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Why do I bother boying toys?
This is Tanner's favorite way to spend the day . . .He can go all day without playing with a single toy, as long as he can have the vacuum! He takes the plug and "plugs" it into the end of the...
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I'm Ca-ca!
In the last couple of weeks, Tanner has developed his own name for Kiersten. I don't even know exactly how to type it . . . the closest I can get to what it sounds like is "cu-cu," as if you were...
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A Family Af"FAIR"
A couple of years ago Kiersten and I enjoyed our first county fair. Last year we didn't make it, since we planned our Disneyland trip at about the same time the fair came to town. Kiersten regularly...
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Just Say "Hi"
A few weeks ago I was in the kitchen doing the dishes and I looked over the counter and saw Kiersten in the family room playing church with her dolls. I'm not sure what she was doing - she was either...
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My Rugged Outdoorsmen
Mother's Day weekend our ward held it's annual Fathers and Sons Camping Trip (officially called the Aaronic Priesthood Restoration Commemoration ). Nate and Tanner had a blast, of course!Nate will have...
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She's Graduated!
Kiersten has done a co-op preschool for the last 2 years (well, really Kiersten and I have done a co-op preschool!), and just last month she graduated. She'll start kindergarten on August 3rd, and I'm...
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Splishin' and a'Splashin!
I've been meaning to sign Kiersten up for swimming lessons for the last few years, but never seemed to get around to doing it. This year I finally got her signed up (well, actually my friend got her...
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Our First Monsoon of the Season
Last week we had our first monsoon of the season . . . Tanner was outside "helping" Nate cook dinner on the grill when it started raining. Next thing we knew, Tanner was darting out in the rain and...
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Kiersten's First Day of School
Yesterday was Kiersten's first day of kindergarten, and I'm not sure who was more excited - me or her! Since the bus picks her up at 6:50 am, we'd spent the week before school started practicing...
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More than He Bargained For!
The other day Nate agreed to grill hamburgers for dinner. What he didn't know was that a monsoon would hit right as he headed out to get the grill started. Poor guy, by the time the burgers were done,...
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A Little Overboard?!?!?
I love shopping for cute clothes for Kiersten, so I've been a little bummed with Kiersten starting school and them having to wear uniforms. Well, not really uniforms, but "uniform colors" it's called....
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What does Tanner do all day?
I've had several people ask me what Tanner does all day now that Kiersten is in school I thought this picture captured the essence of our days together pretty well . . .He loves to collect everything...
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I So Wasn't Ready for This!
With Kiersten starting Kindergarten this year, there were a lot of things I was psyching myself up for . . . when it came down to it, those weren't the things that ended up causing me the most stress!I...
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Letter to Santa
The other day Kiersten saw a mailbox at our community clubhouse collecting letters to Santa. She came home and sat right down and wrote the following letter . . .(Sorry about the folds - I couldn't...
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Catching up - Halloween
So it has been forever since I've been good about posting much about our crazy life, so here goes my attempt to catch up. In the past I've really gotten in to Halloween and Kiersten and I talk for...
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LOST!
In November we went to the dentist for our semi-annual cleaning. The hygienist noticed that one of Kiersten's bottom teeth was loose and told her to expect it to fall out sometime in January. It was...
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School is . . . Cancelled?
Thursday morning Nate and I woke up to something we haven't experienced in the 6 years we've lived here in southern Arizona - our pipes had frozen and we had no water (of course it would happen on the...
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Tanner's Favorite Book
Tanner loves stories, and loves being read to, and he also likes routines, especially when it comes to books. He gets on a kick and wants the same 2 books read every day at nap time and at bed time...
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Catching up - Tanner meets the Beach
(Just a warning - this is kind of a long post with LOTS of pictures. I'm posting this mostly for Grandmas' benefit!)Sometime last summer Nate commented on the fact that Tanner has never been to the...
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Oh la la! Kiersten is 6!
Once again far more time has gone by than I intended since my last post. Even though I haven't been blogging, I have been scrapbooking, so I thought I'd just post some pictures of scrapbook pages I've...
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My Special Mother by: Kiersten
For Mother's day each person in her class wrote about their mother. This is what she had to say about me:In case you can't read it, between the pencil and her spelling it is kind of hard to read, it...
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Menu for the Week
A couple of Sundays ago I came home from church with a migraine and went straight to bed. Nate was a sweetheart and took care of the kids and got dinner on so I could sleep. When I got up the next...
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Kiersten, the Author . . .
I know I should be blogging about Tanner since I wrote about Kiersten yesterday, but I don't have a lot of time this morning and wanted to get something up, and since I had these several quick, easy...
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Ever wonder about plastic in the oven?
Have you ever wondered what would happen if your 3-year-old fills your oven with plastic Tupperware because he's "baking cookies" and then you forget about them and then turn the oven on to heat...
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Ready for bed
Since I'm posting about Tanner, I thought I'd share another cute picture of him . . .He wouldn't get into bed to read stories (that night he'd chosen Flat Stanley, and he wanted to read the first and...
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