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Tommy’s Birthday–Better Late than Never
About Christmas time I started feeling much better (no more morning sickness) so when Tommy’s birthday rolled around right after the new year (sheesh. It has taken me five months just to get around to posting about this!) I felt ambitious enough to make the famous puppy cupcakes for this second birthday. Too bad…
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Pregnancy update
Okay. So this is a few weeks back. This is my profile at 25 weeks. Almost 28 weeks 33 weeks (this was today). 7 weeks to go until the due date! There comes a point in my pregnancy where on Sundays I choose skirts and no more dresses. You can imagine the tent/hugeness of…
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Our random lives
Lucy LOVES doing puzzles. Here is one she wanted me to document. She makes what she calls a puzzle museum. I will have to post a picture of her “puzzle museum.” One of the ways the girls spent their time together over Christmas break. I love how Lucy is dressed up so fancy! My…
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Science Fair Projects
Last year was our first year to do a science fair project with our kids. I don’t think I ever posted about it. Matthew’s project last year was “Does electricity travel through salt water or tap water better?” He got first in his class last year. We were very proud of him because this…
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Ten years
Matthew turned ten and we all enjoyed his cake. He chose a German Chocolate Turtle Cake. It has pecans, caramel, and chocolate melted inside. A bit of work and time and super rich, but so good. As you can see, Matthew was very happy about it. I love the part before we start singing…
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The rest of October
Of course the Halloween festivities are a huge part of October. Our little dragon Rapunzel And the other two – Hermione Granger and Darth Vader Beautiful autumn weather enjoyed with neighborhood wildlife Jenny in her perch. This girl loves to climb trees! Our Tommy Boy. I took some pictures of Matthew this day, too,…
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Number Five
So this post has been long in coming. I have been wanting to write it for over three months now. And now I finally am. We are expecting our fifth child June 30th! I was going to wait until next month when we find out the gender, but I couldn’t wait to just get it…
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Uncle Peter Comes Home from His Mission
My youngest brother Peter came home from the Canada Edmonton Mission the middle of October and I was able to driver over to Rexburg with the kids and surprise him at the airport and spend the weekend. We had a lot of fun and it sure was grand to see Pete again! We missed him,…
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Lucy’s birthday
Blowing out candles is so exciting! This little girl was so incredibly excited for her birthday. She had been counting down for months. Her excitement, of course, rubs off on everyone. This year we ended up spending her birthday in Billings with Grandma and Grandpa Loveland and Aunt Jenn and Sam. Lucy requested crepes with…
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Pumpkin Pie Oatmeal
To bring in the month of October, the “official” pumpkin month in our house, I made up this recipe for our breakfast. I was so pleased with how it turned out I had to share it here. It was delicious hot that morning, but even more delicious the next day when Lucy and I had…