Friday, December 19, 2008
Monday, December 15, 2008
WOW! Caleb wins big in the Reflections contest
Caleb receives notification that he won!
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Wrestling with my acceptance of this sport
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Saturday, December 13, 2008
What a day!
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Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Christmas is coming
And this proves it -- my sisters-in-law, Karin & Melinda, my sister Haley, and I worked on advent calendars over Thanksgiving break. Thanks to my mom for coming up with the idea and having the supplies for us. It was so much fun.
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Thursday, November 20, 2008
Love, Lori Designs
Let me start this post by saying that Chloe is not an only child. I apologize upfront for posting all of these pictures. It's just that I bought this amazingly cute outfit that has tons of pieces to mix and match and I had to take pictures to show it off. My friend Emily's mom designs and makes these outfits. It has a reversible skirt, a top/dress, flare pants with ruffles, a reversible belt, a flower pin with bling, a hair bow, and a coordinating shirt.
FYI, I will be posting about my other sons wrestling matches. I must admit I do not find much joy in the singlets they wear. Who thought of those?!!
Here are the pants, shirt, and floral pin.
This is the shirt, belt, pin, and one side of the skirt
This is the other side of the skirt, and the other side of the belt.
This is the pants, shirt, belt and bow.
Here we have the top/dress, pants, shirt, and floral pin.
This is the top/dress, shirt, and the polka dot side of the skirt.
Needless to say the combinations are endless. Isn't Lori creative? She will be blogging about her things at www.loveloridesigns.blogspot.com. The other fabric combinations are to die for. However, I am partial to anything black and white.
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Piggy Tails
Now that Chloe is on the move and can't sit still for 5 seconds, I've decided to try putting her hair in piggy tails. I have dreamed of this day for years and have luckily had little nieces let me do their hair in the meantime. Thank you Elizabeth, Emma and Ada. Watching Chloe run around opening cupboards & drawers, pull down books, and try to get in the toilet and dishwasher is all the cuter because she has piggy tails.
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Sunday, November 16, 2008
Townhome Grand Opening
The first 5 units are built and had a grand opening this weekend! Check out more pics at my Interiors Redefined blog.
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Sunday, November 9, 2008
Girls just wanna have fun!
Tonight we went and celebrated Bridger's birthday. Chloe and Hazel misunderstood when they overheard Elizabeth say, "Bwidga's potty is weally fun."
We sure hope nobody was a party pooper.
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Friday, November 7, 2008
Daddy's Girl
Chloe is so happy when her Daddy walks in the door. She gets a big smile on her face and says, "Da-Da". It melts his heart.
She is growing up so quickly. For the past several months she would walk around quite steadily but mentally could not make it happen unless she had hold of someone's finger. That has ended and she has turned into a walker. It's so cute watching her toddle around. Yesterday we took her to look at some townhomes I've been working on and as she went from room to room she would walk in and say, "Wow". It was adorable.
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Monday, November 3, 2008
Friday, October 31, 2008
Thursday, October 30, 2008
I am a Child of God
Caleb is the official music conductor of Family Home Evening. He rotates between 2 songs, Book of Mormon Stories and I am a Child of God. Chloe has started copying him and every time we start to sing, she starts to wave her arm. This last Monday I listened closely as Caleb was singing and noticed that he sings, "I am a child of God with parents kind of dear."
Anybody who calls our home on a regular basis knows that we have a hard time locating a handset before the answering machine picks up. Yesterday a call came in and the machine beat me to it. A recorded voice starts coming across the machine that Caleb recognizes as Mitt Romney. It is a call where a recording of Mitt Romney is endorsing a local candidate and encouraging our support. Anyhow, Caleb starts getting all worked up, running around and yelling at me, "MOM aren't you even going to look for the phone? IT'S MITT ROMNEY! ARE YOU LISTENING? MITT ROMNEY!" Apparently our fondness for Mitt didn't go unnoticed.
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Holiday Photos
We just had our annual family portraits done for our Christmas card. I don't want to post any of the ones that will make their debut on the card, although here are a few we also really like. Dawn Yorgason took them and did such a great job. We are so pleased with how they turned out and Caleb even said getting our pictures taken was "so much fun". This is pretty amazing considering it is usually like pulling teeth to get the kids to take family pictures.
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Are you ready for FOOTBALL...to be over?
How is it that something so dominant in our lives has been pretty much neglected on our family blog? Is it that I am in denial? Most likely.
Our 2 oldest sons have had football practice every night. Carter's games on Wednesday and Chase's on Saturday. The second two sons practiced twice a week, luckily at about the same times and at the same school field, and also had Saturday games. All of their practices have overlapped at some point. Add to that snack assignments, uniform washing, keeping game socks and cleats found, mouthguards clean and at games, folding chairs and blankets ready to go, schedules straight and hopefully on occasion remembering the camera. All of this made for some serious brain fuzz for me. Our final team party is on Saturday and Corbin's team has one more day of "playoff" games in a week. I would be neglecting a huge part of our lives not to post something about this football season.
Last night I actually went through Carter and Chase's closet with them pointing out that they have other clothes to wear besides just team jerseys. I am getting so sick of jerseys!
Carter scored a touchdown at the last game after being put in as a tight end. This was a game where the camera didn't make it.
Chase was the QB for his team, the Colts, and did a phenomenal job. It was his first year playing full contact in full pads and even got to play a game at BSU.
Corbin named himself MVP of the decade (any of you who know Corbin know this is all too true). He is looking forward to showing off his skills at the playoffs and recording his personal stats in the notebook he has been keeping.
Caleb played on the Packers with his cousin Jayden and loved every minute of it. Jayden was a lethal QB and Caleb was his skilled Wide Receiver. They had some SWEET plays.
Chloe is the fan of the season for going to all of the games, sitting in her stroller and clapping and cheering for her brothers. Also, for willingly let them dress her up in their jerseys, and other football gear.
Caleb admires his big brother Carter #75
Chase #12 is ready to start the game
Colts #1 Fan (or 1 year old fan)
QB & Receiver
Spectators
Concentration
Carter #75
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