tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44698903209917894212024-03-18T21:26:40.502-07:00Alayna's Project 365Alayna's Creationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04441954034209756170noreply@blogger.comBlogger541125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469890320991789421.post-35708718953415231392014-05-12T16:37:00.000-07:002014-05-13T02:39:51.282-07:002014 Week 19<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Photos from our hike on Thursday. It was just the three of us this time - me, Becky, and Jessie (the woman that leads the hikes) which was nice. We made it through 4 1/2 miles almost without seeing anyone else - very peaceful. And I'm pretty sure we moved faster than we usually do. I guess we're getting better at it.<br />
I was also noticing the differences in the foliage now. Where we used to be able to see in between the trees a bit, now the leaves and vines and ferns are all filling in and you can't see much past the path. It's pretty though.<br />
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Tyler came home with some things for me for Mother's Day - a card, a little potted plant and this booklet about me. The booklet gave me a laugh - and made me wonder how well my children actually know me lol.<br />
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We all had an extra-fun weekend, starting with Friday. The kids had field day, Sam had a group motorcycle ride with the group on the base (yep, they let him out of work for that), and I met up with a friend for a morning of shopping and lunch out. Then Sam and I met up at home, packed up, dropped off the dog and the kids' stuff at my friend Julie's house and headed off on a short pre-anniversary get away in Asheville. It was just what Sam and I needed - lots of low key time spent alone together. We didn't even turn on the radio during the whole 4 hour ride, just talked.</div>
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Saturday we spent the day at the Biltmore Estate - amazing. I saw something about it when I was in college and it has stuck in my head ever since so I was glad to be able to see it all in person.</div>
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The house is enormous and impressive inside and out (they don't let you take photos inside). And since both Sam and I are very interested in houses, construction, decor, etc it was intriguing. Sam spent a lot of time looking at all the woodworking on the moldings and walls and marveling at how much detail and how few tools (at least of the kind we use now) they would have had to work with.<br />
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Had to snap a pic, even though I don't watch the show (American Idol). This limo pulled up while we were waiting in line for our tour to begin. Inside was Caleb Johnson (we had to ask someone, then I had to google his name later lol. And yes we did see him), who I guess is in the Top 3 for this season and they were doing a special Home Town filming/event. (http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2014/05/09/caleb-johnson-hits-asheville-saturday/8920817/) Anyway...<br />
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After touring the house we spent quite a bit of time exploring the gardens - so pretty, so well thought out, so well taken care of.<br />
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Sam was excited about seeing this bridge - I guess they used it to film some scenes in the movie Last of the Mohicans.<br />
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It had been threatening to rain all day and on our way back to the house it did start to rain. Luckily we were by the "boathouse" (it's basically a gazebo type structure on the edge of the lake) so we waited out the worst of the storm there. We were soon joined by a family from Arkansas who wanted to get out of the rain too. We had a nice little chat with them and were entertained by their spunky 2 year old girl who kept running out into the rain to see the "duck" (the goose, who would swim over near the deck probably thinking someone was going to feed it).<br />
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We had been carrying around an umbrella that I had stored in the car (thank goodness for random Super-prepared Mom moments) so when the rain slowed down we headed back to the car so we could drive to another part of the estate for lunch and to explore the winery and farm. Obviously Sam really enjoyed his lunch ;)<br />
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We got home around 7PM and picked the kids and the dog. I was surprised when Sam and Kate wanted to head right back out to the grocery store - until I got a "look" from Sam and realized Kate had probably taken him aside for a "what are going to do for Mother's Day" pow wow and they were off for supplies. She came home with flowers too, of course.</div>
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Sunday was Mother's Day. Tyler told me at bedtime the night before that I should "sleep in. Even if you wake up early just tell yourself to go back to sleep." And knowing the kids usually like to make breakfast on special days, I stayed in bed (reading) until they called me down for breakfast.<br />
Sam spent the day working on drying racks in the garage and supervising ribs on the smoker while the kids and I just hung out inside all day. Three full days of fun and no work for me - so nice!<br />
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Yum. Ribs, grill fries and home made bread with cinnamon butter - all in the fun BBQ baskets Sam had given me for Easter.<br />
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Love my family. It was a great Mother's Day.<br />
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And I love love love those kiddos.<br />
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Funny Tyler quote of the week: (5/6) <span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Tyler, as I woke him up this morning "I had a good night, now you ruined it"</span>Alayna's Creationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04441954034209756170noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469890320991789421.post-43307797040357728282014-05-05T16:51:00.000-07:002014-05-12T17:03:11.669-07:002014 Week 18<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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She loves those "blades" and goes outside to practice skating every chance she gets.<br />
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She even got her dad out there for a short time (there he is threatening me if I post any embarrassing photos on FB lol)<br />
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catching up on One Little Word workshop prompts<br />
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Strawberry season is open! Sam had drill weekend so I took the kids, along with Julie and Bozena to pick strawberries. It was perfect weather for it. And I took a ton of what I thought were cute photos. I even stopped at the side of the road to take photos of the kids in a huge patch of flowers only to get home and realize that I didn't have a memory card in the camera! So no photos, not a single one :( Thank goodness Julie snapped a couple with her phone. If I had realized the camera didn't have a memory card I would have whipped out my own phone and been fine. Note to self - always double check the camera before using!<br />But. The strawberry picking was fun. We came home with around 12 pounds! I know, that seems like a lot but I wanted to freeze some for smoothies. We also made up a plate of chocolate covered strawberries (mmmmmm) in addition to the large amounts we consumed just plain or with fruit dip.<br />
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<br />Alayna's Creationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04441954034209756170noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469890320991789421.post-18837535119804098912014-04-28T15:17:00.000-07:002014-05-12T16:51:03.642-07:002014 Week 17<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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She lost another tooth! At this rate she isn't going to have any teeth left to chew with.<br />
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Thursday hike!<br />
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Got some Baby Miles time in today. He got to play at my house while Jeannette took Zeyah to a movie. Miles is the easiest baby EVER. He spent the whole time just exploring and talking to himself and thought the dog was hilarious too. He would just sit there and look at her and laugh (though the one time she licked his face he got upset, thus the reason she is hanging out in the kennel).<br />
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And finally the weather and our schedules gelled and we got BEACH TIME! The water was still really cold, but the kids didn't let that stop them.<br />
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Spring Break! Much to my own disappointment (let alone that of the kids) Sam couldn't take the time off to go anywhere for Spring Break and as it turned out we were swamped with orders for drying racks so I was working a lot too. However, we did take a few breaks from the daily grind to have some fun with the kids.</div>
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We did lazer tag, arcade games, and mini golf at Adventure Landing. Lots of fun.<br />
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Ty rode his bike through the "road" they are creating for Phase 2 of the subdivision. Obviously that wasn't a great idea and he came home covered in mud.<br />
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I have also been determined to get all the outside projects done ASAP so I put the kids to work one day. They painted the trellis that we put under the deck (to keep the dog from digging under there anymore) for a good couple of hours before they ran out of steam. I spent most of the day on my stomach under the deck putting down new weed barrier the respreading the gravel over it (not fun. Not fun at all) while Sam cut the trellis and installed it (after we had finished painting it for the kids).</div>
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Easter Egg decorating. This year we tried out the shaving cream method.<br />
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Kaitlyn wasn't hugely impressed - for some reason she had her heart set on the usual dying method. But the eggs did turn out very colorful.<br />
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Family game night. Tyler usually plays on a "team" with someone but he was on his own that night and won most of the rounds all by himself.<br />
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Easter morning - checking out the buckets and new gifts from Mom and Dad. Kaitlyn got new roller blades (she picked them out herself weeks ago), a glow in the dark soccer ball and a set of Ever After High dolls. Tyler got the glow in the dark football he had been hoping for, a new camera, and a torpedo toy for the pool.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">The kids were up VERY early (like almost before the Easter Bunny!) Good thing Kaitlyn was good enough to keep her brother occupied and away from the windows until the bunny had finished hiding the eggs. They had to wait for the sun to come up before we let them go outside to hunt for eggs.</span><br />
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Easter dinner, compliments of the chef (Sam, of course) was ham, twice baked potatoes and home made rolls.<br />
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Oh - and let's not forget the kids' new tablet! These super smart kiddos have been saving up their money and pooling it to buy themselves a new tablet. It's been fun and kind of inspiring to hear them plot week after week about what they will do with the tablet. They would down and count their money and add up how much more they need to earn. They even took the initiative to look at Best Buy online and figure out how much tablets cost and how much they would need to earn - including tax. Thanks to birthday and Christmas cash and doing well with chores they had finally earned enough for the tablet and I had spent an hour online with them finding the best deal on a good tablet and ordering it for them. It arrived this week and they couldn't have been happier (though I did ruin the fun a bit and not let them open the box until after Easter gifts had had their time to be used and enjoyed).<br />
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St Patrick's Day. The Leprechaun's left the kids a few treasures, moved a few things around in the living room and dyed the milk green.<br />
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Rainy Monday night at dance<br />
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Sam spent the day putting in shelves in the garage for not one, but two of our neighbor friends. This was followed by an impromptu BBQ with all three families. Best of both worlds - super productive (and made a little spare cash) followed by lots of laughs with friends.<br />
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Time for some family fun. We got to the bowling alley before it opened, so we went to Sonic for milkshakes. It was a bit cold for ice cream, but still fun.<br />
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Both kids are getting pretty good at bowling. I completely lost to both of them.Alayna's Creationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04441954034209756170noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469890320991789421.post-78617284458519307252014-03-17T16:01:00.000-07:002014-03-23T16:14:10.503-07:002014 Week 11<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Our first spring flower! Only one this week but I can see a lot more shoots from the other bulbs.<br />
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And wonder of wonders - I finally started to tackle the chair reupholstery project I've been intending to do for almost a year now. Bambi was a great help (you do sense the sarcasm, right?)Alayna's Creationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04441954034209756170noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469890320991789421.post-34104663980717894372014-03-10T04:00:00.000-07:002014-03-23T16:06:18.796-07:002014 Week 10<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Photos from my hike Thursday with Becky. It was really cold (I even wore a hat! And I NEVER wear hats) but it felt great to be outside.<br />
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Just finished a workout! Not a beautiful photo, but what can you expect after a hard workout? Julie and I have been on a roll with the exercising and pretty happy with ourselves for it.<br />
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Taking a little extra care of myself this week. Last weekend Kaitlyn and I got our hair cut and then Sunday Jeannette came over and helped me color mine.</div>
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Kate and I also took the time to put on our new nail wraps.<br />
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This comic perfectly describes the weather we've been having since January. Snow days followed by days warm enough for the kids to dig out their shorts and play outside all day. Craziness.<br />
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Had to take this photo. Tyler woke up at his usual time and came downstairs but decided he was tired and went back to bed.<br />
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Oh yeah - and we lit a fire Saturday. One of our favorite ways to eat outside. And a great way to get rid of our piles of scrap wood.<br />
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Mmmmm smores! Especially our latest version using Thin Mint cookies!<br />
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Eventually we had to put the dog on her long rope because she kept getting too close to the fire and singed a couple of hairs on her tail.Alayna's Creationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04441954034209756170noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469890320991789421.post-11647808961426339232014-03-03T04:48:00.000-08:002014-03-23T16:55:52.171-07:002014 Week 9<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The kids came home from school to find this disaster in the playroom. I had tackled a "quick" reorganization in both storage closets. No worries, by the end of the day everything was back in place and looking better than before.<br />
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On the good weather days the kids have been spending a lot of time on their roller skates outside. I love that they enjoy being active and outdoors.<br />
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And what did I find when I cleaned out the storage rooms? A lot of photos and unfinished decorative projects that hadn't made it on the walls. It got me motivated to get some up and displayed. Tyler's room now looks great and I added a few photos in my room too.</div>
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Typical breakfast for me lately - green smoothie.<br />
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Chore time! Tyler can't get enough of his music lately and wears his headphones constantly.<br />
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New routine of going hiking every Thursday with a friend at Raven Rock. Today we went past the Overlook. The river is really high (and muddy) right now.<br />
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Oh and we also signed up for the Color Run taking place in May! We're going to all run it this time.</div>
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Bambi turned one year old! She definitely doesn't look like a puppy anymore, even though most of the time she acts like one. We're all happy to have her, obviously. We celebrated her birthday with a quick photo and a new puzzle treat toy. I assume she's one happy pup.<br />
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Snow Days! I say this with both amusement and frustration. Snow isn't new to us, but it sure is an Event in North Carolina. They were predicting snow for Tuesday night, so of course the school decided that letting out early wasn't good enough, they had to skip school entirely on Tuesday. And it didn't snow until well after dark. Urgh. This is what we woke up to Tuesday morning though. About 3" of new snow and the sun shining.<br />
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The kids could hardly wait to get out in it. It almost felt like Christmas. They were up early and anxiously looking out the window until the sun was up and I finally let them bundle up (in our less-than adequate snow gear) and head outside to make snow angels and throw snowballs.<br />
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Thank goodness for that dog. When the rest of us were tired of the snow she was still happily letting Tyler throw snowballs at her and chase her around the back yard.<br />
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We've also been trying to make use of the our neighborhood gym to get us all a little active and headed down there to work out a couple of times.<br />
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Then by Sunday, complete reversal of the weather. Snow was all gone and it was warm enough to go without jackets.<br />
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Let's see - what else is noteworthy from the week? I've been trying to get everyone in more healthy habits this month. In an effort to boost the nutrition I've added in daily protein shakes for the kids and they love it. Usually Kaitlyn or I make them, but Tyler has started to want to be more independent and is learning how to do it himself.<br />
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There's usually projects and messes underway in our garage. Over the weekend we did another big build day for drying racks. And for the first time I let Kaitlyn help me out a little bit sanding countdown blocks.<br />
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We were excited to spend the morning of Day 2 of our beach vacation at Wonder Works. We were up fairly early as usual, had breakfast at IHOP, then wandered around the (closed) shops at Broadway at the Beach until Wonder Works was open.<br />
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It's a bit like a Children's Museum on steroids. The premise is that the building got caught in a tornado in Florida or something and ended up upside-down on a building here so the lobby is all upside down. It's fun. Inside they have things like a roller coaster simulator, all kind of science-y experiment stuff, <br />
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climbing demonstration of pulley and levers, laser tag (we had a lot of fun with that one) and a ropes course (also a lot of fun, especially watching the kids figure out they weren't going to fall and getting more confident as they crossed the obstacles).<br />
We had lunch then spent some time in the pool at the hotel.<br />
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Wednesday morning I was up before everyone else and got to enjoy the sunrise.<br />
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We did donuts for breakfast then spent some final time on the beach before heading home.<br />
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It was a great little vacation. I'm really glad we went and am looking forward to going back when we can actually spend some time in the water.<br />
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The rest of the week went very quickly with orders to fill, school and work to return to, etc.<br />
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We also got some happy mail from Sam's grandma: her usual cookies and granola for birthdays, plus some ruffle scarves for Kaitlyn and me. Birthdays are so much fun, even when they aren't mine ;)Alayna's Creationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04441954034209756170noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469890320991789421.post-10212351736877562972014-01-20T12:23:00.000-08:002014-01-26T13:10:30.925-08:002014 Week 3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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What stands out from this week? Well, lots of projects and finishing things up - especially getting the big photos up in the craft room and reorganizing it. That room hasn't been this clean and pretty in months and months.<br />
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Kaitlyn won second prize at the science fair! Go Kate! <br />
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Also took some time to decorate the house for Valentines day - it was looking way too bare without Christmas stuff.</div>
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Sam had a birthday! And by some stroke of luck not only did it fall on a weekend, but a bit holiday weekend followed by the kids having 3 days off (and half-day on Friday). Normally I would be annoyed at that since the kids JUST went back to school from Christmas. But we decided to take advantage of it and use some of Sam's time off so we spent a few days in Myrtle Beach.<br />
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We drove down Sunday after we had breakfast (muffins made by Kaitlyn for her dad's birthday) and packed. We had an amazing condo (can splurge a little with off season prices - two bedrooms plus a living room/kitchen) right on the beach.<br />
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Once we got settled in the room we went for a walk on the beach. And kind of got carried away. When we made it back to the room we calculated that we had walked over 3 miles - no wonder poor Tyler kept complaining that his feet hurt.<br />
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We went to the Medieval Times dinner and show that night - so much fun! Knights jousting, eating dinner with only your fingers...what's not to like? Even though Tyler didn't want to eat any of the meal (we planned on that and took a sandwich for him) both the kids were completely enthralled. If I happened to lean over to ask Kaitlyn a question she would tell me "shh, I'm trying to watch this."<br />
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I know - they're all green. It's the lights. We were in the Green Knight's section. He didn't win.<br />
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And back at the room we surprised Sam with brownies for dessert - pretty sneaky aren't we? He didn't know we had them (though he almost spoiled the surprise by getting home early Friday when they were still out on the counter and the whole house smelled like chocolate)<br />
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or the sparking grape juice (left over from New Years).<br />
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Tyler loves a good toast.<br />
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Tried to write Thank You cards for all the Christmas and Birthday gifts. Didn't finish - the kids are so well loved or er, spoiled.<br />
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New Year's Eve Pajama party with friends - FUN!<br />
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We played games, watched The Ball drop, the kids broke a piñata, and we all got fortunes by popping balloons.<br />
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Tyler also lost a tooth at the New Years Eve party. (at this rate he may not be able to chew food on his own soon lol) Good thing Mom remembered to put the tooth under his pillow as he went right to sleep as soon as we got home.<br />
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Breakfast New Years Day was waffles and the sparkling grape juice we had forgotten to open at midnight.<br />
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Tyler insisted we all do a toast.<br />
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We also spent New Years Day putting away all the Christmas decorations. The living room looks really bare now.<br />
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But also very clean as we also took the opportunity a couple days later to rent a steamer and clean all the carpets. While Sam ran the machine I did a few of the deep cleaning items I had been putting off. The house is now all sparkly clean and that feels good.<br />
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Bambi likes the clean carpet too.<br />
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Oh, and we finally remembered to let the kids pull the wish bone from Thanksgiving.<br />
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Wonder what he wished for...<br />
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The kids are back on a paper airplane kick. Tyler taped this note to one of the paper airplanes then handed it to me ;) He's such a cutie.<br />
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And to finish up the week, Kaitlyn finished her science project - WOOHOO!Alayna's Creationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04441954034209756170noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469890320991789421.post-70863571500735439582013-12-09T08:40:00.000-08:002013-12-09T08:40:00.721-08:002013 Week 48<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The kids got new lights for the mini trees in their rooms.<br />
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The elves are here and up to their usual mischief. We've found them TPing the tree, trapped by the plastic Army Guys, swinging from the ceiling fan with a countdown paper chain, mistaking the dog biscuits for cookies...<br />
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This year we bought the kids Lego Advent Calendars. They love them. This is the first thing they get to do every morning, as soon as they are fully dressed and ready for school.<br />
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It was a big week for drying rack orders, especially custom sizes and colors.<br />
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And of course Tyler's birthday! Our little guy turned 7 this week! He started the day (Thursday) with cake batter waffles (yes, he does sleep with his pajamas tops unbuttoned lol) and gifts.<br />
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Then homework after school. Don't you just love the tie? He couldn't wait to wear it to school.<br />
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Lucky for Tyler, Sam got off work early (they had night fire, but let him go early) so the guys hung out while Kaitlyn and I joined the girls scouts at the nursing home to play games and hand out ornaments. Then we met Tyler and Sam at Burger King (Tyler's choice) for dinner before heading home for pjs, chocolate pie (Tyler's pick instead of cake - he's a choc-o-holic!), and bedtime.<br />
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Then Saturday was the big birthday party! This year's theme - Skylanders (it's a video game the kids are obsessed with right now).<br />
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We had a good turn out. Obviously I had asked them to make silly faces for this photo, but it's a good illustration of the personality of this bunch - wild and crazy and full of energy!<br />
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Letter Tyler wrote to us at school. It reads "I was good dad and mom."<br />
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Tyler's ready to party! ;)<br />
Friday night the whole family joined our friends to celebrate one of the kid's birthdays at Adventure Landing. The were having their Halloween festivities there that night so the kids got to wear their costumes. Ty fell asleep on the ride there, but was ready to go once we arrived.<br />
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They did crafts for a while. Then we all had a blast playing laser tag and the arcade games.<br />
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We were celebrating Donald's 9th birthday. His cake completely matched the WWF belt that was part of his Halloween costume.<br />
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There's the birthday girl! Kaitlyn turned 10 on Monday. We had snickerdoodle waffles for breakfast and let her open her presents before going to school.<br />
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Then we all went out to dinner at Golden Corral (one of her favorites) before taking her to dance class. We stayed up late enough to have dessert (cherry cheesecake - she's not into cake cake this year) before heading to bed.<br />
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Finally remembered to take a photo of the dog with the kids to show how much she's grown. It's a lot!<br />
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Thursday was the Girl Scout hike at Raven Rock State Park. The girls did fantastic (they're actually really fast hikers and we had to keep telling them to slow down as one of the girls had brought her grandparents and they kept falling behind).<br />
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Saturday was Kelcee's first birthday party. Her actual birthday isn't for another month but they will have moved by then.<br />
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So we made sure we got a group photo of all of us Girls.<br />
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It was Minnie Mouse theme - fun!<br />
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Then Sunday morning we had a surprise going away brunch for Kelly. Can't believe we pulled it off. She thought she was coming over to craft, which we did eventually.<br />
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And our parting gift to Kelly. The quote really does say it all.Alayna's Creationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04441954034209756170noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469890320991789421.post-36477209840652897572013-10-14T13:31:00.000-07:002013-10-27T13:32:03.965-07:002012 Week 40<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Birthday flowers. Happy birthday to me!<br />
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Surprise party with my friends - complete with blindfolded "kidnapping."<br />
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It was great. I finally have a great group of friends here.<br />
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Daughter hard at work finishing off the birthday gift she made All By Herself (a small bag out of old jeans and fabric scraps - it's pretty impressive actually).<br />Between the people here in my family, my friends, and friends and family that called or sent messages I had so many things to be happy about on my birthday. I'm very lucky to have all these great people in my life.</div>
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We finished up my birthday with dinner at Red Lobster. Shopped for an outfit for myself at Kohl's. Then dessert at home (cookies and cream pie).</div>
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At Girl Scouts this week we worked on art/craft bags for kids in the hospital. Who knew you could overplan for something like that? We completely ran out of time before we had all the mini craft kits put together. </div>
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And the big event - Kaitlyn's birthday party! She wanted to have another slumber party this year so I insisted she keep it small. The theme she picked was a spa party, which was a lot of fun to pull together.<br />
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Kaitlyn was very specific with what she wanted to do for her party. She asked her dad to make ham and twice baked potatoes for dinner, so he took the day off to cook. I'm so glad he did as that allowed me to squeeze in craft day with friends in the morning (mostly I worked on final prep for Kate's party of course), then a friend helped me set up for the party before the kids got home from school.<br />We did dinner and presents first. Then quickly did dessert so Kaitlyn could blow out her candles before everyone changed into pjs. Kate had wanted an ice cream sundae bar for her party instead of cake so we used the brownies (which were one of the toppings) to do a quick tower for the candles.<br />
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Kaitlyn, Bozena, Tori, and Emily - quite the little group of happy, enthusiastic, and VERY LOUD girls!<br />
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They stayed up pretty late, but most were in good spirits for breakfast (home made cinnamon rolls - again thanks to Dad and orange julius). Then we pretty much spent the entire rest of the day doing nothing so we could recover from all the fun.<br />
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We've had some fantastic fall weather lately so we took advantage of it Sunday afternoon and lit the fire. We had quite a bit of scrap wood piling up (from building drying racks) so we let the fire burn for hours while we just sat around enjoying it. And of course we roasted hot dogs and marshmallows for dinner.<br />
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Tyler had his first every spelling test on Friday and he aced it!<br />
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Family fun out with friends this weekend. A whole group of us went to the corn maze and had a great time. <br />
Kaitlyn liked challenging herself with the sledge hammer thing. And Tyler had to try out all the heavy equipment.<br />
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Then we hit the maze in teams - boys against girls. The boys won.<br />
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And when we were all hot and tired (it almost hit 90 that day) and ready for a rest we went on the hay ride.<br />
I'm very happy that we've found this great group of friends that like to have fun and get together regularly. And that the kids are all good friends too. It really adds to the fun of every-day life.<br />
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Bambi cuddles! Oh those kids love that dog and she's very patient with them.<br />
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Enjoying the last week of summer vacation. School is coming up on us quickly.<br />
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Final swimming lesson on Tuesday - Thanks Miss Danette! The kids learned a lot over the last few weeks. Kaitlyn can now do all of the major swimming strokes (and is already better than me at the crawl stroke) and is quite a good swimmer. Tyler has moved past his doggy paddle (yay) and gets around the pool better than ever.<br />
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Saturday we took the kids to an orchard (something we've been meaning to do for a few weeks but kept having to postpone). We had a lot of fun picking peaches, apples, and grapes.<br />
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Bambi is growing fast! She's probably doubled in size since we got her. She's starting to learn a few things - I think we might have a handle on the potty training and she knows how to sit on cue. She is still very much an energetic puppy, which is fun. The biting and jumping have toned down a little bit but she still has a long way to go with that.</div>
I'm pretty sure she recognizes the sound of the alarm on my phone when it's time to go to the bus. And when that bus turns into our neighborhood she gets SO excited to be mobbed by all the kids.<br />
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Kaitlyn and Tyler love their puppy and have so much fun playing with her.</div>
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Tyler's favorite part was feeding the giraffe. His name is Strech, which Tyler thought was a great name.<br />
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There's Tyler's teacher Miss Allen taking a photo of the big snake. They brought that thing out and just let it crawl around on the ground and the kids could go up to it anytime they wanted. Tyler stayed at least 10 feet away from the snake - not that I blame him! He did however like touching the tortoises, baby goat, and the pot bellied pigs that were also out wandering around.<br />
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Awards assemblies this week. Once again the kids did fantastic during this term at school. (Too bad I left the memory card for the camera at home and only one of the photos I took with my phone turned out.) Kaitlyn got Terrific Kid (they select only one per class each term), a PE Leadership award and Principal's List (high honor roll - all As). Tyler got the Roaring Writer and Bookworm. I'm always so glad that my kids love school and love learning and that it comes so easily for them.<br />
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Tyler got hold of my phone while we were in the car one day and took at least 100 photos of the top of his head :)<br />
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We wanted to do something fun this weekend and although we would have preferred the beach it wasn't really beach weather. Saturday Kaitlyn went to a Girls Day Out thing with a friend which left Tyler hanging out at home with us. He rode with Sam to get the tire fixed for the motorcycle then they came home and got the lawn mower started. Tyler's so big! Sam let him mow almost the entire back lawn on the riding mower and he did a great job. It was his most favorite thing all week!<br />
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Spring! I love seeing the bulbs starting to peek up through the ground and knowing that soon there will be lots of pretty flowers!<br /><br />It was a bit of a rough week. I did manage to take some time to do crafts with a friend.</div>
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Friday also marked the beginning of Spring Break! We started it off with Easter festivities. We dyed eggs on Saturday.</div>
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And due to rain in the morning, the Easter Bunny hid not only the baskets but all of the eggs in the house.<br />
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The roller skates were by far the favorite item from Easter. Luckily the weather cleared up in the afternoon so the kids could gear up and try them out. They LOVE the skates. It looked like so much fun that Sam and I pulled out our roller blades for a little bit and skated with the kids too.</div>
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The puppy was my little buddy all this week, spending as much time as I could manage keeping me company while I got stuff done. At this point she likes to be by people, but she's a puppy and gets into way too many things she shouldn't so especially when I was painting I had to keep her contained. She was NOT a fan of that. I was happy to see however, that all the construction vehicles going by our house didn't phase her one bit. Once we get past the puppy stage, I think she's going to be pretty mellow.</div>
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Bambi also got her first bath here. Kaitlyn wanted to do it all herself but we knew the puppy wouldn't be cooperative (we were right - she wasn't a fan). I love that Kate is so responsible when it comes to taking care of the puppy. She makes sure the puppy is fed and has water. She takes Bambi outside for a walk as soon as her homework is done and knows to put her outside a LOT to avoid accidents in the house. Tyler is a pretty good help too, though he isn't big enough to manage the puppy much on his own.<br />
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The Kindergarten does an Easter hat parade every year at the school. The kids all get to make a fun hat then parade around the school to show it off to everyone, so we spent some time on Sunday making one for Ty. Tyler decided he wanted his to be a "fire hat" so we took that idea and ran with it. We used one of his dress up firemen hats and added some burning buildings, a "road" and some emergency vehicles. He was pretty happy with the result, and looked very cute in it!<br />
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Vacation! This past week was spent at Disney World and oh what an awesome, amazing, fantastic, very fun, welcome break from real life it was!</div>
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We drove down to Florida on Sunday, explored our pretty hotel (Port Orleans Riverside) then spent some time at Downtown Disney before our dinner reservations at Planet Hollywood. We had gone with the meal plan option and boy did we eat really really well during the vacation! (except maybe Tyler whose picky eating meant a few struggles when food came out of the kitchen different than he had expected) We had reservations for a difference fancy restaurant every day and it was so much fun.</div>
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Our first day in the parks was Monday where we experienced the Animal Kingdom. We tackled Expedition Everest first, which had Kaitlyn scared long before she even got on the ride. But the Safari was a big hit - we went on it twice and had the good luck to see the animals when they were active and right up close to the vehicle. Even the crocodiles (or alligators?) were moving around. Other highlights were the Lion King show (Disney puts on fantastic shows) and meeting the characters for lunch at Tusker House.</div>
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Tuesday was spent at the Magic Kingdom and was probably my personal favorite. There are just so many different things to see and do.</div>
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We also had a lot of fun with the characters (Dale stole Tyler's hat and really had us all laughing) and the rides. I think "Soarin" was everyone's favorite of the trip (well maybe not Sam, he likes the big rollercoasters). We also stayed for the fireworks/light show on the lake and Tyler was so tired he fell asleep as soon as we sat down on the bus ride home.</div>
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We enjoyed Hollywood Studios on Thursday, our last full day of vacation. Once again we scared the kids right out of the gate with a ride on the Tower of Terror (surprisingly Tyler disliked it more than Kaitlyn) then had some fun meeting characters, riding the rides, seeing the shows (the stunt show was amazing) and other attractions, and lunch at the fun Sci-Fi Drive in Diner. We were worn out by this time so instead of staying for the night show, we headed back to the hotel around 4 for some time in the pool.</div>
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Friday we packed up and headed home - bittersweet because we hated for the great vacation to end but exhausted and ready to spend a little time in our own spaces away from the crowds and lines.Alayna's Creationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04441954034209756170noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469890320991789421.post-81387607017823693362012-12-03T05:34:00.000-08:002012-12-27T05:34:45.967-08:002012 Week 48<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Took Kaitlyn to the allergist this week. We're still trying to figure out her allergy/asthma issues. They decided to do the skin test while we were there. Kaitlyn was scared about what that involved but was a trooper and did great. That test was negative for any allergies though so now we are pursuing the asthma angle and have started her on a new inhaler for daily meds.<br />
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When looking at the calendar with Audrey we didn't have many options for a get together before Christmas. So we decided to get the kids out of school early on Friday and meet at the zoo. It was great! The weather was perfect, we had the place almost entirely to ourselves, the kids were very engaged and having a lot of fun (instead of trying to rush us from one exhibit to another as they usually do), and the animals were very active. We got to see the new baby gorilla and the baby giraffe. And the 9 month old chimp was such fun to watch! She was climbing trees and swinging from vines and all kinds of things. We spent a good 15 minutes or so just watching her.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgauFiLKabQel-ckjxRDticCC5bx8KDDxhgvNsif3R8dtRsNRq9P16AswaoTje8BtKab1SeoZkb_MmNLbMsVqgTHiOLvZys5ERbLzIItXlTjsV9W_nPL7dvxgBFs2ee1itW8I4QY6EVAg/s1600/130.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgauFiLKabQel-ckjxRDticCC5bx8KDDxhgvNsif3R8dtRsNRq9P16AswaoTje8BtKab1SeoZkb_MmNLbMsVqgTHiOLvZys5ERbLzIItXlTjsV9W_nPL7dvxgBFs2ee1itW8I4QY6EVAg/s320/130.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>
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Every year we have Christmas Elves visit us for the month of December so they can report back to Santa if the kids are naughty or nice. They showed up right on schedule and were soon up to some crazy elf tricks - like wrapping the toilet in wrapping paper!</div>
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<span id="goog_67748477"></span><span id="goog_67748478"></span><br />Alayna's Creationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04441954034209756170noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469890320991789421.post-38023273363840701882012-11-26T10:10:00.000-08:002012-11-29T10:54:38.690-08:002012 Week 47<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Thanksgiving! Let's face it, that was what this week was all about. Prep and planning, parties at school (poor Tyler was sick on Monday and had to miss their cute little play/singing performance - I need to get a video of him giving us his own little show in full costume), cleaning, etc.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZvH7YUCQ-NBomkYfa6Zr0bOlzAzg53r5dQ8n1LpM2KbJM1DjEH8saPWMbHaFqJiOwPKtDpP4AASdOJt5-VE15QIfydGIWBzLsW-afwfhVKAdgCzsRx-4LBQXRNhPK6RpyZelzfoQ5S9M/s1600/001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZvH7YUCQ-NBomkYfa6Zr0bOlzAzg53r5dQ8n1LpM2KbJM1DjEH8saPWMbHaFqJiOwPKtDpP4AASdOJt5-VE15QIfydGIWBzLsW-afwfhVKAdgCzsRx-4LBQXRNhPK6RpyZelzfoQ5S9M/s320/001.JPG" width="320" /></a><br />As usual when it comes to big events, Sam did most of the cooking with a little help from the kids and I took care of all the behind the scenes stuff like shopping and getting the house ready, table set, etc. We had invited Stacia, Nate and their kids over for dinner and had a great time. I think we will all look forward to more celebrations together now that they live nearby.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixXrYHvhOQ8kfWL35QssPisVmPIZ6ZEAw742cS8z2mZNVJmDnUSi0gcBcPEHL71JrHN1kz8rWhtM2Ym5OUFVRJve5TYEjSUvmBOjhJwsKuxc7Hg4o60HF6TEs8Ja4MiBmcfz7CYCBSeNo/s1600/012.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixXrYHvhOQ8kfWL35QssPisVmPIZ6ZEAw742cS8z2mZNVJmDnUSi0gcBcPEHL71JrHN1kz8rWhtM2Ym5OUFVRJve5TYEjSUvmBOjhJwsKuxc7Hg4o60HF6TEs8Ja4MiBmcfz7CYCBSeNo/s320/012.JPG" width="320" /></a><br />In our house, the day after Thanksgiving is set aside for pulling out the Christmas decorations and putting up the tree. That's when we know the holidays have truly begun and we can start listening to Christmas music :) It's one of my favorite traditions.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4CkY1L4wwLCFKiNp64VoNrlWtMPFRysrdvaEgeFa9O4s1QJ4Fmk3_3wP92vc6ZGhGKq_1Ha226EVSARMW54fYgQ6W1O2hpX94lz5R4qC_BT86CEq1FHbF9vcpvpqCEOIMbCX3PC_2q0I/s1600/024.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4CkY1L4wwLCFKiNp64VoNrlWtMPFRysrdvaEgeFa9O4s1QJ4Fmk3_3wP92vc6ZGhGKq_1Ha226EVSARMW54fYgQ6W1O2hpX94lz5R4qC_BT86CEq1FHbF9vcpvpqCEOIMbCX3PC_2q0I/s320/024.JPG" width="320" /></a><br />I was amused by how excited the kids were to find the Santa hats in one of the boxes. They wore them a lot that day and Tyler in particular keeps one on his bed and put it on quite often since then. Ty was also excited for their "secret hideaway" - which translates to that little corner of space behind the couch in the corner that is only there when the tree is up and the love seat gets pushed aside. The kids love to take blankets and books and their handheld video games back there and hang out.</div>
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