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I moved all the family posts over to my other blog at Wordpress. I'll be blogging there from now on. I just wanted to have 1 blog and I like the Wordpress blog better than blogger.The web address is: http://sarahwalstonsblog.wordpress.com

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"Mom, last night, at Aunt Mandy's house, James peed on me, and I laughed so hard...I peed in my pants!!"Claire Walston, Victim. age 3James Newberry, Perpetrator, age 2 1/2

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I've been updating the blog as time allows. In a few weeks I'll go back through and date all the entries so they are archived in the appropriate months. Seems like the blog has turned into a photo album these days, but I just don't have much time to blog like I used to. Posting photos is so much easier!The sad thing is that there are probably so many funny things that happen all the time, every

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Earlier this week I finally remembered PICASA and how much I love it and how easy it is to blog with photos when I use it! It was on my old computer which died and I hadn't put it on my new computer yet. So I downloaded Picasa and it started running, pulling all my photos on my computer into one location where I can see them all at once....and the new computer died. In a weird coincidal moment..

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I couldn't take the wood paneling anymore!!!! So I decided, on a whim, that we needed to paint the living room. Little did I know what a project that would turn into!Here is what the living room/dining area/kitchen looked like at the beginning of the project. The furnishings have all been pushed to the middle of the room.This area fairly large - I don't know the square footage of it exactly but

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As little boys....they are so adorable!! Not sure the age here at all. Love the coordinating outfits. Glad I'm not the only Mom who does that. Great minds think alike, that's for sure!!

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Royce and Shelby Walston. They look a lot like Adri and Ean Walston. Aren't they so cute?? I think Royce was about 7 or so - guessing from the teeth missing and Shelby looks about 3. They are 4 yrs apart in age.

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This morning when Claire woke up I snuggled with her. It was storming outside and she said the clouds were noisy and they scarred her! So we laid in bed for a while just snuggling. We were talking about this and that and she is just so cute - she really just melts my heart when we spend time together. I was feeling really thankful to have her and so I asked her if I could say a blessing over her.

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Oh she's so cute!!!Here's Amory in the ballet room -watching and wanting to doeverything Big Sister Alaina is doing!The big girls were getting ready for their Parent Dayand Amory was in fine form! SO CUTE!!!

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Me and my girls.These girls all survived their first year of ballet. Some girls didn't make it all the way to the end of the year for different reasons. We definitely had a "curse of the recital" case going on - in May 1 girl broke her ankle, 1 girl stepped on a caterpillar and her foot was sore for 2 weeks, and 1 little one sprained her ankle! It was really something!The little ones on the

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Today was the last day of ballet for this school year. Hannah's class learned a 2 minute choreographed ballet that we presented to their parents at the studio we rent for classes. As a gift to the girls, I bought them all very girly tutus that I found at Toys R Us for $5.00 each! That is by far the cheapest recital costume EVER! Ha! I wanted to keep Parent Day very simple so the girls would

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...jiggity jog.But there's no time toJiggity Blog!We arrived late last night and went to bed ASAP....which meant another night of not getting to bed until midnight! The only problem with that really was that I had to be up at 5:45 to take Hannah in for another MRI. This time of her brain. (Yes, I have the films and yes, I am going to post them later! I haven't seen them yet but I bet they are

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On the shores of Lake Michigan in Evanston, Il.

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We celebrated Claire's 3rd birthday while in Chicago. I can't believe I gave my 3 yr old a birthday lunch at the American Girl Store. Good grief. What's next year... a trip to Tahiti?? Hey...well...I guess I'd be game for that actually!!

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Yeah.... both "girls" got the Spa Treatment at the American Girl Store!The dolls got a makeover at the American Girl Store! The top photo is Kirsten. They put her hair back the way it came originally. Thank Goodness. It was lookin' really bad! And Chloe, Alaina's doll, is shown getting the spa treatment. Note the hair band they put around the doll's head while they do the facial and body scrub!

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Hee hee... at the American Girl Store they had hooks in the bathroom stalls so you could hang your doll up while you took care of personal business. I guess I should have turned Kirsten's head the other way though!! HA!

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Hannah was hiding but it's still a cute photo! We enjoyed a fantastic lunch at the American Girl Store in Chicago! They have a cafe on the top floor of their 3 floor building! It was so wonderful and the girliest lunch I've ever had! We had a lot of fun.

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Today we flew in to Chicago, Il. It's our first family vacation since Adri was 18 months old, when we went to Galveston for an extended weekend trip. It's also our first trip anywhere outside of Texas with children. Last time Royce and I were outside the stateline was on our honeymoon 11 yrs ago! We've traveled a lot with all the kids - but never farther than Dallas. And even then, we've only

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Right before we left for Chicago we celebrated Adri's 10th birthday. He's getting too big. I can't believe it's already been a decade! WOW! He saved every penny of his birthday money and spent every penny of it at the Lego Store in Chicago!!

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The girls helped me make a peanut butter chocolate silk pie that we shared with the Clayton family. Uh...sorry...I forgot to have the girls wash their hands first.... oops...my bad....HAHAHA JUST KIDDING!!!

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Look what we found roaming around our sunroom!!! A baby oppossum. Too bad Royce wouldn't let us keep him as a family pet. I think he looks kinda cuddly and sweet!!

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My friend sent me this website earlier today and I'm about to go spend some more time reading through every single link. I think this may be the direction we go in the fall. I want to really commit this to prayer. I tend to just jump in and think, "Oh yes, that's definitely what God wants for us!!" And then it backfires because I acted first and asked later. Isnt' that what I'm ALWAYS spending

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I will be coming back to this list over time. I spent a good chunk of time at the Library the other day picking out new readers for my newest reader. Ean has finally shown an interest in learning to read. Of course it all revolves around earning money, thanks to a local summer reading fest, but whatever works!We use a KJV Bible that is in large type with pronunciation guide so my new readers can

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Hannah Walston...in deep thought about the strategy for the next quarter... ha! She's so cute!

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Milestone moment coming up: Adri has now entered the land of ORTHODONTICS!! He's very excited, too. He wanted me to blog about it because it is a milestone, a passage way into being a real, live, teenager. This has been a really exciting day for Adri, and I'm super proud of him. He's going to be the best orthodontic patient our dentist has ever had! He even made sure to ask for a mouth guard so

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Today in the car on the way to church, Claire and Hannah were reading Brown Bear, Brown Bear and Claire got to the page with the sheep and she said, "Black sheep, black sheep, what do you see?" And Hannah said, "I see a goldfish looking at me!" Claire turned the page and said, "Goldfish don't talk!"As if it were totally plausible that all the other animals in the book could really talk, except

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Funny Photos From Christmas I Found on Mandy's Computer!Wonder what kind of trouble Josh was causing! And I wonder what was in whatever drink I had been sipping on! Hee hee... we need some funny captions for this photo. Any creative thoughts??Gramcy has turned away from the Dark Side. HAHAHA Of course Dad is lovin' it. He's reliving his youth...again. He lived to the fullest in his youth. He

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Found this photo on my sister's computer. This was from December - family movie night at Aunt Mandy's! Josiah is missing from the photo - isn't this great though? Between the two of us we have 9 children under the age of 11. We stay busy that's for sure!I'll leave this on the front page for a few days and then date it appropriately and it will be archived in December 2006! Dec. 10, 2006

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There is this fantastic face painter at "our" Chik Fil A on Tuesday nights during "Kids Night". The children love getting their faces painted and every time we go, they pick new designs for their faces. And then they really get into character! My favorite thing about it all is after dinner, taking them to the grocery store, or shopping, and watching other people's reactions to their faces! The

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These photos were taken in February. We finally went to the zoo after a long break. The Zoo is one of our favorite places to hang out with the kids. There's always something fun going on at the Zoo - between their animals and my animals....it's never a dull moment!We have so many photos of the kids in these little "photo ops" from the past 6 years of living in San Antonio. It'll be fun one day

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...Most Pathetic Blogger....LOL! Sorry - I just haven't had time to sit down and blog. Seriously - I still have photos on my camera from before Thanksgiving. I just haven't had time to mess with it!!One night I sat down and was going to "get caught up" and it was taking blogger FOREVER to upload photos...so I gave up and found something else to do.But here's some updates on our family for the 5

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Things I'm giving up in 2007.Laundry DutiesBathroom Cleaning DutiesFloor Care (sweeping, vacuuming, mopping)Dishwasher Duties (loading and unloading)Dusting FurnitureCleaning BaseboardsStarting tomorrow, the children are taking over those household chores.HAPPY NEW YEARS TO MEHAPPY NEW YEARS TO MEHAPPY NEW YEARS TO MEEEEEEEEHAPPY NEW YEARS TO ME!:)

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Coming this week!!Family UpdatesPhotosThanksgivingHannah's BirthdayChristmasStay Tuned ... hopefully I'll have time to upload every evening!

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I love having this blog but it's too time consuming. I may pick it back up in the next year, when things slow down. For now, it's going offline.See you all around!

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Happy Birthday, Ean!Today you turned SEVEN years old! I'm having a hard time with this you know. You can't possibly be SEVEN already! When did this happen? Just yesterday you were my wrinkly, pink, squishy newborn.I have to say it now. I hate that children grow up so fast. Don't worry, it's not personal - all mother's feel this way!We continued our new tradition of letting the birthday person

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This week we started working on our lapbooks again. If you don't know what a lapbook is, just google the word and you will instantly be overwhelmed with the amount of information you can find on the web. If you are like me, you will also instantly shut down the idea of entertaining such activities.Thankfully, I have a local resource who is so knowledgeable about how to go about making lapbooks

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A short recap from the games last weekend:Ean scored FOUR GOALS at the last soccer game! GO EAN!! He is at least a head taller than any other 7 yr old on his team - and he is the youngest I think! LOL!Hannah, in her true form, stood on the field .... refused to play and refused to let someone come in for her. That's my girl! I'd have done the same thing. In fact, I remember quite clearly simply

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A few weeks ago I went in the backyard to play with the kids. I immediately spotted a small garden snake in the grass and excitedly directed the children's attention to it. Claire was so excited! She asked, "I hold it? Help catch it?" (She asks this about any and every animal she sees these days - it's totally cute!) So Ean grabbed a cup that was sitting on the back porch and Adri brought me a

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Found these at the thrift store. The girls have worn them AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE for the past two weeks. They run all over the house and yard in them. I think it's hilarious. They are girls. They have that right.I have to admit - it's FUN having girls! I used to pray that I'd be the mother of boys ONLY. SO glad He saw differently. I never thought I'd be happy about having girly-girls...but

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Here's Royce's Debut Video as an up and coming rap star. It's G rated... don't worry!! He is actually going to perform this for his co-workers and bosses tomorrow.... what a nut!

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Amory and Claire are becoming best of friends! Every Thursday, Mandy and Mom and I spend our entire day together with all the children. The little girls have finally made a real connection as friends and it's absolutely precious. Seeing each other on a regular basis has been really good for everyone - we enjoy having the Newberry's over every Thursday. Thursdays are really our hardest day - but

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Wow, I finally had time to sit down and tweak up the family blog. Blogger has come a long way from the first time I wrote my first blog post MANY MOONS ago. (That blog died a long time ago, so don't bother looking for it!)Tomorrow I'm going to upload new photos, stories, etc. We've been so busy - not much time for blogging!:)

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On Saturday, September 16th, Royce's employer provided the local employees and their families to spend the day at Sea World! Complete with private animal encounters, lots of free goodies, and a catered lunch! What a treat! We didn't take very many pictures, but here are a few of the fun ones that we did capture.All of Claire, of course. Actually, the other kids had a good time - but Claire was so

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Funny baby faces are one of my favorite things!Josiah definitely takes the cake though. At a mere 3 months of age he is smiling, cooing, trying to talk to you and genuinely enjoying the life God has given him. He's such a joy!Here he is with his Ya-Ya hamming it up for the camera! Adri's snapping the photos!

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In preparation for putting the house back on the market, Royce power washed the concrete and rock facing on the house. It looks really nice and clean again. The rocks were really dirty and covered in algae in some places. But the sidewalk looks AMAZING! I LOVE power washers! I wish I could have one for inside the house!! LOL!I realize to that most of my reading audience this is a pretty boring

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Ok WHAT is she doing in this photo?? This is hilarious! She looks like she's performing The Dying Swan ballet or something!! Ean snapped this photo!

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After a very long summer without any measurable rain...it finally poured!! So, naturally, I let the kids go outside and play in it. They had a blast and I had a good solid hour of peace and quiet while I worked to clean up the garage. It was fantastic. Thank you God for the rain!

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I just wanted to post these so there is verifiable proof that I actually DO have my children do school work. HAHAHAHA!Adri has worked very hard to finish his 1st math work book through Math U See. It's like 400 pages long, or something ridiculous, so obviously it could take awhile depending on how diligently one worked through the book. Anyway...he took the final test yesterday! GOOOOO Adri!!Ean

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The kids are all so excited!Adri, Ean and Hannah are all playing soccer this fall. We started practices tonight. Adri gets his own team, Royce is coaching Ean's team and I, yes...you read that right, I am coaching Hannah's team.Our kids are SOOO cute! Hannah's team is so precious. Each one of them. And Royce's team is really great - the kids really want to play the game. The parents are all

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You can get one for your blog HERE.

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I can't believe it's taken me THIS LONG to update the family blog. We've just been so busy doing a whole lot a nothin' excitin' ... so there hasn't been much to blog about. However, I'm uploading photos from my digital camera right not to my computer and will be updating this blog, in chronological order! I bet you can't wait!All 2 of you.

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Each one of them has done this now... it must be required for the baby album??For more Wordless Wednesday posts, visit here or here. And go check out Grafted's!

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I love this photo. I love the look on Josiah's face. Hannah talks about her "baby cousin" all the time. She really is in love! The way she and Claire act with Josiah make me want to have another baby just for them! But ... it's a passing feeling!! As soon as one of them starts crying or fussing or fighting my stress levels skyrocket and I quickly return to the reality of BEING DONE for now

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Tonight we took the kids to Chick Fil A for dinner. It just happened to be kids night. Kids eat free on Tuesdays w/a paid adult meal. Pretty cool. They also had a face painter there and she did a GREAT job on the kids faces! I have some really cute individual shots, but Blogger and Mozilla aren't getting along right now. Will update later....Claire was enamored with her butterfly. The boys were

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Claire got stung by a bee in the armpit today at the park. In a freak accident, the bee flew under her arm at the exact moment Claire was lowering it, trapping the bee. The bee stung her, immediately, but sadly succumbed to his fate when she inadvertently decapitated him. What was left in her armpit was the abdomen of the bee with his stinger in her armpit. My Mom had to PULL the bee out of

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One of my favorite things to do, when I've not planned the week's menu very well, is to resort to having breakfast for dinner. Royce thinks it's totally goofy - but the kids think it's hilarious! It's THEIR favorite kind of dinner! I guess Royce never had pancakes for dinner. Personally, I think I could have homemade biscuits topped with buttery scrambled eggs and sausage gravy for every meal!So

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It's summer. And that means lots of park days. But that means park days at 8am because by 10am it's just TOO HOT to be outside! I kept James last night so we got up first thing this morning and took them to the park...mostly to wear him out! And it worked. He took a 3 hour nap!! LOL!I love this photo. Very Cute.Going down the slide, Claire Style.James wanted to ride the scooter so Adri helped

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Took the girls to Firehouse Subs tonight and had a great time spending time with them! Here's Hannah in her new "Big Girl" car seat. Or "har set" as she calls it. She's very proud of it!The ponies go everywhere with us. They are an important part of our family.Claire Walston. 2 going on 30.

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Claire used the potty all by herself. #1 and #2. GO CLAIRE GO!I helped her off the potty and we flushed the potty.Then I got called to the other room.Next thing I know, Claire is coming out of the bathroom with her hands...and arms...wet and she tells my Gramcy (my Mom), "I washed my hands!"Gramcy says, "Um, Sarah, did you help her wash her hands?"Me: "No, not yet, why?....Claire...did you wash

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I think I'm going to start crying.Nope...I just DID start crying.Here's what just happened. And only a mother will be able to relate.I just said, "I'm going to go ahead and read the next chapter, ok?"Adri says, "Okay!"and then...Adri: "Mom, did you hear that? When I said 'OK' my voice cracked and I said part of it deeper. I don't know why it did that. I didn't do that."Me: "No, I didn't hear it.

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Today was such a beautiful day. It was only 102 this afternoon, and so I got a "hankering" to finally do a LITTLE landscaping.Here's the area I wanted to clean up and do something with. I've been thinking about this for a few years actually and I knew I wanted to plant antique roses. I just didn't know what kind, what color, what breed, etc. We are also going to repaint the house a lovely shade

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This was really easy.I just really sweetly asked Royce for a shovel. Then I tried, with all my might, to break ground. Then looked at him most pathetically and said, "I'm just doing something totally wrong I guess..."And that was that.He took over.What a sweet hubby.I love this photo. We are all down there, working together. The boys were in the street riding their bikes. My favorite times as a

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"Mom, if there was an ant in the cup - it's OK, because I've eaten an ant before and not been killed!"Ean - after drinking some water from a cup at the park that had a suspected ant in it.

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It's that time of year again!!105 Degree Weather.Water Park Adventures.Stage One Drought Restrictions.Early Morning Park Days.Early Evening Bike Rides.Sunscreen Lathered Children.Freckles and Sun Bleached Hair.Frozen Apple Juice Popsicles. (Actually, I haven't done that this year...note to self...)Car Interiors turning into Convection Ovens.Mandatory Summer BBQ-ing (to keep the house cool!)The

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Here is baby Ean. He is sitting in Hannah's baby doll high chair, chewing on a string of some sort and wearing Claire's summer hat.THAT'S MY BOY! And for the record....HE asked me to photograph and blog this!!

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In July, we started studying about Neil Armstrong using the "Beyond Five In a Row" curriculum I'm borrowing from HeartsDesire. Part of the curriculum called for the boys to build balsa wood airplanes like Neil did when he was a boy. So I bought them a couple and we had a great time putting them together and trying them out. Presently, one is stuck in the tree...but ... at least they were less

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ABC'sHannah and Claire practicing their ABC's.

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"...oh...oh," Adri says, in a shockingly disgusted sort of way. Then, in true Adri form, "Well, do I get extra money for my tooth since I ate it?"He was eating a tootsie roll and it came out and he thought he swallowed it with the tootsie roll! He later realized that he actually didn't swallow it...but it was definitely a funny moment!!

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...we made the 5 o'clock news!!Check it out! Ean told me that there was glass on the playscape - but turned out, it wasn't glass...it was MERCURY!What a long day! But hey...we made the news...so at least we got THAT checked off our "30 things to do before we die" list.(And no, we don't really have a morbid list like that.)

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I've decided to simply link to the blogs of people I actually know or have a personal connection with. No offense to anyone.

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This has to be the single biggest MESS my kids have ever created. A few days after Josiah was born I kept Alaina and Emma for an overnight stay. My children had received a Discovery Kids Detective Kit which contained Fingerprint Detection Powder.Here's a tip to ALL OF YOU - if your kids EVER receive one of these kits, throw the fingerprint powder away IMMEDIATELY.This black stuff, whatever it was

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Today, as a nation, we join together to celebrate our 230th Birthday! In honor of our country, my sister and her husband decided to present to our great nation one of it's newest home-grown Americans! Presenting...on his Fourth of July Debut....my newest nephew! (I have even heard that the whole country's gonna shoot fireworks tonight to celebrate his arrival! Ha! I know - that was super cheezy

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Me, Hannah and Josiah. One-Eyed "Joe"

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Ean found a miniature hockey puck the other day and wanted to play hockey. So, on Monday, the boys set up a hockey playing field on the back patio. Too funny!! They played for HOURS! They had so much fun. It was all their own ideas - the area, the "hockey sticks", the goals they fashioned. I was so proud of them!All their normal toys are packed up right now while we have been decluttering and

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Last year we acquired an old, upright piano. It was a Cable-Nelson, built around 1915. It was really pretty - but in really bad shape. The previous owners had put $600 worth of work into it, but it still needed lots of work. I had estimates of repair anywhere from $340 - $1000. It just wasn't worth it in my opinion. We could buy a new piano for that!Long story short - the Cable Nelson was sold

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This past Saturday we had a garage sale. We didn't really have that much to get rid of, but my Mom did and she really NEEDED to have the yard sale. It went well - we had a good day - even if we did get rained on. We had prepared ahead and Royce enclosed the back porch with painters drop cloth, so we stayed dry during the sale.We didn't make much money - but we had a good day spending time with

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Well, she chopped it up pretty good. Friend was gracious enough to help me fix it. I'm not very good at trimming Hannah's hair - much less shaping it up after a near catastrophe. Friend gave her girls really cute bob's for the summer, so I was confident in her abilities. Never the less, it was still a Two Mama job. Here I am holding the hair out of Friend's way so she can trim the bottom

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Yes....this happened after the hike on Wednesday! SO... I heard Hannah in the bathroom today. I heard the toilet flush and thought, "Oh that's weird. She just went to the restroom 5 minutes ago. Oh well...at least she's using the potty!" And I carried on with whatever insignificant task I was working at. I remember thinking to myself that she had been in the bathroom a long time, even after the

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Today we enjoyed an early morning hike with Friend and her 3 girls. It was an unusually cool Texas Summer Morning and the hike was Gloooorious, as Two might have said. (I begged her to say it, but she wouldn't, so I'll just have to imagine it.)We circled the base and then climbed to the top of the Comanche Lookout Hill. This is one of my favorite places to take the kids on a hike because most of

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Mandy (36 weeks preggo with #5 - a boy): "What do you think of the name 'Josiah'?"Emma (her 2nd born, 4 1/2yo): "Hmm...I can't say that name. I'll just call him 'I'."

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Today the kids participated in a bicycle race put on by some cycling club here. The "race" is open to any child age 4 and up who can ride a bicycle and has a helmet. The children have to take 1 lap and at the end of the lap they each get a medal. The boys participated in the "race" last year and this year Hannah got to ride too. There will be another race in August I think - if you want me to

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This week the kids have been participating in the Vacation Bible School hosted by the First Baptist Church of Universal City. (Our church doesn't have VBS or any kind of children's ministry.) We participated last year and the kidshave eagerly awaited VBS again this year. This year, though, FBC was putting on a "VBS in your Neighborhood" program. They actually ran the entire VBS program in

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Ean moved up to Adri's bike and Adri moved up to MY bike. Here they are riding to VBS. I can't believe how big they are now. Sniff...sniff...Boys on Bikes Pt. 2 will be posted later tonight. At 6:45pm the boys are competing in a bicycle race. I bet they win. But then again, I'm biased.  

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Last night Claire brought me her baby to show me what she had done. It wasn't SO bad..there were just a few black marks around the baby's lips. I kind of giggled, then told Claire, "You shouldn't have done that! Poor baby!" But really, who cares!Then I found the baby laying on the floor....and she had been annihilated. Claire even wrote on her feet!! Poor baby doll. Good thing she was only $4 at

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Tonight I took Ean to the grocery store with me. He told me a few days ago that he doesn't get to spend enough time with us by himself, so we are carving it out here and there and it's been a blessing for us all. I'm glad he could tell us what he needed. He's such a sweet heart. We had a good time in the car together there and back and even stopped at Sonic for a drink before hitting HEB. He

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Hannah has a lot of hair. She always has. When she was 4 months old, she required her first hair cut. Funny to remember that she was born with a full head of black, curly hair, and now it is "straight as a board" blonde. I used to cut it short because there's this one section of hair in the back that stays matted up all the time. It's so weird. But it's easier to just comb it out and pull the

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I do not measure a child's scholastic ability by their age. Children are born natural learners and I think institutionalized learning (public or private schools) interrupts their God-given ability to grown and learn in the likeness of the Lord, at HIS appointed time - not when a standardized test says s/he ought to know how to do something. I'm not opposed to testing students in the upper grades

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It may be a little hard to see him - but he's there - a real live woodpecker attacking our tree! Pretty cool, huh?? He comes around every now and then - I'll try and get a better photograph next time. 

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During school time I try and find things the little girls can do while the boys are working on their stuff. Today we got out the links that we bought for a math curriculum a few yrs ago. The curriculum has long since been sold or given away - but the links remain! Ean, who was supposed to be working on something other than decorating Claire, decided to make her a crown, necklace and bracelet.

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The boys were so willfull today during school time. Finally, I had enough. I take it personally when they don't obey me during school time. It's disrespectful and rude. Basically, it came down to the fact that they were not willing to just obey me and do as I ask.So...I resorted to making them sit down at the table and write out "I must obey." 26 times for Adri and 13 times for Ean. They

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So much has been going on i haven't had time to sit down and blog our weekly activities yet - I'm in shock that it's already Saturday.I was supposed to go see Tricia this weekend and teach a class for her - but Hannah broke out in Chicken Pox yesterday and I think Claire may have them, too. I figured that the LAST THING Tricia wanted me to bring her was Chicken Pox, so we are going to reschedule

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Royce found this snake, a Texas Night Snake, in the front yard. Actually on the front porch.We actually think this was a female because there was an open slit on it's tail where it could have been laying eggs. Now that would be cool to find and observe!!Royce brought the snake in for the kids to see. they were already in bed. The boys said he was very very stinky but I was on benadryl that night

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This is gonna be the ants' last happy meal!!!Actually, it actually won't be the ants last happy meal - it will be the ants last mean meal!(As quoted by Ean, who said we should photograph this and blog about it!!)In the photo above, the ants are dining on a scrumptious dinner of boric acid and honey! When we retrieved our couches from the storage shed today, we found that they were infested with a

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This Memorial Day Weekend we will begin the ardurous task of moving all our junk back home from the storage shed. We were REALLY EXCITED to move all the junk to storage because we thought we'd be moving it out of storage and INTO a nice big spacious home.You have no idea how unmotivated we are to actually bring it all back home. I guess the good thing is we found out how much of our stuff we

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For living in the city - we seem to have a lot of urban wildlife in our backyard! I guess they know they are loved here! Again, I must reiterate. I love animals. When they are in their natural element. I don't care to actually OWN any of them. I am teaching my children to enjoy God's gift of animals - but we aren't going to own a pet of any kind for quite a few years!Anyway - this is kind of

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We love our new library. There are some quirky things about it - but, like a good friend said, hey...we can't have everything the way we see fit! Our new library has a playground for the kids, it's built on the side of a hill for hiking which you can access from the library, it has a patio for reading books outside, facing the big hill so you feel like you are not in the city - if only for just a

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