tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67139192206722761962024-03-05T05:40:01.054-05:00The Wood FamilyEmilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07769948877704163604noreply@blogger.comBlogger93125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6713919220672276196.post-50890094072475023002011-06-20T19:41:00.000-04:002011-06-20T19:41:19.698-04:00Easter... in June :)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDhqQ0EWBh1dzXiFVUUh5pt5zL3yWvo8pvw8zkAajyT3whtMuVLksrycwstpd4RgLsuybCJHji41zWmH1vqCaiUH_hH_UH_JP5xaDWP61kaJfpJjCpOVRm65LFWSHpJcxZUIISJRHE3fML/s1600/IMG_2218.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br />
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So I get distracted from blogging because I get backed up and and then feel like there is too much to catch up on but don't want to skip anything cause I like to have the record and the pics together. I was finally inspired to get in gear again and go ahead and post about Easter when I saw that a friend of mine had posted about Christmas last month so I guess posting about Easter in June is ok too right?<br />
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I have found that I get way to much enjoyment out of giving my kids things and holidays are such a good excuse for that. Even though neither Phil or I growing up got big gifts at Easter we some how came to the conclusion that it would be fun to get Madison a bike for Easter. Our justification was that her birthday was too far into the summer to wait and that we wanted her to have it as the weather warmed up. Next time I think we can just get her a bike (or whatever it is) for no reason... It was a fun day and I know a memorable one for her but I just felt like there was something wrong about celebrating Easter with big gifts took away from the focus, plus how will we ever top a new bike! Next year it's eggs and candy like the rest of the normal world. ;)<br />
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We also had our traditional Easter dying with our Neighbors and the oh so fun Easter egg hunt, unfortunately the dye on our eggs melted or something, in the humid air so the girls ended up with dye all over their hands.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Easter Dresses! That the best I could get as far as a smile for Samantha.</td></tr>
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</tbody></table>Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07769948877704163604noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6713919220672276196.post-71146792847027994442011-04-26T12:23:00.000-04:002011-04-26T12:23:18.317-04:00Happy Birthday to the Love of my life!!!We got Phil his present early this year so I wanted to do something special for him and thought one way to add to his day would be to tell him just how much I love him, and what better way to do that then publicly with pictures! :)<br />
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I knew I loved you when I first saw you, or at least I thought you were the most attractive thing I had laid eyes on since getting home from school! I knew when I saw you that I was going to date you! I knew when you found out that I was four year younger than you and you decided not to hang out with me at the baseball game I was crushed, and determined! I knew when I sat on your lap on the way home from the A's game in Paige Montgomery's car that I was going to be your girlfriend! I knew I really really liked you when you held my hand during Shawshank redemption!<br />
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I knew you were a loving person when we went on our first date at the Exploratorium in San Fransisco with my youngest sister and our cousin! I knew you liked me when you took the time to drive me all over San Fransisco showing me every landmark I didn't even know about.<br />
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I knew you were a punk when you didn't kiss me that night on the wharf! ;)<br />
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I knew I was spoiled when you surprised me with a trip to Vegas before going back to school! I knew you were the one for me when you refused to put up with all my crap. I knew you were fun and outgoing when I saw how jealous all the swing girls were when you brought a date (that couldn't dance) to the dance.<br />
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I knew you were romantic when you proposed to me in the very spot you didn't kiss me on our first date, at Thanksgiving!<br />
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I knew you were a diligent and worthy priesthood holder and active member of the church as you did your home teaching, went to church willingly every week, filled your callings, and cared for me and our home everyday! I knew you had a great deal of faith each time we have worked out what to do about school work and housing.<br />
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I knew you were responsible when we decided to buy our first house together in Logan.<br />
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I knew you were focused supportive and liked being active when we ran our first half marathon together and then our second in Logan. And how much family meant to you when we ran the Taho relay together with all of them!<br />
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I knew you liked to have fun and be silly when we went to the demolition derby with my family.<br />
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I knew you loved learning as you studied and passed your GMAT exam to prepare for your MBA program. I knew you wanted the best for our family when you followed the spirit in choosing what job to take.<br />
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I love you more and more each day! I have loved you from day one but I don't think I could ever comprehend just how much that love would grow over the years. You are a wonderful person, friend, father, and husband!<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Happy Birthday, I hope you have a wonderful day!</div>Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07769948877704163604noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6713919220672276196.post-16462158570406875442011-03-31T23:10:00.000-04:002011-03-31T23:10:52.488-04:00Im so glad Phils Family lives in Florida!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBfYtqCS_3JGXmRzdKjVzGhE9qmC7SrloP3uWF8JpuqfaLhPLvsvjgOMrmNYwQnnqeoRQBpxnrX9oaHEsFDiRa_Tq5RjS9IHLqCgPfZWBjZCa70PssW_MYaz5OcjYaxtfTbT6ynbDONW7J/s1600/IMG_1838.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBfYtqCS_3JGXmRzdKjVzGhE9qmC7SrloP3uWF8JpuqfaLhPLvsvjgOMrmNYwQnnqeoRQBpxnrX9oaHEsFDiRa_Tq5RjS9IHLqCgPfZWBjZCa70PssW_MYaz5OcjYaxtfTbT6ynbDONW7J/s320/IMG_1838.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
We didn't have the chance to see Phil's family in Florida over the Holidays and I promised my Mother-in-law we would bring her grandchildren down to visit her soon. With Phil on Spring break from school we decided to use that opportunity to drive the girls down to spend time with their Grammy! And They couldn't get enough of their Grammy! <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Madison just loved playing with her Uncle Tavy!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">He was so sweet to play with her and really made her feel comfortable!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">He even taught her how to ride his scooter!</td></tr>
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We didn't have buckets or shovels to take so we brought some plastic cups and spoons for the girls to play in the sand with. It worked great for Madison, however Samantha just thought the plastic spoons meant she was supposed to eat the sand.<br />
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I love taking my kids to the beach I am sure all kids are this way but they just seem so happy and content for hours!<br />
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Grammy was kind enough to offer to keep the girls at her house while we stayed at Phils brothers house. This was so great to have two nights without having to do bedtime or wake up at 6a.m. to a little person pulling on my toes!<br />
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The other nice part about being away from my kids for a day or so was it made me realize that I do still love them! :) You start to wonder sometimes when the days seem to mush together and all you do all day long is tell them what they can't do or listen to them whine no matter what you do! I know I love them its just nice to be reminded just how much!<br />
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While the girls were with Grammy they did lots of fun stuff none of which I have pictures of but Madison told us all about the tea parties and sleepovers! She had a blast and that makes the long drive all worth it!<br />
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I love the SUN and while I was happy to come home I was sad to leave the beautiful weather behind! Hopefully warm weather is not far behind for us!<br />
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On our way home we stopped for food and out the back of the restaurant there was a pond with ducks so we took some pretzels over and let the girls feed the ducks. There was also one big mean goose that kept hissing at all the ducks. It took about five pretzels before the seagulls showed up and they showed up in good number! It was pretty funny to watch them swarm the girls for food!<br />
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I asked her what she did and she said " I jumped in the puddles!" Well of course she did, right! How else do you feel the rain? She was already wet so when she asked me to go back outside I figured, what harm could it do!<br />
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Oh did I forget to mention she was still in her pajamas and did not have on shoes socks or a coat! At that point I figured why ruin a perfectly good pair of shoes and sock and it really wasn't that cold outside! :) I did put a jacket on her after her first tromp through the puddles.<br />
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Samantha and I walked out to watch her and of course Samantha wanted to get down the minute she saw how much fun her sister was having, so, yes shoeless and jacket-less, I put her down and let her take a turn in the rain!<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07769948877704163604noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6713919220672276196.post-82680161889173467812011-03-02T23:22:00.000-05:002011-03-02T23:22:42.220-05:00Soggy Bottom Boys AR and Land Navigation Challange<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg08aQu_lV8ofm__s30NqT1oI7JSgB0wMvFDdcNIxKDpHoSOHbAjQZVynjRqu5N-d1oX-jVpJpnFYu6beTN38yPkdaFcULJscSvglOoL95yiyRAeKlOx7iMATdl0KRBJWq4kHmInSwoeKf5/s1600/DSCN5950.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg08aQu_lV8ofm__s30NqT1oI7JSgB0wMvFDdcNIxKDpHoSOHbAjQZVynjRqu5N-d1oX-jVpJpnFYu6beTN38yPkdaFcULJscSvglOoL95yiyRAeKlOx7iMATdl0KRBJWq4kHmInSwoeKf5/s320/DSCN5950.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>This past weekend Phil and I embarked on a new kind of adventure for us, or for me anyway. Phil did this race last year with a friend and some how convinced me it would be fun for us to do together! And it was!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnfFcNGEzio6s4saDogFNdcwa-UnsdaEiDVSWXNYlghRHROF2Tv0oznqfhw3SmgEBto_R6CA1B191B8lwngYn5NiSHM0IXo3Iq98cqcfqwaktWscd4pSVk1VdN9SVBwWT2J4VqFss9RBHs/s1600/DSCN5968.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnfFcNGEzio6s4saDogFNdcwa-UnsdaEiDVSWXNYlghRHROF2Tv0oznqfhw3SmgEBto_R6CA1B191B8lwngYn5NiSHM0IXo3Iq98cqcfqwaktWscd4pSVk1VdN9SVBwWT2J4VqFss9RBHs/s320/DSCN5968.JPG" width="320" /></a></div> We had to plot point on a map using the coordinates given us and then get on our bikes and ride to the approximate location and then go tromping through the woods to find these little orange boxes and mark our paper with the special hope puncher. We had six hours to collect as many a we could.<br />
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We were so lucky to have good friends that love us enough to watch our kids for a whole day! It was fun to get to work together and be successful at it. Phil was kind enough not to totally leave me in the dust on the biking portion but my legs were on fire by the time we finished.<br />
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So fun and I would totally do it again!Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07769948877704163604noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6713919220672276196.post-50896566702279471742011-03-02T23:01:00.000-05:002011-03-02T23:01:18.278-05:00Snowbird 2011This is one vacation we look forward to all year long, weather that is because we know its going to happen every year or we just like snowboarding/skiing that much! Each year the first week of January my whole side of the family meets up at the Iron Blossom Lodge at Snowbird for a week for fun family time and lots of skiing!<br />
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We learned over the last few years due to missed ski days and getting stuck in the Canyon one too many times, that it's best to just plan on getting off the plane and going straight up to Snowbird, and then straight from Snowbird back to the airport. If we try to plan anything outside of that for that week it always just makes life more complicated. So we just tell our friends if they love us enough they can just come up to Snowbird while we are there otherwise we will just have to wait till our next Utah trip to get together!<br />
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The other thing we have learned due to a missed year of Snowbird (thanks to Samantha) is that you shouldn't get pregnant between the months of March- June so that I am still eligible to ski during that first week of January. <br />
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My sister was saving up for her Paris study abroad so she spent the week exercising her cosmetology skills. So I got some waxing done, hair cuts for the whole family, and an awesome facial! I might be addicted!<br />
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As one of the moms up there I get the pleasure of trading off babysitting. Its pretty fun to watch the kids interact with each other and to watch the relationships they develop that last well beyond the time they spend together. Madison just has a blast every time we get together with any of her cousins!<br />
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The week is mostly full of eating...<br />
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Games...<br />
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We love this week and we are so glad that My parents started this tradition because it is the only time we get to go snowboarding all year but its for a whole week on good snow, so that's a trade off I can live with!<br />
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The airplane ride home Madison made friends with the flight crew and even got her own set of wings that she kept as her prized possession for quite a while after we got home.<br />
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The girls also made up their own game when we were on our layover! It was pretty fun to watch them play together.<br />
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It worked great for a couple of days, she would pick the toys to leave out so she would be excited to go out and play with them. Well I guess you just have to expect things to happen when you leave your three year old unattended for extended periods of time but one morning, or evening rather we forgot to put the uneaten popcorn bowl away. So with the extra popcorn kernels Madison decided to "make it snow" in the living room. <br />
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When we walked out in the morning this is what we saw! When we asked her what happened she just said "I made it snow!"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">She wasn't to excited about the clean up process.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07769948877704163604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6713919220672276196.post-76687754549910151862011-03-02T21:41:00.000-05:002011-03-02T21:41:23.872-05:00How the Grinch Stole Christmas...Phil won some tickets to the Ice Sculpture display at the National Harbor of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas." The concept is pretty cool, they do numerous ice sculptures in different colors and then you get to walk through it. Unfortunately you are in line longer than you are even in the display. They did have some ice slides that were pretty cool too, in theory anyway! :) Madison had a blast, but it was Cold!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The tree behind them was made out of green peeps!</td></tr>
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<span id="goog_513001057"></span><span id="goog_513001058"></span>Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07769948877704163604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6713919220672276196.post-42624604325632975842011-03-02T21:25:00.000-05:002011-03-02T21:25:58.573-05:00Christmas Eve and New Years Eve 2010...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk7yJna3J6_mMC_9d4ESR4Q10fUIc7_i-h8F8WxJTdumCUSNlihWy9KGAslOcUY0dPREQ7hafDGhwu5qmWVCc-svIKpFUYA9ZA68oEobEnbsYCqLFDpnLkFHEz4N-SPbBvwwB7jod4DGnj/s1600/IMG_1475.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Christmas Eve Day we went to the National Botanic Gardens to see the train displays, along with the rest of the DC population! I was told it was a very cool display and worth seeing but I guess everyone else had the same info! I have been to the National Botanic Gardens before and I have never seen a line, yes we waited in line for about an hour! It was cool and fun and the kids really enjoyed seeing the trains but I really don't like crowds! I did learn an important lesson, if there are Christmas displays you want to go see, don't go on Christmas Eve! :)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All of the structures were made out of Natural Materials, like trees and stuff.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr>
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We also went to see the Water Skiing Santa Clause at National Harbor it was COLD!<br />
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We decided to have people over for some fun times on Christmas Eve as well as New Years Eve this year. The funny part was that while both nights were a blast neither were very smart, obviously Christmas Eve made Christmas morning a late start and full of melt downs from Madison. And New Years Eve Day we had to get up at 4am with the kids to make it to the airport for our flight to Utah. I don't really know why I do those kinds of things other than the fact that I really enjoy hosting and I like to take advantage of the obvious reasons to get together with friends such as Holidays! <br />
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For Christmas eve we did appetizers, which sounded like a good idea but I didn't have very many good recipes so I thought I could just buy stuff pre made like some taquitos, and mozzarella sticks, and other various store bought items. Unfortunately they all looked much better on the box then they tasted. Note to self, get some good appetizer recipes! <br />
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We also celebrated Samantha's Birthday on Christmas Eve since there were kids over we took a picture and sang to her and let her eat a cream puff, just so we have a picture that proves we did celebrate.<br />
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We tried to do a reading out of the scriptures before we put the kids to bed. That didn't go very far since the kids were all in that post tired, hyper mood, but we made an effort, and that's all that counts when your kids are young right. That's what I keep telling myself about going to church each week too! "Its all about the habit!"<br />
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Christmas Eve we played Rock Band and "explored some space" in some of the songs, well I guess Tyson and Phil did anyway!<br />
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New Years eve we played with our new toy the Kinect which turned out some pretty awesome pictures if I do say so myself, however for the sake of those involved I don't think I should publicly share the incriminating photos!<br />
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Overall both nights were fun and we did make it to our plane the next morning on time and pretty well rested, since we did not stay up for the ball drop or any of the "real" New Years Eve celebrating!Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07769948877704163604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6713919220672276196.post-62479511457968200382011-02-17T22:39:00.000-05:002011-02-17T22:39:42.564-05:00Too many presents... and the music box!Yes I know it is February, almost March and yes I am going to post about Christmas! This will have way more detail than anyone really could care to know or remeber but me but thats the whole point for me so here it goes and for everyone else you can just enjoy the pictures and move on!<br />
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For some un-known reason Phil and I both started tossing and turning at about 5am, we kept waiting for Madsion to wake up and we didn't want to miss her going into the living room so we both were awake from 5am just waiting. Finally at about 7 I got up and started to make some hot chocolate just for something to do, I even poked my head in the girls room to see if they were awake! So after weeks of Madison waking up at 6:30am on the dot she slept in Christmas morning until 8:00! Ahh! It was total torture for Phil and I we even ended up exchanging gifts before they woke up!<br />
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So I said that I bought way too much and I knew this when we started the wrapping but I really knew it once we started opening the presents. We always start with the stockings and to tell you the truth we prorbably could have stopped there for the year and Madison would have been a happy camper.<br />
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It always amazes me what I think she is going to like and be excited about and then the things she really is excited about. For example I thought the barbie computer would be a hit but alas the $1 Santa chocolate was the thing she talked about most on Christmas morning. But hey what kid is not going to get excited about candy before Breakfast?<br />
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The very first time I heard someone ask Madison what she wanted for Christmas this year she said " A ballerina Music Box!" Typically when your kids get their mind set on something or come up with random ideas you can usually tie it back to a show or book they have seen or read recently. This one however totally took me by surprise and I still to this day can not figure out where she got the idea of a ballerina music box. She was pretty set on it too, every time from that moment on if you asked her what she wanted for Christmas it was the same thing. She even gave me a color and everything!<br />
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So Phil and I set out to find a music box together, not as easy as you would think! The toy stores were no help and neither were the gift shops, eventually we found one at Claires the jewelery store white with a pink ballerina and everything! $20 is a lot more than I have spent on any one item so far for her but being as it was the ONLY thing she had asked for we figured it would be worth it!<br />
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Right as we were getting to the end we asked Madison what she had asked Santa for, for Christmas. Fun side note we wrote a letter to Santa and sent it in the mail to my parents, Madison wrote it and drew on it a bit and I just figured it was as good a place as any to send it, and then she even got to put it in the mail box. Well as a nice little surprise for her she received a letter back from "Santa" thanking her for the letter and telling her that if she was a very good girl she would get what she had asked for! It was very fun and she was super excited to have received a letter from Santa, so thank you Nana for that fun little piece of mail!<br />
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Anyway so we asked her what she had wanted and she looked up from her current package with a big frown and said " a music box" It was easy to tell she still had her heart set on it. We then had her search the tree to see if there were anymore un-opened presents and she found the box behind the tree she got super happy and ran to present opening spot that she had thus designated by carrying each gift to the same place on the couch to open it! She was excited about the music box and thought it was really cool that it played music, go figure!<br />
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The rest of the day was spent playing with and setting up the x-box kinect. That was another fun gift that was completely unexpected by Phil but was also probably the best reaction of all the gifts opened that morning. He looked like a ten year old boy on Christmas morning, once he realized what it was, with how excited he got!<br />
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Two lessons learned this year. Don't stay up until 12:00 playing rock-band on Christmas eve and especially don't let your kids stay up that late! And lesson number two next year they get one gift from Santa one gift from Mom and Dad and one from each other and THAT'S IT! :)Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07769948877704163604noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6713919220672276196.post-411107265151574222010-12-26T21:46:00.001-05:002010-12-26T21:49:17.526-05:00The wait is over...So Phil has been asking me for a dog ever since we got married 6 years ago. I keep telling him we need to have a yard first and the kids need to be old enough to take care of it so I don't have to. However we have realized recently we really don't have to wait, because we already have a little Fido running around the house!<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">She begs for food and eats scraps from the table</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2O_sn2j8pT-nRYpWY6F4FEir8kyrh8nBFbDRhNrF5VFtPdYg6B_kIZ9GM3Qq0sXErGvi1kYZRl_2ONSjKErnkV0jSgQvHWyP85ufz5Ec9c-7h43hLD4t-FJM_GCU3SKNLSOxYx4QeeL4u/s1600/IMG_9642.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2O_sn2j8pT-nRYpWY6F4FEir8kyrh8nBFbDRhNrF5VFtPdYg6B_kIZ9GM3Qq0sXErGvi1kYZRl_2ONSjKErnkV0jSgQvHWyP85ufz5Ec9c-7h43hLD4t-FJM_GCU3SKNLSOxYx4QeeL4u/s320/IMG_9642.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlNf-7rg0H7INAJXpzK4aJWXEF1AHrh_uR3kJ6Id2R7-FZveClz82shdM9QGRcMOre7HGtCik-mfZchHCbsTVYHCW3F5F_gDIQJXskDeXPp8P2ijDWwFnO9bzVxxNRIvYLOhCUq3EW6ao7/s1600/DSCN5763.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlNf-7rg0H7INAJXpzK4aJWXEF1AHrh_uR3kJ6Id2R7-FZveClz82shdM9QGRcMOre7HGtCik-mfZchHCbsTVYHCW3F5F_gDIQJXskDeXPp8P2ijDWwFnO9bzVxxNRIvYLOhCUq3EW6ao7/s320/DSCN5763.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> She chews on shoes and everything else.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3l1_fr3MFQGGujxjxiE-HxvjuhdyAjrLcNpQPfMTNAdtduSXX-AbSamG4wsllpTm0rgX-F8FFtObnDj5qbKzMbRmELHpF4bhczxWiZ_lVJcEk6AYdZdbhFbw8-r3tdSMm4cZMgYFz2tBW/s1600/IMG_9649.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3l1_fr3MFQGGujxjxiE-HxvjuhdyAjrLcNpQPfMTNAdtduSXX-AbSamG4wsllpTm0rgX-F8FFtObnDj5qbKzMbRmELHpF4bhczxWiZ_lVJcEk6AYdZdbhFbw8-r3tdSMm4cZMgYFz2tBW/s320/IMG_9649.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_RVVqtfFy4zbtFT_2eemNJ2eNZjO3o8lXXbKoHasKIFf_K6DzKf1Io4vbczttvDbOPCYIMyhjUVO8daL1IeSAKTRsSzQSbeZEVampKBZV32aBmI8puNRLE6Hgl7qrfk6J6lX_xFkmLWu3/s1600/10-28-2010+119.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_RVVqtfFy4zbtFT_2eemNJ2eNZjO3o8lXXbKoHasKIFf_K6DzKf1Io4vbczttvDbOPCYIMyhjUVO8daL1IeSAKTRsSzQSbeZEVampKBZV32aBmI8puNRLE6Hgl7qrfk6J6lX_xFkmLWu3/s320/10-28-2010+119.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">She drools A LOT!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZU5ItnxlCChyphenhyphen_A6n9ME3fY91nix4mFiA6MNSTsvXXgh-YIxEFEE6o7YtUfhe5H5SkrzhZaMPCOWPrBD4M3LHWec8XvB1p4dn5bEOjuPS1-lQhQamhJycL5iwHnrY_3igH0DmAAG7eW6Ya/s1600/IMG_9967.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZU5ItnxlCChyphenhyphen_A6n9ME3fY91nix4mFiA6MNSTsvXXgh-YIxEFEE6o7YtUfhe5H5SkrzhZaMPCOWPrBD4M3LHWec8XvB1p4dn5bEOjuPS1-lQhQamhJycL5iwHnrY_3igH0DmAAG7eW6Ya/s320/IMG_9967.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">She will eat anything, we have to clean up after her and she is smelly!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCtnt4P1V29deFRPyYF88a0wt-3tf1yMi5_tMlwf69rPrE7Ufh7Opr62O2bJjlx4Y9GsN30WDXFlG5HuYKkJOZ2WIwQf1wr_skeT2c9rmkqaRuDxJsU55u-F4Sp7_zFIKbNYqTyrxK1fgz/s1600/IMG_8400.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCtnt4P1V29deFRPyYF88a0wt-3tf1yMi5_tMlwf69rPrE7Ufh7Opr62O2bJjlx4Y9GsN30WDXFlG5HuYKkJOZ2WIwQf1wr_skeT2c9rmkqaRuDxJsU55u-F4Sp7_zFIKbNYqTyrxK1fgz/s320/IMG_8400.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiffJvokqURiQasJxyYspEbrwolyL8eUut05i4Z9R7EV5WYyJfplKhaKdj-Ox5xUBNntOyqI7PnHMFY5NY-mDyuC3jvfP3gKUmJdW2VggQuqDTm6y9Sm-eqdw6ShGbv5zeVNt3IwBDSrr0Y/s1600/DSCN5595.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiffJvokqURiQasJxyYspEbrwolyL8eUut05i4Z9R7EV5WYyJfplKhaKdj-Ox5xUBNntOyqI7PnHMFY5NY-mDyuC3jvfP3gKUmJdW2VggQuqDTm6y9Sm-eqdw6ShGbv5zeVNt3IwBDSrr0Y/s320/DSCN5595.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnGpBc0JTTr1-XZO9Id93BkFniYXB_I7O1tMyJW9rDIwCUnbU6-XxyAw7SzWh_giqAPxHmsyy0_FNlSsaedoZPAWHqlvVVjRMDxmvPGgIAA1Qca8rkFe0B3gjdowf4zrhiIROyk1dZGrud/s1600/IMG_9937.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnGpBc0JTTr1-XZO9Id93BkFniYXB_I7O1tMyJW9rDIwCUnbU6-XxyAw7SzWh_giqAPxHmsyy0_FNlSsaedoZPAWHqlvVVjRMDxmvPGgIAA1Qca8rkFe0B3gjdowf4zrhiIROyk1dZGrud/s320/IMG_9937.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">She greets you at the door when you come home and is always happy to see you.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj8DK3g4hPdsybqfxBSeyoY4rPfFX-zikDOHRkm655qVUrwyRCC7vgNgDsOF0x4THQGDRxdcY8D7v5X8U-ZeYWU08QH91VI4iC6_8eXtuumOyPreMnD4tcQSHSEfAghaEbGJUvHSrFUA0q/s1600/IMG_9115.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj8DK3g4hPdsybqfxBSeyoY4rPfFX-zikDOHRkm655qVUrwyRCC7vgNgDsOF0x4THQGDRxdcY8D7v5X8U-ZeYWU08QH91VI4iC6_8eXtuumOyPreMnD4tcQSHSEfAghaEbGJUvHSrFUA0q/s320/IMG_9115.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>She plays fetch, likes to play in the toilet (she would drink it I'm sure if she could get her head in there), often rummages through the trash can and loves to play chase.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">She responds to simple commands like speak, sit, wave, come, and no</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7K-fk1MGH4GvCCApkgsFHdxoRXd3W6aWGgLMO7pI9JcN_BFD6eQdsuaoqqKKNK-fI_yW4nJTXYrm0OhpvT6VBqxEWZjweP93Jde8xbMUI9GfVcMIgwiB-clAJy7MRTSkBAt8YcWJ8e6GU/s1600/IMG_0435.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7K-fk1MGH4GvCCApkgsFHdxoRXd3W6aWGgLMO7pI9JcN_BFD6eQdsuaoqqKKNK-fI_yW4nJTXYrm0OhpvT6VBqxEWZjweP93Jde8xbMUI9GfVcMIgwiB-clAJy7MRTSkBAt8YcWJ8e6GU/s320/IMG_0435.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>So no more waiting for a dog</b> ...</span></div>we already have a cute cuddly chubby one we love very much who we affectionately call Chubbers! However we think Samantha is much cuter than a dog and she has also learned a great deal more than these things in her first 12 months of life.<br />
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She is a smiley and happy baby who brings us many smiles and laughs. She has a "hi" to pass along to anyone who will listen. Playing peek a boo and chase are a sure way to get a laugh out of her.<br />
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"> Happy Birthday sweetheart you are a joy and a blessing to have in our home.</div>Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07769948877704163604noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6713919220672276196.post-45473661919712722372010-12-16T21:07:00.001-05:002010-12-16T21:12:09.791-05:00Christmas Stuff!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I love Christmas! I think one of the things I love the most about it are all of the traditions. I think there are more family traditions centered around Christmas than any other holiday, and I think its a great way to remember the fond moments of childhood through those traditions. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Of the seven years we have spent Christmas together this will be our third Christmas to be spent at home with no extended family. It is really the first one that Madison will really be old enough to appreciate whats going on, this has gotten Phil and I talking. We have been trying to decide what traditions we would like to carry on with our children. It amazes me how much we would have to pack into Christmas eve if we want to do all the traditions that we both grew up with... I guess we will have to spread it out a little bit over the week before Christmas and use some of them for Christmas day! :)<br />
I just wanted to share some Christmas pictures of our festive house and Madison making sugar cookies, as well as a few family pictures since I don't intend to send out Christmas cards so Merry Christmas and we Love you! (that counts right? ;)</div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cookie making is a tradition hope to continue mostly in honor of Phil's mom! :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Decorating was a mess but fun all the same!</td></tr>
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</tbody></table> We had to keep the train on top of the bookcase this year to keep it out of curious little hands...<br />
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</tbody></table>One of the things I did notice when I was putting up all our decorations was how much dust and how many cobwebs there were... I mean really, where are all the spiders making those webs? YUCK! I guess at least my house gets dusted at least once a year :)<br />
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</tbody></table>Yes that is a door stop in her mouth, you take what you can get to keep them from screaming too loud :)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We resorted to many things to keep them happy!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07769948877704163604noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6713919220672276196.post-48924868638764039082010-12-05T22:04:00.000-05:002010-12-05T22:04:38.965-05:00Christmas Tree Hunting!We decided to make a tradition of getting our Christmas tree the day after thanksgiving or in this case the Saturday after Thanksgiving! We found this cute place called Ticonderoga Farms where you can go and pick out and cut your own Christmas tree and they also have some really fun stuff to do! So that being said we have pulled out all the Christmas decorations and I figured I would share some of them and the fun times we had at the farm with some good friends of ours!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Phil taking the girls down the tunnel slide!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The kids couldn't get enough of the slides.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Last year Madison was screaming at this point!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Can you see her? I think her leopard print camouflage is canceled out by the pink hat!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Madison wanted to carry the saw the whole time we were out and about.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is what Samantha did while we hiked for and cut down the tree!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is the tree before we cut it!</td></tr>
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It's sad to be so far from family for the holidays but I do love that we have so many friends here that are sweet enough to invite us into their home to share their wonderful hospitality and food! I recognize cooking Thanksgiving dinner is no small task and I don't exactly look forward to the day that I will have to do it myself. For now I can say a HUGE thank you to the Evans and their kindness and friendship in letting us share thanksgiving with them and cooking the most amazing Turkey!<br />
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Here are some pictures from the last couple of years, that I never did get to post about.<br />
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Always so fun to have him here with us and it seems we always get a date night when he comes! :)<br />
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</tbody></table>My mom has also been out to visit her fair share of times but they have never been out here together! A few weeks ago we got to have them out here together for the first time! It was a great time we got to go to the Sully Battlefield and the air and space museum with them! We love Nana and Papa! Thank you for coming to visit!<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange;">October 2010</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">I love Halloween and I usually find a way to get us dressed up and have a Halloween party. The last two years have come and gone with now party but we did manage to throw some costumes together for the ward Halloween party!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I had no idea what we were going to do for costumes as of that day but stop by Unique Thrift (the best second hand store ever!) and found these matching lion costumes for $2 and it all came together so nicely I couldn't resist!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dave our neighbor loves to scare people so Halloween is one of his favorite holidays! I just love this picture, it was totally spontaneous Treona had no idea!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was from the costume parade at the church.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Madison showing off her stash of candy.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">She just looked so cute all chubby and lion like!</td></tr>
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">I also took Madison to the mall for the Disney Story Halloween celebration it was really cute they had the kids play some games and then walk around one end of the mall in their costumes. She made a very pretty Princess Aurora!</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">She cut in line so she could hold the store attendants hand for the parade.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Nursery by our house does a small pumpkin patch each year with some fun play stuff Madison had a blast.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Of course she liked riding it in too!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I like this one because she looks like she is running away from that bat decoration in Terror!</td></tr>
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Then we also carved the pumpkins with our neighbor. Samantha took to eating the pumpkin guts that Madison flung all over the patio.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Madison wanted to do a silly pumpkin so hers is the one with the tongue hanging out!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mimicking her silly pumpkin</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">stuffing her face with pumpkin seeds!</td></tr>
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">We also got to go out to a Haunted house with our Neighbors! That was a fun and not so fun night! I really hate getting scared but it was fun to go out without kids with our friends because we do that so rarely!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07769948877704163604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6713919220672276196.post-47655630832752847792010-11-21T20:38:00.000-05:002010-11-21T20:38:49.618-05:00Weddings...We have had two wedding on Phil's side of the family this year so lots of traveling and lots of fun with family just wanted to share some photos and snip-its from these two wonderful events.<br />
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The first was his sister Amanda's wedding in Austin Texas back in June (yes I know I am way behind!)This was a quick trip for us we were only there for a few days and some lovely friends of our were kind enough to watch Madison for us while we were gone to save us a plane ticket! We got to stay at a hotel with all of Phils siblings so that was really fun, the first time I have been with all of them together at one time since we were married 6 years ago.<br />
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This is Phils only sister and he has 4 brothers so you can imagine what it is like to get them all together! It was really fun it mostly consisted of loving insults, basketball, early wake up calls, and lots of chicken fights in the pool! It was a great weekend but way too short! The wedding was beautiful too and we are so happy for Mandy and our new brother in law.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michale, Phil, Mandy, Tavy, Aaron, Scott</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And of course plenty of Oreo's and saran wrap for the newlyweds car!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Samantha was a hit with Grammy Wood!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">She was so exhausted by the end of the night and just wouldn't go to sleep.</td></tr>
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Mandy also asked me to take their pictures for the wedding so I thought I would share some of those here too cause they turned out pretty cute!<br />
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Wedding number two was Aaron the next in line after Phil (who is the oldest). We have known his now wife for a little over a year and she is wonderful we could not be more happy for Aaron and April. I didn't take many pictures from this weekend but it was a great trip and we had a wondrful time getting to know Aprils family.<br />
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We did get a picture of the moo moo and curlers! When Phil and I first got married we spent our first Christmas together with Phils family and Aaron being the cheeky kid that he is decided to get me this aweful moo moo and a set of curlers with a little sweet note attached that said something along the lines of: "a picture of things to come!" such a sweetheart! I in turn gave it to Scott's wife and she lovingly passed it along to April for us!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Phil with Aaron and Phil's terrible facial hair sole patch... ewww!</td></tr>
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Some of my favorite parts of this weekend:<br />
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The food! April's family did a phenomenal job at feeding all 20 odd people that were staying with them at thier house in Montana! <br />
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Meeting Aprils family and just hanging out with them, that was some good times!<br />
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Again just getting to be with all of Phils siblings (something I enjoy quite a bit!)<br />
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Sleeping in (well sort of but we did not have our kids with us so it was nice to not have to do bed time and morning time with them!)<br />
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Dancing at the wedding! I love wedding music so cheesy and fun! all the chicken dances and YMCA and thrillers you could ever want! Luckily my sister in laws all enjoy dancing as much as I do so it was a blast.<br />
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Setting up chairs for the ceremony and rearranging them about 100 times before everyone was satisfied!<br />
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Watching Michale spew sparkling cider out his noes! :) If anyone has a picture of that I would love to see it by the way! :)<br />
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Fun times!Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07769948877704163604noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6713919220672276196.post-23837016233556430642010-11-21T19:49:00.000-05:002010-11-21T19:49:54.261-05:00Ragnar Relay 2010<div style="text-align: center;">This Post if for <span style="color: red;">September 2010</span> </div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ragnar 2008 Waiting in the rain to start!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>12 people 200 miles and a lot of running and very little sleep! I swore when I did this race back in 2008 I would never do it again. Two years later what do I decide to do?... but put together a team and be in charge of organizing it all... What?<br />
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My main motivation for putting my own team together, was the first year I ran it, I felt that if I had been doing it with a few more friends, it would have been more fun. However the memory of the pain is what I was lacking when I agreed to do this race again. So this was a big undertaking to get twelve people to commit to a race of this magnitude. While I was hoping to do with with a bunch of close friends it turns out I don't have that many close friends that are that crazy. We had a total of 20 people signed up or agreed to do the race at one time or another and we only had 11 runners on race day. Yes we ran one man short so we had to divide up the extra three legs among some ultra runners on our team, who really came through!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The start line that we barely made it to in time!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>The training for it was great it was a good motivator for me to get off my butt again. I also got the chance to run with my good friend and neighbor who was previously only a gym runner, that was a lot of fun, she is a trooper and an awesome running partner. Some other positives were that my sister and brother-in-law also got to come out and join us for this race and that was great to have them here and to get to spend that time with each of them.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me with my sister Erin after a very hot run!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Some highlights I should point out that I would hate to forget later down the road.<br />
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Phil and Dave being lost amongst the sea of sleeping bodies and not waking up to the numerous phone calls, to which Scott resorted to shouting their names from the top of the hill waking many unhappy runners, in order to find them in time to get to the next check point.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gotta love the night time gear!</td></tr>
</tbody></table> Treona missing not one but two of her hand offs from Erin! This was just so humors because she was also the most paranoid about missing her hand offs! The first of which was applauded my many on looking runners when she emerged from the port-a-potty with a look of shock on her face to see us all waiting for her! I love you Treona I hope you forgive me for sharing this with the world! :)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">leaving off to a cheery applause after missing her first hand off for a potty break!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Final exchange and she finally made it!</td></tr>
</tbody></table> Sleeping or lack there of was also an experience. Fist attempt was at the high school too noisy and too many lights. Second attempt: also at the high school out side and down a dark alley, nice and dark a little worrisome, but too many phone calls to get any sleep. Third attempt: Sleeping on the bench of the van which was way too short for me! I believe others (the shorter ones) had better luck with this, I on the other hand got a full hour I think! :)<br />
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Using the port-a-potty at the run down gas station around the corner that had no toilet paper! Paper towels are just not a good substitute!<br />
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Tyson intercepting others walkie talkie communications, proceeding to make airline call references for about 10 minutes before they changed the channel they were using!<br />
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Nutella and rice crackers! YUMM!<br />
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And then lots and lots and lots of really hard and hot running! :)<br />
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</tbody></table> It was fun painful and I am pretty sure I will never do it again!Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07769948877704163604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6713919220672276196.post-68418428760849910232010-10-28T18:19:00.000-04:002010-10-28T18:19:22.744-04:00Summer Vacation?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>I need to put a date on this title since I am way behind but don't want to skip anything since this blog is my only journaling source at the moment. (because I am Lazy!)<br />
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</tbody></table> I question if you can call anything a vacation once you have kids! We left the house at flew to Utah on our direct 5hour flight with a three year old (who was an angel) and our 8month old (not such an angel)! To then get in a car and drive 4 hours to Ashton Idaho (which was beautiful by the way!) arriving at 11pm MST meaning 1am our time. Needless to say we struggled the last few miles of that drive. The welcome we got was nice, if not a little daunting. When all you want to do is sleep you have mixed feelings when you drive up to the house and 20 family members you haven't see in a while are all standing there waiting to greet you! Luckily they were kind enough to keep the greetings short so we could go right to bed. However a mere 6 hours later our, not so angel like girls decided to wake up with the sun! When you are a parent you really just take your normal daily routine where ever you go and just ad in less sleep for the kids and a new environment. So I ask Vacation... what's that?<br />
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The rest of the Family Reunion was really wonderful we did get to sleep in here and there, with a little help from the other moms and grandparents. The Place we stayed was great and our days were full of activities and night were great for hanging out and games. Some of the family was up later than others at night (pinochle is the drug of choice for most of my family!) Here are some highlights from the week.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Big Judd's! Home of the giant Hamburger Challenge!</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Moosen! They were actually <b>Elk </b>and a lot of them too! We were staying on my brother-in-laws parents <a href="http://www.idahoranch.com/">ranch</a> which was 20 miles of land on which they raise elk so we got to see our fair share.<br />
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A few notes on the elk if you use a tree branch you can use some awesome stealth to sneak up on them to get some close ups, just ask Saffron. Also if you spend 20 min sneaking up on an Elk to take its picture make sure your lens cap is already off just ask Papa!<br />
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And lastly watch out for the poop! There was lots of it and it was Madison favorite activity while Elk spotting to point out and spot all of the Elk poop and yell "Poop, y! The Elk were Papa's favorite activity I think, next to the fishing and of course picking up cotton balls with his nose covered in Vaseline!<br />
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My Dad took Madison and Mya <b>fishing</b> and they were so cute when they got home Madison told me all about it and how big the fish was "it was this huge" spreading out her arms, and how papa caught it with his hands and how it "splashed all around"! <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nana Capson was a pretty good shot too!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Phil was quite the expert at the skeet shooting! No surprise there!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Erin with the girls after their trip down the river, during which Madison took a nap!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Getting the guns ready for paintball</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Freezing and Hungry after the river trip! YAY so Fun!</td></tr>
</tbody></table><b>Horseshoes</b> was one of my highlights, I know that sounds lame but its a pretty fun and rather challenging game if you have never done it before.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I guess the smores were a hit with the adults too.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Amanda, Madison, Aubrey</td></tr>
</tbody></table> The <b>campfire </b>and songs was a hit with most in attendance! you can never go wrong with <b>smores</b> and kids so that was a fun night too.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dex showing off at the fire pit!</td></tr>
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Again this may seem lame to be considered a highlight but I also got to run with my sister one day and my sister-in-law one day. I always enjoy some good girl time on the road, definitely a highlight!<br />
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We also had a chance to do some <b>family pictures</b>, that surprisingly didn't turn out too bad considering our track record for family picture in the past.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Family Picture attempt #2</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nana and Papa with all the grand kids.</td></tr>
</tbody></table> Our concluding activity was the <b>minute to win it</b> contest we had the very last night that was more than entertaining! I think the pictures speak for themselves... or maybe they don't? :)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Kings Peak</b></span><br />
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I also question weather this was a vacation or not because after a very fun week with my family we decided it would be a good idea to hike Kings Peak. The highest peak in Utah. Its part of a goal that Phil and I have to climb the highest peak in each state. Who does that for a vacation I mean come on... I guess I need to redefine my meaning of a vacation. We didn't have our kids with us so I guess it was a vacation in that sense! :) Thank you to the wonderful family that helped us out with that!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is how we felt about 20 minutes into the hike! Its been too long!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the very steep gravel mass we came down to get off the Summit.</td></tr>
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It really was a great hike we got to set out with some good friends of ours and met up with some of my family the second day so that we could summit together and share dinner and a campsite that night. It was an intense hike, most of us got sunburned, we got rained on a bit, I had blisters on all of my toes, my dad nearly took off his own thumb with his pocket knife, our water pump broke on us the last day, it took almost as long to get down as it did to get up the summit and I really hate peeing in the woods! But all in all it was fun and I look forward to the next peak!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Logan, Provo, and Bountiful! </b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Visit with Grandma Stewart and the Monks</td></tr>
</tbody></table>While in Utah we also go to spend some time with my grandparents on both sides, one of my aunt and uncles, two of Phils brothers, some awesome friends from Logan and some more of my family that live in Utah, oh and we got to put a swing set together that was fun too :)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Madison fishing in the logan river.</td></tr>
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Plenty of highlights plenty of activities and lots of work but it was still a really great Summer <strike>Vacation</strike> Trip!Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07769948877704163604noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6713919220672276196.post-70989733781691748492010-09-09T13:45:00.001-04:002011-03-19T21:50:24.361-04:00Best Vacation Ever... July 18 2010<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVsnXSwvXqwE5UTfPtyuTn_m5a3k2ROw4vS2DOvdT3SC-SFlG9m-MF2qtuS6y-eyWuAtiFj4bsS425X6qP8bU46EBlQ7JBR8KOle7e0mT4cBV3WH3KEZV6sdqBhzHYJ67BIbAIDR9ZZapa/s1600/DSCN5348.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Samantha loving the grass!</td></tr>
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</tbody></table>Our good friends and neighbors invited us (or maybe we invited ourselves thats a fuzzy line I guess) up to her parents house in Maine. They have a house on Frye Island in the middle of Sebago Lake, they use golf carts to get around! It was a great Vacation for a lot of reasons, we were not visiting family (I love you family but you know how it is) there was no site seeing and really nothing to do but swim, kayak, play games, and do nothing. So for 4 days that's what we did, a whole lot of nothing with good friends it was the best vacation ever, and I did not want to come home. Here are a few pictures from the week. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Puzzles and eating were the best past times!</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Madison thought it was cool she got to sit on my lap for the ferry ride!</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Phil and Dave Paddled around the whole Island!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What do you think, Christmas Card?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Baseball one afternoon just for fun!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Can't have a beach vacation without a sand castle!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Madison never got tired of playing in the water!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Right before we left (reluctantly) to come home.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The house we stayed at is a work in progress, but it was perfect!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kayaking was really fun! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Madison played in the water the whole time!</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span id="goog_483510465"></span><span id="goog_483510466"></span>Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07769948877704163604noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6713919220672276196.post-30604778824374391752010-07-27T22:02:00.011-04:002010-08-04T09:00:24.389-04:00Madison's 3rd Birthday<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6S76O1RvImqwRYY01FEa9osFL9d4JgVKbFJRp8NvdfQJRk-tFjwQf0s3VEKjMolpTum0e8fwXvBiCYVL2q7f97m9Z9CJOZVNpVbFgbcosiWdl2Gx_SpcDgYz4CQ2dgHS4eM0pYMhtPi6s/s1600/IMG_8723.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}">HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR SWEETIE PIE!</a></div><br />
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</a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAs0fFuoNt7vg-QCD49dJUgzkIncpLPdBUScWqjOaqvoMgsW4NeLTK62-Y5zbwqr1cZMgxnknpQLzNKKp1ERglH4xABTPT5qitO9UiFu0dlZTlrgsUAMllkoFtpNygiN38VOV-Rf8-5vKl/s1600/IMG_1336.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498998596907729186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAs0fFuoNt7vg-QCD49dJUgzkIncpLPdBUScWqjOaqvoMgsW4NeLTK62-Y5zbwqr1cZMgxnknpQLzNKKp1ERglH4xABTPT5qitO9UiFu0dlZTlrgsUAMllkoFtpNygiN38VOV-Rf8-5vKl/s320/IMG_1336.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Disclaimer:</span> This post is much longer and more detailed than I intended when I started, so proceed with caution as I am sure all these things are really only cute and interesting to me because I happen to be her mother.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCn1wklXnhIf33TYMQb6Ef1Wp6K1so8G5QjuQW1piYKwbMBzPiVc5iogo9cLRGM2PhdYv8g5hf_NMNowQDUNnpT6jLg0zQjSowT3hg7LQyMutKv0txxW-_07msn1c7XTy0uATeXPMKGByb/s1600/IMG_8863.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498988302618734914" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCn1wklXnhIf33TYMQb6Ef1Wp6K1so8G5QjuQW1piYKwbMBzPiVc5iogo9cLRGM2PhdYv8g5hf_NMNowQDUNnpT6jLg0zQjSowT3hg7LQyMutKv0txxW-_07msn1c7XTy0uATeXPMKGByb/s320/IMG_8863.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 214px;" /></a>Its hard to wrap my head around the fact that I have a three year old! I know its really no different than any other age and as she gets older I'm sure that feeling will continue to strike each year around the same time, but for now 3 seems so old.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKKOGLjx7j3Mb9WBPaTyl3VMGlLPsPLi7PLuAzq43rfJky2JERdv2kiYm3Z8sQ274u51wJwBqsrap7WAAQuox-RGjukJCLGlp4AZZ3jAuoa4GD16NShyphenhyphenujHQwns9VL9Smm9pYaQJca_0Cv/s1600/IMG_8868.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498988307195524658" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKKOGLjx7j3Mb9WBPaTyl3VMGlLPsPLi7PLuAzq43rfJky2JERdv2kiYm3Z8sQ274u51wJwBqsrap7WAAQuox-RGjukJCLGlp4AZZ3jAuoa4GD16NShyphenhyphenujHQwns9VL9Smm9pYaQJca_0Cv/s320/IMG_8868.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 214px;" /></a>For her birthday we were going to be in the car on our way to Maine so we decided to have some presents and sing to her around the breakfast table the day before and just tell her it was her birthday all day long to make her feel special. I know I am lame, but will she really ever know the difference? All she really cares about is that she got presents and that she is "three again" (that what she says when you ask her how old she is) or "three, like Lincoln and Benny." (her friends who each turned three a few months ago).<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM5rJ4nj4s5we_BsZAr87IVj_Bd3ZDFQiDnKSBQ-Q5jVzEpwO4ywimNpxo8lbMvOSNWmLRDh5cPCqQK47qGLenTHRYqKrjoYzp2epp-5z-guEfDTvJzQO9K-kN0Ll9CSm9OoPNqeUFhXAt/s1600/IMG_8858.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498988336129000082" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM5rJ4nj4s5we_BsZAr87IVj_Bd3ZDFQiDnKSBQ-Q5jVzEpwO4ywimNpxo8lbMvOSNWmLRDh5cPCqQK47qGLenTHRYqKrjoYzp2epp-5z-guEfDTvJzQO9K-kN0Ll9CSm9OoPNqeUFhXAt/s320/IMG_8858.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 161px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 241px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">I guess now is a good a time as any to jot down a few Madison-isms or things that make us smile, for my own record...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Ms. Know it all:</span> When you explain something new to her she always responds "yes" as though it is something she has known all along. Talking about telephone lines that we saw outside: Madison: "whats that?" Mom: "Those are telephone lines" Madison: "yes!" Mom: When someone calls you one the phone the sound travels though the lines so you can hear them" Madison: "yes!"<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf5qgxZMEUARf5FA3q1NiUq7UNMc-FYgBhvzzsIToaVg5E4xQ57VaTt529M7UO6KJugIj0uCeEDAnf8lEDx9a0G1FrjNHYhZb-1TwCYyem2aNfRuQdsaAy7lSzgrcSQl0NxbKGp8vuqixX/s1600/IMG_8881.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498988324607349986" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf5qgxZMEUARf5FA3q1NiUq7UNMc-FYgBhvzzsIToaVg5E4xQ57VaTt529M7UO6KJugIj0uCeEDAnf8lEDx9a0G1FrjNHYhZb-1TwCYyem2aNfRuQdsaAy7lSzgrcSQl0NxbKGp8vuqixX/s320/IMG_8881.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 214px;" /></a>This was her gift from Nana and Papa! She loves these books and CD's they are great for the car!<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Copy Cat:</span> She loves to make Samantha laugh and one way we have observed is by getting really close to her face and saying something like " hi chubbers", or "hi funder fighs" (thunder thighs) or just yesterday "Chubarino". All phrases she has heard from us, but she uses them on her own to address her sister regularly.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfXX3ujjYm1Hg5UnghIij3ro_RH0e8FL4NsBq8gFcUd0Lk98HmkkOjx4SqnxBD9WBmZWzOfT7r_Hf4VXFzn5Gmf6knz4VFLRtfLDTuNJj9MtpNuQkB-adVVX0txkyiW47FxMz0itwPLnXp/s1600/IMG_8875.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498988321007447506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfXX3ujjYm1Hg5UnghIij3ro_RH0e8FL4NsBq8gFcUd0Lk98HmkkOjx4SqnxBD9WBmZWzOfT7r_Hf4VXFzn5Gmf6knz4VFLRtfLDTuNJj9MtpNuQkB-adVVX0txkyiW47FxMz0itwPLnXp/s320/IMG_8875.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 214px;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Linguist:</span> She loves to sing and frequently I hear her singing a song that she is not totally clear on the words to and she will make up a word or merge words together to make is sound similar to the real words. I love to see the Temple: " A house of God a <span style="font-weight: bold;">pace </span>(place) of love and beauty, Ill <span style="font-weight: bold;">praypare</span> (prepare) myself while I am young this is my <span style="font-weight: bold;">secret beauty</span> (sacred duty)"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJaeIXhwMiLyzJ_TTmt8Q9LpjL6e3Rtah2AaQb7vYr8H0gOyg5Nf-xzjbDChBv861Ggj9528MiRGTAz6JFfVS5UeQ4v4YiNFq1benujexkvjrctrJnbhs4RJ7EQg22m8o-B8_CeUgYcMIq/s1600/DSCN5395.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498994991313753106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJaeIXhwMiLyzJ_TTmt8Q9LpjL6e3Rtah2AaQb7vYr8H0gOyg5Nf-xzjbDChBv861Ggj9528MiRGTAz6JFfVS5UeQ4v4YiNFq1benujexkvjrctrJnbhs4RJ7EQg22m8o-B8_CeUgYcMIq/s320/DSCN5395.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Singer/song writer: </span>She has funny habit of breaking out into random song about things she sees or hears (a trait which we have recently learned she shares with our 32 year old neighbor) Mostly it's the same phrase she just repeats over and over to her very own tune. "I like food, I like food I like food!"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6S76O1RvImqwRYY01FEa9osFL9d4JgVKbFJRp8NvdfQJRk-tFjwQf0s3VEKjMolpTum0e8fwXvBiCYVL2q7f97m9Z9CJOZVNpVbFgbcosiWdl2Gx_SpcDgYz4CQ2dgHS4eM0pYMhtPi6s/s1600/IMG_8723.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499005603811494626" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6S76O1RvImqwRYY01FEa9osFL9d4JgVKbFJRp8NvdfQJRk-tFjwQf0s3VEKjMolpTum0e8fwXvBiCYVL2q7f97m9Z9CJOZVNpVbFgbcosiWdl2Gx_SpcDgYz4CQ2dgHS4eM0pYMhtPi6s/s320/IMG_8723.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 214px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Commentator:</span> She will often just for the sake of talking narrate her every move,or whatever she sees. This particular trait seems to be fading, but for a while it was a running commentary on my day. " that chair is blue, I'm putting on my shirt, Samantha is happy, mommy is big I'm just small." that would be a typical sentence, if you can call it that!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkkU99zkrbEtYjn4aFtbTbkePz2xHDbPKQvc6Oj0pY6Hl-LVmwmQZ3Jr3iYksmy_VMD5o-m3zd41S1RzIJfPYooagweayjezqxO95BoduwnLnKVsmQ4HZ37OKin6gOh25OqDoZ9j4AXoPc/s1600/IMG_8426.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499005596993017762" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkkU99zkrbEtYjn4aFtbTbkePz2xHDbPKQvc6Oj0pY6Hl-LVmwmQZ3Jr3iYksmy_VMD5o-m3zd41S1RzIJfPYooagweayjezqxO95BoduwnLnKVsmQ4HZ37OKin6gOh25OqDoZ9j4AXoPc/s320/IMG_8426.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 228px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Eavesdropper:</span> She is very aware and pays attention a great deal to whats going on around her, and has a knack for recalling things. The week of her birthday we went boating and we all took turns on the tube she even rode with us for a short time. The next day we were talking about the tube and she said pointing to our neighbors one at a time and Phil, " I didn't fall off, and you fell off and you fell off and you fell off."<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIsMfleJcsEtlkPAkUMJFFM77hggUPauyx8KvAgtEJgEfSMReXF2KTorXFKeRirehyfx_pL_S4XRY66RZOrG2Lso-0dn73aPF8tsgG-WhEevAIkMNNDRyhTljFy8ggN-Oswo0nE4OdEtQN/s1600/DSCN5280.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498994955792616978" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIsMfleJcsEtlkPAkUMJFFM77hggUPauyx8KvAgtEJgEfSMReXF2KTorXFKeRirehyfx_pL_S4XRY66RZOrG2Lso-0dn73aPF8tsgG-WhEevAIkMNNDRyhTljFy8ggN-Oswo0nE4OdEtQN/s320/DSCN5280.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Swimmer:</span> Swimming (or water in any form) is her favorite activity, its the one thing she will do and will make her happy no matter her sate of mind or mood for that day. She has these great water wings that are a blessing and a curse, they make it so she can swim all over the pool totally independent and she even jumps in with them on by herself! The curse however is she thinks she can swim... and jump in by herself when she is not wearing them! So hopefully she doesn't get herself drowned before the end of the summer.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDkBXAmJjnXTECqq4_daqNlnbiNu4smyBa5JMOkjHNtrG8u-oYfFp9FVW-wk1Bt9nSUBZhwnHog3HK0Ljqd4EB7e5f7VqSPJwRRv7vfbThbeJCCRMA9uqn4MI4BVTECSydIV-5uNLGMHjD/s1600/IMG_1277.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498994982177799570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDkBXAmJjnXTECqq4_daqNlnbiNu4smyBa5JMOkjHNtrG8u-oYfFp9FVW-wk1Bt9nSUBZhwnHog3HK0Ljqd4EB7e5f7VqSPJwRRv7vfbThbeJCCRMA9uqn4MI4BVTECSydIV-5uNLGMHjD/s320/IMG_1277.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Debater:</span> She is great at entertaining herself and plays pretend on a regular basis. Just the other day however I overheard her arguing with herself. "Bop" "no don't say that" "Bop" "no don't say that" " but I want to say that" " I don't want you to say that." So, not sure what that says about her day to day interactions with me, but I thought it was pretty funny to hear.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHmc0P7OvyS5Uu2yEe5vjH5j2R-4-QrKPG8vSsE_W8epWYqdj8TEl6zlrnN02oMafewSwO7GEn3guHlihOzvG-eOb5ho-pQUGlq058O-8BQZu7pLCBJfqfN0z3bGtZ29AMOwNu4dH-yD6n/s1600/DSCN5355.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498994967823042370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHmc0P7OvyS5Uu2yEe5vjH5j2R-4-QrKPG8vSsE_W8epWYqdj8TEl6zlrnN02oMafewSwO7GEn3guHlihOzvG-eOb5ho-pQUGlq058O-8BQZu7pLCBJfqfN0z3bGtZ29AMOwNu4dH-yD6n/s320/DSCN5355.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cowgirl:</span> She loves to play anything and with anyone, one favorite game of recent is playing horse with dad anytime he is remotely close to being on his hands and knees she automatically assumes he is getting ready for her to climb on his back! Its really fun to watch, just last night she got on his back and as he trotted her into her room for bed shes says "giddy up horsey."<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggYyk6dP6kdvVG2dNQknNuZqiiH6Fw2uRq3ST3RH83shhs3Jjj9J1-glKmE8pU22vQw7UodsgkNmEoCaKeqp3lmYqpQe4dzi4XM-SBzfso5e27pAIYn_Kh8_9Ru9Ie0pQz21S5Hxhe_KxK/s1600/IMG_1291.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498998585539938354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggYyk6dP6kdvVG2dNQknNuZqiiH6Fw2uRq3ST3RH83shhs3Jjj9J1-glKmE8pU22vQw7UodsgkNmEoCaKeqp3lmYqpQe4dzi4XM-SBzfso5e27pAIYn_Kh8_9Ru9Ie0pQz21S5Hxhe_KxK/s320/IMG_1291.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Beautician:</span> Funny side note to that, while we were on vacation dad was trying to do her hair but she was resisting. He suggested she do his hair then he could do her hair, of course she agreed. Together we put some ponytails in dads hair and she looks and him and says between giggles "you look like a horse." It was very random and hilarious. I'm not sure if that came from the horsey rides or from my explanation of ponytails when we first started putting her hair up when she asked about the word ponytail I said something along the lines of " its like a horses' tail."<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMGwzXoGQpEIRyfvgQp0Z1RnIxtT3OU_iY_KdqBPptaH-z6S00Fdq-nSKyMQ2VrH1CMLZ3ieLP9C6J5EmRKA-mfa5aCDbJ5Mb4qpzS8LtEkR0k0_xb7zEzPJUciV-SDC7rNJDMW1RS7V02/s1600/IMG_1285.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498998570954085746" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMGwzXoGQpEIRyfvgQp0Z1RnIxtT3OU_iY_KdqBPptaH-z6S00Fdq-nSKyMQ2VrH1CMLZ3ieLP9C6J5EmRKA-mfa5aCDbJ5Mb4qpzS8LtEkR0k0_xb7zEzPJUciV-SDC7rNJDMW1RS7V02/s320/IMG_1285.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Entertainer:</span> One of her (ok maybe our) favorite games is pillow fights. These are usually one sided and mostly consists of Phil and whoever else is in the room entertaining themselves by chucking pillows at her as she runs around the room. She really gets a kick out of it as does everyone else.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD_d8msBFSo2tm9EVBnU8Sjr31Gn1TXAcu5PpCTT-SKYdyP1hI3kX146SSMuvf8oqmWgsPHSt8fyNbwlsIz0rIdlW3pf3sY1pF2TMrHliIRJql-MNho4OaM-GKKBasosV3M-VarQKVBddm/s1600/5-20-10+Madison+Painting.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499005593784411106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD_d8msBFSo2tm9EVBnU8Sjr31Gn1TXAcu5PpCTT-SKYdyP1hI3kX146SSMuvf8oqmWgsPHSt8fyNbwlsIz0rIdlW3pf3sY1pF2TMrHliIRJql-MNho4OaM-GKKBasosV3M-VarQKVBddm/s320/5-20-10+Madison+Painting.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 240px;" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Hide and seek</span> is a favorite that is slowing becoming a real game of hide and seek, for a long time you could simply count to 10 and say out loud " is Madison in the kitchen" and she would respond "nooo!" and that would continue until you said where she was and she would emerge giggling hysterically. Now, however she is getting very good at staying hidden until you actually find her, which usually isn't hard because if she hears you anywhere near her she can't stop laughing.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3uR_GSuzJB7Z1A98mttoTIGrxtWAhR-YLplcaYfJrZfWq-VBuVNnmK_6lDx5QPLzCKsvx31xnQ8LqU5MqfLd3nY4s-xpvQZf3_rhZ0W9v3cHZTTLqcQiNHtS-X8-hH7rZUj-5ddaK3MFI/s1600/DSCN5381.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498994972158149634" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3uR_GSuzJB7Z1A98mttoTIGrxtWAhR-YLplcaYfJrZfWq-VBuVNnmK_6lDx5QPLzCKsvx31xnQ8LqU5MqfLd3nY4s-xpvQZf3_rhZ0W9v3cHZTTLqcQiNHtS-X8-hH7rZUj-5ddaK3MFI/s320/DSCN5381.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Nursery</span> is one of Madison's Favorite places to be, it always has been which is such a blessing, and we frequently use it as a bride for good behavior. Just the other week Phil and I got distracted getting out of the chapel and when we turned around Madison was gone, shortly to find out she had made her own way to the nursery room.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">OCD: </span>I don't know that I would call it OCD exactly but Madison is very particular about certain things. For example when playing pretend if you join in with her you have to be sure to go through every step of pretend otherwise you will have to go back and repeat it. We were play driving in the living room, when we got out of our car and I forgot to open my door first, so we had to get back in and open it and then close it after we got out.<br />
Even the way things are arranged can set her off, sometimes she will stop mid sentence to identify that something else is out of place and must go fix it right that minute.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Dreamer:</span> At dinner each night we do this thing where we ask Madison what the favorite part of her day was and then she in turn asks each of us. When we first stared this little converstion starter she was pretty good about selecting something that actually happened that day, now however if she has not had a particularly exciting day she will always choose something more interesting from the past. For example "going to the pool with Claire and Benny" which mind you happened about a month ago and was her favorite part of the day every night for about a week straight after it happened and then again for a few days about a week ago. Telling us that going to the beach was her favorite part of the day, is an all time favorite that she uses regularly and up until last week the only time she had been the beach was when we went in California back in May. I guess I need to try and keep her days a bit more interesting.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">We love Madison to bits she is really fun to be around and the fact that she can carry on a conversation makes life all that more interesting to have her around! Happy Birthday Madison we love you!</span><br />
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When we got back from vacation Madison had a card in the Mail from her Nana and Papa and her great grandma and grandpa Capson. These cards were just as exciting for her to open as the presents and then she carried the cards around with her everywhere we went for about two whole days. Here is a little clip of opening one of the cards. The funny part about this one is Dad reads it to her and it says princess in it so she decides she needs to go get her princess outfit on so she can "be a princess" that's why she runs away at the end. <br />
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mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">750meter Swim 16.5mile Bike 3.1mile Run…</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">CHECK!</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><span style=""><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlV16WxKbUAAFl-sWnw5J7-EYkYRIcUQafumUIIxYp9t-kPs-TMiuMdCf0HaxOOQuM_954kL8Z8v6_XaVLLEO9xKZ5rxVNVJsWtdqdLzb18Ls_Rp80g19Jw4UrhroVv22QM-0J0wZQky7e/s1600/IMG_8211.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlV16WxKbUAAFl-sWnw5J7-EYkYRIcUQafumUIIxYp9t-kPs-TMiuMdCf0HaxOOQuM_954kL8Z8v6_XaVLLEO9xKZ5rxVNVJsWtdqdLzb18Ls_Rp80g19Jw4UrhroVv22QM-0J0wZQky7e/s320/IMG_8211.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492463372526524114" border="0" /></a></span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >I thought when I started this endeavor it would just be a good way to get back in shape after the baby. What I got was a really amazing experience all around. Here are a few things I gained from the experience that I did not expect and am so grateful for. </span>
<br /></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlFpNFGx9LraaP1OqNJ5Cic1PQ37rnG9AOxVvcNxvgw9U8_DnphcKSwO-_e04keHFRqrcUxjZRzz4RZIoV962I1nKDZWY5mbU_W7bmdZOWc_XyN8DD1dzK0Vf_cZssBarrUyoDv77d6JVg/s1600/IMG_8225.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlFpNFGx9LraaP1OqNJ5Cic1PQ37rnG9AOxVvcNxvgw9U8_DnphcKSwO-_e04keHFRqrcUxjZRzz4RZIoV962I1nKDZWY5mbU_W7bmdZOWc_XyN8DD1dzK0Vf_cZssBarrUyoDv77d6JVg/s320/IMG_8225.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492460680211370226" border="0" /></a>1. An amazing workout partner and friendship with an amazing woman! <span style=""> </span>Thanks for everything Lauren, you are the best and I in no way could have or would have done this without you!
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An incredibly supportive and loving husband. <span style=""> </span>I’ve had this all along, it just became more and more clear to me as the weeks went on in my training. I repeatedly asked him to give up his workout mornings so that I could go swim, run, ect. He also encouraged my long Saturday workouts while he watched the kids. None of this compares to his willingness to drive out to the race with me and agree to take the kids camping while I went and stayed in a hotel. <span style=""> </span>Even though he only got an hour of sleep and got totally drenched in the overnight downpour he never spoke one negative syllable about the weekend! I love you Phil and could never do or be anything that I am without you and your continual support!</span></p>
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With each race I do I gain a greater understanding of my abilities and what my body is truly capable of.<span style=""> </span>About 2 minutes into the swim I thought I was done, but a few back strokes and a doggie paddles later I was able to finish and then go on to bike and run… crazy!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">7. All in all I think I learned I really like triathlons and when I went into this I thought it was going to be one of those that you check off the list but I am pretty sure this is not my last Triathlon!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Next? A full triathlon, hmm maybe I will have to get a road bike!</span></p> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB7OFkiEgexSKJYS7MxQjik3Z28iudxZ8JGkHu-cJabwtMT21z3ubCZm8owz1l1W0D1nz2pBhPu7mpW_Owi97fb5pterK40-qY6XHXiRiX_Xc-80_w96TyGDos_VLaR_EVKqRXQE6gssYr/s1600/IMG_8231.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB7OFkiEgexSKJYS7MxQjik3Z28iudxZ8JGkHu-cJabwtMT21z3ubCZm8owz1l1W0D1nz2pBhPu7mpW_Owi97fb5pterK40-qY6XHXiRiX_Xc-80_w96TyGDos_VLaR_EVKqRXQE6gssYr/s320/IMG_8231.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492460673465498114" border="0" /></a>
<br />There are a few more pics from the race here... if you notice in some of the bike pictures you can see the girl behind me walking! Yeah that's right and she wasn't the only one!! (you have to celebrate the small triumphs in life right!)
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<br />We were able to get in a few s'mores just before the rain, thunder and lighting... got too bad! :)
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<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxX_beoG13ACkQRCl_Eqt1z114ZDuOLlfTxlLg-bziIgfFf0Dd7lKb-e3dNVFQoM3E7U5zihW1o8X0eF4wT46z_iW8Q9h4MxGO1oI_fvpF4jQ_zPlXLKSDS6DUsj_89wAIptAFAltjGNR-/s1600/IMG_8181.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxX_beoG13ACkQRCl_Eqt1z114ZDuOLlfTxlLg-bziIgfFf0Dd7lKb-e3dNVFQoM3E7U5zihW1o8X0eF4wT46z_iW8Q9h4MxGO1oI_fvpF4jQ_zPlXLKSDS6DUsj_89wAIptAFAltjGNR-/s320/IMG_8181.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492467631161287570" border="0" /></a>Some of us like to "camp" in comfort!
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<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzk3k1OXtfOTSDs0epSLpJ4TrKJGWEEQLJLPqMVysAAHgVTO_5dZjVLORwgBfZ_xPrA1JOYYQIU1JGbHtQM7Ogyu-aYl9cTdoT1XHZRUxJG-kqa0rMIRJ9ekXQBNdrDPaFz3CVXtuTHH-M/s1600/IMG_8194.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzk3k1OXtfOTSDs0epSLpJ4TrKJGWEEQLJLPqMVysAAHgVTO_5dZjVLORwgBfZ_xPrA1JOYYQIU1JGbHtQM7Ogyu-aYl9cTdoT1XHZRUxJG-kqa0rMIRJ9ekXQBNdrDPaFz3CVXtuTHH-M/s320/IMG_8194.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492463408606376722" border="0" /></a>Doesn't that just make you with you were still a kid!
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<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzW7rznn2NyXoxFRXmDbG3rGJ9R5RJzi4qEZWAg_aYgbJC7HVKdku2cFUYxKk9V3sw3aGvIl-wgluJk_Q-6lFtGR1Gayix6scsfDc5fOpN4Gh5v5G1ug_JgJj8OiU0m9JMy_oP5Xo-AqRJ/s1600/IMG_8197.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzW7rznn2NyXoxFRXmDbG3rGJ9R5RJzi4qEZWAg_aYgbJC7HVKdku2cFUYxKk9V3sw3aGvIl-wgluJk_Q-6lFtGR1Gayix6scsfDc5fOpN4Gh5v5G1ug_JgJj8OiU0m9JMy_oP5Xo-AqRJ/s320/IMG_8197.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492463390676190450" border="0" /></a>Oh wait, maybe not so much! Yes that is her hair attached to the marshmallow roasting sick!
<br />Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07769948877704163604noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6713919220672276196.post-17302668132783434122010-05-27T21:13:00.010-04:002010-07-05T12:48:37.857-04:00Ray's baby blessingMy Nephew Raymond was being blessed in California and I had the week off from watching little Ryan so I decided to venture to California with the girls to see my parents and spend some time with my brother and his family. It was a really fun week for me and I think Madison enjoyed herself very much also. The only part I would have changed was flying alone, that was not so fun at least not on the way home when Madison had had enough and was just tired, but it was worth it in the end!<br /><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8U3Idh13sVLQUMhMStBbWt5nfhX_f1S9cCI0ZCHz7C3wIq8JKepcjJrJXKFz_eFp-gxtz73uaAs1GO4xRO7sBDphyfbk3NmWFGv8qgC1-S4mjTBRuZwtA0zpJIiOw4TAEOMSZi0bGz7-I/s1600/DSCN5203.JPG"><img alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8U3Idh13sVLQUMhMStBbWt5nfhX_f1S9cCI0ZCHz7C3wIq8JKepcjJrJXKFz_eFp-gxtz73uaAs1GO4xRO7sBDphyfbk3NmWFGv8qgC1-S4mjTBRuZwtA0zpJIiOw4TAEOMSZi0bGz7-I/s320/DSCN5203.JPG" border="0" /></a> </div>These are well over due also but I do want to make an account of it because it was such a fun trip. In Madison and Samantha were wonderful on the plane ride out, Madison found various was to entertain herself...<br /><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDuFtwDfkQuaj-SZtpG80R1pJic7K4BCXLwZR8MddgudmQPPKxWfrYSyOWgzCPInt8GK13t1eZt-wb2UHZFj5XpLXLL-FHRvGh9CKMLZfmKrvu3MaPROktrBiX6wqBM4N5TarQVMxpjZll/s1600/DSCN5205.JPG"><img alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDuFtwDfkQuaj-SZtpG80R1pJic7K4BCXLwZR8MddgudmQPPKxWfrYSyOWgzCPInt8GK13t1eZt-wb2UHZFj5XpLXLL-FHRvGh9CKMLZfmKrvu3MaPROktrBiX6wqBM4N5TarQVMxpjZll/s320/DSCN5205.JPG" border="0" /></a> </div><br /><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicSfBA89SgTgqzb5lUCEOCuq7kEwUmna4yDsZq-4Hd9czYiH_zuhpnN3SGw_w2h4YC_66UMxteS1BTPGrIyybJKaHWStN0GjxHD-IvcTMFT4EPcgrXh1VmXTOcY6jGBhxxv68FTF7WT_rQ/s1600/DSCN5208.JPG"><img alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicSfBA89SgTgqzb5lUCEOCuq7kEwUmna4yDsZq-4Hd9czYiH_zuhpnN3SGw_w2h4YC_66UMxteS1BTPGrIyybJKaHWStN0GjxHD-IvcTMFT4EPcgrXh1VmXTOcY6jGBhxxv68FTF7WT_rQ/s320/DSCN5208.JPG" border="0" /></a> </div>Samantha took a nap on the floor under our feet! I don't think the flight attendants like it very much, but it was nice to not have to hold her for the whole time she gets very sweaty and she is 15lbs!<br /><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDoxV2EfwhB5TMGuUh1Jr06i8DJAhgDPr3NS1dCc1cUjbL8mZTO2XBAEjA4ooS-IwHGHNRZy1yYMS9DYfmpmvyMe3w2ZwxiY9MOH8-QYH2U7zGATFDx_3aap0qW45JXxWwmxUT6c02ajB4/s1600/DSCN5212.JPG"><img alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDoxV2EfwhB5TMGuUh1Jr06i8DJAhgDPr3NS1dCc1cUjbL8mZTO2XBAEjA4ooS-IwHGHNRZy1yYMS9DYfmpmvyMe3w2ZwxiY9MOH8-QYH2U7zGATFDx_3aap0qW45JXxWwmxUT6c02ajB4/s320/DSCN5212.JPG" border="0" /></a> </div><br />Baby Ray and Baby Samantha ready to go to the Aquarium. Madison and Mya had a blast together the whole week.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaaWxsnRC3PYLjBgsFZ-sbOWUp8FcECN8QGVDdXygeFtADNs13y9aDSUeWICV0fEfBqaW5ELAFjVCM0qkfghmTJofKcl6R6ZWeE3pW6aReE3SEVvjo57JMxW2zY3wWipQh03J4Uy7aYgS7/s1600/IMG_7424-1.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaaWxsnRC3PYLjBgsFZ-sbOWUp8FcECN8QGVDdXygeFtADNs13y9aDSUeWICV0fEfBqaW5ELAFjVCM0qkfghmTJofKcl6R6ZWeE3pW6aReE3SEVvjo57JMxW2zY3wWipQh03J4Uy7aYgS7/s320/IMG_7424-1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490455333028079234" border="0" /></a>The reason we went out! Little baby Ray! So sweet and so little... well not anymore but he was when we went out!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu4TGvtBgGT9onwEVDqnJPS6WlqcviYw2ZCcKW73oybJ6KaYI7zgY5m0gTYhCPPgYa7iTT1sGCNBlJ6r9nUIUu5gaqVfADrZezFym5wxX9iUXhUSfa9ifNKh-Ifz1f39u6dsHHGiNsAlKD/s1600/IMG_7385.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 229px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu4TGvtBgGT9onwEVDqnJPS6WlqcviYw2ZCcKW73oybJ6KaYI7zgY5m0gTYhCPPgYa7iTT1sGCNBlJ6r9nUIUu5gaqVfADrZezFym5wxX9iUXhUSfa9ifNKh-Ifz1f39u6dsHHGiNsAlKD/s320/IMG_7385.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490455331756582946" border="0" /></a>Maya and Madison watching the fish at the Aquarium.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifratt07io7fHwJ_lzRc4Y7ClKkuEJJz6bVHozFxQ8jg2DS3eJ0Ly0Zo9_m6KZxrAnmX1lxEqSV02HADKXkZgWMfxxCqCjOvG0Mugksku1W6kGjIRCiAqLRBUExL1_oEa5EEQ_3iT6xa9F/s1600/IMG_7374.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifratt07io7fHwJ_lzRc4Y7ClKkuEJJz6bVHozFxQ8jg2DS3eJ0Ly0Zo9_m6KZxrAnmX1lxEqSV02HADKXkZgWMfxxCqCjOvG0Mugksku1W6kGjIRCiAqLRBUExL1_oEa5EEQ_3iT6xa9F/s320/IMG_7374.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490455319191725522" border="0" /></a>Nana teaching Madison about roses.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiyy-PZB8JGam1kob10ASjhy7OAiFaYVfEa9kX_WTsO7ckXiE4TsSeSNfjwuG5MYGOipwTepMSUuWomMc3NihKK2tGf8aLKMlqHPityf2dV-1wdmWNKUh2nfAuXFBDP-r_2t7c43KHmGR3/s1600/IMG_7367.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiyy-PZB8JGam1kob10ASjhy7OAiFaYVfEa9kX_WTsO7ckXiE4TsSeSNfjwuG5MYGOipwTepMSUuWomMc3NihKK2tGf8aLKMlqHPityf2dV-1wdmWNKUh2nfAuXFBDP-r_2t7c43KHmGR3/s320/IMG_7367.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490455314538766850" border="0" /></a>Madison playing crack the egg with Papa.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzgFSerp0j7lAZM7OVF8FKoHbzUmXhu0XOBCdcCuxVsVZEc1x3DYRYjTOiTTcjQI2sA4CsKZOcZQMFT3QUfim9_BKyaZAQaJwXcUI7MntXA5a7UyDzm2VGOBCVcC2-n8lhmp2hxrTVD4Tr/s1600/IMG_7338.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzgFSerp0j7lAZM7OVF8FKoHbzUmXhu0XOBCdcCuxVsVZEc1x3DYRYjTOiTTcjQI2sA4CsKZOcZQMFT3QUfim9_BKyaZAQaJwXcUI7MntXA5a7UyDzm2VGOBCVcC2-n8lhmp2hxrTVD4Tr/s320/IMG_7338.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490455305872345746" border="0" /></a><br />The beach was Madison's very favorite part she loves the water.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdwEkX02uJew9BRkx24yfAf25yPaIvseLWowSdoGM9ppQMGa1wU_b7IpSkl5q0u9k_PcN3ZRVhIItD3PLgG4_ryWJfjOeUlJEiedAcXYLdGHsWJCsSzGFQNZjjG8J_VTOu0WqlW7_m-NnX/s1600/IMG_7441.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdwEkX02uJew9BRkx24yfAf25yPaIvseLWowSdoGM9ppQMGa1wU_b7IpSkl5q0u9k_PcN3ZRVhIItD3PLgG4_ryWJfjOeUlJEiedAcXYLdGHsWJCsSzGFQNZjjG8J_VTOu0WqlW7_m-NnX/s320/IMG_7441.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490457153142748210" border="0" /></a>Take 1<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM55dIG-OGOXvWlivGEkb3rW2eLAU56I7sHOMOH1LTdl7SJk5cbCVfnr9N_JzATzrhH2OP0rGrvi1Lq3jVK-cv51Qo_ZjEQzpQUZSd46JOrMwqep0hDBEsdHggVJhWVRQx17VNEbEvXSqv/s1600/IMG_7442.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM55dIG-OGOXvWlivGEkb3rW2eLAU56I7sHOMOH1LTdl7SJk5cbCVfnr9N_JzATzrhH2OP0rGrvi1Lq3jVK-cv51Qo_ZjEQzpQUZSd46JOrMwqep0hDBEsdHggVJhWVRQx17VNEbEvXSqv/s320/IMG_7442.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490457896788343330" border="0" /></a>Take 2<br /><br />This was actually very funny Mya was not happy about something and was letting us know that, when I pulled out the camera to snap a picture , as soon as she saw the camera the tantrum was no longer important enough to keep her from smiling! 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Travis Jen Mya and Ray<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdVo0ThwrQpWKhokl6Bm1sTE8SaE0bxs7dAJudRU81lyFb7jXcCmch5PpvOQrXHsj7aluWLZLXdJAiPE0oiKzJm0xOO7l3ipuZbAp1AxJ8YKikZmdaPO0AFvKUmK4_4L6hn-Pkgh3DzUce/s1600/IMG_7788.JPG"><br /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBOzfCTi5h7BODlq-h7Y6i9aqxUn1aCBpRI6wtt5jn6NjjYQsCeK5ZfsLGMdBaA2m82bWyvEDbFS-_bMluLP69z2jxGIrB852BJ_Q5yiRfUvUUKAqwJBsRtaK90MYTJx8x7tcyAcR3zwCc/s1600/IMG_7776.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBOzfCTi5h7BODlq-h7Y6i9aqxUn1aCBpRI6wtt5jn6NjjYQsCeK5ZfsLGMdBaA2m82bWyvEDbFS-_bMluLP69z2jxGIrB852BJ_Q5yiRfUvUUKAqwJBsRtaK90MYTJx8x7tcyAcR3zwCc/s320/IMG_7776.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490463531299834978" border="0" /></a>I thought this was a sweet picture!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6_q1APskmfi28pacqoE8v5AO3O4VF6q1Hh3bZmlrCMalCJ6r9JtINpINMiLCKGY9bg-JjBgPor6FORLnV9BBevFYMBmzd2VKNR5XVnScY0eRpUa71mKQUH18Zai9xUqOEHKdD2TS6Nk3K/s1600/IMG_7770.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6_q1APskmfi28pacqoE8v5AO3O4VF6q1Hh3bZmlrCMalCJ6r9JtINpINMiLCKGY9bg-JjBgPor6FORLnV9BBevFYMBmzd2VKNR5XVnScY0eRpUa71mKQUH18Zai9xUqOEHKdD2TS6Nk3K/s320/IMG_7770.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490463526824805378" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1pMhu_2acAxpn394q7inLUOvXsYu5lESmZxKqu36o37nF4RBjeNuzasZUGwvWbtOfpLPojigFik2lCn9mVDRyMu2wNPZtPtXLczcOKi33dMclZJMt9mNO30qUxJ40Wdmq3G_St8CwjAty/s1600/IMG_7759.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1pMhu_2acAxpn394q7inLUOvXsYu5lESmZxKqu36o37nF4RBjeNuzasZUGwvWbtOfpLPojigFik2lCn9mVDRyMu2wNPZtPtXLczcOKi33dMclZJMt9mNO30qUxJ40Wdmq3G_St8CwjAty/s320/IMG_7759.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490463521528247314" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCRszg3NJnWfq9RAUPnMnRE0QFPNCQ3GmE5c1x7D5esR7N2Vv1VTHNKEp-zSCNk-kVljL9zbugvRXP7EwC0zW1Vfwugz1Fgn6vF26gQc7ETWL0X5M8_6YZw_Q_MQhaYd2KXipsaw_4fxYm/s1600/IMG_7613.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCRszg3NJnWfq9RAUPnMnRE0QFPNCQ3GmE5c1x7D5esR7N2Vv1VTHNKEp-zSCNk-kVljL9zbugvRXP7EwC0zW1Vfwugz1Fgn6vF26gQc7ETWL0X5M8_6YZw_Q_MQhaYd2KXipsaw_4fxYm/s320/IMG_7613.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490463514245452354" border="0" /></a>Papa with Madison and Cousin Mya!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdVo0ThwrQpWKhokl6Bm1sTE8SaE0bxs7dAJudRU81lyFb7jXcCmch5PpvOQrXHsj7aluWLZLXdJAiPE0oiKzJm0xOO7l3ipuZbAp1AxJ8YKikZmdaPO0AFvKUmK4_4L6hn-Pkgh3DzUce/s1600/IMG_7788.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdVo0ThwrQpWKhokl6Bm1sTE8SaE0bxs7dAJudRU81lyFb7jXcCmch5PpvOQrXHsj7aluWLZLXdJAiPE0oiKzJm0xOO7l3ipuZbAp1AxJ8YKikZmdaPO0AFvKUmK4_4L6hn-Pkgh3DzUce/s320/IMG_7788.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490463542575427506" border="0" /></a>Being at my mom and dads house really made me want a backyard! Most of the time we were there Madison just ran around in the yard, jumped on the tramp, and played on the swing set!Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07769948877704163604noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6713919220672276196.post-69503760059161809112010-05-12T13:50:00.000-04:002010-05-12T14:11:46.657-04:00Just to Catch up...I have to post these pictures just so I can catch up and move on, plus its what justifies all the picture taking if I have something to use them for...<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);font-family:courier new;font-size:180%;" >Rock Climbing...</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf9TXB1AhRHz9GQpxI4eyUH9cJvaUJrN8v6btQW8sWVtVd88runUH9lsJijMBBUpozwlosib0SlVx2r0iHXXjyVM-5yzrp5JWsEG9yKY2cylwbk91ZU30W8xHGuhNzT7M1OGK2YqcrxcrV/s1600/IMG_6364.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf9TXB1AhRHz9GQpxI4eyUH9cJvaUJrN8v6btQW8sWVtVd88runUH9lsJijMBBUpozwlosib0SlVx2r0iHXXjyVM-5yzrp5JWsEG9yKY2cylwbk91ZU30W8xHGuhNzT7M1OGK2YqcrxcrV/s320/IMG_6364.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470428994352306066" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixZ2ewYOneu9pNt70vd_cVeubCwA-yPRfsrtPri8pX6NCXXFFWhtar7jt39CLu6-benDeduA_0IMh27MdZ7E5ahSsG9H0fVwGqRPa4XQgY6vd0vXcfGFcZOpPEB-YXzsEbJC1G-ECNYCmW/s1600/IMG_6369.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixZ2ewYOneu9pNt70vd_cVeubCwA-yPRfsrtPri8pX6NCXXFFWhtar7jt39CLu6-benDeduA_0IMh27MdZ7E5ahSsG9H0fVwGqRPa4XQgY6vd0vXcfGFcZOpPEB-YXzsEbJC1G-ECNYCmW/s320/IMG_6369.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470428996954769618" border="0" /></a>We have discovered it pays to have friends that are willing to come rock climbing with us! The extra babysitters make all the difference.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 255);font-family:courier new;font-size:180%;" >Easter...</span><br /><br />I know I'm a little late on this one but we did do a little bit of Easter even if it was last minute.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX5GM1_0Qyt3qdFUVWCf5R2EeRoGq5B9yK5YV1vAdoXndFqlHP_qfsRhkUI6peE1ESHlw4hMuCkgrite5-yYmDUmnVqJSCPkWTASQ8X29Lq3naoGu9hyGNxy1PPvIIhQBoPoQzauD_B5b_/s1600/IMG_6384.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX5GM1_0Qyt3qdFUVWCf5R2EeRoGq5B9yK5YV1vAdoXndFqlHP_qfsRhkUI6peE1ESHlw4hMuCkgrite5-yYmDUmnVqJSCPkWTASQ8X29Lq3naoGu9hyGNxy1PPvIIhQBoPoQzauD_B5b_/s320/IMG_6384.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470429006716058978" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidXw6mD0Qe5TROoxKFa5AbO6-KsQt0vgPkCXHAZ-uT1QXB14CkHEyrNhcSymkc21Vj5mbUbsG-1bTQw6GmnzKkwB7jmzISos_X-aLIGbZGy0b2vqD2WaDf93X7K3oIQ9iMMArUYr1FAh35/s1600/IMG_6390.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidXw6mD0Qe5TROoxKFa5AbO6-KsQt0vgPkCXHAZ-uT1QXB14CkHEyrNhcSymkc21Vj5mbUbsG-1bTQw6GmnzKkwB7jmzISos_X-aLIGbZGy0b2vqD2WaDf93X7K3oIQ9iMMArUYr1FAh35/s320/IMG_6390.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470429017138658834" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcjcgek_qyBMlr5h2quL01xqToNOKF5cQEj7PCJ6IxPMrCcznQtCWd-4Plx1fEZJuSF0jHw4njWdd1Q8IHpRUkNr_vW2i1gNYP7eb6WxJ1_Ah2Bc21tvV74BTrI_iNzu9LURHEZbq69lQ9/s1600/IMG_6392.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 279px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcjcgek_qyBMlr5h2quL01xqToNOKF5cQEj7PCJ6IxPMrCcznQtCWd-4Plx1fEZJuSF0jHw4njWdd1Q8IHpRUkNr_vW2i1gNYP7eb6WxJ1_Ah2Bc21tvV74BTrI_iNzu9LURHEZbq69lQ9/s320/IMG_6392.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470429014671729826" border="0" /></a>Thanks to our awesome neighbors for joining us and making all that much more fun!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBoZs3OToxAx9_B9O5NYkVDS6Y2fWpSDKnxzDfrEr4SMGscBrhhoQp_NOpcHDR7V2rMmt7izAbScWPXuMtewlJZv-erqbyZ5sevVXjRkpJMb-kYiKSMPk5O8jwpF70kVne687zR1rU0emJ/s1600/IMG_6409.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBoZs3OToxAx9_B9O5NYkVDS6Y2fWpSDKnxzDfrEr4SMGscBrhhoQp_NOpcHDR7V2rMmt7izAbScWPXuMtewlJZv-erqbyZ5sevVXjRkpJMb-kYiKSMPk5O8jwpF70kVne687zR1rU0emJ/s320/IMG_6409.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470430802367423938" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieuhTtaXM3Ed_eeX0Xa2o5xv3_Li4M2ktrYz3wkGvw9r_C0_FmdvdPL9xHyywK14pxfRHjPVOlwstmbl1JREVKkDO7wPZDSyCa09pRW0xph4999X_uoiYF_F1T8tgTxUB1MP4gQtHnfNSz/s1600/IMG_6411.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieuhTtaXM3Ed_eeX0Xa2o5xv3_Li4M2ktrYz3wkGvw9r_C0_FmdvdPL9xHyywK14pxfRHjPVOlwstmbl1JREVKkDO7wPZDSyCa09pRW0xph4999X_uoiYF_F1T8tgTxUB1MP4gQtHnfNSz/s320/IMG_6411.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470430794932330498" border="0" /></a><br />The kids went on an Easter egg hunt 10 minutes after dyeing them in our 5x5 plot of grass outside our patio. 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margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu2DXdCpLNUiWSJRTpSbNN0WWCglkprT5t1xfM2UGbNrOj31M1UXdeT1jj1sLsS2M6fDi4DZI7NbYnftP5-f4ZYZCM7PYAdxDkjCUDqzwV90oXIzZAWPa90q1O-D8IEymLBQy7vtrww68F/s320/IMG_6395.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470430771298351554" border="0" /></a>The dyeing part was a little messy but its not fun unless you get a little dirty right!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ-BJko-0u4G8zeNQFPHK_ny-HcNc4omcBhyphenhyphennxYjONp18abABKu4CX93xu9jyGLJ2W__bzpsfNBhcVT_BTVoz1EJC0plMnivQndi6opHvR7ZIndCJuYN6GI13YkYEK20VeKJFIpYQyf3Zd/s1600/IMG_6396.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 216px; height: 144px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ-BJko-0u4G8zeNQFPHK_ny-HcNc4omcBhyphenhyphennxYjONp18abABKu4CX93xu9jyGLJ2W__bzpsfNBhcVT_BTVoz1EJC0plMnivQndi6opHvR7ZIndCJuYN6GI13YkYEK20VeKJFIpYQyf3Zd/s320/IMG_6396.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470430776146717618" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdrX1RIQe5Olov-UZCHxai3-nbark82JZT2AotvRspFnkipD2roxMGLu2zVSVQx38yPffLlXUXZKGDpZcGWH1VKHw3-Win0ULSNG7KGGszZSOr37F7O0uaGZUKMkoBqndPx-9XJ8stDxs0/s1600/IMG_7265.JPG"><br /></a><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:courier new;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Chubbers putting on the Chubb!</span><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >She was 15lbs 9.5oz at her 4 month check up. We even went in for it a week early... gotta love the chubb!</span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQXhK2xCAjADalbqgqlDI2BXDgWm8-xAilQ-4zZ7MWe7ow-xRdhYMD8mWFVHTmYubBicvAc_C_fEpDVwctRhJaoCYHXXYroufXBUplXSrsDgWZfjc51uwX0ey2QOXAqj6li8B2PcxjmAsl/s1600/IMG_7304.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQXhK2xCAjADalbqgqlDI2BXDgWm8-xAilQ-4zZ7MWe7ow-xRdhYMD8mWFVHTmYubBicvAc_C_fEpDVwctRhJaoCYHXXYroufXBUplXSrsDgWZfjc51uwX0ey2QOXAqj6li8B2PcxjmAsl/s320/IMG_7304.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470434804860637042" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-family:courier new;">Old town with Friends...</span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf6m5t9K_XROLftV9uP6dHqqkyCByzeAEAbTU6myc3rvYuZKbuXblQuYoZha9Td8Hoibp1lmIZCDixyb3fnlxlR6a6EQt_21hy1KctJK1MK0b43uVJellRTS4wu0wGarP8OVqpYfyH-myZ/s1600/IMG_6541.JPG"><img style="display: block; 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margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZtptrMUOuGTYnCeo_rX7CFNatHC0JlXAsN-JRxBlTU-D0tDFUeI_RcDOCaOth9_pTymFY7sUnZDkyexMUFgAkLvgPTx8hYVgUjLCgeKA8yWS3FRUDl9UsWiXoXOkbSa59-f-PLgWtAQ1l/s320/DSCN5197.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470434813602284722" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);font-family:courier new;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">More big sister time!</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLTLcJ5unZvdrJsAZO7Xe2t5QLQrcs0RnGEoHbgN_Ppwl37i_2xzv9iLNhxpFKN9Arf_YM90DxG0kNi9t0p4Trkdm-hAkHlhDS0acnNGCNoV9UwTu4dGOt3hizyilOXRGZ-GFXaOu-W1F9/s1600/IMG_7296.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLTLcJ5unZvdrJsAZO7Xe2t5QLQrcs0RnGEoHbgN_Ppwl37i_2xzv9iLNhxpFKN9Arf_YM90DxG0kNi9t0p4Trkdm-hAkHlhDS0acnNGCNoV9UwTu4dGOt3hizyilOXRGZ-GFXaOu-W1F9/s320/IMG_7296.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470434790156706674" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" ><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-family:courier new;" >Our little Easter bunny!</span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdrX1RIQe5Olov-UZCHxai3-nbark82JZT2AotvRspFnkipD2roxMGLu2zVSVQx38yPffLlXUXZKGDpZcGWH1VKHw3-Win0ULSNG7KGGszZSOr37F7O0uaGZUKMkoBqndPx-9XJ8stDxs0/s1600/IMG_7265.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdrX1RIQe5Olov-UZCHxai3-nbark82JZT2AotvRspFnkipD2roxMGLu2zVSVQx38yPffLlXUXZKGDpZcGWH1VKHw3-Win0ULSNG7KGGszZSOr37F7O0uaGZUKMkoBqndPx-9XJ8stDxs0/s320/IMG_7265.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470433622616885410" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 255);font-family:courier new;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">The new princess phase...</span><br /></span><br />I always said I didn't want my girls to be girly girls, no princess stuff no pink etc etc... Well when all you get for your baby shower is pink and all the kids in the neighborhood give their princess dress ups to you for free what can you do... They both wear pink on a regular basis and I think the princess dresses are Madison's favorite thing to play with. The first day she had it she wouldn't take it off we had to bribe her just to get it off for bedtime.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiww6pH6-8wRwWipcdkK9mswZaUiD0oDHnUogXMFtY2niNEFFs7MV5IEfEfWCd8G_Ieal7frAao3UOsL8qPNLKb1qbfxPHkOppcgAAeHzM7iJ343xpUfv2W_Ju6-l5BnJPRt4VhvmE0dnK9/s1600/IMG_7832.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiww6pH6-8wRwWipcdkK9mswZaUiD0oDHnUogXMFtY2niNEFFs7MV5IEfEfWCd8G_Ieal7frAao3UOsL8qPNLKb1qbfxPHkOppcgAAeHzM7iJ343xpUfv2W_Ju6-l5BnJPRt4VhvmE0dnK9/s320/IMG_7832.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470439024541874082" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);font-family:courier new;font-size:180%;" >Phil's 30...</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFua-TNJnCUl_7g01eZ_s6h2QwQ48HgaCVm_ect7vrCC56gR5Y8wC-2vtLFbGNo6HHLoYtn89GeysEXxHMqm7i_JaaIvw8NhjBkeyOA5eO3l8L0xUxilV8K4HcacO5zKMUFfxrWqfdKh9i/s1600/IMG_7326.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFua-TNJnCUl_7g01eZ_s6h2QwQ48HgaCVm_ect7vrCC56gR5Y8wC-2vtLFbGNo6HHLoYtn89GeysEXxHMqm7i_JaaIvw8NhjBkeyOA5eO3l8L0xUxilV8K4HcacO5zKMUFfxrWqfdKh9i/s320/IMG_7326.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470439462043212370" border="0" /></a>They even sang to him and everything!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgscGMY9dNb370fV3kHgpD2U9OE8HxZBCKZlW_d3prJYesKm14IYZMLfwBp4Yvhny7Ij7L9xfxee90lDE9mpSo-qKYvDX0inNfaDe2LliJKL-KgVaHAUoWDxqLg_gTOUi-ZJb6hvWQ9tCzc/s1600/IMG_7318.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgscGMY9dNb370fV3kHgpD2U9OE8HxZBCKZlW_d3prJYesKm14IYZMLfwBp4Yvhny7Ij7L9xfxee90lDE9mpSo-qKYvDX0inNfaDe2LliJKL-KgVaHAUoWDxqLg_gTOUi-ZJb6hvWQ9tCzc/s320/IMG_7318.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470439455235995922" border="0" /></a><br />I got to surprise him pretty good, we went to dinner and I had invited a bunch of our friends to meet us there, he had no idea. It was a fun night.Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07769948877704163604noreply@blogger.com2