Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving this year, we had lots of visitors! I love this time of year when we get to spend it with family and friends. Chris’ parents and his brother David with his family came to visit and we made a whole lot of...

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Barracks Hike

Chris came home from traveling for a month and the kids really wanted to spend more time hiking. We went to an area not too far from Glendale and hiked around a bit. Here is Peter Pan exploring the forest.  The kids...

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Glendale Apple Festival

This year I was in charge of organizing the Apple Festival in my town. I asked at a Town Council meeting what was happening with the Apple Festival this year, and was asked to form a committee and find someone to be the...

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Pioneer Day

Here is another favorite Utah holiday – Pioneer Day! Which celebrates the date that the first settlers came to Salt Lake City. Elora and Oliver were both really excited to be in the parade this year. They were supposed...

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Fourth of July Celebration

We love the fourth of July celebrations in our town! It is a fun time of year where everyone takes a day to celebrate this great country we live in. We started out at the flag raising in the morning, where Marion learned a new...

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New Kitchen Cabinets!

I already posted this picture on facebook, but these are our new kitchen cabinets. Anyone who has been to our house this year has probably wondered about or walked on our countertop that has been sitting on the ground for 8...

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Snow Day

The snow storm moved its way over to our house and we ended up with enough snow to play in!!! Yay, the first snow of the season!!! (This was a few weeks ago, now it is back to being beautiful fall weather). The first thing Oliver...

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Chimney Fun

We got a new wood burning stove insert for our house this year. We put it in and… voila! It smoked up the house so we had to buy a chimney pipe to put into our chimney. Sigh. It was starting to get cold so I got to be...

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Halloween

Halloween is a big favorite around this house. I love costumes and we have plenty of them. I always seem to make more, in spite of the huge box we already have. This year I gave myself a break from making costumes (since there...

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Park Day… and other stuff.

Chris has been working in Florida this week, so these pictures are in part to show him what the kids have been doing this week, but also the kids are just cute and I like to share with everyone the funny things they do and...

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