. These are three reasons to not pay your kds for their grades.<br />
Now for a final paragraph I'm going to tell you what I would prefer. Firstly, I think that kids should get payed for their grades, because I think kids deserve something for their hard work. Secondly, I don't get payed very often, and my six year old cousin has more money than me. For one final reason about my opinion is, because I want to save up for college, and go to the <b><span style="color: blue;">Brigham Young University</span></b>. That was some of my opinion about payment for grades."<br />
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I love their essays and thought they did a good job. Maybe we'll have to think about paying them for good grades :)<br />
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Kamryn's 2nd essay<br />
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PROMPT - If you could change one part of your life, what would it be? You could change where you live, the size of your family, your personality, or anything you like. Describe the change and what it would mean to your life.<br />
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"If, I could change my life I wouldn't change too much because I already have a great life. I would never change my family though because I love them. If I lived by everyone I know and love I would be able to. I wish I could say "I love you" to all of my relatives that died.<br />
It would be awesome to get anything I want or anywhere I want to go for free. Even though I'm already getting a new room I would still want a new room. If, I could have a baby brother or sister I would want one. I would also want to have more friends. My best friends are Leah, Ryan and Olivia (I don't play with Ryan and Olivia a lot though, Olivia goes to gymnastics and Ryan is always playing with someone). They are some amazing friends. My family got three French exchange students in the last three years so I would want to know how to speak French without learning it. If I could change the weather I would make it snow in the summer when it's hot, be able to go swimming in the winter, and not have it rain in the Spring and Fall. In school I wish we didn't have to take science, I wouldn't want there to be recess, and I wish we could go to drama class twice a week. I would also want my own iPod (everyone in my family has one except for me, but Jared lost his).<br />
Teleporting would be awesome, because I wouldn't have to do nothing in the car for as long as we would be in the car. I wish my teacher gave us more math homework too. I also wish I could go back in time and change wrong things i did. The future would be awesome too. That is all of the things I would want to change in my life (well, most of the things)."Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154839819347284939noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33417338.post-27017791978139562652015-02-26T13:58:00.000-07:002015-02-26T13:58:19.441-07:00Kamryn's Basketball Season<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Kamryn had her last basketball game last weekend. Her team made a lot of project over the season. She had an awesome coach who taught them a lot. Even though Kamryn always said she didn't like basketball she also made a lot of progress and was a very consistent shooter in practice. She made 7 baskets in a row before their last game. She always looked happy out there playing. She says she's not going to play again unless we make her, and we just might make her :)<br />
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After their last game we headed to Macey's grocery store to get ice cream to celebrate and have a little trophy ceremony. I'm happy Kamryn had this opportunity to play with such great girls and for such an awesome coach.<br />
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<br />Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154839819347284939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33417338.post-69317451504652213082015-02-26T13:34:00.002-07:002015-02-26T13:34:52.098-07:00Poor, Poor Boy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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So I can't even remember if I told you how the week kind of started out </div>
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so a week ago today (last Thursday) my dad ended up having to go back in for emergency surgery on his enlarged prostate. He'd had surgery the week before and it didn't do the job and he started having a lot of complications. So I spent that Thur night at the hospital while he was in surgery. I was back in to check on him every day and he seemed pretty good at first but then each day he seemed to get a little worse. He was in the hospital until Tues and then he was transferred to Highland Care center - the same place Grammy was after she fell and broke her back. The dr at that center thinks he could be there for 20-30 days. I was shocked - I thought he'd be there just for a few days to get his strength back.</div>
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So while all that was going on -- Sunday night we had our valentine's dinner and Mary was there for dinner and that was fun. Taylor was at dinner and seemed fine. We had family time in the living room and everyone opened their little presents. By the end of the evening tho Taylor wasn't feeling great and was lying down on the couch. At that point he was just complaining of his back hurting. He's actually been complaining about his back quite a bit -I've been blaming it on his bad bed.</div>
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Monday morning he'd planned to have Sarah over for breakfast as part of their valentine's date. Well, in the morning I woke up and Taylor was laying in my bed. That was a bit of a shock. He said he hadn't slept since 2:00 and had started throwing up at 5:00 am. He cancelled the date with Sarah and felt bad enough that I took him to see Dr Memmott at 10:40. When I made the appt and told the nurse what was going on, she suggested maybe kidney stones. I sure hoped not. He did a urine sample and it was all negative. So with no other indicators of anything else being wrong, the Dr figured it was stomach flu, which is very prevalent right now. </div>
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We went home and Taylor threw up the rest of the day and didn't sleep much that night. On Tues I let Kamryn stay home from school because she had a cold and to watch over Taylor. I had a dentist appt and had to go check on my dad for his transfer to the care center. While I was gone Taylor was crying out in pain but he didn't tell me that until much later in the day. I was gone for about 2 hours. Taylor had pretty much switched from throwing up to diarrhea and had really bad stomach cramps. I figured it was a pretty terrible flu. He was in a lot of pain and I felt really bad for him. He sat with us at dinner for a few minutes. When he got up to walk to the bathroom he was totally hunched over and could hardly walk down the hall. It totally reminded me of when Justin had his appendicitis. I was definitely thinking appendix at that point. It was just hard to decide what to do. He also started running a fever too. We definitely should have taken him in but didn't that night. I feel bad about that now. He was still fairly calm and was lying down on the couch. I gave him some ibuprofen for the fever but worried about doing that since he had an empty stomach. he seemed to be settled down enough to sleep. I told him to get me or call me anytime. So we went to bed. I checked on him several times during the night and he seemed to be asleep.</div>
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In the morning I cancelled going to exercise with Jenny - I was beat and needed a little more sleep. We'd decided that I would take Taylor back to the dr in the morning if he wasn't any better. When I talked to him at 7:00 ish he thought we should go back and was in pain again. I called dad and we agreed that I should just take him to the ER at IMC. At first I was going to take the kids to school and then take Taylor but he didn't really want to wait. I remembered Justin was home and could take the kids. So we struggled getting taylor to the car - he was in a lot of pain and had no strength to walk. He couldn't decide what was worse - walking himself or having Justin carry him. He ended up walking out to the van and we were off.</div>
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WE got to the ER at IMC about 8:30 - they took him right back to a room and had nurses right in with him. They got him started on an IV with saline to hydrate him and gave him some morphine. He looked pretty pale and grey. They took blood and got a urine sample. He was in the bathroom a LONG time. His sample was pretty dark and ugly looking. Def not the same looking as the sample he gave on Monday at the DR.</div>
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He seemed a bit better and more calm once the morphine started working and the iv got in him. The nurse came back with the blood work results - his White blood count was 26! Normal is 4-13. For sure indicator he was full of infection and the nurse said it sure seemed like appendix. His belly was tight and super sensitive to touch. Then the Dr ordered at CT scan with contrast. that meant over 90 minutes he had to drink this lemonade type drink which was the contrast. When he finished the drink they took him for the CT scan. He wasn't gone too long. We waited just a bit for the results - the Dr came in and said it was definitely his appendix and it needed to come out.</div>
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All this time it was just Taylor and me at the ER. Dad had an important meeting with the owner at the Lehi hospital. As soon as that was over he called me to check in - I knew it was the appendix but hadn't talked to the surgeon yet. So dad came straight to the hospital and got to Taylor's room about 5 minutes before the resident surgeon came in. he looked so young!</div>
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He told us they had a narrow window to get Taylor in for surgery before his surgeon boss had to start doing clinic. Or it would have to wait until the end of the day. Once the Sr surgeon came in and examined Taylor and his belly was so tender to the touch she was afraid that the appendix had ruptured. So that got him priority to get into the ER asap and they rushed him to get him ready. They took him upstairs for surgery and we met with the surgical nurse and the anesthesiologist. taylor was very calm thru all of this and said he wasn't scared. He received very good care from everyone. They took him into surgery at 1:30 and it took about an hour.</div>
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I had put something about it on FB so i was getting lots of comments and texts - that passed the time quickly, responding to them. It was about 4:00 by the time they brought him out of recovery to his room on the 11th floor. He was "drunk" sounding - a little funny. He was in pretty good spirits due to some good drugs. Dad and i spent the evening with him. AT one point we thought he was asleep so we snuck down to the cafeteria for some dinner. First time I'd really eaten that day except for cookies from the OR waiting room. It was a "date" for me and dad.</div>
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I stayed over night with Taylor. No way could I leave him there alone. It was definitely a good thing I stayed. I wasn't too thrilled with the night nurse (and now she's back again tonight) - she wasn't very attentive and waited too long to give Taylor pain meds and tried to talk him out of taking good pain drugs. I actually ended up liking her a lot better the 2nd night.</div>
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I slept on a couch in the room and maybe got about 4 hours sleep. We were up from 3-5 helping Taylor. The surgeons came in at 6:30 to check on Taylor. It was a new head resident surgeon that we'd never seen and about 4-5 other resident surgeons charting and taking notes. The nurses call them "the cronies" One of the residents was the first resident we saw in the ER. He was in on the surgery and said it was NASTY. Taylor's belly was full of pus :( He also had a stone of some sort in there, probably calcified poop and it was probably the cause of all of this. Taylor wasn't too happy when the surgeon pushed on his sore belly, esp at 6:30 in the morning.</div>
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He will be in the hospital until he can eat regular food and pass gas. He's had a kind of tough day today but he's had a pretty good attitude about it. I stayed all day except for a couple of hours when I went to get the twins. I checked them out of school early and took them to meet Susan half way. She kept them the rest of the day and took Kamryn to dance for me.</div>
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Dad came here after work for about an hour - sadly Taylor was finally asleep most of that time. Then dad went to play church basketball but is coming back now. I'm going to stay the night here again - I don't like leaving him here alone.</div>
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So, wow - what a week right ??</div>
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After going for this walk they said he was good enough to go home</div>
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It was still a pretty tough couple of days for Taylor</div>
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It took Taylor several days at home to recover. He needed a lot of help for a few days. The bad thing was it was the last week of the Trimester at school so he was missing several finals. I emailed his teachers and went in to talk to them to help work things out for him. He didn't go to school on Monday except at the end of the day he stopped into his French class to see them making beignets. It was good for him to be back around friends and laugh a little.</div>
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Each day during the week he made it to a little more school and yesterday he finally seemed to be back to his regular self. </div>
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The kids were so excited for Valentine's Day this year</div>
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They wanted to make "cool" boxes for their class party</div>
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We went to the new Dollar store by our house and found supplies</div>
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Taylor helpd Jared with his design</div>
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Can you tell what Kamryn is making?</div>
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There's a clue on the table</div>
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The morning of their party they were up early </div>
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In their class </div>
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I think for the first time ever they have</div>
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I had to beg him to let me take this picture of them</div>
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No photos from Paul and I but we did go out on Valentine's Day - to the movie UNBROKEN and then to dinner at La Cocina, one of our favorite places close to home.<br />
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As part of Valentine's celebration we also had a special family dinner on Sunday and I shared presents with everyone :)Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154839819347284939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33417338.post-17818626720144263372015-02-26T11:17:00.002-07:002015-02-26T11:17:49.396-07:00My Mom's Birthday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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February 10th was my mom's birthday</div>
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It kind of snuck up on us because we'd been busy</div>
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taking care of my dad after he had surgery</div>
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Parry planned an impromptu get together at the cemetery</div>
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(we missed having Susan with us)</div>
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We have not had her headstone placed yet</div>
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so we just placed flowers at the grave</div>
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Its no good celebrating our mom without her</div>
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but it was nice to get together and remember her</div>
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