tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6553997345237144922024-02-18T21:56:40.536-08:00Our Sunny LifeOur little adventures in the land called Sunnyside.Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18017770764246676690noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655399734523714492.post-35456691532839466232015-05-01T17:47:00.000-07:002015-05-01T17:47:26.545-07:00Dean's story<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My emotions have been all over the map these past couple of days. But I wanted to get my thoughts written down sooner than later.<br />
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What a journey our family has been on! I feel like we have been stretched and pulled, and broken, and torn into a million pieces. But through it all, I think both my husband and I can agree, our blessings definitely outweigh the trials. We truly feel so loved and supported beyond anything we could ever imagine. Thank you to all our family and friends who have been with us through thick and thin. We love you.<br />
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Last night (April 30, 2015), I gave birth to my fifth child: Gary Dean Martin. Named after his two grandpas--Papa Gary and Papa John Dean. His body was delivered into this world at only 24 weeks gestation. He weighed a whopping 11 ounces and was 8 inches tall.<br />
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We had learned earlier that morning that there was no heartbeat during the scheduled ultrasound--ugh, I don't wish that experience on any parent. We don't know exactly when our little bean had passed away, but we had heard his heart beating strongly just one week earlier. I had been going to weekly heartbeat checks because of his diagnosis of Down Syndrome and the likelihood a severe heart defect. And just a couple of weeks earlier, the doctor discovered fluid building around Dean's heart, head, and abdomen. This is commonly known as hydrops fetalis--or basically heart failure. So we knew that death in utero was a strong possibility...we were just hoping for a miracle.<br />
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I delivered him at the Yakima Memorial hospital at 10:19 pm. It was a peaceful and calm experience. The staff was outstanding. They were sensitive to every one of our needs. I feel so blessed. We took lots of pictures and spent hours holding and loving our little guy. I am completely amazed at how careful and loving my husband was with Dean. He wouldn't let Dean be by himself. He held him pretty much the whole time until the funeral director came to pick him up.<br />
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Dean didn't resemble what we were anticipating a 24 week baby to look like. He had a lot of fluid built up and some of his features were hard to distinguish. I think that was the hardest part about all of this; it broke my heart that his physical body was so sick. They tell us that he didn't suffer any pain. And I really want to believe that. I hope it's true.<br />
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We tried to take pictures that we and the kids could forever remember him by. My dear friend Brittany sacrificed her time to come to Yakima leaving behind a 4 month old nursing baby to spend those precious hours taking pictures and capturing the candid moments. I think it was close to 2 am before she left. Thank you, Brittany. This was truly a beautiful gift.<br />
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We decided it was important for our family records to give Dean's body a name and a blessing. So, the papas (whom Dean is named after) and Brent gathered together and gave him a powerful blessing. The room was so filled with love and had such a strong spirit. I am grateful to my husband for offering a beautiful blessing with words I believe were were guided by Heavenly Father. Brent asked Heavenly Father to watch over his body until he was able to be reunited with it again. Oh man...that was a tear jerker. I am blessed to be married to this great man who honors his priesthood.<br />
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The funeral director came in after a few hours to come take Dean. It was hard to leave him. Just with those few hours of holding him, we grew to love every single part of him and his tiny features. His little smooshed nose and upturned eyes that are so distinct in babies with Down Syndrome...we just kept imagining what he would have been like if he were a healthy full term baby. We could see a little bit of Lilly in him, and that comforted us.<br />
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The funeral director was great. He gently wrapped Dean up in a blanket handmade by Nana Katie with his name embroidered on the edge, and he tucked him carefully into a white cradle basket and drove him safely to the funeral home. Everybody has been so thoughtful and careful with our precious little angel. I am truly grateful.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dean's big brother Tanner made the sweet card all by himself, and also insisted that Nana Katie make a pillow for Dean. Katie also knitted the tiniest little hat for him. So many beautiful things to put in the casket with Dean, so he can feel comfortable until we are reunited.</td></tr>
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We have decided to have a small grave side service tomorrow (Saturday, May 2, 2015) at the Lower Valley Memorial Gardens in Sunnyside. 7800 Vanbelle Road. He will be buried between his great grandparents so he won't be alone.<br />
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My little sweat angel baby!!! I will miss him! I can't wait to snuggle him one day, and kiss him, and meet the chosen spirit that he obviously was to have occupied that little body so briefly. The feeling of loss is tremendous. I feel like a part of my heart is gone. But I know we are being watched over by him...and for that I am so grateful.<br />
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I will never take my family for granted ever. I will always cherish the moments we have with each other here on earth. Hug your families tight today and always! Life is so precious.<br />
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Hugs! ErinErinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18017770764246676690noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655399734523714492.post-66353304091308050592014-06-24T22:04:00.001-07:002014-06-24T22:04:13.695-07:00Decker's birth story<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixldU5HND_-dIpWAOUJviNWPQRb4qSBi9ivtVBkl0xjeHg66A0MDWRrH7J0ohGI7AEMqZwB70SvqE4sQdk6-ALMTSBej8buc6IsI3UQebezIBgh73aN72mWOwmdcvNIYkMyz9WZKFmz6E9/s640/blogger-image--1799960553.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixldU5HND_-dIpWAOUJviNWPQRb4qSBi9ivtVBkl0xjeHg66A0MDWRrH7J0ohGI7AEMqZwB70SvqE4sQdk6-ALMTSBej8buc6IsI3UQebezIBgh73aN72mWOwmdcvNIYkMyz9WZKFmz6E9/s640/blogger-image--1799960553.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Birth story</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I had been doing all my birthing exercises from spinning babies to bouncing on the birthing ball in order get ready for Decker's big arrival. I was going to make this last delivery count, since we had talked a lot about being done having kids. I had my essential oils ready, I'd read "childbirth without fear" and marked it up with highlights and notes. I was even drinking my red raspberry leaf tea. Doing everything right, so I thought. My whole pregnancy was wonderful. Perfectly healthy and uncomplicated. I had never even needed to take anything as little as Tylenol during the pregnancy. I was healthy as a horse.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Monday afternoon, my doctor checked me and said I was so close. The baby was engaging and I was starting to open up. I was so excited. The next morning, Tuesday, five days before my due date, I felt what I thought were lower back contractions or period like pains. I welcomed these. I was feeling a little nauseous so I decided to take a bath. I had some intense contractions in the bath. When I got out I felt dizzy and immediate fever chills set in. Thinking this was part of early labor, I decided to rest in bed on my side for awhile. Around 11 am I checked my temp, it was 99 degrees. My hips, back, joints and head were aching. I was miserable. My temp rose to 100 by 2 pm, so I decided to call my doc. By the time they got back with me at almost 4 pm, the on-call doc told me to immediately go to the hospital. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">My friend Michelle who watches my kids drove me to the hospital with the kids tagging along. My mom was flying into town that night, and nobody was home to watch them. On the way, I mentioned to her that as bad as I felt--and if this baby had to arrive today--I didn't care if they had to "cut the baby out of me". That's how miserable I was. Tanner overheard this and responded "what?!?!?! They're going to cut Decker out???" We assured him that we were just joking...but little did we know.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I was admitted. Baby's heart tone's were in 160s to 70s and not budging. Compared to just the day before, his heart rate was beautiful at 130s and very reactive to contractions. They put me on Tylenol and my fever went down slightly, and so did baby's heart rate (150s).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Next morning, the doc was almost satisfied I was doing better but still wanted to watch me until that evening just in case. The word chorioamnionitis was being thrown around. It's a bacterial infection in the amniotic fluid. One doctor was convinced that's what I had, but my doctor was not so sure. After my next dose of Tylenol, I started shaking violently from the fever. I thought I was dying. The on-call dr came in and suggested we start pitocin to induce labor because baby's heart tones were up to 190s - 200s at this point. I was literally freaking out! I called my husband and mom to get to the hospital as quick as they could. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The rest is a blur. At some point the shakes stopped for awhile. I was put on pitocin to speed up contractions. I hate pitocin contractions. My husband and mom were there putting ice packs and rags all over my burning body. My doctor arrived and broke my water to speed things up further. Baby's heart rate was off the charts. I was trying to labor and relax in all kinds of positions. The shakes came back. The fever sky rocketed even after medication. Baby's heart rate decelerated after contractions, which, in the world of labor & delivery, is not good at all. In fact, it's frightening.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> wasn't progressing. Only 50% effaced and dilated at a 3. Dr said baby couldn't tolerate this after 8 plus hours of labor. And neither could I. So she recommended a c-section. My world collapsed about then. But I knew it had to be done. As crunchy as I am...I know when I am in need of modern medicine. It was hard to sign those papers and be wheeled into a stark white operating room. I was beyond frightened. Frightened for my baby and for myself. I was having a panic attack when they strapped me down. So, my husband consented to letting them put me out with a little medicine. The only thing I remember under the influence of the medicine was hearing voices, seeing colors, and thinking, "this must be what it is like before you die. I must be dying...and I think I'm ok with that". Some time in that dreamlike state, I heard a baby cry and people cheering.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTT_VlL2broioeTiElNRZAuxBxADEUKAT3tmta5bOxwxigb_yxZRh7Ifzp0XFXLooR8gc8c95dfA68I2Ur4q_75dnzEqtd5VrRJVA4YdY-AXvCwOzxqirewKTopM9VNkPYiuG1hiHaeLS1/s640/blogger-image--1193774464.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTT_VlL2broioeTiElNRZAuxBxADEUKAT3tmta5bOxwxigb_yxZRh7Ifzp0XFXLooR8gc8c95dfA68I2Ur4q_75dnzEqtd5VrRJVA4YdY-AXvCwOzxqirewKTopM9VNkPYiuG1hiHaeLS1/s640/blogger-image--1193774464.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I didn't see the birth of my son. I heard he came out wailing beautifully and had Apgar scores of all 9s. My husband made sure that they put him skin to skin with me before whisking him away for blood tests and a spinal tap. I guess when they laid him down next to me he stopped crying and a few tears streamed down my own face. I don't remember any if this.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkECsjxK8rfSC40npKL0KsaAMTF2M4tnb_uyy5ZT6KZSnKVOF7U6wb1mm_wA2fIOnd40FPNMshERc1hRHPQlHJA_m1wbhCdT1PCrMmHp9QKArZXEZFg5hpPL_GWiaqunVz9gDH0Sl99mok/s640/blogger-image-621635107.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkECsjxK8rfSC40npKL0KsaAMTF2M4tnb_uyy5ZT6KZSnKVOF7U6wb1mm_wA2fIOnd40FPNMshERc1hRHPQlHJA_m1wbhCdT1PCrMmHp9QKArZXEZFg5hpPL_GWiaqunVz9gDH0Sl99mok/s640/blogger-image-621635107.jpg"></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">My son was born at 2:56 pm on Wednesday, June 18, 2014. He weighed 8 pounds 9 ounces. I wish I could have seen it. Before they took Decker to the nursery, Brent stopped and asked the doctor if I was going to be ok. She said that in all her experience with c-sections, no husband had ever stopped and asked if their wife was going to be okay. They usually were too busy trailing behind the baby and the crew of doctors to the nursery.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">It took two hours in recovery. I was anxious to see my little one. I had heard he was so cute! I was afraid I wouldn't be able to bond with him because that first moment of contact right when the baby is born was gone. When I finally saw him, it was love at first sight. He was so beautiful. He had done so well when they took his blood and did the spinal tap. I was able to start nursing him right away and he latched so easily. What a champ!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The rest of our 4 day stay was rough. My fever spiked over and over. I got a spinal headache from the anesthesia--which is like a migraine times 1000. Both Decker and I were on heavy duty IV antibiotics. It was nuts. Every 15 minutes some machine was beeping or a nurse was checking vitals. We didn't get sleep for two days. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEQQ44RERlQe40ZyledQpc3eLwHGXQNyMdtIWK5Rywv41WrAsa7GrKw9n0_hIhwo_9iMWzxGjGYLYJKCq9srAdFOH0xlHn9W9ihlDz2g_JbfylyJhhajjlTATUcI9CqI9hGu108HH-G7rK/s640/blogger-image-1762373955.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEQQ44RERlQe40ZyledQpc3eLwHGXQNyMdtIWK5Rywv41WrAsa7GrKw9n0_hIhwo_9iMWzxGjGYLYJKCq9srAdFOH0xlHn9W9ihlDz2g_JbfylyJhhajjlTATUcI9CqI9hGu108HH-G7rK/s640/blogger-image-1762373955.jpg"></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Finally Friday rolled around and things calmed down. All our blood tests and cultures came back negative for bacteria growth. And my fever instantly stopped. It's a mystery as to what exactly just happened that week. Why I was so sick. My doctor was and still is baffled. 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It was so good to sleep in my bed and snuggle with my baby and nurse all day long. The scenes of the week haunted me all weekend long. But I've resolved to feeling that this whole experience was very much divinely guided. There were so many miracles along the way and so many people helping to bring this perfect little child into the world. My mom arrived from Utah at just the right time. My husband was there to give both me and my child (placing his hands on my belly) a priesthood blessing. The words he said were very much what I needed to hear. To have trust that Decker was ok. That God had a plan for his arrival and that my body and mind would know what to do when bringing him into the world. I guess in that car ride over to the hospital, I knew I was going to have a c-section--even though I was joking about them "cutting him out of me". But I knew...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">It is what it is. I had a cesarean section in one of the lowest c-section rated hospitals in this country. For that I am glad. I can't even believe it happened though. But the care I received there was top notch. They were so great and so wonderful. And so open to me using my "natural" stuff like essential oils for recovery, and they loved that we had our little co-sleeper bed for Decker so he could sleep with me. Skin to skin was pretty much constantly done and encouraged from day one. It was great. I am grateful.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Thanks for reading. This was hard for me. I am so pro doing things naturally. But I saw a beautiful balance between natural and medical that week, and for that I am also grateful. I now have a new respect for moms who have needed or chosen to have "medical" procedures during childbirth. Every story is different. Every story unique. And no story any less important in that mommy and baby's life. Childbirth, no matter what way it happens, should be celebrated and regarded as sacred. I am truly grateful for caring doctors and nurses, and midwives who have the skills and expertise to help safely bring children into this world.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRQVwoHFbk-ysc32ZXhG_oZFraDrgVpBDDm30hPv8dJhwhz8nk3gb5FBQepPVOhIENV3P3quFRBZ3AiMGU045Z9hecWfw_Ql7Rbz2z2EIFDMN5agxa1SsqAbq_IM3zFXkKWHM2Rw_1GMvM/s640/blogger-image--1900720349.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRQVwoHFbk-ysc32ZXhG_oZFraDrgVpBDDm30hPv8dJhwhz8nk3gb5FBQepPVOhIENV3P3quFRBZ3AiMGU045Z9hecWfw_Ql7Rbz2z2EIFDMN5agxa1SsqAbq_IM3zFXkKWHM2Rw_1GMvM/s640/blogger-image--1900720349.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div><br></div></div>Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18017770764246676690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655399734523714492.post-66739118165483563452014-04-09T13:52:00.001-07:002014-04-09T14:01:54.737-07:00Frozen Party...or as the kids called it; the "Let it Go" Party<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Cake Table. Yep...we go all out.</td></tr>
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Looks like I'm not doing the greatest job at updating our family blog. But that's okay. In my defense, I've been founding a Charter School here in Sunnyside since July 2013. It's a full time job in and of itself...I'll expand more on that someday when we get approved. Or you can just go to our website and check it out if you're at all remotely interested: <a href="http://www.chartersos.org/p/welcome.html" target="_blank">CharterSOS.org</a> .<br />
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And also...I'm pregnant. Yup. Due in about 2 months. Again, more on that another day...But for now, we are going to celebrate all things Lilly and Daisy with a combined birthday party "FROZEN" style.<br />
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We decided to combine the girls' birthdays this year because---well, Imma gonna be poppin' out a kid here soon. And come Daisy's actual birthday in June, I won't be feelin' up to climbing ladders and decorating all fancy. So I thought I'd just get it ALL out of the way. Plus, Frozen themes are sweeping the nation these days. I figured I had better get on board with this Elsa/Anna stuff before it got TOO old--am I right????? So here goes:<br />
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So the invitation: Designed by moi! I based it off of a few invitations from Etsy. But, since I am kind of a graphic designer by trade, I decided to save a buck or two and do it myself.<br />
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Then we decided on the decor and food. Whew! I am glad I had my trusty friend Michelle around to help...cuz, she did most of the decorating and follow through. Hey, at this point I am just a big waddling mess, who's pretty much useless. So I owe it all to Michelle. Here are some pics of the whole process:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is before we decorated. I went on a shopping spree to all the craft stores in the area. Think I got enough?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What a mess!</td></tr>
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<span style="text-align: center;">I had my mom cut some vinyl wall art for me (<a href="http://www.morethanvinyl.com/" target="_blank">www.morethanvinyl.com</a>). I just sent her the images I wanted and she cut them on her fancy machine and sent them back. It took like three days to stick it all to my walls though. I think we are going to leave it up till Christmas to get good use out of it, you know what I mean?!?! I'm just not really caring if my dining room looks like Elsa's wonderland at this point in time. Just gonna focus on growing a kid in my belly from here on out--oh yeah, and opening a charter school.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A little peak at the vinyl wonderland that is emerging.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hello, Olaf!!! Also, that tree has little crystal diamonds on it. Just one of the many small touches to the party.</td></tr>
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Party Favors: I didn't want to burden ourselves with too many activities or things to do. Just wanted to have some food, watch the movie, open presents, have cake, then go home with a cool party favor. I looked on Pinterest and got the idea of the Frozen little golden books. So that's what we gave out. Super simple (not that cheap), but super cute:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The favors: Little golden books "Frozen" and some stickers wrapped in dollar store plastic tissue paper, and tied up with pipe cleaners and a Frozen ring.</td></tr>
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Like this cutie bug for one. She just turned 4. And this is Queen Lilly for a day at her preschool. (Picture is blurry cuz she is too quick for my iphone to capture her). But, she gets to be treated like a queen for a day at her preschool, when it's her birthday. So fun. And here's a video of her class singing happy birthday to her. And, Holy Moly she is cute lip syncing along.<br />
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Then the very next day, we got to celebrate World Down Syndrome Day! How cool is that?!?! Not very many people realize that Lilly--who was born with Down Syndrome--was born one day before World Down Syndrome day. March 21st = 3/21. Get it?????? People with Down Syndrome have 3 copies of the chromosome 21. Pretty creative, I think. Anyway...to celebrate, you wear socks. Just rockin' some socks in any way you want. Don't know why, but that's what the world does to celebrate. We like to layer colorful socks. So that's what we did. And for 3/21, I made Lilly a special snack for school with 21 pretzel sticks and 3 blueberries in her yogurt. (gluten-free and dairy-free, mind you) along with a mini gluten-free chocolate cake...just for fun. I like to celebrate with food whenever I can.</div>
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World Down Syndrome day was Friday. And the day after that was the girls' combined party. And this is how it looked:</div>
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By the way...those super cute outfits they are wearing can be found on Etsy. Love them! Love them! Love them! And, Jen, the lady who makes these is super awesome to work with. Go on her site and buy some. She has a whole bunch of different princess outfits--all handmade! Here's the link: <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/rossandrosiedesigns" target="_blank">Ross and Rosie Designs</a> . Go there now!!!!!!! You will die from all the darling-ness.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The entryway. We put the trees there so those nosy kids couldn't go upstairs and get lost. But yeah, kids are smarter than you think. That's where all of them wanted to be, and they found a way to get through those branches.</td></tr>
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We had "Frozen" hot chocolate. No one liked it...maybe cuz it was dairy free. Not a lot of people like dairy free foods...and kids are the first to detect these things. You can't fool them. And frankly, I don't blame them either. Also...that is not me in the background. That is another pregnant lady, who happens to be pregnant with twins. And guess what? I am most definitely BIGGER than her already. Not to mention a week behind her and only carrying one baby. Whatevs... This is why you aren't seeing pictures of me. I am beyond huge. Like a giant stuffed pimento olive on-a-toothpick kind of huge. It doesn't look right.<br />
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The party: The kiddos arrived...one million little tiny people running around all over the friggin' place. It was like trying not to step on ants. Sheesh. But here's some pictures of the festivities below:<br />
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As the kiddos arrived, we turned on the movie and then over in the play area adjacent to the family room with the television...the kids could sit and make an Elsa or Anna crown, or Sven antlers. Again, thanks to amazing helpers we were able to have these pre-cut so the kiddos could just attach jewels or stickers to their heart's content. Here's a link to the pin from Pinterest that I found the free template from. Just click on the picture:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ha Ha, she's cute. That's my Daisy.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cute little Karson. She's Lilly's best friend at preschool. She is like her body guard. Won't let anyone hurt or tease Lilly. She is a little angel...and a cute one at that.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Num num num...That's all that pops into my mind when I see this picture. That Daisy girl is such a hot mess. Love her though...And it is her party, so she can be as hot of a mess as she wants to.</td></tr>
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Cutting the Cake: After crafts, food and a little movie watching, we made our way into the party room for some cake. Joreen, from Bon Vino's, always does a superb job at seeing my vision, and then designs such beautiful works of art for my babies. This year she went above and beyond the call of duty. She made three cakes: two barbie doll cakes for each of the girls based after their character, and then a regular 3 tiered cake with cute little Olaf on top. She is a pro! Order cakes from her, stat!!!! She is the shiz! Here is the link to <a href="http://www.bonvinosbistro.com/" target="_blank">Bon Vino's</a> .<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anna cake, 3 tiered cake (notice the D and the L in the design????), and Elsa cake<br />
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After that, we opened some presents. Which I do not want to relive...EVER! I am so glad I don't have twins for this reason. How do they keep track of who gets what, and who gave what to which kid??? (I don't even know if that sentence made any sense at all) Anyway, as soon as presents were over, so was the movie and so was the party. The kiddos left as quickly as they arrived and I was left with a house full of Frozen stuff everywhere you looked. We are still stepping on ice crystals from tree branches and it's been over two weeks. But hey...it was worth it.<br />
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Daddy promised to make a GoPro movie about the party. He took video of the blowing of the candles and even strapped a camera onto Lilly's chest throughout the day. So we will see what he comes up with. But, I'm posting what I have so far until he's finished with the editing. So check back soon if you want to see the live action portion of our fantastic Frozen party.<br />
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Here is a photo montage of our trip to California. Not much to talk about really. I'm sure you can imagine what it's like to cram in all of this in one week with three small children: Disneyland, Legoland (twice), Family pictures on the beach, visit cousins, play in the sand all day, and then clean sand out of a rental house on the beach that will charge you an extra fee if there is extra sand on their floors. Which I don't get...You're a beach house for crying out loud. Beach houses get sandy. So yes...a lot to cram in. I'm already exhausted and haven't even posted the pictures yet. Here goes...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lilly's favorite spot. She did NOT like the ocean.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We even tried putting her in a kiddie pool by the ocean. You can see how she felt about that.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tanner on the other hand is a fish.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And Daisy? Well she just liked sitting on her potty (which she affectionately called "My Crap"--or my crab. It was actually a pink frog potty, but she thought it looked more like a crab. We found it in the garage of the rental house. How gross is that?</td></tr>
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I got lazy...and life got ahead of me. So a year later, I just made a photo book of all our adventures. You can view that photobook right here to get the full experience:<br /><div>
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Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18017770764246676690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655399734523714492.post-10662106053823882192013-03-20T16:54:00.000-07:002013-03-26T16:27:14.247-07:00Once Upon a Time...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Once upon a time, there was a princess named Lilly. And she lived in a magical land where everyone danced and wore pink! And Today, was Princess Lilly's 3rd Birthday party. So her crazy Queen mamma and really nice babysitter--Lady Michelle, put together the most grandest party there ever was. And the kingdom rejoiced.<br />
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(Ok. Here are the pictures. It really was a "grand" party. That tu-tu table cloth alone cost me about 340 yards of tulle and 3 days worth of my time. But hey...anything for my little princess! ((enjoy))<br />
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First of all, I need to send a shout out to Joreen at <a href="http://www.bonvinosbistro.com/" target="_blank">Bon Vino's Bistro and Bakery</a> . She made this cake for Lilly. She's the best because she did while in her 3rd trimester of pregnancy. And it looks AMAZE-balls. Let me attach the picture that I got the idea from. I can't remember the actual website unfortunately. But I took a screen shot of it on my phone months ago. So here it is. I love how Joreen puts her own twist to the cake, making it her own work of art. She's a talented lady.<br />
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Joreen does Lilly's cakes for us every year. It's sort of a tradition. She has a special place in her heart for Lilly because they are both from Holland. Let me clarify: Joreen is "literally" from the country of Holland and she makes all kinds of Holland desserts from recipes passed down by her grandma. AND Lilly is "figuratively" from Holland. Meaning, she has Down Syndrome. If you're new to the Down Syndrome world check out this poem <a href="http://www.our-kids.org/Archives/Holland.html" target="_blank">"Welcome to Holland" by Emily Perl Kingsley</a> It'll explain why we say that Lilly is from Holland. Joreen brings back all kinds of jewelry and trinkets for Lilly whenever she goes to Holland to visit. She's a pretty neat lady.</div>
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So, did I mention that this dang table skirt took me forever to make????? Why. Do. You. Even. Do. THIS. TO. Yourself. you ask? I don't know why? I have some weird addiction to planning parties for my kids. I don't do it for anyone else (anymore)...just my kids (and my husband, occasionally---ok, and my babysitter too. She does the grunt work for most of these parties, so she deserves a little party of her own every couple of years. I'll be doing her wedding one day). Anyway, don't go getting any ideas. I'm not making this into a day time job or anything. Here's the link to the Pinterest pin that I got the idea from for the table cloth. Called <a href="http://oonefineday.blogspot.com/2011/11/pink-fairy-party.html" target="_blank">"Oh One Fine Day"</a> Theirs looks better, I think.<br />
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I don't think there's a tutorial on how to make this table skirt on her blog, so I'll just tell you how I did it. I basically safety pinned a rope onto a table cloth. Then looped strips of tulle around the rope, just made sure there was enough safety pin reinforcement so that it didn't sag in the center. I probably used three bolts of tulle and about 100 safety pins. That thing is NOT coming off. We might have to use it for Daisy's birthday too. ((Tinkerbell party--in June)) </div>
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So here's the invite that I sent out. Like all my ideas, I took this from a party that I saw on Pinterest. So I made my own invite using the same concept. I bought the little carriage image at <a href="http://www.vectorstock.com/royalty-free-vector/royal-carriage-vector-799981" target="_blank">VectorStock</a> . Then I just changed the colors to look more gold-ish. Photoshop is my friend. Probably my best friend at the moment. OK, I am in love with Photoshop. Then I just found free fonts that I liked at <a href="http://dafont.com/">dafont.com</a> and made it look all princessy. Turned out cute. Here's a pic of the final product:<br />
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And here's a picture from the party on Pinterest that I got the idea from. <a href="http://celebrationsathomeblog.com/2013/01/once-upon-a-time-fairytale-birthday.html" target="_blank">Celebrations at Home blog</a>. Again...their stuff is ALOT cuter...but hey. I'm getting there.</div>
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Oh, and while we are talking about the above blog...we also stole some other ideas from it. Just freakin' visit this blog, that's all I'm saying. It is like an explosion of eye pleasing images. I die everytime I visit that blog. SO. STINKIN'. CUTE!!!!! Just go and you'll see what I mean. Here's the link again: <a href="http://celebrationsathomeblog.com/2013/01/once-upon-a-time-fairytale-birthday.html" target="_blank">Celebrations at Home</a> . </div>
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Jaxon decided to dress up as a "prince" to get into the party mood. He just came as the Prince of Darkness. No prob. Lookin' good!</div>
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Clockwise: Party goers getting their food while Lilly was playing dodge the camera; The inside of the cake as Mariel (Lilly's little Holland buddy) and Charlie looks on; All party goers got a crown. Found the ideas from this pinterest link: <a href="http://media-cache-ec2.pinterest.com/originals/4d/79/96/4d79966653c7fc71bc106413b1fb939b.jpg" target="_blank">DIY lace crowns</a> .</div>
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We even had a dance class, taught by a professional dancer. ME! (hahaha) Well, yeah...it wasn't that great of a class. But the kids look cute in this picture. We used these to dance with. Michelle made them from another pinterest pin. Imagine that. Here's the link: <a href="http://partycraftsecrets.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/parent-submission-ballet-party-craft.html" target="_blank">Party Craft Secrets</a></div>
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Yep. There I am in all my glory. Thanks Cori, for this shot! I'm actually demonstrating a very important move in the world of dance. And that is the "Popcorn" step. So basically you crouch as small as you can on the floor, count to 3, then jump as high as you can and yell "Popcorn". The kids actually love it. Believe it or not. Except for Jane, who's frowning over there to the right. She was too busy being princess Jane and didn't want to get involved. Love ya Jane!</div>
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Ahhhhhh...cake time. Yes the candles were "Trick" candles. Lilly got frustrated. Because she prides herself in being able to blow out hot things. But they were the only candles I had. I'm always forgetting some small detail.</div>
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1. Present time! I love how Lilly opens presents. So intense! 2. She loved looking at her homemade cards from friends back behind her wardrobe when most of the guests left. She was so content. 3. "Ooh! Look at my pretty new crown! Thanks Charlie!" and thanks to Solomé and Mariel for the cute hair clip!!!!!!!</div>
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Then Mom-mom and Papa called to sing happy birthday to Lilly! Look at her expression. She is not impressed. Even though they did harmony and everything. Long day, I suppose. By the way, that lady singing in that picture is my mom. And she is the one that does all the "vinyl" stuff for me, for parties. She's a genius with that stuff. So, I'm gonna throw in a plug for her business: <a href="http://www.morethanvinyl.com/" target="_blank">More than vinyl</a> . She'll do anything you want! She's super good at it. Here's a picture below, of one of the princessy things we did for the party.</div>
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Yet another LEGO party that I had to plan. ((yey)) I'll tell ya what, I'm kinda burnt out with the whole party thing. It's like...why do I keep doing this?!?! I don't know. I think my friend Michelle thinks I keep doing it to torture her, because she's the one who picks up the slack and then has to deal with a crazy lady when I get all stressed out. But whatevs...I only have three kids. So I might as well make them feel special. The good news is: I had most of the decor saved from last year. I just added about 19 million new ninja wall decals all over the house, special ordered from my mom's vinyl business: <a href="http://www.morethanvinyl.com/" target="_blank">More Than Vinyl</a> .<br />
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So here's how it went: Kids arrived and got their "Ninja Name". Just a little decoder sheet of paper that helped them find their ninja name. I got the idea here: <a href="http://catchmyparty.com/photos/695730" target="_blank">catch my party Ninjago</a> .<br />
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Then the little ninjas were led to the living room where a photo booth was set up. The kids had a great time with that as you can tell from all the pictures below.<br />
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Except for the "Daisy-a-sauras". That one is pretty adorable.<br />
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Then our hungry little ninjas and ninjettes ate. Mmmmmmmm, what a feast. Here's what we had:<br />
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Got the idea of food from several blogs out there. Here's a shout out to all those blogs: "Thank you!" I don't think I could actually plan a single party if it weren't for google and pinterest. And thank you to, Michelle, who made all the food. I thought she did awesome on the sushi! It looks so real! You rock, Michelle!<br />
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So after our bellies were full, we went straight for the ninja training. Our original "Sensei" was busy being a chiropractor, so his son, Ben-sei Wu, led the kids in the first part of our Spinjitzu training. Look at Luke in the back there...totally getting into it. I love that! He's like "Hi-ya!" And everyone else is just standing around. Ben was a good Sensei. Very patient and very knowledgable. Good Job, Ben-sei!<br />
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Next was Lloyd's Shurikin Training. I think shurikins are like chinese stars...maybe? Well, let's just say that's what they were for our party--except our version of chinese stars were suction cup balls. I got a 12 pack of these suction cup balls and then had my mom print some bad snake guys on butcher paper. Then I attached the bad guys to the other side of the glass doors. The object of the game was to throw the "shurikins" at the bad guys and see how close they get to "killing" them. The kids actually liked this game the best. No. they loved it. We now use the same suction cup balls to help Tanner with his reading skills. We'll put up letters of the alphabet on the windows with painter's tape and ask him to throw one of the balls at whatever letter a particular word starts with. He would play that game all night long if he could. There's just something about throwing things that kids like. You can't go wrong with these suction cup balls. <br />
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After that excitement and everyone had like a billion turns. We moved on to: Cole's poisoned Takkyus. Again, I'm kind of shootin' in the dark here, cuz I have no idea what takkyus are. So, we just pretended they were like a dart or something. I blew up a bunch of balloons and drew evil snake eyes on them. Then attached them to a cardboard back drop. This made my husband a little nervous to have a bunch of small kids throwing darts in our new house. So he was in charge of this game, watching the kids like a hawk.</div>
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Here's the enthusiastic line-up of the kids waiting their turns. Luke as always, is over-enthusiastic. Funny. He cracks me up. He's like "Yesssssssssssss! Take that!!!!!" As the little Kannaly twins look on in wonder.<br />
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After that awesomeness, we went back to the living room for some pinata fun. This part of the training was called "Zane's Sword Slice". So the kids used a "sword" (a.k.a baseball bat) to destroy the evil snake guy. And here's what the evil snake guy looked like:<br />
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Pretty amaze-balls, eh? Of course, Michelle came through once again. She created this amazing replica of this guy in her spare time:<br />
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The kids loved it too. As you can tell by the scene below:<br />
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Almost there...we had one final test before the cake ceremony. Kai's final test:<br />
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The kids had to show me their best "Ninja Move" before they got to pass through into the cake room. Where Jay, the blue ninja, was (Tanner's favorite ninja). The kids mostly did the same thing, and that was whatever the kid in front of them did. So I got a lot of jumpy karate turns--which usually just ended up face down on the floor. Oh well, so much for spinjitzu training. We handed out sticky ninjas and inflatable swords as their parting gifts. Yippee.<br />
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Thanks to Joanna for making this cake for me. I'm a tired mommy and don't have the time to do everything. She did a great job though. I had the intentions of molding a blue ninja guy out of modeling chocolate. But that didn't happen. So we found LEGO candles instead. Good enough.<br />
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Blowing them out! He's officially 5!!!!!<br />
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Here's the inside of the cake. She did a little checkerboard pattern. Good job, Joanna. That's Michelle dishing it out. Nice form. The cake was gone in 30 seconds. It was yums.<br />
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Is it over yet? Nope. We opened presents next, blah blah blah...and that was it. Let the kids watch a ninja episode and then they left. Over in 2 1/2 hours. Piece of cake. The end.<br />
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So, our website is currently under construction. Since mobile me decided to stop services, we've had to change our blog over to a blogspot. And I've had to do it the hard way, transfer each blog post from 2008 up until present by hand. It takes a while and it's incredibly time consuming. NOT FUN! But I will do it when I can, just so we can have our blog up to date. In the meantime, bear with me (I'm speaking to the 5 followers that I have) and I'll get it together here soon! Got LOTS to post from Lilly's to Daisy's birthdays and all the fun we've had this summer. Yikes! It's overwhelming!<br />
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So to start off, we came up with a "Country fair" theme. Michelle suggested we make bunting (yes, I'm blaming this project on her). So we went up to the Tri-Cities (with all the kids in tow, mind you) and picked out our colors. Notice above the color combinations we came up with. Daisy yellow, caramel brown, burnt red, and black. We cut, sewed and pressed like a thousand little 6 inch triangles in three days. Then Michelle took the triangles home and hot-glued each one onto a twine-like cord. Here's what it ended up looking like below:</div>
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Pretty cute. I hung it everywhere. I also went around to like 8 antique shops (something this area has an abundance of) and found old pictures and frames to hang up around the house.</div>
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Here are the final products. Again, they kind of lost their shape because the balloon got stuck to them. So I had to blow up another balloon inside to reshape it. That kind of got annoying. Hind sight: I would've given myself more time for these. And I need to figure out another hardening agent to get them to stay in a perfect spherical shape.</div>
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My next task was making a Daisy wreath for my door. I got the idea by looking in the pool noodle section at the dollar store because they were out of foam for flower arrangements. So I taped the pool noodle in a circle and then just stuck the flowers in through the foam. Michelle finished it off for me by hot glueing some smaller flowers to the wreath and some fabric circles to create fillers.</div>
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My last major project for the party was this fence with a quote on it. In my search for Daisy quotes, I came across this little gem: "Don't you think daisies are the friendliest flowers?" Meg Ryan said this in the movie "You've got Mail" when Tom Hanks brought her flowers when she was sick. So anyway, I love me some Meg Ryan (80's and 90's Meg), and had to put up this quote. My mom owns an online vinyl cutting business, <a href="http://www.morethanvinyl.com/">MoreThanVinyl.com.</a> So I just had her cut out the letters in a cute font that I liked and then spray painted the whole fence white. Turned out pretty cute I think. Of course we had to add extra bunting that was lying around too.</div>
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Now for the decorations. In the kitchen we had a little watermelon or strawberry theme going on—whatever way you want to interpret those balloons. But we did have strawberry lemonade and fresh fruit kabobs. We also had baked potatoes, steak, pork, pasta salad, homemade rolls and jam, and jello salad. I have to say that it was DIVINE, the yummiest food ever. And I didn't have to make any of it. My in-laws and friends who came brought most of the food. And my husband cooked the steaks. It was perfect.</div>
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Next was cake....or cupcakes rather. I am lame in the cake department these days. I had good intentions, but time got ahead of me. So I made chocolate cupcakes. But I tried to cook as many as I could on a cookie sheet and they got squished together and turned out not so round, but more odd shaped than anything. So then, the day of the party I decided to frost like 50 cupcakes 5 minutes before guests were arriving. So yeah, they didn't turn out like the cupcakes I pinned on pinterest. See below:</div>
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And Daisy wanted to share her birthday party with her "almost" twin, Julia. Julia was born the day after Daisy...even though her mommy was due like three weeks after me. Yep, I was two weeks late with Daisy. But, it's kinda fun that "Daisy June" and "Julia Mae" almost share the same birthday. So we celebrated.</div>
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Here's Julia's cute cake that her mommy made. It's rainbow inside!!!! Fancy that? Hmmm, the things you can do with the little bit of help from Pinterest.</div>
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We get a little peek inside the cake. I think she ate it all...or somebody did.</div>
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Overall, it was a nice relaxing Sunday. We were glad we could celebrate this special day with Daisy. She was a cutie during the whole party and loved that everyone was there for her. She didn't actually fall asleep until after she blew out her candles and ate her cake...but then zonked out right before it was time to open her presents. Oh well, it's all good. We'll save them for next year.</div>Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18017770764246676690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655399734523714492.post-47654467040195000722012-03-24T13:07:00.000-07:002013-02-15T22:17:21.897-08:00Lilly's 2nd birthday!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It was Lilly's 2nd birthday. And because she's pretty special, we had to throw a pretty special party for her. I based the theme off of Alice in Wonderland (the newest movie version). So it was a whimsical, shabby chic, little tea party.<br />
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Of course, like the year before, we had Joreen from <a href="http://www.bonvinosbistro.com/" target="_blank">Bon Vinos</a> make her two cakes. Yes, she got two of 'em. One just for her (gluten-free, dairy free, and egg free), and the bigger one for everyone else. Seriously too cute for words...so cute, in fact, we will over look the fact that her name is spelled wrong. Ah well. Nobody even noticed. I got the ideas for these cakes from Pinterest, of course. Here are the links: <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/100416266661535115/" target="_blank">ruffle cake</a> and <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/100416266661312008/" target="_blank">painted flower cake</a></div>
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Here's another shot of the spread. Lots of goodies for everyone to eat--even "<a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/100416266661368471/" target="_blank">make your own mini fruit pizzas</a>" (Thank you, again, Pinterest)</div>
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These three beauties were tough to make. It was almost a pinterest bomb...but thankfully, my husband saved the day and helped me out with his wire bending skills. I'm really glad we had these though, cuz they sure did make a statement. Here's the link to the pin if you want to see the inspiration: <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/100416266661492415/" target="_blank">Giant Paper flowers</a> . </div>
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Party-goers got to make their own clip on mad hatter hats. We got some pretty interesting designs. </div>
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Here's the very first hat I tried. Turned out pretty dang cute, if I must say so myself. Here's how I got the idea: <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/100416266661442507/" target="_blank">mad hatter hat cake topper</a> and this link too: <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/100416266661442483/" target="_blank">Divine hat designs</a> . Michelle and I had a ball making these. We made these about a week before the party so they could be dry enough to put jewels and ribbon on. This was where the party goers got creative. They just chose a hat, then embellished the crap out of it. And here's how I created them:</div>
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1. I bought like 20 of these oval boxes from Hobby Lobby. Only 99 cents each! </div>
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2. Then I cut out circles just slightly larger than the oval box using your basic cardstock paper.</div>
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3. Mod podged some cute material all over the box part. I did about 3 coats or so...so it would be nice and hard.<br />
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4. I wanted the "band" part of the hat a different color. So I mod podged this with a different, complimentary color of fabric. <br />
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5. Then I just glued and mod podged the box and lid together. Except I turned the lid over so it didn't fit together like a box should. This added a little bit of extra height to the hat. I wanted this to be as tall as I could get it. Every centimeter counts!!!!<br />
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6. Remember that circle I cut out from cardstock? Well, I took that circle and then added four circle pieces of material and grouped them together like this. You can't see the cardstock circle, cuz it's hidden behind the four material circles. Kapeesh?<br />
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7. After those 4 material circles were firmly attached to the cardstock circle, I simply attached it to the hat.<br />
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8. Once it dried a little, I turned the hat upside down and mod podged more material circles to the underside.<br />
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9. Almost done...I just shaped the sides of the hat so they looked turned up and kind of curly. I just played around with this and let it finish drying upside down for a day or so. <br />
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And here's Janie wearing the first, test hat. I just threw on some tulle, and glued some buttons on, and a 10/6 sign and called it good. I just used one of those alligator clips and hot glued it to the bottom of the hat. These hats are a little heavy, but they stay on okay if you're wearing a ponytail. And you can make one of these for about $1.50. Not bad, eh?<br />
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Here's Aline and Lia in the ultra creative process with their mad hatter hats. I think they're messing with the glue gun.<br />
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Yep. Here we are after the party died down a bit. I never do my hair or make-up on a party day, cuz I am always running around frantic getting last minute stuff done. So I don't even know why I let someone take a picture of me. But My mom came all the way out from Utah bringing all the mushroom wall decals you see in the back. It was fun to have her there. Except....what are you looking at, mom? I think she was as pooped as I was at that point. We were up really late the night before putting all the decals on the walls. Yeah, fun stuff. All this for a two hour event.<br />
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BUT.... the most important thing was that this girl was happy. And she was. She loved having all the attention and everyone celebrating here special day. Then she konked out right before it was time to open presents. Oh well.... Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18017770764246676690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655399734523714492.post-63798799240405082132012-02-09T14:17:00.000-08:002012-07-02T14:19:48.196-07:00Lego mania<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Tanner is 4. I can’t believe I have such a big boy. Time is flying by way too quickly. And for his birthday he wanted everything LEGO. He especially is obsessed with the little LEGO figurines. He can’t get his hands on enough of those. So...of course I had to go ALL out. After all, he is my oldest and we are now in our brand new house which is like a blank canvas. And boy did I go all out for this one. Yes, I have an addiction to party planning. I can’t help myself.</span></div>
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Above: Front of the invitation. I spent hours taking photos of each lego guy and then editing them in photoshop. But hey, all for the sake of a good party, right?</div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Michelle gave me this idea...one day she said, “there’s got to be a way to decorate your giant fireplace like it’s a bunch of stacked up LEGO blocks.” This is what I came up with. Thanks to dollar store plastic table cloths and painter’s tape. Also, his name is formed out of giant MEGA blocks. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Of course, the entryway had to be LEGO themed as well. My mom (through her printing business: “<a href="http://www.morethanvinyl.com/">More than vinyl</a>”) printed up the LEGO figurines from the invitation and then my husband stuck them on painted cardboard and cut out their faces so that the kids could take pictures AS LEGO people. There were at least 6 of these scattered throughout the house.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Speaking of that particular LEGO guy. For some reason he’s Tanner’s very favorite guy. So my mom screen printed him on a T-shirt for Tanner so he could be that LEGO guy all day long. I though this was a cute idea. Check out her <a href="http://www.morethanvinyl.com/">website</a> if you want to see more creative ideas for other parties that we’ve done. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">y mom can also print removable wall vinyl with any photograph sent to her. I sent her a few of these LEGO guys photgraphs and she sent them back in giant sticker form. And I put them up on the walls throughout the house. Sooooo life-like, don’t you think? And they peel right off without leaving a trace of residue. Here’s her website again: <a href="http://www.morethanvinyl.com/">www.morethanvinyl.com</a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">As the party goers arrived. They were encouraged to “Guess how many LEGO blocks” there were in the clear jar. I put 104 Duplo blocks in there. But the common guess was 60. Guess those Duplo blocks are deceiving.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Then the kids made their way to the kitchen where they made their own pizzas. My intent was that the pizza dough would be formed into rectangles and they would put tiny round pepperonis or olives or ham on them. So that it looked like a pizza LEGO block. But yeah....this is how they all turned out. But it was yummy nonetheless. Thanks to Nana Katie’s famous homemade pizza recipe. Tasty Tasty!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">While the pizza’s were cooking, we made our way to the LEGO play room. We played a few games like: See who can build the tallest LEGO tower in 1 minute, or the coolest mansion in 5 minutes. It was fun to see the kids work together as groups. They were so competitive.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">And lastly, each child got to take home a LEGO head (painted baby food jar) filled with LEGO candy and their very own mystery LEGO figurine. Here’s Luke modeling his party favor for us. I got the idea off of Pinterest. Here's the link to the <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/100416266661203044/" target="_blank">pin</a></span></div>
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The Twilight party was a success. We had 126 complete strangers pre-order tickets to the dinner/movie premier. They had dinner, participated in winning prizes, and went to their own private midnight showing of Twilight. It was a lot of fun organizing...and a lot of work. Natalie and I were exhausted after this one. And we really couldn’t get that many pictures before the party began because EVERYONE showed up like 45 minutes before the party began. I’m not kidding! They were in the building before we even showed up. So we had to scramble to get the last minute details taken care of instead of focusing on getting good pics of the decor and stuff. Oh well...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My first flyer that I ever designed. We plastered these all over Sunnyside, Zillah, Toppenish, Grandview, and Prosser. We were serious about having this party!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Alice" (a.k.a. Reagran) telling fortunes. She even got a haircut to look like Alice in the show. Can you believe it?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The shirts I designed. No one looked as hot as this model does in the t-shirts. </td></tr>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So our ward had an annual Trunk or Treat. It was fun! Tanner dressed up as an alligator, while Brent was a Gator fan. I was a McDonald’s employee named Betty. Like the wig?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I’m not caught up on all that I want to blog about...but I had to take a moment to remember our sweet dog Duke. He died last night after getting hit by a car. We are so sad and so sorry that Duke’s life ended so short. He was a great dog. So loving and so full of energy. He loved chasing after small animals, especially squirrels. So he died doing what he loved...he had a squirrel in his mouth when we found him. The road we live on is so busy, and Duke loves to find any way he can to get out and chase those squirrels around. We hope that Duke’s big sister Lola will be okay without having him around. We love you so much, Duke! We will miss you.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">We had an open house/ribbon cutting ceremony for the new addition clinic where Brent works. His dad is the official owner of the practice, and started it when he was about Brent’s age. Now there are two buildings...a general private practice, and a pediatric clinic that serves mostly medicaid patients. It was the pediatric clinic called “Community Dental” that was just recently added to. The new addition is 8,000 sq/ft and was an enormous undertaking to build. Natalie and I were asked to decorate this huge clinic. And it took us a long time...but we completed most of the decor before the open house. You can also take a tour of the office by<a href="http://mycommunitydental.com/sunnyside/office-tour/" target="_blank"> clicking here</a></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The 2008 staff at the open house. Yes, I designed the t-shirts. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Braces. Ha...maybe a foreshadow of things to come? Yes, Community Dental will probably be offering braces in the near future</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Is this legal? Mooooooove on over.</td></tr>
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</tbody></table>Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18017770764246676690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655399734523714492.post-73982813088090517352008-10-18T20:00:00.000-07:002012-04-18T20:10:21.199-07:00The Phantom of the Opera<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This image is taken from a theater I performed in on tour. I shot it really quick because you're not supposed to take photos of the sets. You can see the stage techs setting up for the show and the orchestra warming up. I love the sights and sounds of live theater. It's nostalgic.</td></tr>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> A couple of weekends ago, we went to Spokane with the Copelands and Andersons to see Phantom of the Opera. My friend, Dallyn, from BYU was just recently cast as a Raoul understudy. He was the one who let me know that Phantom was in our neck of the woods. As a matter of fact, it was the same company that I performed with in 2001-2003. Some of the same people I knew were still there and it was so nice to see them again. Of course I cried when the big opening music started. It brings back such great memories. I really miss it! But it was wonderful! Dallyn took us all on a backstage tour. That was the real highlight of the night. Everyone just loved it. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is too cool. Sitting on the same stage his mommy once danced on. There's the chandelier in the background. I so wish Tanner and Brent could have seen me in the show. How neat would that have been. ((sigh))</td></tr>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">So we were over at the Copeland’s house for Sunday dinner. And as Natalie and I were making the dessert, we asked our husbands to watch the kids. But I guess our husbands were too busy playing the Wii because the next thing we heard was a little coo from Tanner. As we all looked down on the floor where he was, we saw Ella hovering over him with a pen in her hand. She apparently wanted to decorate his face and got away with it in front of us all. It’s some impressive art work too. Tanner didn’t even mind until we had to scrub it off his face.</span></div>Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18017770764246676690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655399734523714492.post-16859458387665156332008-10-06T19:29:00.000-07:002012-04-18T19:53:49.370-07:00Harvest time!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So this is my first time experiencing harvest season. It’s quite the ordeal out here in farm country! It’s very efficient and organized. And really quite fun to watch. Although, after they harvested the corn (which surrounded 2 sides of our house) they then dumped manure all over the field. Yowsers! Manure is not my favorite smell in the world, that’s for sure! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But then there's the grape harvest. It’s the only time here in Sunnyside where the air doesn’t smell like cow manure. It smells like grape! It’s wonderful--heavenly is more like it. And it’s really fun to watch the harvesting. The juicer trucks go back and forth hauling picked grapes while these really super big machines pick the fruit. Then all the grapes are loaded up in big boxes and sent to juicing companies. Gary (my father-in-law) who owns Martin vineyards only grows juicing grapes. I guess he could try his luck at a winery and do VERY well...but, drinking alcohol in the Mormon culture is a little against our beliefs. So...Welch’s grape is one of the juicing companies that typically buys the grapes from Gary. I like the grapes too, because they’re so sweet and tasty fresh from the vine!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">When you live on a farm, you harvest lots of stuff at harvest-time. So, the day after Halloween, we went over to Nana Katie and Papa Gary’s house to make homemade apple juice. Yum! It was quite fun. The Copelands joined us and it seemed their kids enjoyed the whole process too. Yey!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Loaded up in the back of the truck, ready to head over to the nearby patch. Don’t worry, the pumpkin patch is just down the dirt road from the house...no need for car seats here. We’re going redneck all the way, we even have our lawn chairs seated perfectly in the back! Yee Haw!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">After a lazy afternoon session of General Conference, the Martin family (sans Nana Katie--she was in Utah) headed over to the Pumpkin patch to pick out some good pumpkins for the fall season. Byron and Nancy, and their kids came up from Tri Cities for the fun! Papa Gary said that this year the pumpkins were planted too late, and a lot didn’t grow in the patch because of that. I’ve never been to a pumpkin patch before, so I wouldn’t know any different. So I had fun either way!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">So for Oktoberfest our friends, the Andersons, invited us to the city of Leavenworth for a little get-away. Brent and I wanted to take our new car on a trip somewhere anyway, so we decided to go up Saturday and come back Sunday. It was a nice trip. Leavenworth is a German town about an hour and forty-five minutes from Sunnyside. It’s very cute! And the german culture is everywhere. We even had our first and only fill of real honest-to-goodness german food. Blahk! Won’t be trying that again! But it was fun for Tanner to hang out with their son Ian who is just four months younger than Tanner. They’re little trouble-maker buddies in the making! </span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">It was just a laid back week day morning as I was playing with Tanner and talking on the phone with my friend Natalie, when all of a sudden I saw two mice run across the room! And like most normal people, I jumped up on the sofa and called my husband for help. I got his voice mail, so I told him in a frantic voice that I was going to buy a cat. And that was exactly what I did. (after buying a million mouse traps first, of course) My mother-in-law, bless her heart, took time off work to take me over to the animal shelter where we found a sweet little abandoned kitten for sale. We named her “Mouser” and all I can say is, she better live up to her name!!!! She lives outside with the dogs and had really made herself into the leader of the pack. The dogs follow her around like she’s one of them. Which is good...because Brent figured she’s be eaten by one of them her first day home. Nope! Not my Mouser!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Then on Saturday September 27th, we said good-bye to my beloved 2002 Volkswagen Jetta, and traded her in for a 2008 Toyota Hybrid Highlander. It was a bitter-sweet day for me, since “Meg”, my jetta, was the first car I bought with my hard earned “Phantom of the Opera” money. I had even paid her off! It was so sad to leave the dealership watching her sitting there alone in the driveway, knowing I’d never see her again. I’m pretty sure she feels abandoned. But she served us well for all these years. And since Tanner joined our family, we needed to get ourselves a safer car that will fit our growing family. So welcome to the family “Violet” (said in a sultry french accent). </span></div>
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<br />Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18017770764246676690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655399734523714492.post-50527446948236962242008-09-15T13:47:00.000-07:002012-04-18T14:01:17.418-07:00Army Crawl Master<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But as I was changing his clothes, I noticed little rashes on his arms, legs and chin. I couldn’t figure out where he would’ve gotten this from? Until it dawned on me that he was getting carpet burns as he crawled. He would dive his face into the carpet and pull with his forearms, and push with his legs. So, I had to cover his whole body with baby leg warmers to protect his skin. That’s why he looks like he’s going to dance class in these pictures...I had to cover his body with something and still keep him cool in the hot weather. My husband thinks Tanner looks silly in the leg warmers...but oh well.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">We decided to take a mini-vaca to Seattle for the weekend in September. The guys wanted to see the Mariners play and BYU beat WSU. It was a pretty good weekend. Two other families joined us: The Copelands, and the Andersons. Since Natalie and I aren’t really that big of Sports fans...we took our littlest ones to the pool and Seattle Aquarium. It was pretty fun. Tanner seemed to like it. And, of course, Natalie got some really great shots of Tanner with her new lens. Then when the guys weren’t at the games, we all went to the zoo and a great Italian restaurant. I love the big city! Wish I could live there for reals...</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Back in August (the 9th to be exact), we celebrated Brent’s 30th birthday. We had a Wii bowling party for him in our double-wide home. We invited a lot of friends and family to the event. Natalie Copeland helped me plan and decorate. She’s a great friend. We set up the house as if it were a bowling alley called “Double-Wide Lanes”. I made Wii characters of all the people that were invited to attend the party and put them on balloons in the house. We even had a snack shack where Natalie and I would serve people “bowling 4 bacon” burgers or “spicy wiings”. It was a ton of fun! </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I spent countless hours making each wii person to look like the party-goers who were attending. <br />I guess I have a lot of time on my hands.</td></tr>
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<br />Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18017770764246676690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655399734523714492.post-62611106988245530542008-08-12T15:14:00.000-07:002012-04-12T15:22:48.161-07:00First haircut<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You know you have to get your kid’s hair cut when you can do this with it. Yowsers! So on Tanner’s six month birthday, we decided to do it ourselves. I’ve never cut hair before...so it was quite the experience. But we all got through it and had some bright red hair for Tanner’s keepsake book.</span></div>
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