tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100596856856438802024-02-07T20:57:27.764-06:00Reigning it inUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger320125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-810059685685643880.post-42393993161089891262016-08-31T10:42:00.002-05:002016-08-31T10:42:55.168-05:00Alzheimers, Death, and Pain..."oh my!"I'm gonna just jump right in without any transition from my last post three years ago.<br />
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My dad died this April, which, if you are reading this, you probably know me, so you probably already know. My mom has pretty advanced Alzheimer's disease (at 69 years old) which you know as well but this is just my tiny update. She moved in with us for two months after the funeral because my dad had not made plans for her in his sick state. He had non-alcoholic liver cirrhosis so basically from the time he was diagnosed with it his mind was somewhat compromised from being toxic. We tried to "save him" through getting him on liver transplant lists and encouraging him to take his meds and eat right but it was so hard from afar. In the end none of our efforts ended up saving him. He progressed too fast for the doctor's to get him a transplant and the rest of his organs started to shut down from the strain of the liver disesase. And mom got worse mentally as she suffered through watching her "person" die. We were with her pretty constantly for the last month of his life but some really crazy stuff happened during that time that made us realize how compromised she was.<br />
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For instance on the first night that dad actually was hospitalized my two sisters brought her back to my youngest sister's house to sleep there and she snuck out in the middle of the night and got lost for five hours. The police were looking for her everywhere and when I got on my flight to get to Kansas at 5 am I had to sit there on the plane with no cell service for several hours not knowing if my mom would be found alive or not. When I touched down and got cell service again my sister answered the phone and said "They found her Suze." I cried all the way from the airport to her house during my Uber ride. And from the moment I got to her through my dad's death she and I were pretty glued together. So, since we didn't have a plan in place for her yet I brought her back to my house after the funeral.<br />
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Those months were crazy. Mom grieved. Over and over again most days because it was always new. Then she got angry and wanted to go home. Sometimes I was her sister. She would yell "listen I'm the oldest sister and you can't keep me captive here!! Give me my car keys so I can go home!" Most of the time I talked her down with gentle words and as many distractions as possible. Sometimes, when it had gone on for hours and she was angry all day and really pushing me and pushing me I would snap. A couple times I even swore at her. I would come out of her room crying and exhausted and my kids' eyes would be really big and round and I'd realize they had heard the whole thing. It was a lot for everyone to deal with.<br />
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After a month of searching we finally found some good Christian ladies who were willing to move in with mom and take care of her back in her home in Wichita so that she could go "back home" which is all she wanted every day. I drove her the 12 hours back. She was so happy to be going home. I felt like we had done such a good job meeting her needs and getting her into a great situation.<br />
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Two months later she doesn't recognize her home as her home. She tries to make the caregivers leave and she is one conspiracy theory after another. She wants to get in her car and go "home" but she can't describe what home she is referring to. She thinks we left her at a conference center. She wakes up her night-time lady and tells her she can't afford to have any "boarders" so she should find another place to live. It's constant. I talk to her probably 6 times a day and try to get her through whatever the confusion of the moment is.<br />
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One of the ladies who is helping us with her is feeling (understandably) overwhelmed. Now we have to decide between moving her back in with us or moving her into a group home. It's an overwhelming decision. Between trying to care for four kids, stay married, and work on my teacher training certificate, I'm not sure I will have the time (or sanity) to take as good of constant, moment-by-moment care of mom as I'd like to do. My younger sister has found a really lovely small group home where only 5 or 6 adults live together in a regular residential home while being cared for by licensed caregivers. It sounds nice but mom will definitely freak out at the beginning at least, and I'm not sure I can pull the trigger on moving her into it.<br />
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And I have some kind of crazy sicatica pain right now. And I haven't really grieved dad much because I've been so busy thinking about mom every second. Sometimes in the car I suddenly start sobbing and I think it's my grief over my dad. Or my stress over my mom. Or my grief over my marriage which is struggling through this time, (and not because Matt isn't supportive because he IS, but just because how can it NOT suffer right now?).<br />
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I need to probably talk to someone. Or get on something. Or both. Spiritually I'm a wreck but I'm trying to work on not being angry at God for "doing this to our family." I know He's sovereign and working things out for His glory, but for some reason that is not comforting me right now. I talk to God. But not enough. Mainly I wait thirstily until 5 o'clock when I feel justified in pouring the first of many glasses of wine that will get me through the night.<br />
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I used to write funny stuff sometimes. Not because I'm hilarious but because life used to seem pretty funny, hilarious...even absurd. Absurd is still there but funny is lacking right now. Blech. Here's hoping for a little funny to come back into life. I could stand to write a little more like Erma Bombeck and a little less like Job. But Erma didn't get to hear God's voice explaining His greatness to her like Job did so maybe that's what all this is about. Maybe I will finally really find God in a meaningful way. That or end up in the Betty Ford Clinic. Here's hoping it goes the right way.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-810059685685643880.post-31346087362932002342013-08-14T09:18:00.001-05:002013-08-14T09:29:33.345-05:00I'm back...sorta<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh36heQTkp8qRZjzm0vRaNbHI4xh8S2iTv_B1CV9AQbuKk_m-cNkLJbLU_XyrDFcuY7NlBjKgapMBb0QWrEAhqdPAyZfqmlqdREmkgOWc2QiVhTTBvn8XrC8My3Q3nQfA7zrzct4BZGTnE/s1600/daddyphotos4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh36heQTkp8qRZjzm0vRaNbHI4xh8S2iTv_B1CV9AQbuKk_m-cNkLJbLU_XyrDFcuY7NlBjKgapMBb0QWrEAhqdPAyZfqmlqdREmkgOWc2QiVhTTBvn8XrC8My3Q3nQfA7zrzct4BZGTnE/s320/daddyphotos4.jpg" width="240" /></a>I want a restart. I want a redo on last year. It was fine. It was survival mode. I birthed our 4th child, Richard Norton Harris, but Matt missed it because he was home puking. That kicked off our home-schooling year since Richie was born on September 12 (luckily missing the weird 9/11 birthday). I think we have like 2 pictures of Richie's entrance into the world but they are on Sarah's I-phone or something. We'll never download them. We just won't.<br />
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We did fine this last year. We scraped through. We did a lot of worksheets (blech) and tried to throw in a few interesting things when we could. Luckily, a nice boy moved in down the street for Sam to play with so he had a friend and we didn't kill him for driving us nuts. Honestly, not much more happened. <br />
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Luella watched a lot of Dora the Explorer and Caillou while we did our worksheets so luckily she will be attending our fave school, City Garden, next year so that we can get some stuff done here and she can have some semblance of a baby life. <br />
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I still feel like we should be homeschooling (although I had my doubts last year when I was shouting "Just put on another Dora for her and get back here to finish your math!!!) so we're gonna give it another year. I'm trying to gear up for a better quality of education. No more Abeka workbooks. No more Dora. It's either gotta be better or we're gonna do something else. What else? I don't know. Move to a farm or something? <br />
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I'm not going to freak out because I know this season passes. It did 3 other times. I went on dates and blogged and had people over for dinner and met couples out for dinner (I think...) and felt like a person. When we went skiing on vacation I actually made it onto the mountain rather than nursed a baby back in the hotel. <br />
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This too shall pass and then I'll miss it. Then I'll get pregnant again because I miss it. But not this time. Not this time!!! :) <br />
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See you on the mountain.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>So...I'm a little behind. Summer flew by and now we have an additional person in our family! But this is our summer in one big long post. Enjoy.</em> </span></div>
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<strong><em><span style="font-size: large;">Mario's Italian Lemonade</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;"><em>Matt's Dad retired after many years teaching and coaching at Glenbrook South High School</em></span></strong></div>
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<em>20 weeks pregnant! At the duck pond in Eastborough</em></div>
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<strong><em><span style="font-size: large;">Luella turned 2! We celebrated by going to Glen Ellyn and meeting the Handy family at the train restaurant and going to the park!</span></em></strong> </div>
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<em>("tiny Sammy" as Luella calls him)</em></div>
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Today is Sam's actual birthday. Aprill 22nd. He was born on my dad's birthday. :) But we had his party yesterday. He didn't want a "theme" birthday this year. We've had a knight birthday and a pirate birthday and a baseball party in the past. </div>
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But he DID want to put his army guys on top of his cake, so we had an army-theme birthday<em> cake</em>. I made this much of it the night before (can you see my 19-week pregnant belly sneaking into the picture?)...</div>
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...and then I left the decorating of it to the boys the next day. As you can see, Sam has on full camo for his big day.</div>
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This is a close up of the battle scene. I never would have come up with it so I'm glad they did it. It would have had more "army" green on it but I forgot that I used up almost all of my green food coloring on Claire's cake so it had to be a bit of a desert scene.</div>
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It's so funny how different a boy party is from a girl's. Especially now that he's not-so-little and won't let me make it too cutesy. See these balloons? That's all we did decoration-wise!</div>
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Which was all that was necessary because we had 10 boys and 5 girls this year and since we had good weather we sent them all down to the park for games for almost the whole time. I think there was some kind of capture-the-flag, a little kickball, and of course, the traditional attacking-Matt-with-water-balloons!</div>
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Here's the crew once they all got back (with a very soaked Matt in the back ground). No pictures of the park time because I was home with Luella while she napped. </div>
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He blew out candles...</div>
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...cut the cake...</div>
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...and opened presents. Lego Ninjago was a favorite. (What the heck a "ninjago" is I have no idea)</div>
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Captain america.</div>
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Lego police van with canine unit from our friends, the VonKondrats, whose daddy is a policeman here in Chicago. Too funny! </div>
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Last week he got a new skateboard and helmet from his Glenview grandparents. Later on today, he's getting this bmx bike from us and grammy and grandad, but don't tell him yet! And this <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001I912SQ/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00">over-the-door basketball hoop</a> from Aunt Laura and Uncle Ben and the cousins. He's going to be a busy boy. </div>
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But daddy leaves for a week to Washington D.C. tonight so I'm happy that he'll have all these fun things to keep him busy this week. </div>
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Happy Birthday Sam-Sam. We love you. </div>
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We only had about <em><strong>one</strong></em> cold day in Chicago for the entire month of March, which was weird because it's usually freezing for the <em><strong>entire</strong></em> month of March. Of course, that day, we couldn't turn on our heat because a rat had died in our heater and it smelled. Aaah...city life. So we made a fire in the fireplace instead and read books during school about spring and planting.</div>
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We started our indoor seeds and stepped it up this year by buying a flourescent grow light to help our seedlings along until they are ready to transplant outside.</div>
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These two HAVE to have a snack at three o'clock every day. This is Wella up from her nap eatting cereal with her big brother. Two peas in a pod I tell ya'.</div>
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Bath time. She won't get out of the bath until all the water has gone out and she's gotten to slide around. </div>
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I bought this grain grinder for the kids to get the experience of grinding grain and baking the bread from it.</div>
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But I've actually been trying to figure out "sprouted grain bread" since I like to buy the Ezekiel 4:9 bread at Whole Foods and it's so pricey. </div>
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We've tried it several ways. It's very sticky if you make it the real way and don't dry out the grains first.</div>
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This might have been a yummy small loaf of bread but I forgot about it while watching a whale show on TV with the kids and let it burn into a brick. Next time!</div>
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We made these easter gardens during Holy week. </div>
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And Wella would like you to know that she got a new baby.</div>
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She named her Isla after my friend Greg and Crystal's baby who came to visit us this weekend. </div>
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Here's Annabel felting easter eggs.</div>
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We did okay, but we're going to need more practice with out wet felting. </div>
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The eggs turned out well though.</div>
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And of course, we had to do the traditional dying of the eggs.</div>
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Sam's eggs.</div>
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Luella has been asking to use the big girl potty so we pulled out our potty seat and stool for fun but so far no luck. She tinkled NEXT to the potty once though!</div>
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Finding easter eggs with big brother. </div>
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So, I guess that's what we've been up to along with school every day and our regular mayhem. Hope everyone had a good Easter!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-810059685685643880.post-79074247412095129292012-03-18T20:43:00.000-05:002012-04-08T20:44:49.943-05:00Grammy and Grandad visit<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My parents came from Kansas on the night of Matt's birthday to visit for a few days. It was great and the weather was beautiful. We went downtown to walk in the park and eat hot dogs on one of the days. </div>
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Luella became a crazy pigeon-chaser. </div>
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And Grandad taught Claire the finer points of eatting a Chicago-dog. </div>
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The bean.</div>
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Grandad and the big kids. He was busy for three straight days! He played basketball with Sam, took kids to the park, went for walks, played games...over and over again. And my mom took Luella for a thousand walks. It was so great to see them. We can't wait to see them in May!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-810059685685643880.post-41921166937958815452012-03-17T20:21:00.000-05:002012-04-08T20:29:41.524-05:00On becoming nine (and 32)...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Claire turned nine this week. We can't believe it. She had cupcakes with her school buddies on the actual birthday (3/14).</div>
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This is the other half of the crew.</div>
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I made cheese enchiladas and refried beans for her on her birthday night because I was craving it, probably. But that's what happens when your mom is pregnant on your birthday. ;)</div>
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Incidentally, Matt turned 32 this week as well. On St Patrick's day.We made him green pancakes.</div>
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Claire wanted crafts, per her usual, and last summer she loved doing<a href="http://reigningitin.blogspot.com/2011/07/too-much-to-say-about-family-camp.html"> tie dye at family camp</a>, so we tried to replicate it.</div>
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This was one of her gifts...a teensy tiny tea set. It's made by someone's mom and she makes them with real pottery and glazes them and everything!</div>
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Our nine year old.</div>
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The gang, (minus a few who had to leave early). I love these girls! Especially the middle one. And the pesky, dirty boy on the right that showed up at the end for cake. Haha. Happy Birthday Claire Bear! And Matt...</div>
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Valentines Day party at my house for our home school. These cookies were brought by Nicky and her girls!</div>
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Bridget sent Dunkin Donuts with Annabel!</div>
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Color-coding grammar.</div>
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...with honey mustard!</div>
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Monopoly...lots of monopoly lately. I always warn the girls not to make trades with Matt, but they never listen...and always lose.</div>
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Picking a blue/gray color for our bedroom</div>
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That's pretty much my life right now. School, Luella, making dinner, a little home improvement work, (Mr Tommy is fixing our plumbing and garage as I type this) Matt playing board games with the kids, and then just press repeat and do it all over again the next day! I know, I know. My life is too exciting.</div>
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So last year, about this time, we moved our selves into the tiny room and moved Sam with all his junk into the master bedroom. I thought it would help keep his toys upstairs and we didn't really need all the space, but then a few things happened:</div>
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1) We moved Claire into the big room WITH Sam because Luella became incapable of sleeping with other people in the room, and then...</div>
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3) We moved into the front (medium-sized) yellow room.</div>
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We were pretty happy with that arrangement except that I got a hankering to change our tv room into a school room and just move the tv into our upstairs room since we really only watch it a little in the evenings anyway.<br />
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The kids are in the front room (medium room) and Mr Tommy built us these fabulous lofted beds (and shelves). We got the idea for these hanging beds from <a href="http://thebumpercrop.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/three-boys-one-room/">The Bumper Crop blog</a> and Mr Tommy copied them pretty closely!</div>
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We are in the master bedroom again with a new couch/tv sitting area. We got a tiny loveseat to sit on for watching tv. So far we think it's comfortable and just the right size! </div>
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Here are my inspirations for new bedrooms. Tell me what you think! I'm getting a real feeling of needing to get away from my beige/earth-tone thing that my whole house has been all these years. I need some color and some white and some blue even? I've never used blue except in bathrooms but it's growing on me. </div>
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And I want to do the stencil (below) behind our bed or on the big empty wall of our bedroom. But in gray or something.</div>
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Do you by any chance remember <a href="http://reigningitin.blogspot.com/2009/07/boarding.html">this post </a>from 2009? Sam had just received a skateboard for the first time. He was very into it and even liked wearing all the sweet wrist pads and things that make it a little safer. Of course he just thought they made him look "awesome".</div>
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Well, fastforward to Christmas and he received his first BIG skateboard. He rode it a lot in Kansas at this nice, clean, pretty skateboard park. Most of the time he was there alone. </div>
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Throughout December, we used this beautiful advent circle which we bought from the Voskamp family over at <a href="http://www.aholyexperience.com/2010/03/if-youre-looking-for-deeply-meaningful/">Holy Experience</a>. We used it every night along with a Jesse Tree devotional, which really helped solidify the meaning of the season with the kids. I'm sure we'll use it every year. </div>
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<strong><u><span style="font-size: large;">Christmas Eve</span></u></strong></div>
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But we did track Santa online on Christmas Eve too. I maybe should take Santa out of the equation altogether, but there <em>are</em> some fun little Santa things we like to do the night of Christmas Eve. I think it's okay since they are entrenched in the real meaning every other night of December.</div>
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Opening ONE gift on Christmas Eve...a family tradition. It's always so stressful to figure out which one they should open that night. Nothing too big, but also nothing too disappointing like socks or anything.</div>
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Cookies for Santa. We kind gave him a lot.</div>
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Santa's footprint and Rudolph's hoofprint in the fireplace ashes,</div>
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Santa's letter to the kids. He always reminds them that the real reason he celebrates Christmas is because of Jesus' birthday. :)</div>
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Christmas morning.</div>
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Claire got this new reading chair to go UNDER her new bed. (More on the new beds later).</div>
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Sam made this little gnome house and the people for Wella.</div>
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Aunt Rebecca.</div>
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Grandpa Norton.</div>
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Grandpa's is a little snug these days. Heehee.</div>
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The beautiful bird.</div>
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The cookbook.</div>
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The gravy.</div>
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The chef...grandma of course!</div>
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The carver. Aunt Sarah.</div>
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Grandma Evie (who Claire is named after) gave Claire lots of love.</div>
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Grandkids.</div>
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Aunt Katie and Uncle Chance! The cousins love these guys so much because they are the cool, hip, young married people who have things like video games, dogs, candy, motorcycles, etc. They are also just pretty cool and fun in general. :) Sam sat this close to Chance, (when he wasn't on top of him) pretty much the whole time.</div>
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New sleds. I'm not going to say anything. You shouldn't either.</div>
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Playing battleship with Ms Cathy, the International Student who lives with my parents right now. She's great and taught me how to cook a big Chinese food feast on New Years Eve. </div>
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Grandad worn out after putting in huge full days of entertaining grandkids every day we were there. </div>
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Matt and I also "celebrated" 10 years of marriage on December 29th. Well, we didn't do anything yet, but we said "Happy Anniversary" to each other! Matt's trying to get me to do a hotel night somewhere this month, but leaving all three kids seems like such a hastle! I guess I should....</div>
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The 3rd/4th grade girls did a unit on measurement. They learned about some ancient units of measurement (cubits, etc) as well as the necessity for standardized measurements. But the main point of the lesson was to give them a FEEL for measurements. <i>What does it feel like to walk a mile? What does it feel like to hold a pound? 5 pounds? 25 pounds? </i>They made their own rulers with a little burning tool as well.</div>
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A trip to an apple orchard at the beginning of October merited an apple-themed baking day.</div>
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The 1st graders (Sam and Zoe) spent two weeks being introduced to the<i> Land of Numeria</i>, the land where you learn about all things math-related. Roman numerals and secret codes were a big part of this lesson! The quality of the different numbers (1-12) were introduced. <i>What is one? One is myself. What is two? Two is a pair, or opposites. </i>Their next unit in math will be an introduction to all four processes: multiplication, division, addition, subtraction.</div>
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After lunch every day we read a chapter from <i style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto;">The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child; Volume 1: Ancient Times: From the Earliest Nomads to the Last Roman Emperor . </i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Then we do the activities and maps. On this day we were practicing writing cuneiform in clay like the ancient Sumerians!</span></div>
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Fall crafts! We had a ton of grape vines in our backyard so the girls wanted to make leaf crowns with them. I made a wreath! Fall is quickly disappearing though. We had our first flurries of snow yesterday!</div>
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Watercolor painting is pretty popular in the mornings, but this time we made them into lanterns to celebrate St Martin! (google it....I didn't know the story either, but it's the story on which the Waldorf school bases their lantern walk).</div>
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Ever popular. Claire is knitting a triangular scarf since Ms Leslie is teaching her to increase stitches with each row. And Sam is still chugging away on his camouflage scarf.</div>
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We started the school year off around here excited, but sick. Everyone was sick. It started with Matt and worked it's way through the family until it got to me. I'm still sick! We can't kick it. But we've been going strong for a month now and we're so glad we started. In week one, Sam learned to knit! And he was good at it!</div>
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We're home schooling with our friend Annabel this year as well as with the Von Kondrat family who have two girls: Dylan and Zoe. It's a full house of girls for poor Sam, but it's what we've got right now and he's just so happy that there are people in the house....he loves people. He's his mother's child.</div>
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We also signed the kids up for music lessons with a nice lady who is also the violin teacher at Urban Prairie, which is the relatively new Waldorf school around here.</div>
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And after buying this book as well as Housebuilding for Children (also by Lester Walker) we started framing a tiny wooden house for Wella in the back yard! It's part of our 3rd/4th grade practical work study and it has been great for all the kids.</div>
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They have sawed their little hearts out until it's second nature for all of them and they've pounded dozens of nails in [straight!] as well! So Nicky (Mrs Von Kondrat who is the other teacher at our little home school) might have pulled out a drill once or twice, (and nearer to the end there were incidences with nail guns and jigsaws) but MOSTLY it was all done with hand tools. Not bad I have to say!</div>
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Gardening has also gone okay this year. We put a little more effort into it this summer and bought raised beds, did the whole square-foot-gardening thing and planted some trees and shrubs. </div>
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We just made a pretty great squash soup out of these [butternut?] squashes (we got 3 big ones) and everyone has liked it.</div>
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These are delicata squash. They are still ripening.</div>
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Wella joins in the picking every once in a while. I'd like to say that our gardening has turned her into a little veggie eater, but it hasn't. She usually takes one bite out of tomatoes and then throws them to the ground.</div>
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But it's one of the things we use to keep her busy while we're building...that is, letting her pick vegetables.</div>
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Tomatoes did well this year as did basil and the squash. Our green beans bit the dust and we didn't plant nearly enough lettuce. Next year.</div>
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Wella has gotten very opinionated lately. I guess she's a real toddler now. It makes home schooling very taxing some times, but she wants to be noticed and heard, that's for sure. </div>
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She sat on the counter with me while I made this pie out of squash one day. Granted, she had to empty all of the powdered sugar onto herself out of one canister while I did it, but these days that works for me. I have to cook dinner somehow! Well...that's not always true. We've had more than our share of pizza and tacos this year from mommy being too tired to cook.</div>
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But I'm really excited about our school. Mrs Nicky and I have found our grooves as teachers. I like to pride myself on being relatively handy, but she's really an outstandingly amazing builder/worker/project doer. So, I've stepped down a bit and learned to defer to her on most of that. This is her giving the kids a "talk-to-each-other-positively-or-I'm-not-going-to-let-you-touch-my-nailgun" speech.</div>
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And she's very patient and good with the kids in that way. I, on the other hand, have become the general curriculum planner and organizer of things. I can't believe that is my specialty because anyone who knows me would think that planning would not have been my forte. In fact, I just bought a calendar for the first time this year! But I guess necessity is helping me to grow a woman's heart.</div>
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Look at Claire with the nail gun. I think a little pent-up sibling aggression went into the building of this house. Nail guns are good for getting out aggression...when used properly that is.</div>
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And at last, it was framed! I love this picture of Claire lifting the roof onto the house in triumph.</div>
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It was a big moment for all of them. I love these kids and I'm so glad I'm homeschooling with a community this year. It makes it so much better. And...it gets me out of my pajamas and makes me brush my teeth in the morning, which is a bonus for everyone. :)</div>
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Claire and the rest of her West Side Ladies (girl scouts) took swim lessons out at Bridget's family farm in Wheaton. Bridget is Annabel's mom. Come on...keep up.</div>
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We hired Ms. Kate, a Wheaton College graduate, to give them their first formal introduction to swim strokes. Sam learned to dive like a champ and Claire has a great back stroke!</div>
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I introduced you to Brooke in my first <a href="http://reigningitin.blogspot.com/2011/07/summer.html">"Summer" post</a>. She was my college roommate and Matt and I got to go to her wedding alone! Only date of the summer so we tried to soak it up.</div>
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Brooke used to teach drama at Willowcreek Church and she is a very artistic lady, so her wedding was as well. See the fake mustaches on the grooms? Love it.</div>
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One of her bridesmaids was Esther, who I also went to school with. Very fun Wheaton reunion.</div>
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And Matt's sister, Rebecca, came too since she became friends with Brooke through church drama team. This wedding was a meeting of many small worlds!</div>
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Just a week or two after Brooke and Nate's wedding was my cousin Carl's wedding. Carl was my closest-in-age cousin growing up and we were always confidants at family reunions. I love this guy!</div>
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The rest of my family came, too! Laura's family came from Columbus, Ohio, and Katie came from Wichita (after driving ALL night) with her then-fiance, Chance Haddon. Didn't get a picture of those guys. Poo.</div>
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Back at home the next weekend we threw a little after-wedding party for Brooke and Nate. They had a few friends that they didn't get to invite to their wedding and they wanted to be able to share the video and memories with those people as well so we had them over for fajitas and mojitos!</div>
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The wedding was red and yellow so we tried to have the same colors.</div>
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The cake had a little<i> "Brooke & Nate"</i> topper.</div>
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<b><u>KATIE AND CHANCE'S WEDDING!!!!</u></b></div>
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So the real build-up of OUR family's summer was my baby sister, Katie's wedding to Chance Haddon!!! My big sister, Laura, and I were co-matron's of honor and our girl's were the flower girls! Sammy, of course, was the bearer of the rings. We were so excited when this weekend finally came.</div>
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Chance's family through the awesomest (is that a word?) rehearsal dinner in my parent's backyard. Katie decorated for it.</div>
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Chance's family are farmers from Ellinwood, Kansas, and his dad also has a restaurant and a catering company. </div>
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This is his "Lone Wolf" trailer that he takes to barbecue competitions. The food was awesome.</div>
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The tables were sweet.</div>
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Matt with all the cousins.</div>
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This is Katie's good friend, Amanda, with Wella.</div>
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The bride and groom with friends.</div>
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Grandad's zip-line was in use during the party.</div>
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Uncle Bruce with my cousin Jesse and my dad.</div>
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The rehearsal dinner crowd.</div>
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Katie meeting her photographer who she FLEW IN from out of state! Very fancy.</div>
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This is Randy, Chance's dad, getting popsicles out of the trailer for Sam and the other kids. Huge hit!</div>
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Sharing with baby sister.</div>
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Girl cousins with Aunt Katie!</div>
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My mom and her best friend, Cheryl Cordry, who helped us ALL weekend as we got ready for the wedding and the morning-after brunch that we had at my mom's house. Cheryl actually helped deliver Katie when she was born (long story). We call her Aunt Cheryl. </div>
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Katie at the bridal store where they laced her into her dress.</div>
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It was quite the process getting into that dress!</div>
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The groom's cake.</div>
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The cupcake table.</div>
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Wella before we made her put her dress on.</div>
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In the dressing room with Aunt Laura getting ready before the wedding. I have only terrible pictures of Katie's wedding since I was in it and didn't get to take many during the important moments. But here's a little behind-the-scenes before the big event got started.</div>
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Mom's mother-of-the-bride shoes.</div>
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Erin, Katie's friend and wedding-coordinator-of-sorts wearing her bridesmaid dress and telling mom which usher is going to seat her.</div>
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Our girls ready for their walk down the aisle.</div>
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Sammy ready for his walk. He actually hung out with the groomsmen all day and got VERY attached to one guy in particular who taught him secret handshakes and dance moves.</div>
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Waiting....</div>
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The kids' garb. Luella was only there for the wedding (we had a babysitter for the reception) and she was so noisy that Matt had to take her out for the whole thing. Poor Matt.</div>
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Katie's new family, the Haddons.</div>
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Still waiting.</div>
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Peeking out to see how much longer.</div>
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This is Troy, Sam's new best friend/Chance's groomsmen.</div>
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And then the whole thing happened and I didn't get ANY pictures because I was so busy being a bridesmaid, but when Katie's professional photos get posted I'll link up to them! This was the VERY end of the night when they had danced until they dropped and shed/exchanged clothes. </div>
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But after it was all over we gained a brother-in-law and an awesome uncle. We love you guys! Have fun in Jamaica!</div>
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<b><u>TANGANYIKA WILDLIFE PARK</u></b></div>
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Before leaving Wichita and heading back to Chicago we went to this great hands-on zoo called Tanganyika.</div>
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And fish...</div>
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And hung out with lemurs on lemur island.</div>
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There were penguins that must have been hot. It was 100 degrees out!</div>
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We fed giraffes, (my favorite part). They are so TALL when you see them up close!</div>
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We even got to feed a 5,000 lb rhino named Henry!</div>
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It was a great summer that we'll remember for always. But it was so busy that I'm actually ready to get back to boring ol' regular days. I mean how can you keep up with rhino feeding and throwing parties every weekend?! Hope everyone else had equally busy/happy/crazy summers!</div>
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Too much to say about<a href="http://www.silverbirchranch.org/"> family camp</a>. We shared a cabin with Julia and Joel Handy and their three boys. Well, we each had our own side to the cabin and it was connected in the middle by a common area. </div>
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There was zip lining, swimming, tubing, special breakfasts (one we rowed a canoe to, one we walked to, and one we got to on a horse and buggy). There was archery, a medieval night (complete with dunk tank that Sam got into) white water rafting, horseback riding, tie-dying, game night, fire-building, and s'more making. There was four-square and basketball and mini-golf, and ice cream night. </div>
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Needless to say, a fun time was had by all. And the strawberry patch we hit on the way home was fun too. It made Wella very messy and Sam wouldn't pick any strawberries and had to go potty 5 minutes into it, but whatever! We still managed to pick 10 lbs!</div>
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It was fun for all and we love the Handy family. Thanks for teaching us about <a href="http://www.silverbirchranch.org/">Silver Birch</a> guys! Hopefully we'll rock that cabin again next year. </div>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVyiitJCWBqoC0o_s4bvnepgN8Th0M96V4wy2imn3duZ4wGCO3JxgY_7hTPEud12QrGgmSpAjO1XvXrM4z4REzM430MGz87kaoziZcEjMAnwmDlRxUNnpUWyEkSi_Ub7_qVzQ_oQzPkrs/s1600/000_0102.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVyiitJCWBqoC0o_s4bvnepgN8Th0M96V4wy2imn3duZ4wGCO3JxgY_7hTPEud12QrGgmSpAjO1XvXrM4z4REzM430MGz87kaoziZcEjMAnwmDlRxUNnpUWyEkSi_Ub7_qVzQ_oQzPkrs/s320/000_0102.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">They'll be talking about this all summer. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWlP508qrnDorAcn75AG2OGLsN5B6oDEzkvb1VTDLn6ONCI58ETQsHeyGRCmFI_octW3pqCfZJHvft-SR0jpkWtw5Sqy0farKMRkoQYxphdjwrir8JZXp1ZLP7DtXsmFg4jgEPx9mZGPs/s1600/101_1389.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWlP508qrnDorAcn75AG2OGLsN5B6oDEzkvb1VTDLn6ONCI58ETQsHeyGRCmFI_octW3pqCfZJHvft-SR0jpkWtw5Sqy0farKMRkoQYxphdjwrir8JZXp1ZLP7DtXsmFg4jgEPx9mZGPs/s320/101_1389.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Claire and Annabel have been sewing a lot lately. They made these beach bags on my sewing machine together, with a little help from me.</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCSNDnHe9s3v-Eh1GvGyIsa0h5maJ8ik6iwaOpYl0xKqNKhDsbDBD7TSrMJpKl7D4lpdG6zKJ3OYV4etLkF8x4PLH0RJsFpGTyoFWX6Hd6qUXXJNffh9KUMlyevekHuNisUI0YmTgkjPU/s1600/101_1397.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCSNDnHe9s3v-Eh1GvGyIsa0h5maJ8ik6iwaOpYl0xKqNKhDsbDBD7TSrMJpKl7D4lpdG6zKJ3OYV4etLkF8x4PLH0RJsFpGTyoFWX6Hd6qUXXJNffh9KUMlyevekHuNisUI0YmTgkjPU/s320/101_1397.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">They also made napkins. Napkins were much easier and they liked using the zig-zag stitch. </div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNQfda55bUjArFtDweg_70pLtFSQ3yQF-LlMlIdjDbkhHeFRA6C6Ds25gNm49PUO59Rq2V5ZTqhFCgqPmhbwTsHrzRreKbg_2n1Rl6s9Vja1fUHhORBRKNz_m-2KEoaaQAdgGyFYBR9ME/s1600/101_1398.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNQfda55bUjArFtDweg_70pLtFSQ3yQF-LlMlIdjDbkhHeFRA6C6Ds25gNm49PUO59Rq2V5ZTqhFCgqPmhbwTsHrzRreKbg_2n1Rl6s9Vja1fUHhORBRKNz_m-2KEoaaQAdgGyFYBR9ME/s320/101_1398.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Speaking of sewing...REAL sewing...Claire had a sewing day (2 actually) with her Grandma and they made this dress for her American Girl doll. Wow! I was impressed. And intimidated. </div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw4yRhwqNLupTdBidLfJcsUx1Mc8KLCX9bpo1SNilxt1FhvbDzZlo1SDA8Z3Y9Uy-WE5fAJzbdVmz1DsSThxKrx9EWvZ1f8HWlcWV0Bresa3MTkMkehZ7ZBz92Vh6Sg1cymSBhguO2PX8/s1600/101_1368.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw4yRhwqNLupTdBidLfJcsUx1Mc8KLCX9bpo1SNilxt1FhvbDzZlo1SDA8Z3Y9Uy-WE5fAJzbdVmz1DsSThxKrx9EWvZ1f8HWlcWV0Bresa3MTkMkehZ7ZBz92Vh6Sg1cymSBhguO2PX8/s320/101_1368.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We made a little sandbox and put it in our parkway. It was an immediate kid-magnet and has gotten much use already.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8AU5wVh8GpaBmMggjnxyCEFPUVUk1fYYvJOHNZmnLtWn4CFFx42oqznWVLWE4QlcB40b_Mo5UInHiLw_izf-fllM41PGFtqw1XJbL5eI0kY1fonilHqnQA40Is-2hRaofIc0qh9wPqMI/s1600/101_1369.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8AU5wVh8GpaBmMggjnxyCEFPUVUk1fYYvJOHNZmnLtWn4CFFx42oqznWVLWE4QlcB40b_Mo5UInHiLw_izf-fllM41PGFtqw1XJbL5eI0kY1fonilHqnQA40Is-2hRaofIc0qh9wPqMI/s320/101_1369.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The best part has been that Sammy has picked up a few more neighborhood buddies in the process. Pablo and Isaiah are Sam's new buds.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM3v5krA2Um3KmehInnzbRhmN57VrD1yjeoQGebjWWSLS4cKvQospHzh0-CSHn79cYhLLJsHf9h38SbX292nUWfApct61_1BYd_Fxsdxi1wN-T55lFdXDKP8oEBQ-ALyJ1wIEjwf4EreU/s1600/101_1376.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM3v5krA2Um3KmehInnzbRhmN57VrD1yjeoQGebjWWSLS4cKvQospHzh0-CSHn79cYhLLJsHf9h38SbX292nUWfApct61_1BYd_Fxsdxi1wN-T55lFdXDKP8oEBQ-ALyJ1wIEjwf4EreU/s320/101_1376.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Something we are very excited and hopeful for is the possible acquisition of a real YARD. Our house is on the left and our neighbor's house is on the right, with a garden in the middle. </div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi27jAOMM7PZDBFfJgM4bhusZ15uMIaUgkCf0tIebaXGbz4wTwUhdPiUHKYU5GRDWlwkq32tHHYBAhuf_rkEeS_89ki5DoZGFTK5x1jKWyR9tKI_oZsA_ozoCii6-SUT6XQDeNLz5oqrXA/s1600/101_1377.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi27jAOMM7PZDBFfJgM4bhusZ15uMIaUgkCf0tIebaXGbz4wTwUhdPiUHKYU5GRDWlwkq32tHHYBAhuf_rkEeS_89ki5DoZGFTK5x1jKWyR9tKI_oZsA_ozoCii6-SUT6XQDeNLz5oqrXA/s320/101_1377.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is the garden up close. It's as wide and deep as a city lot and the lady who owns it is trying to get rid of it before she lets her house go into foreclosure. She might even sell it to us for a HUGE steal. So...we are dreaming of all the things we'll do with that space if we get it!!! (chickens anyone?) </div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZlGaFNP4cCD03393J_cFyo7_j1mHfFfpE_hlodln-pGz459p3X_ykUXl5EHYLS6jo9mrLfXr-LMNbYHnj_nLHdPKRKFoAaaVuPnJluQSs7DHgxltEmyA_33QdTDGswMTaZlhaoYLl_Ac/s1600/101_1422.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZlGaFNP4cCD03393J_cFyo7_j1mHfFfpE_hlodln-pGz459p3X_ykUXl5EHYLS6jo9mrLfXr-LMNbYHnj_nLHdPKRKFoAaaVuPnJluQSs7DHgxltEmyA_33QdTDGswMTaZlhaoYLl_Ac/s320/101_1422.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Matt's parent's bought this hoop for Sam a few Christmases ago, but we didn't have a backboard and couldn't think of a good spot to mount it. But we finally found one!</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhveuZHPB8nWt0A4kdh6Th12NBOuj-bcjRXmEE9_ua1q6cF_COS89GC6oHgEXVI0JSE5XemOMggDB3_Pb_JOm1uTwsx5l2ITNyucKKaAAWl8mOmg5Wg_GFSrm81JVzHkw_5YOBEakcUp5s/s1600/101_1423.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhveuZHPB8nWt0A4kdh6Th12NBOuj-bcjRXmEE9_ua1q6cF_COS89GC6oHgEXVI0JSE5XemOMggDB3_Pb_JOm1uTwsx5l2ITNyucKKaAAWl8mOmg5Wg_GFSrm81JVzHkw_5YOBEakcUp5s/s320/101_1423.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is the front of our house and the steps that lead down to the basement.</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWVLtVb2O13UcoSMY6hvCGkhAIA8M6-z5mFA4quys9E50V_uyBp_xi-EAy0IRpzs0b7DCqyKr-0uonhiHH261OKArdyrClQTYNlm07bme7F874dvxAPJV0xT9qk8tl_Z6TwgS-jpVSrqo/s1600/101_1421.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWVLtVb2O13UcoSMY6hvCGkhAIA8M6-z5mFA4quys9E50V_uyBp_xi-EAy0IRpzs0b7DCqyKr-0uonhiHH261OKArdyrClQTYNlm07bme7F874dvxAPJV0xT9qk8tl_Z6TwgS-jpVSrqo/s320/101_1421.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We bolted the hoop to this wood and then used industrial strength zip-ties to tether it to the fence. Walah!</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzIax5hwPoppv0l8m3y9EheZcS_P2Q0374GpF7EHgUb_mP7qCl7CRpK9N57hciu4k-P7WDhS44n8relOL0H0daqNqmrIMIwuWS4EkERHs61rNd_2md20kHzJxGXqHdAmeR0W9ohfKieL8/s1600/101_1162.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzIax5hwPoppv0l8m3y9EheZcS_P2Q0374GpF7EHgUb_mP7qCl7CRpK9N57hciu4k-P7WDhS44n8relOL0H0daqNqmrIMIwuWS4EkERHs61rNd_2md20kHzJxGXqHdAmeR0W9ohfKieL8/s320/101_1162.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We also put up this tiny pool in our backyard. See the funny leaning evergreen tree behind the pool? We attempted to move it from the middle of the yard to the back of the yard, but it's a little, well...unsteady. Haha!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl3bfotl6jEhTNYVk1Ttiww5w6-BYLy8PjbBcQHX8BW87_l0lLxLBoOh5x1hR1lWwq_OgP4ZOCMa4-r6Gic-MU4pupVjzrqx9-hMKAUK22DZ2dXjfvofK4_rx43FG0KQDlCuwZBwiUTPU/s1600/101_1401.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl3bfotl6jEhTNYVk1Ttiww5w6-BYLy8PjbBcQHX8BW87_l0lLxLBoOh5x1hR1lWwq_OgP4ZOCMa4-r6Gic-MU4pupVjzrqx9-hMKAUK22DZ2dXjfvofK4_rx43FG0KQDlCuwZBwiUTPU/s320/101_1401.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And, we've figured out that Wella's favorite food is corn on the cob! We're trying to eek out every bit of summer fun that we can in our tiny city house. So far, we're doing okay!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-810059685685643880.post-6013566531424115322011-06-30T20:39:00.000-05:002011-06-30T20:39:10.837-05:00Sam's school party<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6JKNDw5MhlhoOw_Hd-je5K9i7UjWQOeZ2oPd_snbvVjtUF0TCfAhNXREhOLPRYju5W8Qb35Q_4STQW3pj-rIZiPzS7omwcnt1F0OCHvphZI3f9eEcPAJHJy0DN2K-3bkLEpsIocTAcB4/s1600/101_1402.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6JKNDw5MhlhoOw_Hd-je5K9i7UjWQOeZ2oPd_snbvVjtUF0TCfAhNXREhOLPRYju5W8Qb35Q_4STQW3pj-rIZiPzS7omwcnt1F0OCHvphZI3f9eEcPAJHJy0DN2K-3bkLEpsIocTAcB4/s320/101_1402.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We celebrated Sam's birthday at school today. City Garden has summer camp for a few weeks and Ms. Hellesoy and I both forgot to have Sam's birthday at school back in April, so she invited him to come have it today. It was Mr Krohl's birthday too!</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit7dzcT9NGzOaVyFLn7F3gDCvelfN5qMPjmWOuY54YRuMIICfIla7UM_S2_R_jrctxViZcpOfNvLVnw3beGOmY99dAALFkTeUibN6is5fuCdDMtVelwEmh5m6vc36MZMuABcFEKGzq3uk/s1600/101_1403.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit7dzcT9NGzOaVyFLn7F3gDCvelfN5qMPjmWOuY54YRuMIICfIla7UM_S2_R_jrctxViZcpOfNvLVnw3beGOmY99dAALFkTeUibN6is5fuCdDMtVelwEmh5m6vc36MZMuABcFEKGzq3uk/s320/101_1403.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It was fun. He did his last walk down the rainbow bridge, his last time of wearing the crown and the cape. He's big now. (sob) The funniest part was just how huge he looked doing it. He sits on the teacher's lap at the beginning and walks over to his parents in the ceremony and I thought he was going to squish poor Ms Hellesoy! </div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvPIhLEpzW286wXpclSsRUpPE27GA7ViJtN-S6lz89zY2MqboJv2COeiS5qosoNlEQs8o7CDgPCKjrWdkeJK5a94H1PazNUUUplHXNTgfJ7wi4xeTog2zjbMUVqL6toWPHCdxnZJaNOBQ/s1600/101_1404.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvPIhLEpzW286wXpclSsRUpPE27GA7ViJtN-S6lz89zY2MqboJv2COeiS5qosoNlEQs8o7CDgPCKjrWdkeJK5a94H1PazNUUUplHXNTgfJ7wi4xeTog2zjbMUVqL6toWPHCdxnZJaNOBQ/s320/101_1404.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">They made him a dragon for his birthday. It was to go with his knight (Sir Peter) and his King Arthur puppet. :) He was very pleased.</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizQ8pOSJF_BjLHZmnq-E57QVxy4kIB0w7nXwdEGgMd70lgslV_BwqenAPTuG5Qm5o1ehftEwue4bnZ9OP4WpjmGheLQ-p5LH_bITt60RIN27rML4-JuGRHSh00ypnmeMfNat8M4inDsmw/s1600/101_1405.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizQ8pOSJF_BjLHZmnq-E57QVxy4kIB0w7nXwdEGgMd70lgslV_BwqenAPTuG5Qm5o1ehftEwue4bnZ9OP4WpjmGheLQ-p5LH_bITt60RIN27rML4-JuGRHSh00ypnmeMfNat8M4inDsmw/s320/101_1405.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I brought homemade ice cream and Ms Hellesoy made cookies. It was delicious. Only Sammy and I with our lactose intolerance regreted the decision to eat it. </div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbMQ_9vH7vlGC5iEIuBij-DYnV8EGMTekSzWYKbvqY2GogFDfVYBcOUX1RhN0rOcW_cM6mzJwMiTZzSiiwVWcryDy3IHLExlNMLk4lMo6EbNMlzKOEMXCGU_i9p2Fniw_aMV27ezxZsEk/s1600/101_1406.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbMQ_9vH7vlGC5iEIuBij-DYnV8EGMTekSzWYKbvqY2GogFDfVYBcOUX1RhN0rOcW_cM6mzJwMiTZzSiiwVWcryDy3IHLExlNMLk4lMo6EbNMlzKOEMXCGU_i9p2Fniw_aMV27ezxZsEk/s320/101_1406.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And Sam made a new friend at City Garden this week (who doesn't usually go to the school but is just there for the camp). </div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHpAZvLtu3_KuYTKXanqYftxpVRYd5qFZz4p3Mfu7sYvq3hS5uhdSaQmJqJ2Cq17EfIwKsqWX2KMmMnIDqeyRrh_wyiK-HHGqGfDBv0pSb4D5jCelspE3ZOohnwJDESDKTAgPp_abj5Ac/s1600/101_1407.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHpAZvLtu3_KuYTKXanqYftxpVRYd5qFZz4p3Mfu7sYvq3hS5uhdSaQmJqJ2Cq17EfIwKsqWX2KMmMnIDqeyRrh_wyiK-HHGqGfDBv0pSb4D5jCelspE3ZOohnwJDESDKTAgPp_abj5Ac/s320/101_1407.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Last time on the tire swing. Sniff. </div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCuWSbTdmp7neN0HzhN9sYffmEO33WwlIXC-lXB0_myWI5MQKU1s1mrxsTxImx_YYMHJAFyIFP6zoym3UZXzI-5Y8yscrnqnR4y9BlxmFr9vLbwGmN2zPzZQ_p_IWdNTk-xraZCukfLvU/s1600/101_1409.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCuWSbTdmp7neN0HzhN9sYffmEO33WwlIXC-lXB0_myWI5MQKU1s1mrxsTxImx_YYMHJAFyIFP6zoym3UZXzI-5Y8yscrnqnR4y9BlxmFr9vLbwGmN2zPzZQ_p_IWdNTk-xraZCukfLvU/s320/101_1409.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Then, as we were leaving I realized: we'll be back!!! Wella only has a few years until she's ready for her own little City Garden experience. In fact, she was busy making friends already! :)</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-810059685685643880.post-63374717882647003872011-06-27T14:44:00.001-05:002011-06-27T14:51:15.141-05:00Hangin' with the Handy boys<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvAAAU7labnINPwFiDmLrXVZ2ye7lZ2Nx5K3DXT6E4Rn2a7rvIeeMR07mkMSvj34YO2LtOA3SnvK30EUB1UO0p7n-yXeV2Jz_5klFT_yiSRMqFRdjOWfVkXX42mSwSyBeW51bVIrseLbY/s1600/000_0089.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvAAAU7labnINPwFiDmLrXVZ2ye7lZ2Nx5K3DXT6E4Rn2a7rvIeeMR07mkMSvj34YO2LtOA3SnvK30EUB1UO0p7n-yXeV2Jz_5klFT_yiSRMqFRdjOWfVkXX42mSwSyBeW51bVIrseLbY/s320/000_0089.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Matt and I watched our friends' kids this weekend. It's one of our favorites: the Handies! Julia was my college roomate and Joel and Julia met, dated, and got engaged at Wheaton College right alongside Matt and I. Then we had babies at pretty much the same time. So we've stuck together. This is her middle child, Peter, with her baby, Sammy!</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW-8ImOpZq8yEnnMm1on0ck1dZbh1NpowG10PRxvoe66D7VR8xu5U3BBMvtHlFyne7Kaohw94FIriKaMF1TJNOzjRz9EiP6OeUMeAS7dAztmhb_0UQ39lRw57hTAFx3nnB2tJkTBbMLYU/s1600/000_0090.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW-8ImOpZq8yEnnMm1on0ck1dZbh1NpowG10PRxvoe66D7VR8xu5U3BBMvtHlFyne7Kaohw94FIriKaMF1TJNOzjRz9EiP6OeUMeAS7dAztmhb_0UQ39lRw57hTAFx3nnB2tJkTBbMLYU/s320/000_0090.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Mom and Dad had a wedding in Texas to go to so we stayed with the boys at their home in West Chicago. It was a fun weekend out of the city for my kids and Matt and I made it as easy as possible with frozen dinners and paper plates. We ate wings for dinner!</div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5YVfwKiimgIj6rXrrRJ9Y8Eb7XniaGAhiQ-Mzszt0pAIw0PG0IGk3ITmZ5gNJZ6GXiZc5zvHSZ4gwvoIW4yWGhp2u_ifEpnwXAYHznVIbZiV6MEG59vAc9et3eo7tJ-ZYMHXO5wZM60Q/s1600/000_0091.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5YVfwKiimgIj6rXrrRJ9Y8Eb7XniaGAhiQ-Mzszt0pAIw0PG0IGk3ITmZ5gNJZ6GXiZc5zvHSZ4gwvoIW4yWGhp2u_ifEpnwXAYHznVIbZiV6MEG59vAc9et3eo7tJ-ZYMHXO5wZM60Q/s320/000_0091.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And we started a little camp out...</div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNPRI0saV2YOjWcTw5Axf7tgTJgpvKlS6zrHRBIbbX_2xjnQKFlgCt311OcY7d7MBopZRD15s9PIuY2nTszuGPrBlPrmIDfxG0wfDksDo5cwtaNUHiryOs5hhPneQuWG-TtvYmCLzAu4k/s1600/000_0092.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNPRI0saV2YOjWcTw5Axf7tgTJgpvKlS6zrHRBIbbX_2xjnQKFlgCt311OcY7d7MBopZRD15s9PIuY2nTszuGPrBlPrmIDfxG0wfDksDo5cwtaNUHiryOs5hhPneQuWG-TtvYmCLzAu4k/s320/000_0092.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The tent also filled up immediately with mosquitos. See the sad faces? Boo.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQk4k2QHL9LAgkMbaMLsIHrV1u-7DLL9amvNM2b6uxDlZehg0qutmQUROBKos4qBwd2nFAZScreVh1vNlg535yLs0PmwPNoEytAVu4wgY2AbywptZsOoq6gexk7bL2rCqX0YjQokFbR_Y/s1600/000_0087.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQk4k2QHL9LAgkMbaMLsIHrV1u-7DLL9amvNM2b6uxDlZehg0qutmQUROBKos4qBwd2nFAZScreVh1vNlg535yLs0PmwPNoEytAVu4wgY2AbywptZsOoq6gexk7bL2rCqX0YjQokFbR_Y/s320/000_0087.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">It's alright though...we moved the festivities inside. Josh said "let's watching Sleeping Beauty!" And all of them cheered. I love homeschooled kids. :)</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtu1vqvwzsEutr6nNhT30Y4aXMLBCla6DKOEgWN_ZbDqXbasDDGar0Kt7i46wmcNEnUU3zeN16Eh1Mkq_cuFRKX9q4Hy7hVnJpYmS1OIF2hYGXtYijCoFCnmuObesXRZcz3tQj3afZuMo/s1600/000_0099.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtu1vqvwzsEutr6nNhT30Y4aXMLBCla6DKOEgWN_ZbDqXbasDDGar0Kt7i46wmcNEnUU3zeN16Eh1Mkq_cuFRKX9q4Hy7hVnJpYmS1OIF2hYGXtYijCoFCnmuObesXRZcz3tQj3afZuMo/s320/000_0099.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I realized how you don't really love a person's kids until you spend a lot of time with them. Even though we were there for not even 36 hours, I felt like I got to know them better.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRqOY01tCAB3nnD81y4G0Fn54GRN7TBy0z8PqRKljhuhua__Hj-YFsdrmsAW-Ki87G1cW6bf5i48pOO2zwmOeACUZtyKsCOHlz_JU7Bhxw04Y0A_BgQoRUSH_Oux9DBs2A93LqIpf4XM8/s1600/000_0100.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRqOY01tCAB3nnD81y4G0Fn54GRN7TBy0z8PqRKljhuhua__Hj-YFsdrmsAW-Ki87G1cW6bf5i48pOO2zwmOeACUZtyKsCOHlz_JU7Bhxw04Y0A_BgQoRUSH_Oux9DBs2A93LqIpf4XM8/s320/000_0100.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Like Josh really likes to say how to do things. He wanted me to cook the french toast in a certain way (with lots of cinnamon) and he kinda comandeered the situation. He said "Don't worry, all new people love it this way." :)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And Peter is just like Sammy: naughty and sneaky sometimes, but very endearing. And super smart! He kept figuring out things that had to do with numbers really quickly!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And baby Sammy (who MY Sammy adores) is the sweetest little guy who says the cutest things ever. He has to sleep with about 10 stuffed animals and sing "two songs" and read "two books" before bed, but that's about all he requires! Typical third child. :)</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaR3xmB7LKjNCliv3z3nFhmk9smZgemPk7DuMfeY-IBaazJyPd46KQ3zNq30tbckis-KPnLFIhdPYW3YexgMxuMaVt6SibazPt1AgPS1LSiN9rlpzDKl6X8vf6mr3U5op0NHftSa2hBFQ/s1600/000_0095.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaR3xmB7LKjNCliv3z3nFhmk9smZgemPk7DuMfeY-IBaazJyPd46KQ3zNq30tbckis-KPnLFIhdPYW3YexgMxuMaVt6SibazPt1AgPS1LSiN9rlpzDKl6X8vf6mr3U5op0NHftSa2hBFQ/s320/000_0095.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We even managed to get the whole crew to church on Sunday. It took two minivans but we did it! The only mishap was that they baptise kids as infants at that church and therefore the entire congregation takes communion together. Our kids haven't been officially dunked yet, so they don't take it yet. Somehow though, they each ended up with a cracker and a tiny cup of grape juice before I could put a stop to it. So, happy first communion Harris kids! :) I guess if that's the worst thing that happened this weekend I should be happy. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We'll miss you Handy boys! Sammy said he wants us to move in next to you. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-810059685685643880.post-79340700990799325982011-06-24T09:40:00.000-05:002011-06-24T09:40:18.622-05:00Father's Day at Grandma and Grandpa's house<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifpl5XCUbWz6D-ra8nbDLEFdqQhtBPfG0k4kT8bZI6HT2vZK9Y1jIo_MoiXbbqvjjbIKVQ194hm1PQE2W8Q9Rm_qV9RXwbYsZn77uTjQOYkA-T86s-YAP64TRbH-b0y0mpw3xSFj21gHQ/s1600/101_1320.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifpl5XCUbWz6D-ra8nbDLEFdqQhtBPfG0k4kT8bZI6HT2vZK9Y1jIo_MoiXbbqvjjbIKVQ194hm1PQE2W8Q9Rm_qV9RXwbYsZn77uTjQOYkA-T86s-YAP64TRbH-b0y0mpw3xSFj21gHQ/s320/101_1320.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm slowly catching up with my posts. Father's Day was last week, but here it is: better late than never. This is four generations of Harris men on a couch. </div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIaZ3w4_GGia2o9ozHAjBua6Pcjp5PUyvY6SbKizO3DqzDoDF00HcHqImXG4qLy9TZ_b3IXYZF5iBfc6u7WIVcONNU3uGvtRPIXHKUPZ8Wc83bGDxnlR11ir1m3nH1Ijh7t8SOL59C6uY/s1600/101_1335.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIaZ3w4_GGia2o9ozHAjBua6Pcjp5PUyvY6SbKizO3DqzDoDF00HcHqImXG4qLy9TZ_b3IXYZF5iBfc6u7WIVcONNU3uGvtRPIXHKUPZ8Wc83bGDxnlR11ir1m3nH1Ijh7t8SOL59C6uY/s320/101_1335.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We were in Glenview at Matt's parents house. My kids love going to Glenview. It's a great grandparent's house. So many little memorable touches.</div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJOZm8eC2VKEavyzStgx46omJDu2x5bxblMJ8sEo2bGkq-2KYBUEnBN_QV7W_6SWVQHlyyaiRvLoVSLoXGosC-64PCEnZzc-Th-zqgpHicPgBJsf5-P4Uhiegjla0ZUUIBX_Qf1bwHGb4/s1600/101_1343.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJOZm8eC2VKEavyzStgx46omJDu2x5bxblMJ8sEo2bGkq-2KYBUEnBN_QV7W_6SWVQHlyyaiRvLoVSLoXGosC-64PCEnZzc-Th-zqgpHicPgBJsf5-P4Uhiegjla0ZUUIBX_Qf1bwHGb4/s320/101_1343.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It was mainly the brothers.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We celebrated Wella's birthday with Grandma and Grandpa and Luella got some fun things.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I just think its funny, both at Matt's parent's house and my own parent's house, to think of all the things my kids are going to remember about their grandparent's homes. I have such strong memories of my grandparent's home in Inverness, IL, and I'm so happy that my kids will have their own as well. It's such a great part of childhood.</div><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-810059685685643880.post-86678919095325564282011-06-22T13:23:00.000-05:002011-06-22T13:23:26.659-05:00Wella is one<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiaWnfOSq5951ZaLb_FOxO-cjFjUsDNEtZGFwpoJwueEq5eN6D-PYhgeZ7MOVcmSMKy0OZhSTCvrXPkzJJL6DwGFf69VDHihu3DvMHi4sfbjCZG3JFVdV4HdmCKMvKT41tRaLif8hdjI4/s1600/000_0072.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiaWnfOSq5951ZaLb_FOxO-cjFjUsDNEtZGFwpoJwueEq5eN6D-PYhgeZ7MOVcmSMKy0OZhSTCvrXPkzJJL6DwGFf69VDHihu3DvMHi4sfbjCZG3JFVdV4HdmCKMvKT41tRaLif8hdjI4/s320/000_0072.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> On June 14th, our baby turned one year old!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2uGA9-4tOO66PIJvEBDwJm0UioFxzOeWevwVAdMWJatT9yHp9nDyVNBqLhbcFNnffmVMGw-hMLeGgCxeFW6eHfL3jx6c-nsPDHe9NLZmSUcqaOAsvF1wgTGAUjOA2M5B03diEORqUBls/s1600/100_1276.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2uGA9-4tOO66PIJvEBDwJm0UioFxzOeWevwVAdMWJatT9yHp9nDyVNBqLhbcFNnffmVMGw-hMLeGgCxeFW6eHfL3jx6c-nsPDHe9NLZmSUcqaOAsvF1wgTGAUjOA2M5B03diEORqUBls/s320/100_1276.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But then when Daddy got home from work we did it all over again.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDvcw3d38qpC29jimheemRYFxxF2Z-oWdgzKitnZSfKqUi0DafTDbU80HJ53rS5obL0mnqOo5qGshUn_3HvKpIPkHiQ6rPOc-Ckm8OfarGRB0JbGLRVpv8uFEI55K9Epq2nAm5k3CoqZ4/s1600/100_1280.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDvcw3d38qpC29jimheemRYFxxF2Z-oWdgzKitnZSfKqUi0DafTDbU80HJ53rS5obL0mnqOo5qGshUn_3HvKpIPkHiQ6rPOc-Ckm8OfarGRB0JbGLRVpv8uFEI55K9Epq2nAm5k3CoqZ4/s320/100_1280.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She looks a lot like I did at one year old in this picture.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" height="240" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268231539750150290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtSBHzfUpNv4AiaAwn3Y7Zjr-4WZgSprOa2Pki75JvDtVsYHL8XoZTfB4pSQL3V0IQg5Jbc-KhvWK3m6WOmFUnO1fO5cJY0gcAUv9S_B6JPHnUZgHNK3ybv7dqeLvgXBhm-qhBsM3RCIM/s320/100_0915.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="320" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">See? Well, you could see better if I didn't have my hand in my face.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhexk9trHAvyyGmHQmLB7bcnNbnWvr2IqAY7_NgL68dq419kQ9WmBzE7zoryVkfARkkzoeMO5_RjJMxr0E0GjdZzmRKo4tAM-nfjGlW2sJBdQjeC4w5wj5m7FiILGX83gqvQ5c8-zalxi8/s1600/100_1282.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhexk9trHAvyyGmHQmLB7bcnNbnWvr2IqAY7_NgL68dq419kQ9WmBzE7zoryVkfARkkzoeMO5_RjJMxr0E0GjdZzmRKo4tAM-nfjGlW2sJBdQjeC4w5wj5m7FiILGX83gqvQ5c8-zalxi8/s320/100_1282.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She loved it. She loved using a spoon and eatting all that great sugary stuff.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisRprohBeSF9CAuVgVTstLzKhygWyhI7apUtfggkwMolIuO7iBROrxGNs2dNrgG83TtVeM7cGwZF7prVz4Qvz4hAZ7ZprZiyP55sYvQfR5muWDmSzblJP0muFS-UprERQ291LMaNlYYzY/s1600/100_1315.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisRprohBeSF9CAuVgVTstLzKhygWyhI7apUtfggkwMolIuO7iBROrxGNs2dNrgG83TtVeM7cGwZF7prVz4Qvz4hAZ7ZprZiyP55sYvQfR5muWDmSzblJP0muFS-UprERQ291LMaNlYYzY/s320/100_1315.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The baby mommy made her for her birthday. I went to a doll-making class to make this crazy thing. You wouldn't know it cost me about $100 to make this doll, but it is stuffed with real sheeps wool so it smells like a little baby lamb.</div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1LltmNTC8xLU4y0yly76DCmP4rg3TOuSZNUlSu5KTfZiyV9ys6SwMmldwkjC6XgDa0vem6L69WucvC050f2zN80aGpuutMxSp55nX9qGVHJYckCrLe7qhqNpnYUV2vCWhiLkGnVrcXCI/s1600/100_1304.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1LltmNTC8xLU4y0yly76DCmP4rg3TOuSZNUlSu5KTfZiyV9ys6SwMmldwkjC6XgDa0vem6L69WucvC050f2zN80aGpuutMxSp55nX9qGVHJYckCrLe7qhqNpnYUV2vCWhiLkGnVrcXCI/s320/100_1304.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I love this girl so much. I love both of my girls though. Look at Claire. She's the best big sister ever.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Happy Birthday Luella! We love you super much.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-810059685685643880.post-37084359182231811462011-06-22T12:28:00.001-05:002011-06-22T12:40:31.343-05:00Trip to Wichita: part 3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjODzOg3LQKB8yIPsP_ot85-jBM6XShz9gnJFkTnYoR0mYeHbHanC08dT-yF3flzJ2oTkkgk8-gKbpRoaULVk0mIQOSClWNxbvphM20v-QSLvOXkEZDfTT5rPhGQfoaGd0p004EPmR7Qw/s1600/100_1265.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjODzOg3LQKB8yIPsP_ot85-jBM6XShz9gnJFkTnYoR0mYeHbHanC08dT-yF3flzJ2oTkkgk8-gKbpRoaULVk0mIQOSClWNxbvphM20v-QSLvOXkEZDfTT5rPhGQfoaGd0p004EPmR7Qw/s320/100_1265.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Saturday night Chance to his bride-to-be and her two sisters out on the town. Poor guy. It was a tough job, but someone had to do it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_ra9mWM6DqAPbyRD1PyKnEM_HxZy05xTq_7ynJOhyphenhyphenNrfog8QsxEyCNAjMox5cVikoMaDPZTRm7coT_tVc24n2nZAJRPsVkJ2SFJsqGbD-MtVPcthO80ohyphenhyphen3oggcllghOh6bJbz5tdvIk/s1600/IMAG1711.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_ra9mWM6DqAPbyRD1PyKnEM_HxZy05xTq_7ynJOhyphenhyphenNrfog8QsxEyCNAjMox5cVikoMaDPZTRm7coT_tVc24n2nZAJRPsVkJ2SFJsqGbD-MtVPcthO80ohyphenhyphen3oggcllghOh6bJbz5tdvIk/s320/IMAG1711.jpg" width="191" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I mean, we're hard to keep up with, even for 3 men, but Chance was on his own here! We stopped by a place called "The Pumphouse" but they didn't have food, so Chance went down the street to Old Chicago and brought us food to the club. Wasn't that sweet? Then he took us dancing. Except, he did manage to disappear as often as possible. I don't know WHY he needed a break from us?? ;)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSaMzfftnjMPnFVt62XEMY7VsUzfi9fl-XwETaGXNEh8CVEl-ApTgaNnDKrgAxgvtct-9NNYR3huXZOogpUVjxwEtklre2mxluVQY_Z2Wk1QOcHu8aV_nrRx2DtsHApS3uAxQwJb13RbI/s1600/100_1268.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSaMzfftnjMPnFVt62XEMY7VsUzfi9fl-XwETaGXNEh8CVEl-ApTgaNnDKrgAxgvtct-9NNYR3huXZOogpUVjxwEtklre2mxluVQY_Z2Wk1QOcHu8aV_nrRx2DtsHApS3uAxQwJb13RbI/s320/100_1268.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We ended the evening (still before midnight...we're getting old) at a place called The Donut Whole. We tried to get in, but it was closed.</div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs7GmrjVouYkYRFCm2XRmxIT_rhuwVlAEglRLggsP9zxmlIdxTjk_AAtWa1f0cZIoejEXHRw9L0z6yRawAmUPdxbsE5nVs-eW10Uos9ZZ5KJLM1Y3YpGdPkzTrIFjQonuzF1JNszv4UOs/s1600/100_1271.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs7GmrjVouYkYRFCm2XRmxIT_rhuwVlAEglRLggsP9zxmlIdxTjk_AAtWa1f0cZIoejEXHRw9L0z6yRawAmUPdxbsE5nVs-eW10Uos9ZZ5KJLM1Y3YpGdPkzTrIFjQonuzF1JNszv4UOs/s320/100_1271.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We gave poor Chance a VERY hard time about his selections. We all wanted different things. Surprise! He was very gracious though and got us all the kinds we wanted. We even let him get one that he liked. I thought they were dry though. He said he likes them that way. :) It's like we're brother and sister already!</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif5BR_KIQmLlrPige1IJ1t3A_HfRoEsFU711eJbPV7QBWlVH5hBf1aIQ2p8AgXQGQj79vXpMSqXQK3RXO0SC_VeWzDa-cVIB0mp8T6aiRkoAea1kaOAv9k8z021SeCJJMLXPh6JwnxW0Q/s1600/100_1275.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif5BR_KIQmLlrPige1IJ1t3A_HfRoEsFU711eJbPV7QBWlVH5hBf1aIQ2p8AgXQGQj79vXpMSqXQK3RXO0SC_VeWzDa-cVIB0mp8T6aiRkoAea1kaOAv9k8z021SeCJJMLXPh6JwnxW0Q/s320/100_1275.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The next day we hit Katie's ice cream store (she manages an Orange Leaf) just to round out the junk food weekend that we were having.</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgaIdkgfj4nWSPhqJ_RIPpNgwqxrQeBFo65t9FRaj_ItXl7mCKYYYn2sqbVgkqbQI7jw9WL-Vf6FALtJ-jEcDnWVH_vbebEGqBknCdDp8nO0PVlHQfzvqh6W2TKIqHQ5aLO5fjTGMaQn0/s1600/260218_569198651234_205300596_32269516_692129_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgaIdkgfj4nWSPhqJ_RIPpNgwqxrQeBFo65t9FRaj_ItXl7mCKYYYn2sqbVgkqbQI7jw9WL-Vf6FALtJ-jEcDnWVH_vbebEGqBknCdDp8nO0PVlHQfzvqh6W2TKIqHQ5aLO5fjTGMaQn0/s320/260218_569198651234_205300596_32269516_692129_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Then we had to say goodbye Sunday evening. We love you Chance! And we can't wait until August 27th to make you an official part of the fam!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="-moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; background: 0% 50%; border: 0px currentColor; padding: 0px;" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-810059685685643880.post-65450477689741239952011-06-21T10:10:00.000-05:002011-06-21T10:10:37.865-05:00Trip to Wichita: part 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGe6Cgawh4HAsg_sFZRO2Vq1t2gAMFX-rjXPPFM-Nm5ZGO3aaGVHF2Ye-ov4Z65SOBEMNVOyMTn5gvoVaWEWki0TE75jTICjjd7UfpdCnK_1yDyNiUvqz-T97DJHcv3qnZrckUakaDJ6M/s1600/100_1221.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGe6Cgawh4HAsg_sFZRO2Vq1t2gAMFX-rjXPPFM-Nm5ZGO3aaGVHF2Ye-ov4Z65SOBEMNVOyMTn5gvoVaWEWki0TE75jTICjjd7UfpdCnK_1yDyNiUvqz-T97DJHcv3qnZrckUakaDJ6M/s320/100_1221.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">After the shower we got to go with Katie to see her in her dress!</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfTFTj3n_B-RJuhhmEEgiiW2qm-zWytl1-CVY6My1jmgRfOWSazVBXuU8Gh3UxSaMSV9UYcOM6pm22TccXxctk2qj_XLDzZPZEed1ngZL_1Ps3aI_FUlG5MPfmH70BfabxcUPPVv8nHTc/s1600/100_1222.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfTFTj3n_B-RJuhhmEEgiiW2qm-zWytl1-CVY6My1jmgRfOWSazVBXuU8Gh3UxSaMSV9UYcOM6pm22TccXxctk2qj_XLDzZPZEed1ngZL_1Ps3aI_FUlG5MPfmH70BfabxcUPPVv8nHTc/s320/100_1222.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It was a really lovely store full of the cutest sales ladies ever! They were all in pearls and cute little outfits. It felt very "Father of the Bride"-ish.</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX85lku8gZNCI9yzVkVXW1wlXjQSsWn4AOYdR4_B42hO9bJ93_xXsEEYW-1RqYMyRsR-JAt3PXfXHjm-5OyphJcuSJRqGzdvrxmxyHAZu5zVKTR7fdLLNmHX4NftuM2NU6-bEZrNaw0y4/s1600/100_1223.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX85lku8gZNCI9yzVkVXW1wlXjQSsWn4AOYdR4_B42hO9bJ93_xXsEEYW-1RqYMyRsR-JAt3PXfXHjm-5OyphJcuSJRqGzdvrxmxyHAZu5zVKTR7fdLLNmHX4NftuM2NU6-bEZrNaw0y4/s320/100_1223.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We waited a while so that the sales girls could get Katie laced up into her dress.</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHO3fQOF04rtFdzzE4QeFQdRMyXZ1bIvIN90U2ZsS51KwaahhzRIHFyuQ5WVPQDJY3fEFjDxKx6jFqf6wsB5xoqF5_Lx-ymVvTlrkQDWUvl3igETBC9nYEXKVXGKfei8wHw57NfDDpuiE/s1600/100_1224.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHO3fQOF04rtFdzzE4QeFQdRMyXZ1bIvIN90U2ZsS51KwaahhzRIHFyuQ5WVPQDJY3fEFjDxKx6jFqf6wsB5xoqF5_Lx-ymVvTlrkQDWUvl3igETBC9nYEXKVXGKfei8wHw57NfDDpuiE/s320/100_1224.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And while she got ready we looked around. They had really colorful bridesmaid dresses! Katie's colors are more subdued though, and we already have our dresses picked out, so we weren't there to shop for ourselves. </div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS0Fngu_iD_l8Ov4j7fcqMt0I579JOd5Fkjss5-LZ2SbZBvxAAn5hh3HcIars0Kec0eBc6mlDZgJsOQlBRb1lif2Gv93BJiHSGx1rYnuZa5JLBiUh7_sE5iLfVhzRidGiFsDgbBytFgUc/s1600/100_1237.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS0Fngu_iD_l8Ov4j7fcqMt0I579JOd5Fkjss5-LZ2SbZBvxAAn5hh3HcIars0Kec0eBc6mlDZgJsOQlBRb1lif2Gv93BJiHSGx1rYnuZa5JLBiUh7_sE5iLfVhzRidGiFsDgbBytFgUc/s320/100_1237.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We waited a while longer. What are you ladies doing in there?! I guess there were a LOT of laces on the back of that dress. Is that going to be my job on the wedding day? Dude.</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiecf2LAYtnWpng_M19pYq_2JJYZWJzFH2XW89CzcLQVlQL-qjtpXsI8gRBOD2LETtx5ZqlJMkuFH5KbTZuVekDHzx_MscCNaUVAR4qVYBzQtxA54-qgrwJ2nJK16s8MUY5NhjcbUCnLqY/s1600/100_1233.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiecf2LAYtnWpng_M19pYq_2JJYZWJzFH2XW89CzcLQVlQL-qjtpXsI8gRBOD2LETtx5ZqlJMkuFH5KbTZuVekDHzx_MscCNaUVAR4qVYBzQtxA54-qgrwJ2nJK16s8MUY5NhjcbUCnLqY/s320/100_1233.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We got bored after a while so we tried some stuff on. Like veils.</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXLaO-Wjn9n9-p0KGzs3U84fo_BMZQyr3Wq7Ur9m9gXb9woycspDh4u3XwaRhusrESwqTQ-ge37HK3QRofp3swns0i9SmNssTFEEjpUEXGNydNYtPSP4NzDWdYPc-0QkcBzDa9IvVedPY/s1600/100_1235.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXLaO-Wjn9n9-p0KGzs3U84fo_BMZQyr3Wq7Ur9m9gXb9woycspDh4u3XwaRhusrESwqTQ-ge37HK3QRofp3swns0i9SmNssTFEEjpUEXGNydNYtPSP4NzDWdYPc-0QkcBzDa9IvVedPY/s320/100_1235.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And really out-there bridesmaid dresses.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpJ5JVxW0HGReyevs5NMViLfpX8GcsLOm_2DGT3O3IqVshtxnvYVD0ajHhV3smtQON6WYPhpnbUHj_b91hDMUJdurQ5U7Xi7l9SmAQaGQHLegTkpn-vQInA6An359-1uWf4iD8NbFx8eg/s1600/100_1227.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpJ5JVxW0HGReyevs5NMViLfpX8GcsLOm_2DGT3O3IqVshtxnvYVD0ajHhV3smtQON6WYPhpnbUHj_b91hDMUJdurQ5U7Xi7l9SmAQaGQHLegTkpn-vQInA6An359-1uWf4iD8NbFx8eg/s320/100_1227.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">REALLY out there.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnTdUsXF0g7pJqlmrtrydlA0GatcKn47XyQWXS7MhQnac-FfhxqjlkhntIRtog_sW0edkkfl24iG_CkV50jKtZu2jpPiBefC4i6OZAzhbnP9Mg3NNbMvOPFC23kT9ZWagdmDuXxHiHKBw/s1600/100_1236.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnTdUsXF0g7pJqlmrtrydlA0GatcKn47XyQWXS7MhQnac-FfhxqjlkhntIRtog_sW0edkkfl24iG_CkV50jKtZu2jpPiBefC4i6OZAzhbnP9Mg3NNbMvOPFC23kT9ZWagdmDuXxHiHKBw/s320/100_1236.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This one is SO me.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We did find a picture of a flower-girl dress we'd like to duplicate for the girls.</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia4TwdW88aIBm3FqIUqLPb7lTO-CZLlCyorOdyCN9KYLHoJZg7oGmdoOO8d0RvXQEhCUTzNqlFtRXu2lbNvnijXRbHzCmviXgtvYXgyAkpOGMffaZHwciO3koNq1YjWKakoZ5I0bG2wDI/s1600/100_1261.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia4TwdW88aIBm3FqIUqLPb7lTO-CZLlCyorOdyCN9KYLHoJZg7oGmdoOO8d0RvXQEhCUTzNqlFtRXu2lbNvnijXRbHzCmviXgtvYXgyAkpOGMffaZHwciO3koNq1YjWKakoZ5I0bG2wDI/s320/100_1261.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And here are the cute shoes Katie had made for her big day.</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPjqRqIgsM6pyHHJ2026tMorGKk3r8G8HQyMT1XD8TkFZ-MHwefn7QpxWNtzBI-rXOpInvQ-TDJMG1t8i2cwTD61Z8OThvxyxs2QKyt0lCMeIytoRSJZQKP4qpAjdo6zO6UktYPYjuO1s/s1600/100_1259.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPjqRqIgsM6pyHHJ2026tMorGKk3r8G8HQyMT1XD8TkFZ-MHwefn7QpxWNtzBI-rXOpInvQ-TDJMG1t8i2cwTD61Z8OThvxyxs2QKyt0lCMeIytoRSJZQKP4qpAjdo6zO6UktYPYjuO1s/s320/100_1259.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">See how they say their names on the back?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM6EQdiFck5vC7nUUqmEEgl7Qks8EofCIHJrDvY1SJP1YcL1u2UIR5JSLJIFOn2a6FrO0zHhaCxsNOHBi5p1G_fbwTaLjijqSo-0Q9dVW4oyxXCccbAwraskoTYWSEwgHAXscQyqB2H_A/s1600/100_1220.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM6EQdiFck5vC7nUUqmEEgl7Qks8EofCIHJrDvY1SJP1YcL1u2UIR5JSLJIFOn2a6FrO0zHhaCxsNOHBi5p1G_fbwTaLjijqSo-0Q9dVW4oyxXCccbAwraskoTYWSEwgHAXscQyqB2H_A/s320/100_1220.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'd love to show you the dress but I'm not allowed. Take my word for it though: it's gorgeous! Chance is a lucky guy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-810059685685643880.post-57709165246258851442011-06-21T09:52:00.000-05:002011-06-21T09:52:14.607-05:00Trip to Wichita: part 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFJFSkk7fFtwUQfheb9hGntHKEtMGTSEkbNOhyYwFfJNt0_qsk3wmHzIUAHCX9IzEL51CMDEVY9q7jwFRh_pTaafOxlr14uaQYPSaB7MhdCWbrmWgC5X_sokaR2-KPMbCciktYY9adnXY/s1600/100_1257.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFJFSkk7fFtwUQfheb9hGntHKEtMGTSEkbNOhyYwFfJNt0_qsk3wmHzIUAHCX9IzEL51CMDEVY9q7jwFRh_pTaafOxlr14uaQYPSaB7MhdCWbrmWgC5X_sokaR2-KPMbCciktYY9adnXY/s320/100_1257.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So, last Friday I jumped on a plane with Luella Faye and zoomed over to Wichita, Kansas for the weekend. First time flying without the WHOLE family in a LONG time. But it was for a good cause: it was my sister, Katie's wedding shower that weekend! This is her with Chance.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh60s3v94uJW5vUGlL_3KwkRIMh5hBujYK61g2f_fky7ZxbJDg2hov1lvoL0QGxoExxlIqf4jPTRypjSxRC8h3kjR4mRvAo_q-hgf6djkx5pUZDQdaTMTWYTGoB9Ys86eudw6irZI8p9Zs/s1600/100_1171.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh60s3v94uJW5vUGlL_3KwkRIMh5hBujYK61g2f_fky7ZxbJDg2hov1lvoL0QGxoExxlIqf4jPTRypjSxRC8h3kjR4mRvAo_q-hgf6djkx5pUZDQdaTMTWYTGoB9Ys86eudw6irZI8p9Zs/s320/100_1171.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The three sisters were together for the first time in a LONG time, and with only one baby there between us! It was weird. Nice weird though.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieeSv8ynBDAGVBCyEonmjdaaiatLeuDO8zcinzHHoMDKjxygr5p_PXkjahEmrIScpS2YQzbfyBjl9fICQ8tee_yDywWITH4CKhyphenhyphenh8Fdhyphenhyphen4tlfqHm4LybDlEd_HwKzWOCJa_qfsTLYuqmQ/s1600/100_1166.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieeSv8ynBDAGVBCyEonmjdaaiatLeuDO8zcinzHHoMDKjxygr5p_PXkjahEmrIScpS2YQzbfyBjl9fICQ8tee_yDywWITH4CKhyphenhyphenh8Fdhyphenhyphen4tlfqHm4LybDlEd_HwKzWOCJa_qfsTLYuqmQ/s320/100_1166.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The shower was hosted by Cheryl Cordry, the ultimate giver of showers in my mom's circle of friends.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWrcE9y8MbSaFSkelM9fliLlBRxs7QVESQNtquFNp9JAmOgGU_kDYaCB8IYTPujpjJnXroP3RSgw4FypU1KLUx6xvslJ40cGQ5oIKXt3kyadvJWKGpnjxBTy4nAnlTX2EkZNPJv5J1IA8/s1600/100_1195.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWrcE9y8MbSaFSkelM9fliLlBRxs7QVESQNtquFNp9JAmOgGU_kDYaCB8IYTPujpjJnXroP3RSgw4FypU1KLUx6xvslJ40cGQ5oIKXt3kyadvJWKGpnjxBTy4nAnlTX2EkZNPJv5J1IA8/s320/100_1195.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Cheryl has a lovely home in which to give a shower. In fact, growing up, she was about the fanciest lady I knew.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuFdIMU_H9whU0F9LsnsBylY0ghZaFWCrF01j6KKOwcbNrUVbXoY0TEq50EKzB5ZAl9XOhnvNZsv3PO1Pedd5Fx1Pnm4K-NBUxLJYC0VoSqTyo3I2mMLbZ4PZnrkqywxUwj4fncC59ZFQ/s1600/100_1197.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuFdIMU_H9whU0F9LsnsBylY0ghZaFWCrF01j6KKOwcbNrUVbXoY0TEq50EKzB5ZAl9XOhnvNZsv3PO1Pedd5Fx1Pnm4K-NBUxLJYC0VoSqTyo3I2mMLbZ4PZnrkqywxUwj4fncC59ZFQ/s320/100_1197.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">See? Oooh. Aaaah. Crystal stuff.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq31wP4wDIoBOAVhdzFMj7RkeYj3U7h-_gerguot_EUlt8oXwxKKbbk49-cviVH859nuBFtd6TFpRomulySw1zQlWeSiNHKhhPNtZcAuKZiKPx1GhobAzNEJeN96ef-Iig7ObB3_kBEP4/s1600/100_1198.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq31wP4wDIoBOAVhdzFMj7RkeYj3U7h-_gerguot_EUlt8oXwxKKbbk49-cviVH859nuBFtd6TFpRomulySw1zQlWeSiNHKhhPNtZcAuKZiKPx1GhobAzNEJeN96ef-Iig7ObB3_kBEP4/s320/100_1198.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And very Kansas! :)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglYo4qEZLg10df_4DNayPeaulGuBaLubcE3INWtxUCxXaJh5KuIQNvZcEs19PLloUeA8pAq1qPpllst6WUWVArvhCBme5zV_BAhxbLGpcRDa2eG1le0hYiQp_qOzUmM1l8Ys2HJjuLIwc/s1600/100_1175.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglYo4qEZLg10df_4DNayPeaulGuBaLubcE3INWtxUCxXaJh5KuIQNvZcEs19PLloUeA8pAq1qPpllst6WUWVArvhCBme5zV_BAhxbLGpcRDa2eG1le0hYiQp_qOzUmM1l8Ys2HJjuLIwc/s320/100_1175.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Even her kitchen is great for hosting events.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLHWxDvpfVUrm2QNmAu-7mow6a9wdI5mmS9zu64uG5WBRmCQY0Zxr2uqfvlOHQ9t9yxKIssVxt8Sujm4XM_QHnjFTzxOMh63QFQIYpzVOPl3pWYkmFpyMvk4NpSkdJbaYZ7zBp1kGGi1E/s1600/100_1176.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLHWxDvpfVUrm2QNmAu-7mow6a9wdI5mmS9zu64uG5WBRmCQY0Zxr2uqfvlOHQ9t9yxKIssVxt8Sujm4XM_QHnjFTzxOMh63QFQIYpzVOPl3pWYkmFpyMvk4NpSkdJbaYZ7zBp1kGGi1E/s320/100_1176.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Katie got lots of great stuff.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhlv7-_lPqdvmlXj4zVCsqYZKnjCY7owz5KqwEvBtbiShLBceCRqcbdkfB6OUbix7UEqvuzgs8-0iY-jJlVYoBerZITEm49jn6rI_Ab9PQbbRtr4lG3hZCiSc9DvluOFYWl0Ct5Z5E7wQ/s1600/100_1179.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhlv7-_lPqdvmlXj4zVCsqYZKnjCY7owz5KqwEvBtbiShLBceCRqcbdkfB6OUbix7UEqvuzgs8-0iY-jJlVYoBerZITEm49jn6rI_Ab9PQbbRtr4lG3hZCiSc9DvluOFYWl0Ct5Z5E7wQ/s320/100_1179.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And pretty much ALL of Chance's family attended! They live on a farm out in western Kansas. This is Chance's mom. Scroll up again and look at Chance. Then look at his mom. Ha! Twin heads for sure.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Fx6RsNkp-ru4tnPB4S6-hsvHtd7Hk5pqmXp7rLP1hFRkHlhoVEWc8w864b6n3LyEZi2udb-wWPog4ulqwSL89BC4Ru-XzxNNVFThM7_EMedlf6NAQs8Vo4MNo_DzcAlz9ZoI-aQ8TYU/s1600/100_1185.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Fx6RsNkp-ru4tnPB4S6-hsvHtd7Hk5pqmXp7rLP1hFRkHlhoVEWc8w864b6n3LyEZi2udb-wWPog4ulqwSL89BC4Ru-XzxNNVFThM7_EMedlf6NAQs8Vo4MNo_DzcAlz9ZoI-aQ8TYU/s320/100_1185.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Okay, so her eyes aren't open, but this is Tara, Chance's sister. Twin heads again! I bet I know what Katie and Chance's kids will look like!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2_qJno0Wz7xO0lW5ninV2gtBB3gcHmq_45BIrsLJXzK3SEfgKZofnfZ55-cZGo_ihf6vggJ_hnfD0RmggW_7cojyqZCdGFNMPRcLgjfG3jOOzfHkG62tfjZk6rUtefCY6QZkPSs2iZpQ/s1600/100_1180.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2_qJno0Wz7xO0lW5ninV2gtBB3gcHmq_45BIrsLJXzK3SEfgKZofnfZ55-cZGo_ihf6vggJ_hnfD0RmggW_7cojyqZCdGFNMPRcLgjfG3jOOzfHkG62tfjZk6rUtefCY6QZkPSs2iZpQ/s320/100_1180.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This was his grandmother and aunt section. They were such nice ladies.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjoRKKAopzQSMAHKgZdP4V3GLOvVXKXQRG7JZhYN-PQgMAIe03vSe8LMFmdaaJPbIboC-3Tt6_pqr_eBvpX3zW0bgsM_WPlmKUiR6lRQnKbihg-ucvpBg3VPkARAydxWusrnyDIyJ6WCw/s1600/100_1218.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjoRKKAopzQSMAHKgZdP4V3GLOvVXKXQRG7JZhYN-PQgMAIe03vSe8LMFmdaaJPbIboC-3Tt6_pqr_eBvpX3zW0bgsM_WPlmKUiR6lRQnKbihg-ucvpBg3VPkARAydxWusrnyDIyJ6WCw/s320/100_1218.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My mom's international student friends all came. They were nice as well. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFfa1JvkWA1t7p0BALfnONekW0Tl8ao1rxjXYwq5-kYSoUPyGKohah35uInJvf80MST91vr5CSTspSKjwV9iD6f459qMmCpZBuhyU0tleEbNvOPYZclDCiiaezMdI7u6vITlhwsVRD8cU/s1600/100_1216.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFfa1JvkWA1t7p0BALfnONekW0Tl8ao1rxjXYwq5-kYSoUPyGKohah35uInJvf80MST91vr5CSTspSKjwV9iD6f459qMmCpZBuhyU0tleEbNvOPYZclDCiiaezMdI7u6vITlhwsVRD8cU/s320/100_1216.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Old friends came. This is Kirsty who we used to trick-or-treat with as kids.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqZsUEc9Qgyel6LaeoWkDTutw65NKrCFpWEOr81l0vuj68lnt0F-a6vnTLM-rly16dSgaubdX7H472LRCWgQj-fI8QDayC0Lh0_7rfxm8W8Rtatj5Q4iDXzwRjYV8D1XGeuBGiEYljPYA/s1600/100_1200.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqZsUEc9Qgyel6LaeoWkDTutw65NKrCFpWEOr81l0vuj68lnt0F-a6vnTLM-rly16dSgaubdX7H472LRCWgQj-fI8QDayC0Lh0_7rfxm8W8Rtatj5Q4iDXzwRjYV8D1XGeuBGiEYljPYA/s320/100_1200.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And this is Robyn, our old next-door-neighbor.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDjet3_rGM3WdPVdZvCekUAnmY5HojJqDPz7gDSFlSegPjkH0CMMk_LjuufQ8K1sd-136YHmeT-wDX_qLDXVaivCLokhqyAxrZ-N7aCxBfmuyxmU8sb4DRsiW3Ovex9BWThTsDQnMV7RM/s1600/100_1164.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDjet3_rGM3WdPVdZvCekUAnmY5HojJqDPz7gDSFlSegPjkH0CMMk_LjuufQ8K1sd-136YHmeT-wDX_qLDXVaivCLokhqyAxrZ-N7aCxBfmuyxmU8sb4DRsiW3Ovex9BWThTsDQnMV7RM/s320/100_1164.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Not a great picture but these are the cute wedding cake cookies Cheryl made.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp2-E1A0qq9bwp_ctEXMtS5e-NMyqgUDeYE_qJ71iUr4OsfFpFySqeVqKLin9X7xup-8mqw7EiW2f6_rqB5rChyphenhyphenCZg0-f_A4fiyjnfXj8ogYBkCtAP2Pn-MMvV3aQtKBPp1gBtZXERUng/s1600/100_1219.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp2-E1A0qq9bwp_ctEXMtS5e-NMyqgUDeYE_qJ71iUr4OsfFpFySqeVqKLin9X7xup-8mqw7EiW2f6_rqB5rChyphenhyphenCZg0-f_A4fiyjnfXj8ogYBkCtAP2Pn-MMvV3aQtKBPp1gBtZXERUng/s320/100_1219.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Mom and Cheryl have been friends forever, and Cheryl ended up being in the delivery room with my mom when Katie was born! My dad was leading a "Holy lands" tour in Israel and was supposed to be home two weeks before the due date, but Katie decided to come early. So Cheryl has always been Aunt Cheryl to Katie.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-810059685685643880.post-74126381779054831792011-06-09T10:41:00.000-05:002011-06-09T10:41:20.802-05:00Wrapping up the school year<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaCdLNC8Tay4nzjei0C9nnwNgYt-0zpLb5-26HfZ8BGk44Gx13yZqQ45QfnEAmdUvr-RQcl5cPj0GM5BcqfzYmCueqKAof-ygCEyjvv03Tjifjpo6y8WsO2gAaQ8JvKhamiaiKX_wml7s/s1600/101_1097.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaCdLNC8Tay4nzjei0C9nnwNgYt-0zpLb5-26HfZ8BGk44Gx13yZqQ45QfnEAmdUvr-RQcl5cPj0GM5BcqfzYmCueqKAof-ygCEyjvv03Tjifjpo6y8WsO2gAaQ8JvKhamiaiKX_wml7s/s320/101_1097.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So, last week we went to City Garden, Sam's school, for one of the last times. He's graduating this week! (sob)</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcK-w-djVPwix_pCjEOVroG1Q5IzyOTqPpVTDoCkJbY1xLWtUwbSK2ziT7MoNLmdy0-YlcN19-9UA-TD0hyphenhyphen4GSOTI0gn1Z2kW5uzqn6xvFEpALDPrfF-g5VGM8BdH2gE-RWCEsO22xZBQ/s1600/101_1102.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcK-w-djVPwix_pCjEOVroG1Q5IzyOTqPpVTDoCkJbY1xLWtUwbSK2ziT7MoNLmdy0-YlcN19-9UA-TD0hyphenhyphen4GSOTI0gn1Z2kW5uzqn6xvFEpALDPrfF-g5VGM8BdH2gE-RWCEsO22xZBQ/s320/101_1102.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">For instance, there was a "King Arthur" (Sammy) and a mother and a cowboy and a couple fairies and a mermaid. A few other knights and "dragon slayers" were there as well. Sammy was in charge of lifting the rainbow cloth off of the "scene". I'd love to show you the whole thing, but Ms. Hellesoy forbid photography during the show. Boo.</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGQnIcTJzvCkBsaCHBwDcWiFMc_jY22_O6iqbdP3LN6rXxldavcNmdCVWVN_aeRow413ehPwx-hVMS6RYq3_3LICUM2ng8hJhVyLu0ylQAsZmvCWjKdb3dNO3Sk1EaMIj3q15q9Fea1bE/s1600/101_1105.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGQnIcTJzvCkBsaCHBwDcWiFMc_jY22_O6iqbdP3LN6rXxldavcNmdCVWVN_aeRow413ehPwx-hVMS6RYq3_3LICUM2ng8hJhVyLu0ylQAsZmvCWjKdb3dNO3Sk1EaMIj3q15q9Fea1bE/s320/101_1105.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I had such mixed emotions during it (as I knew I would). I'm so happy he had such a great 3 years at City Garden, and it just makes me question whether or not homeschooling this kiddo is wise or crazy! But I tried to stop having a panic attack and just enjoy the show.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNNVgVH-fjXlAEb3cGXrf4BsiZStEfgYH2DY1gOu9nv41YzCgYxm1U-sQ8y_OCownaqoR4FkzVhmL474Y53Uax7wUxZOIYIEFgsEduZgXLA_X7tH0RY9zIc8_w8Tpp2vSjCB6bdDdEYq8/s1600/100_3777.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNNVgVH-fjXlAEb3cGXrf4BsiZStEfgYH2DY1gOu9nv41YzCgYxm1U-sQ8y_OCownaqoR4FkzVhmL474Y53Uax7wUxZOIYIEFgsEduZgXLA_X7tH0RY9zIc8_w8Tpp2vSjCB6bdDdEYq8/s320/100_3777.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is a picture of Claire on the day she had HER puppet show....2 years ago!</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsjpnNJfvbpWLYB25cSVvGvDqzBBi7smNYO_6tNKkPOUV8vL6Sr-vY500VWoJ3Qz0F-Jq_f-7PMYUWWxGX1fQCQ6GS0vRjBHOHoPIsx5oX3DVXxBDOSIGv5hjFvf7l1pn8BGmyUZwfBEY/s1600/101_1096.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsjpnNJfvbpWLYB25cSVvGvDqzBBi7smNYO_6tNKkPOUV8vL6Sr-vY500VWoJ3Qz0F-Jq_f-7PMYUWWxGX1fQCQ6GS0vRjBHOHoPIsx5oX3DVXxBDOSIGv5hjFvf7l1pn8BGmyUZwfBEY/s320/101_1096.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She actually brought her puppet back with her for Sam's show. Look how much OLDER she looks now. <em>Sigh....</em></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Last year, (or the year before?) during summer camp at City Garden, Mr Khrol let Sammy go with him to the ice cream truck store to buy ice cream for all the kids at camp. On the way home, he ended up bringing a whole freezer cart of ice cream pushed by a bicycle back to school...and guess who got to ride on top of the freezer part and honk a horn on the way back!? It was one of Sammy's finest moments. </div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Claire's best buddy, Annabel, is finishing up school too...complete with a science fair.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Claire was completely intrigued by the idea of a science fair. I may have to have a mini one next year.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Bridget went to <a href="http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/cloud-in-a-bottle-experiment">Steve Spangler's science experiment site</a>, she says, to figure out how to do it. She says he's awesome, just in case you happen to be doing a science experiment with your child.</div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7DmB04hwURTUafRmsV4MdUTk5THPQ45_NjgIn0AGSeF2bXLm_Te56VTwGP7Vuazja4sp55E7gb0MgIaoOIDi_pQZrsGoh7Jt-49n2NIvrcum7jbEmopZr0unQTktK66hYnDJllnwzH0I/s1600/101_1125.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7DmB04hwURTUafRmsV4MdUTk5THPQ45_NjgIn0AGSeF2bXLm_Te56VTwGP7Vuazja4sp55E7gb0MgIaoOIDi_pQZrsGoh7Jt-49n2NIvrcum7jbEmopZr0unQTktK66hYnDJllnwzH0I/s320/101_1125.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Like, for instance, she's still not old enough to use a plate or bowl because she will just throw it on the ground.</div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPxTcWYOXLOfQhAtb6vMIygIkmEy6c22ugzr0hbNFJPv6acMnQf2wSHG4knEwOXxJQbTw-mlqQcmlCF-VyYe046P2qmgHSfd9OxihwPOoDuUUe-GbYRDE6yly2se1SiS7nsFQcdt8umcc/s1600/101_1128.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPxTcWYOXLOfQhAtb6vMIygIkmEy6c22ugzr0hbNFJPv6acMnQf2wSHG4knEwOXxJQbTw-mlqQcmlCF-VyYe046P2qmgHSfd9OxihwPOoDuUUe-GbYRDE6yly2se1SiS7nsFQcdt8umcc/s320/101_1128.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And she loves french toast!</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH4YJ7HnMz-F1ySQjNHU1-tiSmXMD4PupOp1mEuEuBvXL3_Q7NVTX0vvTL_ElXlgVW2O0RPQPf5QYsFxjJu_49iDTDqhg1Fk9sC6SShuCuEx5in9Jeag2HXqeu0sMl-kO7L9lMaj41oWE/s1600/101_1150.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH4YJ7HnMz-F1ySQjNHU1-tiSmXMD4PupOp1mEuEuBvXL3_Q7NVTX0vvTL_ElXlgVW2O0RPQPf5QYsFxjJu_49iDTDqhg1Fk9sC6SShuCuEx5in9Jeag2HXqeu0sMl-kO7L9lMaj41oWE/s320/101_1150.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here is my Claire working out the notes to her piano piece. I love the concentration!</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAuWPrX4mFvUhgJmf389pTfDkYd0mx36I8_4uSz-XX02ftxVNyV_VGeIvlv5ohtEWU2rIoTIXLpDXJhgtWPNWkQYdZzxDcuZYeEeviI2U6EGv7qdJ1Fh8jguphUxoSRk8g7nxfj-Jcu4g/s1600/101_1155.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAuWPrX4mFvUhgJmf389pTfDkYd0mx36I8_4uSz-XX02ftxVNyV_VGeIvlv5ohtEWU2rIoTIXLpDXJhgtWPNWkQYdZzxDcuZYeEeviI2U6EGv7qdJ1Fh8jguphUxoSRk8g7nxfj-Jcu4g/s320/101_1155.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She's a great little musician. I really need to make sure I encourage this in her because she's a total natural. Next up: Summer!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-810059685685643880.post-60645764847850469592011-05-16T12:02:00.001-05:002011-05-16T12:17:22.550-05:00Sammy's knight birthday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4UsFRwrHu6bTTQsg0FLK8dM_vExS8YQQRYlb8xHSdE2MthyuZvGWGRxxLK8-fY78s14fOcQ9KvlWslIxiTxHrReQxn2ksN92Skq4nZvBhHobmPh5F4gGTgDjyJId7aJnatFhHTc1pdGg/s1600/101_0939.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4UsFRwrHu6bTTQsg0FLK8dM_vExS8YQQRYlb8xHSdE2MthyuZvGWGRxxLK8-fY78s14fOcQ9KvlWslIxiTxHrReQxn2ksN92Skq4nZvBhHobmPh5F4gGTgDjyJId7aJnatFhHTc1pdGg/s320/101_0939.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So, after cleaning up from party #1, we still had to put the finishing touches on Sam's knight birthday. All week we've been cutting out these shields for the boys...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPyYlYMhVvU4Kp11aM1DDy26T1sA6gcVZ4N2OM7uLsBlihwAzR-tFZqWk46ZTxoEcANBBjoQX77K0GjPh7lY-pOzeoLi_kh-_zMyp_HWkajcfNK79xaw_T7hlWnu8WgP7To1NCOldZwNY/s1600/101_0937.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPyYlYMhVvU4Kp11aM1DDy26T1sA6gcVZ4N2OM7uLsBlihwAzR-tFZqWk46ZTxoEcANBBjoQX77K0GjPh7lY-pOzeoLi_kh-_zMyp_HWkajcfNK79xaw_T7hlWnu8WgP7To1NCOldZwNY/s320/101_0937.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">...and painting them! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim6xsviE22kWQdkEClbE5wTnIVJ4Z06IDjwMVnFg8NkoDKrB28di7NGUNme-xYcomFwjgs99YNwUkCOIWr2YnyNVfqkve9D-sFU7Z8fPKIqsHRUq4IH-pNDs-4JccrPJtT_ZyPm3w5wRk/s1600/101_0979.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim6xsviE22kWQdkEClbE5wTnIVJ4Z06IDjwMVnFg8NkoDKrB28di7NGUNme-xYcomFwjgs99YNwUkCOIWr2YnyNVfqkve9D-sFU7Z8fPKIqsHRUq4IH-pNDs-4JccrPJtT_ZyPm3w5wRk/s320/101_0979.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Every knight had a shield with his name on it, but Sammy requested that his be "special-er". That's a slightly obnoxious request in my opinion, but I put a gold rim around the edge anyway. </div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvs2BCJNSjbEm1Y8B2PrToLJGANM1W7RQcox-k_kI1M5S9yOqGuE7Nc5ZDW9c3hQ_s17ckMVKb7siaAN6-QWeOTeLK2Jpg11D69WBHIlBCKKfBwubmbtfJluSsUktSqKDGK0xdWA0Nwuo/s1600/101_0978.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvs2BCJNSjbEm1Y8B2PrToLJGANM1W7RQcox-k_kI1M5S9yOqGuE7Nc5ZDW9c3hQ_s17ckMVKb7siaAN6-QWeOTeLK2Jpg11D69WBHIlBCKKfBwubmbtfJluSsUktSqKDGK0xdWA0Nwuo/s320/101_0978.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">These shields were actually really pretty easy to make except that when you are making a dozen of them it does get a little laborious. </div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We just bought a giant sheet of really thin wood from Home Depot, had them cut it into 12 pieces, and then brought them home and finished off the shield shape with our saw. Since the wood was so thin it was pretty easy. Then, we drilled holes for the rope handles, painted them red, and then painted the lion emblem on with a stencil. I tried to make the names look medieval-ish, but they were actually just kinda squiggly.</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO9yOlFCwh0NwJEzIHCot-ewd3pN_t0WDJOciPs14tLdk1ubYKE4kaNqgbcbh4GXmS6IvzyS5Ve5pNaifm_O960uuyjy6TKnq71NB5jMej9uHYZNJ3TOm3-7LLiUHXNcX4OwWeIe149Es/s1600/101_0980.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO9yOlFCwh0NwJEzIHCot-ewd3pN_t0WDJOciPs14tLdk1ubYKE4kaNqgbcbh4GXmS6IvzyS5Ve5pNaifm_O960uuyjy6TKnq71NB5jMej9uHYZNJ3TOm3-7LLiUHXNcX4OwWeIe149Es/s320/101_0980.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The only problem came when our 80-degree weather week turned into a 40-degree-and-raining weekend. So the 25 kids that were supposed to come to our "park" birthday party all ended up in my living room. </div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS80wcJjZlbra1f4lnsnGcDZkbHYt8SCx_8tjPvDVIVlfmsygibFfciKp5qF6Wh-99-KW33pGFrEqvGTV4EA1-921NmCYkNv9yO2g8n_M8TMTKL9NHMn-OIxuVqjQp2iJJwH_WYfCYZL4/s1600/101_1014.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS80wcJjZlbra1f4lnsnGcDZkbHYt8SCx_8tjPvDVIVlfmsygibFfciKp5qF6Wh-99-KW33pGFrEqvGTV4EA1-921NmCYkNv9yO2g8n_M8TMTKL9NHMn-OIxuVqjQp2iJJwH_WYfCYZL4/s320/101_1014.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">...leftover beer. Leftover beer? How did that happen? :) </div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHXjdn2V049fYbv6UadzFXuixEjGuYtPETObF36ugq2C-BFskWfLYmiL84zL1CsT6_bjyLrWfhcuRfOKMYAINeT4HXq44SVpB-_-ljGd4NjLn5oRY2pujCynXUXSOlI_AMMTyhRVJbehA/s1600/101_1016.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHXjdn2V049fYbv6UadzFXuixEjGuYtPETObF36ugq2C-BFskWfLYmiL84zL1CsT6_bjyLrWfhcuRfOKMYAINeT4HXq44SVpB-_-ljGd4NjLn5oRY2pujCynXUXSOlI_AMMTyhRVJbehA/s320/101_1016.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Abandoned princess cone hats. I ran out of time and didn't make a strap for the hats that would keep them on the princess's heads, so they weren't very popular.</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB4zM_0ObiBOEQLtInqaSfnzyEZvkfFFbV3c9w0DX6-afbsP6PtD6CQgKBThl3ZQRFmOmIADoI8Rbu5Ns5xGtxKsEDrsxYN0RVIiVjY1NuKOyId2SIFCJWGdvqZTZwNhLDqA_BhY4RUXs/s1600/101_1018.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB4zM_0ObiBOEQLtInqaSfnzyEZvkfFFbV3c9w0DX6-afbsP6PtD6CQgKBThl3ZQRFmOmIADoI8Rbu5Ns5xGtxKsEDrsxYN0RVIiVjY1NuKOyId2SIFCJWGdvqZTZwNhLDqA_BhY4RUXs/s320/101_1018.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">LOTS of half-eaten cupcakes. I used cream cheese and cocoa (along with butter and powedered sugar) in the frosting which I think the adults liked, but I got a few "faces" from the kids. Maybe I should stick with canned frosting for kid parties.</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOk7xnu0uzoj8VVw67OJhXhzuXKPQ2A0Zt73kXdXTVHixb2du67mXNcidqTubN6ie2KCT62jSaCZXfMhFj-X9VQnlhyjzNRd4T8Lmj3jp9eQ9xknZF39x0nBQx7EKOJUz2PgyfQ2OAn3Q/s1600/101_1023.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOk7xnu0uzoj8VVw67OJhXhzuXKPQ2A0Zt73kXdXTVHixb2du67mXNcidqTubN6ie2KCT62jSaCZXfMhFj-X9VQnlhyjzNRd4T8Lmj3jp9eQ9xknZF39x0nBQx7EKOJUz2PgyfQ2OAn3Q/s320/101_1023.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This morning I went outside and discovered this. I forgot that at the end of the night when all but a few friends had left, I agreed to let Sam and his church friend, Josh, paint our outside fort. Anything to get the boy energy outside!</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiud_DygNluBz59zGV1P_Xl_g78VRv7TUmyLH8iJrv8cio67NFKhCDzn31VuwaqKgtW8f1FC2QSRBmsULEj3_aaAF6igXcgh3UA_dRMyFxctGKjOHhA1auPPuhhwxKM6L3Kl6FvFo_Rhks/s1600/101_1024.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiud_DygNluBz59zGV1P_Xl_g78VRv7TUmyLH8iJrv8cio67NFKhCDzn31VuwaqKgtW8f1FC2QSRBmsULEj3_aaAF6igXcgh3UA_dRMyFxctGKjOHhA1auPPuhhwxKM6L3Kl6FvFo_Rhks/s320/101_1024.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So they did. Blue!</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTHdT4sXBlBeBaEP9iq5UNlaZJ5CCt906JKAW4_NteMU4GAfkSEc-MtcQfIhg2ckLBrPg9ySQrTF8_-dTlivVh6frZX_nNd3jdSb8CBWkUytEk25ZZi8exT8rCeqITGDdxnDkyCeCLr_8/s1600/101_1025.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTHdT4sXBlBeBaEP9iq5UNlaZJ5CCt906JKAW4_NteMU4GAfkSEc-MtcQfIhg2ckLBrPg9ySQrTF8_-dTlivVh6frZX_nNd3jdSb8CBWkUytEk25ZZi8exT8rCeqITGDdxnDkyCeCLr_8/s320/101_1025.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">They also, apparently, put a roof on the fort with the leftover wood from the shields.</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrOqvA5cgdZh-JQBIZW2t3TvyP3kqg4d1FF-kijYbzz2RAjHqfKNdA-yT2ht-BxF3Ssz5yD-iotoyc-ZY_EO9Ikb3OjhPblihDhfa6fl50qk6xgDnVIKLytaMKmFSDgaK11OBR0bJMH1E/s1600/101_1026.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrOqvA5cgdZh-JQBIZW2t3TvyP3kqg4d1FF-kijYbzz2RAjHqfKNdA-yT2ht-BxF3Ssz5yD-iotoyc-ZY_EO9Ikb3OjhPblihDhfa6fl50qk6xgDnVIKLytaMKmFSDgaK11OBR0bJMH1E/s320/101_1026.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">These stairs used to go out straight from the fort, (and there was a slide) but a few weeks ago Josh decided the stairs should go up sideways (and the slide should be removed) so now they go like this. And they are blue. And a complete safety hazard.</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8I-Q0fV9NpwROsDmkBaF5FKyfanMbLKP0uFwy_euGE5hDxs0ai4D4UmxiY7w8h_1X8DgyTu2iqQfRpZ3xj0G26k8Jo8xHSL_S7pffG-Uk9NMNjGqziFsFTTW8K1ymsGntHBXSPJy-6Bk/s1600/101_1028.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8I-Q0fV9NpwROsDmkBaF5FKyfanMbLKP0uFwy_euGE5hDxs0ai4D4UmxiY7w8h_1X8DgyTu2iqQfRpZ3xj0G26k8Jo8xHSL_S7pffG-Uk9NMNjGqziFsFTTW8K1ymsGntHBXSPJy-6Bk/s320/101_1028.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I had told them to paint it gold because I thought that would blend in better and I wouldn't have to look at an abnoxious bunch of painted boards in the backyard. But I think they forgot what I said and decided blue and green would be better.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMiQUbTxx_rZMEyytSu79wSlSG6IDrZKkzP-wgYLc_xbHY505pJyAZOIasOEOO6-tw02XnxiwDqoJDn8UQlzdbiTo7FmpFehy-B62Q4YZoIb6rcd-5YG29SeKszdPJYmx0kAF2ukazgCE/s1600/101_8528.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMiQUbTxx_rZMEyytSu79wSlSG6IDrZKkzP-wgYLc_xbHY505pJyAZOIasOEOO6-tw02XnxiwDqoJDn8UQlzdbiTo7FmpFehy-B62Q4YZoIb6rcd-5YG29SeKszdPJYmx0kAF2ukazgCE/s320/101_8528.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is what that charming little fort looked like this time last year. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkfWbRAr3iy7NJwSXiGiR7_xbptaeEO4pVthf0N6OGwr7qiBiNQKwfrIVkYFfl0ogOzU1857-6VrJOOKVdkASHOpEdQ8CcTefB-5bh8LuPNsFIG9GgUSTrtQiCEl9-h_gK3uXmUu08EZk/s1600/101_1021.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkfWbRAr3iy7NJwSXiGiR7_xbptaeEO4pVthf0N6OGwr7qiBiNQKwfrIVkYFfl0ogOzU1857-6VrJOOKVdkASHOpEdQ8CcTefB-5bh8LuPNsFIG9GgUSTrtQiCEl9-h_gK3uXmUu08EZk/s320/101_1021.JPG" width="320" /></a>'</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But the dishes are done now. And the living room has been vacuumed. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid5S_HgSYWBNwCYCDzqP6ZU7PqEgMITLFtzxx535e20Ga8I-VEtTuVRQrEgfFN2PfBqr5AcZC8HgjFwJRXRjNpJ5jQDai2sOAZkrZ_WNNvlS4HQXLWu9wAzzrre1d2UCKARBO7m8Fjy8w/s1600/101_1020.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid5S_HgSYWBNwCYCDzqP6ZU7PqEgMITLFtzxx535e20Ga8I-VEtTuVRQrEgfFN2PfBqr5AcZC8HgjFwJRXRjNpJ5jQDai2sOAZkrZ_WNNvlS4HQXLWu9wAzzrre1d2UCKARBO7m8Fjy8w/s320/101_1020.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And the kids are busily assembling a lego firetruck so I'm not complaining. It was fun. But I'll never have another indoor party for Sammy again. And as luck would have it, it's about 20 degrees warmer and sunny today. Go figure.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2