Thursday, January 31, 2013

Thanksgiving

We celebrated Thanksgiving in Gilbert with my parents and brother, Aaron and his family.  We bought a new camera the day before Thanksgiving and as you can see we were very excited to try it out!  You can see what kind of day it was – beautiful and sunny and full of fun with cousins.

 

All dressed up and ready (or not!) for the fun day…

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Testing out the camera….

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Sometimes I am so confused when I look at Stephen and see a big kid…where did my little Stephen go?

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In the midst of my epic project…embroidery for “the quilt.”

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These two are inseparable…they are the greatest playmates!

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We did enjoy a wonderful meal at some point that day too!  Do we have pictures of that?  No!

Sunday, December 23, 2012

November in a nutshell

We went to the Arizona Science Center.  The boys loved donning real lab coats, goggles and gloves to dig bone marrow out of cow bones…

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Those lab coats were not designed for maternity wear.

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About this time we decided our phone cameras take the crappiest pictures ever.

Case in point:

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I finished sewing my new pillows!

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They normally look like this:

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We discovered that Boston makes the most adorable and charming Superman:

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I mean, really.

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He also makes a hilarious clown.

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And a precious cowboy.  He rode a pony for the first time at the Fall Festival at Stephen’s school.

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Stephen also enjoyed his first pony ride.

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But really he is more of a pilgrim type.  He loves his new neon blue and orange shoes. 

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I got to feed him dinner one night since he wouldn’t eat it otherwise…don’t we look absolutely thrilled??  Tinfoil dinner with chicken, potatoes, and carrots.  I am so mean.

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Here is the “bad crib” I found on Craigslist.  I could go into the nasty details about it but we will suffice it to say that it was an epic Craigslist fail.  I had buyer’s remorse before we even had it loaded in the van.  Why did I get it?  I DON’T KNOW!!!  I cried for a few days about it.

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Then two or three days after the “bad crib purchase” I got a phone call from Babies-R-Us saying that I had won a free crib and $100 gift card.  Say what?  Since I didn’t recall entering any contests was skeptical at first but after a little phone call to verify that I hadn’t been hoaxed we rushed over and picked up our lovely new prize!  Isn’t she beautiful?  Just goes to show that even when I make dumb mistakes, Heavenly Father still loves me.

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Even with my bad use of precious money this month this lovely husband of mine never offered one critical word about it.  He is a keeper.  Red heart

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