tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32170489512369431232024-03-19T05:21:58.194-07:00Bishop Family BlogAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577144342817228629noreply@blogger.comBlogger92125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217048951236943123.post-45243846581808742252015-12-19T20:28:00.001-08:002015-12-19T20:28:46.079-08:00Shenanigans....<p dir="ltr">This crazy boy is always good for a laugh. No matter what, he makes us smile...</p>
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I love family time. I love food! Beat. Day. Ever. </p>
<p dir="ltr">We had a good start to the day by waking up to a few inches of powdery snow. Not good for snowmen or snowball fights, but awesome for getting pulled around. </p>
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Brooke had to do a 2 minute wall-sit for PE. Her teacher told the kids to "Go to your happy place".</div>
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me- "So, Brooke. What's your happy place?"</div>
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Brooke- "Duh. With LeBron James!"</div>
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Everything feels a little different here. Not bad. Just different. I struggled getting up the motivation to do our annual day-after-easter-easter egg hunt. The "right" people just weren't going to be there. I didn't know how to get excited about something I couldn't picture in my head. But my children have missed out on quite a few family traditions since last August when Tom first left for Idaho. For them, I had to do it. So we invited Tom's sister and a bunch of Tom's cousins that live locally. It felt nice to do it for family. And to know that my girls were learning about their roots. </div>
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But to break myself in, we first went to the city Easter egg hunt with our new friends, and next door neighbors, the Maxfields. They have daughters the twin's and Sam's age. And the parents are pretty fun too... :)</div>
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Sam and Annabelle - they are going to be trouble in a few years...</div>
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Weird thing to find in an egg at a kid's hunt, right? It was the favorite thing she got... (Alix)</div>
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Once he learned there was candy inside, Ethan was an excellent hunter!</div>
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Nothing creepy about a life-sized, cross eyed Easter bunny...</div>
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Easter dinner was wonderful. We had Tom's grandma come and spend the day with us. We watched General Conference and ate a great dinner. I loved the strong Spirit that was there all day. :) </div>
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The weather for our Easter egg hunt was sunny, but cold. </div>
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Our new yard is AWESOME for egg hunts! So many great hiding places and tons of room.</div>
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We always hide some "special" golden eggs that come with a "big" prize. And we really hide those eggs. This is Tom narrowing down the search zone for the last 2 golden eggs.</div>
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Whole new batch of kids, but we got the annual picture! :)</div>
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And as part of the inside activities I do a "Guess What's in the Egg" game. I fill a bunch of plastic eggs with whatever I can find (literally whatever - cheerios, Nerds, screws, washers, cotton balls, rice, popcorn kernels...) and tape them shut. The crew gets to shake them and guess what's inside. I usually give them a list with a few extra items on it (just to throw them off...). It's a great time filler and the grownups even like to get in on this one!</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577144342817228629noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217048951236943123.post-55832190708296088312015-04-08T13:15:00.001-07:002015-04-08T13:15:50.882-07:00World Peace... Or at least peace in our home...Maybe it was the move. Maybe it was the grumpy mom. Maybe it's just because they're all getting older, but no matter the why, we've had some serious contention going on in our home lately. After a few family home evenings about it, with no results, I read a <a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/04/for-peace-at-home?lang=eng">Conference talk</a> by Richard G. Scott and was profoundly touched by this quote, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 30px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">One of the greatest blessings we can offer to the world is the power of a Christ-centered home where the gospel is taught, covenants are kept, and love abounds."</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Love abounds? Is it possible that love was the answer? So Sam and I did a FHE lesson on love. And the "love jar" was born.... </span></span><br />
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Almost instantly the feeling in our home changed. The girls were watching each other to catch them doing something <i>good.</i> Not something annoying. And they were trying to find ways to show their own love to their siblings. It's magic, I tell you. Magic. And it helped their mother as well. One of our daughters (who shall remain unnamed...) has had a harder time moving than the others and has shown her displeasure primarily at home. I was afraid she wouldn't have any slips in the jar with her name on it, so I watched her with the sole purpose of catching her doing something kind. I saw her differently, through eyes of love, instead of impatience. And I saw things my husband does for us as the gestures of love that they really are. </div>
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We read all the slips in the jar for our next family home evening. You want to see your child glow? Have their good deeds read, out loud, for the whole family to hear. Again, it's magic. </div>
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Our first week we had 78 acts of love put in the jar. From Alix helping Sam get untangled from her bike chain, to Brooke doing Sam's hair. From Tom putting together the twin's new bikes late at night to Ethan "helping" me doing laundry. From Erin playing Barbies with Sam (when she <i>really</i> didn't want to) to Sam snuggling Ethan in bed. </div>
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My favorite one was from Erin... "Mom smashing my samwich" (she likes her bologna and cheese nice and flat - weird, right? - so I roll it for her every morning before I put it in her lunch...)</div>
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The next week, we set a goal to get 100 slips. We reached our goal. Our home was happier. To mix it up, the third week we had people write things they personally had done for someone else, in secret. We were all looking for ways to bless each other's lives and show how much we loved each other. I don't know how long it will stay interesting, but the spirit in our home is now one of love and peace. Love really is the answer!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577144342817228629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217048951236943123.post-77718176636577321242015-03-24T14:42:00.001-07:002015-03-24T14:42:30.026-07:00Quote of the Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Erin was trying to tell me what they're doing tonight for Activity Days...<br />
Erin - "We're going to that place.... You know.... the place.... The orphanage for old people!"<br />
me - "You mean the nursing home?"<br />
Erin - "Same thing..."<br />
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It doesn't look good for Tom and I as we age...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577144342817228629noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217048951236943123.post-22141801740577364122015-03-16T12:56:00.004-07:002015-03-16T12:56:58.115-07:00Quote of the Day...Brooke - "Do you know why your forehead is called a forehead?"<br />
"No, why?"<br />
Brooke - "Because you can fit 4 fingers in between your eyebrows and your hairline!"<br />
(how many of you just tried it? I did. She's right. It's 4 fingers...)<br />
Alix - "So does Dad have a fivehead?"<br />
Tom - (while measuring...) "Nope. Looks like I have a fifteenhead..."<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577144342817228629noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217048951236943123.post-81175165970385821702015-03-16T12:47:00.002-07:002015-03-16T12:47:42.782-07:00What happened?I don't even know how to make up all the time I've lost. So I'm not going to try.... I'm just starting fresh today. I might add some posts as I go just because I have great pictures to go with them, but I'm not promising anything... Quick update - We now live in Idaho. Brooke is 12. Erin and Alix are 10. Sam is 6 and is doing pretty well. Ethan is 1 and a half ( I LOVE nursery!). Tom and I are old. That's pretty much it. :) <br />
I have to say, I'm not sad to be back.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577144342817228629noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217048951236943123.post-68568700198163135472014-07-16T09:56:00.001-07:002014-07-16T09:56:05.190-07:00Quote of the day...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sam- "My eyelashes are too long for my body!!"</div>
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Wish I had your problems, girl...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577144342817228629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217048951236943123.post-59628106609447029882014-07-15T15:01:00.001-07:002014-07-15T15:01:30.849-07:00Double Diaper...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Hey, Mom! We made a double diaper!!!"</div>
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They're creative, if nothing else...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577144342817228629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217048951236943123.post-27829256772049560602014-07-11T10:06:00.002-07:002014-07-11T10:06:26.848-07:00It's On!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Our annual 4th of July party always starts with a water fight... </div>
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Somehow we ended up on "teams"... Here a few of us are advancing toward the enemy...</div>
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And here we are being repelled by the enemy!</div>
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All the wet folk. (Thank goodness for other adults that are willing to have fun!)</div>
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In past years we've done a silly string fight. This year we tried something new...</div>
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A SHAVING CREAM fight. It was spectacular! It's cheaper than silly string and the fight lasted way longer. Absolutely part of the tradition from now on!</div>
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It started a little small - not all the kids were sure about it...</div>
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It only took a few minutes to get all of them involved...</div>
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And not too much longer than that to get most of the bystanders at least a <i>little</i> shaving creamy...</div>
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After the fight, we had a little beauty salon...</div>
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The tricky part was getting everyone clean again... It's a really cold shower in the hose... But not one child (or adult) cried... We also filled water balloons with shaving cream. Awesome. Such a fun time! I'm probably going to do another one later in the summer...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577144342817228629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217048951236943123.post-44713464796403369702014-07-09T15:09:00.002-07:002014-07-09T15:09:28.097-07:00Proud to be an American...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
This will have to be split into 2 posts... I'm missing pictures from our party, so these are from our pre-party fun. :)</div>
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All protected to tie-dye our annual Independence Day shirts. The Aurich family joined us this year...</div>
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Our ward did a breakfast and it was only a mile and a half away, so rather than hauling the bikes for the parade - we rode them there</div>
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And kind of made our own parade. We had 7 kids and 2 adults all stretched out down the street. And my bike had a huge flag flying from the baby carrier so we got lots of honks and waves. It was a fun ride. </div>
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Gotta paint faces!</div>
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Alix and Erin and their friend McKenna in the middle</div>
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My 2 handsome fellas. We spray painted Ethan's mow-hawk red, but it doesn't really show in the picture.</div>
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Brooke's awesome helmet deserves it's own picture</div>
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bike parade fun... Erin</div>
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Brooke and Izzie</div>
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Tom riding Ethan around the parade on my bike</div>
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God bless America! Land that I love!!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577144342817228629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217048951236943123.post-14417391510244480622014-07-09T14:44:00.000-07:002014-07-10T16:28:48.880-07:00Curb Tubs...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
We live in Washington. It drizzles. A lot. But sometimes we get lucky and it RAINS. Hard. This sends my family running out the door. Pretty much regardless of whatever else we were doing. We have a system for what happens next...</div>
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- grab all the towels you can find in a really, really big hurry...</div>
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Early in the storm - enough water for splashing</div>
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Later on in the storm? We got enough rain captured to skim board!</div>
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Who needs the beach?</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577144342817228629noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217048951236943123.post-32779468676601642292014-06-16T07:54:00.002-07:002014-06-16T07:54:14.766-07:003 bath kind of day...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Jawbreaker for breakfast</div>
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Sand...</div>
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and snot for lunch</div>
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and an Oreo for a snack....</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577144342817228629noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217048951236943123.post-65968796953124506242014-05-26T09:57:00.001-07:002014-05-26T09:58:59.112-07:00It's A Sister Thing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Ethan is going to be a patient, patient man. Or he's going to snap. It really could go either way...</div>
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They make him a soccer player...</div>
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Alix steals his pajamas...</div>
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Alix shares her pajamas...</div>
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Sam lugs him all around...</div>
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They make him play mad scientist...</div>
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Even early on - they accessorized him in pink fur...</div>
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He gets awesome snuggles.</div>
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Erin plays with him</div>
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Brooke lets him hang out</div>
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The twins play with him</div>
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And Sam teaches him to dance.</div>
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He is a well-loved, well-tortured little boy...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577144342817228629noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217048951236943123.post-14063969641522522562014-05-24T16:05:00.002-07:002014-05-24T16:05:48.942-07:00Mind Goggling... <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
We are pretty laid back parents... I figure a good dose of "figure it out" is crucial for a child's development (I used the word "development"... That makes me an expert, I'm pretty sure...). The girls wanted to start a fire. So we let them. It was uniquely<i> </i>made, so there was a LOT of smoke. And here is where the "figure it out" experience they've had their whole lives came in to play....<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNF8nVEb_FDKkUZmwCDtVX54jNx0Ef0adwaKWg83jjcNbHoctyIWH6ykvSd5PqN66m3sBOqBHOn5Qbb1okHqevaI9lfdiaYJ_nJbKwLvDjRvYjIB61Y0ImiK9uWZs7DsMQ0JyPXX28Mg/s1600/2014-04-26+16.02.46.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNF8nVEb_FDKkUZmwCDtVX54jNx0Ef0adwaKWg83jjcNbHoctyIWH6ykvSd5PqN66m3sBOqBHOn5Qbb1okHqevaI9lfdiaYJ_nJbKwLvDjRvYjIB61Y0ImiK9uWZs7DsMQ0JyPXX28Mg/s1600/2014-04-26+16.02.46.jpg" height="360" width="640" /></a></div>
Make it work, girls. Make it work.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577144342817228629noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217048951236943123.post-38353329082967664952014-05-23T14:07:00.002-07:002014-05-23T14:10:51.896-07:00Broken hearts...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Some families move in and become a part of your family. Then, sometimes, they move back away. Taking a piece of your heart with them. My girls have been blessed to have amazing friends in the Hill girls. Best friends. That one friend of a lifetime. And now we're all a little lost without them. I personally feel like I've been in a divorce and my husband got custody of my two (best behaved) kids. Hills, we love and miss you...</div>
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The final hug goodbye. I was bawling like a baby. They handled it better than I did. (I'm crying now. How can they be gone?)</div>
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And my triplets are back down to twins...</div>
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Hip hop legends in the making...</div>
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One of <i>dozens</i> of Charlie's Angel poses I have pictures of these two doing...</div>
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Erin and Kaitlyn on one of our many beach trips...</div>
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Adrienne and Brooke at the rodeo. She's the only kid I'd willingly add to mine for an 11 day vacation...</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577144342817228629noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217048951236943123.post-1611934647817138782014-05-23T13:24:00.000-07:002014-05-23T13:24:18.299-07:00Pinkalicious...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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April around here brings rain (duh...) and the Pinkwood Derby. This was the third year our ward has done it. (I was recently released as primary president and this is the <i>one</i> thing I asked her to not change...) We made 5 cars this year. In ONE day. Why five, when we only had three racers? One for Brooke. One for Alix. One for Erin. One for Sam (couldn't leave her out...). And one for Kaitlyn (Her family was in the process of moving and her dad was already in AZ...).</div>
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Alix went Seahawks themed (Go Hawks!!!). I sketched the design and she painted it.</div>
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Erin did all her own work. And named her car "Baba Loca". Which is what we sometimes call my mom. And which translates into "crazy grandma..."</div>
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Brooke also did all her own painting. Nice lightning bolts, sister!</div>
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And Kaitlyn's car. Which the two of us did with no help from Tom. (You'll notice how much carving we didn't do...) But it turned out so cute. </div>
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And poor Sam was woefully neglected and got no pictures taken of her car. But she did paint it all by herself... Love you Sam...</div>
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It's always fun to see all the different cars. Don't you love the Taco?</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577144342817228629noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217048951236943123.post-12683125063680307302014-05-21T09:45:00.001-07:002014-05-21T09:46:47.614-07:00Mother's Day Crunch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">Some people get breakfast in bed on Mother's Day. This year I got something <i>extra </i>special...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">I was lying on my bed reading over my lesson for church and Tom came in. I was moving to make room for him and he <strike>flung himself </strike> laid back on the bed. Somehow, the back of his head met the front of mine at a<span class="Apple-style-span"> high rate of speed. We both heard this horrible "crack". I leaned over, not quite able to see yet and proceeded to bleed all over our bed. Awesome. I totally broke my nose. It's still swollen, has a lump on the right and leans gently to the left now. But I can breathe through both sides of my nose for the first time in years. Cheaper than another nose surgery, right? It's going to be hard for Tom top this next Mother's Day...</span></span></div>
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But I really do love being a mother. More than anything. It's been a road getting here, but I wouldn't change my life for anything. Too bad we didn't take any pictures of me and my beautiful children <i>on</i> Mother's Day. So instead you get a couple of us on vacation...</div>
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You know how it's harder to get your kids to do homework once it's sunny outside? "The year is almost over anyway..." "It's too nice outside...." "Mom! It's not raining for once! (Can you tell we live in WA?)" "I though you said exercise is <i>good</i> for me..." And on. And on. And on.... I found the solution. At least for the littles. Reading hopscotch. We used the words to Sam's current unit in Read Well instead of numbers. Whatever word her rock lands on, she reads. If her rock doesn't land on the board, she has to read them all. She LOVED it. I got a tan. She's ready for her test and we'll be playing again tomorrow with new words...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577144342817228629noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217048951236943123.post-47638300230638259622014-03-21T07:09:00.000-07:002014-03-21T07:09:07.872-07:00Glow Your Own Way<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
The twins wanted a Neon Glow Party for their birthday this year. Seriously, the funnest party we've every done!</div>
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The girls spent forever making accessories out of white and neon pipe cleaners</div>
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That glowed so well, I totally forgot to get out all the glow sticks I'd bought. </div>
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Did you know it's really hard to take pictures in the dark? </div>
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Glow in the dark Limbo</div>
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Photo booth</div>
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Freeze dance </div>
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We turned on the lights for brownie sundaes</div>
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And took a picture with the flash so we could recognize everyone later...</div>
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We had three huge black lights hung up decorated with white streamers and stars we cut out of neon card stock. We hung them using white pipe cleaners. Cheap and easy! The girls came and I painted their faces with glow in the dark paint and they all got to paint a neon shirt with glow-in-the-dark paint. (Brooke and her friends dried them with blow driers so the girls could wear them) We played limbo, musical chairs, freeze dance and they spent about 45 minutes just playing with hundreds of pipe cleaners. Everything is more fun in black lights!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577144342817228629noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217048951236943123.post-25197244564692851672014-03-15T15:57:00.002-07:002014-03-15T15:57:54.898-07:00It's the Canadian in us...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Did your kids watch the Olympics this February? Mine did. </div>
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Did your kids absolutely love the curling? Mine did.</div>
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Did your kids invent their own "sister curling" sport? </div>
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Mine did...</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577144342817228629noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217048951236943123.post-12584892829331185602014-03-11T17:45:00.001-07:002014-03-11T17:45:20.211-07:00Quote of the day...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
My girls go to bed pretty early. (Their mom needs some space at night...) At 7, we read scriptures. By 7:30 they are upstairs brushing teeth, getting drinks, doing whatever it is they do to get ready for bed. Then they can read until 8. I had this conversation with Sam yesterday...</div>
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Sam - "Can I read my scriptures on my tablet?"</div>
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me - "Sure."</div>
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Sam - "What if I accidentally end up playing games instead..."</div>
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Nice try, small fry...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577144342817228629noreply@blogger.com1