tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59830428768082939512024-03-13T03:49:38.344-07:00JennerationJennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08156248181944922989noreply@blogger.comBlogger178125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5983042876808293951.post-54178349316323485212014-04-16T12:46:00.001-07:002014-04-16T12:46:17.883-07:00November: Nana, BlaBla, Baby Jane, Thanksgiving...OH MY!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Remember November? Yeah, me neither. I have been wanting to write this blog for a while, but for some reason blogger wouldn't let me upload pictures from the laptop, and a bunch of the pictures from this post were only on the laptop, and transferring them to the desktop downstairs was just the extra step that broke the camel's back and prevented me from ever finishing it.</div>
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But now I am here! And the pictures are in! </div>
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So now I can go back and fill in all the details surrounding the pictures I took in November.</div>
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"Let me e'splain. No there is too much. Let me sum up"</div>
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Halloween night, Oct 31, 2013. Daddy took the girls to a couple of houses, while I stayed home and passed out candy to kids, after about 20 minutes, the girls were back and they helped pass out candy for the rest of the evening. I love that my girls favorite part of Halloween is passing out candy to the other neighborhood kids, getting to see their costumes, and their big smiles when they get candy. It's such a fun experience. We also get just the right amount of trick or treaters in our neighborhood, and all is usually quiet by about 8:30 pm. I LOVE ROCHESTER!</div>
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The girls all got sick in early November, here is Katy sleeping on my super pregnant lap. Nothing like being 9 months pregnant. It's the worst. Normally I love when my kids are cuddle monsters, but when I am that pregnant it seems smothering to have extra kids draped on me. We all survived though!</div>
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We got our first snowfall (that stuck) the first week of November</div>
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Nana came to visit! We were all so happy to see her! It had been almost a year and a half since we'd seen her, so it was SO nice. (Though in the future I think I will limit house guests during the month I'm set to have the baby)</div>
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Matt's school friends gave us a cute outfit and some serious gift card-age. It was so sweet and we put it to good use!</div>
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I started working on my super secret dollhouse project for the girls Christmas present. I got this dollhouse that was all grubby/dirty white, but solid wood for $10 on Craigslist! Woohoo! I kept it in the garage and cleaned and painted it, then put in some faux wood flooring. I got it all finished before I had the baby (whew!). It was a super fun project. Though I am sure if it wasn't freezing in the garage and I wasn't 9 months pregnant I would've made it a little more fancy and detailed, but I was happy with it.</div>
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<strong><u>Baby Jane is Born: The Birth Story</u></strong></div>
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To catch you up to speed, my mom-in-law, Martha, was here for 6 days, leaving on Monday, November 11th. My mom flew in that same day. I had been having contractions all week especially after my mom got there. There were 2 nights (Tuesday and Thursday) were I timed my contractions for several hours having them every 2-4 minutes, but still being completely moderate and manageable pain wise, only to have them stop after several hours. Thursday night I even stopped by triage due to insistence from Matt and my mom that I check in, since when I start hard labor the baby usually comes fast. They eventually stopped on Thursday night and I was still only dilated to a 2. Then Friday and Saturday I had even fewer contractions than what is normal for me. Until Saturday night. In the night I had pretty steady contractions. I was able to sleep off and on, and only occasionally were the contractions painful. Matt was working at the hospital that weekend, so when he left for work at 6am I told him that I had a feeling it was going to happen today. </div>
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Here is my last belly picture, taken Friday November 15th at 37 weeks!</div>
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So its Sunday morning, and Matt is at the hospital for his on-call weekend shift. I decide to stay in bed and try and rest since I had a relatively sleepless night and my contractions are still mild, but very consistent. My mom comes up around 8am and asks if she should get the girls ready and take them to our church (which starts at 9am). I tell her that she better not, just to be safe, because I think it's possible I might go into labor and need her to drive me to the hospital. My contractions are still mild and regular so I try not to put too much stock into them, but I just have a feeling. Just before 9, I decide to get up and use the bathroom and wash my face and get ready for the day. While I'm in the bathroom doing my morning routine, my water breaks. I let my mom know and tell her that I want to wait until my contractions get more intense before going to the hospital, so no rush. In the meantime I start to pack up all the last minute hospital toiletry and electronic items and put my pillow and bags by the door. I brush my hair out and make sure I'm ready. Around 10:30 the intense contractions start. They are crazy intense, they paralyze me, and I just hold very still and try not to die. I tell my mom that I want to wait 30 minutes and if they are still going strong head in. I am not a fan of going to the hospital unless it's absolutely necessary and I felt bullied into it on Thursday so I am waiting until I am at the point of no return. At 11 my mom brings the girls up has them start getting bundled up and she starts loading up the car. At this point the contractions are coming hard and fast. Lasting 90 seconds to 2 minutes and giving me less than a minute in between. I think that in the car ride to the hospital my girls got a nice view of the fact that labor is NOT a pleasant experience. "Mommy, why are you groaning?" "Mommy, why are your eyes closed?" "Mommy why are you breathing like that?" I managed to squeak out, "Because it hurts. So much! The baby is trying to come out of my body and it hurts." At 11:35 my mom drops me at the hospital curb and goes to park the car and unload the girls. I get about 2 steps before being hit by a contraction and stand there looking pathetic I'm sure. A nurse notices me and asks if I'm OK, clearly I'm not, I tell her I'm in labor, she goes and gets a wheelchair, brings it outside and wheels me up to labor and delivery. It was so nice of her to use up several minutes of her lunch break pushing me to triage (especially because she works on a totally different unit). I never would have made it without her. I seriously could not walk more than a step or two at a time between contractions. I get up to Labor and Delivery and tell them to page my husband (who is in surgery) and let him know that I'm here. They say that the residents are all busy and that there probably won't be anyone around to come check me for a while. Not sure exactly what I tell them, but it's something along the lines of, "That's unacceptable, please check me in and get me into a room. This is baby # 4 and I'd guess it'll be out of me in 1-2 hours max". That seemed to do the trick, within a couple of minutes a very nice doctor came in and checked me very quickly, "Yep, your water is definitely broken, you're at a 5, and the baby's head is low." They immediately wheeled me to a room and less than 10 minutes later I was meeting the epidural crew! (I didn't have an epidural with Izzie, and it wasn't an experience I was anxious to repeat) While they're putting the epidural in Matt walks in. I was so happy to see him! After the epidural was in, I was able to relax for about 30 minutes. Ahhhhh. During that time I had the girls come into the room for a few minutes now that I wasn't in so much pain so that I could explain to them what was happening. I didn't want them to feel scared for me or worried or anything. </div>
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At 12:30 the baby's heart rate dropped and the nurse came and had me try rolling over. She then said, "I know you said that you progress really quickly, do you feel like you need to push already (It'd been almost an hour since I was at a 5 and had last been checked)?" I said not overwhelmingly, but they brought the Dr in to check me and as soon as she touched me I felt that indescribable sensation of <em>needing</em> to push. So they set everything up, told me to not push too hard, like at 70% or so, so that the baby wouldn't be born too quickly. That's what I did. 2 nice smooth and steady pushes and she was born. The nurses, doctor, and resident were all oohing and ahh'ing that it was a beautiful delivery and couldn't have gone better and that it was like the ideal textbook version of what a perfect deliver could be. That made me happy and proud, but I frankly was just glad that I had the epidural for that 40 minutes! I know that 40 minutes doesn't seem like that long to endure something, but I was sooooo glad not to have to feel that pain for a minute longer!</div>
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Anyway, it was perfect. As soon as I held her in my arms I felt so overwhelmingly that this was our Jane. I felt like I'd been waiting my whole life to get to meet her. Matt and I experienced a sweet moment filled with pure love as we looked into each others eyes and felt the right-ness of the moment.</div>
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The day after I got home from the hospital my mom came down with the full on flu. She spent the next 2 weeks quarantined in her room downstairs where I just brought her food, meds, and water. So the above pic from the hospital is the only time she got to hold Jane. It was incredibly crummy timing, especially because Matt didn't take any time off, so I was flying solo. </div>
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A week and a half after I had Jane was Thanksgiving. My brother Charlie flew in to spend it with us. Unfortunately, he ended up having to sleep on an air mattress in our main room upstairs so that he didn't have to share a bathroom or be in the general vicinity of my mom who was still out with the flu. </div>
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Matt ended up having Thanksgiving off so it was AWESOME to have his help! I was glad not to have to do the whole meal by myself.</div>
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We made my mom come up long enough to be in this picture and make herself a plate. At this point the worst of her fever and miserableness had subsided, but she still wasn't well. She didn't want to be photographed, so she threw on one of the girl's dress-up hats to cover her face. We're a ragtag group, that's for sure, but it was still a yummy Thanksgiving!</div>
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The weekend after Thanksgiving we decorated for Christmas, and Uncle Charlie bought pizza. We had a movie night and rented Monsters University and did facials. It was lots of fun! We sure love it when Uncle Charlie visits!</div>
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By this time my mom was feeling much better, though still not well, and I wasn't ready to let her anywhere near Jane, who was the only member of our family who didn't get a flu shot.</div>
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Charlie flew back to Ohio, and a few days later my mom followed suit. I was so sad to have her go. I'm always sad to have her go, but I was especially sad that she didn't get to spend much time with the girls while she was here, since she was sick for the majority of her stay, and I was especially sad that she didn't get any time to bond with Miss Jane.</div>
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Here are some pictures we took of Miss Jane during November</div>
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Hello, friends!! It has been far too long, I apologize! Here is a brief breakdown of what has been going on with us since I last blogged (on Oct 30th).</div>
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We celebrated Halloween</div>
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She left the same day that my mother arrived</div>
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I had a baby!!!</div>
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My brother Charlie came to visit</div>
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We all celebrated Thanksgiving</div>
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My brother left to go back to Ohio</div>
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The day after my mom left my sister in law, Heather, arrived</div>
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3 days later Heather left</div>
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All that and it's only been 2 months and 1 week since I blogged! And that doesn't even include all the fun small activities, those are just major milestones. We also have all the "fun around the house" things, snow days, Christmas activities, etc. I have been far too busy living life, or in some cases just trying to survive it, to stop and blog! However, I am going to try and catch up, I even uploaded the pictures from my camera to this computer!! (I haven't sorted through them yet though...)</div>
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But I wanted to take the time to say, we're all alive and well, blogging is definitely on my mind, even if it hasn't been at the top of the priority list, and I will be attempting to update the blog, and then not fall so far behind again.</div>
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If after all this time away, you are still checking my blog, and reading this boring post sans pictures, then you are a true friend! Love to you, and promises of LOADS of cute baby/kiddo pictures headed your way soon!!</div>
Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08156248181944922989noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5983042876808293951.post-13350465084215836102013-10-30T12:35:00.000-07:002013-10-30T12:35:16.031-07:00Baby on the Brain<div style="text-align: center;">
In case you missed it, I'm pregnant. Super pregnant. Uncomfortably, miserably pregnant. </div>
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It is truly my, deep in my gut, honest to the core, belief that God made the last few weeks of pregnancy completely miserable so that women would over come their fear of childbirth and be willing to endure any pain in order to get the baby out of their body. </div>
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So that's about where I am. If we go by the pattern our other girls have set (and I am really, really hoping that we are--If this baby decides to break the mold and suddenly be over due, heads might roll), then I have about 2 - 2.5 weeks left. I am having contractions all the time, rib and back pain, my hips seem to pop out of place every time I sit or stand (which is super painful), not getting any sleep and having to pee about every 30 minutes. Literally. I have also been getting severe hemiplegic migraines several times a week for the past few weeks (experiencing vision loss, numbness, confusion, and of course headache pain) which is a new development that I am hoping will go away once I deliver. In other words, I am simply a delight to be around and in the best spirits ever!</div>
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Actually, I think I have done a pretty good job at controlling my grumpiness and being amiable. Matt would be the best judge of that, and I am not really sure if he would tell a different story or not, but from my point of view, I've done a pretty good job being, if not pleasant, then at least not <em>un</em>pleasant. Or at least not excessively so. I hope.</div>
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I am hoping that I will get checked at my next Dr appointment, on Monday, so that I know if these contractions are actually causing any progress, or are making me uncomfortable for no good reason. I know it doesn't really matter either way, since it can all change over night, but it's always encouraging to feel like things are happening.</div>
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So, since I am thinking that I only have another "safe" 2 weeks before I hit the "it could happen any day now" stage, I have entered the "prep for baby" zone, and I am working to get everything set up, pulled out, washed, rearranged, purchased, and ready! It's a lot of work, but it's also exciting too. It definitely makes it all feel more real, and fills me with gratitude for this sweet baby that we weren't sure we'd be able to have. I feel like with this baby my "nesting" instinct never kicked in. Cleaning/organizing/etc. have all been tortuously accomplished only by self discipline and will power. I have zero desire to do any of the things on my "to-do" list and would much, much rather nap.</div>
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One thing that's been on my mind a lot the past couple of weeks has been this baby's name. I am still not sure what we will name her, I think that we will meet her and see what feels right. Our #1 contender right now is Jane. This is the most likely name, our back-ups are Lucy, and Rosalyn. We'll have to wait and see. What's your favorite of the three?</div>
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I am thinking about doing something unconventional for her <strong>middle name</strong>. All of our girls have middle names taken from family names. I love this and I think it's great to establish family ties and give names with meaning. Now that we're on girl #4, it's getting harder to find names that both Matt and I can agree on. So this time around I am thinking of doing a mash-up middle name. We did a mash-up name for Kate's middle name, using our Grandmother's names, EvaLou and Anna became LouAnn.</div>
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So, with this baby, I am thinking about using my sister's names, which are Andrea and Emily. If you put their two names together it sounds like the name Amelia, which is a name I like a lot. The unconventional-ness comes in the spelling. Let me just say that I am generally against creative spellings of names. Half the time when I see "creatively" spelled kids names, I just assume the parents didn't know how to spell it properly. I mean, who wants to have to spell your name every time you give it to someone new, make an appointment, start a new class, sign up or register for basically anything, etc. Plus 90% of people will probably spell your name wrong for most of your life. That being said, I feel like there is a little more leniency with middle names, which really aren't used very often. I still feel anxious about misspelling Amelia in order to make it a family name. But, I think in the end, wanting to honor family ties is more important to me that people saying, "what the heck is up with that spelling?". So here are the options:</div>
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I personally am leaning toward doing in Amilea. Do you think that is too wacky? (It is OK to say yes, as long as you realize that you are saying it to a 9 month pregnant, overly hormonal woman, and say it very, very, tactfully. Preferably prefacing it with how witty, or pretty, or fun you think I am.)</div>
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My last post was on our anniversary and was just a little video for Matt. I'll start by posting about our anniversary, then just post based on whatever pictures we've taken over the past month. I am not sure I even remember what we did last week, so it will be a surprise for me as I look over uploaded pictures and realize what needs to be blogged about. I have full-on late term pregnancy brain (which is a very real thing), which means that my memory and any reasoning, emotional, social, graceful, quick witted, skills I once had are all long gone, and have been replaced by a forgetful, hormonal, exhausted, waddling, slow and aching demeanor that really just wants to curl up and nap. But I'll do my best to catch up and get rid of the "I can't blog, 'cause I'm too far behind" blues, so that hopefully when this baby does come out of me in a few weeks, I won't be behind. So, buckle up, here is the big catch-up post! whhheeeee!!!</div>
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Matt got me the only thing I really wanted for our anniversary which was a few bags of crushed ice from the hospital. It may sound silly, but I was in HEAVEN. I am an ice devouring maniac. It's completely out of control with this pregnancy, and Mayo has the BEST ice. Best husband ever!</div>
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I never posted about General Conference, but I want to just take a quick minute to. I don't often go into a lot of detail about Matt's and my involvement in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on here, but I want to take a minute to say how much I love the gospel of Jesus Christ. I am so grateful for the scriptures that bear witness of Him, and for the modern day prophets and apostles we have. I love being a part of a community that is dedicated to being a force of goodness, love, charity, and strength. Twice a year we get to listen to a whole weekend's worth of talks and spiritual messages from the worldwide leadership of our church, when you add in the priesthood and relief society sessions, it ends up being over 15 hours worth of sermons. That seems like it'd be exhausting and boring, but really it is so uplifting and brings such a great atmosphere and feeling of peace and joy into our home. I love it. The church isn't perfect, the people in it are not perfect, and there are definitely times and circumstances that challenge my faith, but I have a deep testimony of the perfect love of God, and of His son, Jesus Christ. I am grateful for the church and for all that its programs, teachings, members, and leadership does to bring me closer to my divine nature, and to help me to better understand God the Eternal Father.</div>
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I hit month 8 of pregnancy and really blew up. I am big and uncomfortable and just trying not to groan every time I get up and down or waddle when I walk. I think my next post will be a pregnancy update, so I'll leave it at that for now.</div>
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Halloween started approaching and fall started in earnest. The trees changed colors and are beautiful (I really should take some pictures for all my AZ family who doesn't get to experience a real fall), and the weather cooled WAY down. We went from highs in the low 70's one week to highs in the 40's the next. The biting wind has made me realize just how much I am dreading winter. We've had a few snow flurries, but not enough to stick. Really barely even enough to notice. But it does mean that it has snowed all but 4 months this year (June, July, Aug, & Sept we had no snow, but that's it!). I love the fall and I am NOT ready for it to get cold yet. I am loving all the fall flavors and decorations everywhere though! It is awesome to live in a place where practically every home has some kind of decorations/pumpkins outside, it's so festive and fun! </div>
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Speaking of fun and festive, my amazing friend Vanessa sent me an awesome Halloween package, with a cute gift for baby girl as well. It was a total surprise and made my month! Isn't the baby ninja shirt spectacular?!</div>
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We of course had our annual pumpkin painting night, which is one of our family's favorite nights of the year! I am so glad we started this 4 years ago when Lily was just a toddler, we all look forward to it every year, and it's always a fun night.</div>
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Last Friday the weather hit 50 degrees, so we decided to go out and take advantage of the "warm" weather, and take some photos. It was fun. It didn't end up spectacular or anything, and we weren't super dedicated to it, but we did get a couple of fun images.</div>
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These 3 little girls are my whole world. They are so different from each other and being each of their mommies is a challenge in vastly different ways, but they each make my heart sing, and my soul delight. I can't wait to meet their little sister in a few weeks and see how being her mommy will be so much the same and so different all together!</div>
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My 4 favorite people! I am so lucky that my girls have such a wonderful daddy. I swore that I wouldn't have kids unless it was with a good man who would be a great dad. I felt like I missed out on a whole lot growing up without a dad, and it made me determined that if I ever had kids, they wouldn't feel the same. I couldn't have made a better choice in Matt. He is the greatest partner I could've imagined and seeing him grow as a father makes me fall so much more in love with him. I feel such an increase of love towards Matt for the strength and love and support he has given me through this pregnancy. I love him more than ever, and I can't wait to see him with a tiny little baby again. He has had to be gone for school a lot, and dedicate a lot of time to research/school work, but he has really tried to make up for it by being a huge help and hard worker anytime he has free time. Last Sunday, while I threw myself in an exhausted heap on the bed after church, Matt made the dangerous declaration "It's my job as a husband to cater to your pregnant whims, tell me what you need and I'll do it". I was SHOCKED to hear him make such a bold, indenturing statement. He totally followed through though and made crepes (for his first time ever) for dinner. And they were delicious. </div>
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I finally got around to starting to sew "baby girl" 's baby blanket. I'll have to find someone here in town with quilting frames, and also actually name the baby before finishing it, but I've got the two sides ready to go!</div>
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Our church ward had a trunk or treat and it was lots of fun!</div>
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Poor Izzie got scared in the haunted house and started crying. She got over it OK though and went back to having a good time!</div>
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The Woolley's are an amazing family in our ward. They always go all out and everything they do is fun and spectacular! Sister Woolley is Isabel's Sunday School teacher and she is simply fantastic. Izzie love's her so much and to be honest, I wish I could be in her class too. They always do something over the top and fun and BIG for the trunk or treat, this year they had a whole pirate ship set up and the kids has to walk the plank to get a treat. I was disappointed when Matt didn't get a picture from the front of the ship so that you could see the full effect. It was seriously impressive, and the whole family was of course outfitted like pirates. It was awesome.</div>
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The kids had a great time trunk-or-treating and got loads of candy, which is great because it means we won't have to walk around too much in the cold on Halloween night! </div>
Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08156248181944922989noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5983042876808293951.post-21153692097872241522013-10-07T13:04:00.000-07:002013-10-08T03:07:47.742-07:00Happy Anniversary<div align="center">
For Matthew, my fairytale knight.</div>
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Two Saturdays ago I threw a baby shower for the sweetest girl. I actually don't know her all that well, I go to church with her, and I was assigned to be her Visiting Teacher for a couple months. Even though I was released from being her VT'er, when my new companion and I found out that she wasn't going to have a baby shower at all, we decided to throw her one. It was very last minute, I had one day the following week that would work, called her up and said can you come to a baby shower for yourself on this day/time next week? She said yes, and I got to work! My companion emailed out invitations and we asked one of her new VT'ers to do a game or activity. Since money is an issue I made homemade decorations during the week, and I think they turned out pretty cute! </div>
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I used scrapbooking paper and ribbon I had already to make a little bunting banner and the made a diaper cake and some tissue paper pompoms as well.</div>
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The best part about throwing a baby shower? Getting to buy and make all kinds of yummy food/dips/cookies/cupcakes and eat all the leftovers!</div>
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I was a little nervous that not too many people would show up, simply because most of the women at church haven't had the opportunity to get to know Amy very well. Her and her husband are from Utah, they moved here this summer to start an 8 month internship at IBM, and then will go back to UT. They are both young and adorable and simply the nicest, sweetest couple. However, because they are here so briefly, both working, and not putting down any roots, they haven't made a lot of close connections, hence why she was just not going to have a baby shower. I think it would be really hard to be away from home for the first time and be having your first baby right in the middle of your time away. It turned out really well though, lots of great women from our wonderful ward showed up to show their love and support for her, and I was really grateful to be able to be a part of giving her a special day.</div>
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Amanda's matching/memory game was so cute and fun! I am normally not a huge fan of shower games, hence why I asked someone else to be in charge of it, but this one was great. If I ever do a baby shower again, I am definitely stealing this idea!</div>
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The only downside to the shower was that I got food poisoning the night before. It was BAD. I was up throwing up/dry heaving all night, which then caused me to start having some serious contractions and severe back pain, finally at 4am I woke up Matt and asked him to give me a blessing, he did and then stayed up and applied heat to my back and rubbed it for about a half an hour, while I tried to relax and breathe and get my contractions to stop. It eventually calmed down, and I was able to finally sleep for about and hour and a half before the girls all woke up and I needed to get up and frost cupcakes and set everything up. It was rough. No 7 month pregnant woman should ever get food poisoning! I thought I was going to die. Matt helped pick up my slack in the morning and was a great, dip mixing, vegetable chopping, little girl entertaining, partner and best friend. I am so grateful for him, I never could have made it through that night and day without him. I didn't eat anything all day because I was so worried that I would start throwing up again, so I was feeling pretty tired and haggard. Luckily, I made it through the party and I don't think that anyone was the wiser! I didn't try any of the food beforehand or at the party, so I was glad when I got to eat leftovers and they were all yummy. Amy and Jon ended up with a good amount of gifts, and more importantly, I think they felt loved and supported. It felt good to be able to help them feel that way!</div>
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5 days after the Bradbeer family left my brother Charlie came to visit. We were a stop off on his big move from Phoenix to Granville, Ohio. So now I officially have a family member out here in the Midwest! It will be fun to complain about the winter weather together this year. :)</div>
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Charlie arrived during a good strong Midwest thunderstorm, and we learned that our garage IS big enough (we always thought it probably was) to park 2 cars deep, plus 2 side by side, which I think is impressive. The girls LOVED having Uncle Charlie here, as always! He really is SUCH a great Uncle. Unfortunately the day he arrived I woke up super sick, with what was eventually diagnosed as inner and outer ear infections, a severe sinus infection, and strep throat. So Charlie ended his visit a couple of days early to prevent himself from catching my sickies, which made us all terribly sad. Thankfully he didn't end up sick, because he still had to drive the 12 hours to his new home and unpack/get settled in. Luckily for us, he'll be here again this year for Thanksgiving, so we'll get to see him again before too long!</div>
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With having 3 girls, and reusing all our girl clothes every other year, it is always fun to see favorite or special outfits come around and fit the next kid. I can't believe that Kate is already big enough to fit this pretty princess dress that my mom made several years ago! I wanted to snap a picture so that my mom could see her in it. </div>
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I scored several great finds over the course of a couple days, including an awesome (if in need of some repair and care/cleaning) dollhouse for TEN dollars on craigslist! Then a few days later a house down the street stuck this play house on the curb. It was dirty and had lots of spider webs. If you know me well, you know that this would normally be a deal breaker for me. Spider webs = no go. However, I knew that the girls would really, really love having this house, so we brought it home, <em>and I personally</em> sprayed off all the spider webs, and cleaned it off. Again, me even getting near a spider web is a HUGE deal. Sure I had ginormous goose bumps the whole time, said a fair amount of swear words very loudly in my mind, and had to stop every couple minutes to walk it off, but I did it! And I'm pretty proud of myself, especially because the girls, especially Katy, love it SO much. I decided that my phobia of spiders outweighed my distaste for being tacky and we put the play house in our basement family room, so that it would stay clean and bug free.</div>
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The weather toward the end of the summer has been bi-polar, 95 degrees one day and 75 the next. We did all we could to savor the nice days, and really enjoy the last bit of summer. We put up a tent in the backyard, so that we could play and spend ALL day outside.</div>
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We played at the park. We even let the girls ride their bikes to the park for the first time ever. I know, we are horrible parents. We just barely got a 2nd hand bike for Lily this summer, she hasn't had real one before. The trike we bought for Lily (when she was 2) now is Kate's size, but we don't have a bike for Iz, so she ends up riding this pathetic toddle trike. Eventually we'll have bikes in all the right sizes, but probably not anytime soon, unless we stumble across a great deal (like we did for Lily's).</div>
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Lily lost her FIRST TOOTH! This is such a big deal! It was so exciting, and I got to be the Tooth Fairy for the very first time!</div>
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Our garden continued to grow, and we continued to LOVE it!</div>
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I felt the need for a change, full on "pregnancy frumpiness" setting in, and dyed my hair red!</div>
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After battling with Isabel for quite some time, in an attempt to get her to stop sucking on the ends of her hair, I finally reached my limit and decided to just cut it all off. I tried not to for a long time, and gave her SO many opportunities to try and change her habit. But she is a stubborn one, and even though it was much harder on me than her to cut it off, I decided it was time. Her hair was just so gross, and I really needed something to force her to break the nasty habit.</div>
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Labor day announces the end of summer here, school always starts the very next day. Our ward had a labor day picnic, and it was a chilly day. The temp was somewhere in the 50's, and it was overcast and windy. We all still managed to have a good time though!</div>
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Poor Kate took a tumble at the park and ended up with a face (and eyes, and ears, and mouth, and bloody nose) full of damp, black, dirt. We did out best to clean her up, the below pic is after the initial wipe off, but then had to head home and shower her off. Not a fun way to end the party! Matt scolded me for busting out the camera, he thought it was in bad taste to stop and take a quick pic in her current state, but I couldn't resist. The really heartbreaking/adorable thing was that, even so caked in dirt, especially her poor eyes, when she saw me get the camera she tried to smile and said "cheese". Love that kid!</div>
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We love our dance parties! In fact we can't play music during dinner, or else Kate will never finish her food, as evidenced in the below video:</div>
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Dancing with Daddy. Makes my heart want to burst.</div>
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The night before Lily started school we let her pick our dinner menu, she surprised us all by requesting cornbread waffles with chili. </div>
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And of course, what better way to end the last night of summer than with Popsicles?</div>
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The next morning she was off to school! It is her first year being gone ALL day. I definitely think it's harder on me than her. She loves school so much, but the girls and I sure miss her!</div>
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2 days later Isabel had her first day of preschool. (The night before she picked pancakes as her last meal...a far less surprising choice). She loves preschool and I love that the bus picks her up/drops her off right at our door!</div>
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Matt's Junior class was in charge of the annual welcome freshman picnic for the incoming SRNAs, so we attended that, it was nice, though it made for a looong Sunday.</div>
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Isabel started a ballet class, which she is LOVING! I am so excited that she is getting to do this. It's just a half hour once a week that an angel from our ward does at the church for free for girls 3-5, and that is perfect for us. Seriously it is so sweet of Liz to donate her time and talent to these little girls who just love, love, love the class. And as a poor student family who can't afford to do any fun little classes for the girls, I feel so much gratitude for this opportunity!</div>
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Our church building has a park next door, so it's fun to go over after ballet and let the girls play. They always want to go on Sunday, but we never let them, so it's nice to be at the church in the middle of the day of a weekday and be able to actually let them run over there for a while.</div>
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Matt's back had been acting up again, so bedtime stories have had to happen in interesting positions.</div>
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I finally had to retire the pajamas shown below. I know what you're thinking. <em>"Wow, Jenn, this post is already super long, you really think that throwing out old PJ's is blog worthy? Yikes"</em> And if it were a normal pair of PJ's I'd agree. But normal these PJ's are not. First off, I've had them since I was 13. That's over 15 years ya'll! I have worn them in the hospital every time I have ever had to be in the hospital, simply because they are the only pajamas I have ever been able to actually sleep in. I am normally an undies only sleeper. I would prefer to sleep 100% in the buff to be honest (and I used to!). I just find PJ's constricting and uncomfortable and miserable. However, these are silky and lightweight enough that, though I still MUCH prefer to sleep without them, I can actually manage to get some sleep while wearing them. Hence why any time I've had a baby/been in the hospital/spent the night at someone else's/shared a hotel room, I have worn these. But after 15+ years, they have finally become worn too thin, and are falling apart at the seams, literally. Throwing them out was a sad, sad day for me. I ordered a similar pair, so here's to hoping that they are able to fill the void left behind!!</div>
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And finally, here is a picture of me from last week, showing off the beginning of the 3rd trimester belly. I think I'll be left with more extra weight than I'd like after this baby comes out, but I don't really think that there is much I can do about it at this point! I'm trying to stay healthy and active, and that's about all I can do. I may just avoid looking at a scale for the next 2 months...and then another 6 months after that.</div>
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Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08156248181944922989noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5983042876808293951.post-60740668315199767872013-08-20T17:06:00.002-07:002013-08-20T17:06:44.180-07:00Bradbeer Visit Wrap-up!Wow! It's finally here, my last post about our amazing visit with the beloved Bradbeer family! We had SUCH a good time with them here and I am so happy that they spent the money and took the time out of their family's busy summer to come and visit us! We sure do love them and have really missed them!<br />
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Here are all the pictures that just didn't really fit into a specific "themed" post, but that I wanted to share and remember!<br />
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One of the days they were here I went to workout at the gym and the kids and Heather went to the park next door and played and had lunch (except Katie who went to the gym with me, we joined them afterward). Then we all went to the Library for a while. It was a nice, fun, laid back day.</div>
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Most days Kate had to forgo her usual afternoon nap, due to our busy schedule, which resulted in passing out pretty hard every night.</div>
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One morning we heard LOTS of giggles down stairs, when we called down and asked the girls what was going on, they said they were doing Uncle Tommy's hair. </div>
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When he came up to my room to show me, I was so surprised by the amount of hair bows that covered his head like a shower cap! I laughed so hard. It was pretty impressive. What a great uncle!<br />
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The night they left all the "little girls" put on a piano recital that Kenz had organized. They had passed out hand made invites earlier in the day and then handed out programs as we gathered 'round at the specified time. Each girl "played" a piece. Most of them turned on one of the auto songs on the keyboard settings and pretended to play, but Lily actually surprised us by learning and memorizing Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star and playing that for us, and Kenz played the introductory song in our learn to play level 1 piano book. <br />
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The parents/big kids all watched with rapt attention</div>
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During Kenzie's piano piece these 3 girls did a little choreographed dance.</div>
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Then, just before we took the Bradbeer's to the airport, we had dinner and dessert! Twinkie had just been brought back a day or two before and our girls had never had them before, so Uncle Tommy, felt that introducing them to twinkies was a MUST. And I must say, it was a big hit!</div>
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After they left, the girls cried and cried. Matt came home from the airport with a card for us from each member of the Bradbeer family, and they were SO sweet and thoughtful, that I then bawled just as much as the girls had. I've saved all the cards, they were just perfect little reminders of why we love the Bradbeers so darn much!</div>
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The day before Matt's sister and her family left, Heather and I headed to the lake with all the kids. We all had a good time, and the girls have been begging to go back.</div>
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Brax trying to see how far he can make it sprinting before wiping out.</div>
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My girls used a more tentative approach.</div>
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Here is Kate discovering SAND. And MY! What a wonderful discovery!</div>
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These next couple pictures happened while I wasn't watching, it wasn't until I went through Heather's pics that I realized Kate had decided to sample the lake water. Nice. And by "nice", I mean super, super gross.</div>
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As you can see, the sand was a hit. It was also EVERYWHERE. I don't think I need to get much more descriptive than that. I am sure you get it. Fun times for mom!</div>
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This next sequence is Brax carrying around Lily while they "keep away" from Langley, who is "it". Lily isn't a very good swimmer yet (parenting fail on my part), so in the deep spots she's got to be close to a big kid or grown up. Brax is usually great with her.</div>
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Running from Langley!!</div>
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Here's where he realizes how close she is to getting him...and decides to dump the extra weight.</div>
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Lily was pretty shocked at the unceremonious dump, and came to shore for a while, feeling slightly traumatized. I felt bad for her...but also had to laugh a little.</div>
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And as you can see, after chilling in the shallows for a while and collecting herself, she was fine!</div>
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Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08156248181944922989noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5983042876808293951.post-59223118137709903942013-08-07T20:07:00.001-07:002013-08-07T20:07:46.983-07:00Bowling with the Bradbeers<div style="text-align: center;">
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So a month or 2 before the Bradbeers came to visit I came across a great Groupon for bowling here in town. $29 for 2 hours of bowling, including shoes, for 5 people, plus a large pizza and 2 pitchers of soda. So dinner and 2 hours of bowling for 30 bucks! My family purchased one right away. As a full-time student family we have to really limited our "fun money". And by fun money, I mean money that literally just doesn't exist, and that we just don't spend. But every six months or so, if the right deal comes along that seems like it will be worth it to make fun family memories, I feel like I have to take it. It seemed like this would be fun to do while Matt's sister's family was in town, so I let her know about the Groupon, and she purchased one for her family as well. It ended up being a really fun night. I was a little exhausted, hot, and sweaty, and pretty sunburned after spending several hours during the day doing yard work, with my trusty nephew as my helper, but I had a blast anyway!</div>
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I love this shot of Tom and Matt making the exact same expressions, "Now look here. We take this bowling seriously, Missy!"</div>
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Kate's victory dance moves! Victory dances are MANDATORY if you wanna bowl with us. As are bowling names.</div>
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I feel like to make it fair, everyone else should have had to harness a bowling ball to their tummies and then try to look cool while bowling, just to make the pregnant lady feel better. :)</div>
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More dance moves</div>
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Pizza and rootbeer?! What more could a kid ask for?</div>
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As I am sure you can tell by these pictures, not only to we all have super sweet dance moves, but we had a blast!</div>
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So, these 2 events didn't happen on the same day, or really even close together at all, but for picture quantity control and also to benefit my laziness in trying to rush through the rest of the "Bradbeer Family Visit" posts I am lumping them together.</div>
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Our YMCA has 3 different pool areas + a resistance whirlpool area + a big waterslide + a large hot tub. Which makes it a really fun place to go. Since it's Minnesota the whole get up is indoors and heated year round. Not having to lather kids up in sunscreen is a win for me!</div>
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One of the pool areas in a wade in/beach sloped area that <em>very</em> gradually deepens to about 4 feet-ish (I think). In the shallows there are a few different fun water spraying fountains and a ducky slide. Kate is obsessed with the ducky slide. It's in a shallow enough area that she can go down all by herself and she will literally do this over and over again for hours if we let her. She LOVES it.</div>
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The below picture is a perfect representation of every time we take Izzie swimming. We always make them practice floating on their back, holding their breath underwater, and kicking to the side. However, Izzie hates this. LOATHES it in fact. It is awful. She likes to be in the water, but does NOT want to be splashed, feel out of control, and especially doesn't like to get her head wet. It's no fun. But we always tell her that if she isn't willing to learn to be safe and to try and learn to swim, then she can't get in the water. She always commits to doing the exercises. However, when the time comes, it is DRAMA.</div>
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Kate on the other hand, loves the water. To the point that it makes me nervous. She doesn't hesitate to stick her head under, splash water on herself, or try anything new. One day, I'm sure it'll be to her advantage. Until she learns to be a great swimmer, her fearlessness will always make me apprehensive.</div>
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Later the next week Heather and the kids and I (minus Langley, she was having a rough day and so she missed out on the outing) went off to a free park/zoo area about 15 minutes from my house. It's a much smaller zoo then the Como Zoo (the free zoo we went to in Minneapolis), but it is a great little zoo and we all had fun! </div>
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The kids all especially loved feeding goats</div>
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Some of the animals pictured below are: cow, wolf, coyote, fox, prairie dog, badger, pony, donkey, 2 different types of eagles, a couple types of owls, hawk, chickens, beaver, owl, bob cat. Those aren't the order of the pictures in the collage, but you get the idea of some of the fun animals that are there.</div>
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After we finished at the zoo, we went to the park area and had a picnic lunch and played for a while.</div>
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Both outings to the Y and to the Zoo/Park, were great little half day outings that enjoyed us to spend some time at home, but also get out and do something fun each day.</div>
Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08156248181944922989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5983042876808293951.post-33178412224889252202013-08-03T09:41:00.002-07:002013-08-03T09:41:59.162-07:00Downtown Mayo Clinic with the Bradbeers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
The day after our Minneapolis adventure I was really worn out, and Miss Lily was still feeling pretty sick, so I opted to stay home and make my friend Jill a birthday cake while Matt took all the Bradbeer crew and showed them around downtown. </div>
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He took them into the anesthesia lab and showed them some of what he does everyday.</div>
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Afterward they got yummy frozen yogurt in the subway.</div>
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<br />Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08156248181944922989noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5983042876808293951.post-28901536273603044522013-07-23T11:33:00.000-07:002013-07-23T11:33:45.209-07:00Minneapolis with the Bradbeers<div style="text-align: center;">
We took a fun trip up to Minneapolis and squeezed as much as we could in to a very long, very fun day. Unfortunately Lily started feeling really sick around 4pm and was pretty miserable for the rest of the day, but we managed to make it work. Here are the highlights!</div>
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<strong><u><span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: large;">The Como Zoo</span></u></strong></div>
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The Como Zoo is a FREE zoo up in the cities. It is really great, and though it was HOT, we all had a great time!</div>
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Kate's favorite was the polar bears, she really, really loves them!</div>
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The two monkeys below were fighting/wrestling/playing King of the Hill. There was a huge crowd watching them and they were very funny/entertaining. The kids especially loved it.</div>
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Poor Kate must've brushed against something because she had a horrible reaction to something. Everywhere on her arms and legs that was exposed broke out in a red rash/hives/welts. Luckily I happened to have children's Benadryl on me, so we gave her some, and gave her a baby wipe bath. After a few hours they went away. It was pretty bizarre, and we didn't think to take a picture. I still have no idea what caused the reaction.</div>
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Blowing dandelions, waiting for the shuttle</div>
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Some of the animals</div>
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After the Zoo, we headed over to the Science Center, which is a really cool place! Here are the highlights!</div>
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<span style="color: black;">We had a GREAT time at the Science Museum. It was really wonderful. Unfortunately about halfway through Lily crashed hard. Shivers/aches/exhaustion, the whole nine years. We ended up putting her in Kate's stroller where she laid comatose for the last hour, poor thing. If it'd just been our family, we definitely would have left and taken her home to bed, but since it was the Bradbeer's one day in Minneapolis, she was a trooper and hung out. I felt pretty bad for her, but we gave her meds and let her fade in and out in the stroller and she was a total champ. It just came out of nowhere and hit her hard.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The kids got to weight themselves on a scale that showed them how heavy they were compared to different fish in the Mississippi river</span></div>
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View of the Mississippi from the Museum windows</div>
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Seeing just how heavy and hard to reel in those 60 pound fish are</div>
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Kate was so funny about this baby dear. There was a little baby deer in this interactive kids section and she sat on the ground next to it and hugged if fiercely for probably 15-20 minutes. She couldn't be pulled away from it.</div>
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After the Museum, we went to IKEA for dinner, because we needed a few things. The Bradbeer's ate with us then walked next door to do the Nickelodeon Universe theme park in the Mall of America while we did our Ikea shopping. We finished a little before them, but by then it was well past our kid's bedtime, so we just sat in the car, in the blessed air conditioning, for a few minutes and all rested after the LONG, hot, busy day. The Bradbeers came out, all thoroughly invigorated with big smiles after having a blast riding rides. </div>
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Then we made the hour and 15 minute drive home!</div>
Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08156248181944922989noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5983042876808293951.post-42145502330136477702013-07-22T13:15:00.002-07:002013-07-22T13:29:11.620-07:00Fun with the Bradbeers, Part 1...of MANYSo as you may have noticed in my previous posts, Matt's sister and her family came to stay with us for 2 weeks, we had a TON of fun! They left this weekend, and left me with over THREE THOUSAND pictures to sort through. That's a LOT people. Ain't nobody got time for that!<br />
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I managed to whittle the pics down to just under a thousand, but that is clearly still quite a lot. I am slowly going to be making my way through what makes it on the blog, so I've decided to post as I go, probably making SEVERAL posts about the fun times that we had while they were here. I'll do my best to keep the posts reasonably short and entertaining, but be prepared for picture overload!</div>
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As my last post mentioned we found out our baby would be little girl #4 right after they got here.<br />
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I've had several people ask me how my pregnancy is going thus far, so I thought I'd put in a quick note about that. I am doing pretty well now that I've passed the halfway point. I was ridiculously sick in the beginning. My wonderful mom was here to help and I desperately needed it! Throwing up was pretty much constant and I was feeling horrid. In the very beginning I had some bleeding and a lot of cramping for a few weeks before it cleared up. I went into the clinic several times a week for the first few months for "infusion therapy", AKA getting IV fluids and meds. I was usually gone for several hours at a time, so it was REALLY nice to have my mom here to watch the kids, so that I wasn't having to find a baby sitter for that amount of time several times a week. By the end of the first few months I felt like a human pin cushion.</div>
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At one point I really wanted to take a picture of my arms, they were a bruised mess from my hands to my biceps, like probably around 7 bruised old IV sites on each arm. I really wish that I would have documented it, I just felt too crappy at the time to really care enough to take a picture. The nice thing about it staying FREEZING here until June is that I was able to wear long sleeves every day to try and cover them up. I had IVs in places that I literally didn't know it was possible to have. But, I survived and since I started (mostly) feeling better, (I'm still taking over the counter meds, but only vomiting occasionally) I have been eating non-stop and packing on the pounds. In general, I am not someone who enjoys being pregnant. I LOVE having babies and would do whatever it takes to get them here, but the actually pregnancy period is usually a pretty hard and miserable time for me. That being said, it's WAY better than it was a couple months ago, and I am just so happy to be able to have another baby, that I try not to complain.</div>
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And back to our fun with cousins! Here's what we were up to the first couple days.</div>
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Backyard fun!</div>
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Matt taught Brax how to make homemade pizza.</div>
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He even used basil from our garden!</div>
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We all went to Lily's Tball game</div>
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This picture below of both my girls lying on Uncle Tommy perfectly sums up how they spent most of the week. They're all completely smitten with Uncle Tommy!</div>
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We all had fun cheering for Lily and playing at the park!</div>
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...NOTHER girl!! And we simply could not be more excited!</div>
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<strong><em>TOMORROW</em></strong> (EEK!) I will post after we find out the gender of "Baby Earl"! It will be an exciting post, but in the meantime, I figured I better get caught up. Not only will we have that big announcement, but later today Matt's wonderful sister and her family of 6 will get here to visit for 2 weeks! I probably won't get many opportunities to blog while they're here, so I thought I would get us caught through today, so that in a few weeks I'm not too behind. We've had a count down going for 2 weeks for the Bradbeer family visit, an last weekend after we told the girls about the baby, we added a count down to find out the gender.</div>
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We were all pretty excited to change the count downs this morning!</div>
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Last weekend (and this weekend, and probably the one before that too, I can't remember that far back) Matt had to spend Saturday at school, which was kind of hard on me because we had a house full of REALLY sick kids and I was feeling crummy and exhausted. However, he came home Saturday night and made dinner, homemade white pizza with basil from our very own garden!! It was our first time getting to eat something out of our garden and it was so exciting (and really, really yummy. I mean seriously, look at that pizza. It was SO good.)</div>
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Matt really cracks me up with his garden obsession. He has really fallen in love with it, the first thing he does when he wakes up in morning (And I do mean the FIRST, like before he goes pee) is go out on the deck and see if anything new has blossomed, if it's a weekend and he is home he is out there several times during the day, watering, weeding, checking to see if anything new is happening. The kids are also super excited about the garden, but I think Matt has them beat. It's very cute.</div>
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Just in case you thought I was exaggerating my halo of hair frizz and my need to braid, here is a day that I wore my hair in a bun fresh out of the shower, it was smooth and combed tight at the beginning of the day, by noon it looked like this. And honestly, this was a pretty good day, because I was home with sick kids (which is why I didn't bother trying to actually fix/braid/put product in it) so it's not as noticeable frizz as it would be if I had been outside, but you get the idea. If I wear my hair down and curly, it's not too noticeable, but as a busy mom, in the heat and humidity, I usually want it up. And so I end up with some kind of braid/twist, or else walk around looking like this. Super attractive. Gotta love humid weather (no, I really, <em>really</em> don't, unless I'm at the beach, then it's perfectly acceptable, otherwise, no thanks!).</div>
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My poor kids got hit so hard with this cough/cold. It was miserable. Managing fevers meant waking up several times a night and writing down who got what meds when, since we had to piggy back Tylenol and Motrin, otherwise their fevers wouldn't stay below 103. It was a ROUGH 2 weeks. Made rougher by Matt being really busy, and both Matt and I getting sick ourselves. The kids were understandably clingy, whiny, and miserable with no appetite and short tempers. Not gonna lie, I came really close to a complete, exhausted, and massive breakdown several days. I held myself together knowing if I let myself go there it would be an 'ugly cry', & an unproductive mess. But MAN! Sometimes it is really mentally/emotionally/physically draining to be a mom.</div>
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On the fourth of July Izzie was still incredibly sick, she slept in until 9AM!!! This is by far the latest that any of my kids have ever slept. I mean that is at least 3 hours later than normal, then she came upstairs, laid on the couch, asked for water, and fell right back asleep for another hour. It was crazy. So, needless to say, our 4th of July was a subdued one. </div>
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She perked up after I got her to eat some yogurt, and I gave her a shower, after her fever finally broke (for the first time...it ended up happening several times) and she was drenched in sweat, like she looked like she ran through the sprinklers, so the shower was really necessary, even though she really didn't want one. As a reward afterward I let the big girls take turns playing on daddy's kindle while I painted their toes. We weren't doing much of our usual 4th of July festivities, and we had missed all of the fun Rochester Fest parades/events due to everyone being sick, so I tried to think of fun things we could do while resting at home.</div>
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Matt was "on call" on the fourth of July, so he had to spend the day at the hospital. He got home just in time to barbeque dinner, it was nothing special, just standard cheap/easy 4th of July stuff, turkery burgers/dogs, fruit & veggies but we all enjoyed it, Izzie even ate a few bites.</div>
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Kate was napping when I painted the other girl's toes and she felt left out, so I painted hers during dinner.</div>
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After dinner we did sparklers. Izzie wasn't really interested, but Kate and Lily loved it.</div>
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It's always interesting when Matt takes my picture, I asked him to take the above shot of me, and he did, I made a silly face for the next picture, but when I uploaded the pictures I realized he had just taken the second picture of my boobs. Thanks honey!</div>
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Matt's Grandma gave me a big tub full of fabric a couple years ago, and I have gotten lots of projects out of it, with LOTS more to spare. I made the girl's Easter dresses with it, and my mom made a beautiful dress for Lily while she was here (I don't have a picture of it, I'll have to rectify that at some point), and these were also made from it. The bottom is red with white polka dots, but it's kind of hard to tell in the picture. I thought they worked well as 4th of July dresses, and they all wore them to church yesterday. I will admit that everyone but Lily is still in some stage of getting better, but it had been a few weeks since we all went to church together and we felt the need to press on and get there.</div>
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If you're from AZ, I am sure that you have heard much about the Yarnell fire. 18 firefighters tragically lost their lives. My Grama St. George has a home there, and I used to spend summers there with her and my Papa while he was alive. Initially we were told that her home had completely burned. It was heartbreaking. Here is my facebook status from that morning (sorry for those of you on FB who have already seen this, but there are people who read my blog who actually aren't on FB (!), and I also feel it's good to document everything here as well, but I am kind of lazy so it's easier to copy and paste...) </div>
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<em>I found out this morning that in addition to the 19 firefighters who tragically lost their lives fighting the Yarnell fire (near Prescott AZ), my Grandma St. George lost her home in the fire. I am so happy that she is safe and well, but my <span class="text_exposed_show">heart feels heavy thinking about the lives lost, precious possessions destroyed, and countless lives impacted by this tragedy. One of my favorite places to climb rocks, see fish, and spend time with my grandparents and siblings as a child is completely gone, it was a place that always felt like magic to me, a great little mountain town where adventure was plentiful, hiking and exploring was encouraged, TV was scarce, and the mountains felt alive with life and possibilities. To imagine it turned to ash hurts my heart.</span></em></div>
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<span class="text_exposed_show">We have found out since then that only a small portion of her property burned, though her neighbors on both sides completely lost their homes. It is a miraculous blessing, and I was so happy to hear that some of my papa's possessions were saved. Thinking of it all destroyed felt a little like losing him again. However, there is still so much loss for the people of that community. Lots of people lost absolutely everything, many children lost their fathers, wives lost their husbands, and parents lost their young firefighter sons. Such a tragic event is felt by people everywhere, but when you actually know those neighbors and have walked through those trees its seems all the more terrible.</span></div>
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On a less somber note, I transitioned the crib into a toddler bed for Katie last week. She has done WAY better than I expected with it, though we do find her bed heaped with toys every morning/post nap time. She loves her "big girl bed" and loves to be in it. I wanted to get her used to sleeping in a bed, since when the baby comes, she'll move in with her sister.</div>
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In addition to getting Kate moved into her "new" bed, and getting the house ready for our visitors, I also prepped our gender reveal stuff. I made a blue option and a pink option, and decided to do something more fun to tell the kids if it will be a brother/sister than just telling them since they aren't allowed to attend the ultrasound with us. I made some pink & blue confetti, then stuffed it in a black balloon. After we find out what we are having (and after Matt takes 2 exams-he'll head there straight from the ultrasound, I'll wait and see the Dr, then wait for him to finish his exams, then) we'll blow up either the pink balloon or the blue balloon, bring it home and let the girls pop it, <em>hopefully</em> showering them in the appropriate colored confetti. We haven't done a test run to see exactly how the confetti pop turns out, so hopefully it's not a flop!</div>
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Matt elected to take his "summer vacation", which is really just a one week break from school (and actually school still happens he's just excused) during the week that his sister and her family are here. After the past few weeks I've had, I am SO excited/relieved/happy to have him home. Like I stated in the above paragraph, he still has to go in and take 2 exams (and consequently study for them), but it is going to be AMAZING to have him around this week!!</div>
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We have waited pretty long to make an announcement about this, we didn't tell Matt's parents or our siblings until after our first trimester, obviously we didn't tell our kids until 2 days ago, and this is our first public announcement! (My mom was here when we got pregnant and stayed the first couple of months while I was incredibly sick, so she knew, but that's about it) Because I have adenomyosis (I wrote a post about it a few months ago, you can <a href="http://jennerationearl.blogspot.com/2013/04/rounding-out-march.html" target="_blank">read it here</a>), this pregnancy is pretty much a miracle and we have been really tentative about sharing the information with anyone, because of the increased risk that we might miscarry. Losing this baby would have been really hard on us, and we haven't wanted to share the news so that if that <em>were</em> to happen, we would have some time privately to come to grips with it. However, my stomach around 16 weeks/4 months along just acted like a pop up tent, said "oh, this old thing", and went from relatively flat to a pot belly and over the past couple of weeks my belly has gotten harder and harder to conceal. I busted out the maternity clothes this week, and have decided it's time to embrace the belly! Also, now that I am able to feel the baby moving every day, it's a great comfort to me, and helps me feel better about sharing.</div>
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That being said, I'm not going to be posting about it on Facebook, until after our ultrasound next week (on Tuesday the 9th), when we see that everything is OK at the "halfway point" ultrasound, then I'll feel ready to make the pregnancy "Facebook public". <span style="font-size: large;"> <strong><em><u>So I'm not linking to this post, or mentioning it on Facebook,</u></em></strong></span> but I felt like the couple of devoted friends/family members who actually read my blog faithfully should get this information before the Facebook world. However, I'll trust that you won't splatter the news on my wall or timeline, at least not until after I make the official announcement. :)</div>
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It's been so fun to have the girls know the past couple of days, they are so excited and much more understanding of my sickness/exhaustion. You can already see how much they love the baby, and they keep making sure I'm alright and the baby is alright. It warms my heart every time. Right now, both Lily & Iz think it's a girl. Kate still firmly believes/wants it to be a kitten, but if you insist it's going to be a brother or sister and NOT a cat, she'll tell you it's a boy. We'll find out if it is indeed a kitty or a brother or sister one week from today! What about YOU? What do you think? <strong><span style="color: magenta;">Pink</span> or <span style="color: blue;">Blue</span></strong>?</div>
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I had kids going through the sick bug rotation the first 2 weeks of summer break, which was a bummer! They'd been healthy for several months coming out of winter, but they went down like domino's, and took their time coming back up. It was made even more frustrating by the fact that the weather was FINALLY fantastic. We went outside briefly each day, to get some fresh air, enjoy the sunshine, and a homemade juice popsicle, but if we were out for very long, they'd start coughing and getting runny noses (even worse than normal). We did our best to enjoy the sunshine and still get healthy.</div>
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As soon as they started feeling better, we busted out the sprinkler, water balloons, and kiddie pool. So much summer fun! Hooray!!</div>
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Father's Day rolled around. This year I went easy on breakfast since we have early church, I bought some muffins, turn overs, and doughnut balls from the store (because I knew there was no way I was getting up early enough to cook), had an array of berries and fresh fruit and whipped up some scrambled cheesy eggs. All quick stuff that can be ready in just a few minutes. We got it ready, set out the presents and woke up Daddy (he got to sleep in until 7).</div>
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This year each of the girls picked out a grilling tool to work with our little portable camping grill (because we had no grilling utensils), they had cheap ones for $1 each, so it worked out perfectly.<br />
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Since we are poor students I decided to do a craft out of stuff we had at the house already.</div>
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<strong>Here is my completely unsolicited advice on doing framed crafts for cheap.</strong> I have a pad of watercolor paper, I picked it up, several months ago, at JoAnn's or Hobby Lobby (I can't remember which) on sale for about 4 bucks. It has 200, 11x15 sheets. So, 4 bucks for 200 paintings/projects is a pretty good buy. If you have a 40 or 50 percent off coupon, you can get any quality/size of a paper pad for really cheap. I have a whole stock of paints, so that for me didn't cost anything (recently at least), I've bought up a couple colors for various project over the years, so now I have pretty much all the colors. I recommend getting the big bottles of acrylic craft paint. Get white, black, brown and the primary colors to start with, then you can mix your own colors, but it doesn't cost much to build up a pretty good stock. We use these paints for lots of our projects (like painting pumpkins for Halloween, painting on wood, Lettering for the kids rooms, etc). As far as frames go, here is what I do, <u>DON'T buy them new!</u> (Unless of course you need a matching set of frames, or are framing something expensive, that you need something particular for). But I always buy them used for fun projects/kids art/my art. Go to a DI/Goodwill/Thrift Store and look at their framed art. There is usually a whole section of framed art, with frames in decent condition, glass intact. Usually the art is pretty bad, but that's not important. I buy frames for the mat, or because I like the size/shape. The frame I used was a great size, but it was old wood, not in great shape. It has a framed picture with a good mat. I am sure I will reuse the mat on another project. So for $1.99 (it unfortunately wasn't a 50% off day) I got a 12x16 sturdy wood frame, with decent glass and a great mat. Not bad! Because I buy up frames whenever there's something I like, I already had this at home. I simply took out the mat, a GREAT thing is that LOTS of generic framed art comes with a mat <em>and</em> also a plain white piece of sturdy cardstock behind it. In this case, I painted the edge of the white cardstock orange and used it as my "mat". Then, I just put the original mat behind it to store the mat safely until I find a use for it. Here is the back of the finished product. Someday, I'll need a blue mat, and I'll have this one just ready to go :)</div>
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Anyway, I painted the frame with black acrylic, stuck in the art work, and in and hour had a nice little Father's Day gift made with stuff that we already had on hand.</div>
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That night we had a great Father's Day feast! We had rolls, mashed potatoes, cooked carrots, and we used our new grill utensils to grill chicken, steak, hot dogs, asparagus, and squash. It all turned out really, really, good. I only wish that there had been more leftovers. They went pretty fast!</div>
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Summer time is finally in full swing, and I love it! However, my hair does NOT. We usually seem to have at least 80% humidity, and my hair gets SO frizzy and unmanageable. My only solution is to put a lot of product in and BRAID. So, it's some kind of braid for me almost every single day. Otherwise I get a little halo of flyaway hair that sticks straight out all around my head. It's <em>super </em>attractive. Anyway, I have started getting more creative and looking for new, fun, <em>adult</em> looking braids. Below is an example, if you every come across a cool way to braid, email me, tag me, whatever. Just show it to me. My hair (and my vanity) will thank you!</div>
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Speaking of summer time, last night Lily had her first ever Tball game! It actually started last week, but she was still sick so we missed it. It made me feel, once again, that I am getting old as a parent. And it made me feel like she is getting so big! As I French braided her hair and saw her grab her glove and get ready to go, I was overwhelmed with how fast she's growing up. A few weeks ago, she had never used a glove, and had no idea about running bases, or really how Tball worked at all. Over the past 2 weeks, we've practiced throwing, catching, batting, and running. She has worked hard, had fun, and gotten so much better! Because it's just a summer rec league and not a real, fancy (read expensive) league, they just practice for 20 minutes before the game, play against another team, for a certain amount of time, and don't keep score. So I've just worked with her at home here and there, and she has caught on so fast and I am so proud of her. She loved it, and she did a really great job.</div>
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Kate was a great cheerleader, complete with yelling "Go Lily!" clapping, jumping up and down, and doing some pretty sweet cheerleader moves that I still have no idea where she picked up.</div>
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Getting her first hit!</div>
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Isabel wanted to play (she can next year!), but was such a good sport about watching, and cheering, and staying put for the hour we were there.</div>
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Here is Lily about to catch this pop up that came right to her while she was playing in the pitcher's position.</div>
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Then she threw it just where she was supposed to (she's actually not the only lefty on her team, there's another left handed girl as well), GO LILY!</div>
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As soon as Lily started walking over, Kate ran to hug her. She was so proud of Lily and really did enjoy watching and cheering. I was the first base coach while Lily's team batted and Kate really wanted to go out there with me, she was a good sport about staying with Daddy though.</div>
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She had so much fun and was so happy after the game.</div>
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Here are her sisters telling her, "Good Job!!"</div>
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I should've taken a picture when we went to the movies for Kate's FIRST TIME EVER and Lily and Izzie's second time. The movie theater closest to our house has a great thing they do, every Saturday morning they show a FREE kids movie. So we finally decided to check it out and it was FANTASTIC! It was totally free, in fact they had a guy in a dragon suit passing out little suckers to the kids so it was free plus a little treat, and all the girls sat so quietly and really loved the movie. It was How to Train Your Dragon and it was all of our first time seeing it. It was a fun family outing and we will definitely go again!</div>
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The last week of school Isabel had an adorable end of the school year program. She has LOVED being in Headstart so much, and it has been so great for her!</div>
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All of us girls came to support her!</div>
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Afterward, she got to show us around her classroom. She loved showing us all her of favorite things!</div>
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Lily's teacher did a really cute thing where all the kids got to sign a beach ball for each student, it says "I had a BALL in Kindergarten 2012-2013", and all her class mates signed it, so cute!</div>
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The girl's last day of school was the same day. They came home around the same time and were so excited to get to spend all day everyday together over summer break! Woohoo!! Let the summer time party begin!</div>
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The last day of school was a big day at our house. It was the last day for both Iz and Lily and it was also the last full day that my mom would be here. My mom has been staying with us for a while, helping me/taking care of me and the girls while I've been under the weather. It was a big sacrifice on her part to be so far from home and her other responsibilities for 2.5 months, but it was SUCH a huge blessing for me and my family. I am pretty terrible at saying, "I need help", luckily I have good mom who was willing to come out and stay until she was satisfied that I'd be OK without her. We all enjoyed having her here. The girls all adore her, and so do Matt and I. Katie and her have especially wrapped each other around their fingers and she is feeling "BlaBla"s absence the most, although it's been quite an adjustment for all of us. I would try to express my gratitude for her, but I feel like anything I say doesn't even begin to cover it. She's served me in a way that I needed. It's humbling, and makes me want to cry, so let me just clear my throat and move on.</div>
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The last day of school also marked the 4 year anniversary of my Grandpa passing away. Other than my husband, my Grandpa is my favorite person ever. Matt knew when he married me that he would always be in competition with my Grandpapa for the #1 place in my heart. I suppose it's probably similar to how most little girls feel about their dads. He and my GG are such a huge part of who I am. I think about him all the time, wear at least part of one of his perfectly worn in sweat suits every week, and feel his presence in my heart. I think of songs he'd love, books he'd read, what he'd say about the state of my lawn, or the level of my service, and more than anything else, jokes he'd love/wise cracks he's make if he were here. Growing up my Grandpa made me feel like I was special, smart, talented, and had so much potential. He gave me more confidence in who I was than anyone else ever has. It's still my ambition to make him proud of me. This day I called my beloved GG and talked to her, as I often do, and as I always do when the anniversary of my Grandpa's death rolls around. In fact, over the past 3 years I have always coordinated a visit home with this day, so that I could bring flowers and share my love with her. As I talked with her on the phone this year, I realized how especially hard this year was for her, and my heart hurt that there wasn't more I could do. It was the first day since we've been here that I really ached to be home. I miss my Grandma, and I miss my grandpa. AACCHHHHEMM. Clear my throat one more time. GEEZ! I swear I must be<em> trying</em> to get myself to cry here!</div>
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<em>To celebrate Grandma being here one more night and the end of the school year, I made a cake, and to honor my beloved Grandpa I made it a lemon cake with lemon sauce. I thought I was doing OK, but I will admit that some tears might have made their way into the batter, as I smelled the lemon and was overwhelmed by the gratitude and love I feel towards my Grandparents. It's been an emotional day, and I can't even think about how I'll feel after putting my mom on a plane tomorrow!</em> </div>
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Kate is my first child to REALLY be into the princess thing. She wants to be 'pretty' and wear a dress every single day. She insists on wearing a dress and says, "Me little princess!" She also loves dress up high heel shoes and anything pink or sparkly. I have to convince her that any regular shoes are 'special princess shoes', or a 'special princess shirt' in order to get her to wear them. She is WAY more opinionated about what bow goes in her hair, which shoes she wears, etc than either of my other girls were at this age. She is super confident and loves being a girly girl. Everything is one big party for her and we are all just her guests.</div>
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This particular Sunday morning we had a near 40 minute (screaming, crying) battle of wills when I 'forced' her to wear a dress from her closet and refused to let her wear the dress that Lily was already wearing (and was 4 sizes too big). She definitely thinks she should always be the boss, most of the time she is a hilarious delight, but every so often the law has to be laid down and mommy has to assert the fact that "Princess Katie" as she calls herself, doesn't actually rule over our kingdom. <span style="font-size: x-small;">Anyone who knows me well knows that I <em>do<strong> not</strong></em> put up with screaming temper tantrums. I will sit in a room by myself with a screaming kid on my lap all day until they are willing to have a good attitude, if I have to. The harder they push, the more determined I become. All kids, especially 2 and 3 year olds try it out, some with more determination and gusto than others, but my real pet peeve is when I see parents give in to their kid's fits in order to take the easy road or appease them or keep the peace. I realize that all parents, especially in certain situations, do what they can to avoid a total meltdown, but I am a firm believer in leaving the store mid-shopping trip, missing that fun outing, going home mid-party, type of serious consequences for kids who think that fit throwing is an acceptable tool of communication/manipulation. Sorry, rant over. I just see so many kids get away with rotten behavior while their parents shrug their shoulders and say "what can you do?" without taking the time to teach them how to communicate and what is acceptable behavior. Not only is it annoying, but I think it's setting those kids up to have a harder time making friends and having successful relationships. OK, now my rant really is over.</span> Of course at the end of the day she wanted to sleep in her pretty "Cinderella dress" and didn't want to take it off. (BIG SIGH) I have a feeling that there will never be a dull moment with this girl.</div>
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We got our little container garden going, and we have lots of little plants growing more and more every day! It's fun to watch and the girls love to check and see how much they've grown every day.</div>
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We enjoyed having everybody home for about half a day and then the end of the school year germs hit us. Izzie came down with a nasty cough and sore throat first, Lily followed suit 2 days later, and last night Kate went down. So we are celebrating our first week of summer vacation this week by staying in our jammies and watching movies, playing games, and laying under the couch fort. Not exactly off to a bang up start, but I am still excited for summer!</div>
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Some of my favorite summer stuff: SUNSHINE!, fresh juicy peaches, pears, berries, and melons, watching our garden grow, popsicles, smoothies, anything cooked on a grill, sprinklers, kiddie pools, water balloons, drawing on the sidewalk with chalk, summer squash, corn on the cob, evening walks, lemonade, flip flops, kids home all day, day trips, and the general consensus that it's OK to spend a day doing nothing productive as long as you have lots of FUN!</div>
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What are you favorite things about summer?</div>
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Matt made me some flowers for Mother's Day, and gave me some scented candles which is a BIG DEAL! <em>Ummm....little cheap scented candles aren't really a big deal.... </em>is probably what you just thought, but I LOVE scented candles. I love to buy them, I love to smell them, I love to burn them in every room of the house, I love to take baths with them lining the tub. And let's just say when Matt and I got married he was <em>astonished</em> by the quantity of scented candles that I owned. Then after a couple of years of marriage, he put out a ban. I was no longer allowed to buy any scented candles. Ever. Or any other candles for that matter, until every single candle we already owned was completely burned down and thrown away. So over the past 7 years, I haven't bought any candles (yes, I really owned that many). Sure, as a woman I have been gifted them by other people relatively regularly, and each time received much ridicule and eye rolling from Matt. After this move, I realized that I only had a couple scented candles (I still have some unscented tea lights and a few other decorative candles)! They are the big giant scented candles though, that take quite a while to burn through. I was happy though that I no longer had a big box (or two...) as has been the case for years. And I was thrilled at the prospect of walking into the candle section and smelling all the candles, searching for delicious new scents. However, I knew it would still take quite a while to burn through the 3 giant ones I still had. So anyway, Matt buying me candles, while I still have a few left, is a BIG DEAL, coming from him. Because he hates them (not really, but as he teases me, it's kind of morphed into him hating them). And it's become one of those things that didn't start out that big of a deal, but has become bigger over they years, and kind of an inside joke between us. So I was blown away when he gave me candles and I laughed and laughed, because I knew that it was a big pill for him to swallow, and I knew he did it as a joking peace offering. But considering it took 7 years of not buying any candles (and even having to throw some away that were ruined in our many AZ moves), he was probably pretty justified in making me use up my boxes and boxes of candles. But it's nice to have a variety of smelling options for my different moods :) And in true Jenn fashion, I just turned a tiny story into a huge paragraph. Kudos if you're still reading.</div>
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Toward the end of the 2nd week of May all the snow melted, and we actually warmed up! We had high temps in the 70's and one day we even hit 80!! The day we hit 80 was sunny and beautiful and we celebrated by getting out our swimsuits and the sprinkler! To use a reference that my friend Kristy mentioned, we Arizonians felt like Noah when the dove came back with a leaf signaling the flood was over! We were so happy for a sign that winter was over!! What bi-polar weather Minnesota has given us this Spring!</div>
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Since the one day we hit 80 degrees, it has rained almost every day including some pretty big storms (I am currently listening to the thunder rumble and the rain pound down...and finding myself with the strong desire to read Jane Austen or Harry Potter, does any one else out there feel like that during every thunderstorm? A hot bath, cup of tea or cocoa, candle light, and a book set in England...sigh), and it's been mostly cloudy and windy nearly everyday. We've gone back to our highs usually being in the 50's or 60's, and being too rainy and windy to play outside very often. <br />
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Lily's elementary school (where Iz also attends preschool) held a big fundraiser carnival and Matt and I took the 2 big girls. We had SO much fun. Although it was incredibly weird, saying hi to other parents, running into people we knew, supporting our kid's school. It made us feel old, and like we've moved on to a new phase of parenthood. It was a little strange and terrifying, but also lots of fun.</div>
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Lily's teacher volunteered to be in the dunk tank, the line to throw for the dunk tank was really long, and it was raining off and on, so much to Lily's disappointment, we didn't let her throw a ball and try to dunk her teacher, but we watched a few other kids throw and it was lots of fun! I even managed to snap a picture of her getting dunked! </div>
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Matt has a birthday at the end of May, so the girls painted pictures for him and helped me pick out some gardening tools for him.</div>
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We got an amazing package from Matt's mom in the mail, packed full of fun things for the girls (including the aprons they're wearing in the painting pictures above) and with lots of new clothes for the girls! It was like going shopping, except everything was already picked out and paid for. It was such a fun package to open, and made me once again feel so blessed for having such wonderful family.</div>
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The night before Matt's birthday I made his cake (chocolate fudge with peanut butter cream cheese mousse). I wanted to try out a new stenciling technique but it ended up not working very well, and I was too exhausted to try and fix it, or attempt to do it in a different way that I think would work better, so I ended up just piping the buttercream on in a hurry. It's not my best work, but I'm OK with that! Sundays are always extra long days, between getting everyone ready and out the door for our 9 am church (to actually be on time we have to leave here by 8:40). Sunday mornings are the only time I wish we had boys instead of girls. Doing 3 little girl's hair, figuring out which dresses they wear with which shoes, if they can wear socks, or if it's still cold enough to need to wear tights, plus getting myself ready, making sure the church bag is stocked, everyone is fed with teeth brushed, and that I have everything I need for Nursery, is lots of work. I always tell Matt, if we ever have a boy, he will be 100% Matt's responsibility on Sunday mornings! Then working in the Nursery is awesome and so much fun, but some days it's physically exhausting! We usually have between 11-13, one and a half to three year olds for 2 hours. Then we get home, rush to feed our hungry and often cranky kids lunch, then have "quiet time" for a couple hours before I start dinner. This particular Sunday I used quiet time to make strawberry mousse filled cupcakes for my visiting teaching ladies and for Matt's home teaching families and delivered them, so I missed out on having any downtime (worth it though). Then I fixed dinner and we put the kids to bed, as soon as they went down, I went to work on Matt's cake. So when it was after 9pm, and the neurotic part of me wanted to wipe his cake clean and completely re-frost it, I decided to side with the lazy part of me, that just wanted to get it done and get to bed!</div>
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The "signature" followed by RN, BSN, SRNA is kind of an inside joke with Matt and I. After he finished nursing school and got his RN license he was so proud of himself and to be funny he started signing all the notes he left me "Matt Earl, R.N." Like ALL his notes. <em>Example, "Hometeachers called, coming at 7pm tonight. -Matt Earl, R.N.</em> It became a funny little joke. Literally every valentines/birthday/mother's day card, or any other note I've received since 2007 has had this signature tag. This joke continued, and after he got his BSN, that was added to the list. Now that he is a SNRA (when he finishes and gets certified, he'll be a CRNA), that's added as well. So I thought I was being cute and clever putting it on his cake, of course I usually think I'm cuter and cleverer than anyone else does, and I'm sure that's the case here, but that's beside the point! :)</div>
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Memorial Day was an emotional day for me. Some good friends of ours, the Mangums, lost their 3.5 month old daughter very suddenly in her sleep on Wednesday the 22nd. She was their 5th child and first girl. I love my friend Taleah so very much, she is a one of a kind ball of energy and spunk, and just a great, fun, positive, kind, generous, and funny person. Her and her husband have always been one of our favorite couple friends to spend time with, when we go home to visit. When Matt played Peter Pan his first year of college, Ammon played Captain Hook and Taleah was Tigerlily. They moved away for several years, but moved back to my hometown after Matt and I were married. They were one of the first people who we spent "couples time" with, and we always had a great time, and we learned that socializing after marriage and kids was actually possible. Then after we moved, we tried to get together with them whenever we'd go home to visit family. After I heard the news I just stared at their Christmas card from this year (which I still had up...that's how I roll), and my heart just broke for them. As a mother, I couldn't imagine going through this kind of experience. They have been so strong and have held themselves with such humility, faith, and trust in the Lord, that it has touched the hearts, and strengthened the faith of all those around them. Memorial Day was the day of the funeral services, and as I woke up that morning I felt like I could clearly see what their house would look like as they prepared for the service, and I could imagine the overwhelming combination of emotions, and mostly I wished I could be there. Not that we are so close with them that my presence would make a huge impact, but that I longed to be able to support them and share my love and friendship with them in person. Poor Matt had to listen to me sob for about a half an hour on the morning of his birthday, but he was of course, super sweet about it, and I promised to shape up and celebrate the day in good spirits with our family.</div>
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I think with all of today's modern medicine and blessings of health, we sometimes forget that things like this still suddenly, and inexplicably happen. It changed my perspective and I felt humbled and blessed to be able to re-learn the lesson that life is so fragile and short, and reaffirm my gratitude for my children, and rededicate myself to making everyday count and being the best mother I can be. I think that when we are given the blessing to learn and grow closer to the Lord, through watching someone else's trial, it is such a humbling experience. My heart is filled with gratitude and love for them, and for the Lord in allowing me to not have to personally experience this type of loss but still be able to learn and grow from it, to be able to realize my blessings, and feel sincere empathy for someone else, and to be able to grow by watching their examples of faith, love, and humility.</div>
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I usually never get to see Matt in his OR getup/scrubs since he leaves home in dress clothes in the morning, then scrubs in at work, but his month I've had a couple opportunities where I was at the hospital myself and Matt was able to run over to my floor briefly and I got to see him in his white coat and scrub cap. It was weird for me and made it all seem more real! I am so proud of him and it is so strange to me to think how far he's come and to realize what he is actually doing at work!<br />
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This afternoon we'll be dropping Matt's car off at a mechanic, it's been misbehaving. It always makes me nervous to see a new mechanic. Every time we move and have to find a new one, it stresses me out. Mechanics are so different, and the experience you have from one to another varies drastically. It's always hard to find honest, quality mechanics. Here's hoping that we get lucky on the first try here in MN!</div>
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May was a busy, exciting, emotional, frustrating, exhausting, humbling month. June will bring the end of the school year for Lily and Iz, and the official start of SUMMER! To say that I am looking forward to it, is a gigantic understatement, but I'll say it anyway, I am excited for summer!!</div>
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The first week of May we got 14 inches of snow! Please excuse the fact that all my pictures are taken through windows, there was no way I was opening the doors to get a better pic!</div>
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We also got given free tickets for our family to attend a circus that was in town. The girls loved it.</div>
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The girls LOVED the tigers.</div>
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At times it was just too loud for Izzie.</div>
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Luckily for me there was only 1 clown in the whole show, and he had no face paint or wig, just floppy shoes and a ball nose. (I HATE clowns. A lot.) The girls loved him and he wasn't creepy at all, so it was a win/win for everyone!</div>
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I think everyone's favorite part was the elephant. He was really, really good.</div>
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May is also brain tumor awareness month. About a month and a half ago a friend of ours from our old ward passed away from brain cancer. He left behind a wife and 3 step-daughters. His name was Jay, and throughout his battle with cancer his friends and loved ones sported "Gray for Jay" T-shirts. May 4th is the official annual Gray for Jay day and we all wore gray (as did SO many other people who were affected by Jay and his wife Katrina's amazing example of hope, love, courage, dedication, cheerfulness, obedience, and humility) and ate Jay's favorite meal pizza and pizookies (we are poor, so we just substituted ice cream cones for a pizookie). I don't think that I would ever have the strength and humility to bear such a difficult burden as the Rasbands have with such incredible grace. They really have touched my heart and set an example that I will never forget.</div>
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The next day was Cinco de Mayo! It was a weird experience to not have Grocery stores with big Cinco de Mayo sales and displays, with Mexican food and pinatas for sale the week leading up to Cinco de Mayo, however, Matt managed to put together a nice meal of homemade shredded chicken tacos, homemade Spanish rice, black beans, olives, corn from the cob, sour cream and salsa. The best part? I fell asleep this afte<span class="text_exposed_show">rnoon and woke up to Matthew yelling, "Dinner's ready!". Can't get much better than that!</span></div>
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The other day one of my friend's Facebook status's asked, "What is your happiest childhood memory?". At the time I felt stumped, I couldn't think of a memory that I would label as my favorite, or the happiest of my childhood. But since then I've been thinking about my childhood, and about moments from my childhood that I cherish. I thought I'd make a short list for my own benefit and so that hopefully one day I'll remember to fondly tell my kids and grandkids about it.</div>
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Sitting on my Grandpa's lap in the driver's seat, on a dusty farm road, while he let me "drive". My feet were no where near the pedals, and Grandpa had us going only a couple of miles an hour, but I got to steer, and felt SO proud of myself.</div>
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Running to the pool almost everyday in the summertime, often barefoot, jumping off the smoldering sidewalk and into people's cool grass at every opportunity, and THE BEST would be if we miraculously had 50cents to stop and get a snow cone from Hawaiian Snow on the way.</div>
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Arguing with my Papa about who was gonna pay for dinner. He always called me pickle-puss, and I called him Buster.<br />
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Driving down the cemetery hill in Grandpa's big blue truck. Riding in the trunk of the car.</div>
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Every summer picking out which 2 items we were going to plant in the garden and be responsible for (I almost always chose beets and carrots), then spending early mornings or evenings at sunset digging my fingers into the cool ground pulling weeds as my siblings complained a few rows down.</div>
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Spending time at the cabin on Mt Graham, eating as many Twinkies as Grandpa could smuggle me.</div>
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Getting to paint a wall of the storage room any design I wanted (I chose a "Disco Forever" neon colored theme and drew pictures of my favorite sports. It is still on the wall of my mom's storage room to this day, a perfect portrait of my 13 year old self)</div>
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Jumping on the trampoline at Great-Grandpa Allen's house, drinking homemade rootbeer in glass bottles, playing the marble game, and riding his stationary bike.</div>
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Sleepovers at Grandma & Grandpa's. One night GG was away and Grandpa let me eat my desert before dinner, as long as I promised not to tell and I felt like it was a terrific secret between us that I cherished. Sleeping on the trundle bed in Mickey Mouse sheets, listening to Grandpa type as I fell asleep. Grandma making a full breakfast in the mornings, complete with postum to drink.</div>
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Grandma making Easter dresses every year (not to mention Halloween costumes, and play costumes)<br />
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Mom handing out cheesy family awards every year, I think I repeatedly won the "peacemaker" and "best snuggler" awards.<br />
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Christmas Traditions, the Jesus Stocking, making goodies for the neighbors, anonymously doing the 12 days of Christmas for someone every year, giving to those in need, dressing up every Christmas Eve for the Nativity.<br />
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Waiting for a cast list to go up.<br />
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Well, I said it would be a short list, and it is already too long, I am sure that to most people (other than my siblings), it probably wasn't a very interesting list. But to me, it's happiness on paper, and I'm happy to have written it down somewhere. <em><span style="font-size: x-small;">Someday, when I'm visiting my mom and I have access to her photo albums, I'll scan photos that go with each of these memories, and go back and update this so that each memory has pictures to go with. but for now, I have to make due with what I have copies of here in MN.</span></em></div>
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What about you? What are your favorite childhood memories?</div>
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<strong>Snow showers</strong> that is. Yep, it is snowing outside while I type this. Ugh. Luckily we've also had rain intermittently the last couple weeks, which quickly washes the snow build up away, but once a week or every few days, we get more snow. </div>
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Have I mentioned I'm ready for Spring?</div>
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Wow. I know. If I had a Super Hero name it would be <em>The Complaining Wonder</em>, or something like that, or maybe I'd be a villain, <em>Dr Whines-A-Lot</em>. For the most part, it's been great to have seasons and the snow has been magical...during the winter. I would just like to experience this lovely "Springtime" I've heard so much about. In Phoenix we had 2 seasons, jeans and a sweater, and shorts and a T-shirt. That was it. So I'm anxious to get to experience the season I haven't here yet (we moved in summer, got to experience an awesome fall, a white winter....and the season that people here refer to as 'still winter').</div>
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The first week of April here was Spring Break. Matt had no school or clinicals for a whole week (which will never happen again). The rain came at the beginning of the week and washed away <em>most </em>of the snow. It was still pretty cold, but we could actually see the ground!! It's been months. Unfortunately, the ground was a brown mushy sight, and all the trees are still bare, but we were hopeful that Spring might be on it's way!</div>
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Halfway through spring break, Matt's sister, Heather, flew out for 4 days. It was so fun to have her here (even though I wasn't feeling very great for 2 of the days she was here...sorry for abandoning you to your brother H!! :)</div>
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Matt and the 2 big girls and I took a quick trip to Minneapolis to pick her up at the airport there. While we were there we of course had to stop and pick up a few things at Ikea. As usual, we bribed the girls with frozen yogurt. They ate their sack lunches without complaint, and behaved while dad and I walked through Ikea, so they earned the coveted FroYo.</div>
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Then we headed over to the Mall of America, the girls had never been and we had a little time to kill before Heather's flight came in.</div>
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We told the girls that they could pick ONE ride to go on. We're poor, remember? Izzie really, really wanted the wonder pets ride, and eventually Lily agreed.</div>
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Here they are, so excited to start!</div>
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That enthusiasm quickly vanished once the ride started. Lily loved it, but Iz screamed the whole time. Feel free to laugh in the next few photos, we did. A lot. She really didn't appreciate us laughing, but seriously, how could we not?!</div>
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Lily loved this Hello Kitty hat as we browsed through the stores.</div>
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Finally we picked up Heather and took her home! We came home and quickly threw together dinner, and stayed up chatting!</div>
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The next day we took Heather and my mom downtown to check out the Mayo Campus and Matt's school buildings.</div>
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The Clinic has a series of "subways", which are underground walkways that connect all of the downtown buildings. When Matt first told me about it, I pictured long, dark, dirty hallways. Maybe that seems dramatic, but when people are walking through them in the horrible weather, I don't think they'd care much what it looks like. It's warm and they can get to any of the downtown buildings after taking a parking garage elevator, without having to go outside to brave the snow. So imagine my surprise the first time I had an appointment downtown and saw the spectacular artwork, and the clean and bright hallways!</div>
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The Gonda Building has a museum on the history of The Mayo Clinic, and in the front window they have a Pioneering Women display. As a huge feminist, I really love this display. I love that during a time when women's skills outside of house work were completely unacknowledged, the Mayo wives were essentially assisting physicians, and the first nurse anesthetists, and their husband's and sons recognized their skills. I just really admire the legacy they created.</div>
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Outside the Plummer Building, several of the bricks covering the outside have artwork etched into them. This brick is St George and the Dragon, so of course my mom and I had to pose with it!</div>
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We stopped by and took a tour of Matt's school department</div>
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Matt showed us his spot in the classroom. Apparently your seat that you pick is a big deal.</div>
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He showed us the lab</div>
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Even the drinking fountains were fancy, which really impressed Lily, she requested her portrait be captured with one.</div>
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We took the girls in to see what we lovingly call "The Hogwart's Library"</div>
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Then we went down to a free zoo that's about 15 minutes outside of town. I love how much stuff is free here in Minnesota. That is definetly a midwest thing, and I sure appreciate it!</div>
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Several of the animals were still hibernating, but there were enough out and about to make the trip worth it.</div>
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And it even snowed a little while Heather was here. These AZ girls were so excited to see it falling that I had to laugh at them!</div>
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It was general conference weekend while Heather was here so we didn't get out to do much (plus over the weekend, I was feeling pretty crummy), but Heather did treat me to Five Guys on my way to drop her at the airport. If you know me, you know that this is an occasion worth documenting. I am a burger and fries girl to my core!</div>
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After Spring Break ended and Heather went home, we tried to get back in the swing of things. Matt started back in school, doing 5 days a week in the OR. Lily and Izzie went back to school, and Kate wen back to being spoiled by Grandma! Kate's fully invested in a dress up phase. She wants to be a princess 100% of the time.<br />
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Grandma also helped the girls make some finger puppet gloves that Nana sent for Easter, they had to be assembled and hot glued, so I was grateful that Grandma BlaBla stepped in to help the girls get them done. They are a huge hit and we've watched LOTS of puppet shows!<br />
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I had a birthday and Matt made me a birthday cake!! It was his first ever attempted at cake making and I am pretty proud of him! Awesome drops for him!<br />
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My sister in law, Janeal, sent me the BIGGEST bday present filled with treats and beauty products (not pictured are things like, lotion, body scrub, etc). Seriously, I cannot believe how packed full the package was and it arrived the afternoon of my birthday. It was perfect!<br />
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Me saying, "She knows me SO WELL!!"<br />
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The kids were excited about the ring pops, and they went great with the tiara she sent.<br />
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Perfect for me!<br />
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My mom brought me a gift and the girls decorated the wrapping (after Katie destroyed the original wrapping about a week before my birthday). This is the side Lily drew:<br />
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And this is the side Iz drew:<br />
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Inside was a Tshirt from my mom. Super soft and comfy.<br />
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Way early my awesome brother, Charlie, sent me this T-shirt that has my <em>true </em>super hero name. It says, "Anxiety Girl, able to jump to the worst conclusion in a single bound". Then the small print says, "Oh Gosh, these tights are too tight! I think I'm gonna die!!" (which is PERFECT for me. I love it. Thanks again, bro!)</div>
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Then it was time for cake!<br />
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Thanks daddy!<br />
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It was a great birthday! Not pictured is the chair Matt got for me. A week or 2 before my birthday he asked what I wanted and I said I wanted him to find a rocking chair for me on craigslist. We had been borrowing one for years before we moved, and since coming to MN, I have really missed having one. Well, a couple of days before my b-day he had me look at 2 different pictures, and went to see one in person. It was an old LazyBoy rocker recliner, in good shape, <u>FOR $20</u>!! He scooped it up and I could not be happier!! Seriously, such a score and WAY better than I could've hoped for in our price range! He also picked up a couple picture frames from Goodwill, because I have been talking about wanting to frame some of my artwork.<br />
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There were also a few people from the ward who brought by treats. They were all yummy, and so sweet, and immediately devoured!<br />
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All in all it was a GREAT birthday! Here's to not yet being 30!! :)</div>
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Each year we give the girls a new book each for Easter, they were big hits this year!</div>
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I made Easter dresses for the girls, entirely out of fabric I already had in my left over fabric bins! SCORE! The only cost was zippers, I didn't have any of those, so I had to purchase some. Still, not bad for 3 new dresses!</div>
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You can't really tell due to the flash that the tops of Izzie and Kate's dresses have pink (Iz) and yellow (Kate) polka dots on the white, they are cute and I'm bummed you can't make them out here, 'cause I adore polka dots. </div>
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Kate had a fever and a cough, so I didn't take her to church, hence why her hair is a mess, I just made her throw on a dress to take pictures with her sisters.</div>
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I made a strawberry cake with fresh strawberry mousse, and the girls enjoyed being my tasters.</div>
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I made the cake in one of those pans where the bottom is molded to an image and you are supposed to turn the cake upside down and pop it out and have a nice molded image (in this cake a bunny shaped top). Well, it came out a crumbly mess, so I just had to cut the molded part off and come up with something to draw on the top instead. Mind you, this was about 15 minutes before dinner. Matt and my mom said it couldn't be done, that I should just frost it a solid color and call it good...Which if you know me, is just an invitation to prove them wrong! I declared, "challenge accepted!" And they rolled their eyes. :) I am pretty "hoppy" with the way it turned out, considering it was a 15-20 minute frosting job. Under normal circumstances I would not be satisfied, but given the conditions, I was happy just to get it done, and have it look Easter-y.</div>
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And of course, the most important part was that it tasted great. What's the point in eating all those calories if you cover it in mediocre tasting fondant, too sugary frosting, or if the cake is dry and flavorless? I am a BIG believer that food should be yummy first, and artistic 2nd!</div>
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We had a great meal, though I didn't think to photo-doc it. The next day I snapped a picture of some leftovers though. Not quite as tasty looking the next day, but you get the idea. Fresh green beans, honey glazed ham, rolls, cheesy (funeral) potatoes, deviled eggs (with bacon), and lemonade. Easter dinner is probably my favorite holiday dinner, so I revel in all the rich food, though 4th of July barbecues with their fresh fruits and melons, salads galore, and barbecue in all varieties comes in a close 2nd. What's your favorite Holiday/Seasonal meals?</div>
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<br />Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08156248181944922989noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5983042876808293951.post-38825562454931442152013-04-16T10:31:00.000-07:002013-04-16T12:06:48.313-07:00Rounding Out March<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
The last half of March went by in a blur, and I think that I will let this post be mainly dominated by photos. They speak for themselves about what we have been up to. Mostly just shots of the usual going-ons at the Earls.</div>
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However, I did have an experience in March that I thought I should write about, though I am generally pretty private, and find it awkward to talk about health stuff. After a month has gone by, I am feeling much more solid about talking about it, though it does involve <strong>women's health issues</strong>. So if you are a man and that just made you cringe, you can skip the rest and simply admire the pictures :)</div>
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The easiest way (the one requiring the least amount of effort on my part) to relate my experience would be to share the letter I wrote to my family about a month ago. It's pretty personal, and maybe a little awkward, but it explains my "situation". Here it is:</div>
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<em>Hello Family & closest friends!<br /> <br />I am writing to give you a little update on my health. Before I start I want to say, IT'S NOT CANCER, it's non-life threatening, and I am gonna be fine. I know when I first hear of someone having "health news" those are my initial concerns, so hopefully that eases your mind.<br /> <br />I went to the Dr a couple weeks ago with some increasing concerns I've been having over the past 6 or 7 months. These were mostly "womanly" concerns and if you are a man, you can stop reading here and skip to the next paragraph if you wish <img alt="Winking smile" height="19" src="https://gfx5.hotmail.com/mail/w4/pr04/ltr/emo/winking_smile.gif" style="vertical-align: text-bottom;" title="Winking smile" width="19" />. The symptoms have been very specific abdominal and back pain, irregular/unpredictable bleeding, extreme bloating, pain and sensitivity, weight gain, excessive cramping,</em> [the rest of these symptoms have been omitted to save myself and you readers all a smidgen of embarrassment. You're welcome]<em>. <br /> <br />Let's wrap it up and say as a woman who had not experienced anything like this before, I knew something was wrong. We've also been trying to conceive and have been unsuccessful in having a viable pregnancy. So finally this month, I sucked it up and went to the Dr with my concerns. She of course wanted to take some blood and give me the dreaded pelvic exam, during which she said the last words anyone ever wants to hear, "I feel a mass or unusual swelling and I want to send you for more tests". I scheduled the tests for when my mom would be here to watch the girls. At the time I was fearful it would be the "C" word. I went to the Mayo Clinic for imaging on Friday and my doctor gave me the the results today.<br /> <br />I have something called Adenomyosis. Never heard of it? I hadn't either! It is a growth in the muscular wall of the uterus (different than endometriosis). It is benign and usually occurs in women in their late 30's or 40's, who have had children and/or have a history of endometriosis. They can treat my symptoms with hormone therapy (think contraceptives), but the only cure is a hysterectomy. Eventually, since my symptoms are severe (lots of women don't experience any of the symptoms that drove me to the Dr in the first place, and once you enter menopause the symptoms usually disappear) and being that I am so young and still most likely at least 20 years away from menopause, I will end up getting a hysterectomy. But not yet. I have felt very strongly that our family is not yet complete and though infertility is often associated with adenomyosis, it is still possible (though considerably less likely) to conceive. <br /> <br />So we'll keep trying to have another baby, but this is the "prevent you from wondering about it" email. We are trying, we will keep trying. We may beat the odds and naturally conceive right away, or most likely it will be a longer, more challenging process, and I am sure you would all start to wonder if we were done, or planning on having another, which is natural and I will happily keep you "in the loop". However, it may be a while so be prepared for that. And the time may come where my symptoms become unbearable and we decide to proceed with the hysterectomy. However, I feel in my bones that we'll have another baby before it comes out.<br /> <br />Obviously this process and discovery have been overwhelming and emotional, but I am happy to be OK, and I am grateful for the beautiful girls I have. The pain and inconvenience associated with adenomyosis have been a burden and it is frustrating that I will have to bear them until I get a hysterectomy, but I am blessed that it is a problem that is solvable, and as soon as we are done trying to make babies, it will go away. <br /> <br />Thank you guys for your love and support!! I sure do love each of you.<br /> <br />If you are interested in learning more about Adenomyosis, here is a link. There are tabs on the left hand side (complications, treatment and drugs, etc).</em><a href="http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/Adenomyosis/DS00636" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0072c6;"><em>http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/Adenomyosis/DS00636</em></span></a></div>
<em> <br />All my love,<br />Jenn</em><br />
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So, that's the long and short of it. My lovely mother came to be with me and watch the girls while I had the imaging and everything done, and I have specialist appointments this week and next which will be lengthy, so she delayed her trip and will be staying at least until my appointments are done. It is a relief not to have to find a babysitter for the hours it will take, and also not to have to feel awkward explaining to my acquaintances here why I'll be gone for a few hours multiple times over the next couple weeks and why I need a sitter. She's a huge blessing and I'm glad to have her here. That's a huge understatement, but I lack the words to express my gratitude for her.</div>
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While Grandma was here we've had lots of little adventures, documented by these photos! Enjoy!</div>
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This is the character Katie has created for herself that she calls "Baby Bad-Guy", she runs around terrorizing people with her "sword" and when she points it at you she yells, "shing". No idea where it came from, but it's pretty entertaining.</div>
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Even Bad-Guys need Grandma snuggles.</div>
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She carefully placed each sprinkle on her cookie one by one...</div>
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Then with equal care and precision she ate the sprinkles off one by one.</div>
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Once the snow banks around our church parking lot started to melt, I decided I needed to get a picture while they were still taller than I am. They are shorter than they were for most of the winter, but you still get the idea. Lots of snow. By the end of March, we were so ready to see it gone, but alas it lingered still.</div>
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We of course had to take Grandma to the Library, and we've been a few times since. It still feels like magic, and like I shouldn't be allowed to leave with arms full of books, and I still feel blessed each time they let me.</div>
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We made the bi-weekly trip to Costco, and since Grandma was with us we even ate lunch there, which is such a fun treat.</div>
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Getting ready for Easter weekend Lily drew a picture of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane. She was doing artwork at the table, which is normal and when I came to see what she was creating, I was surprised and touched by what she had made. I am always blown away at what a sweet and special girl she is.</div>
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