I've been meaning to write down some of the funny things the kids say, but, yet again, I've failed. . .Here's a few things they say all the time, that one day they'll get right, and I won't remember anymore.
Cohen: Ever since he's started praying, he begins his prayer with the little phrase "Heanly Father Pray"...thats what he says...Heavenly Father Pray. . .and then goes on with the thank you's and the please bless's.
Evan: When telling a story, Evan says "One a ponce a time. . ." Ha! I love it.
Will is talking a ton, and trying to write all of his little words would just never do them justice. But he communicates very well, and last night said a full, and very important sentance, "I wan sum cookie!"
OK, I know this doesn't really count as blogging, but here's a ton of pictures from Jareds phone from about the last year. . .yep you heard me. . .a year!!!! But I can't seem to even start the project I wanted to have done by Thanksgiving, and Christmas is next week. So this is all you get.
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| Blaze Game last spring. . . |
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| BYU game with just the 3 of us. Fall 2010. |
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| The first good snow of winter, a year ago. |
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| Cute little Baby Will all bundled up on the porch just watching the rest of us play in the snow! |
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| A 4-wheeler makes snow so much more fun!! |
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| Our 'snow hill' |
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| I can't believe this was just a year ago!!! My little baby is growing up so fast! |
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| OK so this picture is really dark, but if you look close you can see Riley lying at the foot of Evans bed. She sleeps there most nights. Its cute. |
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| Oh, here's another one from that Blaze game. . .but I'm not going to take the time to put them in the same spot!!! |
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| Camping! Yummy Dirt! July 24th weekend, 2010. |
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| We're ALMOST to the point where camping is fun for our family!!!! |
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| Jared and I went on a little get-away up to Johnsons Mill in Midway. They have a little pond with paddle-boats and. . .swans! |
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| EEEEWWWWW!!!! |
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| Heber Creeper. Not worth a dime. Don't do it!! Such a bore. . . |
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| Our car crash! Late August this year. Dumb girl turned left in front of us. We got a nice rental car for a month out of the deal. |
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| The view from our new back porch!!! |
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| More dirty-faced camping |
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| We created a piece of family art-work for our new house. This is how Will ended up. . .and no, he wasn't supposed to BE the art-work! |
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| Jared and his dad went pheasant hunting. . .they shot 18 birds in 2 hours or something. |
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| Oma and Papa playing cards with the kids. |
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| John scoping for deer. . .or elk. . .or ANYTHING! |
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| Whats not cute about a baby bum?!! |
I didn't even know it was possible to buy blinds with fabric ironed on to them so they would match your swags. . .you learn something new every day hu?!
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| Here's Cohen and Evan at the 4th of July celebration in West Bountiful this summer. |
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| Yum. . . |
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| Who is this kids mother anyways? Where is she? |
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| Cohen and Evan took swimming lessons this summer at the Rec Center. |
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| I didn't take too many pictures. . .or maybe I did and they got lost. . .in one of my many moves. |
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| Here's Cohen on the first day of Kindergarten with his teacher Mrs Holbrook. |
As much as I want to have to house updated, and to our taste, part of my just wants to sit and wait for 6-12 months before the chaos ensues. . .well, as you can see by the following pictures, I didn't win that battle. I didn't try very hard because I knew I would lose, but after preparing a house to put on the market, then showing that house, then moving out of that house, then living in somebody elses house for a long time, then finally moving into this house and organizing and putting away and unpacking and cleaning and starting kindergarten and blah blah blah, I was just already tired. . .what the heck, it's been mayhem for the last 7 months, whats a few more eh?!
Here's the beginning of the next 10 years worth of house projects. . .
There are some more photos of this summer somewhere on some other memory card. . .maybe one day I'll find them!!! In the meantime, here are a few photos from the summer.
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| Chan brought here awesome new raft up for family reunion and we took it over to Bountiful Lake to test it out. |
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| There was this Kayaking group there and they had these kid kayaks that they weren't using so they let Cohen and Hailey try them out. They were actually pretty good at paddling themselves around! |
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| Cute Binkie Baby. . .oh how we love that binkie!!!! |
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| Evan and Will playing in the awesomely wood-paneled room. . .notice the groovy stone-work on the bar at the right. Oh yes, we do need a few updates. |
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| 2 of my voice students, Bella and Harrison (sister and brother), started cleaning my windows one day while waiting for each other. AWESOME!!!! So of course we had to take some dorky pictures. . . |
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| Baby Will LOVES shoes!!! He wants to be wearing them all the time and will bring you his shoes and socks if he's not wearing any. One morning he just couldn't wait for me to get him dressed and had to have those shoes on with his jammies!! |