Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Just a couple fun pics

We went to the SLC boat show over Valentine’s weekend…so we could “covet” what we would never spend $100k on.  What we did come home with were a few of these:

moustachesDefinitely a good look for my kids.

We looked at houses and did a little shopping…needed to update the church wardrobe.  I need to get a full picture of Anna in this dress she picked out.

She stood in front of Nana’s mirror and twirled just like a princess.  Way more girl than I ever was!

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And after we move back…we’ll get more and more of this

Time with Aunts and Cousins…

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Shae is the bubble blowing pro, as you can see by how hard she is concentrating.

Just kidding.

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Sunday, February 20, 2011

Happy Valentine’s Day – Thanks Mom & Dad

My parents so generously offered to watch ALL EIGHT of their younger grandchildren (ages 7 and under) and sent us couples to a show at the Desert Star Theater for Valentine’s Day.
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The show was great fun…and as you can see above, all the kids got “sweet” Valentine shirts from their Nana & Pop.
We came home to a very loud chaotic house.  This is definitely a first for our family.  First of all, we’ve never all been around at once;
Second, adding two more babies to the mix makes it even more lively…
as you can see by my dad’s face (above) with the 3 little girlies—none of which seem too happy.
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These girls obviously love their Pop, though!
Mom said they could handle it again…probably just once a year, though.  We’ll see about that, since we’ll be adding
two more babies to the mix next year.  Luckily, as you add babies, you also add a year to the ages of all the rest--
which can be good (for the older ones) and bad (for the younger ones who are now unstoppable toddlers).
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I had to put this picture in of London.  She is at such a fun age!  Huge smiles and mischief.
(Notice her unloading the wipes)
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  Happy Valentine’s Day to all my brothers, sisters-in-law and hubby.
Jake & Heather; Curt & Shae; Nate & Becky; Me & Ben
It was a fun night.  Thanks Mom & Dad!
If you haven’t ever gone to a show at Desert Star—you need to.  They do spoofs on great shows…a good old fashioned playhouse…lots of fun!
Click here for the link.

Valentine Creativity – Year 4

So, my creativity peaks one day a year – Valentine’s Day.  I’ve done homemade valentine’s with the kids every year they’ve been in school.  After this year, though, I don’t know how much longer I can keep it up.  40+ valentines now for the boys…add Ann and we are looking at 60+!  Not sure we can pull that off.

This years efforts took us almost an entire week…because I wanted the boys to do most of the work (which they did everything with the exception of all the cutting.  It would have taken us 3 weeks if they cut everything out).  I think they turned out great.  For the boys, Colton wanted to use little army men.  How do you incorporate gun wielding, bomb throwing army men into a Valentine?  Thanks to my brother Curtis for help with the “phrase” – this is how:

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So, we made these for all the boys, both in Colton and Bryson’s class…

but even Colton agreed that the girls needed something a little more “girlie”…

So, after cutting out 21 butterflies and 84 dots and finding a piece of candy in this valley that would work for the body

(I couldn’t believe how hard that turned out to be—we ended up with plastic wrapped licorice pieces)…

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We ended up with a table of beautiful butterflies for the girls!

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We’ll see how I feel next year if we keep this tradition alive.