tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43206494531930219502024-03-05T18:01:45.244-06:00The Everday Edwards FamilyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger97125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320649453193021950.post-20865632978320126832013-01-19T12:50:00.003-06:002013-01-19T13:31:39.251-06:00A 'Lil A' Fix<div style="text-align: center;">
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<i>Dedicated to Tammy</i></div>
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<i>I do read my emails and post to my blog</i></div>
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My friend Tammy emailed me and wanted the link to our blog again because her own little one deleted all her links and she was needing a Lil A fix. Well, I hadn't posted in a long while and was way over due to write a post about Aurora anyways, so thanks to Tammy here it is for all of you. :) </div>
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Lil A's hair is so long and thick. I don't think I have ever gone out with her anywhere and not have someone, usually a stranger, comment on her hair. Although, she, herself could care less about it and would prefer to be completely bald. Then she wouldn't have her Momma torture her every morning with a brush.</div>
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The girl dislikes shoes and prefers to be barefoot whenever absolutely possible. She asked for some slippers this Christmas and received 4 sets of slippers all very cool and exactly to her liking (1 set was fuzzy & pink- her favorite color, another was dinosaur feet and another was a Stompeez where the heads of the animal pop up when you walk) except she just remembered that oh yeah, she doesn't like slippers either...too much like shoes.</div>
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Translating Aurora: </div>
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Lil A has always been verbally inclined and usually she speaks pretty clearly & understandably but there's still some translation involved sometimes. </div>
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"I just want to go home" she says this even when she is home. </div>
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Translation: "I'm bored."</div>
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"I'm scared"</div>
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Usual Translation: "I'm lonely & bored." </div>
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Other Translation: "I am actually scared of something more specific & particular this time." <br />
which is rare because this girl isn't scared of hardly anything.</div>
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"I'm one year's old"</div>
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Translation: "I'm too little and young to have to do this or at least to have to do it more than once."</div>
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"I'm big, brave & strong."</div>
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Translation: "I'm a little unsure or scared but I'm going to try and handle it myself anyways."</div>
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Other translation: "Look at what I can accomplish and do all by myself."</div>
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"You are big, brave & strong."</div>
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Translation: "I need your help."</div>
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Other translation: "I want you to do this for me because I can't be bothered to do it for myself right now."</div>
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"You go away."</div>
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Translation: "I'm about to do something that I don't want you to see because it will get me in trouble and/or you'll make me clean it up." </div>
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"I want to eat a tomato" (tow-MAH-tow)</div>
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Translation: "I want to eat a tomato" (toe-MAY-toe)</div>
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(She says tomato with a British accent like some of her favorite cartoon & book characters' Charlie & Lola). </div>
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This year she decided she wanted to be a pumpkin for Halloween just like Lola from the before mentioned Charlie & Lola. Another year passes and she still hasn't succomb to peer pressure to be a princess yet, at least not for her official Halloween costume. She dresses up like a princess all the time when we play pretend.</div>
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She often won't look at the camera or smile for it.</div>
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"Right there. Duh."</div>
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Lil A has started saying "See what I mean?" at the end of her sentences. Jared and I are not sure where she got this as we both believe neither one of us say that and don't recall it from any of the shows she likes to watch or books we read.</div>
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She likes having collections. She will pick up anything and everything and called it "her collection." She even has a "kiss collection" where she collects kisses that people blow her. She might ask you for a kiss for her collection, too.</div>
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Right now though her absolute favorite collections, ones that we must play with every day are: her dinosaur collection (sounds like 'dinosaur kitchen' when she says it) and her seashell collection. Her dinosaur collection often eats meals with her, goes on outings with her, watches movies with her, takes baths with her and even sleeps with her at night. </div>
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When she wants you to look at something, she will point to her eye and then look at the object and say "Look" or "See?" and expect you to know what it is she's looking at. I've gotten pretty good at following her eye's line of sight and making correct guesses.</div>
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Lil A likes to play games online at PBS Kids. One of their games/video clips is called Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood which is a cartoon spinoff of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood. Apparently, Daniel has a repetitive strategy song that goes like this: "If something seems bad, turn it around and find something good."</div>
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Well, Aurora made a rather big mess recently involving no less than 6 blankets and 1 sheet and some bodily fluids. I actually didn't get upset or even say much of anything (since bodily fluids are just apart of my life with a 3 year old) but it must of been obvious that I was less than thrilled to clean it up and launder all those blankets because Aurora sang to me "If something seems bad, turn it around and find something good!" </div>
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I burst out laughing, hugged my daughter but in my head cursed those goody-two-shoes children's shows for being used against me. (Have you ever wondered where the phrase "goody two-shoes" comes from? I did so here's the <a href="http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/goody-two-shoes.html" target="_blank">link</a> with the answer. You're welcome.)</div>
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Since we are talking about creative exploratory discoveries (aka messes) Aurora is an expert. Not only are bodily fluids apart of my everyday life anything that can be turned into a hard to clean-up or gross mess she will make it. If you received our Christmas letter (sorry if you didn't we started out really good about getting them out and then our momentum came to a sudden and apparently permanent stand still) we said ask us about the Great Egg Fiasco sometime. </div>
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Mind you this wasn't the first or even third mess I cleaned up that day just one of the messiest. </div>
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Brand new carton of 18 eggs thrown, cracked & stomped on all over the family room.</div>
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Later when asked what she was doing, she said "I was making a cake."</div>
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The girl loves to get into the kitchen cabinets and refridgerator to "cook" and "bake" things.</div>
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Our kitchen is starting to look more and more like Fort Knox all the time.</div>
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Although we do have her help us cook and bake things to give her aspirations as a chef some outlet.</div>
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She could swing all day long either on a swing set or having Momma & Daddy pick her up & swing her if Momma's and/or Daddy's arms didn't fall off way before that point in either scenario. But she doesn't like slides much anymore. She's developed a little bit of a fear of heights recently. Don't believe there was any kind of dramatic event that brought it on, just seemed to develop overnight.</div>
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If you were to ask her what she wants to do or play, her most likely response would be to play "the running game." She loves, loves, loves to just run around. Our new house has a nice big circuitous route in it that she does laps on. A couple of nights ago she did 50+ laps without stopping or even slowing.</div>
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Lil A just adores babies. Lately, any and every baby within her vicinty is not safe from her attention and kisses. She really wants to have a baby brother or sister and she really likes to pretend to be a baby, too. Here she is lovin on her newest cousin baby Julie at Thanksgiving.</div>
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She still loves books and is starting to point to words or spell things out to us and ask what it says.</div>
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There are a blue million other things that I could say about our little firecracker, Lil A</div>
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but this was probably way more of a "fix" than anyone ever wanted.</div>
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We love you Lil A!</div>
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Is it fabulous or blasphemous?!</div>
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This is a time sensitive decision and project because each option takes time to do and would be easier to do before we move the furniture in, which is in a week:</div>
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Option 1: refinish </div>
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Option 2: paint </div>
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Option 3: carpet </div>
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Aurora's room:</div>
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At the moment it has really old light pink carpet in the room </div>
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which I've already cut into pieces to be hauled out of there</div>
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Underneath the carpet is original hardwood floor that doesn't look horrible </div>
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but we're pretty sure will need to be refinished.</div>
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These two pictures are of the already refinished master bedroom hardwood floor.</div>
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Lil A's room could and would most likely look like this with refinishing.</div>
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Hardwood floors especially old original hardwood floors</div>
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have so much soul, character and wisdom.</div>
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These are pretty with nice warmth even if it's not my absolute favorite type and color of hardwood floors.</div>
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Keeping hardwood floors looking clean drives me a bit more insane than I usually am.</div>
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There are always dust bunnies and some dirt on the floor No Matter What I DO!</div>
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I don't usually just plop right down and play on a hardwood floor...so the room will need a good sized rug.</div>
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BUT WAIT...</div>
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Look at these possibilities of painted hardwood floors</div>
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They <em>are</em> fabulous to look at </div>
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if you just don't think about the blasphemous act of what you did to get this result.</div>
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Arrrggghhh!</div>
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So fun!</div>
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If you get tired of it just paint over it again or hide it under carpet.</div>
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These floors were hiding under carpet already which makes me feel a little less guilty about painting them if that's what I decide. </div>
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You can never get your hardwood floors back again! I think that's what scares me the most is the permanency of this decision.</div>
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Carpet</div>
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Carpet can be comfy, soft and inviting. </div>
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It says come lay and play on me.</div>
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I like that I can vacuum and I won't see dust bunnies or dirt right afterwards...it takes a day or two.</div>
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Most carpets (not all) are bit boring </div>
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(If anyone has pics of beautiful children's bedrooms with carpet...send them my way).</div>
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This one has carpet but it isn't quite the soft, fuzzy carpet that I find inviting.</div>
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I would still prefer to play on this carpet with it's padding versus a hardwood floor though.</div>
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<strong>The gorgeous Tudor home!</strong></div>
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(For those of you who have been following our house hunting adventures on this <a href="http://everydayedwardsfamily.blogspot.com/2012/05/house-hunting-help.html" target="_blank">blog</a> or Jared's facebook page this is the house with the smaller yard.)</div>
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We were able to get a signed contract worked out for the house right before my birthday. </div>
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It's the best birthday present ever because this house is soooo me! :)</div>
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It looks like a house right out of a storybook and who else would be a better choice to live in a storybook home than Princess Aurora (per Sleeping Beauty) and Queen Esther (per the Bible) and ummm... Jared... (per the brother of Jared from the Book of Mormon but then that would be saying that Sean, Jared's brother, really was the one living here and that just wouldn't do. No offense, Sean! We might need to change his name to Arthur so he can be King Arthur (per the round table of Camelot) and then I can call him Artie).</div>
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the point is we are excited for our new home to the point that I will now issue a warning.</div>
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Warning: The post that now follows contains more pics & details of our potentially new house (hopefully if everything continues to go right) than anyone not going to be living there wants to ever see or know. </div>
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So we are going to make this "A Choose Your Own Adventure" post.</div>
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This house is 2,445 sq ft. on a .17 lot with 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bath, with a formal dining room and study on the first floor along with the living room and gorgeous kitchen. It has an almost finished basement, a mostly unfinished attic and enclosed patio/porch. It's on a pretty street and within walking distance to the elementary school. </div>
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Front of house, left (windows of dining room, with walkway and glimpse of driveway)</div>
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Front of house, right (windows of the living room and lovely landscaping)</div>
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Front of house even more right (enclosed patio)</div>
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When you first enter there is a small but pretty entryway w/ closet.</div>
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which leads us to the living room.</div>
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(All the furnishings are the seller's stuff. I don't usually take & post many pics of the home with our stuff in it because it never feels "done" to me. I'm always tweaking it: adding pillows, artwork, end tables etc... At least until we are moving again and are selling the house which is when you see pics of our home w/ our stuff.)</div>
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I already love the warm buttercup yellow (It seems that this may be another requisite of mine because I believe all the houses we have lived in have had at least one room in a similar shade to this) </div>
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There are 3 doors to the outside living areas in this one room alone.</div>
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we enter the very pretty screened-in patio.</div>
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We'll choose to enter back into the house by way of door #4 in this patio area, and we find ourselves in the study (I guess that is the best name for it at least how the sellers use it.)</div>
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With having a doorway to the living room on one wall, another door to the outside on a different wall, another wall mostly containing that big beautiful window and then a door to a little hallway on the other wall-- doesn't leave a whole lot of space to work with for furniture etc...</div>
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I'm considering making this the dining room, possibly???</div>
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Requisite: A room in a warm, calming sage green.</div>
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We now step into a small hallway where there is once again many choices to choose from: the "true" back door, the half bath, the stairs to the basement or the kitchen.<br />
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We choose to enter the half bath... </div>
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and come to a sudden and surprised ending entitled "Death by Plaid."</div>
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I actually don't hate it but it <em>is </em>a lot of plaid for such a small space.</div>
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The wallpaper might stay but probably not.</div>
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Since we don't like this ending, we'll cheat and flip back a few pages and make a different choice... </div>
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by entering the kitchen. </div>
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Wow! What a better choice this was!</div>
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I think this has to be one of the best kitchens I've seen </div>
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in any of the houses in our price range.</div>
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This is the other side of the bar/island area.</div>
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This is by the door we just entered. As we will most likely be entering the house most often from the back door this will be a great "command center" if we can keep it organized or a great "dumping of junk" center if we can't keep it organized.</div>
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Requisite: Window over sink area.<br />
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If I'm washing the dishes there better be a window that way nobody and no dish gets hurt. </div>
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It's not really a requisite but I just adore built-in window seats!</div>
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I just always want to curl up on one and read a book.</div>
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This one is so pretty even if being located in the kitchen might not be</div>
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the most ideal spot.</div>
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There is also built-in desk in the kitchen which you would <em>think </em>would be the more logical place for a "command center" or "dumping ground" </div>
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the other place is just more conveniently located and so the result would be both places would become a dumping ground if I tried to use the desk as the command center.</div>
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FYI- if you have dreams of having a built-in desk area in your kitchen, move to Ohio, the majority of the kitchens we saw had one. </div>
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I truly adore this kitchen.</div>
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Not a big fan of the orange and the teal at all.</div>
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The valances are in a pattern of orange & teal peacock feathers too.</div>
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So we will be painting this room.</div>
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I'm not sure what color yet since the requisite ones of yellow and green have already been taken care of. </div>
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But I do love the original hardwood floor and again all the light from the windows.</div>
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With my struggle with <a href="http://everydayedwardsfamily.blogspot.com/2010/03/sad.html" target="_blank">S.A.D</a> and also major depression that is a MAJOR requisite: </div>
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lots & lots of natural light.</div>
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Check.</div>
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If I make the study into the dining room this room may become a family room.<br />
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We have now come full circle as we are now on the landing by the front door again.<br />
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Where we will step out the 7th & final outside door that leads to </div>
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I have dreams of a potted flower paradise up here </div>
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although Jared says that all the brick, tile etc...</div>
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will most likely bake the flowers as if they were in an oven.</div>
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(I've told you before about his almost-always-correct-and-oh-so-practical facts bursting many of my beautiful-ethereal-and-yet-often-unrealistic bubbles, haven't I?) </div>
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Once again not a big fan of the wallpaper. </div>
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(I think wallpaper in general might be against my religion or maybe I'm allergic. </div>
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It just so easily & quickly becomes outdated or is just so hard to find the right colors, patterns, space for it to appeal to the taste of more than just one person.)</div>
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It will most likely be taken down and possibly replaced with a warm light brown/tan color of paint?</div>
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As all hallways are portals of choices- we will enter each of the 3 bedrooms, then the bathroom & then up the stairs to the attic.</div>
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This will most likely be Princess Aurora's room.</div>
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The dark purple walls of this room although a pretty color are just a little too dark for me.</div>
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We will most likely paint this room a different color and replace the old pink carpet.</div>
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This will most likely become the "playroom" until it is needed as a bedroom.</div>
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The purple paint of this room is quite a bit lighter and will most likely stay but we will probably replace the carpet in this room too.</div>
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The Master bedroom:</div>
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It has a total of 6 windows in this room- one looks out onto the balcony and it has its original hardwood floor and 3 closets. </div>
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The Full Bath</div>
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I like the green tile a lot but with the bright yellow walls it makes me think of the Green Bay Packers and not being a Cheese Head will most likely paint the walls a different color. There's quite a bit of built-in storage in this smallish bathroom and a linen closet right outside in the hall.<br />
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Behind the last door in the hallway are the stairs to the unfinished attic. </div>
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Note once again the laundry chute.</div>
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There's some nice space up there that we might finish at some point but it will be good for storage and playing "Bloody Murder" (aka Ghost in the Graveyard or whatever you call your scary version of hide & seek) until that point.</div>
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Now in this adventure we are going to take the secret passage to the almost finished basement, like in the game Clue. </div>
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(Reality check: There isn't actually a secret passage from the attic to the basement...we just have to retrace our steps back downstairs...but that is nowhere near as fun to write or imagine.) </div>
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There are several rooms in the basement that really just need some details added and/or fixed and some carpet and it will be a finished basement.</div>
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Here is the biggest room: Possibly a rec room or a family room </div>
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Here is the office or maybe a craft room.</div>
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Look at those full size windows in the basement! </div>
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Hallelujah!</div>
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The laundry room is very nice and big.</div>
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More of the laundry room that could possibly double as a craft room/area.</div>
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There's a section of the basement that isn't finished at all and it contains stuff like the furnace, boiler etc...</div>
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But also a tool/work space. </div>
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Now we don't have to turn the garage into a work space for Jared. <br />
It can actually be used as a garage meaning a place to put cars.</div>
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If you turn to your left then you'll see pretty much our whole yard.</div>
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It wouldn't be so small if it wasn't kind of cut up into two yards by the retaining wall.</div>
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Here are a couple of spots we are considering for a small garden:</div>
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In the corner of the "upper" backyard, off the patio, will probably be where we place a playset.</div>
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Looking at the 2 car garage from the "upper" yard area.</div>
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Sadly, we don't think Jared's big, fat truck will fit in the garage. We'll see.</div>
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Do you see they have another patio outside the garage there.</div>
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That's 4 sets of patio furniture. They like their patios almost as much as they like their doors.</div>
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We will be taking down the flimsy fencing around the "upper" yard. </div>
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They have it just to keep their little doggies contained.</div>
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the Edwards's Family lives...</div>
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Here we are finding ourselves house hunting once again. After looking at lots & lots of houses in a total of 6 cities surrounding the area of Jared's work place. We have it narrowed down to two potential homes. Both homes are beautiful, about the same size & price, although different from one another both fit our personalities, and in the same school district which we are pleased with. </div>
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We do have a slight preference for one house over the other (it's more updated and has been cared for a little more yet still has a historic home feel) but the yard is just so small and not the most usable for our purposes (which are garden, playset, space to throw a baseball, and can handle at least 6-7 kids playing in it as we have 5 nieces & nephews who live nearby w/ 6th one on the way). </div>
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The other house is also gorgeous and it's on the historic registry of the town as one of the first houses built in the area which I love! But it has quite a bit more work that needs to be done to it than the other house (but we're not afraid of work) and several impracticalities about it such as an old elevator in the home. An ELEVATOR! Which I think is so cool but it doesn't work, would be expensive or impossible to fix, Jared wants to know why we need/want an elevator to begin with (always bursting my bubble he is) and it eats up much needed closet space. And that's just one impracticality of the house. But the house is sitting on 3/4 of an acre yard that is very nicely landscaped with lots of space for all of our dreams of outdoor living.</div>
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So here's the crux...do we go with the house we prefer and sacrifice the yard because you live in your house everyday, year round and not in your yard? ...OR... Do you go with the bigger nicer yard because we are an outdoorsy family and take the definitely acceptable if not more impractical house?</div>
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House #1: Gorgeous Home w/ Small Yard</div>
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What you see here is pretty much all there is for yard space.<br />
But look at that gorgeous house.</div>
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Kitchen is fabulous!</div>
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House #2: Lovely Historic Home w/ Large Yard</div>
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Brick driveway with ivy covered arches...swoon. </div>
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(I've never been one to swoon over movie stars but these two gorgeous historic homes make me weak in the knees)</div>
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Some of the beautiful & original built-ins </div>
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The yard or the house?</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320649453193021950.post-46233038008194588162012-05-22T15:00:00.000-05:002012-05-27T21:22:51.258-05:00Aurora's 3rd Birthday Party<div style="text-align: center;">
May seems to always be such a busy month!</div>
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The weekend before Aurora's birthday party I was in charge of an <a href="http://fsaohio.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">FSA</a> Adoption Conference (my 7th one to either plan or present at!)</div>
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We also had the great blessing of having <a href="http://everydayedwardsfamily.blogspot.com/2009/05/momma.html" target="_blank">Momma A</a> come and visit us and speak at the conference too!</div>
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But I LOVE birthdays and especially kid's birthdays and most particularly my darling daughter's birthday! :)</div>
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So I wanted to do something fun but hopefully relatively easy and something that Aurora would love.</div>
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After a lot of thinking and asking Lil A her opinion which is always an experience when working with an almost 3 year old. </div>
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We decided to have a park party with a rainbow theme.</div>
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I wanted the invitations to be fun. So I made and mailed these. </div>
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Just as you see them. No envelopes or packing or boxes.</div>
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Wouldn't this be so fun to get in your mailbox? </div>
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I want someone to send us one :)</div>
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Source ideas for this invitation <a href="http://www.everydaycelebrating.com/2010/05/frisbee-invitations.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://www.giverslog.com/?p=5130" target="_blank">here</a></div>
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Wasn't it so nice of the playground to be rainbow colored for the birthday party?<br />
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Because of technical difficulties with the centerpieces </div>
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(Jared tells me <em>after</em> I'm light-headed from blowing up all the balloons & my fingers are raw from tying them onto balloon sticks & I've gotten little bits of the green styrofoam all over me from the holders inside the baskets-- that my centerpieces won't stay up right and will blow over. I tried it anyways and he was right, of course. Originally, wanted to do something like <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAQu_P9GljQdJNkrzViE8QAFycchio4yUzMwab0lnvEZy8E52EUeBMyhxWBC-0Km7RrlG2NDJI0kVRr2lcOJn9lv2nhPmGrbXH4b1MTG8EhHwYtQeS_O-EK7JpUeGX_I3PVrZwYCDBuJA/s1600/HotAirBalloonBdayParty_16.jpg" target="_blank">this</a>.) </div>
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and time restraints at the picnic shelter due to other reservations on it...</div>
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it didn't quite look like what I had envisioned but it was still fun & festive.</div>
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Rainbow colored suckers (party favors for the kids to take home) in baskets that were a different color on each table on top of a rainbow striped place mat.</div>
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Now the "cake" I'm very pleased how it turned out. </div>
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Rainbow Rice Krispie Treat Cake!</div>
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Isn't it just fabulous?! Even if I do say so myself.</div>
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Although I wish the #3 candle wasn't leaning in this pic.</div>
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Inspiration for this cake was found <a href="http://www.raspberricupcakes.com/2011/04/rainbow-rice-krispies-treats.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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Aurora loves M&M's so that was part of the spread too. </div>
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I know it's their birthday and they do look fabulous but my daughter gets a sugar rush and I get a stomach ache (despite being the reigning Sugar Queen) just looking at those pictures. </div>
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So we offerred a rainbow veggie platter, a rainbow fruit platter and some crackers and cheese to go along with the few sweets.</div>
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For more fun at the playground, we added 2 of Aurora's favorite things: bubbles & balloons!</div>
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Balloons on a stick you saw previously.</div>
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The kids could play with the big bubble wands there at the park</div>
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and as a party favor they each took home a small rainbow bubble container.</div>
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Now a pic of the birthday girl!</div>
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Yes, I did even coordinated her outfit to match the party theme. :)</div>
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The rainbow butterfly was an applique I bought forever ago...way before Aurora was ever born</div>
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and was happy I rediscovered it before the party.</div>
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This is Lil A with her cousins, Carrie and Brendan. We are so happy that we can live so close to family here. </div>
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But we still missed Aunts, Uncles and Grandparents who weren't able to come to her birthday party this <a href="http://www.everydayedwardsfamily.blogspot.com/2011/06/can-you-spot-birthday-girl.html" target="_blank">year</a> because of distance.</div>
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A Special Thanks to Tiff (my sis-n-law) for reserving the perfect picnic shelter for me!<br />
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Being very familiar with children, I knew the kids would find something unexpected and unplanned that would take their interest and be the highlight of the party.</div>
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The kids did not disappoint.</div>
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When I scouted out the park I noted the playgrounds, the picnic shelter, the bathrooms, the general green space around, parking and other factors. But I didn't consciously notice the sand volleyball court just a little behind and to the right of the picnic shelter.</div>
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They spent a good part of the party playing in the world's biggest sand box.</div>
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Here's Lil A & Daddy cleaning up after the party. </div>
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But this day she took a much deserved nap.</div>
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1) It's a way to remember that it was a women's & children's shelter that took such good care of Momma A when she had the courage to leave a bad situation and was pregnant with Aurora.</div>
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HAPPY 3rd BIRTHDAY, AURORA!</div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320649453193021950.post-30298535372607389982012-02-23T20:30:00.000-06:002012-02-23T20:30:24.195-06:00Halloween 2011<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I know, it's shocking that I'm actually blogging again... I wonder if anyone even checks it anymore.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl6vSUVtuFkBFcFbNmMlHZVnw8oPqeHxGpS2EOZI201oIQD39ePjYEPvEYHH1sWvFErBSGnLeAF6QhypMrKL9OcPpUfpeck7ORl7ZrF_IXssiXdxeN5K-D7SAP6zWp0oOVwYRc3zDPztbY/s1600/Oct_Dec+2011+019.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl6vSUVtuFkBFcFbNmMlHZVnw8oPqeHxGpS2EOZI201oIQD39ePjYEPvEYHH1sWvFErBSGnLeAF6QhypMrKL9OcPpUfpeck7ORl7ZrF_IXssiXdxeN5K-D7SAP6zWp0oOVwYRc3zDPztbY/s400/Oct_Dec+2011+019.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So for our church's Trunk or Treat party Aurora wanted to be a dinosaur this time.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Regretfully we did not get a good shot of her in this costume. She kept taking off her dinosaur hood. We also failed to get a pic of Jared and I with our dinosaur hoods on. Although Jared doesn't regret that picture being neglected.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There was quite a bit more variety in costumes at this party and another child (albeit a boy) even had the same costume as Aurora.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Aurora LOVES dinosaurs. She can identify correctly a triceratops, stegosaurus, t-rex, pteranodon, ankylosaurus, and a brachiosaurus. She is working on adding lambeosaurus, velociraptor, and maiasaura to her list.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We've taught her to say when she puts on her dinosaur costume:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> "My name is Au-ROAR-A". </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320649453193021950.post-70633665539881203962011-10-17T14:42:00.000-05:002011-10-17T14:42:27.320-05:00We interrupt the belated summer posting to bring you...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Another post about moving!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We are moving in a couple of weeks. Wait, you say, didn't you just move not that long ago?! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Isn't there several posts on this blog about that rather recent move? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Why yes there are -<a href="http://everydayedwardsfamily.blogspot.com/2009/10/our-home.html">here</a> & <a href="http://everydayedwardsfamily.blogspot.com/2010/05/note-to-future-selves.html">here</a> are a couple examples as a matter of fact.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Situation</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Jared once again was gone most of the weekdays from April/May to October this year. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">As it isn't very healthy for our family to be apart so much, he began looking around for other jobs locally for the most part. As we didn't think we would move from our home because we've only lived here 1 1/2 years, we wouldn't be able to sell our house for what we purchased it and maybe not even what we stilled owed, and there was the tax credit we thought we would have to pay back. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Miracle</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Jared interviewed at place where his old boss used to work. The company offered him a fabulous deal including a relocation package that would cover all our losses and still have some money to move on.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">When we received the offer I knew that it was the Lord's doing and He wanted us to move to Ohio. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So moving to Ohio we are and really quick too.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Home for Sale, once again.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I never posted what our home look liked after we moved in.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You can compare what the house use to look like under the previous owners <a href="http://everydayedwardsfamily.blogspot.com/2010/05/our-new-home.html">here</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"> Our crisp, clean and yet still cheery kitchen.</div><div style="text-align: center;">All kitchens should be cheery.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5Ftc-KW867EPjBbyMMY2PeW5GwxxnsfQBfN70nJy3Vj_QgsJ8rW7R9DINW4JwLzEzRD6BfCOSmd3UhvOBpxx2bup73MXIJm8eQ6tgTWae_Pdairls2XX_tDCyHyaI2dM8_pIKygMI0R2x/s1600/Oct+2011+046.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5Ftc-KW867EPjBbyMMY2PeW5GwxxnsfQBfN70nJy3Vj_QgsJ8rW7R9DINW4JwLzEzRD6BfCOSmd3UhvOBpxx2bup73MXIJm8eQ6tgTWae_Pdairls2XX_tDCyHyaI2dM8_pIKygMI0R2x/s400/Oct+2011+046.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">One of my favorite rooms in the house- the sunroom. </div><div style="text-align: center;">These pictures don't do it justice.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-wYstDZeWiDSTzwJ5ORw2NMY2RvGdu3MbNGdk6ymdB3HipilZCB_kqF6fu8aLEMBXYuw2dGcddeL6bhuLxcGmLdvfrEeT2apr8Q-v4wRPuVRxcTcFfO3XQZujKKjUnR2lKo7KLGQSQ1aV/s1600/Oct+2011+053.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-wYstDZeWiDSTzwJ5ORw2NMY2RvGdu3MbNGdk6ymdB3HipilZCB_kqF6fu8aLEMBXYuw2dGcddeL6bhuLxcGmLdvfrEeT2apr8Q-v4wRPuVRxcTcFfO3XQZujKKjUnR2lKo7KLGQSQ1aV/s400/Oct+2011+053.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My other fave room: Lil A's room upstairs.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Again these pics don't do it justice. </div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Downstairs in our finished basement:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">1) Family Room</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk7eV-NGT-qy-6w3RAU1zjHOBBYHMMPXgeCgboYCHofj2vnYIX_hNzYjRrihvfRtpXyu8TaRuolhmjXdM8d4rxSX3UoqP4pfcSa-YmEvzUrF7T-O-DFzm9FSmrxwro0Ont0yN23LpWhN9R/s1600/Oct+2011+067.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk7eV-NGT-qy-6w3RAU1zjHOBBYHMMPXgeCgboYCHofj2vnYIX_hNzYjRrihvfRtpXyu8TaRuolhmjXdM8d4rxSX3UoqP4pfcSa-YmEvzUrF7T-O-DFzm9FSmrxwro0Ont0yN23LpWhN9R/s400/Oct+2011+067.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">2)Seminary Classroom</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmd5bYjhgnlB4YVr_FBMXzNwA_x9lIRWWj8sQpXDhYrH5XdlNWLjfoQGMILEUJs0RahP9lZLBHyM50J3h-NYEqmbb1-iACJSioqs5Sizgi8To78pQ2VrERRvK272FjVRN7gdCMk9QhacWB/s1600/more+home+002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmd5bYjhgnlB4YVr_FBMXzNwA_x9lIRWWj8sQpXDhYrH5XdlNWLjfoQGMILEUJs0RahP9lZLBHyM50J3h-NYEqmbb1-iACJSioqs5Sizgi8To78pQ2VrERRvK272FjVRN7gdCMk9QhacWB/s400/more+home+002.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">3) Craft room </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(it used to have it set up better but I packed a lot of that stuff away already)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Jared was like "You're taking a pic of your 'wall-o-craft-tupperware' shelf ?" and I said</div><div style="text-align: center;">"You bet I am!" </div><div style="text-align: center;">Look at this beautiful organization!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh86MCcCy1ZwryW-Nf6IQUvg5OoT2RNZ8-3F2KvcUYsSS7rP9aMJnm4K66NgdZNMK_59nHr2LHL_AvMfxdX7uB6hAuYoDuMFW9Y_2za_XdMK-MvxRhwdTqz9w0WUhPyDg1Pg91VU0NNmlm9/s1600/home+2+003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh86MCcCy1ZwryW-Nf6IQUvg5OoT2RNZ8-3F2KvcUYsSS7rP9aMJnm4K66NgdZNMK_59nHr2LHL_AvMfxdX7uB6hAuYoDuMFW9Y_2za_XdMK-MvxRhwdTqz9w0WUhPyDg1Pg91VU0NNmlm9/s400/home+2+003.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">These cute colorful bins hold all my current unfinished crafting projects.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The drawers and shelves below hold all my not-so-current unfinished projects. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Sigh.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiUpOTBg_RulPYj1x3B2n-urlor3_H9OXanWItn_KNsZE3HYsYXDV4fweK3wkB2fk6u9VcWEN2TM9-zxaTKYv0a7lh2D5BItdBm2PS0xUX6E73pouQni9qFwiM7Gr8LB-LKvzuOisX0Jhg/s1600/home+2+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiUpOTBg_RulPYj1x3B2n-urlor3_H9OXanWItn_KNsZE3HYsYXDV4fweK3wkB2fk6u9VcWEN2TM9-zxaTKYv0a7lh2D5BItdBm2PS0xUX6E73pouQni9qFwiM7Gr8LB-LKvzuOisX0Jhg/s400/home+2+004.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The master bedroom </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjordKaClKECfNFGJ8ipwC7WlhkcvPJuamJjDk3fuvbEu1CPYsEwAcewKRa3-BBKvUL7DdQviBOm_aa6E0koGM5oQigslRZpuxgs6Z3Q7CYhxABYvmWT-q8Ej0DmL1nrPka5dG6K2vY6MLF/s1600/Oct+2011+073.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjordKaClKECfNFGJ8ipwC7WlhkcvPJuamJjDk3fuvbEu1CPYsEwAcewKRa3-BBKvUL7DdQviBOm_aa6E0koGM5oQigslRZpuxgs6Z3Q7CYhxABYvmWT-q8Ej0DmL1nrPka5dG6K2vY6MLF/s400/Oct+2011+073.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm sad to leave this home. We have loved living here. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320649453193021950.post-59059913741458503612011-09-27T20:13:00.003-05:002011-09-27T20:22:42.710-05:00Two Weddings and a Conference: Part 1<div style="text-align: center;">Well, we didn't have a working camera most of this summer but we did get some pics of some of our happenings. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">First my brother Jeremy's wedding to his long-time sweetheart Ashley (she waited for him while he was on his 2 yr mission in Chile and at BYU no less) took place towards the end of June at the Washington D.C. temple. We spent a little over a week in D.C. with family. It was a great trip.</div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div align="center">Jared got some great shots of the D.C. temple. It is so beautiful!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHmR6dnRNhVF7U-NQem92_bo6mOhX6VryEDLA-d8ZsMIeud3ZkEEVf9EhyphenhyphenIMOFrnzXHiwkOOMcTor79H0zQg9lWJwzXnrUl8wV-sBI4OINnYEitoZS9IPkj3SGZ8gCF3haEDXeOukpDtQc/s1600/DSC00060.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHmR6dnRNhVF7U-NQem92_bo6mOhX6VryEDLA-d8ZsMIeud3ZkEEVf9EhyphenhyphenIMOFrnzXHiwkOOMcTor79H0zQg9lWJwzXnrUl8wV-sBI4OINnYEitoZS9IPkj3SGZ8gCF3haEDXeOukpDtQc/s400/DSC00060.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I think this is a great pic of my Mom & Dad </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaGGy5uj_QyHxoF13hXcAGPkeqCtDWIV-3qN-ahgS1LgBsA9gvN_2EBs9YjiOeuacXjU-0pR7Ic-Pp59Atf4qiTBnEx7JE9DvTji2TkWXxKnEvFBxznWY4iMyRIrZSkKC7qxoef40VK21y/s1600/DSC00116.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaGGy5uj_QyHxoF13hXcAGPkeqCtDWIV-3qN-ahgS1LgBsA9gvN_2EBs9YjiOeuacXjU-0pR7Ic-Pp59Atf4qiTBnEx7JE9DvTji2TkWXxKnEvFBxznWY4iMyRIrZSkKC7qxoef40VK21y/s400/DSC00116.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My parents were sealed in the D.C. temple almost 29 years ago. I was just over 1 years old at that point and we have lots of cute pictures of the three of us from that time...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So, here is another pic of the three of us together years later at the D. C. temple. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We're still pretty dang cute.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNyEbr8UKnBGqqWFdcMFtmwI9kdvA_tmH8j6PIkCoTupii_lsfItlIwpGzO8n2-7LN_ar5gDBXTjJ8GUBlDpN1VtZwbrqdoNdnARW569OX8R_QyrHcvj1pTIfXkjNhaFY0Bpk8j089sjWd/s1600/DSC00117.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNyEbr8UKnBGqqWFdcMFtmwI9kdvA_tmH8j6PIkCoTupii_lsfItlIwpGzO8n2-7LN_ar5gDBXTjJ8GUBlDpN1VtZwbrqdoNdnARW569OX8R_QyrHcvj1pTIfXkjNhaFY0Bpk8j089sjWd/s400/DSC00117.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">We did lots of things like the Holocaust museum & monuments, took Aurora to her first movie- Cars 2 she loved it, went swimming a lot, family gatherings & dinners, lots of game playing etc... But I only got pics of the D.C. Zoo which is a great place. The zoo is free, you only pay for parking and you can get that free too if you can find any in surrounding neighborhoods but we were willing to pay the $5 it cost to take a Suburban full of people.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="center">This pic is in here of my new sis-in-law Kayla and my brother Aaron (married in March...I need to upload some pics of that happy event too) because I caught on camera his reaction to her pinching him. :) Have I ever told you that I really like Kayla a lot?! :)<br />
I am so blessed that my brothers all have good taste in women...I love all my sister-in-laws!!!<br />
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Loving, Happy Couple</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7i3bg2WcmVxf14mXW0Zirwbxmq30glEJjMFA8e3Nt5l0HRyEsNMHRg-ShP3nqCgMrtaaCyiPLmSpLFS6b6oroEwYj7hbcvvYVJlWVKlSbi9G-ehxsggEwvUEa0q_HoStTgJNfjSdp6OVz/s1600/DSC00142.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7i3bg2WcmVxf14mXW0Zirwbxmq30glEJjMFA8e3Nt5l0HRyEsNMHRg-ShP3nqCgMrtaaCyiPLmSpLFS6b6oroEwYj7hbcvvYVJlWVKlSbi9G-ehxsggEwvUEa0q_HoStTgJNfjSdp6OVz/s400/DSC00142.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Then in mid-August we headed out to Utah for about a week for Jared's brother's wedding...more on that the next post which will hopefully happen before the New Year.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320649453193021950.post-1160883997295350432011-06-20T13:47:00.002-05:002011-06-20T13:49:25.412-05:00Can You "Spot" the Birthday Girl?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Aurora's 2nd birthday party was "Spot" themed based off some of A's favorite books by Eric Hill.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoB0loRalrLlt9u6whR0f4I_AGsO1YWo7T0TY0NfU6WObN0jX9_3g21iupkH8frG6vI3QniOGQBB2z1lrYgqTByD2SNUky8-NvcPgSJC2qtXNsULLm3mvCFu7vVsjARPPFiw1AsOLy-4Uw/s1600/15211813.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoB0loRalrLlt9u6whR0f4I_AGsO1YWo7T0TY0NfU6WObN0jX9_3g21iupkH8frG6vI3QniOGQBB2z1lrYgqTByD2SNUky8-NvcPgSJC2qtXNsULLm3mvCFu7vVsjARPPFiw1AsOLy-4Uw/s1600/15211813.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> In one of the books, Spot goes to a costume party, so I put a large trunk of costumes out for ALL our party guests, adults included. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCoQozkH2VpeEPNTGB29UPvHmeqLFrQPD4rcwbAO7J-GMOZLMXvQ1B1tgv57UZTejZn1mEczJflU9Sm6GW6SmNjxpGr5dZQMYJU0tw5TrMq1PhAACN6dN8jbQ4K7fUCC1guthuNNmkP48E/s1600/LilA+Bday+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCoQozkH2VpeEPNTGB29UPvHmeqLFrQPD4rcwbAO7J-GMOZLMXvQ1B1tgv57UZTejZn1mEczJflU9Sm6GW6SmNjxpGr5dZQMYJU0tw5TrMq1PhAACN6dN8jbQ4K7fUCC1guthuNNmkP48E/s400/LilA+Bday+001.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Apparently upside down sunglasses are all the rage among the toddler crowd. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiMzjHF6gXRuS8HiG92WzLieELLrJ-2KDP8jhwjav7t4VTsFP8e4BGZ5owZ5rodUzPH7aBJaTRF82rsaduweEyzqL8SLYCF9mJKIYfXp2TIXG5mr20im73PyRCV8BgND_baPI9lP6iXdYr/s1600/LilA+Bday+002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiMzjHF6gXRuS8HiG92WzLieELLrJ-2KDP8jhwjav7t4VTsFP8e4BGZ5owZ5rodUzPH7aBJaTRF82rsaduweEyzqL8SLYCF9mJKIYfXp2TIXG5mr20im73PyRCV8BgND_baPI9lP6iXdYr/s400/LilA+Bday+002.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Gpa Mac</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiHw_kH0tqq70nlXWiTPYxsWlDG4YvX4etyJBohK1CHGBui5YJhAJRlOaJVGhWC0X2dLc3oDgdWzzg-qZYHxTnpFMYbDgkb1r31n6sHmp2wSG8fI7osP3um9GfEoJo5TKemnp_I3ACmuja/s1600/LilA+Bday+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiHw_kH0tqq70nlXWiTPYxsWlDG4YvX4etyJBohK1CHGBui5YJhAJRlOaJVGhWC0X2dLc3oDgdWzzg-qZYHxTnpFMYbDgkb1r31n6sHmp2wSG8fI7osP3um9GfEoJo5TKemnp_I3ACmuja/s400/LilA+Bday+004.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Aunt Jessie also attended the party but she's the one who took all these pics for us! Thanks! And also <a href="http://everydayedwardsfamily.blogspot.com/2009/05/momma.html">Momma A</a> was visiting us for the week which was a great treat and blessing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">After trying on lots of costumes we had a parade with party blowers to show off our savvy costumes. This was A's favorite part.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfBBeIc1zaVW5DtO5K_vMPV5E-bLpCaG1nfKQXLKJiWyiTsP_bFygGsfB45GcYuX3MpJkAyBD9PKYw_aPKc8G8OYGRkfIgk-JW9qN3vUisEbKyuhIhE15Dqqm8-K-QMv2ZtpvOuF6AD_QT/s1600/LilA+Bday+006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfBBeIc1zaVW5DtO5K_vMPV5E-bLpCaG1nfKQXLKJiWyiTsP_bFygGsfB45GcYuX3MpJkAyBD9PKYw_aPKc8G8OYGRkfIgk-JW9qN3vUisEbKyuhIhE15Dqqm8-K-QMv2ZtpvOuF6AD_QT/s400/LilA+Bday+006.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I decorated for the party with "spots" by stringing up some pom-poms (super easy and very cute!) and a colorful spotted tablecloth. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We then read the lift the flap book Spot's Birthday Party with each child getting the </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">chance to lift 2 flaps. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In this book Spot plays Hide & Seek with his friends at his party...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWJ-4YDvOjNH5OWsR3Brj_3ezdOpttjcRZgUZ5KpESbC1GwCHatrOR3dLbMry8gf9Yw-r2V_k2k-gfbnw22V33GoMKbsdM0bZKrU9UZm9g8aK3-ccHmR7gHTvMZMJ4PrIja9fOHy6Fn2Jy/s1600/LilA+Bday+009.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWJ-4YDvOjNH5OWsR3Brj_3ezdOpttjcRZgUZ5KpESbC1GwCHatrOR3dLbMry8gf9Yw-r2V_k2k-gfbnw22V33GoMKbsdM0bZKrU9UZm9g8aK3-ccHmR7gHTvMZMJ4PrIja9fOHy6Fn2Jy/s400/LilA+Bday+009.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(the official party guests: Addie, Lydia, Trenton, & Alyssa)</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"> Candle time!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXEMXQLuXbyo_ryDa-JafxCg0qPsnDKos07em1j-eGXnSwuKsAI13QNvp_p9p_QTtJZ0cczTeKfSZzfgf69F3sUWvjtOWf8KNN2Di9kWylaqCL_mPNJRztNuz1ul2tXSZgLIfVqFqEQ0Qn/s1600/LilA+Bday+048.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXEMXQLuXbyo_ryDa-JafxCg0qPsnDKos07em1j-eGXnSwuKsAI13QNvp_p9p_QTtJZ0cczTeKfSZzfgf69F3sUWvjtOWf8KNN2Di9kWylaqCL_mPNJRztNuz1ul2tXSZgLIfVqFqEQ0Qn/s400/LilA+Bday+048.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Besides serving brownies (Aurora's not big on cake) all the kids were served ice cream in a dog shape cookie cutter and were given mini M&M's to decorate their dogs w/ spots. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDt2rVAZpjtq8-yI9pKzvUn2DM4rvST1yjKdpAIwEcKOYCjJCf7sMnUL5R4sTXLV0I1HFK0uvpMoHSzCb0AwpYF6SYGzXb8iWRvidqoI1835F45WhUSSPH8yH0ug33Z9dgEWFEH5X-rv9L/s1600/LilA+Bday+041.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDt2rVAZpjtq8-yI9pKzvUn2DM4rvST1yjKdpAIwEcKOYCjJCf7sMnUL5R4sTXLV0I1HFK0uvpMoHSzCb0AwpYF6SYGzXb8iWRvidqoI1835F45WhUSSPH8yH0ug33Z9dgEWFEH5X-rv9L/s400/LilA+Bday+041.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is Aurora's twin...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">whenever Alyssa is out with us, I get asked if they are twins by everyone! :)</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Thanks everyone for coming! It was soooo much fun!</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320649453193021950.post-90375148931430938022011-05-17T14:58:00.000-05:002011-05-17T14:58:53.753-05:00New Family Pics<div style="text-align: center;">Go to this photography <a href="http://photography-frommyeyestoyours.blogspot.com/2011/05/edwards.html?showComment=1305660647258">website</a> of my friend Hope to see a few of the new pics of our family especially the ones of our beautiful newly turned two year old!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320649453193021950.post-55861277089942040862011-05-04T14:18:00.002-05:002011-05-09T14:09:10.079-05:00Recap & St. Louis<div style="text-align: center;">It's May and I've only posted 3x's this year! </div><div style="text-align: center;">Well here is a recap (I'm getting really good at doing these.)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">We still don't have a camera that I like which is part of the issue with not blogging. Also I'm still the seminary teacher and a mother which is really the issue with not blogging. </div><div style="text-align: center;">I love teaching seminary. I truly think it's the main reason why I was able to stave off the Seasonal Affect Depression this <a href="http://everydayedwardsfamily.blogspot.com/2010/03/sad.html">year</a>. It's fabulous to have the Spirit in my home every morning Mon-Fri.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The <a href="http://everydayedwardsfamily.blogspot.com/2011/03/okay-so-im-back.html">car seat woes</a> from the previous post were resolved about a week or two later (which I knew in my head would happen sooner or later like all stages but it was still really hard). </div><div style="text-align: center;">What helped push the transition faster and more smoothly was help from my most trusted mother's aide: <a href="http://everydayedwardsfamily.blogspot.com/2010/06/betrayal-of-childrens-dept-at-library.html">books</a>.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I've been testing out audio books with Aurora off and on over the last 6 months and she just grasped the</div><div style="text-align: center;">concept that the cd is telling her stories from some of her favorite books. </div><div style="text-align: center;">So now when we go anywhere it's "Do you want to listen to Monkeys (5 Little Monkeys Jumping On the Bed) or to Cows (Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type)?" And she chooses one and happily gets into the car and her car seat. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Her favorite right now is Audrey Wood's (my all time fave children's author) King Bidgood is in the Bathtub. The sound recording is quite fabulous and it's like listening to a musical. I highly recommend it! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgACrQZ_OkTekzDHyl-RxwbFfSSSv_-pLm2CTERFuKoyuwUa7LPXmVLnLnEwuBzd89i-PoTVg5ItbhPVNTiAWf9csdSGdJEDyH6nr5p5Au3HMYia6I8_x2KJz9gB1MtYRZHJjpRq9l6Xkkg/s1600/bidgood.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgACrQZ_OkTekzDHyl-RxwbFfSSSv_-pLm2CTERFuKoyuwUa7LPXmVLnLnEwuBzd89i-PoTVg5ItbhPVNTiAWf9csdSGdJEDyH6nr5p5Au3HMYia6I8_x2KJz9gB1MtYRZHJjpRq9l6Xkkg/s320/bidgood.jpg" width="271" /></a></div><br />
<div align="center">Jared and I took a short vacation together to St. Louis. He had a meeting there on a Thursday and it coincided with the schools' spring breaks around here. So I didn't have to teach and my Mom and Dad watched Aurora for us, it was perfect.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">So despite the quite warm weather the previous week we had snow on our "spring break" vacation.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh_vVvxVdxdDgAnPzqzJ9EEMmkW1eDNawXe_gcsGLvbu85B5Kc-F0IyqO_lR9r3QI3gGdtJvWjoBM3H61uRKPC0iCk30zXxLrIYDsl8MRfLOzUJNdV0oUk1EfJgn-4q_DnQRmuWDxHyKod/s1600/P3260174.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh_vVvxVdxdDgAnPzqzJ9EEMmkW1eDNawXe_gcsGLvbu85B5Kc-F0IyqO_lR9r3QI3gGdtJvWjoBM3H61uRKPC0iCk30zXxLrIYDsl8MRfLOzUJNdV0oUk1EfJgn-4q_DnQRmuWDxHyKod/s400/P3260174.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">Quite a bit of snow.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">But by the time we bought our tickets to go up this is what it looked like...</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">This was some of our views from the top...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyFi0cUPGgMnGhMdmQUPjAscykHdTnDvwLkTQ6ReYi9WCZ10SBtNGgaaQqvl2LVsCHhb6QZuvDz2WeOpLViWeJTeTts3o0tEhQKy05hdmdewT2GPVnFqGGITSJrGi-1h7gxETrjV4L99ll/s1600/P3250108.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyFi0cUPGgMnGhMdmQUPjAscykHdTnDvwLkTQ6ReYi9WCZ10SBtNGgaaQqvl2LVsCHhb6QZuvDz2WeOpLViWeJTeTts3o0tEhQKy05hdmdewT2GPVnFqGGITSJrGi-1h7gxETrjV4L99ll/s320/P3250108.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">This is the door to the elevator to ride up and down to the Arch. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">It's so small, I thought it could easily be a hobbit's door.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">This is one of my fave pics from the trip. </div><div style="text-align: center;">We are in the waiting area at the Arch about to board the elevators and go up.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfiZdfmnhQ_b1s7u-yt55Ltl0Wd7T5Q8VkfEFMkhrSf9LAEEC-gIHbCeM8ZPUTH0uz_3h5PzJMRam13PDz10ug1-2fa4_RazCgONGLpkIQ7NJ5CErY7TkHUkFhQGbpRBV_Wnfz2Fr5oBGa/s1600/P3250131.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfiZdfmnhQ_b1s7u-yt55Ltl0Wd7T5Q8VkfEFMkhrSf9LAEEC-gIHbCeM8ZPUTH0uz_3h5PzJMRam13PDz10ug1-2fa4_RazCgONGLpkIQ7NJ5CErY7TkHUkFhQGbpRBV_Wnfz2Fr5oBGa/s400/P3250131.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="color: black;">I was going to type out the whole "witch" scene from Monty Python but decided against it in favor of just publishing the clip itself. You're welcome and enjoy! :) </span></span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
Peasant 1: If she weighed the same as a duck... she's made of wood<br />
Sir Bedevere: And therefore... </div><div style="text-align: center;">Peasant 2: ...A witch!<br />
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(I guess Jared is the "duck" and I'm the "witch")</div><div style="text-align: center;"><object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://0.gvt0.com/vi/zrzMhU_4m-g/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zrzMhU_4m-g&fs=1&source=uds" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zrzMhU_4m-g&fs=1&source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We also took a ride on the ferry boats. I enjoyed the names of the boats.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Ours was called the Becky Thatcher and the other boat was the Tom Sawyer.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoheTSyunxdrLbW2Hd8u-gLubU5_NkorukQCwnpMtBwjs68flbNqg_udxKmoSJLUnwUttbTAgMHPyPYD9UcolK1uRjVpwOv9SjiVHWl6Zm0Pkr-t6GvmZy5va5IiRVKO-6acIva9p16OI8/s1600/P3250084.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoheTSyunxdrLbW2Hd8u-gLubU5_NkorukQCwnpMtBwjs68flbNqg_udxKmoSJLUnwUttbTAgMHPyPYD9UcolK1uRjVpwOv9SjiVHWl6Zm0Pkr-t6GvmZy5va5IiRVKO-6acIva9p16OI8/s400/P3250084.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We had dinner at a local pizza place: Imo's Pizza. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I didn't have high expectations but it was truly great pizza!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">We went to the St. Louis temple that night.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVrBYrOxte0NhjFQ3QmO-6_vFOJKmjm4QYdWhL9x-l_B0h5TvesxmCOm1hv2RcdanY8J-IfSXN25K9q3ppvXqgN2tPAk8qcWwT24065nxHWdknVNy3pW19HCnEZFhyphenhyphen-l8YYme78HOWqX-M/s1600/P3250133.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVrBYrOxte0NhjFQ3QmO-6_vFOJKmjm4QYdWhL9x-l_B0h5TvesxmCOm1hv2RcdanY8J-IfSXN25K9q3ppvXqgN2tPAk8qcWwT24065nxHWdknVNy3pW19HCnEZFhyphenhyphen-l8YYme78HOWqX-M/s400/P3250133.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The next day we went to the Science Museum (no pics really to speak of) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and my favorite place: The Butterfly Garden.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It happened to be Blue Morpho month and so the most gorgeous and huge blue butterflies were everywhere along with all kinds of other butterflies. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhesoDpbKHQ0oSJmpJqumAPUQ-Vwdg96SYTwQVpBMh6IYWtMoiaFQd2WC26mcpR572tZRuLVZScCM-NfrtoN3tp4Oylv9X-LWwPNfNCe5DaBa2hBeS0rwsExAFcUH8MVlk2uXcf08wOPBCS/s1600/P3260138.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhesoDpbKHQ0oSJmpJqumAPUQ-Vwdg96SYTwQVpBMh6IYWtMoiaFQd2WC26mcpR572tZRuLVZScCM-NfrtoN3tp4Oylv9X-LWwPNfNCe5DaBa2hBeS0rwsExAFcUH8MVlk2uXcf08wOPBCS/s400/P3260138.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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<div align="center">Okay, enough pics of just butterflies...here is one of us.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi07ZpskzvO9OzBq6hGJruyFwjOpNstbjpjGXaw7sEPkm1xcIWqI_m-Zq-gmljmfTGBujyNwdiQhRoqEh5IFNF4t3XvcmZE852R2dgFQTtAjZTLyM9dZ1K_A3j1aeEdK9kJyvMcuZE3mpD4/s1600/P3260162.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi07ZpskzvO9OzBq6hGJruyFwjOpNstbjpjGXaw7sEPkm1xcIWqI_m-Zq-gmljmfTGBujyNwdiQhRoqEh5IFNF4t3XvcmZE852R2dgFQTtAjZTLyM9dZ1K_A3j1aeEdK9kJyvMcuZE3mpD4/s400/P3260162.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The garden is inside and feels like a tropical rainforest which is good compared to outside...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">That night for dinner we went to the Melting Pot (a fondue restaurant)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We have never been there before but we had heard good things about it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Even though my expectations were relatively high...I was still pleasantly surprised how good it was.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We did the 3 course meal! It was so much food but soooo good!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Jared wanted me to take a pic of the meat plate...he was so excited about it. :) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKsF_Fs0-omK8Z3Tuh91t4kEEVpEpIjvnHI27upOq8-v44lL9SSudCk07Nu0uR_fw216M9g4sC_NtiAaKk3T-H1fzqE04ziSTTI2vCB55WIraSmu9vYM_310BAl40LxrKDDNnkZpx-0p6c/s1600/P3260177.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKsF_Fs0-omK8Z3Tuh91t4kEEVpEpIjvnHI27upOq8-v44lL9SSudCk07Nu0uR_fw216M9g4sC_NtiAaKk3T-H1fzqE04ziSTTI2vCB55WIraSmu9vYM_310BAl40LxrKDDNnkZpx-0p6c/s400/P3260177.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">After a fabulous weekend, we drove home through the snow to our much missed beautiful daughter.<br />
(Thanks Mom & Dad!)</div><div style="text-align: center;">This is what she got out of the deal: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOn1K4hX-nDNuaXSPzTIy3UOwm6Kdrar9JY_5Lmoz9v1oxYs0q9si9ROb1RoEP0QmIzZFwjMC_nXGTvezc-qbq85DAB4zpSHSG8mi9wvmxCMC4doJH5d2FSHgu10fpd8tE0JAE8soHWsRr/s1600/P3270185.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOn1K4hX-nDNuaXSPzTIy3UOwm6Kdrar9JY_5Lmoz9v1oxYs0q9si9ROb1RoEP0QmIzZFwjMC_nXGTvezc-qbq85DAB4zpSHSG8mi9wvmxCMC4doJH5d2FSHgu10fpd8tE0JAE8soHWsRr/s400/P3270185.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Coming soon to a blog post near you:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Aurora's 2nd Birthday!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320649453193021950.post-43426345981680249632011-03-15T12:47:00.002-05:002011-03-16T13:31:59.914-05:00Okay, so I'm back<div style="text-align: center;">I've been waiting for something to inspire me out of my blogging depression and self-pity party and this pic did the trick. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I took this pic with my phone because I still don't have a proper camera yet.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Isn't she just darling?! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I love my little sunshine even on days when she is feeling a little overcast and rainy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Rainy Moments: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Right now, the rainy moments are when she throws a fit (the screaming, arched back, kicking legs kind) almost every time I try to put her in the car seat. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So in response we have become hermits who never leave the house. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">No, not really but I seriously consider whatever it is taking us out today if it is worth it. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The other day we were getting back in the car from a needed grocery store run and she was screaming and kicking etc... I pulled out one of my sometimes successful parenting tools (nothing is surefire with a toddler). It is to show empathy and understanding to the child and since the child is a toddler, this tool pretty much sounds like this (in a loudish voice with feeling but not yelling) "NO, NO, NO CAR SEAT! AURORA NO CAR SEAT!" Also, as toddler's are physical beings for added understanding and empathy I pound on the car seat a couple times. (This particular tool of the many I try in the daily car seat episodes is from Dr. Sears' book The Happiest Toddler on the Block) Well, after repeating this a few times not only did it not have any effect on her (at least in the moment...I know years down the road she will say to me "Gee, Mom you're swell. Thanks for understanding that I hated that darn car seat."), it dawned on me what this might look like to someone who couldn't fully see or understand what was going on inside the car. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A small child is screaming like a banshee and I'm pounding on the car seat. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"No officer, I wasn't hitting or intimidating my child. No, I wasn't even hitting the car seat out of frustration...at least not this time. Yes, I know the store's security camera caught bits of it on tape but I was actually trying to show my child that I understood her feelings. That understanding strengthens attachment which influences biological systems to slow down and become calm." </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Then I envisioned the officer giving me a look and saying: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"Uh-huh. Okay, why don't we just step over to my car here and you can wear these pretty shiny bracelets on both hands behind your back while we head downtown."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So, I gave up on empathy for the moment and instead used bribery by giving her a piece of chocolate.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This calms her long enough to put her arms through the seat belt restraints but I finish the buckling while she begins screaming and kicking again.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Sigh.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Sunny Moments:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">-When I can see her laughter break through on her face like a beam of light before the bubbling sound escapes from her mouth.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">-When she spontaneously cries out with joy "Momma!" and hugs me. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">-When she sings along with the Primary songs cd that we use as her bedtime music.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">-When she receives anything from me or gives anything to me even trash or a partially chewed piece of food, she always says "thank-you-welcome."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">-When she spells or reads. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Yes, that's right my not even two year old daughter recognizes about 20 words whether it is written or spelled aloud. She adds a word or two a week to her repertoire. Her favorite words to spell herself are: Aurora, cat, home, Momma, and Daddy. She's also very fond of the words: fish, dog, sun, ball, star. She also knows: book, tree, stop, pig, bed, out, and a few more that I'm not remembering right now. This week she has added the word 'jump' to her list. It's so much fun for the three of us- being the bookworms and word lovers that we are.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Just so you know, I don't believe her to be a genius. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I wouldn't want to box her in and label her with that so early in life even if she was.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> I believe her to be very interested and talented with letters, words, and reading for now (and maybe writing in the future). It also helps that she is still in the small window of time where language acquisitition is quicker and easier. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Just so you know, I am bragging though :)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Anyways, so now your caught up on some of our doings, well at least Aurora's doings. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Even though it's rainy and dreay here I'm wishing you all a little sunshine to remind you of the hope of spring!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320649453193021950.post-55468678898860504122011-02-17T11:59:00.003-06:002011-02-17T12:58:48.601-06:00Technical DifficultiesWe appreciate your patience as we work out our technical difficulties. <br />
Now if I could just get my hands on some of that patience.<br />
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I know I promised I would post Christmas pics by Valentines and would of accomplished my goal by that deadline if it hadn't been for several technical difficulties. First, we upgraded our computer from XP to Windows7. Before doing so we backed up everything onto the hard drive, at least we thought we did. Now I can't find our Christmas pics anywhere. Of course we just cancelled our subscription to Mozy (an online back-up system) because we just got this new hard drive. It appears that over a 100 pics and videos from Christmas are gone. <br />
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I rallied myself after several days of mourning to post more recent pics of our comings and goings but that was when we discovered our internet was down for a couple of days. <br />
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Then I went to take pictures and discovered our almost 2 year old camera was not working. The estimate to fix it is almost as much as we paid for the camera new. Sigh.<br />
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We borrowed Jared's work camera since he's not out working in the "field" at the moment but so far all the pictures are blurry...I don't know what the issue is. Also when I recorded some videos, (like the last swim lesson for the Daddy & Me program that Aurora and Jared participated in) apparently the mute button was on and the videos don't have any sound.<br />
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So, all in all I'm quite dishearten and don't have a desire to blog much at the moment with everything conspiring against me to do so. I might post some pics from Valentine's Day that I took with the work camera but maybe not since they're not very good. <br />
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What is kind of funny is that we had technical issues and difficulties about this time last <a href="http://everydayedwardsfamily.blogspot.com/2010/01/i-literally-repel-technology-now.html">year</a>. Sigh. Well, maybe not that funny.<br />
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I know I'll recover soon and be back to blogging because Aurora is growing so fast and I have lots of things I want to document, remember and share about this time period. Until then, wishing you better luck with your technical appendages in life.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320649453193021950.post-53903819809663231022011-01-28T17:53:00.003-06:002011-01-28T21:56:29.538-06:00"Where Have You Been?!?"<div style="text-align: center;">So once again I have been MIA from my blog for about a month. I like to keep busy in general but I just reached a new level of busyness. Right before the new year I was called to be a seminary teacher at church. A seminary teacher works with the high school aged youth every morning Mon-Fri in studying the scriptures. I am loving it! It is such a great blessing but it does take a lot of time and energy to do...so less blogging. I hope to get on and post some Christmas pictures before Easter, maybe even Valentine's Day...but don't hold your breath for it to be before Groundhog's Day.<br />
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I did already take the time to update the blog's look though. New year, new look.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Post title is quoting Mrs. Weasley in the movie </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I heard some of you were going through </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">"Esther-quoting-movies-all-the-time" withdrawls.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320649453193021950.post-46809149416545132262010-12-23T13:02:00.000-06:002010-12-23T13:02:40.217-06:00Yes, This Is Another Post About My Hair<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKc1F-ZFBKX0eDPqrbre7H0DdzxvTPVSv51xwpCU7JwojnwhMOSC2OKC_TqBNhxGveAA4AWeSkNvzaAZ_pd-1XZqPnwhaEZoPfVbBB3AWRsrfXesZM8x8c9smlCbZHR-IpeIXBPC3Co_Qt/s1600/More+December+003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKc1F-ZFBKX0eDPqrbre7H0DdzxvTPVSv51xwpCU7JwojnwhMOSC2OKC_TqBNhxGveAA4AWeSkNvzaAZ_pd-1XZqPnwhaEZoPfVbBB3AWRsrfXesZM8x8c9smlCbZHR-IpeIXBPC3Co_Qt/s320/More+December+003.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Right before I chopped it off for Locks of Love.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320649453193021950.post-14237675043525291852010-12-23T12:40:00.005-06:002010-12-23T12:48:21.581-06:00Christmas Card 2010<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT-nHcaFeyFfwIObzgP2470kqFtPIyDMaHYMDBiBz-Jw1MIUW4V0BRbu6_FGKAocJvb5ppXvsHYpvLtCrL21chVdQlR8vUZiKt860iNUxq0brbrrwSKv0E8Trwe1uCiAShKdxC4o2Dxsq4/s1600/Christmas+pic+2010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT-nHcaFeyFfwIObzgP2470kqFtPIyDMaHYMDBiBz-Jw1MIUW4V0BRbu6_FGKAocJvb5ppXvsHYpvLtCrL21chVdQlR8vUZiKt860iNUxq0brbrrwSKv0E8Trwe1uCiAShKdxC4o2Dxsq4/s400/Christmas+pic+2010.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I know it's so tacky that I always email and post on various social websites our Christmas card but it's the best I can do. This card isn't as good as last <a href="http://everydayedwardsfamily.blogspot.com/2009/12/christmas-card.html">year's</a> (taking the pictures was <em>a lot</em> harder this year with a very active toddler and I didn't have as much free time this year to design the card with my very minimal skills with photoshop) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">but we still wish all of you a very Merry Christmas!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320649453193021950.post-64771841728310672362010-12-20T13:12:00.004-06:002010-12-22T15:37:32.777-06:00With a Grateful Heart<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">We had so very much to be grateful for this past Thanksgiving! We were able to visit with Aurora's birth family, see some dear friends and some family for little over a week! </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">We stayed at Alyssa's 3 bedroom apartment (Thanks! You're the best!) and at any given time there was usually around 11 of us staying there! </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Crazy I know, but it went really well! </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitkmZK1dfrREc4VACXK0rrIS7MA8RWzFTjSoLAXzAlSKaeQt8tc_OgE66XGPRJi2O4b2BPVCrNa3S5lq6M8tZmKUH32G2xjchAbYVFGmB0R65Z1cDW7YCN3PavUkTNMOAFzCVAEWPFzqtP/s1600/Nov+2010+025.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitkmZK1dfrREc4VACXK0rrIS7MA8RWzFTjSoLAXzAlSKaeQt8tc_OgE66XGPRJi2O4b2BPVCrNa3S5lq6M8tZmKUH32G2xjchAbYVFGmB0R65Z1cDW7YCN3PavUkTNMOAFzCVAEWPFzqtP/s400/Nov+2010+025.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">We read lots and lots of books </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguksGSvNEZTSNvdiHzd_iDEgH5hRL7ajHPCVc2VYIC67yq-Tf5AqWp280uCEDtjTSpPYEgmR2lHRym0NEb3xLc6i76sHshHbPQGcvkANSgMo0L2fXp8z0v28w3kuAiU5OADc2a1nF_cL__/s1600/Nov+2010+049.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguksGSvNEZTSNvdiHzd_iDEgH5hRL7ajHPCVc2VYIC67yq-Tf5AqWp280uCEDtjTSpPYEgmR2lHRym0NEb3xLc6i76sHshHbPQGcvkANSgMo0L2fXp8z0v28w3kuAiU5OADc2a1nF_cL__/s400/Nov+2010+049.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Played in lots of snow. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There was a forecast for a blizzard while we were there. The worst storm in a decade. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Although it did snow and blow- it really wasn't all that bad which was really too bad.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Can you believe my own husband of 9 years did this to me....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Aurora loved the penguins</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXhwda6JPftSIMSkVZ_KGmYkUBmrdJZOpRST2gChyVuGjS1mn-A2MnQ5hjyxpScs1g8xPDmS7NQ04vc5ks-h6e7-CCt6x135kSl9HQG_4SwDlnzGSkFmtAzuK5g3iZD4a3gisi6c8fsCaR/s1600/Nov+2010+134.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXhwda6JPftSIMSkVZ_KGmYkUBmrdJZOpRST2gChyVuGjS1mn-A2MnQ5hjyxpScs1g8xPDmS7NQ04vc5ks-h6e7-CCt6x135kSl9HQG_4SwDlnzGSkFmtAzuK5g3iZD4a3gisi6c8fsCaR/s400/Nov+2010+134.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Aurora caught the 2nd boat ashore since the 1st one was a little too crowded for her liking.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE6GoPDDjf-D4mZo64lI0kUll8rzXxebOWfHIS0PZIPQqSNedGDPdW1zUawPc0fqYwNjjNCn49NruatNh2TpJB9Jk7t0S52ot4y5k_JWw2WMqM-4WmVRbJHeavhu40idEs-Wxt797GJ5yj/s1600/Nov+2010+130.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE6GoPDDjf-D4mZo64lI0kUll8rzXxebOWfHIS0PZIPQqSNedGDPdW1zUawPc0fqYwNjjNCn49NruatNh2TpJB9Jk7t0S52ot4y5k_JWw2WMqM-4WmVRbJHeavhu40idEs-Wxt797GJ5yj/s400/Nov+2010+130.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div align="center">Of course being the big Harry Potter fans that we are...saw Deathly Hallows Part I </div><div style="text-align: center;">(I usually dubb it HP7a).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQtpp0gNVA5WR4KRlWpuMLvfzBz4GY3AH9hfzPSqXadDCWGe3wt9je6VM0_-wXQuOKN5R_GwXOz53D6xHwfkhY_zWbke-jRlJUJSfRYu53rWfjuILr34RZO0dvrylMHvJFFb1ljbYbzfnY/s1600/Nov+2010+166.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQtpp0gNVA5WR4KRlWpuMLvfzBz4GY3AH9hfzPSqXadDCWGe3wt9je6VM0_-wXQuOKN5R_GwXOz53D6xHwfkhY_zWbke-jRlJUJSfRYu53rWfjuILr34RZO0dvrylMHvJFFb1ljbYbzfnY/s400/Nov+2010+166.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Loved it! Absolutely loved it!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Also, Jared and I celebrated our 9th anniversary while we were there. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We were able to go to the temple together. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Love him! Absolutely love him! </div> <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Quite the week and we still didn't get to see all of the friends we wanted to...sorry dear ones!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">How very blessed are we!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320649453193021950.post-91252562445830892752010-12-10T09:39:00.000-06:002010-12-10T09:39:23.844-06:00Aurora at 18 months<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Aurora will be 19 months in a couple of days! She is getting so big! </div><ul><li><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She goes to nursery at church now and does really well. Only crying for the first minute after separation. </div></li>
<li><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She is starting to do a little pretend play. She will pour some pretend tea (herbal tea of course) from her tea pot and then pretend to drink from her cup...so cute! She talks to her stuffed animals and dolls.</div></li>
<li><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> She talks quite a bit in general, although probably only Jared and I understand her. She says "please" quite consistently and "thank you" quite inconsistently. She can make pretty much all the appropriate sounds for almost any animal and tons more words. </div></li>
<li><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She loves singing. So without further ado here she is singing her rendition of "Jesus Wants Me For a Sunbeam" that she has entitled "Jesus Sunbeep"</div></li>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">As with every stage and transition that she grows into I have a hard time keeping up at first. This week she has been into EVERYTHING.</div><ul><li><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We have to keep the trash can turned around facing backwards toward the wall or she will get in it and eat things. So gross.</div></li>
<li><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We have to keep the bathroom door closed because she can lift the toliet seat up and loves to splash in it. Very gross.</div></li>
<li><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Recently she unrolled a whole roll of toliet paper in a record time of about 5 seconds and then proceeded to carry it around with her all day with long trails of toliet paper streaming behind her. She alternated between calling it "blanket" & cuddling with it to blowing her nose on it. (She recently had a cold). So fun.</div></li>
<li><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She won't hold still whatsoever for a diaper change and during certain diaper changes it becomes a literal, utter mess. Poo is everywhere and I most certaintly do not mean Winnie the Pooh either. Very fun and very gross. </div></li>
</ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But as always I know I will eventually adjust and we will have a few great weeks until the next stage! I know I will be a little sad at the passing of another stage. For soon the crayon drawings on the front door will stop and I will miss them. A lot. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So I try to laugh when something like the toliet paper incident happens. And I keep closing doors and washing hands a million times a day and try to smile at the same time. And I try to find new ways to help the diaper changing to go smoothly and keep the expletives in my head.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I wouldn't trade a single experience for the world!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320649453193021950.post-12304238198310744392010-12-10T08:51:00.001-06:002010-12-10T09:01:21.885-06:00More Catch-Up<div align="center">Okay, I lied. This isn't Thanksgiving pics but a few more random ones from Oct & Nov.</div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My friend Camille, recently moved away. I miss her and her family so part of my grieving process is to post a couple pics from one of the times we went to the zoo.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So here is what we are getting Aurora for Christmas but don't tell her!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A box</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRiw-nDTvh7sfBaxaxcGSQQRYrzKTvcGnqbZPFJsFTQ4f1Q7WvMf5ud01HRnHGD8gZimX91O77d_hO-Oayj79XSph1KmRoiR-_rqf7dm6ytWCN9MvuI1x8wxFSGkxY6pb2lUWxdsn3sQEj/s1600/october+2010+022.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRiw-nDTvh7sfBaxaxcGSQQRYrzKTvcGnqbZPFJsFTQ4f1Q7WvMf5ud01HRnHGD8gZimX91O77d_hO-Oayj79XSph1KmRoiR-_rqf7dm6ytWCN9MvuI1x8wxFSGkxY6pb2lUWxdsn3sQEj/s320/october+2010+022.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and her very own toy vacuum </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQNQCxVjLgDTlEdu3Sg01OndcroF_3lkWdZ7TKvF3TmvBoWQ7LAciTXrHf0Mrn7w6GE7XC2gwJKsvyzlABabpDJg5Gu3dHiJryzWOB-dfCsxqfNs4k0b8peAkyg6cskjhHjqsDzmNSdcLT/s1600/october+2010+107.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQNQCxVjLgDTlEdu3Sg01OndcroF_3lkWdZ7TKvF3TmvBoWQ7LAciTXrHf0Mrn7w6GE7XC2gwJKsvyzlABabpDJg5Gu3dHiJryzWOB-dfCsxqfNs4k0b8peAkyg6cskjhHjqsDzmNSdcLT/s320/october+2010+107.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Is there a better picture in the world than a man vacuuming and holding his child? :)</div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320649453193021950.post-64633589929621421452010-12-08T19:56:00.001-06:002010-12-10T08:05:31.858-06:00November Non-Thanksgiving<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">November is National Adoption Awareness Month and I was contributing to the <a href="http://www.indianafsa.blogspot.com/">FSA blog</a> on a weekly basis during November so that is my small excuse for neglecting <em>this</em> blog. (Go check out the FSA blog...there is some great stuff on there!)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The poster child for adoption:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2w08M4oyQUJ56ztOEQOsYaOg0BJ9-cIIq1MP6vs7FvVrDvKrd9FzRGXj6EaB_uW2_MkwyflJIcr8fgp7c9grM9q0XeB3Lyw08cvP5MSynx9G2h2ratuMkBJN_Wv1H_SEXyC3Rr13S5gaS/s1600/Nov+2010+020.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2w08M4oyQUJ56ztOEQOsYaOg0BJ9-cIIq1MP6vs7FvVrDvKrd9FzRGXj6EaB_uW2_MkwyflJIcr8fgp7c9grM9q0XeB3Lyw08cvP5MSynx9G2h2ratuMkBJN_Wv1H_SEXyC3Rr13S5gaS/s400/Nov+2010+020.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Isn't she the cutest?! I'm not biased whatsoever of course.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Lil A loves playing outside! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We went outside everyday in the late afternoon and waited for Daddy to ride his bike up from work. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Now that it is bitter cold, when 4 o'clock comes around it is really hard to convince her that she doesn't want to go outside, or at least that Momma doesn't want to go outside.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She paticularly loved the leaf piles we made from the huge tree in our front yard. I believe it is the largest tree in the whole city. </div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I finally arranged a play area in the basement. Now we have somewhere to go and be when it's too cold out. I love our home! It is truly my dream home and I feel so blessed to already in my stage of life to be living in my dream home.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Coming up next...our trip to visit family & friends for Thanksgiving. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Then hopefully ready for Christmas!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320649453193021950.post-49903659825273475942010-12-08T19:51:00.002-06:002010-12-08T20:01:50.454-06:00Edwards Family Day<div align="center">One Saturday in October we celebrated the day that Aurora was <a href="http://everydayedwardsfamily.blogspot.com/2009/10/neverending-story.html">sealed</a> to us forever in the <a href="http://everydayedwardsfamily.blogspot.com/2009/10/forever-family.html">temple</a> by having a family day.</div><div align="center">It was a much needed day just to be together as a family and take a break from our very busy lives. Also Jared had been away from us working out of town Mon-Fri for 2 months and he was finally home to stay. Another reason to celebrate!</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">The day was glorious!</div><div align="center"><br />
It started out by making t-shirts for the special day. Jared looked at me rather disbelieving when I got out the markers and shirts but I had warned him this was going to be an "event." He's lucky the "family song" I'd been creating in my head didn't come together until the end of the day and I didn't force him to sing it! :)<br />
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Back of the shirts.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZq7y_o9Wp3ADZAhBtx07j80T0XVz6xxmFCe6v7Pk9LbNspupPDTjIRe8L_WM-_lF6FPY_X82Hs4LqWHOYlGvZriLWcmlj8VV37LWLrK9Hu5TBtVA2cJeWU-pS2LSoFfOI4MdpHnMjKc1T/s1600/october+2010+100.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZq7y_o9Wp3ADZAhBtx07j80T0XVz6xxmFCe6v7Pk9LbNspupPDTjIRe8L_WM-_lF6FPY_X82Hs4LqWHOYlGvZriLWcmlj8VV37LWLrK9Hu5TBtVA2cJeWU-pS2LSoFfOI4MdpHnMjKc1T/s400/october+2010+100.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The best pic we got of the front of the shirts.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioiF0qmsgp0poP66V7Rn_Pksn6KXV0wxK57xTjIlGHKyoBXyp132heiQaJkhrrzMFQseCvZGNGUF8nWR_GqRVdOeA19ALTDimSfDiZYmehw73GFh342sImDrGBL51bVk7gVHndHJHRizra/s1600/october+2010+105.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioiF0qmsgp0poP66V7Rn_Pksn6KXV0wxK57xTjIlGHKyoBXyp132heiQaJkhrrzMFQseCvZGNGUF8nWR_GqRVdOeA19ALTDimSfDiZYmehw73GFh342sImDrGBL51bVk7gVHndHJHRizra/s400/october+2010+105.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We went hiking at a nature preserve located at the local monastery. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(How often does one get to say something like that?)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjba2b2-rdC92JXnNpz7d5P8X4zeInR0gOAydG3nYP6SkOnd_85WHTMrgnPtogtSNj1N3Hc2_Zv-Q7ta2nIvT_CinCjYEuD_n7am5Uo03CBWzYQ5UwAaAleQIpNOBf9KNrY6Msy4bYg0KRd/s1600/october+2010+075.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjba2b2-rdC92JXnNpz7d5P8X4zeInR0gOAydG3nYP6SkOnd_85WHTMrgnPtogtSNj1N3Hc2_Zv-Q7ta2nIvT_CinCjYEuD_n7am5Uo03CBWzYQ5UwAaAleQIpNOBf9KNrY6Msy4bYg0KRd/s400/october+2010+075.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We hiked around this beautiful lake. </div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We saw all kinds of wildlife too. Ducks, bullfrogs, fish, rabbits, squirrels, birds etc...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Jared pointed out all the interesting plants and trees such as spicebush which I love the way it smells. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I want to plant some in my yard. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We also collected leaves for the collage that we will make of our adventure.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Look, how cool is this?!</div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Here we are collecting some shells for the collage and getting a closer look at some fish.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I'm trying to keep Lil A from losing her shoes in the mud. Also, I clean up a little easier than she does.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3fOBACWxxY6jWSXWl5iVyZpb3eb3oqEUVb2RvG3r658YggY5I8ezSlR0m0yYyEX0gsmqroC2H-7BAHIdjnLHR2Wrw-1BBZs_5A8QAC-kMRpkW7qOHsthEQlbg3iNP7rIRgys9z9F2lU0G/s1600/october+2010+097.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3fOBACWxxY6jWSXWl5iVyZpb3eb3oqEUVb2RvG3r658YggY5I8ezSlR0m0yYyEX0gsmqroC2H-7BAHIdjnLHR2Wrw-1BBZs_5A8QAC-kMRpkW7qOHsthEQlbg3iNP7rIRgys9z9F2lU0G/s400/october+2010+097.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We ate lunch at a picnic shelter at the end of the trail. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We then went to an outdoor concert (sorry no pics) and finished the day out with some ice cream.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I am so very grateful for my fabulous husband and the little ray of sunshine that is my daughter.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">What a wonderful blessing it is to be a forever family!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigTlNVO7zusEWIeu47P8n6NUCqMmZAVzefj3TW0UeKgI14idyfgOfrXnmBtt55mAhWAKFN1NQ6njSwo7vKZy7g1bxyBK-8yHO5xzgb9vIqZa8Fhol7neCs115bVXgZ6MPXa6EyzFvnE-fW/s1600/october+2010+102.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigTlNVO7zusEWIeu47P8n6NUCqMmZAVzefj3TW0UeKgI14idyfgOfrXnmBtt55mAhWAKFN1NQ6njSwo7vKZy7g1bxyBK-8yHO5xzgb9vIqZa8Fhol7neCs115bVXgZ6MPXa6EyzFvnE-fW/s400/october+2010+102.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The girls</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi89GIvmJtfBNdGYL7TYpMdxOYPBso-PaVU36aB90rinZ9dSjBTsHOwA6wn1tyfIh5S6y0Xkj1bMtwcL-ZBXP8BIqG7DI1O1NptjyQ3ryGZqnLU-FeRe3CKzfLoPr8GwcuB9mz4z4vcNHr2/s1600/october+2010+103.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi89GIvmJtfBNdGYL7TYpMdxOYPBso-PaVU36aB90rinZ9dSjBTsHOwA6wn1tyfIh5S6y0Xkj1bMtwcL-ZBXP8BIqG7DI1O1NptjyQ3ryGZqnLU-FeRe3CKzfLoPr8GwcuB9mz4z4vcNHr2/s400/october+2010+103.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320649453193021950.post-27163880254645680082010-12-08T19:21:00.000-06:002010-12-08T19:21:18.249-06:00We "Care Beary" much about you...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuU7D3wPIp2O-bkwvWXl1r9StD_-9V2sogYeRDHsIToshfYkHfh0SMnZEkgk0VM-CzZ2CMFQbzbJ6VLMWWVcH_fAnVl2F75osEA-n6wiO7mKp_n0AQEf_Yf4uwI1snzTAerVBTKo8dq11U/s1600/Photo0072.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuU7D3wPIp2O-bkwvWXl1r9StD_-9V2sogYeRDHsIToshfYkHfh0SMnZEkgk0VM-CzZ2CMFQbzbJ6VLMWWVcH_fAnVl2F75osEA-n6wiO7mKp_n0AQEf_Yf4uwI1snzTAerVBTKo8dq11U/s320/Photo0072.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">with no ifs or "butts" about it! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizqIF0mJRO30VDhQDtPoAFdLGTwf6Euy78AVS6TxKI8bntksFIpkHNtMWqfn7gqfIuX0vhu3IoyHmSsHLEhWLIPszdoVtjNqKttLHXnttcB-BLLqYWB5gRVQjJLNwI5E4xHAWzqq9Npkrc/s1600/Photo0068.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizqIF0mJRO30VDhQDtPoAFdLGTwf6Euy78AVS6TxKI8bntksFIpkHNtMWqfn7gqfIuX0vhu3IoyHmSsHLEhWLIPszdoVtjNqKttLHXnttcB-BLLqYWB5gRVQjJLNwI5E4xHAWzqq9Npkrc/s320/Photo0068.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I know, I know, I'm just now posting Halloween pics! </div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It's been a few years since we were able to go. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So we were excited to take Aurora on her first apple picking experience.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivWgN7MfTEjRPxCNE4FdKszkgVB-wB4oY4izoif91bEIsBtRAdZajAgGWHjrgIpxLHtBT0ap6LCrDADD3UuuFJYHaKATZdL-d2pYWWCoKGTn1npUa70jR1if2RZlmV-5KI50pJWbMXspXf/s1600/Sept+2010+040.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivWgN7MfTEjRPxCNE4FdKszkgVB-wB4oY4izoif91bEIsBtRAdZajAgGWHjrgIpxLHtBT0ap6LCrDADD3UuuFJYHaKATZdL-d2pYWWCoKGTn1npUa70jR1if2RZlmV-5KI50pJWbMXspXf/s400/Sept+2010+040.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOcbZfqM1p8Nn5IZ1v-W3uo80VZzHLWsB2OUBttqamdWnPaDXdQQE5j34Bslw2MsQ9KiMdIXvAOEynIAOTtiNF6llyBNZrF_HgPea_dA1f8rGVHZiRXXIM_Cu3n2GuYg3W0hXlrqgYnjBQ/s1600/Sept+2010+042.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOcbZfqM1p8Nn5IZ1v-W3uo80VZzHLWsB2OUBttqamdWnPaDXdQQE5j34Bslw2MsQ9KiMdIXvAOEynIAOTtiNF6llyBNZrF_HgPea_dA1f8rGVHZiRXXIM_Cu3n2GuYg3W0hXlrqgYnjBQ/s400/Sept+2010+042.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We then cooled down (it was gorgeous weather but a little warm being in the mid-high 80's) in the rocking chairs on the shady porch with the most delicious apple cider slushies and homemade blackberry ice cream.</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYV7GlfO8DQM678ludFhloQEePFQp14z6T1q0oqMmd64tUe5HIs5SRbhWsLM5YCqSIZO96CX7HoPBBSdGLDKZbhQZd9-zIvxvsmR7U_NNUMTtK6Xo-tg8R7ELXreWplxhYnwFbCEUSnHjx/s1600/Sept+2010+016.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYV7GlfO8DQM678ludFhloQEePFQp14z6T1q0oqMmd64tUe5HIs5SRbhWsLM5YCqSIZO96CX7HoPBBSdGLDKZbhQZd9-zIvxvsmR7U_NNUMTtK6Xo-tg8R7ELXreWplxhYnwFbCEUSnHjx/s400/Sept+2010+016.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Before we left, we raced the chickens. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I think the chicken is winning.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This reminded me of our very <a href="http://everydayedwardsfamily.blogspot.com/2009/05/day-on-farm.html">first outing</a> with Aurora.</div><br />
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<div align="center">The orchard had a Labor Day special: buy one bushel, get one free.</div><div align="center">Not one to let a good deal slip by: We had a lot of apples.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVUksd_KwCfzolvNdKbIXJQXYNCTYozwFen7vuGgNILax989HBxavP_4bH4MooiEW1Xc_B2ttmFIoPR7yNTtivhXk5s4YpeAYWDPJ1b8qdEbLTCwm6p8lBCtzVDLN5-iriz0P7oiw6pavm/s1600/Sept+2010+046.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVUksd_KwCfzolvNdKbIXJQXYNCTYozwFen7vuGgNILax989HBxavP_4bH4MooiEW1Xc_B2ttmFIoPR7yNTtivhXk5s4YpeAYWDPJ1b8qdEbLTCwm6p8lBCtzVDLN5-iriz0P7oiw6pavm/s320/Sept+2010+046.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Lots and lots of apples.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqCOcHbE7kFaiEAh45Z_vDAqCwWU92j5idetlkIKMuMO22ZLhFZXWuIFOkGgqPeR29e8cJw8Xszh2DKYhRmTyOMD0f0IWfmLA6D6M4IrP7jw_7wiIyZ18DP7Blak_MgVNJI9IRAWNdxa-I/s1600/Sept+2010+047.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqCOcHbE7kFaiEAh45Z_vDAqCwWU92j5idetlkIKMuMO22ZLhFZXWuIFOkGgqPeR29e8cJw8Xszh2DKYhRmTyOMD0f0IWfmLA6D6M4IrP7jw_7wiIyZ18DP7Blak_MgVNJI9IRAWNdxa-I/s320/Sept+2010+047.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I made 2 apple pies, a large pan of apple crisp and several caramel apples.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIm1AOX3Mb5ES-BOMLMU8hTCoX9BanrsuI1QtK5aze-4-WJuPkS7dUOFlmIfGu1kl-qJJK1l5A22mr6k-N9N0TOnfR3Kfon4T0nad4JEfbvyT-23h4x-Nn2YIacZA0_wlfPiHHoq5ZdNxr/s1600/Sept+2010+050.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIm1AOX3Mb5ES-BOMLMU8hTCoX9BanrsuI1QtK5aze-4-WJuPkS7dUOFlmIfGu1kl-qJJK1l5A22mr6k-N9N0TOnfR3Kfon4T0nad4JEfbvyT-23h4x-Nn2YIacZA0_wlfPiHHoq5ZdNxr/s320/Sept+2010+050.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">In fact, just today, we ate our very last apple from the orchard. </div><div style="text-align: center;">(They keep pretty well in the crisper drawer in the fridge)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Random Tidbit: </div><div style="text-align: center;">In my family history, we are related to the man who bred the apple now known as the Red Delicious.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Random Tidbit #2:</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">Also in my family history, the McCullough's (my maiden name) created the first soft serve ice cream. They eventually sold their rights to Dairy Queen. Look at the first line from a display in DQ.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span id="goog_1360538934"></span><span id="goog_1360538935"></span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYbM_WAkzbYqe-0H9yJajQgck7VZZe4ZdQopaT2xFtLtZBSxnJzxjuWwDCmK9frRDlX8q3nyvxATjHt1tajkFbi5nIjEho-0-9ySP9-j7NzA7CyN8WTKqrjAPK6LT6uzB4jbLzs3rgeMjT/s1600/58398_1543575262649_1033006351_31556275_6634527_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYbM_WAkzbYqe-0H9yJajQgck7VZZe4ZdQopaT2xFtLtZBSxnJzxjuWwDCmK9frRDlX8q3nyvxATjHt1tajkFbi5nIjEho-0-9ySP9-j7NzA7CyN8WTKqrjAPK6LT6uzB4jbLzs3rgeMjT/s400/58398_1543575262649_1033006351_31556275_6634527_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">You would think with that kind of heritage, I would be rich or at the very least have free ice cream and apples available to me for life. But no such luck.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">What I did inherit was a love for ice cream (food in general, actually) and the resulting pounds. :)</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Hope your Fall has been beautiful and bountiful!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320649453193021950.post-78168290527923889502010-09-24T22:13:00.006-05:002010-09-24T22:28:36.446-05:00Mini Vacate: Part 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In downtown Indy there is a <a href="http://www.discovercanal.com/home.cfm">canal</a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">that runs right next to many of the museums, restaurants, hotels etc... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">One end of the canal happened to be right outside our hotel.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">It's really quite beautiful. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I've always wanted to walk the whole thing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So Aurora and I set out one morning to walk the canal. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But silly me I thought this was just some little decorative thing they call a "canal" </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and would take us 30mins to stroll around. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But the canal is so much more.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There are lots of pretty little sitting spots</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">and waterfalls,</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8K0uzu94g5ooxHhLLyprg5EoaPyAIQ5eYndjOT_DMVERUbMNSeV9r0_gF_Zu8p1uanoC6gOyrnwN3oez-FxylmCoF22awfcbZ2lSKL-LTP8rVC138d9Gjg66P_bX18vekuSmkt4SZwfB1/s1600/July+&+Aug+2010+061.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8K0uzu94g5ooxHhLLyprg5EoaPyAIQ5eYndjOT_DMVERUbMNSeV9r0_gF_Zu8p1uanoC6gOyrnwN3oez-FxylmCoF22awfcbZ2lSKL-LTP8rVC138d9Gjg66P_bX18vekuSmkt4SZwfB1/s400/July+&+Aug+2010+061.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and fountains,</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">It was peaceful and pretty. I just wasn't prepared for how long it was (I was wearing flip-flops, no sunblock and next to no water for Lil A while it was quickly becoming a hot sunny day etc...) </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Aurora ended up taking her nap on the go.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Later after lunch and another nap. We went to the <a href="http://www.childrensmuseum.org/">Indianapolis Children's Museum</a> </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">which is one of the best in the nation. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">As a child, I went to the Children's Museum every year on school field trips. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Then as a teen, I volunteered at my <a href="http://www.munciechildrensmuseum.com/">local children's museum</a> but once a month we went to Indy and volunteered and help out during their Family Nights.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Early in our marriage, I made Jared go with me to the haunted house they sponsor. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I've been waiting for the day when I would take my own daughter/son to the museum</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">and the day had finally arrived.</div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Then there are the staples of every museum visit:</div><div style="text-align: center;">The carousel </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwhc0qXW4CVR2oWoKILxEvrYPzYp9vOatwSd3P41GjkAfpGptiK25I0Q9bFF9NlUqSPOULr_tAIP-TNYK16RIEGQLZzPKc2he3yuF8cfYebC91awPpCUWeimd1AfhyUJ0v2E21V8zXvZWr/s1600/July+&+Aug+2010+089.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwhc0qXW4CVR2oWoKILxEvrYPzYp9vOatwSd3P41GjkAfpGptiK25I0Q9bFF9NlUqSPOULr_tAIP-TNYK16RIEGQLZzPKc2he3yuF8cfYebC91awPpCUWeimd1AfhyUJ0v2E21V8zXvZWr/s320/July+&+Aug+2010+089.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Mesmerized by the carousel while waiting in line.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And the World's Largest Water Clock:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The reason we couldn't get the whole clock in the pic.</span></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We also saw the dinosaur exhibit that was really cool. Also a touching exhibit titled</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Power of Children: Making A Difference which was an interactive (of course) exhibit about Anne Frank, Ruby Bridges and Ryan White.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I wished we lived a little closer so we could go more often. I had so much fun </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and Aurora probably did too. :)</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sidenote: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">It is such a small world because while we were there we ran into our friend Joanna, who had just moved to Indy recently.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">We got to see her boys and her new little baby girl. So fun!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We finished off our vacation by visiting with some other dear friends over dinner.</div><div align="center">Thanks Ryan & Mimi!</div><div align="center">It was a great little getaway. Jared should have conferences like this more often. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3