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Wednesday, 01 February 2012
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And it (2011) came to pass...
Lest it be said that a whole year passed between posts, I'm posting to let it be known that the past 12 months have been eventful and we have diligently posted updates on Facebook.
Wednesday, 02 February 2011
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I am thankful
I need to get back in the groove of blog upkeep. I so appreciate reading back over the past and remembering all of the little things I have since forgotten.
This afternoon I had scheduled to make cookies for some friends who did us a kindness. They live right next to Gianna's ballet studio so I could deliver them during her lessons today. Effecient, eh? Thank goodness Someone more effecient than me helps me through the day when I let Him. I pulled out the ingredients after lunch but just couldn't get myself to mix them up. In the past I would have questioned the lack of gusto but thankfully I recognized the feeling as a prompting that I just shouldn't proceed. It's now 4 hours later and I'm getting Gianna ready for ballet. Out of the blue she bursts into tears and says she just doesn't think she can go today. What the??? She LOVES ballet. Something must be wrong here....I pull out the most excellent temporal artery temperature scanner (I love that thing!!! Thanks Mom and Dad) and lo n' behold she has a fever. So does Lizzy. Well, so much for leaving the house for awhile. The kids were exposed to Influenza on Sunday and I knew if they were going to get it it would probably hit by Wednesday. At least I didn't waste time baking cookies this afternoon that would not have been delivered (heaven forbid we eat them ourselves!!!
. I know it's just a little thing, but those little things add up and smooth my days. I am truly thankful for them. Now off to prepare some chicken soup!!
Friday, 17 December 2010
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Once Upon a December
This year, Katrina chose to perform a ballroom dance number at the annual Young Women Night of Excellence and asked Joseph to be her partner. Both are performing this number as part of a school group...tonight actually! I'll post that later.
Sunday, 05 December 2010
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Catching Up
Yowzers - we haven't made an entry in nearly 3 and a half months! I've been doing a lot of my updates on Facebook but I'm learning that not everyone frequents that site (mom
). Here's a quick attempt at catch-up. I'll still reference Facebook though so I don't have to upload all the photos twice 
.August\September
Joseph's week-long experience at Elevation
More wood-cutting\Day at the park
October
Aviation Merit Badge helicopter flight with scouts
Joseph performs at LDS Conference Center
Quail Lake campout with scouts
November
California\Disneyland trip (coming soon)
Monday, 23 August 2010
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More Summer Fun
Whew! August and Summer are coming to an end and I'm way behind on xanga. We just got back from an unprecedented 11 day family vacation to Park City, Cache Valley and Yellowstone. An update is coming soon, but THIS entry is all about what we did BEFORE that!
We celebrated Georgiana's 7th birthday this month on the 12th.
Georgie with the traditional birthday cereal.
Georgie also lost her first tooth on her birthday. She take's after her dad, a late tooth-loser.
I did another BSA canyoneering training trip a few weekends back. This one was in Yankee Doodle Canyon near Leeds\Silverreef north of St. George.
More photos are available on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=192568&id=810679482.
The garden is doing fairly well, much better than in years past. Tonight we had corn, beans and squash from our garden. Hooray!
The four oldest kids all have online components to their homeschooling this year which means a bottleneck for our single family computer. Sooo... Katrina and Joseph purchased laptops with their very own money. Wal-mart specials - Windows 7, 2GB ram, 250GB hard-drive. 2.1 GHz (as I recall) for $300 each. Not bad!
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