The Kids Make Cookies

My sister bought me Star Wars cookie cutters for my birthday and the kids were really excited to try them out, so I made some sugar cookie dough… and the kids did a really great job using the cookie cutters and had a great...

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Sea World

Here is an old post from this summer. I took the kids to Sea World while we were at my parent’s house this summer. Here is Elora showing me on the map where she wants to go first – the dolphin show! Marion was...

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Marion Playing

Marion is almost two years old, so here is a collection of pictures from the last few months of Marion playing. She is quite the fiery little personality, very sure of what she wants, and NOT happy when she does not get her way...

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Date Night

Here is a tribute to the kind of dates we go on out here in the sticks. This was during the summer when I was just a little pregnant. First we went to the dump to get rid of the excess boxes all over our house (we order a lot of...

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Moqui Cave

The kids have been asking for months to stop at Moqui Cave (a little museum on the way to Kanab), so we finally decided to take them on Labor Day since Chris got the day off work. Oliver calls it Monkey Cave. Elora spent the...

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Kidlets

This is a random post of different kid pictures that we took this summer… Oliver loves this t-shirt he got from his cousin, as well as his “treasure hunting hat”. And I don’t know why he was making that...

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Elora’s Frog Friend

This August we had TONS of rain. It seemed like it rained every day. One night Chris went outside and found a HUGE frog hopping around in our driveway. I have never seen a frog at our house and have no clue where this one came...

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Oktoberfest at Brianhead

We read about an Oktoberfest celebration in Brianhead in September, so we dressed the kids in their Austrian clothing and took them up there. As soon as they got out of the car, they ran out into the meadow to play with the...

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New Toys!

This summer I found a kitchen set complete with dishes at a yard sale for $5 so I bought it for the kids. They were SO EXCITED! It is fun to watch them all play with it together. Oliver found a broken rolling pin, and...

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