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September 4 2016

On a Mission

A year ago we found out my parents would be serving as mission president and wife and would leave this past June. They were assigned to serve in the California Carlsbad mission.

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While I have been in mourning that they wouldn’t be around for the next three years, the mission call did come with some perks. We were able to go with them when they were set apart by Elder Andersen and Elder Christensen. We gathered in the room where the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve have their meetings:

It was really inspiring to watch my parents prepare so intensely for this service. I had no idea how much preparation mission presidents and wives do before their missions, but the answer is A LOT. Exclamation point. Exclamation point.

All of my siblings and their families were able to come and spend time together before my parents left. We snapped some family and sibling pictures before everyone again scattered themselves across the country:

We had fun with the whole family in town doing a lot of “lasts” with my parents. We had a big family dinner:

We had a final Golden Corral experience:

My parents took us to Texas Roadhouse one last time and the girls got to sit in the saddle to celebrate their birthdays:

My kids had Grandpa give them airplane rides to our car one last time:

While Laurie and her kids were still here we had even more fun at the Discovery Gateway museum:

We took the Texans to the mountains for a good ol’ Utah cookout:

Brooke was pretty proud of this slime ball she made:

We also hit up our neighborhood splash pad:

And just like that my parents have already been out on their mission for over 2 months! Just 34 to go!

July 31 2016

Fairy Forest Fun

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A few weeks ago our friends asked if we had any plans for the day. Our answer was no, so they invited us to meet them at the Fairy Forest in Kamas. It was magical!

We loved walking around looking at all the painted rocks and fairy homes.

The kids had a great time throwing rocks in the river:

Afterwords we ate at a local restaurant. We banished the kids to their own table:

We let the baby girls choose some jukebox tunes:

And that freed us up enough to take a selfie:

July 26 2016

The Kids Said…

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Madison (wanting more lasagna): “More Elsa Anna please.”

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Madison was sitting in the shopping cart and was unable to reach a bag of gummy bears on the shelf. After squirming and grunting and yelping she said in exasperation trying to find the right words, “Mom! I need it touching my hand!”

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Madison was a little feverish.

Me: “Do you want some medicine?”

Madison whipped her head around to look at me and said forcefully, “Are you crazy?! It’s MADison, not MEDicine.”

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Spencer: “Madison was crying so much it was raining cats and dogs on her face!”

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Spencer: “I had a dream about dinosaurs. My dream production was working quite well that time.”

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We were in the car listening to kid songs. “Rock-a-bye Baby” came on.

Brooke: “The cradle will fall?! This is a really dangerous lullaby.”

July 24 2016

Potpourri

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We’ll start off this round of potpourri with two sleeping Spencer pictures:

I liked how he was using his pillowcase as a blanket here:

Madison: “Mom! Take my picture!” Sure thing, cutie:

Accessorizing with Lego pieces:

Give him a place to sit and a million Matchbox cars to look at, and you’ve got yourself a happy camper:

Caroline is so sweet to Madison:

Spencer was racing his cars and used the diapers and papers to designate 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places:

Madison has turned into a scratcher. Spencer was her victim:

Bear just taking a load off:

Loving Caroline’s drawn in faces:

One day Brooke was trying to write a story. She had a stack of blank papers in front of her and an agitated look on her face.

Me: “What’s up?”

Brooke: “I just don’t know what the title of my book should be.”

Me: “Sometimes authors go ahead and write the story first and then come back and decide on a title later. You could do that.”

Brooke: “No. I need a title first.”

She then created the following post-it note for every person in the family to vote on what the title of her story should be. I was amused at how vastly different each of her options were. Decisions, decisions: