tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16377321673850096642024-03-19T01:06:39.086-07:00The TanK TimesTrent and Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01279513269252669235noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1637732167385009664.post-40777088282988570552012-11-02T15:54:00.001-07:002012-11-02T15:54:42.522-07:00Essay about Housework and Teaching our Children to Work<div>
So I’ve gotten so many responses about my cleaning lady question (a couple months ago, I asked various family members if they had a lot of friends that had cleaning ladies regularly come and clean their homes--I was quite surprised to find in my area, it is the new normal for most stay-at-home moms even, to hire cleaning ladies at least twice a month) , it’s
prompted me to write a short essay. I am not sending this to everyone in the
family. I don’t have the energy to deal with possibly offending anyone. And
just so you know, I did already send it to mom and dad and Sorbes. In fact,
much of my response is because of some very thought-provoking points and
questions that Chris brought up. (And just so you know he totally agrees with
making your kids work hard—his point was HE didn’t want to have to do the gritty
work—which he had very valid arguments supporting.)</div>
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“I guess for me it’s not so much an economic issue as it is a character
one. I believe that work sanctifies us. I had a class at BYU (Yes, I know—here I
go!) that taught how imperative our daily rituals of work are—for the stability
of our home, and the stability of our children. In order to raise responsible,
independent, helpful, conscientious adults, we have to teach them to work. And
do the ugly jobs, too. (And I’m sure you were raised this way.) If all we ever
made our kids do is pick up their rooms, and run the vacuum through it, they’ll
never learn HOW to do much of anything else. And someday their wives will
quietly wonder at their mother-in-laws and think, “why, oh why, didn’t you teach
your son how to clean a toilet or scrub the inside of an oven?” (Just as a
disclaimer, I am not referring to Trent here!) The moms in our ward that have
cleaning ladies have justified the maids because they say things like, “oh, I
still make my kids clean up their own rooms!” </div>
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Now, I know I’m preaching to the choir on this. You guys make your kids
suffer every Saturday morning and do lots of chores. And that’s great. I’ve
actually been quite slacking in this lately, and I’ve been inspired to stop
doing so much cleaning around here!</div>
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When is it okay to cross over to the dark side and have someone help you
around the house other than your children? I think it’s when you personally know
that you have taught them how to work hard and get a job done well (and they’re
older), and when extenuating circumstances enter a family. Or when they’re
teenagers and are truly working their tails off trying to ace AP classes, hold
down a part-time job, participate in choirs and bands, and other extracurricular
activities. However I was involved in all those things, and I remember every
Saturday growing up, still having to sign up for our chores and complete them
before anything fun could be done. I didn’t like Saturday chores at all. But I
know one thing—I sure as heck enjoyed my time afterwards, and felt much greater
satisfaction in being lazy and/or having fun knowing how hard I worked all
morning. Somehow, it makes the pleasurable activities, even more pleasurable.
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Also, when kids don’t have to do chores (the hard, gritty chores), then
they don’t take ownership or pride in their belongings—in other words—their own
house or yard or anything inside of it. When you know you’re the one that’s
going to have to clean that bathroom sink on Saturday, you’re going to be much
more careful on how haphazardly you spit out that toothpaste each night. It
builds awareness and selflessness--which can be transferred into all areas of
life—most importantly, relationships. </div>
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Let’s compare it to how we wash our cars. We wash our own cars about 75% of
the time. The other 25% of the time, because of lack of time, or weather being
too uncooperative, or whatever, I’m willing to fork over $10 for a nice wash.
And it feels great. I just saved us an hour or more’s worth of time! However,
when we do pay to get it washed, I always feel like we need to wash it ourselves
the next couple of times. (I know, I’m weird.) The kids help me. We make a big,
fun time out of it. They like it—but not all the time because I make them scrub
really hard for a long time before we turn the hose back on. They’ve learned
something. It’s all about what you value. Do you value your money? Do you value
your time? (Most people might say time is more precious than money because it’s
usually a more scarce commodity). Or do you value lessons to be taught?
Character to be refined and the satisfaction of a job well done? </div>
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You might be thinking (or not—what do I know?) that those same lessons can
be learned in building something great and profitable out of nothing (like a
business). I’m not going to argue about that. That’s valid. I just happen to
think that because of the way my emotions run (and heaven knows I have a lot of
those), then for me, I find greater satisfaction in looking to my future and
thinking things like, “it’s okay if my kids have to do their own chores every
week until they leave home.” I really don’t have an ultimate goal of never being
able to look after my own clothes, my own home, my own belongings. For me, it’s
about ownership. </div>
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Let me share a little quote I’ve had on my fridge for the past two
years:</div>
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“Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument
of our service to one another and to God. A consecrated life is filled with
work, sometimes repetitive, sometimes <em>menial</em>, sometimes unappreciated,
but always work that improves, orders, sustains, lifts, ministers, and aspires.”
Elder Christofferson. Nov. 2010 Ensign.</div>
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One could argue that work literally brings us closer to God. Now, I’m sure
you agree with me on that. I know you can still teach your kids really valuable
life lessons in things like how to perfectly balance an Excel Spreadsheet with
all financial details shown. Making them come along with you on a sales pitch,
and making them do it too, when they’re older. However, there is value in
physical labor, that the world doesn’t really recognize anymore as valuable.
When we push our bodies and make them do physical things (I think I sweat more
sometimes washing our windows outside than going for a run), it consecrates us
in ways that no other type of work can. </div>
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The Savior washed his disciples feet because he wanted to <em>do</em>
something that was ordinarily done by humble servants. He showed his humility.
The daily work of feeding, clothing, and cleaning up after each other (because
the whole family is involved), has the power to transform us spiritually while
we transform others physically. It is only through humbling work that helps us
acknowledge our interdependence, and encourages us to sacrifice “self” for the
good of the whole. </div>
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I don’t think I ever want to be sitting outside watching (or even playing
with) my kids while they kick a ball around because someone cleaned my house so
we don’t have to. (Of course if we went and played ball together as a family
after we did all the work together, then I’m all for that!) The lessons they can
learn while doing housework together as a family are irreplaceable and not
something I’m willing to give up. It has little to do with money, and more to do
with what you feel are the most important lessons we can teach our kids. </div>
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Now, I’m not going to say “No, I never, ever want a maid someday!” Of
course I would—I’m not going to deny that! However, something would start to
grate under my skin after awhile, and I know I would lose something in the pride
you can only get from working hard and teaching my children to work harder. You
know what my dream would be, though? To have someone come in every quarter, and
do a serious deep-cleaning. I’m talking toothpicks along my baseboards. </div>
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But only for a special occasion— like, the greatest Mother’s Day present
ever! </div>
Trent and Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01279513269252669235noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1637732167385009664.post-25796511041873599072012-10-28T22:33:00.000-07:002012-10-28T22:33:24.700-07:00Long Hiatus and Choir HeartachesIt's been several months since I've posted last, which is strange for me. I felt for awhile that since I write a pretty detailed "family letter" to my closest family members about once a month, that that should cover things pretty well. And lately, I've been posting more pictures on Facebook.<br />
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So the blog went by the wayside. But I've realized something recently. I like keeping a journal. It's kind of crucial for me. My whole life I've kept extensive journals. You can see the entire bottom shelf of a large bookshelf in my bedroom to prove it. But writing by hand is just kind of stinky nowadays. I mean, who does that anymore? Okay, honestly, I still DO keep a journal that I hand write and once every 2 or 3 months I pull it out and update any major changes or big milestones that have happened in those few months. But writing down your thoughts that sparingly just doesn't heal my soul the way that writing in a weekly journal used to. I've got too many things swimming around in my brain, and it will make me so much happier when I get things off my chest regularly. <br />
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So I have to post today about how my ward calling is slowly making me crazy. I've heard it said that if you're not enjoying you're ward calling, you're doing it wrong. So, I admit it, I'm probably doing it all wrong. Maybe by writing my feelings out, I'll be able to discover what I'm doing wrong. I'm not worried about people even reading this blog (especially in my ward) because I don't advertise too much when I post things, nor have I told many people that I even have this blog.<br />
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So what is "it"? I'm the ward choir director. It's the only calling I can think of that you are abosolutely, 100% up to the mercy of others for it to even remotely go smoothly. (Notice I said smoothly, not perfectly, or great, etc.) With other callings in the church, you are not put up on the stand monthly in front of the entire ward, and expected to perform a spiritual, musically-uplifting, wonderful song. And all this at the mercy of others. It does not matter how much I practice. Or if I've honed my conducting skills, or even if I can sing or not. Not of that matters. All that matters is how many people actually attend practices to support you. Lately, I have had very few people attending ward choir practice. I don't see how this is supposed to fulfill the previously-mentioned requirements. Now here is my point of perhaps I am doing my calling all wrong. I am somewhat of a musical perfectionist and want our stuff to actually sound good. Like, really good. I don't want people to think, "oh, okay, here's comes another ward choir performance. Yea." I think it's really okay to try and excel and make people say, "wow, that was a really great performance today!" Other things we do in the church, we are told to do our best and excel at our callings--do everything possible to make it your best. So, why, when it comes to ward choirs, are we sometimes told to "dumb it down" for the choir or to do songs that won't take too much work? Do we "dumb down" our RS Lessons? Do we "dumb down" our Ward activities or RS Meetings? Heavens, no. Imagine the critique you would receive.<br />
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And to put it in perspective of how stressful it is to completely rely on others to make your calling work, think of what it would mean if you were trying to give a talk in Sacrament Meeting or give a lesson to a bunch of kids, and the only way it would be a success is if you had to ask 10-15 people to come up and say a few sentences each and that would be your talk or lesson. No matter how much preparation or prayers you put into it. Now I'm sure you might be thinking, well what about service activities or set-up committees. You have to rely on others for those things! Sure, BUT (and this is a BIG BUT), if no one shows up, guess what!! You can still do it! You can clean the whole church. You can plan the whole activity. You can bake all the treats for Scouts. Sure, you'll probably be pretty upset about it, but you can still just do it all yourself! With choir, there is NO WAY I can sing soprono, alto, tenor, and bass all alone and make it into a ward choir!! It doesn't matter. It's all about those others. Now one could argue that, "sure, you can do better prep! Serve breakfast at your choir practices! Call peoples' houses weekly and peronally invite them!" "Beg people if you have to!" Well, I do send personal emails weekly, and when I'm particularly nervous, I do make personal phone calls. I've personally invited wives to please allow their husbands, who have great voices to come to choir. I've personally delivered music to peoples' houses the week of a performance because rehearsal attendance has been too sparse. I have begged. It's actually getting kind of demeaning in a way. I'm tired of inviting the same people. I'm tired of feeling like every week I have to beg in the announcement bulletin to get people to come. I have not served breakfast at my house for choir. Mostly because I have a 1200 square foot house with no room for choir, and 3 young kids, oh yeah, and I don't have a real piano, not to mention I certainly couldn't afford to feed a bunch of people every sinlge week. Trent and I have come to this conclusion: For 95% of people out there that actually can sing pretty decently, they just plain don't want to spend an hour each week, in addition to church, to come to choir practice. And no amount of inviting or begging is ever going to change that. It's like that book that came out a few years ago, "He's Just Not That Into You," For choir, it would be, "They're Just Not That Into Choir." And then there's the blessed regulars that come 75% of the time. It's those people and only those 6 or 7 that make it work. Without those blessed souls, I would literally have nothing. So I guess I should just stop complaining, and praise those very few that come, and not worry that our Christmas program is not going to be a grand, stirring thing because our numbers are so small. Everyone wants an amazing Christams program with emotional, powerful music about Christ, yet hardly anyone is willing to make it happen. Please, entertain me! Make me feel the spirit! Yes, I love Christmas Music! Just don't ask me to participate!! I want to take naps on Sunday afternoon. I have something else I have to go to that night--I couldn't possibly attend something for an hour in the afternoon, too! <br />
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Okay, just so my whole post isn't so negative, I've included some recent pictures, too!<br />
This one is me with Trent and mom and dad after my San Diego Interfaith Choir and Orchestra Concert.<br />
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This is me (on the right) with two girlfriends in the choir. These are people that yes, actually really like going to choir practices!! (And the one next to me is the choir director in her ward.)<br />
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These are pictures from the Miramar Air Show that we attended on October 13 when mom and dad were in town. <br />
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Trent took this "paparazzi" shot after I came out of that airplane with the girls. Mom's in the background.<br />
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The Blue Angels in flight. Pretty cool stuff!!<br />
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Mom and Dad treated us to Claim Jumper after the air show. Yum!!<br />
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This was one day last week (October 17) when it was 80 degrees at the beach, so I took Sophie to the beach while the kids were in school! <br />
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She totally did this pose all on her own. She thought she was pretty hot stuff!!<br />
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The girls wanted to be matching witches for Halloween. Hailey told me they couldn't be princesses or brides anymore because Halloween was suppoed to be scary and they need to be "scary."<br />
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Sophie pretending to be a big kid and go to preschool. (That only lasted 2 weeks. Since she's only 3, I pulled her out after 2 weeks because she was having a really hard time going and would cry at night about it, and begged to just "stay home with mommy.")<br />
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Hailey lost BOTH her front teeth only a couple weeks after she started kindergarten.<br />
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Cory started 3rd Grade and Hailey started Kindergarten.<br />
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Cory in his football uniform after his first game with the Rancho Bernardo Broncos. They won!<br />
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Sophie (and Hailey) with their daddy. <br />
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Another trip to Legoland. Hailey and Cory with a a Darth Vader Lego Guy! Our passes expire this July, so we have to make it worth it!<br />
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Cory and Hailey with Obi Wan Kenobi at Legoland.<br />
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Cory found some storm troopers! It was Star Wars Days at Legoland. That's why we braved the cold.<br />
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Sophie is finally three! (Old enough to ride these cars alone!)<br />
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It was cloudy and in the low 60's, so we were chilly! It even started drizzling a few times. <br />
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Cory with his first Pinewood Derby car (and his friend.) His car raced about 6 or 7 times before it lost. He did pretty well for his first year!<br />
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Karen and kids for her 32nd birthday. Trent made me an awesome German Chocolate cake from scratch! I got new jeans and a purse! <br />
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Cory on his opening day of Little League baseball! He's on the Braves.<br />
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The girls in our frontyard.<br />
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Sophie's on the far left, then Hailey's in the pink shirt, Cory's in the royal blue shirt. With friends at a park.<br />
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Sophie was excited for our community egg hunt!<br />
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Hailey wasn't so excited. (She didn't find an egg with a star on it. A star meant you won a special prize.) This is classic Hailey pouty face. It is a very powerful tool in our house. And she knows it.<br />
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The kids loved dying the Easter eggs.<br />
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Our Easter feast: Ham, twice-baked potatoes, a zucchini dish with scrambed egg, deviled eggs, and rolls.<br />
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My parents came to visit us for the weekend of April 13. They came to my San Diego Mormon Choir concert. <br />
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Cory's elementary school had a 5k race on Saturday morning. We all did it! (Well, Sophie rode in the stroller with grandma and grandma Goodman pushing her.) My time was 26:20. Not my best, but certainly not my worst either! I was the 2nd female over 18 to finish. <br />
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Grandpa Goodman with Hailey, me, and Cory at the tidepools at Point Loma, CA.<br />
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Grandpa Goodman at the tidepools.<br />
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Grandma was very brave to explore with us!<br />
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Cory-8 years old.<br />
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It had been raining all the previous day and it was quite windy, which means--beautiful sky!<br />
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Overlooking the San Diego Bay.<br />
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Sophie standing in front of her flower pots. We had just planted seeds and Trent had just planted his "pot garden." (You can see one of the pots on the left.) He planted peas, tomatoes, little green onions, cucumbers, and zucchini.)<br />
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Us at Cabrillo National Monumnet in San Diego.<br />
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It's 3 generational game time on Sunday afternoon. They were playing Loopin' Louie.<br />
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The girls were playing nursery with their dollies an this is snack time. <br />
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Sophie's hair. One of the new bows I had just made. (She wanted me to take this picture.)<br />
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Sophie's 3rd Birthday!<br />
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Sophie dancing for us.<br />
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The girls got new outfits and kept wanting to pose for us. It was really cute!<br />
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We stayed at the Hyatt Manchester in downtown San Diego for one night. Trent had a work meeting and we got to stay for free. <br />
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Th pool with the city in the background.<br />
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Cory holding Sophie and Hailey in the hot tub.<br />
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Our view from our hotel room. We were on the 21st floor.<br />
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We're peeking from behind the surfboards. This is up on the pool deck.<br />
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Another view of the city from our hotel room.<br />
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We went to Seaport Village the next day with the kids. Lots of touristy shops and places to eat right on the San Diego Harbor.<br />
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This guy was there balancing rocks. Those are not glued together in any way! We saw him do one of these stacks. It was amazing!<br />
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The girls with buns in their hair. <br />
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One day last week we spent over an hour hand washing the doll clothes, some of the doll toys, toy purses, and even the dollies themselves. I couldn't believe how brown the water would get, and then we'd drain it and get fresh water. Everything dried in the sun and then we had brand-new looking toys again!Trent and Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01279513269252669235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1637732167385009664.post-35343874981976638082012-02-12T19:44:00.000-08:002012-02-12T21:02:02.196-08:00Christmas and Birthdays<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_eoZg0BIpduW2DhKXHph4mIHlCjOQEgdghyphenhyphenB5mj6tXCjwqUASXcBo7sipmFT_2F_o2puxkIPoeYJuUUPgXEERRUtM0efJWbjLO2hWlBlLZ3D9wZm_xUjoDiM-N_-LOycmA1ckzhfyp-Rl/s1600/085.JPG"><img style="width: 240px; height: 320px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708467913638716562" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_eoZg0BIpduW2DhKXHph4mIHlCjOQEgdghyphenhyphenB5mj6tXCjwqUASXcBo7sipmFT_2F_o2puxkIPoeYJuUUPgXEERRUtM0efJWbjLO2hWlBlLZ3D9wZm_xUjoDiM-N_-LOycmA1ckzhfyp-Rl/s320/085.JPG" /></a><br />Hailey's 5th Birthday party!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhLe3_VlGgfgi0-e5urLdS7UfGSU-poVQEF6DFtEfr8J__N1iTVl98RiqwR5Kca5GxGUgqggMUtnx0FJFbVf9d9nbmoMnIS33_gXa9edGw_tAlMzGlKEA8lvUi9w05ol_WIsx-8V85xG87/s1600/101.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; 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height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708467887197712018" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghDaPNPPUNMtfXKshz82qTjeHibtd2CH8ENTwaL_O5tiyAxU2rZNSPxohXjTJKsUa-vO17Xa717hUDowyAp2CmTxPaeCIlk_2rX1JfAvFNVaH_AFXqGFwdl4FbOrnwccfwzxcIVj0OAzyX/s320/080.JPG" /></a></div><div>Cory was my assistant during Hailey's 5th birthday party.<br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfUy8zxcJmcWwqlrIiF9GdAVSrXEpOoH_oxKKFwOeIZJEu0XZVv79lCj3KmvI80TV9DBDNahqVM0_GPDF6ZhWrRzqD7pwZoeFBXbSpF6KCDfKurMo_dnEbMU4FxXafwKY4dJBqY2vxVAc4/s1600/074.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708467005989129842" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfUy8zxcJmcWwqlrIiF9GdAVSrXEpOoH_oxKKFwOeIZJEu0XZVv79lCj3KmvI80TV9DBDNahqVM0_GPDF6ZhWrRzqD7pwZoeFBXbSpF6KCDfKurMo_dnEbMU4FxXafwKY4dJBqY2vxVAc4/s320/074.JPG" /></a></div><div>Playing Duck, Duck, Goose<br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN0cerXhg_S8T04qWTOPzbnZ09_XPdYgCRoJbz0Y6ouAeREG3c9VxDYgJuQ7a3scTH1z6gXU3kFHGugt7Jfy0jJZ8wK5ylewoQCYJrferU_dKkgNdGxohaMIyTbuYLLj3IogAroGufiPGT/s1600/071.JPG"><img style="width: 240px; 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height: 320px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708466978210720946" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjndS5Io1hOQCXi1Jufi-qcTeopG_Ea45x5O7p_5A3mTt62w0Xnf4Ixhkv6gQT7XeirPvPvcnC3HMpFEovwMXmPExDrrfOM67g_lHceZ8JQeS1Lh7xiKkOhQ-QpgkmNKXb_4VWwpNmOqLm8/s320/068.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIhoxa_Y6TXVXSk_lAbcfDdX7Y1Ah5_JIk6buv4wyP-eiGgVSChF9wRG7KHCdXnqzqvj8aiYRhYNu3LwPmvIUbk1iMOGOyY6KFPNWUWEdoBOziqQplxi9DrL7nQVdTcbHdJpo7qc57iAK4/s1600/056+%25282%2529.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708466972518472210" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIhoxa_Y6TXVXSk_lAbcfDdX7Y1Ah5_JIk6buv4wyP-eiGgVSChF9wRG7KHCdXnqzqvj8aiYRhYNu3LwPmvIUbk1iMOGOyY6KFPNWUWEdoBOziqQplxi9DrL7nQVdTcbHdJpo7qc57iAK4/s320/056+%25282%2529.JPG" /></a></div><div>Hailey's present from us for her 5th birthday.<br />This was Hailey's cake I made for our family party, which was actually on her birthday--on New Year's Eve!</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh717lCgHyumziJPE3cPIRTeyUnK1KyjpuWSUfsAPinG5-p9_3xUJs6FGdLh55ogL3xevUzXcqdMdVyNegzwgnHELIEQIJU8mXHxzvfYjaFwCWEYpQvGJrSOLPUKA3P_rqtFp5C2ToKXmAi/s1600/059+%25282%2529.JPG"><img style="width: 240px; height: 320px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708466240709395778" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh717lCgHyumziJPE3cPIRTeyUnK1KyjpuWSUfsAPinG5-p9_3xUJs6FGdLh55ogL3xevUzXcqdMdVyNegzwgnHELIEQIJU8mXHxzvfYjaFwCWEYpQvGJrSOLPUKA3P_rqtFp5C2ToKXmAi/s320/059+%25282%2529.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju4incytHXghcP70XoQH4ODMKmM6lXa3PmzWbGKuMEuLJyWbdN7MCYdjbQae84O2JKCTYq9vCHMrp2Pl9UkFy_131Hk_Pk4x_trGaYmPDWE2cBkxIFW9-DB93X-PzCrxtdmfO9_4nQ5uOt/s1600/052+%25282%2529.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708466233980265330" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju4incytHXghcP70XoQH4ODMKmM6lXa3PmzWbGKuMEuLJyWbdN7MCYdjbQae84O2JKCTYq9vCHMrp2Pl9UkFy_131Hk_Pk4x_trGaYmPDWE2cBkxIFW9-DB93X-PzCrxtdmfO9_4nQ5uOt/s320/052+%25282%2529.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />This is Annette, Christy, Stephanie, and me celebrating my sister, Stephanie's Surprise 40th birthday party at my parent's house in Gilbert, AZ over the winter break. We all dressed in 70's clothes since she was born in 1971. </div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiY-MNK2V2ET-ASn564tSuDpgr3yvOPksbBlXrHxm6-7h1YbfKvAWfS6tJprRV43H2fIet7jkFZz0YIqhmr1FW0IzrMNuUvNptbi3n9uadzpaiZHOAjsnEsdTTDhob82Qy7z9MqVzqQmvT/s1600/041+%25282%2529.JPG"><img style="width: 240px; height: 320px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708466219841836386" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiY-MNK2V2ET-ASn564tSuDpgr3yvOPksbBlXrHxm6-7h1YbfKvAWfS6tJprRV43H2fIet7jkFZz0YIqhmr1FW0IzrMNuUvNptbi3n9uadzpaiZHOAjsnEsdTTDhob82Qy7z9MqVzqQmvT/s320/041+%25282%2529.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY6ezbcsfR_9bpKrWGyMsW-8rk0ckfrLF4iEsgq8nLlaUc7gaDtqo86-RWVQqKYdYJktio-f6UPDgSeKtLK_xVdKH7yDrXknjY_BnYUOxxXZ3TDgOw3Trz1yZ3lFl15XyLpn1XiJWUjFkX/s1600/040+%25282%2529.JPG"><img style="width: 214px; height: 320px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708466210000751106" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY6ezbcsfR_9bpKrWGyMsW-8rk0ckfrLF4iEsgq8nLlaUc7gaDtqo86-RWVQqKYdYJktio-f6UPDgSeKtLK_xVdKH7yDrXknjY_BnYUOxxXZ3TDgOw3Trz1yZ3lFl15XyLpn1XiJWUjFkX/s320/040+%25282%2529.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-0i2sut3dSczsV67rxtd374Ay8mtjCh0WyVAhuX39zOsAcop1KqgspeLy-b2lix1UMoocQrO3LZEYnY6YwCLBFD3umfvdqYEZx5CBeeBgHiQdoi3DcAjnmqjxd8O6TfPe-JhszAYhkFDb/s1600/043+%25282%2529.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708466203412212018" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-0i2sut3dSczsV67rxtd374Ay8mtjCh0WyVAhuX39zOsAcop1KqgspeLy-b2lix1UMoocQrO3LZEYnY6YwCLBFD3umfvdqYEZx5CBeeBgHiQdoi3DcAjnmqjxd8O6TfPe-JhszAYhkFDb/s320/043+%25282%2529.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />Our 70's clothes. Trent is wearing a tie my dad actually wore during the 70's and I am wearing a dress (a house dress type thing) that my mom wore during the 70's. </div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTRsoyq124wCKzJydhu5zzWq2KfrxkIisuA-Kj9jbRw2dk3bwC2pn_xFTnNOT2jqAJyNDSG8I8GStW5SedxG8HDKStKwFV1do9tpnri33EpMe8P6pu6Plxd27ijKIJBYRgG3P8tWXejriA/s1600/035+%25282%2529.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708465223956797282" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTRsoyq124wCKzJydhu5zzWq2KfrxkIisuA-Kj9jbRw2dk3bwC2pn_xFTnNOT2jqAJyNDSG8I8GStW5SedxG8HDKStKwFV1do9tpnri33EpMe8P6pu6Plxd27ijKIJBYRgG3P8tWXejriA/s320/035+%25282%2529.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxJpy81tmS0u6bLCpS-7HvVs2cjHV7XKrhazN4GEJjrAM4qJedp5WCjIp0lu2GlxNbPWJ4DJt7qYnpvV0b63r6c08j8qMcqMFcIPzPgSXxfaBB3-5maLkR5jLDkSwsPSRtRu_1i5rOSJ2p/s1600/036+%25282%2529.JPG"><img style="width: 213px; height: 320px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708465207358493506" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxJpy81tmS0u6bLCpS-7HvVs2cjHV7XKrhazN4GEJjrAM4qJedp5WCjIp0lu2GlxNbPWJ4DJt7qYnpvV0b63r6c08j8qMcqMFcIPzPgSXxfaBB3-5maLkR5jLDkSwsPSRtRu_1i5rOSJ2p/s320/036+%25282%2529.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />A bunch of the cousins at my parents house in AZ over the holiday.</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFqrk8qeYxgWOyCMJtp-EvFPySeDlM4uOa0fcEcGNNrIhEz4N-Mlqc371UOcXQf4153LewOzpA2JcefzfcQVaXSO3eKthVLnipoGFVXcnuVkOjOVwAfoFSmnHWWFyz0vXrOSuy9oMR5nGH/s1600/024+%25282%2529.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708465198979976322" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFqrk8qeYxgWOyCMJtp-EvFPySeDlM4uOa0fcEcGNNrIhEz4N-Mlqc371UOcXQf4153LewOzpA2JcefzfcQVaXSO3eKthVLnipoGFVXcnuVkOjOVwAfoFSmnHWWFyz0vXrOSuy9oMR5nGH/s320/024+%25282%2529.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />Hailey with her cousin at a hike in some mountains south of Phoenix. </div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhofgnFBfFRpyHr3nQ42pf2ORUfO3tMZ3A6kWg7Ck9HxFzqcbbA63mPdCd7QIbJrZZpRz5Ytk_hCXdINreY7DT-RvTTGvb1Lf2Nd_knXiRcxfB1-7DymywMHsNtik-DToNIZYTBn0NFgrjz/s1600/018+%25282%2529.JPG"><img style="width: 240px; height: 320px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708465187368402946" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhofgnFBfFRpyHr3nQ42pf2ORUfO3tMZ3A6kWg7Ck9HxFzqcbbA63mPdCd7QIbJrZZpRz5Ytk_hCXdINreY7DT-RvTTGvb1Lf2Nd_knXiRcxfB1-7DymywMHsNtik-DToNIZYTBn0NFgrjz/s320/018+%25282%2529.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi10vE7Cd1Zf6gYC-m5JpG_2J_cOk3Yt3bVO-vllO3LWknyINMnLCGmmlmHQkREcEy_WK-lWYRgGJ8vA0fLQfOquJ-QbeThN0N7p00LjEaMk9I19MPpzDZ_m7gJRH6udnjHGlj1HGE17e8W/s1600/016+%25282%2529.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708465182635107202" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi10vE7Cd1Zf6gYC-m5JpG_2J_cOk3Yt3bVO-vllO3LWknyINMnLCGmmlmHQkREcEy_WK-lWYRgGJ8vA0fLQfOquJ-QbeThN0N7p00LjEaMk9I19MPpzDZ_m7gJRH6udnjHGlj1HGE17e8W/s320/016+%25282%2529.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />The kids on Christmas Eve showing us their new pajamas.</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgonSsT_rI2_NYbqHBCD5b_dnGwkDAdcNJC_8igVa_merErzKCv-jzxKIAc9DU6Xg7gqgl2j-1E63gbAZP8qSCN25V5eaflOp8n4tTutVrdE2cnD337jO976SdT018SLOjbg6UFCvv7_i3w/s1600/066.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708464478062222386" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgonSsT_rI2_NYbqHBCD5b_dnGwkDAdcNJC_8igVa_merErzKCv-jzxKIAc9DU6Xg7gqgl2j-1E63gbAZP8qSCN25V5eaflOp8n4tTutVrdE2cnD337jO976SdT018SLOjbg6UFCvv7_i3w/s320/066.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />These pictures are really out of order! These are at my sisters surprise birthday party again.</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4DFirTpdOVfrOf21hHeS7deMppIWUCt_I1Nu3fI7OQ6f7yZ25j581RPzL_mKqZ1aa9PW5azwNZadXZcuHHDqWHny3VuKyD8mpiIBTeQIOiNzl3pa49p71Q6Ye6_Td_KVbW8a5YWi32jHf/s1600/045+%25282%2529.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708464463666230930" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4DFirTpdOVfrOf21hHeS7deMppIWUCt_I1Nu3fI7OQ6f7yZ25j581RPzL_mKqZ1aa9PW5azwNZadXZcuHHDqWHny3VuKyD8mpiIBTeQIOiNzl3pa49p71Q6Ye6_Td_KVbW8a5YWi32jHf/s320/045+%25282%2529.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />This is our family soccer game. Everyone pictured here played at one time or another for over an hour. It was pretty intense, but very fun!</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQN6Tjl9e-MChm5uz2_rhyG_HNONTjxVEGnBmwg1CAepGFLQsAHkLCNg7RZAvPpMQ1zBt3dy-pL3kCrPmla5x9WBFc8RNjM7jVLqRlYGk78Y-k9vwWMH_Kv8IE3Z9oIbbnAsxhIV7U98Ti/s1600/034+%25282%2529.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708464455592554354" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQN6Tjl9e-MChm5uz2_rhyG_HNONTjxVEGnBmwg1CAepGFLQsAHkLCNg7RZAvPpMQ1zBt3dy-pL3kCrPmla5x9WBFc8RNjM7jVLqRlYGk78Y-k9vwWMH_Kv8IE3Z9oIbbnAsxhIV7U98Ti/s320/034+%25282%2529.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />One of the activities at my parent's house was making headbands from a kit. This is two of our cousins, Rachel and Rebecca, with Hailey and Sophie modeling their headbands. </div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhftbCB516aaICyOVecPOXgjlON6wb4jmdLWSeu6Hud7iM77QCgJFSHJ9gR1jj2VULaJYYn_-EvGEzTIoK_IpeSsPcLWvFUhMNx0jIJqmUW1BOVcd9xM_f1B7XPOIFDgJi6RrCImg8RGCQD/s1600/023+%25282%2529.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708464448728955458" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhftbCB516aaICyOVecPOXgjlON6wb4jmdLWSeu6Hud7iM77QCgJFSHJ9gR1jj2VULaJYYn_-EvGEzTIoK_IpeSsPcLWvFUhMNx0jIJqmUW1BOVcd9xM_f1B7XPOIFDgJi6RrCImg8RGCQD/s320/023+%25282%2529.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />This is Hailey accepting an award from preschool right before Christmas.</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh27TNYF7q9vQfWppxMoxd1idyjNuhsQzxfxAVLsMJoi2WC03MUPnXeBPf7boDfPCKa9jYsXmus-N1t3ICzRejdPLBXFGuaMFawGQL2D36cqeJvwfZcthz7KmM8XuRnjIz97R-7Ic7Gji5G/s1600/018.JPG"><img style="width: 214px; height: 320px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708464436680752642" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh27TNYF7q9vQfWppxMoxd1idyjNuhsQzxfxAVLsMJoi2WC03MUPnXeBPf7boDfPCKa9jYsXmus-N1t3ICzRejdPLBXFGuaMFawGQL2D36cqeJvwfZcthz7KmM8XuRnjIz97R-7Ic7Gji5G/s320/018.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />I helped the kids make his igloo made out of cocoa rice crispies. They had fun!</div><div> </div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ8qEPJ-8g0CpsV6Is3QZFxWmmnyi6-LnGq6k-uXUCfK9cwIE_cdlqaB5_yrMAFUcwn908Ym82_-kZ2-VmdZpjuMts_nwrP_AbT0VvOOapa6wCOVDmapT3PLnuimdOMwgzpmWcJEORtVYN/s1600/054.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708463736000086850" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ8qEPJ-8g0CpsV6Is3QZFxWmmnyi6-LnGq6k-uXUCfK9cwIE_cdlqaB5_yrMAFUcwn908Ym82_-kZ2-VmdZpjuMts_nwrP_AbT0VvOOapa6wCOVDmapT3PLnuimdOMwgzpmWcJEORtVYN/s320/054.JPG" /></a></div><div> </div><div>Our family for Cory's baptsim. </div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK3nC2Q5xmcsjErOOm1FBiTykKQkeBtl_PabcKYw8m9Zi_7QyrKbMAxGZvc4lT_QFrAwd_rCsxJ3CxZbcTzKIaO5toh-Ynfgds_adThr_jgrAmlCHwazE_6tPk45mpUUMm4P9JlkrRDuTI/s1600/048.JPG"><img style="width: 213px; height: 320px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708463727957725602" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK3nC2Q5xmcsjErOOm1FBiTykKQkeBtl_PabcKYw8m9Zi_7QyrKbMAxGZvc4lT_QFrAwd_rCsxJ3CxZbcTzKIaO5toh-Ynfgds_adThr_jgrAmlCHwazE_6tPk45mpUUMm4P9JlkrRDuTI/s320/048.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />Cory (and Sophie) with his Chargers football cake he wanted me to make for his 8th birthday party. We invited several boys and they just played football and soccer at a park the whole time. It was great!</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVRs4FWB9XytlC0Qr_ZRuq6ZXMEUzsYsObOD4iXH7ZtV3fDokAC7gwVqhAuJIPSS4nXRnVMdXVUA1_I424gBLOdYU1_tPXsV6hQeR7L9tR0FlCeBSEz4Xyxn28Km3h81OE0FtKbK4-bz67/s1600/027.JPG"><img style="width: 240px; height: 320px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708463717235450386" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVRs4FWB9XytlC0Qr_ZRuq6ZXMEUzsYsObOD4iXH7ZtV3fDokAC7gwVqhAuJIPSS4nXRnVMdXVUA1_I424gBLOdYU1_tPXsV6hQeR7L9tR0FlCeBSEz4Xyxn28Km3h81OE0FtKbK4-bz67/s320/027.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />Our family at SeaWorld for their Christmas celebration. Our passes expired the end of the month, so it will be quite some time before we go back!</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK0qjKmGboD1lRYhh7GJJfBTpuYIhxgMrbYPMqn4MEEFQ2PwBOvKrPR5a29rv861SEIyjgu1_w5-Z-6E_RSHS9PrkXZsvunY5Z0BB5XsZtt71VhtEfV2pFPI-KlvK6yI-GYDfXsmAF4g7g/s1600/025.JPG"><img style="width: 240px; height: 320px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708463714315301282" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK0qjKmGboD1lRYhh7GJJfBTpuYIhxgMrbYPMqn4MEEFQ2PwBOvKrPR5a29rv861SEIyjgu1_w5-Z-6E_RSHS9PrkXZsvunY5Z0BB5XsZtt71VhtEfV2pFPI-KlvK6yI-GYDfXsmAF4g7g/s320/025.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />Sophie with me visiting Hailey's preschool class and making a Christmas craft together.</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuLEBYdawET3v0LZfKLYDfHoV_J9Mm5syZNwEYEOwdxA556peVsu_ym0o52DXQRX1AlLVnlrQlaDYey6ZtzXucqUxBS2_T-bcBACsLJI3G416Q7b-Z1tPWLmIWyFCjg27OQFR37fZw2_xf/s1600/021.JPG"><img style="width: 240px; height: 320px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708463709852227042" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuLEBYdawET3v0LZfKLYDfHoV_J9Mm5syZNwEYEOwdxA556peVsu_ym0o52DXQRX1AlLVnlrQlaDYey6ZtzXucqUxBS2_T-bcBACsLJI3G416Q7b-Z1tPWLmIWyFCjg27OQFR37fZw2_xf/s320/021.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />This picture was actually put on the front page of our local newspaper! The girls are all dressed up because it was right after Hailey's tap dance recital at the local rec center. Afterwards, they had a breakfast, plus Santa with treats to give away. Sophie and Hailey are with their friend, Brooke. </div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH5iy-qAC9_9Q1p-YDbrhHk8ZreMH0_e3otjETq4HWATCeK4vDys5oq5BzzbjfSkM_VS04WZQ_g_C407JxNPmnS7KIipW22z9NiRFENCmZRd3WV0aHtiObzDCMusV6_kCPEibicuh4N5Bo/s1600/010.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708462529666085138" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH5iy-qAC9_9Q1p-YDbrhHk8ZreMH0_e3otjETq4HWATCeK4vDys5oq5BzzbjfSkM_VS04WZQ_g_C407JxNPmnS7KIipW22z9NiRFENCmZRd3WV0aHtiObzDCMusV6_kCPEibicuh4N5Bo/s320/010.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />Sophie with her Christmas presents. </div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV1qaH_UYq8ejOMBQe8y09ym4BIapPBVHgCO9mbsUdfk8FQilZ5voqc4uNgurElWWRWMIEmXUODBTFbwfDUFFwsWGF3dYmiBE-Kyh0d53x_HZ2_sHaWibst4CbE1j8QEsgzrlnm8qKFl6M/s1600/006+%25282%2529.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708462517523534562" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV1qaH_UYq8ejOMBQe8y09ym4BIapPBVHgCO9mbsUdfk8FQilZ5voqc4uNgurElWWRWMIEmXUODBTFbwfDUFFwsWGF3dYmiBE-Kyh0d53x_HZ2_sHaWibst4CbE1j8QEsgzrlnm8qKFl6M/s320/006+%25282%2529.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />Cory with a Christmas present.</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4O-4w1wxaZwCldPlQD5YXenjxapETUvKWewn3rUIGcsUt8SwTmDtMpdwxkgbSi7LTgcOD8fc-kG2YSjJYD0p5-LAUgjQKQHqQdfet-bge7hngN9RX1N5VxFIWuPZICuCsaqzWTwPpnzqe/s1600/005+%25282%2529.JPG"><img style="width: 240px; height: 320px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708462513591362258" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4O-4w1wxaZwCldPlQD5YXenjxapETUvKWewn3rUIGcsUt8SwTmDtMpdwxkgbSi7LTgcOD8fc-kG2YSjJYD0p5-LAUgjQKQHqQdfet-bge7hngN9RX1N5VxFIWuPZICuCsaqzWTwPpnzqe/s320/005+%25282%2529.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjjHMtvgWkBwAsLGf3NYxjLebTYQ9kMoiMMSBrtiCShdPCxInxAnD6y-wiIWw2YMoEYtuWr4OVDQS4plUPjjFKRSBo3ZKCfhO_47Ca0RdVXhul0eAIlIhlqCsoCtArnv9fc9JDo_zUFGF8/s1600/004+%25282%2529.JPG"><img style="width: 240px; height: 320px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708462500872497458" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjjHMtvgWkBwAsLGf3NYxjLebTYQ9kMoiMMSBrtiCShdPCxInxAnD6y-wiIWw2YMoEYtuWr4OVDQS4plUPjjFKRSBo3ZKCfhO_47Ca0RdVXhul0eAIlIhlqCsoCtArnv9fc9JDo_zUFGF8/s320/004+%25282%2529.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />Hailey on the morning of her tap dance recital. </div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpB2p_5HeqxGHpJNWaMS1OcJP7GeKDqNGVjGLrWyWynJp1Ktpz0KdWfsp4S3IjxCtcOZ2e7sJuMeM1Rpq3dG4MQh3D4YeyGmBjzIcMQ-8pqbZsjke5O0Pzx2KvSmkAiJ1d08WF3eB2-OuK/s1600/001.JPG"><img style="width: 240px; height: 320px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708462496903310370" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpB2p_5HeqxGHpJNWaMS1OcJP7GeKDqNGVjGLrWyWynJp1Ktpz0KdWfsp4S3IjxCtcOZ2e7sJuMeM1Rpq3dG4MQh3D4YeyGmBjzIcMQ-8pqbZsjke5O0Pzx2KvSmkAiJ1d08WF3eB2-OuK/s320/001.JPG" /></a><br /><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Trent and Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01279513269252669235noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1637732167385009664.post-58822148043531927452011-11-12T22:47:00.000-08:002011-11-12T23:10:32.644-08:00Halloween Fun<div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyzJD55E-HUJuKv9l7dQWQVqD5Xbg3gID86rUskF1uzdexEFJdah8ELaJFnuwo1P0kZcvSPf1ewuovLFPJvVBt7BEOdQU6ZdIiJsa0xbPlqhSAmRqmhH3IEg3WfDfboMvs1Oz_JGg2N55E/s1600/Hailey+at+preschool.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 238px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5674370847760918450" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyzJD55E-HUJuKv9l7dQWQVqD5Xbg3gID86rUskF1uzdexEFJdah8ELaJFnuwo1P0kZcvSPf1ewuovLFPJvVBt7BEOdQU6ZdIiJsa0xbPlqhSAmRqmhH3IEg3WfDfboMvs1Oz_JGg2N55E/s320/Hailey+at+preschool.JPG" /></a></div><div>This is Hailey at her preschool class as a peer helper. The teachers have told me a couple different times that Hailey is the perfect peer model and is so helpful and kind to her classmates. </div><div><br />This is Hailey after trick-or-treating. She was just too worn out to smile anymore--we went all over our neighborhood (which includes lots of hills!) for two hours.</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9zfRLJHpCSusAf4mTIEym7bVZf90ybx5r4EWOhfrejQZ4gV5PlOCaCYpt3_Q5WDzfDYGk5KBmz2vx-pauNUmGaFD14xnJJpC_keeckrsQ2U9hI27kA22J5QWEW-wQE_pH87lmwsHXvCis/s1600/071.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5674370829200599810" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9zfRLJHpCSusAf4mTIEym7bVZf90ybx5r4EWOhfrejQZ4gV5PlOCaCYpt3_Q5WDzfDYGk5KBmz2vx-pauNUmGaFD14xnJJpC_keeckrsQ2U9hI27kA22J5QWEW-wQE_pH87lmwsHXvCis/s320/071.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />Sophie with all her loot.</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv26yS6Y1-2hsiMHt_5Siq8blo30jC28hGa_ZOZaCkUMxJfdbgUGnyUIqs0zOSc34tWDPuDqCxbQ57r9AUSUnUaTO7VoM-eikMRb3gnJETJHbmGe6uIEmQq6OfBZet5nZ61jX93OOiIRq_/s1600/070.JPG"><img style="width: 240px; height: 320px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5674370825777108642" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv26yS6Y1-2hsiMHt_5Siq8blo30jC28hGa_ZOZaCkUMxJfdbgUGnyUIqs0zOSc34tWDPuDqCxbQ57r9AUSUnUaTO7VoM-eikMRb3gnJETJHbmGe6uIEmQq6OfBZet5nZ61jX93OOiIRq_/s320/070.JPG" /></a></div><div>Cory still had energy to smile<br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMn7uAV-l8fgyFnKsQ88inkVjDBBtl7EA0-ZWVzQTtSnNPR5iL9MNw_inZ1YdJaZpHPSlbaUPacEgu9XEGbYiwgwaDS9sTAGC2t_mRW-yhAKP7Y0-wTk1hqaGMWGmur-IBsgrk8MhBqEBC/s1600/069.JPG"><img style="width: 240px; height: 320px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5674370649985414882" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMn7uAV-l8fgyFnKsQ88inkVjDBBtl7EA0-ZWVzQTtSnNPR5iL9MNw_inZ1YdJaZpHPSlbaUPacEgu9XEGbYiwgwaDS9sTAGC2t_mRW-yhAKP7Y0-wTk1hqaGMWGmur-IBsgrk8MhBqEBC/s320/069.JPG" /></a></div><div> </div><div><br />Sophie before we left for trick-or-treating being her usual silly self.</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEcqfFL-TcnHV6kKjxbDFWEQyH0TdhzCFmVbeSWK77JZiwNzhLfYNkXRIXP9rENlM8nlsEtllg0qbjZZNRFxdk5lV_A27MI9XSkqlQRMdOoVeoHaPu1teNM_4TegfJ6lTBTtfur14LXYHv/s1600/068.JPG"><img style="width: 240px; height: 320px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5674370635722912882" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEcqfFL-TcnHV6kKjxbDFWEQyH0TdhzCFmVbeSWK77JZiwNzhLfYNkXRIXP9rENlM8nlsEtllg0qbjZZNRFxdk5lV_A27MI9XSkqlQRMdOoVeoHaPu1teNM_4TegfJ6lTBTtfur14LXYHv/s320/068.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />Hailey was a bride and Sophie was Cinderella. They were very eager for me to put make-up on them!</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfd1NUZpTMn85RJolDHyrfl0QP_MA0-laenWZTRZl03yLmOCjOGWon794fEOxvGPr9wW4S1AbrlCNNQ3nAJHleX1XMvJNNOF66K4snRkzS6MFvkJ5_CC4Bnz0VmHAC-08ya8EJqht2XKYo/s1600/064.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5674370632696553218" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfd1NUZpTMn85RJolDHyrfl0QP_MA0-laenWZTRZl03yLmOCjOGWon794fEOxvGPr9wW4S1AbrlCNNQ3nAJHleX1XMvJNNOF66K4snRkzS6MFvkJ5_CC4Bnz0VmHAC-08ya8EJqht2XKYo/s320/064.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />Cory was a skeleton. </div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_hWo_sneOstyj9TBI-n96fOwMNf35xxkHnYP4J4UuQYDrzA1sfYL3VwbAI8lGizNQ9gVDmT-ZPhVUrmEyMgVJZZpZe9Xo6lvPTYmgwoueniSq-xnnCZ40ZqIKihEGfmf_DhYWIN53mnNL/s1600/063.JPG"><img style="width: 240px; height: 320px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5674370619342596306" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_hWo_sneOstyj9TBI-n96fOwMNf35xxkHnYP4J4UuQYDrzA1sfYL3VwbAI8lGizNQ9gVDmT-ZPhVUrmEyMgVJZZpZe9Xo6lvPTYmgwoueniSq-xnnCZ40ZqIKihEGfmf_DhYWIN53mnNL/s320/063.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />We spent a couple of hours carving these pumpkins. I can't wait until the kids are a little older to do this project themselves!!</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Q5IfJyHbHFu3w4nieljxazv_kXivyAKU7cIqt0etGnOMviv218tPc-BSugEciZdiSV7zLmwE5fPSrgLkAX_z_TvR-0uHZzcayegLlJopIP47JUDC3l6LzKcU1Outn0OTSN_ccf1e9OHk/s1600/060.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5674370614076768706" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Q5IfJyHbHFu3w4nieljxazv_kXivyAKU7cIqt0etGnOMviv218tPc-BSugEciZdiSV7zLmwE5fPSrgLkAX_z_TvR-0uHZzcayegLlJopIP47JUDC3l6LzKcU1Outn0OTSN_ccf1e9OHk/s320/060.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkinRQIot-NHETe5XbgJemESSuO7BsMRrGZ5rvdFvsQeWgFdf_kzYoqfI8nuxCdT3O8ktRJsq250ZPqsEt4Z_vsexTFFmLXwslLw-5lkQGDbbfxKQsQfUzfm8c3yImG5WDQw__jTAO-tiW/s1600/058.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5674370257761013330" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkinRQIot-NHETe5XbgJemESSuO7BsMRrGZ5rvdFvsQeWgFdf_kzYoqfI8nuxCdT3O8ktRJsq250ZPqsEt4Z_vsexTFFmLXwslLw-5lkQGDbbfxKQsQfUzfm8c3yImG5WDQw__jTAO-tiW/s320/058.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4ZepVTr74SSrrksl69r5F7J8VjRkmXwBmj9gIpEwVSb5s2eoJ8xLO2yWMwrmVa9CvLi0WonI7h8p7VF2JwC23rCCtYwBLKuh7SmoAq_nPLmfHFgcaYDO7sHXusrYMWmJhRlmNrT9EIN3Q/s1600/054.JPG"><img style="width: 240px; height: 320px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5674370254949516674" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4ZepVTr74SSrrksl69r5F7J8VjRkmXwBmj9gIpEwVSb5s2eoJ8xLO2yWMwrmVa9CvLi0WonI7h8p7VF2JwC23rCCtYwBLKuh7SmoAq_nPLmfHFgcaYDO7sHXusrYMWmJhRlmNrT9EIN3Q/s320/054.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw7u2J2EuItevafBvnm8lIbzCA4gndzHiDSe4Dc3WYnz7ytC2Ng32oui4wTUzhcF3F13hXKPZLHodobBioZZJBb8ObDgETxMtAg3lAW04mFVjynBg8tM59HP4s7td4u2hIT6feuf7JNzvy/s1600/053.JPG"><img style="width: 240px; height: 320px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5674370244904519298" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw7u2J2EuItevafBvnm8lIbzCA4gndzHiDSe4Dc3WYnz7ytC2Ng32oui4wTUzhcF3F13hXKPZLHodobBioZZJBb8ObDgETxMtAg3lAW04mFVjynBg8tM59HP4s7td4u2hIT6feuf7JNzvy/s320/053.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />Cory wore his costume to school that Friday before Halloween. I had fun painting his face.</div><div>He's not mad, I just told him to look mean.</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCysMXO19fYpexVz66dsrnwYX4FeJJZ-PM9wgOY_CMcBm99M3uYGySvx4fVDTHIHK0xSmMn9dIMyrGsMUBqgMA4fQcZFqakjK0KBP_okNMRCwWVuPEjwICovIvniYHj4LZGASDaTtPRj7G/s1600/051.JPG"><img style="width: 240px; height: 320px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5674370238944558642" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCysMXO19fYpexVz66dsrnwYX4FeJJZ-PM9wgOY_CMcBm99M3uYGySvx4fVDTHIHK0xSmMn9dIMyrGsMUBqgMA4fQcZFqakjK0KBP_okNMRCwWVuPEjwICovIvniYHj4LZGASDaTtPRj7G/s320/051.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />This was at Legoland's Halloween "Brick or Treat" that we went to a couple weeks before Halloween. Sophie is kissing the little Legoland Frankenstein. Not sure why! </div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwfvphdfnpvZArdyifI-N-rEyYDfWZU6HaB5Qb9__6Obsa0Wzadqu0kdxXftib8GxiJ2RCsB7NZgi23lbmZ6I0Yaq6BC33NgacHMmrm-mAgppBuBCeocBtWtGp8AYhvOwpP5TkT1CjIVkY/s1600/049.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5674370236738355506" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwfvphdfnpvZArdyifI-N-rEyYDfWZU6HaB5Qb9__6Obsa0Wzadqu0kdxXftib8GxiJ2RCsB7NZgi23lbmZ6I0Yaq6BC33NgacHMmrm-mAgppBuBCeocBtWtGp8AYhvOwpP5TkT1CjIVkY/s320/049.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisAwjeg78inbweK9LvIw2uq32KjH8rlHP6cfLHwZOMvo9dfHkjsiHlSr6YS-MSLgR0r3qR0ykeix4Sz9Ud3HuRwOLmpHzoyAMoyyv4Tdtf_H-P8fdqAI7u2-F13yeZBVmQPCCeHHdjZNVZ/s1600/047.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 214px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5674369838401676402" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisAwjeg78inbweK9LvIw2uq32KjH8rlHP6cfLHwZOMvo9dfHkjsiHlSr6YS-MSLgR0r3qR0ykeix4Sz9Ud3HuRwOLmpHzoyAMoyyv4Tdtf_H-P8fdqAI7u2-F13yeZBVmQPCCeHHdjZNVZ/s320/047.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />Lego Darth Vader. </div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKh5aV3owsqq180YoG-QMgbMytkVpHrzGdKBQYCVrHVZMczUT_-unIaJzRPAt-as8k9fhSd6HhA2jIRbFlz5OnJxluWONYjPRR13XHKxBqWdE7-UBIKeRSgf0RnUBSEycPZDGtNUrjkEs0/s1600/041.JPG"><img style="width: 240px; height: 320px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5674369825375225522" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKh5aV3owsqq180YoG-QMgbMytkVpHrzGdKBQYCVrHVZMczUT_-unIaJzRPAt-as8k9fhSd6HhA2jIRbFlz5OnJxluWONYjPRR13XHKxBqWdE7-UBIKeRSgf0RnUBSEycPZDGtNUrjkEs0/s320/041.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />These are various scenes fromthe 6 Star Wars Movies--all out of Legos!</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLaK1snz8z_pBWx7IlIAWRXd7qyTgJKeFKeO2EH8qTyNul1r5n2wnX20fLfvFOfjzTdMsAMxMyL08hhyphenhyphensLv2qDabu1OO3JSuWf306XfQt_y1swZYhy58cbJcuWDjCD6Uj1URhlYf817GAK/s1600/038.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; 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height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5674369811058424658" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2uU5QZwOezFdms4qdfEMyHlEMlJaw02_uoMmHxsCrhah1vqNdJRbeI2SEONceJu-AOGA36l43XxztHZ-dGTh7qX_0invKcqpr0by_0ZfheFaZJrQlID3pRP2QnfJy46qwKwjlAODPCsIn/s320/035.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMfMPzjSKQobk5xSib7y_iwrOrLo49JaXvqETKdjiILh7VxROk8uNg6XwuNBsRreS6D07VnXCR7uI1fBNZbOToN5Xm0GPDcQokqkoZtSgEKZXXKOqKYkIdbvOmSkuEjiiE70gpujyaxCgE/s1600/034.JPG"><img style="width: 240px; height: 320px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5674369470588732994" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMfMPzjSKQobk5xSib7y_iwrOrLo49JaXvqETKdjiILh7VxROk8uNg6XwuNBsRreS6D07VnXCR7uI1fBNZbOToN5Xm0GPDcQokqkoZtSgEKZXXKOqKYkIdbvOmSkuEjiiE70gpujyaxCgE/s320/034.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />Cory really likes that Milennium Falcon.</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoVSfwcoWlz7CKcGuSdlOGGSviGvMyT3PkoxpYaeelm44pWs6vawV3VoRsmRXcd6LSyFmGiXgjpJdP9FGYenV2Mda0hGQIvRBLSYtQmuDTOa8yj3Qj9liPklTR8UtV4PFqDlYSOAnRuLdS/s1600/033.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; 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It was too cloudy for the kids to want to get in the water, but they sure wanted to be buried in the sand!</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO2MON-a6EigPxYFmZZPH4EIe4V7l7PWd9Ssf1NEV3lOwJEjaltDAlzFxLLuUYMI1I-V6PRbfij_G2ojuNZpheY_2HXYqppzsH1tFzPOf0xjHh0jkwLzPzh_eTBXjS7y1hwJhmvocEoGnc/s1600/015.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5674369068913548434" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO2MON-a6EigPxYFmZZPH4EIe4V7l7PWd9Ssf1NEV3lOwJEjaltDAlzFxLLuUYMI1I-V6PRbfij_G2ojuNZpheY_2HXYqppzsH1tFzPOf0xjHh0jkwLzPzh_eTBXjS7y1hwJhmvocEoGnc/s320/015.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />I love this one! We even buried Cory's ears!</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0gpc1gWfjvuvJj4oVEL5UStT_Bza1GAxxR3Pgmz1yVMZq-4LC_HXGTWvkF-3XqDZGfTfW6Ozc4NEyjJVBRNzNAHDI1PfaKdTfiyuGxmcS_EACZQn0GE7cZ_QN1pGLYgyl-oVMp857qyNo/s1600/011.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5674369067616366914" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0gpc1gWfjvuvJj4oVEL5UStT_Bza1GAxxR3Pgmz1yVMZq-4LC_HXGTWvkF-3XqDZGfTfW6Ozc4NEyjJVBRNzNAHDI1PfaKdTfiyuGxmcS_EACZQn0GE7cZ_QN1pGLYgyl-oVMp857qyNo/s320/011.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />Trent and I with our surfboards. I only attempted to go out twice--it pretty much ripped me apart out there. Trent was braver and went out three times for a bit longer.</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs4mmjGGnxSZsICuKR6tcbVkqhndO2p9uuIryHdjaWjQGf-DSGmei0MoZPBEDJHG3Oo24At8oXaUG5lIhnQg5qaHRrxD1JnAFLOSd348ckDg-fOzzzBsSgMSK7qSwxj92jJLWjjG55FjEH/s1600/008.JPG"><img style="width: 240px; height: 320px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5674369056680433090" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs4mmjGGnxSZsICuKR6tcbVkqhndO2p9uuIryHdjaWjQGf-DSGmei0MoZPBEDJHG3Oo24At8oXaUG5lIhnQg5qaHRrxD1JnAFLOSd348ckDg-fOzzzBsSgMSK7qSwxj92jJLWjjG55FjEH/s320/008.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />Mom and Dad and Annette were with us at the beach that day because they were visiting that weekend to go to my San Diego Mormon Choir concert.</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKiUU2MVANPFYT74UAs0uLqwsVuGb83UosCpeIuPhAqAMiIMT_srS6mwRZDrXFhuztaj1V1AHeyrI96SM4RvzrkMM8Cyd5a7Ge_Lxu7aDDwcVfcYl69RtdWPXSQzSWy1LTtYrzEdX3J2zA/s1600/009.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5674369045636607394" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKiUU2MVANPFYT74UAs0uLqwsVuGb83UosCpeIuPhAqAMiIMT_srS6mwRZDrXFhuztaj1V1AHeyrI96SM4RvzrkMM8Cyd5a7Ge_Lxu7aDDwcVfcYl69RtdWPXSQzSWy1LTtYrzEdX3J2zA/s320/009.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />At the Escondido, Center for the Arts after my San Diego Mormon Choir Concert with Trent, me, Annette, Mom, and Dad. I loved singing with this choir!! I'll join them again in the spring for our next concert where our special guest will be Sally DeFord and we'll be performing her favorite arrangements.</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhku-V4l48H-E7wrxX8UxGuuyJajvEfN4bsBsR40Q4cvtSx9d9xr3S-5CtILISiaVY_vgf0iYbL2QvEvcKavVNVFz_1Qn_0yGMlbY2KjkuMSnVQ2DbjSaFX4yAALKoks-sObY2fQf0VqPx3/s1600/007.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 214px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5674369041393723618" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhku-V4l48H-E7wrxX8UxGuuyJajvEfN4bsBsR40Q4cvtSx9d9xr3S-5CtILISiaVY_vgf0iYbL2QvEvcKavVNVFz_1Qn_0yGMlbY2KjkuMSnVQ2DbjSaFX4yAALKoks-sObY2fQf0VqPx3/s320/007.JPG" /></a><br /><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Trent and Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01279513269252669235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1637732167385009664.post-9990967146666035332011-09-28T13:34:00.000-07:002011-09-28T14:23:56.472-07:00A Full September<div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCf-eHphnhEsdD05n-3ydAnKNP0-BBGKGsUfvPFk0zEm-HtGOg9jUDpBlXMTJbqi2Mctm17qE1A5lzpkWVBIap1yHS5WSwhSgAHHH-CKrvKF60-JGKEVOeP3LYGvbKuT4oc7tSmuXw0p5X/s1600/133.JPG"><img style="width: 214px; height: 320px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657519485974972834" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCf-eHphnhEsdD05n-3ydAnKNP0-BBGKGsUfvPFk0zEm-HtGOg9jUDpBlXMTJbqi2Mctm17qE1A5lzpkWVBIap1yHS5WSwhSgAHHH-CKrvKF60-JGKEVOeP3LYGvbKuT4oc7tSmuXw0p5X/s320/133.JPG" /></a></div><div>We had such a full month--with all the fun activities, it felt more like summer than school starting! But we still started school, soccer (Cory's plays on a team, I play in the mornings with other women from church), and I started teaching 4 piano students and next month I'll add 7 more!</div><div> </div><div>The above picture is of Cory and Sophie at Legoland. I took the kids by myself (Trent met us there later at 3:30) on Monday, Sep. 26 because it was a teacher prep day at school. The park was so empty! Most rides we waited for less than 5 minutes and several rides towards the end of our day, we got to ride again and again because there was no line at all!! I guess a random Monday in September is the best time to go to Legoland.</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga8iegLNQAovWslBj7qiYgD2ZWk98gPaKvLF4xm-8UkI39sPEAS9034DPbfPerXkCvhjLRk8FYJBKEv3ctrXbeV5ABbRPaat4UV3WF-LBSWR3g3Izba6ejGzY6ZQXMlQXQGJ_ij2PcCh4u/s1600/132.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657519417940516850" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga8iegLNQAovWslBj7qiYgD2ZWk98gPaKvLF4xm-8UkI39sPEAS9034DPbfPerXkCvhjLRk8FYJBKEv3ctrXbeV5ABbRPaat4UV3WF-LBSWR3g3Izba6ejGzY6ZQXMlQXQGJ_ij2PcCh4u/s320/132.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRxwLjGaGLSVj-b4eluYxPvNNI7TIAudAykAH_GH2ApWzTmyeh1pixQH0-j0GMsa7icQNUm7H1SJWoERTMNBFxaNM8zkaW-dS6eLBt9Ht1nWPJ3Avv9Lp9QGupjEFeYktqzHVj1ViDMFHU/s1600/131.JPG"><img style="width: 240px; 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height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657518806546742786" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuRbCXgxHai70KcPeTt60WZnZPwoztaIef38LcqX25aab8bz2HI5JpIjVgFLVXrVxRPYQfVudqi6y7hBvb5CIjJXMNnXM6mMGaFJVj0IXoEar2ERjDnI3wa1OZIKM6fHV8uKCPDhv14PgK/s320/108.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />We've been to Legoland 4 times in the last 13 months--and this was the first time I remembered my camera!</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNzPrT860rMbC6MIcJhalZJyywzNieuh58Ll25FCFRpVOacvdr7hOF7QbrkcoCe820_vcq4LZo_dl5qzmAvfiQlKj2imc2hBZyqG5alma4tPzY2ODHNCqcqe-HT_etz7ARrIdGzvdFv-qS/s1600/107.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657518803973949906" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNzPrT860rMbC6MIcJhalZJyywzNieuh58Ll25FCFRpVOacvdr7hOF7QbrkcoCe820_vcq4LZo_dl5qzmAvfiQlKj2imc2hBZyqG5alma4tPzY2ODHNCqcqe-HT_etz7ARrIdGzvdFv-qS/s320/107.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6TbSRxYWWF8y3Ja-wnYWZaHhnKP1eYauB9Sw_Be0AvYZHNF7SzbT4tzvuKoCZDGubTDQbnj4vufdr8HSAQ9EZUApNPzN4w1lZcoRB1SZu9OwOy5JPIDh7-gV7vcwyHWNFifXpwbC8249D/s1600/106.JPG"><img style="width: 213px; 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Afterwards we ate at the Greenflash Restaurant overlooking the ocean. FUN!</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_mKt7aIc8bTXPyf7FxvP6uhzlnwfuiACJ8ksTSOOwXUHCV1rJEIhnHp0VSQkG89rkNrKORgnn6U2p9s0ODJt7TJlzdHOeVZTyYTz0se8LiIr2ba-efEcZwpBbRO7jdaMBI6zvI9NkDRT7/s1600/103.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657518480016747266" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_mKt7aIc8bTXPyf7FxvP6uhzlnwfuiACJ8ksTSOOwXUHCV1rJEIhnHp0VSQkG89rkNrKORgnn6U2p9s0ODJt7TJlzdHOeVZTyYTz0se8LiIr2ba-efEcZwpBbRO7jdaMBI6zvI9NkDRT7/s320/103.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDCpVRQp4mPy8k4A3ibC2e3kvG8jibMgfgw2ubXXcScn57ZbGNcqkefPdC_Oes4IcATUtfODURE9QRzxws1Q5OhMvHG6_muR5AjJu36i5yHGeLjD2ZwTp6T5lxdD93hFpRPKGRrAu7bXrT/s1600/099.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 214px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657518483391381026" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDCpVRQp4mPy8k4A3ibC2e3kvG8jibMgfgw2ubXXcScn57ZbGNcqkefPdC_Oes4IcATUtfODURE9QRzxws1Q5OhMvHG6_muR5AjJu36i5yHGeLjD2ZwTp6T5lxdD93hFpRPKGRrAu7bXrT/s320/099.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />Caleb and Cory boogie boarding when Bigelows came to visit on Sept. 17-19</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJorARu0BU39x0mGnayRh_VArHRuaHLnLQuF8vt-IzZ6z-U2h9wmpSECzmfkBv7uXQvSoe4-I5wgWAt1WV8LhsQC1M-wMSH9HuIS118spAluUpwdUsjb1U3ijiZg_DiFYbte1dUItSus1e/s1600/098.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657518476443605362" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJorARu0BU39x0mGnayRh_VArHRuaHLnLQuF8vt-IzZ6z-U2h9wmpSECzmfkBv7uXQvSoe4-I5wgWAt1WV8LhsQC1M-wMSH9HuIS118spAluUpwdUsjb1U3ijiZg_DiFYbte1dUItSus1e/s320/098.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />Cory's team is called the Fire Eagles. He loves soccer!</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHX3HGNDoDZ-_B_dpg8AZrdXSip02HdO_KWoVbe4yXn15Wxo7iaD9u99lZeYeL6lZ_uhGa_LbY-x_lc15QqYR_F1QkT3CcdH5fLvz_F-NEC_t1BHS40hgslbj4yZjf3Wyo25yCT-tyj8d7/s1600/095.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657518476553986706" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHX3HGNDoDZ-_B_dpg8AZrdXSip02HdO_KWoVbe4yXn15Wxo7iaD9u99lZeYeL6lZ_uhGa_LbY-x_lc15QqYR_F1QkT3CcdH5fLvz_F-NEC_t1BHS40hgslbj4yZjf3Wyo25yCT-tyj8d7/s320/095.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMLAuqfMWGpoGEvWxynjtm1Ex8ewyEIDHphwl6kaXFHMLJ-KbAPxIAmUmHp9-Is0yn7p44xzueugq44DOVZ6RRic0TNMvoOqjkptpDBYlPTQITAWIFilQJKhzztPn05mvOkqfkCqlm5Wf4/s1600/092.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657518470825408994" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMLAuqfMWGpoGEvWxynjtm1Ex8ewyEIDHphwl6kaXFHMLJ-KbAPxIAmUmHp9-Is0yn7p44xzueugq44DOVZ6RRic0TNMvoOqjkptpDBYlPTQITAWIFilQJKhzztPn05mvOkqfkCqlm5Wf4/s320/092.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />These pictures are from the ward campout on Sept. 16. </div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5J42rBm0bcu4XZ7fLRURSlvmzBPn1ouWBLzqipydN2ifhMSyuW-85tPXBlFATSVej_crbWooumyRsouMZgM2AeEv8gR7Jn88h69h4Syoxb1-HYXmg6DHUrRv_EZvAw2fn4wvMV5o4P0CZ/s1600/084.JPG"><img style="width: 240px; height: 320px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657518079952538274" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5J42rBm0bcu4XZ7fLRURSlvmzBPn1ouWBLzqipydN2ifhMSyuW-85tPXBlFATSVej_crbWooumyRsouMZgM2AeEv8gR7Jn88h69h4Syoxb1-HYXmg6DHUrRv_EZvAw2fn4wvMV5o4P0CZ/s320/084.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />They had various relay games involving pancakes. 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height: 320px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657516530451903826" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjB3u8j3WbtkimXqA4AcM7uHccyJBPArgYJsoRDseCGXsfYJ9cW1SVbGfW0OnyqYF1BM9Oo3tNAak_Zm8zwuMf-a_PcR8qWkI23RvEcDQW9IW2lHrXT29Zu7T0qdk3R6W-G6WMyTUw83de/s320/040.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />Cory and Hailey had fun jumping off this little ledge. </div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggZ5QOdfJR57pPbeTTyJce9SoMTiM2DGd9b4ybTIWCjQzTrNIHILSmJtRSmpjCiNONbgewYuIU_dSqfl89x_MQxmFzMAqf2s3QSE-Ivi940jNTX7Pe0H-TCRph0SjUpU1iFOMRo-ddn7c-/s1600/034.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657516528617915602" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggZ5QOdfJR57pPbeTTyJce9SoMTiM2DGd9b4ybTIWCjQzTrNIHILSmJtRSmpjCiNONbgewYuIU_dSqfl89x_MQxmFzMAqf2s3QSE-Ivi940jNTX7Pe0H-TCRph0SjUpU1iFOMRo-ddn7c-/s320/034.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />I feel a certain poem coming on.......</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1rmDKoiHKNLJsMur0sLiI1lcEElscFrhlRIgE_zIbQXEgasIHnwKvvUAQnHnGlYEi1b7KRnuNR-mJiU32ixnoFFy9V0e3meAoNY3LZ-JLKvoWWTGuFRpUNQh02_aOxpVDH-WxH_Gqjbug/s1600/033.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 214px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657516521652256770" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1rmDKoiHKNLJsMur0sLiI1lcEElscFrhlRIgE_zIbQXEgasIHnwKvvUAQnHnGlYEi1b7KRnuNR-mJiU32ixnoFFy9V0e3meAoNY3LZ-JLKvoWWTGuFRpUNQh02_aOxpVDH-WxH_Gqjbug/s320/033.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />This little hatched canopy was just too cute! (Annette--I think this might be the same exact beach we went to back in January or February of 2000 when we took that trip to San Diego and stayed in that hotel. We stopped here early in the morning on our way to the temple--do you remember?)</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWBlpB6SAuTk4kk0QQPd4LGMtDdEo9l0FGHhufgePx8N9yMW0LKmtGa9jqut2Cmlzp3DwbPY9PQ5hZ8r7RrhzhyWRP39DxUvRH-GFUEBxeFqnOz_GrLbeT-HvYDW1xpbog6U5i6yREwX41/s1600/030.JPG"><img style="width: 240px; height: 320px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657516513825789938" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWBlpB6SAuTk4kk0QQPd4LGMtDdEo9l0FGHhufgePx8N9yMW0LKmtGa9jqut2Cmlzp3DwbPY9PQ5hZ8r7RrhzhyWRP39DxUvRH-GFUEBxeFqnOz_GrLbeT-HvYDW1xpbog6U5i6yREwX41/s320/030.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-p256bhBKZTHh495lny9Ifgkg7buDpp3ZT-41usi9nqTYFykO1vweh2xHiDC-8dSPMTvegJi0hwn4xTRlFqKz7xTabOrM0NHEuavYM0Xf9hG0RS7rzRrGIVHVA-A9vM9E9tRnUhnVk0gp/s1600/028.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657516513959206706" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-p256bhBKZTHh495lny9Ifgkg7buDpp3ZT-41usi9nqTYFykO1vweh2xHiDC-8dSPMTvegJi0hwn4xTRlFqKz7xTabOrM0NHEuavYM0Xf9hG0RS7rzRrGIVHVA-A9vM9E9tRnUhnVk0gp/s320/028.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />Pictures from our hike at Torrey Pines Reserve on Labor Day. The kids did great. It even drizzled on us for a little bit.</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggrsvUWHUfr3iMxp2pJh818wUXoU09HCa4t0dCe-aeMfRXkdJO2-E-EEObZ3zpRUhV7AcGqhD-_5cNIkCLn8RkOoqX25uCIj04km-M-8X1V3L5HOVURLl0CueqIVSQAnVOm7KJW7pA6kMN/s1600/021.JPG"><img style="width: 240px; height: 320px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657515873450346242" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggrsvUWHUfr3iMxp2pJh818wUXoU09HCa4t0dCe-aeMfRXkdJO2-E-EEObZ3zpRUhV7AcGqhD-_5cNIkCLn8RkOoqX25uCIj04km-M-8X1V3L5HOVURLl0CueqIVSQAnVOm7KJW7pA6kMN/s320/021.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihoMD_WKWTiHibJ725pVgz0MbjpK-PnyohsovZ1RNa7O6mu0J2nwnSzTA4WyW6iUK31HSMguOFE_VGGE2WHL95oZqrlx4nT5Dlf9WdB4jhwT-Lc31k-ikYqvBVlgL46KLiqhsOiMv7Kgke/s1600/019.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657515870798598050" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihoMD_WKWTiHibJ725pVgz0MbjpK-PnyohsovZ1RNa7O6mu0J2nwnSzTA4WyW6iUK31HSMguOFE_VGGE2WHL95oZqrlx4nT5Dlf9WdB4jhwT-Lc31k-ikYqvBVlgL46KLiqhsOiMv7Kgke/s320/019.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyjV9jbyh2OeLtley661p9VozQqNwhimOiVQa_VcJUtNKPb-APV0IKB-s-T8Yj5PhXZzTvDhadm5lBKENRqkDFbAQ9tuGGFNioVZM9lUMWiT-2Iz_ulDfHERm-jfIJUYt8UeITHlOCv8D4/s1600/010.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657515866370742226" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyjV9jbyh2OeLtley661p9VozQqNwhimOiVQa_VcJUtNKPb-APV0IKB-s-T8Yj5PhXZzTvDhadm5lBKENRqkDFbAQ9tuGGFNioVZM9lUMWiT-2Iz_ulDfHERm-jfIJUYt8UeITHlOCv8D4/s320/010.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />Trent took me to Humphrey's Restaurant for our 9th anniversary dinner. It was on Shelter Island in the San Diego Bay.</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Wy6hdjVkDuIQmRN_wsQxXQ1OxOgj1FVis786st5BPa340XxSr4VZRf_ZlTEeB7Ti5EFk86RzcqWtpCEhdkUoJGY6uH4SvILxf6CC2hgv6LVeyrBCrpexl8LoSybEzD97M9KePeNrCSVk/s1600/003.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657515859369729922" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Wy6hdjVkDuIQmRN_wsQxXQ1OxOgj1FVis786st5BPa340XxSr4VZRf_ZlTEeB7Ti5EFk86RzcqWtpCEhdkUoJGY6uH4SvILxf6CC2hgv6LVeyrBCrpexl8LoSybEzD97M9KePeNrCSVk/s320/003.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />Our delicious carrot cake.</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxX7TUq1odTaNDm3xRv51qpBSj0O6l8lSDql-LJRr5Kq80bmqdUBth5B2hmsOAuemQGGXcy1wlJGEKoz3xyEtKX8RLqN2xWjhN_RmuGNugzxXx7bAjyTMHU5S5J4l-dmKCoagyJiCWQsLZ/s1600/002.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657515858540873922" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxX7TUq1odTaNDm3xRv51qpBSj0O6l8lSDql-LJRr5Kq80bmqdUBth5B2hmsOAuemQGGXcy1wlJGEKoz3xyEtKX8RLqN2xWjhN_RmuGNugzxXx7bAjyTMHU5S5J4l-dmKCoagyJiCWQsLZ/s320/002.JPG" /></a><br /><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Trent and Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01279513269252669235noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1637732167385009664.post-27051341757203170522011-09-21T13:54:00.000-07:002011-09-21T14:02:59.941-07:00Family Pictures and First Day of School<div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRFm-jNS1XJYwBmDl0XS9FqfueRgkFFyG6wzTKwvqSu0Hm9ZysQgFjLawzT4Z_JCbsRx5Y0hEBRj7B-Qha-7XkPy3NqdgdVrTFgJ13qiEjl2q85eyGeMiPZiVT5SZWqusZABnGfIbnov1D/s1600/005+%25282%2529.JPG"><img style="width: 213px; height: 320px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5654920011667795122" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRFm-jNS1XJYwBmDl0XS9FqfueRgkFFyG6wzTKwvqSu0Hm9ZysQgFjLawzT4Z_JCbsRx5Y0hEBRj7B-Qha-7XkPy3NqdgdVrTFgJ13qiEjl2q85eyGeMiPZiVT5SZWqusZABnGfIbnov1D/s320/005+%25282%2529.JPG" /></a></div><div>Hailey on her first day of Preschool 4 mornings a week at the same school that Cory attends.</div><div>Cory starting 2nd Grade.<br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDpaCLaXZGY5smEUOETLchZb-FHzpYZWxO9gAuBcWDBP-W1Gtjs91Gw64zE7lRL4_BF9BHtpWctKPMU6YQnvsFZbNAPJzsvsvEoxQ1GaKBAdDkdE4RIMMPR8Iwuk6CfXzuAhOg4qbuAis0/s1600/002+%25282%2529.JPG"><img style="width: 214px; height: 320px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5654920010074137762" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDpaCLaXZGY5smEUOETLchZb-FHzpYZWxO9gAuBcWDBP-W1Gtjs91Gw64zE7lRL4_BF9BHtpWctKPMU6YQnvsFZbNAPJzsvsvEoxQ1GaKBAdDkdE4RIMMPR8Iwuk6CfXzuAhOg4qbuAis0/s320/002+%25282%2529.JPG" /></a></div><div> </div><div><br />We hadn't taken pictures of just Trent and I for a couple years. </div><div>This was just last month. Sophie is 2.5 years old. She's so cute!</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgC2aZlRQxbtuQXM_cH4Kwf-Dv4ByFi4jhHntIZDwG8MzPjSD0-KYScU9FwhXROwZ0rPyNlJYbb5mTGtembL5eLlU3lbEOgiIroJlT5b5AsgdJAWcVzJpq2JVnSNKQENZdb5AUJx6GvzhZ/s1600/Trent+and+Karen-2011.jpg"><img style="width: 254px; height: 320px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5654920006379089602" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgC2aZlRQxbtuQXM_cH4Kwf-Dv4ByFi4jhHntIZDwG8MzPjSD0-KYScU9FwhXROwZ0rPyNlJYbb5mTGtembL5eLlU3lbEOgiIroJlT5b5AsgdJAWcVzJpq2JVnSNKQENZdb5AUJx6GvzhZ/s320/Trent+and+Karen-2011.jpg" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPvXlStowbA633s3XzeNFhzl-bchy3gYUuH6Z3FeHA336Fj3Dc_9bcgkmvJ093t6jpTJhJMgXn_Wa4X_72DYgc6O3dCFmfvgWQ2Oodpg42FDgbD4Uv_LsRKapwV78_d16bo73AjqScQoEy/s1600/Sophie-2.jpg"><img style="width: 254px; height: 320px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5654919998893829074" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPvXlStowbA633s3XzeNFhzl-bchy3gYUuH6Z3FeHA336Fj3Dc_9bcgkmvJ093t6jpTJhJMgXn_Wa4X_72DYgc6O3dCFmfvgWQ2Oodpg42FDgbD4Uv_LsRKapwV78_d16bo73AjqScQoEy/s320/Sophie-2.jpg" /></a></div><div>We got professional pictures done in August. Hailey loved to pose and all 3 kids were very cooperative. The first time we didn't have to deal with a 1-year-old freaking out during pictures!<br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-OxvPaQEbcrynS4YgLC67SrCAiIRpeFPaPwOfwdW_l2vnT_kIzXEW6bp4fUZeYJb8YGo3EnjZ8BarJw6wzYd4XA6rBUzwzvWZdtkIx5viFWNISjcP-qXNsVPNMK529OjN6754yFyhpyxp/s1600/Sophie+and+Hailey-2011.jpg"><img style="width: 254px; height: 320px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5654919994643301378" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-OxvPaQEbcrynS4YgLC67SrCAiIRpeFPaPwOfwdW_l2vnT_kIzXEW6bp4fUZeYJb8YGo3EnjZ8BarJw6wzYd4XA6rBUzwzvWZdtkIx5viFWNISjcP-qXNsVPNMK529OjN6754yFyhpyxp/s320/Sophie+and+Hailey-2011.jpg" /></a><br /><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqcm7tJbhvsJZGQPd9c8bSBGTo7_1cxM0qD5-UciqQBmlu8-xqllBScxxxq08koP4OZgVARxBzXPe1BD24LwNPUM3JHoTNKNj6hXzK2q7MjoIvAZZiphsMXbCXD76UtOddg4GZkSFADibY/s1600/Our+Family-2011.jpg"><img style="width: 226px; 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height: 234px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5654919399573597426" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnta6Nei9HmeHIYFobeO2gN0GoVXh8OgoNFWE8oT6U_Sx1jJnSwpP1g-0bfziR9sRMtTj3Uo6iZSV17VKnTKXLRBK-Za8UBQF6vou0Wt6Y-yznl8sCdV9NrY4DzKzVD3eZOia2QCZljRSV/s320/All+3+kids-2011.jpg" /></a><br /><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Trent and Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01279513269252669235noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1637732167385009664.post-33984288347282673132011-08-22T22:14:00.000-07:002011-08-22T23:09:30.627-07:00Summer--Where did you go?<div><div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc9mjk6cj2mtQNbUyAFZL6MofnyRQOBRjTfqby5au5jf1x7VNofjmIpmpDdx8f1X8HXcWVqT3_1rxqe8wzY4GBmtJp1RDLJH3tgYRctqRbFaORsHaS-LeWbQAPrmX-SmiK_ydSk89-klrY/s1600/015.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643920602543852738" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc9mjk6cj2mtQNbUyAFZL6MofnyRQOBRjTfqby5au5jf1x7VNofjmIpmpDdx8f1X8HXcWVqT3_1rxqe8wzY4GBmtJp1RDLJH3tgYRctqRbFaORsHaS-LeWbQAPrmX-SmiK_ydSk89-klrY/s320/015.JPG" /></a></div><div> </div><div>Trent and me and Catamaran Resort at Mission Bay for Trent's summer work picnic.<br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxHXwJaNibjsf_X5zdRttN3F1uSVx_hJ4_jock_1Mr3vncveYRyQaBIrrAayfPoyV0pvGx172eHrcwtiOotFKykAVCaNyEtrBcudpAKxmEukcOx7nGjNmXZOUdlUBC9QWW92l-0FKWUNqw/s1600/028.JPG"><img style="width: 240px; 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Hailey loved it and did NOT want to take it off for bed.<br /></div><div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxPPhxi5zf81K7oyjocjrnuZGRgwbxsGFtQbVz8H8uOQNGHER1UBz6EqRVv5H3eYWtRIflPUnGyV9XnYc825Z8H5IYnQhua3zihvT9FzWwreiVq0i75MucIWPdGFlOn9AT0b-tqdZo1QQY/s1600/005.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643920591336293266" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxPPhxi5zf81K7oyjocjrnuZGRgwbxsGFtQbVz8H8uOQNGHER1UBz6EqRVv5H3eYWtRIflPUnGyV9XnYc825Z8H5IYnQhua3zihvT9FzWwreiVq0i75MucIWPdGFlOn9AT0b-tqdZo1QQY/s320/005.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ODcGaQ8JN5bmbutYfnE9dJZ5l1QvhONAVbRH7hOeiEU1FunycJtBEHI7mDVimBOWrr3dMVzUJY2C0b2-w52a6CUHEXmz3nCcX5kmMNOo7ysFmcYHHp3Z79u94AqCbvmcUnVVcgvKndsY/s1600/004.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643920590155212002" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ODcGaQ8JN5bmbutYfnE9dJZ5l1QvhONAVbRH7hOeiEU1FunycJtBEHI7mDVimBOWrr3dMVzUJY2C0b2-w52a6CUHEXmz3nCcX5kmMNOo7ysFmcYHHp3Z79u94AqCbvmcUnVVcgvKndsY/s320/004.JPG" /></a></div><div>This picture was just too typical of Cory's face.<br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKB5NHeZRmguhRpqyY7iw0zCCOCHOl_yHibK5f6RThfyfFtqvmXhrWuMDAQw6cJsMTMZYNzocWgA3w2L4dl8T3xHApwELgxqiGzYdeaVqAoNDIMKoS-39uvh0WUSHguhcvTVrnxnfI-VL5/s1600/023.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643920226796265186" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKB5NHeZRmguhRpqyY7iw0zCCOCHOl_yHibK5f6RThfyfFtqvmXhrWuMDAQw6cJsMTMZYNzocWgA3w2L4dl8T3xHApwELgxqiGzYdeaVqAoNDIMKoS-39uvh0WUSHguhcvTVrnxnfI-VL5/s320/023.JPG" /></a></div><div>Kids were all playing dress-up.<br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGQtHXpLiCDmccCMGYefKQHhVbylEko7UVgAyoFfeaB9YbsgsKHKTPjtSNEhJOLxRmmX6qBIwmxmHECsOjFyuEiQw7WY9zmNzL5ifBk-oqHYTEZRNQJqYRdOzy7efjb8m1usP9Hl5NvkEj/s1600/019.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643920228086322226" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGQtHXpLiCDmccCMGYefKQHhVbylEko7UVgAyoFfeaB9YbsgsKHKTPjtSNEhJOLxRmmX6qBIwmxmHECsOjFyuEiQw7WY9zmNzL5ifBk-oqHYTEZRNQJqYRdOzy7efjb8m1usP9Hl5NvkEj/s320/019.JPG" /></a></div><div>We went out on Mission Bay in a paddleboat when we were there for Trent's work party.<br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1wFgsL1-TpvaPDWbEorC1S4_w_43MfPCSJsiwq-BrSMD-uYIFGlc5eMPDa50QFc4IbqL9-_bOlHaTA1o2EYVTSLcvzLXUz-yvlZhrtPBcElC0covBfnpAcaUq94cYcH4X5sQB-ZWwZJ3X/s1600/018.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643920226036584210" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1wFgsL1-TpvaPDWbEorC1S4_w_43MfPCSJsiwq-BrSMD-uYIFGlc5eMPDa50QFc4IbqL9-_bOlHaTA1o2EYVTSLcvzLXUz-yvlZhrtPBcElC0covBfnpAcaUq94cYcH4X5sQB-ZWwZJ3X/s320/018.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiZC0XdipsDOAuPDqV4BYQyQj6QeJpNRuoHw8Lk4dFsONVSGHZLK4KxmWvdPr2vxq9xtmnP3SaFgWh2vSLVj955qkRDW8DToa5f8w6EeCp7yVYxgcyrZSnTmBzIpFZ7CpNBjDKnFlbwpK7/s1600/016.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643920218734341442" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiZC0XdipsDOAuPDqV4BYQyQj6QeJpNRuoHw8Lk4dFsONVSGHZLK4KxmWvdPr2vxq9xtmnP3SaFgWh2vSLVj955qkRDW8DToa5f8w6EeCp7yVYxgcyrZSnTmBzIpFZ7CpNBjDKnFlbwpK7/s320/016.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibwl28BUybrC673HXULIPIO-elAPX2_roQFRSs8Wz8khVmYdRCdsJn3K9xJsS2T79tShlVsh7hQyQEnCHIypgpHmckI_6ctrGQJlBnj8DH-AO8OzijXVTqK2baFyvmu6UoXx8d55qv9Kdj/s1600/010.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643920220886757458" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibwl28BUybrC673HXULIPIO-elAPX2_roQFRSs8Wz8khVmYdRCdsJn3K9xJsS2T79tShlVsh7hQyQEnCHIypgpHmckI_6ctrGQJlBnj8DH-AO8OzijXVTqK2baFyvmu6UoXx8d55qv9Kdj/s320/010.JPG" /></a></div><div>It looks cold, but it was actually about 75 degrees--just overcast.<br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbwpPVUI0CMq90uohk25WuzqZAKy5YV-E8iKoho3auHyu1-gSPV5oGcbS3O9OePntSlFeI1IalsGHIYvswk6F3E7JBBw_hoxSFoKvx4-OO0_kenZ0YdcJh5H3BOnh5cD9vLT47dTE_LA0S/s1600/026.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643919636073557298" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbwpPVUI0CMq90uohk25WuzqZAKy5YV-E8iKoho3auHyu1-gSPV5oGcbS3O9OePntSlFeI1IalsGHIYvswk6F3E7JBBw_hoxSFoKvx4-OO0_kenZ0YdcJh5H3BOnh5cD9vLT47dTE_LA0S/s320/026.JPG" /></a></div><div>We rode this little train on the 4th of July.<br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipsB5omvH_3XcVmw21j6qlI8uCrs_1M3W3gj-0d4pH4YxA32Yex5aUVt8W6_LuNdjtgR_GjOQN_oQ_aYHTTJXn4cTdRI4ksdrYE3c98xXx7ej5xOGPX81pUANP7MDOHb0pcvDgWmW3_vpm/s1600/047.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643919632206166322" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipsB5omvH_3XcVmw21j6qlI8uCrs_1M3W3gj-0d4pH4YxA32Yex5aUVt8W6_LuNdjtgR_GjOQN_oQ_aYHTTJXn4cTdRI4ksdrYE3c98xXx7ej5xOGPX81pUANP7MDOHb0pcvDgWmW3_vpm/s320/047.JPG" /></a></div><div>Hailey lost her first tooth! (Yes, she is only 4 1/2)<br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUZwXur7xZwe5JrSgHpP6E5BG04hL-jZpabnKNojzZOwPtmmtgoWX2EsSD5LLF42YVnwleFe1rDVNsV3hLCAv8DO8WfFHGNHbHZ3KZ4ncMXfXcGlc6eHBECK1vbofchln-tDlbkrpKg_du/s1600/030.JPG"><img style="width: 240px; height: 320px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643919625647891714" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUZwXur7xZwe5JrSgHpP6E5BG04hL-jZpabnKNojzZOwPtmmtgoWX2EsSD5LLF42YVnwleFe1rDVNsV3hLCAv8DO8WfFHGNHbHZ3KZ4ncMXfXcGlc6eHBECK1vbofchln-tDlbkrpKg_du/s320/030.JPG" /></a></div><div>Andy (a cousin) and the girls at the Mormon Battalion Museum in Old Town San Diego.<br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqcNBHHpwDeQNyM3oKaKWk27fbuAkebnfXp3qlVIaEr3wID2gEfAraYQ1Z0gsxD95K0yHa-wnNsyPrjrHPrblWtMsM13dG435pebMv2GOOEC9p0n879ZmVac8pQfVTx0EmQQyPt459FxqG/s1600/115.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643919623330913490" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqcNBHHpwDeQNyM3oKaKWk27fbuAkebnfXp3qlVIaEr3wID2gEfAraYQ1Z0gsxD95K0yHa-wnNsyPrjrHPrblWtMsM13dG435pebMv2GOOEC9p0n879ZmVac8pQfVTx0EmQQyPt459FxqG/s320/115.JPG" /></a></div><div>We took the kids to Rainforest Cafe for their first time.<br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFYoAqo8XQvF_Q2DVbMcS33654JpjHoK5PvZjrOCRGqDqFM_94VjEbjiMlaQhB2Mr7R2_4GzLetHos-UUUstTLpDzZJ7m1HPzc6-XimRkrV6o_2cRwP8D5Hr8xAvMAToM3KN2dWITi_jTb/s1600/121.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643919619129479250" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFYoAqo8XQvF_Q2DVbMcS33654JpjHoK5PvZjrOCRGqDqFM_94VjEbjiMlaQhB2Mr7R2_4GzLetHos-UUUstTLpDzZJ7m1HPzc6-XimRkrV6o_2cRwP8D5Hr8xAvMAToM3KN2dWITi_jTb/s320/121.JPG" /></a></div><div>They loved to play in the sprinklers in the front yard. (With umbrellas!)<br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUswbERqUocEyrYBXoaMEcy25M5LQXx_STnXBhRDdj7K16qgyiyB5Y2qoTPpfoTGNvjAGQuP32UpMlUPuOTVWv7oYRZ8GAzTJjLdIbbzaECDWYjcOM-PJXxtq3hg_avHZU4PIq6d0UA3Cf/s1600/122.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643918703717432482" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUswbERqUocEyrYBXoaMEcy25M5LQXx_STnXBhRDdj7K16qgyiyB5Y2qoTPpfoTGNvjAGQuP32UpMlUPuOTVWv7oYRZ8GAzTJjLdIbbzaECDWYjcOM-PJXxtq3hg_avHZU4PIq6d0UA3Cf/s320/122.JPG" /></a></div><div>Hailey, Cory's friend, Sophie, and Cory posing on the sidewalk out front.<br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsY79eheA70ZakoUBQ5eMPkzwu7tmwJjcGh0IpqL2jUIW42RHkEA3JfNHAmXwgIviYqy-JGXKqqRlQO3iI6PA4XMV-nDcw0kuhxSvrEvHu0k2Yg7Eof8ZEsjCguE_2wl3uIXkweoxdLmMZ/s1600/100.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643918698537634002" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsY79eheA70ZakoUBQ5eMPkzwu7tmwJjcGh0IpqL2jUIW42RHkEA3JfNHAmXwgIviYqy-JGXKqqRlQO3iI6PA4XMV-nDcw0kuhxSvrEvHu0k2Yg7Eof8ZEsjCguE_2wl3uIXkweoxdLmMZ/s320/100.JPG" /></a></div><div>We took a day trip up to Orange County--this is Newport Beach.<br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw8b12nTZpyu_j03pd0-lY8hxJyWTDzZ4H8BWg6vEtUtKBMpz6UoLY7a9BXGHdg2MDgmVode05x26yhBv00CYY4alx6pho5NCMUkqSqjj7Q5a3cAf_ZUsIduTkXnUGKvRYSZos7Mqg6Gpb/s1600/085.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643918695556015586" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw8b12nTZpyu_j03pd0-lY8hxJyWTDzZ4H8BWg6vEtUtKBMpz6UoLY7a9BXGHdg2MDgmVode05x26yhBv00CYY4alx6pho5NCMUkqSqjj7Q5a3cAf_ZUsIduTkXnUGKvRYSZos7Mqg6Gpb/s320/085.JPG" /></a></div><div>This is Trent on the Daddy Daughter Campout back in June. They had a blast!<br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIvf6GTOOV4QMuZq5f0m9zcZwNkJN1UQ15TNzFUCP3T500Xu3el80nRGgvIzTjWh5FTC0JWhiH11YASTdNwxNoELWYr5f6RjZh-DulWKUb7Lv-xwgDj1nlzCtkJk-OHFUYswk57HNjROpS/s1600/001.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643918693634597570" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIvf6GTOOV4QMuZq5f0m9zcZwNkJN1UQ15TNzFUCP3T500Xu3el80nRGgvIzTjWh5FTC0JWhiH11YASTdNwxNoELWYr5f6RjZh-DulWKUb7Lv-xwgDj1nlzCtkJk-OHFUYswk57HNjROpS/s320/001.JPG" /></a></div><div>The Padres vs. Atlants Braves game we attended.<br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmWWzUeLPdfKV5qGRXRBSeoSfperZdSqPKKceMpwmugYaqaASG1Gd41fKJUkLsdRRSb3n-L08T6MOOgOWTi4jNRXpLTpcgr1E1doE1GGIDZZriLHM6KcZynbWgRranIjHxFYDjWC8u5Wki/s1600/133.JPG"><img style="width: 320px; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643918690780615970" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmWWzUeLPdfKV5qGRXRBSeoSfperZdSqPKKceMpwmugYaqaASG1Gd41fKJUkLsdRRSb3n-L08T6MOOgOWTi4jNRXpLTpcgr1E1doE1GGIDZZriLHM6KcZynbWgRranIjHxFYDjWC8u5Wki/s320/133.JPG" /></a></div><div>The cake I made for Trent for Father's Day. (I think he liked it!)</div><div><br /> </div><div>Well, it's been *choke* 3 months since I last posted. We've been having a great time. I was really worried the kids would die of boredom this summer. I guess I forgot where I lived or something...</div><div> </div><div>We went to the beach a lot. Almost every Wednesday (with friends from church), and some Saturdays in between. We went to Legoland Amusement Park twice. We went to SeaWorld twice. We had a huge Goodman family reunion come here and spent 4 days with many relatives. We had Trent's mom and brother (and a friend) visit us back in June. We spent literally 100 hours at the pool (our community center pool). We had several trips to the library, dozens of playdates at parks, and even a Major League Baseball Game (Padres). Trent took the kids camping twice. (I'm going with them in September for ou family campout.) </div><div>I tried out for the San Diego Mormon Choir, and made it! I decided I would start teaching piano lessons in the fall (and already have 7 students!) I started playing soccer at 6:30 am every Thursday morning with some women from church (I was SO SORE the first day, but had SO MUCH FUN!)</div><div>I spent the last three weeks of the summer babysitting our 10-year-old neighbor across the street just in the mornings. (Helped pay for our expensive family photo session last week!) She helps entertain my kids and keeps them busy. And we never drove more than 30 minutes to go anywhere! I guess I really do like it here.</div><div> </div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Trent and Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01279513269252669235noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1637732167385009664.post-84448097215879334362011-05-31T09:30:00.000-07:002011-06-05T19:36:31.780-07:00What's UP with these Californians?<span style="color:#000000;">Well, it's been over a year since anyone has yelled at me for something regarding my children. I just commented to my husband last week how maybe I'm starting to get the hang of how differently you have to parent your kids when you live, here as opposed to anywhere say, with more common sense. There are some great people that live here. Then there are the illogical, off-their-rocker types that just don't understand people. Or how to live by them. Or in a neighborhood. Or in a state where people have kids. Even if they once had small kids. I know we've all heard crazy neighbor stories, so now I have mine!<br /><br />Last Friday my kids (and our neighbor girl who lives across the street) were playing in our driveway. Like they do quite often. We have just a small bit of grass in our front yard (and half of that is on a steep hill), so mostly they play in the driveway with chalk, scooters, balls, small bikes, etc. It's great. It's a place to play. Our backyard (because we live in California where if you want a backyard bigger than 10 square feet, you're house costs a million dollars), is not a place our kids can play. There is a deck and a very small patch of grass. It's an appropriate play area for maybe a 10-month-old.<br /><br />So I was sitting on the grass in my front yard watching them have fun. I usually don't sit down. I'm usually too busy filling requests of "mommy, I need help with this, or mommy fix my bike, or mommy, play this with me, etc." But this was probably the first time in 5 days of them playing outside (for about 2-3 hours a day) that I had even sat down. Literally. Sophie was eating a bag of snacks and Hailey noticed our big yellow sign we keep at the end of the driveway (in the gutter area by the sidewalk) had turned sideways so cars coming couldn't read it anymore. She went over there and said to me, "I'll fix the sign." So I said, great. So she's turning our yellow sign (it says "SLOW. Children at Play" in big, red letters). There are 4 other families just on our street that regularly post a sign like this in the gutter in front of their houses too, because there are a lot of fast cars that come down our hill. The speed limit on our street is 20 and cars are always zooming 35 or more down the street. So right at this moment (when I'm sitting on the grass, Sophie is standing on our sidewalk eating a snack out of a bag, and Hailey is turning the sign to face forward--keep in mind the sign is just at the end of our driveway--touching the sidewalk) a SUV comes zooming down the hill, the lady slams on her breaks and honks her horn (even though she was nowhere near the girls.) Then she screams out her window. "You need to get off your lazy butt and be there with them!!" Excuse me? What? I yelled back, "I'm right here! I'm watching them!" THEY WEREN'T IN THE ROAD!!! Or even acting like they were going to dart out and run in the road. Then she yells back, "You should make them play in the backyard!" Then she starts driving off and I yell, "I don't have a backyard!!"<br /><br />Has anyone ever been yelled at before for letting their kids play in the frontyard? We live in a residential street on a small road. The nearest stoplight is more than a half mile away, so even the streets connecting to our road aren't big 4 lane roads either.<br />She might have a point if the girls were in the road, about to cross the road, looking like they were chasing a ball into the road, or even moving quickly. But they were literally standing there on the sidewalk when she came. Maybe she almost killed a child before in her life, so she's extra paranoid. I really don't know what would possess someone to yell at me like that.<br /><br />I only wish the story ended there. So my neighbor across the street (who's girl was in our yard playing at the time of all this), comes and asks me what she said to me. So I told her. She gets really upset. She said her blood was just boiling and she couldn't believe that lady would yell at me like that. She said of course our kids can play in our front yards and how ridiculous the lady was being, etc. So then we see the lady coming back. She had turned around in her car. I guess to come yell at me some more or something. But she never got a chance to yell at me some more. (Even though she tried to--she kept trying to ignore my neighbor and say things like this is between me and her (as she's pointing to me), not you! So my neighbor across the street runs up to her car and starts yelling at her! They're going back and forth for a few minutes swearing up a storm. Then I take all the kids inside. My neighbor (who was on my side) screams at her husband (who was also outside for the whole thing) to call the police for harrasment! She's yelling at all the kids to go inside and she's going to call 9-1-1. Well, at this point, the lady starts speeding off and my neighbors yells, "That's right! You run away! But I'VE GOT YOUR LICENSE PLATE!" So the lady does a crazy U-turn in the middle of our street, and another car had come up, so she almost ran into him, (he had to drive around her once she kind of got out of his way), so then she comes back, but then just drives past us and leaves. So my neighbor did call 9-1-1 and reported the crazy lady and the police went and found her house (she's up the hill from us), and told her she needs to calm down and stop almost causing accidents. But then they came and talked to my neighbor and said it's best not to confront people like that because they're never going to back down. I'm like, "oh great, now we have this big neighborhood dispute all because of me." Not like I did anything WRONG! But there are all these crazy people in California, so apparently I do wrong things all the time! Like letting my kids play in my own driveway!!! GASP! Choke! Heaven forbid!!<br /><br />So it's funny, since this happened I've had a few other neighbors on the street, who I hardly talk to say they've known that lady for years (including the HOA Pres) and she's caused some issues before. People have learned to steer clear of her. Great. And I've upset her. The HOA Pres. man said he thinks she's not entirely there, mentally. Neat.<br /><br />I've also had people come to me and say they always let their kids play out front when they were little on this street and they think I'm totally fine to let my kids play in the front. That's why we live in a neighborhood. So that's helped me to feel a little better. Well, I need to go help my girls now. Just another reason I know I don't want to live here forever. Regardless of the super fun Memorial Day weekend we had at the beach on Saturday (including watching a surfing competition!) and Seaworld on Monday.</span>Trent and Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01279513269252669235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1637732167385009664.post-34854893469826451752011-05-11T13:55:00.000-07:002011-06-05T19:37:48.317-07:00Hailey's Prayers Lately<span style="color:#000000;">So, I had to write this down before I forget about it...<br /><br />Lately Hailey has been saying the following things in her prayers, in no particular order:<br /><br />Please bless Sophie to not tease me.<br />Please bless Cory to not tease me.<br />Please bless Sophie to not hit me.<br />Please bless Cory to not hit me. (Can you tell she's our sensitive child??)<br /><br />Please bless Sophie to be nice to me and share her dollies and not yell at me.<br />Please bless Cory to be nice to me and not yell at me and let me play with him.<br />Please bless me to not crawl in mommy and daddy's bed at night.<br />When I do crawl into mommy and daddy's bed at night, please bless me to not kick daddy.<br />Please help me to not be too cold and then wake up in the night.<br />Please help me to not be too hot and then wake up in the night.<br />Please help me to be just right and nice and comfortable while I sleep and not wake up.<br />(Can you tell we've stressed that she needs to stay in her own bed at night??)<br /><br /><br />And then the usual stuff like, bless me to be brave at night, and not be scared, and not have bad dreams, etc, etc.<br /><br />Sometimes her prayers last for 2 or 3 minutes, and Trent and I are doing all we can to hold in our laughing. One time my eyes were watering because I was trying so hard not BUST OUT laughind during her prayers.<br /><br />Such is the life of a 4-year-old.</span>Trent and Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01279513269252669235noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1637732167385009664.post-48417321547070929282011-05-05T22:41:00.001-07:002011-05-05T23:08:33.801-07:00Easter Fun and Some Good News!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1hVtd_pyWPfJ1nG4QXk0u6rdn4d_RkUV8EVhK8zfkpvhSVhWfmPaQWO2rnSAhX5kQuIpaYfJhjXPfrGcaMTNmSm_lFcUhCjAJ3T1_-L35fLvTsmw8fadsB_AE1ZSypczIqDsb1yv-tANS/s1600/045.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5603477029602910306" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1hVtd_pyWPfJ1nG4QXk0u6rdn4d_RkUV8EVhK8zfkpvhSVhWfmPaQWO2rnSAhX5kQuIpaYfJhjXPfrGcaMTNmSm_lFcUhCjAJ3T1_-L35fLvTsmw8fadsB_AE1ZSypczIqDsb1yv-tANS/s320/045.JPG" /></a><br />This is the girls on Easter Sunday.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg31GwLnKyVEHGuAq8aYzTfQKlqGY3XDdA-1C7Or8n-bJ4KmJYMTyZEACzGSpSMuf0YI2EmkmxR8OBTuPRdIMImu48s2vuLU6_qFL_jlNTum5Bdu2_2Xz_QkEBN1S4zYh53wWD4Ui4wuwZ0/s1600/039.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5603477024016109282" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg31GwLnKyVEHGuAq8aYzTfQKlqGY3XDdA-1C7Or8n-bJ4KmJYMTyZEACzGSpSMuf0YI2EmkmxR8OBTuPRdIMImu48s2vuLU6_qFL_jlNTum5Bdu2_2Xz_QkEBN1S4zYh53wWD4Ui4wuwZ0/s320/039.JPG" /></a><br />Hailey found the golden egg!<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3v722MlNYQluDwlULslNZ1qLKUrfuYFgn4bxwoCPE7-2oO26pcc4hQD-YAFlvIWotM8df_8GPJVThPs-eJT0xR9UjEvUiXvTIujJR_-PiaJjkutlfi0i0IfMC_5ieMIYU6p-SYMWgpTTz/s1600/041.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5603477018879623202" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3v722MlNYQluDwlULslNZ1qLKUrfuYFgn4bxwoCPE7-2oO26pcc4hQD-YAFlvIWotM8df_8GPJVThPs-eJT0xR9UjEvUiXvTIujJR_-PiaJjkutlfi0i0IfMC_5ieMIYU6p-SYMWgpTTz/s320/041.JPG" /></a><br /><br />After finding all the eggs.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO8tMlkW0zb6Ad0rZYrBXj0xCusxwBr1xczmDPT_fmCntSfQgWqYc1owW94MQx4PBv_yPsrqPmoz_pE5WUh5qIE2vcf9Fkmnunw3BYkHiRN0A89Z_MsJ2dXz3EBlSULsI24kn9igpgH_Z0/s1600/039.JPG"></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhb8ISh3wfnZKJlDBiGzJfc_pA8vu2j87yPojs6clpdg-ehChMppimseI6ZJOt2LGebneEuuDovBDl_w9U7iJzL1dsfxM6XtXOgNAhvt8jh6RDUdL9f8yeIwTAMz4Keua5zMj7eTRITEu7/s1600/035.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5603477010416010082" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhb8ISh3wfnZKJlDBiGzJfc_pA8vu2j87yPojs6clpdg-ehChMppimseI6ZJOt2LGebneEuuDovBDl_w9U7iJzL1dsfxM6XtXOgNAhvt8jh6RDUdL9f8yeIwTAMz4Keua5zMj7eTRITEu7/s320/035.JPG" /></a><br /><br />The kids got Pillow Pets this year. They were really sad when Santa didn't bring them any at Christmas, so I guess the Easter Bunny gave in!<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEtptV7Si6yoTJrcxXC_PmyFazNG4LPXZPOagDKATtrKnIdQGoxFsn3PQ0NS_gi8tu6GTlL30AlLrfPhz39l5N1L82WLJTAwA3lKX39-TzdhJCtV8jbL1fY0-U_zulfA7xK_Aq9IWmatfM/s1600/032.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5603476410665454002" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEtptV7Si6yoTJrcxXC_PmyFazNG4LPXZPOagDKATtrKnIdQGoxFsn3PQ0NS_gi8tu6GTlL30AlLrfPhz39l5N1L82WLJTAwA3lKX39-TzdhJCtV8jbL1fY0-U_zulfA7xK_Aq9IWmatfM/s320/032.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Dying Easter eggs on Saturday.</div><br /><div><br /></div><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjERAh0LIiqVPf4Sy3erWFinsZ-XmtHVEmCY0FwwZb1nXOcQvEabnUG1a5HCKZIpusUVricQ1hWBUMK0TObf1myyZoO69gPZCiCN8QiyUJ8tki47PlDwpTUL1jHrAG5Vm_vg5OLXkB0XynV/s1600/018.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5603476401476077362" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjERAh0LIiqVPf4Sy3erWFinsZ-XmtHVEmCY0FwwZb1nXOcQvEabnUG1a5HCKZIpusUVricQ1hWBUMK0TObf1myyZoO69gPZCiCN8QiyUJ8tki47PlDwpTUL1jHrAG5Vm_vg5OLXkB0XynV/s320/018.JPG" /></a><br /><br />A friend of ours held an Easter Egg hunt at her house on Saturday. We went and had fun playing the games. This is Hailey in a 3-legged race.<br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPZmDFp7ZHjo-DKXD9PrqSszgjljY3jocTwPDsKrS-2ngBH06Q3X18QVXhxihaoTmklgjC1EChy_arCUF9bprgwItMxKVVqESLcEjawxIyEdxrp_iMSY02aejrI2Q98bToalj_1Oa0PyvN/s1600/016.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5603476397684417714" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPZmDFp7ZHjo-DKXD9PrqSszgjljY3jocTwPDsKrS-2ngBH06Q3X18QVXhxihaoTmklgjC1EChy_arCUF9bprgwItMxKVVqESLcEjawxIyEdxrp_iMSY02aejrI2Q98bToalj_1Oa0PyvN/s320/016.JPG" /></a><br /><br />I'm helping Sophie.<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQtDOE-Qw70-RjhcLOn46y2j_24Sd-en7G3-j8LurjLByNIzUFQDORTPPA5v1aD9r_LjRCpUPkM_OjByWoYaCb1k5BE4nix7ZpWtIf68w5DGG1jOHjSU64wTlAtM5gj4ZVHctrg0OOro7Q/s1600/019.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5603476390180915954" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQtDOE-Qw70-RjhcLOn46y2j_24Sd-en7G3-j8LurjLByNIzUFQDORTPPA5v1aD9r_LjRCpUPkM_OjByWoYaCb1k5BE4nix7ZpWtIf68w5DGG1jOHjSU64wTlAtM5gj4ZVHctrg0OOro7Q/s320/019.JPG" /></a><br />Hailey after the hunt.<br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Oms07c9mCSEC0BpmQn3532mIeHGOld1iI3EOE8cd-MANw-9i_cBxnyRzKvdEucWt3FJ8osYW_6wJQe2OEnN5j5OD19NZHAwFsh67ZXSmB2G-bdgh1PD4pTJJuPCxj27HDnAMvH-EOqDG/s1600/024.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5603476385924714210" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Oms07c9mCSEC0BpmQn3532mIeHGOld1iI3EOE8cd-MANw-9i_cBxnyRzKvdEucWt3FJ8osYW_6wJQe2OEnN5j5OD19NZHAwFsh67ZXSmB2G-bdgh1PD4pTJJuPCxj27HDnAMvH-EOqDG/s320/024.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3HACIYHMviR4JQuOcI_LoisfaOVyxhJS2lmHFVet0I06tQlCEreZqLIAycwqoWZSJiMjrcp79OFu_JzKW1j_lsQt_XGyMiZN73N0_12Fmx0q6S8gR6jSJYJAoynX9bPGSOOt5nYdeFdF0/s1600/015.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5603475756317982514" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3HACIYHMviR4JQuOcI_LoisfaOVyxhJS2lmHFVet0I06tQlCEreZqLIAycwqoWZSJiMjrcp79OFu_JzKW1j_lsQt_XGyMiZN73N0_12Fmx0q6S8gR6jSJYJAoynX9bPGSOOt5nYdeFdF0/s320/015.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Cory winning the sack race.<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1xB2iWBfXSVAFGoudKXJXB0pw07en7lWVjFEwijHsDuzfmAxevgGuE1sLLbYKTgLA-nIAEtH5i1Q1BvQpkRWhUbyRHdKj3x98BmXb5wZkDORRnvjTdpodhxGmQlpLl5icIM56e5nXYzfZ/s1600/009.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5603475753408856146" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1xB2iWBfXSVAFGoudKXJXB0pw07en7lWVjFEwijHsDuzfmAxevgGuE1sLLbYKTgLA-nIAEtH5i1Q1BvQpkRWhUbyRHdKj3x98BmXb5wZkDORRnvjTdpodhxGmQlpLl5icIM56e5nXYzfZ/s320/009.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Sophie collecting her eggs.<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmW6qInhj0y-6VZUXZ34wHPF1yCRe2hu7_KHZq0PlUE07zR8YwBSmuz0ppFNrbEvPo6FG34GHi3JUhBCp-cz0pNOiFkwQ-v9pS5IBko20s8_FCbx0QDEFz5DRWIRlLjhhkzGBHB-u5mGfE/s1600/055.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 213px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5603475746537772994" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmW6qInhj0y-6VZUXZ34wHPF1yCRe2hu7_KHZq0PlUE07zR8YwBSmuz0ppFNrbEvPo6FG34GHi3JUhBCp-cz0pNOiFkwQ-v9pS5IBko20s8_FCbx0QDEFz5DRWIRlLjhhkzGBHB-u5mGfE/s320/055.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Sophie doing silly poses for the camera.<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXaTblUwXvNHJc8cuuBa-f3acxQOotsLG5YvtQx59lZyCakmmjkc7QHV_LFaSxni80x_ksP9g50oPPDnsUK5yTVjzJ2pGD6YSd2zH1BIYbdjMH1hQf53bfibhsxsA3o_ROneBiSuTu6jKN/s1600/052.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5603475739216973394" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXaTblUwXvNHJc8cuuBa-f3acxQOotsLG5YvtQx59lZyCakmmjkc7QHV_LFaSxni80x_ksP9g50oPPDnsUK5yTVjzJ2pGD6YSd2zH1BIYbdjMH1hQf53bfibhsxsA3o_ROneBiSuTu6jKN/s320/052.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Sometimes she's just too cute!<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAtHPG-q3PGYl8N5GqNIbUali8D1xOwJTbGC1W67wJM3o0JXdLtdJ7vaY2WZ57i2_P8aU2pisuAqm3y5By5iKPU_GZTgxAJQBuR8mHSCzL63XIUGUPMpXix5aOxqTNx-QOBCcABqPK1LTz/s1600/054.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5603475735368425730" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAtHPG-q3PGYl8N5GqNIbUali8D1xOwJTbGC1W67wJM3o0JXdLtdJ7vaY2WZ57i2_P8aU2pisuAqm3y5By5iKPU_GZTgxAJQBuR8mHSCzL63XIUGUPMpXix5aOxqTNx-QOBCcABqPK1LTz/s320/054.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Hailey kept practicing different poses for me.<br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQC6Ea9uoVwh6KpcrYKQvTKATV0jZAGlxhm-u3x-Z-BjkyAqi-0Z1NE4U0gf1-1f5nB4UxAcO-XMKn6bdD6etC_W4UCb3iRJtQPBA4qaGumjMxk6jMgg3Qydwre9cU524Wu-Zi4PFIVcLF/s1600/050.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5603475100849332946" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQC6Ea9uoVwh6KpcrYKQvTKATV0jZAGlxhm-u3x-Z-BjkyAqi-0Z1NE4U0gf1-1f5nB4UxAcO-XMKn6bdD6etC_W4UCb3iRJtQPBA4qaGumjMxk6jMgg3Qydwre9cU524Wu-Zi4PFIVcLF/s320/050.JPG" /></a><br /><br />I discovered this the other day when I went in Cory's room to turn out his light. He had fallen asleep reading his scriptures. I guess we must be doing something right!<br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8TeLrxWCl_QN9f2wBefH1z8oUTIhJ1dHaT4hqSgyXfBt3oEkdz6g88anK2y97a8QlO4aGtiCl4LS7LoXj1couknOTjtBxBg0wwIudqC10ZA0IvYT-MMEItjfGpIgChANMhQW4Ahyv-8JP/s1600/048.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5603475097899373746" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8TeLrxWCl_QN9f2wBefH1z8oUTIhJ1dHaT4hqSgyXfBt3oEkdz6g88anK2y97a8QlO4aGtiCl4LS7LoXj1couknOTjtBxBg0wwIudqC10ZA0IvYT-MMEItjfGpIgChANMhQW4Ahyv-8JP/s320/048.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Our family on Easter Sunday. The reason the picture is off-centered is because we set our camera timer and put it on the fireplace. We were a little off and we were late to church, so we were out of tries!<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHF6ZJR6xdQkOw152Srd6gkyVYSY1wg9PHH-mIdmKN4LVVuuk86o0-4WIzvZ_FGC9v5WtY7YbF_yrC9I87_mhT2FL7jcd2VyHgb5Cxl45qZqDN758mWyqz2977aFnEOGXoHvsSU6yLlQO7/s1600/030.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5603475089253937938" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHF6ZJR6xdQkOw152Srd6gkyVYSY1wg9PHH-mIdmKN4LVVuuk86o0-4WIzvZ_FGC9v5WtY7YbF_yrC9I87_mhT2FL7jcd2VyHgb5Cxl45qZqDN758mWyqz2977aFnEOGXoHvsSU6yLlQO7/s320/030.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Cory with his teamates after a game a couple Saturdays ago. Trent is coaching his soccer team this year. Cory really loves playing soccer.<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4WJF72GYOsMrc2zRZTBWjFu5DRgl9YiP71oXdMs1fSpawcPenQy1JrKlBsv2UcgyOLvyoPaykkKwSbA4t2W4JcFLIgZURQXm0mr3GSnESeIQTXaipC38Mb4X5BbEk6hC_bxkrmvbWMB67/s1600/026.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5603475085006690354" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4WJF72GYOsMrc2zRZTBWjFu5DRgl9YiP71oXdMs1fSpawcPenQy1JrKlBsv2UcgyOLvyoPaykkKwSbA4t2W4JcFLIgZURQXm0mr3GSnESeIQTXaipC38Mb4X5BbEk6hC_bxkrmvbWMB67/s320/026.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Cory dribbling the ball.<br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif9lM18hxDIAbQsatdVKF5op1DQ1tnNvWOCN2vFVsN9NIPMA2M4ZrxQuHs0pK2KqJpKqiRFLSE3wMtfi9BNAsK-xgksslQ8KeckRrndEjTgZdF0wPiZkBa26eBJ1hSUoKjNgMZiur8pN9M/s1600/004.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5603475073686001202" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif9lM18hxDIAbQsatdVKF5op1DQ1tnNvWOCN2vFVsN9NIPMA2M4ZrxQuHs0pK2KqJpKqiRFLSE3wMtfi9BNAsK-xgksslQ8KeckRrndEjTgZdF0wPiZkBa26eBJ1hSUoKjNgMZiur8pN9M/s320/004.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div>Sophie smiling at daddy while I'm taking a picture. She finally let me put two pigtails in her hair with ALL the hair up! She had two adorable ringlets. </div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Now that all the fun pictures are posted, I can tell about our good news. After 16 months of either being unemployed, part-time employed, and then a temporary employment, Trent has landed a great, full-time, full-benefits REAL job! It's his first REAL job since graduating from college. (Real, meaning, it pays more than jobs you can make while you're still IN college or just have a bachelor's degree.) It's with Parexel, the company's he's been with since last June. But now he'll be paid by Parexel instead of the temp agency. And he'll get holiday pay and vacation days and medical benefits and all that great stuff that we've sorely missed the last while. Now we will be able to stay in San Diego once he graduates this December because we will actually be able to afford to live here. (Well, almost.) Our student loans won't be coming in anymore in a few months, and so this job couldn't have come at a better time. His new position is called a Clinical Trials Specialist. (His current position has been doing something with managing the records.) So this is definitely a step up and a big blessing for us. </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Trent and Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01279513269252669235noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1637732167385009664.post-28572022403871420862011-04-26T23:16:00.000-07:002011-04-26T23:32:23.210-07:00Cabrillo Nantional Monument<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-DK1cZHMgs4keeqyx0wTHPaDhYjU3QQ3gs9v2XaPNeLYxDNQsBAxuee9aOCkDxEIdKbt2G_ZcdJETOs7EA22hJsk8UI45Ftw5-sCOvzcTL9ClVgZut2AYdX6nSiydHMBjDUsAc2YX7_f8/s1600/043.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600145809238720418" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-DK1cZHMgs4keeqyx0wTHPaDhYjU3QQ3gs9v2XaPNeLYxDNQsBAxuee9aOCkDxEIdKbt2G_ZcdJETOs7EA22hJsk8UI45Ftw5-sCOvzcTL9ClVgZut2AYdX6nSiydHMBjDUsAc2YX7_f8/s320/043.JPG" /></a><br />Cory at school last Friday preparing for the Fun Run. We went to watch him and cheer him on.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwYZK_XazHoWOsvr7yHPfagYnNj_Hgf8oYC0N2iaSBu2fOnkj5PEEyNY3pLXapD4AxBKxWFUqyiMoOIRMN_1UDnaUbLGOcZYg_0LGqRWvMzQp5DldwNb_H5c10gIq3Vcpe5qxGH7SmYeE3/s1600/023+%25282%2529.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600145800400613042" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwYZK_XazHoWOsvr7yHPfagYnNj_Hgf8oYC0N2iaSBu2fOnkj5PEEyNY3pLXapD4AxBKxWFUqyiMoOIRMN_1UDnaUbLGOcZYg_0LGqRWvMzQp5DldwNb_H5c10gIq3Vcpe5qxGH7SmYeE3/s320/023+%25282%2529.JPG" /></a><br /><br />The extremely low tide back on a Saturday in April at Point Loma. (Cabrillo National Monument.) These rocks would be completely submerged under a foot or 2 of water at high tide.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqXnjK2vj3MHA5xAHVzXO4RF27Zq4bDoCg33d6CB-LxnNuGjZyXxAp6BmHZpfSKrmBIn2YhxKpg6nU-wrSJF2vBBoP8_HRw77xCT98QWA57XKTbETzesMn7JCCVE3pCNNP8KJqlE6iMG7N/s1600/026+%25282%2529.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600145799041543570" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqXnjK2vj3MHA5xAHVzXO4RF27Zq4bDoCg33d6CB-LxnNuGjZyXxAp6BmHZpfSKrmBIn2YhxKpg6nU-wrSJF2vBBoP8_HRw77xCT98QWA57XKTbETzesMn7JCCVE3pCNNP8KJqlE6iMG7N/s320/026+%25282%2529.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Looking for treasures with Sophie at Cabrillo National Monument in San Diego.<br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBq2dHEpvQ2iuyXLz91KMeskDwVIITykwMb7qYc26_YbsY3yiWKaC9qBMPiO9REWdlxiEoCBG_V78bhIZox6WsQ8inkBKLk6vVvMEw93I_jNHGtTuuemqxkdajnfOb2eABT-mPfPth1el8/s1600/008+%25282%2529.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600145788667278690" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBq2dHEpvQ2iuyXLz91KMeskDwVIITykwMb7qYc26_YbsY3yiWKaC9qBMPiO9REWdlxiEoCBG_V78bhIZox6WsQ8inkBKLk6vVvMEw93I_jNHGtTuuemqxkdajnfOb2eABT-mPfPth1el8/s320/008+%25282%2529.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Our whole family on a great day!<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLY2e-rLP8oySXItnrDdLzVNE8fDUZjULJpzc-gAnKfquMH0G1dwR22oE9un4vEzED4FIyORANMfojBg7Zk9qK6H2n-UgyJj3A5Btdd9xE2u_MrTvP1m7MAqgMvpexDEt2uXWasxOYZNES/s1600/009+%25282%2529.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600145783042600370" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLY2e-rLP8oySXItnrDdLzVNE8fDUZjULJpzc-gAnKfquMH0G1dwR22oE9un4vEzED4FIyORANMfojBg7Zk9qK6H2n-UgyJj3A5Btdd9xE2u_MrTvP1m7MAqgMvpexDEt2uXWasxOYZNES/s320/009+%25282%2529.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br />Trent found this really cool starfish with purple spots stuck to this rock.<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQM7AXgMq1sC9JtQJyImtfJxSpH4YCh1tiJ_olU_on1r4CJBcO4LPA2fD5d3OdqCAJmHj9RfjP5Wt-JKLpBk1b7Z6vB7G5FfbvzQnft7lai8Yx1PIo4k5Z5sgcde2ZOE3xjBhP1hhrNb-I/s1600/041.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600144504718959906" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQM7AXgMq1sC9JtQJyImtfJxSpH4YCh1tiJ_olU_on1r4CJBcO4LPA2fD5d3OdqCAJmHj9RfjP5Wt-JKLpBk1b7Z6vB7G5FfbvzQnft7lai8Yx1PIo4k5Z5sgcde2ZOE3xjBhP1hhrNb-I/s320/041.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Perfect little stairsteps--7, 4, and 2 years old. On our way to our neighborhood pool.<br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLCDsvjoewoynuiZe_CH-3uCjz0HwG1YfHBqaDvm7lfxFpTThZhlz4IHktna5fm8dlH_jOnvCJ9Cgvr1HFjGtuj068UtxpJ-xRYWq5wuEBx2VP5GgUgKLWhO0StFIzf8qG1FrOvPmwKuiE/s1600/004.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600144495116609042" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLCDsvjoewoynuiZe_CH-3uCjz0HwG1YfHBqaDvm7lfxFpTThZhlz4IHktna5fm8dlH_jOnvCJ9Cgvr1HFjGtuj068UtxpJ-xRYWq5wuEBx2VP5GgUgKLWhO0StFIzf8qG1FrOvPmwKuiE/s320/004.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Our little exhausted Sophie one late night watching Elmo on the computer and eating her favorite snack in the entire world--Doritos.<br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7RksoSSgs54IQHSMpOWmqabMKJ9pEj1M_lp0pTV_3_ZFWnj_jmJBqoWeYJ7VD7PUq86BdEeo5s6DCjWrapb4ziBs3JbRwUvMimX5sqEDzpcVy5v5g304Nt3Lt8mm2cPJd-BabMD6S5-OM/s1600/027+%25282%2529.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600144487413233890" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7RksoSSgs54IQHSMpOWmqabMKJ9pEj1M_lp0pTV_3_ZFWnj_jmJBqoWeYJ7VD7PUq86BdEeo5s6DCjWrapb4ziBs3JbRwUvMimX5sqEDzpcVy5v5g304Nt3Lt8mm2cPJd-BabMD6S5-OM/s320/027+%25282%2529.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhphNeHQiMyrWgRLnNUrrI207SsbdQPKwZDupdFE6OjnPZxrRmfylbhPeEE9LMR_KnmsA7jYIrfwwCxVbWzSCLvcTtMZrFI6Z__bGO8MxDK4C8y594KH85G3YDln2YR6fNdMns6iIthgOTD/s1600/037.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600144479652202338" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhphNeHQiMyrWgRLnNUrrI207SsbdQPKwZDupdFE6OjnPZxrRmfylbhPeEE9LMR_KnmsA7jYIrfwwCxVbWzSCLvcTtMZrFI6Z__bGO8MxDK4C8y594KH85G3YDln2YR6fNdMns6iIthgOTD/s320/037.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br />The veterens cemetery on the drive to Cabrillo National Monument. It faces the Pacific Ocean, and on the other side of the road, the graves continue and face the San Diego Bay.<br /><br /><div><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgod-u2pUnfByxYRUX8eBJnghnhmlG6Cf-Ax9NFPDHx6U4yT5z-8t7-FJNBHSEYnL7nnrDZ_VF1aJ0OusRtXaGzAYU8s4amHmZK8p02LVlHL0jHbaEvvBybXIZbdievP00882EHQakW_zHT/s1600/013+%25282%2529.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600143735155718802" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgod-u2pUnfByxYRUX8eBJnghnhmlG6Cf-Ax9NFPDHx6U4yT5z-8t7-FJNBHSEYnL7nnrDZ_VF1aJ0OusRtXaGzAYU8s4amHmZK8p02LVlHL0jHbaEvvBybXIZbdievP00882EHQakW_zHT/s320/013+%25282%2529.JPG" /></a><br /><br />We found a really cool cave while exploring the tide pools.<br /><br /><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Trent and Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01279513269252669235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1637732167385009664.post-63953397780556583092011-03-08T15:13:00.000-08:002011-03-08T15:28:52.313-08:00My Birthday and kids outside<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXOIt5-C7C4Mk0k5hZUBsU2GchAJgVoKIXSmsLcH1Rj4pNvol6dol_JfO3OQNwHYokiOAbJfP3jWAKxBOpz_MVoHGnZ6hpypiE9OUz-qmcKhaUk-h5mCMW1ogzlKGv7YHgjwwrD3A08rzg/s1600/030.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581853422261807378" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXOIt5-C7C4Mk0k5hZUBsU2GchAJgVoKIXSmsLcH1Rj4pNvol6dol_JfO3OQNwHYokiOAbJfP3jWAKxBOpz_MVoHGnZ6hpypiE9OUz-qmcKhaUk-h5mCMW1ogzlKGv7YHgjwwrD3A08rzg/s320/030.JPG" /></a><br />The kids lately have been playing "Traffic" on our driveway. So we drew some roads and sidewalks and Cory always has to be the cop. Right now he's giving Sophie a ticket for speeding.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6KZVQ4DfNbyGSroVS3EYBYYckkPPr70wMAVyTwwKD2P0q4OYQ6iGhv1KLG4bRB_EVusOdCtZevOKyNbk6nmGQrLmJfLk5HnxB1juWRcY6mM1Au18FTfe7dNvTNYk7oylfxRdveB_D-imR/s1600/029.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581853420882281042" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6KZVQ4DfNbyGSroVS3EYBYYckkPPr70wMAVyTwwKD2P0q4OYQ6iGhv1KLG4bRB_EVusOdCtZevOKyNbk6nmGQrLmJfLk5HnxB1juWRcY6mM1Au18FTfe7dNvTNYk7oylfxRdveB_D-imR/s320/029.JPG" /></a><br />Cory is the cop, and he's warning them of a stoplight they missed.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAWZGqcW7T0GHOxzUPsFBlPsBotwK066AV5M_l1vUAkOWOuTTYd1b-em8754DIStCrJVnu2PGVHu8zKnbJ4-wpEWUFFtm_KGu52fpDgo-aCZ3fWN26cjCPsNChqhywn_-YUIMgezK77ZFB/s1600/028.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581853411977253090" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAWZGqcW7T0GHOxzUPsFBlPsBotwK066AV5M_l1vUAkOWOuTTYd1b-em8754DIStCrJVnu2PGVHu8zKnbJ4-wpEWUFFtm_KGu52fpDgo-aCZ3fWN26cjCPsNChqhywn_-YUIMgezK77ZFB/s320/028.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Sophie loves to ride her bike outside.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqNn39cMXa5ZNYPBzlu6TPWQizVPlcwK_4ZeVWvQLlN6TkY0MiDtPS2TTpPS_oLv6AJxJDHHq2oitOrD2_k75TmxfRDN_oi66rjzfMRT28Cyn-EoozfG3-4OoTSpT-x6If90K53sITxL2l/s1600/026.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581853404507224146" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqNn39cMXa5ZNYPBzlu6TPWQizVPlcwK_4ZeVWvQLlN6TkY0MiDtPS2TTpPS_oLv6AJxJDHHq2oitOrD2_k75TmxfRDN_oi66rjzfMRT28Cyn-EoozfG3-4OoTSpT-x6If90K53sITxL2l/s320/026.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Hailey on her scooter.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBxR01AjrQ4KvV8WpXYduGUt980RKCrSN27hZ5DpWqDjv3gIqYQ76g57jxhxhfI8Or57JYuGQA_Yj_doydJD8OGIucspt6yS7kklLKz-IRCX0tN55IgvDhi-xZX3T9afSiAkjPLEh_hVGf/s1600/025.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581852959289278114" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBxR01AjrQ4KvV8WpXYduGUt980RKCrSN27hZ5DpWqDjv3gIqYQ76g57jxhxhfI8Or57JYuGQA_Yj_doydJD8OGIucspt6yS7kklLKz-IRCX0tN55IgvDhi-xZX3T9afSiAkjPLEh_hVGf/s320/025.JPG" /></a><br /><br />This is what happened when I left the other night to go to the gym, and I left some cupcakes on the edge of the counter. Trent, who doesn't do the laundry, thought it was hilarious.<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMiVWr0pChzb45qqwazV1bge8uzp8-OWbBXssCTbf-TMxM4BYpSxV6ZVNchnyFCYn89ConPiGXAB-IfWo0LsrqrguLsYx3X_WYpE4krLty_yofAVjAgUl2tcLvOL4bhlkwYT1kZyBXbdaJ/s1600/022.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581852952511329090" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMiVWr0pChzb45qqwazV1bge8uzp8-OWbBXssCTbf-TMxM4BYpSxV6ZVNchnyFCYn89ConPiGXAB-IfWo0LsrqrguLsYx3X_WYpE4krLty_yofAVjAgUl2tcLvOL4bhlkwYT1kZyBXbdaJ/s320/022.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIzVqNceKrcRZ-Ew9abO-C2VWzteLR2N2cC3W0uXOlM_vRgGB4_UtGmpPVyP5u3Ai9NeGf89WeHsHPk6u9CWpeUCcLKgNDUqlmonchtl18wi6But1u89QWf94WDVivbhLUMxUz6KSXNmTX/s1600/019.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581852947102191730" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIzVqNceKrcRZ-Ew9abO-C2VWzteLR2N2cC3W0uXOlM_vRgGB4_UtGmpPVyP5u3Ai9NeGf89WeHsHPk6u9CWpeUCcLKgNDUqlmonchtl18wi6But1u89QWf94WDVivbhLUMxUz6KSXNmTX/s320/019.JPG" /></a><br />Last week we went with some of Cory's friends to the beach when it was really low tide to look at some tidepools after school. They had so much fun!<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8402FVqQ2zz3IyGRWVVCWAGtBmWp7zB3qoIVkN1dORA-5hECmkkyEn97EJ0lKMBOcigwJ_oRr_hWy6OijeDtPnaip6EGCsP5c3WP15czNfA4dHkHV160wDxtUbLRjzzSojZqFnEQFwa9j/s1600/018.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581852934952095410" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8402FVqQ2zz3IyGRWVVCWAGtBmWp7zB3qoIVkN1dORA-5hECmkkyEn97EJ0lKMBOcigwJ_oRr_hWy6OijeDtPnaip6EGCsP5c3WP15czNfA4dHkHV160wDxtUbLRjzzSojZqFnEQFwa9j/s320/018.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_cFRjwZoJNkS5WkFF32IWV9JLD5nP-odYXfPmxzk9gRB7hpmwNINR3w0wQjLYG_nfPK04-zxgOvTiQGi0IMGVW77bRzL62bA3Bl5W5iukU0gE9VU9aIL1rkoCBGy-VUwOf5gQtuHqBBj4/s1600/017.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581852930485401138" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_cFRjwZoJNkS5WkFF32IWV9JLD5nP-odYXfPmxzk9gRB7hpmwNINR3w0wQjLYG_nfPK04-zxgOvTiQGi0IMGVW77bRzL62bA3Bl5W5iukU0gE9VU9aIL1rkoCBGy-VUwOf5gQtuHqBBj4/s320/017.JPG" /></a><br />Cory found a really big crab in this little crevice, he hung out here for quite a while hoping he could catch him in his pail. (And then of course return it before we left.) I'm sure we could be sent to lifetime in prison in California for taking a creature of the wild out of it's natural habitat.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxJwUJALsN6DszUJzpWtmnMur1V05WjJJNckNYRiKXaBFx2aGBC2vtZv6Hj94lSgRwj1g19AX2s8DeMWf90R76afXAOutdx-G0B7w8cdkcn4rIcbnjRmXWdiaBjXX6osvUmDA-02ns6u31/s1600/016.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581852360230365394" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxJwUJALsN6DszUJzpWtmnMur1V05WjJJNckNYRiKXaBFx2aGBC2vtZv6Hj94lSgRwj1g19AX2s8DeMWf90R76afXAOutdx-G0B7w8cdkcn4rIcbnjRmXWdiaBjXX6osvUmDA-02ns6u31/s320/016.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Cory did find this hermit crab.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkZCLDlpMw_Xw0CvBwSlJJM4_XDmOelO_bDG190qZIA67vjrgiyiIlue3fUvH90XfaOpAOcSjO34ALfABO-_WtwyOU9zWoPNHBb_g14ONibMNZhZ7KirU3st7j9zXLUmb-9XifHKMyvecF/s1600/015.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581852354356694450" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkZCLDlpMw_Xw0CvBwSlJJM4_XDmOelO_bDG190qZIA67vjrgiyiIlue3fUvH90XfaOpAOcSjO34ALfABO-_WtwyOU9zWoPNHBb_g14ONibMNZhZ7KirU3st7j9zXLUmb-9XifHKMyvecF/s320/015.JPG" /></a><br /><br />A view of some of the tidepools.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKEivFWXIpzhAqECkSY4ZbuhDACV44TiERiPgYv_PeZOe39tzDQWTBirU4gP-yLaeH7UCLrDTDwZU9TuR9Sj6uzlBZFB_AdbgiPJMyM0YTWCQFCcwAjl4ct5nX6b99NwWTY8si-qapwLgY/s1600/013.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581852346430606466" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKEivFWXIpzhAqECkSY4ZbuhDACV44TiERiPgYv_PeZOe39tzDQWTBirU4gP-yLaeH7UCLrDTDwZU9TuR9Sj6uzlBZFB_AdbgiPJMyM0YTWCQFCcwAjl4ct5nX6b99NwWTY8si-qapwLgY/s320/013.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguP56G5TxOpq9jOQ5sf8D6622YAV0iG33zS7rQbWWaMhjYiJlEgCOrAx0FBXE5Kzb0JYP98qrppJqmsc8CiY5EMUINktFERTyFZDspq6_zroNoLscm86xSAvuQx6pERQtbQD6XsCKGdZZ9/s1600/001.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581852343720838642" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguP56G5TxOpq9jOQ5sf8D6622YAV0iG33zS7rQbWWaMhjYiJlEgCOrAx0FBXE5Kzb0JYP98qrppJqmsc8CiY5EMUINktFERTyFZDspq6_zroNoLscm86xSAvuQx6pERQtbQD6XsCKGdZZ9/s320/001.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Sophie just wanted me to take her picture one day while she was playing cars, so I did!<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuVAU6DmBi8DHs_XTv2sFUsnrPtdf08CYN3QQMNqNzd4xR8DeVRfz83wwOU1_j_N0X46uflUrt_aRBwuDQ88TcwaK_EC7a_ukBAQPsnnFgOgJypjMYgSqNcxdrub-dpkNMGS5kmvp_sHq7/s1600/005.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581852337527977458" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuVAU6DmBi8DHs_XTv2sFUsnrPtdf08CYN3QQMNqNzd4xR8DeVRfz83wwOU1_j_N0X46uflUrt_aRBwuDQ88TcwaK_EC7a_ukBAQPsnnFgOgJypjMYgSqNcxdrub-dpkNMGS5kmvp_sHq7/s320/005.JPG" /></a><br /><div>Me with my three kids, on my 32nd birthday!</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Trent and Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01279513269252669235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1637732167385009664.post-41948792070159314092011-02-26T14:54:00.001-08:002011-02-26T15:27:11.442-08:00Latest Happenings and TWO Birthdays<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOKwA_4mAm1h_6bKNWGfdTGA_-Qx1_7VjyjZXcFr-eaS2BsdNACcXqtKQH0yYaRUemg9oE9qvtoB4kpQWcwAWZ2TgRAgmTVXoXinZ2IZte8ATi7CEFhwO_ztnCSfzVZE1wOTUJcgt4JW95/s1600/P1010165.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 258px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578140357157975170" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOKwA_4mAm1h_6bKNWGfdTGA_-Qx1_7VjyjZXcFr-eaS2BsdNACcXqtKQH0yYaRUemg9oE9qvtoB4kpQWcwAWZ2TgRAgmTVXoXinZ2IZte8ATi7CEFhwO_ztnCSfzVZE1wOTUJcgt4JW95/s320/P1010165.JPG" /></a><br />This is Sophie on her 2nd Birthday. She was helping do dishes.<br /><br />The picture below is Hailey at the San Diego Botanical Gardens. We went there for a Preschool fieldtrip in February.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOYlbltCRrkm8-drDnxSCjqSJaM8j09w1hYb2sKCMUgVIdNmkY5m4caidJhRauhAXh9jlxbmL7cbj0D62YwGTV6V6pv8TAQymms5dnU1gl2ecKEReqMv32CQdNuTAbgo0Gqk4nDODK6fFX/s1600/035.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578140351163693714" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOYlbltCRrkm8-drDnxSCjqSJaM8j09w1hYb2sKCMUgVIdNmkY5m4caidJhRauhAXh9jlxbmL7cbj0D62YwGTV6V6pv8TAQymms5dnU1gl2ecKEReqMv32CQdNuTAbgo0Gqk4nDODK6fFX/s320/035.JPG" /></a><br />This is Hailey, a preschool friend, and Sophie at the San Diego Botanical Gardens. They're in front of the bamboo forest.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio9HRaISt28JbnusXw2XSZHoL3jpBiC6nlBYy3czF2EEAv7XOxjzjdarkxZwwj0WsM8MC3IeDnA3lQGljavE9Hro8b7wvdtAx4YpWnmCUBOVQJTQAad9QkiOhgiVwjtr4xaWVDydw_rXB1/s1600/038.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578140344612486146" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio9HRaISt28JbnusXw2XSZHoL3jpBiC6nlBYy3czF2EEAv7XOxjzjdarkxZwwj0WsM8MC3IeDnA3lQGljavE9Hro8b7wvdtAx4YpWnmCUBOVQJTQAad9QkiOhgiVwjtr4xaWVDydw_rXB1/s320/038.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLKyJMzQShjGdZwnN9K_Jpj5GPHLPRPb_mrt99oWoyq52HjhA9dORNrxaWFJvFDrkq0Kf6OaUgBT0WQQplY7qEIgt9-dLX4UgPWDG-pMEIp6GXL-vo3z2rlCeWVANAl5tLihx9_ZW_qoTH/s1600/033.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578140338884313330" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLKyJMzQShjGdZwnN9K_Jpj5GPHLPRPb_mrt99oWoyq52HjhA9dORNrxaWFJvFDrkq0Kf6OaUgBT0WQQplY7qEIgt9-dLX4UgPWDG-pMEIp6GXL-vo3z2rlCeWVANAl5tLihx9_ZW_qoTH/s320/033.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br />Hailey and Sophie at the Botanical Gardens. It was so beautiful!<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKhT6gzvFO9PlczUf2fqM99z60wfJCGk0uewipuQjM66lqban3JlwTThcbX9LXgmWbfxwPPMp-0b3DQfE7NZPHjdiji5woaGm6Shb_AnADXEFwN8Ffw56Z7Bc4jUxXYKyPSDEU0M35b4lY/s1600/030.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578140336100634210" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKhT6gzvFO9PlczUf2fqM99z60wfJCGk0uewipuQjM66lqban3JlwTThcbX9LXgmWbfxwPPMp-0b3DQfE7NZPHjdiji5woaGm6Shb_AnADXEFwN8Ffw56Z7Bc4jUxXYKyPSDEU0M35b4lY/s320/030.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br />Sophie's 2nd Birthday. She LOVES Elmo, so an Elmo cake we did.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1ZJfuUYt20xCSjSW9_Twfo2cJi3n7JXzJPaukhTXv604rygn4g0qx7lsijUZ7EPFeLhAoB73c26jnGjjzF6ID5LqzIyZGprkblu2HALhtofI4zkoFT1qxfiIy2VT93lotp3OBEA8sL_Ft/s1600/021.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578139758909590242" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1ZJfuUYt20xCSjSW9_Twfo2cJi3n7JXzJPaukhTXv604rygn4g0qx7lsijUZ7EPFeLhAoB73c26jnGjjzF6ID5LqzIyZGprkblu2HALhtofI4zkoFT1qxfiIy2VT93lotp3OBEA8sL_Ft/s320/021.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Sophie is TWO! <br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_wkNibWXwoWO_n3ffSsjZIsXmnmIBhPNSul8Raqh_x6flSDDFcW4hPG_Q_Dgv52NWbkEzjTal6A6KyZBJ8u2VnRi6kTjmlknU5A_Vn71vgzhL5oTTB9qIElNMy9NYMZL6LYhyuMs5thzK/s1600/018.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578139749645468674" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_wkNibWXwoWO_n3ffSsjZIsXmnmIBhPNSul8Raqh_x6flSDDFcW4hPG_Q_Dgv52NWbkEzjTal6A6KyZBJ8u2VnRi6kTjmlknU5A_Vn71vgzhL5oTTB9qIElNMy9NYMZL6LYhyuMs5thzK/s320/018.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Our chuch time was changed to 1:00-4:00, so poor Sophie misses her naps each Sunday. She comes home extremely cranky and tired and usually thrashes and runs around the house screaming until we can get her to calm down and go to sleep. This is when Trent nearly fell asleep from dealing with her for a while in Cory's bedroom. luckily, SHE fell asleep!<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEaxPpjwBdimdljGCJ1_Pikc-GbOFBfgfvljRE18Gea1WauB3ViYed2u91_BjIwIIDY5iHum0mJMx_TRa-qEs5-4CQzakXdbOSB5bHwNj60G9hevOFOkaiFxeQl1R-kDadUawesSyiCBmY/s1600/072.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578139746681238978" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEaxPpjwBdimdljGCJ1_Pikc-GbOFBfgfvljRE18Gea1WauB3ViYed2u91_BjIwIIDY5iHum0mJMx_TRa-qEs5-4CQzakXdbOSB5bHwNj60G9hevOFOkaiFxeQl1R-kDadUawesSyiCBmY/s320/072.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Our little Sophie and a crazy hairdo! We love her curls!<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1BMkXVikaCqrsr9FrY6ushmdUPJt7x79wAX5ZEn9iaAPsGzsdyj8BDZ9V7hOQUbrHzViBLsTC_1MatBTSsLUI8WuGxG1QbgG1MsxVyC8w5Srq8WUbE0PJ7K0MFOkd4LoHVXnzORgP8CIm/s1600/069.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578139741751500978" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1BMkXVikaCqrsr9FrY6ushmdUPJt7x79wAX5ZEn9iaAPsGzsdyj8BDZ9V7hOQUbrHzViBLsTC_1MatBTSsLUI8WuGxG1QbgG1MsxVyC8w5Srq8WUbE0PJ7K0MFOkd4LoHVXnzORgP8CIm/s320/069.JPG" /></a><br /><br />She thought her hair was pretty funny, too!<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaWyj1AA8hA90lWv-kgI3JPJjkPN01FAdRysBmRtyDT3tvj4XcyekLUfFgZFAx3FAybkj1B5c06eWD9VL879cMCv2spUFO2Ogz0G129_9yVMjfv3Wh62rgtuB3AI9WGtm9k-KH3nZlDAH2/s1600/068.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578139737742974978" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaWyj1AA8hA90lWv-kgI3JPJjkPN01FAdRysBmRtyDT3tvj4XcyekLUfFgZFAx3FAybkj1B5c06eWD9VL879cMCv2spUFO2Ogz0G129_9yVMjfv3Wh62rgtuB3AI9WGtm9k-KH3nZlDAH2/s320/068.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />This is Adam, Hailey's cousin. They came to visit us in mid-January, and we went to the beach in Del Mar. So much fun!<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHZV5GftZvwbmCjQaliLvSIiKouHXwTQmiw1w9uOReLyjXc_yamZfw409rJP_qtz4net-89tpZ-VJ-C46k40TlTBfhhwHJPTiBHvWYC7EeDrPF0P8yGGU43AoG66q5IAyv9cuXr89q3det/s1600/066.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578139136419204674" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHZV5GftZvwbmCjQaliLvSIiKouHXwTQmiw1w9uOReLyjXc_yamZfw409rJP_qtz4net-89tpZ-VJ-C46k40TlTBfhhwHJPTiBHvWYC7EeDrPF0P8yGGU43AoG66q5IAyv9cuXr89q3det/s320/066.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Hailey and Adam are so much alike, it's more like their siblings than cousins.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6bmmnBfJu7zsAVH3yHKE1DzgOMOrUjApPtsgKaNRmtwb74bsRblQ3VbQkZ8Jl8DEOFMrpsMp3CS9JZ-79dM4-Map6F6hxkZFm25i_l0g30NqY9MZqYB3A30MBFJ9sOs1yNWKzT3gvQjXY/s1600/063.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578139132007220258" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6bmmnBfJu7zsAVH3yHKE1DzgOMOrUjApPtsgKaNRmtwb74bsRblQ3VbQkZ8Jl8DEOFMrpsMp3CS9JZ-79dM4-Map6F6hxkZFm25i_l0g30NqY9MZqYB3A30MBFJ9sOs1yNWKzT3gvQjXY/s320/063.JPG" /></a> </div><div><br />Caleb (cousin) with Cory at Del Mar Beach.<br /><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSYv3tamj_C8a-itIrhsqO1Tss2PA6-pUU3GfCsMlQtjyQgfNlxPEm0oXLpR_hKP32LPckEamelvHD_yQrHlfwbKx3NZIe0ph-lGkt7qF5u46G5V6S_x80XSZIo7SLdDaC7taWAez9jsSY/s1600/060.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578139123500740050" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSYv3tamj_C8a-itIrhsqO1Tss2PA6-pUU3GfCsMlQtjyQgfNlxPEm0oXLpR_hKP32LPckEamelvHD_yQrHlfwbKx3NZIe0ph-lGkt7qF5u46G5V6S_x80XSZIo7SLdDaC7taWAez9jsSY/s320/060.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Hailey showing her hair after she wanted me to put curlers in it overnight. The curls lasted almost the entire day--which for her hair, is a long time!<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwHPzMMgcmAzsbTKZeQUqfLj0oOpWV8ERdtta4xbPAF1HFdtxKN1XWlj2VYKKytgj0QDj4OBbdhEJeNk0-KBMiBcQkEcQTGiHKGpBMd_2V-JGOt66V9JK29XPqAgAxQ008WzonQKNREBwA/s1600/058.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578139118101870642" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwHPzMMgcmAzsbTKZeQUqfLj0oOpWV8ERdtta4xbPAF1HFdtxKN1XWlj2VYKKytgj0QDj4OBbdhEJeNk0-KBMiBcQkEcQTGiHKGpBMd_2V-JGOt66V9JK29XPqAgAxQ008WzonQKNREBwA/s320/058.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg014x8arQ4BPs9e0Nfr054nKPYABggkMP0tb6iCD5X-nL3xBOPgBSQwfRW_OWWUpozisCr0UZsQugbx8XMiL4W2GyJz8TSwgnA_o_Jks4zeppSV_S1ulovMJ3bFgVECH1iXTwb3u2Bo-dk/s1600/057.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578139114370608514" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg014x8arQ4BPs9e0Nfr054nKPYABggkMP0tb6iCD5X-nL3xBOPgBSQwfRW_OWWUpozisCr0UZsQugbx8XMiL4W2GyJz8TSwgnA_o_Jks4zeppSV_S1ulovMJ3bFgVECH1iXTwb3u2Bo-dk/s320/057.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br />Hailey showing me some of her gifts from her friends' birthday party in early January.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTg9axRztyl-rHAfR3ZoBeJOgsLzZDLCAPURcZNZ-GXY2hId08N-6O9J43H-4b4ffvS60DrXVxbztIktHPHMpC-ePL3KzoTXr6LXaTRHhw0I1aa0ohIGsJkfDR9Bmr_mRVCahgYU2-GCh4/s1600/055.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578138507745429202" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTg9axRztyl-rHAfR3ZoBeJOgsLzZDLCAPURcZNZ-GXY2hId08N-6O9J43H-4b4ffvS60DrXVxbztIktHPHMpC-ePL3KzoTXr6LXaTRHhw0I1aa0ohIGsJkfDR9Bmr_mRVCahgYU2-GCh4/s320/055.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Hailey's birthday party.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXQua1JBEPh_-BTEPznKnj0CHq9y_Dq6JsQ45ZGcaIyAsxBYZJpuGV2FQl3L37bfMLH9eQYaYwZF-LAtnKTPfJO-u3Oa-EShL5h_9qLxUGr8N54LR7L7ioR3JbSJ0lQiFpmorKy2QL9yK0/s1600/052.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578138230686122786" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXQua1JBEPh_-BTEPznKnj0CHq9y_Dq6JsQ45ZGcaIyAsxBYZJpuGV2FQl3L37bfMLH9eQYaYwZF-LAtnKTPfJO-u3Oa-EShL5h_9qLxUGr8N54LR7L7ioR3JbSJ0lQiFpmorKy2QL9yK0/s320/052.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br />Hailey's tiara pinata for her 4th birthday.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd56xQytX9KTMv6V9Nzb6YTvWIQPFqU8N7QN-y3p55L_KSLcNtOTK2sJSVq6Q0VnmNjd7xE4TaSxp8rP-hC7dSibIAvzzgHktysAwKgTlhmOpPgpvNNY0b7beammXSl_8l4ozc791DniUP/s1600/050.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578138041305419874" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd56xQytX9KTMv6V9Nzb6YTvWIQPFqU8N7QN-y3p55L_KSLcNtOTK2sJSVq6Q0VnmNjd7xE4TaSxp8rP-hC7dSibIAvzzgHktysAwKgTlhmOpPgpvNNY0b7beammXSl_8l4ozc791DniUP/s320/050.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Hailey with her Disney Princess cake for her 4th Birthday. She sure loved it!<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivXlD0XVbw4AtHabe3bi8mYEXxJtg2CTCHWzFEDLqk2olmz_OULxw53CxdZ6tIXGzPDMrlbgZg4B3Za7S6AhuQIoduTa_bTESAyOC7a5_R4p0i59q-C9jfG0ZG83PYBbipEdyyd-RumijT/s1600/044.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 213px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578137862410165170" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivXlD0XVbw4AtHabe3bi8mYEXxJtg2CTCHWzFEDLqk2olmz_OULxw53CxdZ6tIXGzPDMrlbgZg4B3Za7S6AhuQIoduTa_bTESAyOC7a5_R4p0i59q-C9jfG0ZG83PYBbipEdyyd-RumijT/s320/044.JPG" /></a><br /></div><div>We went to Cabrillo National Monument in San Diego (Point Loma) in January. Such beautiful views of the city on one side of the peninsual and the ocean on the other side. <br /><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5pci4MW7VZG4LF9bRRsxl7fhucqBhEGub4HBHR8AGSdHQ8Y46UX7WFEK9bF49vLexL5K01lVbeftGH7M7g3c5w6nOawYDiBaMKJLFcF3jru8qUrFSPtM3CPpP6KQ1ukCRpSFHVb7Rkh2Z/s1600/028.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578137744640282370" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5pci4MW7VZG4LF9bRRsxl7fhucqBhEGub4HBHR8AGSdHQ8Y46UX7WFEK9bF49vLexL5K01lVbeftGH7M7g3c5w6nOawYDiBaMKJLFcF3jru8qUrFSPtM3CPpP6KQ1ukCRpSFHVb7Rkh2Z/s320/028.JPG" /></a><br /></div><div>Cory posing for me over the Pacific Ocean.<br /><br /><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitia7KDno-mEh1t2pfLkSGyDrP0JHb3Za5wH63y3B-Y9xZvIkoCTKQxHKBs0M_zwlTOhnN_oV-ZrIXFqM1Py2NFY1H0PgjQZzcWJTT-6xl-BK1JYcbRM0ec7syM5iRuEng5z95Ww7tjKxo/s1600/019.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578137526591347474" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitia7KDno-mEh1t2pfLkSGyDrP0JHb3Za5wH63y3B-Y9xZvIkoCTKQxHKBs0M_zwlTOhnN_oV-ZrIXFqM1Py2NFY1H0PgjQZzcWJTT-6xl-BK1JYcbRM0ec7syM5iRuEng5z95Ww7tjKxo/s320/019.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />Trent at Cabrillo National Monument overlooking the ocean.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOocx3S4fGgWUAa-3GGhgqvfxwCUpcyiG7dbbr-_87Q_Mw5kx2AKnQQOfD8XcUGRQfIPGJbd107755vg1-a8Lf8bMOp2xYA4mYRrKELoQ_77NNgGOArq0zH4dB7LdcAOGSEoqRxWOYIsRD/s1600/015.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578137377121956178" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOocx3S4fGgWUAa-3GGhgqvfxwCUpcyiG7dbbr-_87Q_Mw5kx2AKnQQOfD8XcUGRQfIPGJbd107755vg1-a8Lf8bMOp2xYA4mYRrKELoQ_77NNgGOArq0zH4dB7LdcAOGSEoqRxWOYIsRD/s320/015.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br />We were pretty close to the ledge overlooking the ocean. But it wasn't a huge dropoff like it seems. I wanted it to look like we were standing over the water.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcViboSc_OzLGfP9SXcuSmUQVCFb8KDJX91lmR_j5FjngVvJUnlviQVrJPfYBFdY6FphKunO_meBt8bWoHdr7AjLp9JuOndhd5y_nzQt_KWrTZQu9BYNgXaitmuxxfz9hvSruM_xlBQ7Y8/s1600/014.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578136995604289058" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcViboSc_OzLGfP9SXcuSmUQVCFb8KDJX91lmR_j5FjngVvJUnlviQVrJPfYBFdY6FphKunO_meBt8bWoHdr7AjLp9JuOndhd5y_nzQt_KWrTZQu9BYNgXaitmuxxfz9hvSruM_xlBQ7Y8/s320/014.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Sophie in a cute dress after church one Sunday.<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYjCbbJu7LDnUlMRhQ8HkFhOrpmZpYIgzAtt5hjX45BgluU4ZdiVX3JQQVybP4UVq4r7V8RZsDR_HXQJK04_FglVpTroU9Ybw32ZAElyoqL9sptvE-PAGppKl5ht55s9lrpsqzplVnb7-x/s1600/032.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578136772844911970" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYjCbbJu7LDnUlMRhQ8HkFhOrpmZpYIgzAtt5hjX45BgluU4ZdiVX3JQQVybP4UVq4r7V8RZsDR_HXQJK04_FglVpTroU9Ybw32ZAElyoqL9sptvE-PAGppKl5ht55s9lrpsqzplVnb7-x/s320/032.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br />Hailey after her family birthday party on New Years Eve.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK2Npjt-Ef9dH6OkII_FD4t9Ut1Kl0ihjNqMdW46aboi2y6nvlwwYOIX4h2ZyoFfsSmV0Oc6XLM7o_TsdSMs0Jnva617cyzK3H9E-yCgySUmnjTQHHkEuxdLnrv_Ptt0uv2OOIcyLbPXZ2/s1600/040+%25282%2529.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578136449976239778" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK2Npjt-Ef9dH6OkII_FD4t9Ut1Kl0ihjNqMdW46aboi2y6nvlwwYOIX4h2ZyoFfsSmV0Oc6XLM7o_TsdSMs0Jnva617cyzK3H9E-yCgySUmnjTQHHkEuxdLnrv_Ptt0uv2OOIcyLbPXZ2/s320/040+%25282%2529.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Sophie with her new shopping cart from Santa for Christmas.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisZlOG1-2qpSuEqjBxrThyphenhypheniTAEea4nimWuWKYYCDuPxEy8w7zACUChoDrkN27lJlzYLWdNJ2mz5aBilGg57cVVA6sW7OYyIgovCoKH4v2yUuCy1SE9pXdytpoGAUOvkIFPj86TyKxzNkXl/s1600/026.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578136316169534018" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisZlOG1-2qpSuEqjBxrThyphenhypheniTAEea4nimWuWKYYCDuPxEy8w7zACUChoDrkN27lJlzYLWdNJ2mz5aBilGg57cVVA6sW7OYyIgovCoKH4v2yUuCy1SE9pXdytpoGAUOvkIFPj86TyKxzNkXl/s320/026.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />Hailey with her Christmas presents.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxWvZh3iNxipKvcnNF9wqZ7hyn3yl1232pGnPayzNmWpC-9vkunUPKsvT1cT2H_xft6oaqDJ3o0y2nSX2ql-t_imnyQUXlYENq4bus2dddQHa1bhqRmtGaEoQck6cBx_FRegHEGEe8eCvS/s1600/022.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578136195874613106" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxWvZh3iNxipKvcnNF9wqZ7hyn3yl1232pGnPayzNmWpC-9vkunUPKsvT1cT2H_xft6oaqDJ3o0y2nSX2ql-t_imnyQUXlYENq4bus2dddQHa1bhqRmtGaEoQck6cBx_FRegHEGEe8eCvS/s320/022.JPG" /></a><br /><br />The kids on Christmas morning 2010.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7XfEP846Xvy7gCLge5MLb-M0GY7ystFQyzVhLm5j9R253TXPUgfn_SEDHCJAZfxlBjeYOSe3_fB_9pDx_rfXa0-kmfJWnKj-CQNOo0pTkjPaTwYJRsQTEkQMNsSlBLaJdpsz4uniU50Vu/s1600/020.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578136012721363186" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7XfEP846Xvy7gCLge5MLb-M0GY7ystFQyzVhLm5j9R253TXPUgfn_SEDHCJAZfxlBjeYOSe3_fB_9pDx_rfXa0-kmfJWnKj-CQNOo0pTkjPaTwYJRsQTEkQMNsSlBLaJdpsz4uniU50Vu/s320/020.JPG" /></a><br />Hailey kissing Sophie.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpeVfnpvB6nVyDhI6Yk_xFOz6KU5Ob21P4dpNvUzAyC5e_vpxyZzwAbWq5xeGpbylZmfeFC_wxNtuXCFyCzkUU7dN4ORPMtiR5AMGdtB2AhdMJLEkYbnzCzh7xOsUKJawcmNCdq3YM9vPu/s1600/006.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578135844274445874" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpeVfnpvB6nVyDhI6Yk_xFOz6KU5Ob21P4dpNvUzAyC5e_vpxyZzwAbWq5xeGpbylZmfeFC_wxNtuXCFyCzkUU7dN4ORPMtiR5AMGdtB2AhdMJLEkYbnzCzh7xOsUKJawcmNCdq3YM9vPu/s320/006.JPG" /></a><br /><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Trent and Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01279513269252669235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1637732167385009664.post-36753918290273989092010-12-15T14:46:00.000-08:002010-12-15T15:09:54.149-08:00Grrrr! Computers!!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWd8NbCqHnRfFNiOPZP9ORt9PvuiBmj_Un53ivgqJsYCfiZlVJDY-1ryzWZK734ALIP8cP29izAKtj_X5kPa4w2GTsIwC5aBKoSoL12GXDYSTvj8K6hXw7aIaQq6xiolflSJ20S-3K3Oqd/s1600/027.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5551049902299508258" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWd8NbCqHnRfFNiOPZP9ORt9PvuiBmj_Un53ivgqJsYCfiZlVJDY-1ryzWZK734ALIP8cP29izAKtj_X5kPa4w2GTsIwC5aBKoSoL12GXDYSTvj8K6hXw7aIaQq6xiolflSJ20S-3K3Oqd/s320/027.JPG" /></a><br /><div></div>This is almost all the Halterman Grandchildren (minus Mason). Seven kids under the age of 7. It's amazing they all held still. <br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCHArO6g1KIWhc0L6UPMsI9xsPwFHTF-vOvDzjKgS5WmSmzI1hn59O5YU_waY9uZ3VD8eXEBpd5ERiT7kJS_xCGpOl1hZgzaIQXKWdfqGFssJCk2cilvbb5sEX_4nWZ62wFtbFSIjnS0Aa/s1600/016.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5551048673352593730" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCHArO6g1KIWhc0L6UPMsI9xsPwFHTF-vOvDzjKgS5WmSmzI1hn59O5YU_waY9uZ3VD8eXEBpd5ERiT7kJS_xCGpOl1hZgzaIQXKWdfqGFssJCk2cilvbb5sEX_4nWZ62wFtbFSIjnS0Aa/s320/016.JPG" /></a> </div><br /><div></div><br /><div>This is Jacob and Joseph Shaw (cousins) with Sophie, Rebecca Shaw, and Hailey playing in the snow at Thanksgiving in Utah.<br /></div><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT2jCQ1Xh57yS9bH4zOdodLsT5DuTxYPW4wfvrM41sRwgBaChM7UMiYOs7lHI6J1xpqVwO4Usipl8gIKRpsNQP_ZRguUICX9epoZ-zFz0MpEaejVfAJVq8SUwdtLzbeM402kXvCtyXowTS/s1600/005.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5551048537217518514" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT2jCQ1Xh57yS9bH4zOdodLsT5DuTxYPW4wfvrM41sRwgBaChM7UMiYOs7lHI6J1xpqVwO4Usipl8gIKRpsNQP_ZRguUICX9epoZ-zFz0MpEaejVfAJVq8SUwdtLzbeM402kXvCtyXowTS/s320/005.JPG" /></a><br />This is Hailey with a vest and Indian hat she made for Preschool. She dressed herself that day--can you tell? There are just some battles I don't have the strength for.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4SVjRsblaLsNfpLxUOCGjQwrgPYrS6vUaEiDTuV71T56pUs4zpFl-Zqo0YOYB67QC7mkEnEdGqgGpVJ76q3n6T5p3uCibE7Ayk1ys96oAi6xMw-C7811y5al_Q52PT5SSnZs6TuHBfapx/s1600/043.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5551048413747167266" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4SVjRsblaLsNfpLxUOCGjQwrgPYrS6vUaEiDTuV71T56pUs4zpFl-Zqo0YOYB67QC7mkEnEdGqgGpVJ76q3n6T5p3uCibE7Ayk1ys96oAi6xMw-C7811y5al_Q52PT5SSnZs6TuHBfapx/s320/043.JPG" /></a><br /><br />This is us standing in front of the San Diego temple on our date last week. Gorgeous!</div><br /><div><br /></div><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbD85AgksSMuqa5pujgLw9-XhU0xD6YSCPWpqyUOsUEkI6XVwVbxSv2Ep3NHi93v4AzMubQF3hiRrQLbr5s1wvjTsendsgNXM5HaVY4QGWGI-6mM4ng3sfn2xzFVXIsBPbB_IAZQAT-3f4/s1600/009.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5551048281461584930" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbD85AgksSMuqa5pujgLw9-XhU0xD6YSCPWpqyUOsUEkI6XVwVbxSv2Ep3NHi93v4AzMubQF3hiRrQLbr5s1wvjTsendsgNXM5HaVY4QGWGI-6mM4ng3sfn2xzFVXIsBPbB_IAZQAT-3f4/s320/009.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Cory got a new bike for his 7th birthday. Don't you love his FAKE smile?<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxs6rJrFlwN-V0tlhYE3W6iRRVeAkU4t6aqMnGavsEiAgmVoqB68H7UnWcCvteEdpp14064RFyPQXLsP2CHzZMSpUxtc0PAoEabMQWo-CE-9tTq5GkMvrIaTf-CeeDljV8txSgRC1Bu65w/s1600/025.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5551048110855835154" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxs6rJrFlwN-V0tlhYE3W6iRRVeAkU4t6aqMnGavsEiAgmVoqB68H7UnWcCvteEdpp14064RFyPQXLsP2CHzZMSpUxtc0PAoEabMQWo-CE-9tTq5GkMvrIaTf-CeeDljV8txSgRC1Bu65w/s320/025.JPG" /></a><br /></div><br /><div>This is our cute 22-month-old Sophie. I can't believe my baby is almost two!!<br /><br /><br /></div><br /><div>So, we had a wonderful Thanksgiving vacation to visit Trent's family in Sandy, UT. We drove up to Utah and froze our tails off and got our fill of snow for the season. The longer we're here in San Diego, the harder it is to bear 18 degree weather and driveways covered in ice.</div><br /><div><br /></div><br /><div>Anyway, the reason I am hating computers right now is because just before Thanksgiving our My Documents file on our hard drive basically disappeared. The screen just said it was unable to link to the file or something. So since we got our computer just 2 years ago and paid about $1800 for it at PC Laptops, we thought it was the perfect chance to take it up to Utah with us and take advantage of their free lifetime repair and service on any computer you buy there. Well, we picked it up a week later, headed home, the drive appeared for two days, then it disappeared again. So we paid $75 to ship it to the nearest PC Laptops (in Las Vegas) to have them fix it. Well, they told us to today they can't recover the My Documents folder or anything else on that drive. Okay, that means, all my PICTURES from the last 6 years, my VIDEOS from the last 4 years, and my family letters I send out each month via email that I save on that file are all GONE from the computer. Well, THANK HEAVENS I have downloanded pictures through July 2010 onto a website called Winkflash.com, so I haven't really lost all my pictures--just Aug-Nov. of this year. And I still had my videos on the camcorders hard drive since Jan of 2009, but that means ALL my videos from 2007 and 2008 are GONE. I even spent about 30 hours awhile ago making a really cute, edited movie of all our video clips from 2007 (including captions and music soundtracks), I just hadn't saved it to a DVD yet!! That was Hailey's first two very adorable years of life. My family letters, I luckily just printed them all out over the last couple months and put them in 3-ring binders, so thankfully I did that!!!</div><div> </div><br /><div>Honestly, I can't believe how upset I am about losing two years worth of videos when my kids were so small and cute and that time is gone forever. So, to anyone reading this: BACK UP your photos and videos to spare discs or CD's. You don't want to lose them, trust me! In fact, I'm glad I have all those pictures on Winkflash (we have a lot of Picasa Web, too) because I guess if our house burned down, we'd lose all our CDs, too. I've heard of companies that back up your entire computer on their website or something and so you don't eve have to worry about losing anything. We'll have to look into that. </div></div></div>Trent and Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01279513269252669235noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1637732167385009664.post-39726206925598166602010-11-15T22:53:00.000-08:002010-11-15T23:18:40.810-08:00Halloween and Fall Stuff<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLAofti4m-mRCkuoq9uc7Itc-pcV1Z_CTksAOFN0y41RddRmUVzCX_dFF8JyN9-hXQi5gW-UxO9K0dwyT0W49xFVrox3SHpehvYEJkTcwAnrdX86g3jt9YWTKKaunFg2ESYjp1oLJ5OOMj/s1600/IMG_0764.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 213px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540040286887958674" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLAofti4m-mRCkuoq9uc7Itc-pcV1Z_CTksAOFN0y41RddRmUVzCX_dFF8JyN9-hXQi5gW-UxO9K0dwyT0W49xFVrox3SHpehvYEJkTcwAnrdX86g3jt9YWTKKaunFg2ESYjp1oLJ5OOMj/s320/IMG_0764.JPG" /></a><br />Well, I guess I'm done adding pictures--blogger won't let me add anymore.<br />These are from our ward trunk-or-treat on Sat, Oct. 30. I had bought a new storm trooper costume for Cory this year, and last minute he decided to wear his ninja costume from last year. Okay..... I told him I was NOT going to buy him a new costume next year. Hailey was a cheerleader, and Sophie was a hula girl.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAb-AB3gMFfX0-6Dsxt8A_0W61DfOTI2UeFQoU8INnhKGt4LQNoPKsFI0g7xBAk0bgxqHs9XDWzW2vJkUgWunkU-X8G6_j-cynsp4mrcPoqEFD4Tf7_2jc5db1z7MiWT5LXdXhey__PWC0/s1600/IMG_0760.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 213px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540040142003984770" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAb-AB3gMFfX0-6Dsxt8A_0W61DfOTI2UeFQoU8INnhKGt4LQNoPKsFI0g7xBAk0bgxqHs9XDWzW2vJkUgWunkU-X8G6_j-cynsp4mrcPoqEFD4Tf7_2jc5db1z7MiWT5LXdXhey__PWC0/s320/IMG_0760.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br />This is Spencer, Cory's best friend, and Cory after a soccer game from this season.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_fHbghXZm0BrHlvKEkQpaJifjCModNMJXSz660nzbUQzi3W0g89x1q-H4y6AWZTbA3KKZhnNYLzKTSdebG9VC_aBXbo-yGxyl49bWHHO0GpR-5zbrmn9WhuSRN1twLev7uAxC-gcFv_Nr/s1600/IMG_0759.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 213px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540039957703808002" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_fHbghXZm0BrHlvKEkQpaJifjCModNMJXSz660nzbUQzi3W0g89x1q-H4y6AWZTbA3KKZhnNYLzKTSdebG9VC_aBXbo-yGxyl49bWHHO0GpR-5zbrmn9WhuSRN1twLev7uAxC-gcFv_Nr/s320/IMG_0759.JPG" /></a><br /><br />This is Hailey with Brooke (Spencer's sister). They kind of like each other....just a tad. <br />So cute!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPz4CGmETo5EZEUhX2s5GdcLiUaXSb-hMN4fjwOjPNkejRm1z7NxGzyJ7Vfr8syt6c5qeRx3y7_ZMT79F4IwL2_FKWH7ryEh66XqDwwnp7nu6nGBL3QwT64OEfv0T2cYjgjHLCK05cqLmw/s1600/IMG_0756.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 213px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540039790851258786" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPz4CGmETo5EZEUhX2s5GdcLiUaXSb-hMN4fjwOjPNkejRm1z7NxGzyJ7Vfr8syt6c5qeRx3y7_ZMT79F4IwL2_FKWH7ryEh66XqDwwnp7nu6nGBL3QwT64OEfv0T2cYjgjHLCK05cqLmw/s320/IMG_0756.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br />This is Hailey with two of her Joy School buddies. She's the only girl in our Joy School with 3 other boys. We went to a pumpkin patch for a fieldtrip right before Halloween. It was in the low 80's that day--we were hot!<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ3zcFUdjiEFPAQddH_NNpwtqsp8GOWQ0NB_s7JVt6GDxW4_v-AXchg_oPB4JS_YRONPHzuyUwdMSQc66Gq89TR6yS-coRCv8Jk9_nkHuFvhmQ9Xg7ET2nL_yQBWxSgdVTglXGKAQx9_r4/s1600/IMG_0751.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 213px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540039637905626098" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ3zcFUdjiEFPAQddH_NNpwtqsp8GOWQ0NB_s7JVt6GDxW4_v-AXchg_oPB4JS_YRONPHzuyUwdMSQc66Gq89TR6yS-coRCv8Jk9_nkHuFvhmQ9Xg7ET2nL_yQBWxSgdVTglXGKAQx9_r4/s320/IMG_0751.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />Sophie eating our lunch at the pumpkin patch.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilULVIDZjpB5FGNXVuZW_PFrwSQ5XF8dZweYaufOPS6EeK2u8plw1kGDpcuVOROCRKm7X_Jsdxl7GsF6nnUzZJROPHKwOBF_DKbo_JwNqKaitl_Usn4mRYs0UVFwrJRoES7vCpDtK1HFfM/s1600/IMG_0753.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 213px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540039469134988466" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilULVIDZjpB5FGNXVuZW_PFrwSQ5XF8dZweYaufOPS6EeK2u8plw1kGDpcuVOROCRKm7X_Jsdxl7GsF6nnUzZJROPHKwOBF_DKbo_JwNqKaitl_Usn4mRYs0UVFwrJRoES7vCpDtK1HFfM/s320/IMG_0753.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />In early October, three of my sisters came out to San Diego for a sisters weekend. We stayed in a hotel for 3 nights in Pacific Beach. We went to Los Angeles one day and did Universal Studios Theme Park. After that, we went to the Chinese Mann Theater (pictured here), and saw lots of stars' handprints.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVXfVKayqbNsjEpbgTOzkYZvs0NPAdFO5Yah9n6IVmRBMXJ5_2h3EZZwzaSKVjKFsHh_DHMVw6mUHscTO5YZ8YS5JBx4IDgrdTU1ajgmVvcvU0Ubs15h9Zhq6S3DHvYXj9mfa1J92HpNn9/s1600/IMG_0715.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540039226730371714" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVXfVKayqbNsjEpbgTOzkYZvs0NPAdFO5Yah9n6IVmRBMXJ5_2h3EZZwzaSKVjKFsHh_DHMVw6mUHscTO5YZ8YS5JBx4IDgrdTU1ajgmVvcvU0Ubs15h9Zhq6S3DHvYXj9mfa1J92HpNn9/s320/IMG_0715.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Some of the cast from Harry Potter.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY-sPXl1H8ImhmBo2WkA6rrHoQditJTryTXW_LOdpv-pzUz5gZ37X_gjhdF67LjdVXl1eorB5mMgWuE7GHyuEU93Tu47J1osjYArklrHzqOqwZxYotH7_hIQEioJT4-LpSlIMPrCYDF1ve/s1600/IMG_0719.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540038988272639106" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY-sPXl1H8ImhmBo2WkA6rrHoQditJTryTXW_LOdpv-pzUz5gZ37X_gjhdF67LjdVXl1eorB5mMgWuE7GHyuEU93Tu47J1osjYArklrHzqOqwZxYotH7_hIQEioJT4-LpSlIMPrCYDF1ve/s320/IMG_0719.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br />The next day for our sisters weekend, we hiked Torrey Pines Preserve (the picture below this one), we played on boogie boards at the beach, then we went on a pretty intense bike ride along the hilly coast of La Jolla, California (just north of the city of San Diego.) So fun! It was an awesome three days away from our kids. (Between the 4 of us, we have 15 kids!!) I'd say it was a much-needed break. Here, Christy is pulling me on a boogie board. We also rode them coming in on the waves--the way you're supposed to!<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhop73NQPTaZApb02rACQf6HflvScHha-0cVI2O1ih_07LBsercoabyoy-do2F9Bqg9BOx8goGwoDZAmekeP9mc-7Fs3iUijHy1uhOuUS3YBtTI-s6Lxq1uBXQCYJlv1xUoiQDE1fppD2CU/s1600/IMG_0735.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540038762376138354" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhop73NQPTaZApb02rACQf6HflvScHha-0cVI2O1ih_07LBsercoabyoy-do2F9Bqg9BOx8goGwoDZAmekeP9mc-7Fs3iUijHy1uhOuUS3YBtTI-s6Lxq1uBXQCYJlv1xUoiQDE1fppD2CU/s320/IMG_0735.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLSHB68QnRm3_o0Ya2ZpbYHmMCfw4AhogKb-usRpEJBQYPMnrSLs5-FzlR-Fl6nflh3QrLgVlYDoCZsiDpdlXuV7No6Al7u20CPDogbNMPEl7xCwZsoZg9wtqJ1NJOxIi79bktfRQdaSMm/s1600/IMG_0724.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540038307991572498" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLSHB68QnRm3_o0Ya2ZpbYHmMCfw4AhogKb-usRpEJBQYPMnrSLs5-FzlR-Fl6nflh3QrLgVlYDoCZsiDpdlXuV7No6Al7u20CPDogbNMPEl7xCwZsoZg9wtqJ1NJOxIi79bktfRQdaSMm/s320/IMG_0724.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br />Meditating in a rock cavity on our hike of Torrey Pines Preserve.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT0I112LqXYFQFvIlzKBKIalBhjrCYmeF36YLXGBLZgsrRiYpAgq7MsS5Ke_Tr7RMxtW9SuteMoYcujQFljjbuyWf8aZBgwqwr3J3i74fBlCl8DJuUGBCAcwKr1W3dR4BC18FqO-vFBa_2/s1600/IMG_0723.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540038083180861426" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT0I112LqXYFQFvIlzKBKIalBhjrCYmeF36YLXGBLZgsrRiYpAgq7MsS5Ke_Tr7RMxtW9SuteMoYcujQFljjbuyWf8aZBgwqwr3J3i74fBlCl8DJuUGBCAcwKr1W3dR4BC18FqO-vFBa_2/s320/IMG_0723.JPG" /></a><br /><br />I'm actually not in this picture (below). That's Annette in the middle. I was taking the picture. Everywhere we went, people asked if we were sisters. 'Ya Think??<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmYTI412cr2pRAT909YKV8S3hqoEz4K7GiOynsnZNBVLk9cY8JgouAMbDxSnAKbbvXtp-4vX6-GwEAv-cJRaufxE7KQ6Hm4bn7SpltO52pOJi-msUU-TKtzsAZnvBu2EnKGUeM3uMy6AKz/s1600/IMG_0689.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540037858696040082" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmYTI412cr2pRAT909YKV8S3hqoEz4K7GiOynsnZNBVLk9cY8JgouAMbDxSnAKbbvXtp-4vX6-GwEAv-cJRaufxE7KQ6Hm4bn7SpltO52pOJi-msUU-TKtzsAZnvBu2EnKGUeM3uMy6AKz/s320/IMG_0689.JPG" /></a><br /><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Trent and Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01279513269252669235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1637732167385009664.post-69878899649939609112010-09-21T14:41:00.000-07:002010-09-21T15:30:59.039-07:00End of SummerThis is Sophie in our front yard. We had a few days this summer where it got up into the low 90's, and considering we don't have A/C, that felt pretty hot! Luckily, we had this little pool to cool off in, if we were too lazy to drive to the big pool.<br /><br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgDvXnSAoIF9k83uky9qA_ZtXnNiLF8lZm5eUnVkd8ZHDeXQbPO_J54lEPeh2RMjId2ZecwFcBB2EOU72hcaCf63omgS825hnebasMqqybnN-l3-32BGZkDBrlbToDTpQXFIrPTXDuv7kX/s1600/IMG_0619.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519491110137011314" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgDvXnSAoIF9k83uky9qA_ZtXnNiLF8lZm5eUnVkd8ZHDeXQbPO_J54lEPeh2RMjId2ZecwFcBB2EOU72hcaCf63omgS825hnebasMqqybnN-l3-32BGZkDBrlbToDTpQXFIrPTXDuv7kX/s320/IMG_0619.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Hailey on the first day of Preschool. I am doing Joy School with her and 3 other moms. (We take turns every 4th week to teach two days a week. She loves it so much! She's the only girl, and the other three boys are very "boy", but she's holding her own!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ2Oo0bM9hlNqZcL9ctPSOIrux30MTja2Yz7krPdkl-0aRUvDQu4-_cnDj5NsBJqqr6x_tk92f5Togn4dJ7V7F6EvAzoHGBXJlOR9xxWvGjBbRcw86ZWSjAnj2zJlqdVhmNEfBrd8fpbKY/s1600/IMG_0624.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519490910541550466" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ2Oo0bM9hlNqZcL9ctPSOIrux30MTja2Yz7krPdkl-0aRUvDQu4-_cnDj5NsBJqqr6x_tk92f5Togn4dJ7V7F6EvAzoHGBXJlOR9xxWvGjBbRcw86ZWSjAnj2zJlqdVhmNEfBrd8fpbKY/s320/IMG_0624.JPG" /></a><br />Cory on the first day of 1st Grade!! He looks pretty tired because we have to leave the house at 7:15 AM to get to school on time. (No buses in CA) His school starts at 7:45. <br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1MhX2nKPrqijlcahUsP-QP6tOPhk_iixzQLSXX9jcFDHDedB57HbMgVqTnEkIPWGKAXwTGBf4yygVu2qvPuRHXB7-jh-6bgFpzNwJOUP3qbeIZHLxxISx37Ofnzs7JxTfLoi4rsnu2oQb/s1600/IMG_0616.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519490741572149426" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1MhX2nKPrqijlcahUsP-QP6tOPhk_iixzQLSXX9jcFDHDedB57HbMgVqTnEkIPWGKAXwTGBf4yygVu2qvPuRHXB7-jh-6bgFpzNwJOUP3qbeIZHLxxISx37Ofnzs7JxTfLoi4rsnu2oQb/s320/IMG_0616.JPG" /></a><br /><br />When we visitied my parents in Gilbert, AZ the end of August. This is Hailey hugging her cousin, Emma. She sure loves babies!<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic2ZM0HBhv4O5hxXAk7x3EGTRzeDYOLmzpigUPNAc-PEMggbNWP-gqKsLDVv3rUJceDtR4gFswMgDhCPdYrbc8t7Mw_jG5xuxrfKwm0AUfMs83g3DFfV7u_E_cYhdVT5kxQlWzmDxCgvt1/s1600/IMG_0614.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519490594226941394" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic2ZM0HBhv4O5hxXAk7x3EGTRzeDYOLmzpigUPNAc-PEMggbNWP-gqKsLDVv3rUJceDtR4gFswMgDhCPdYrbc8t7Mw_jG5xuxrfKwm0AUfMs83g3DFfV7u_E_cYhdVT5kxQlWzmDxCgvt1/s320/IMG_0614.JPG" /></a><br /><br />This is Sophie hugging her cousin, Emma. Sohpie loves babies even more than Hailey! (Poor Emma.)<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5ISwYRS3t5pRb3su9eOSAYcJyssNdNSJkPrzXlBDwYVO5_gMd-gYG3Av2tBORXzBsi2dClqm2tgfdzbo8ePTCOEGddRAYgoMobYC7CxGpUqMFJjd1syBZOtck0_9j8NHg8YVag2df3iN8/s1600/IMG_0611.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519490400932069186" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5ISwYRS3t5pRb3su9eOSAYcJyssNdNSJkPrzXlBDwYVO5_gMd-gYG3Av2tBORXzBsi2dClqm2tgfdzbo8ePTCOEGddRAYgoMobYC7CxGpUqMFJjd1syBZOtck0_9j8NHg8YVag2df3iN8/s320/IMG_0611.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br />Hailey playing dress-up in some dress- up clothes at my parent's house. I used to play dress-up in these clothes 20 years ago!!<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5La28RN1ydh-z6gCX5MoMDlkHGDizjEP7uUNGwiIgNY8BrH2TUQcuzr6ZhsYH3bZnYZy5KJiaLj8HX9mjvyi76mK8Q2dpWW1GZy6q0T1ia5zudIxtO_iBFK14vqNkvw57nJbod1u3g6a7/s1600/IMG_0608.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 213px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519490158600667346" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5La28RN1ydh-z6gCX5MoMDlkHGDizjEP7uUNGwiIgNY8BrH2TUQcuzr6ZhsYH3bZnYZy5KJiaLj8HX9mjvyi76mK8Q2dpWW1GZy6q0T1ia5zudIxtO_iBFK14vqNkvw57nJbod1u3g6a7/s320/IMG_0608.JPG" /></a><br /><br />This is Sophie with Laura Roe's little boy, Landon. They are about 7 months apart. I visited Laura while she was staying at her in-laws house in AZ, when I was there visiting my parents!<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX9V1-py8rNo9S-Ef2NcJ8dIIrIIutBWI15EEIIpoAQTgrWoqAUebQswxz-BxLrht2RHj4dwVtnbW0Jv6LnSMz7tboF0MEwUNGHjn2KhPW-dpO9c2l5tiGS3jj7yMYaNoBkd1urYqgjFDq/s1600/IMG_0592.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519490017433157538" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX9V1-py8rNo9S-Ef2NcJ8dIIrIIutBWI15EEIIpoAQTgrWoqAUebQswxz-BxLrht2RHj4dwVtnbW0Jv6LnSMz7tboF0MEwUNGHjn2KhPW-dpO9c2l5tiGS3jj7yMYaNoBkd1urYqgjFDq/s320/IMG_0592.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />Me with Laura Roe at her in-laws house in AZ. Good times!<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKeTskphHCJqeM7Uk1eBW1bwZhMkGXfJG9wSG7AXzY0eqqd8Mwvb8koFL5VBo-ZS7uv-YTBPDSiwEK8UqpdhNanAbcx1msRqS-PwC0vG188rbNjyD0F8hi6ubVDdOTQ344klS5CFt7MQQ_/s1600/IMG_0598.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519489862694913362" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKeTskphHCJqeM7Uk1eBW1bwZhMkGXfJG9wSG7AXzY0eqqd8Mwvb8koFL5VBo-ZS7uv-YTBPDSiwEK8UqpdhNanAbcx1msRqS-PwC0vG188rbNjyD0F8hi6ubVDdOTQ344klS5CFt7MQQ_/s320/IMG_0598.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Weston, Cory's first best friend from the Univ. of Utah married student housing (The Village), Hailey, and Cory.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyjVxIKXDA4vlBDbCSdttwYCF56L8UnTmfWGp5V6AOfSQiC8k8Fs7DFcf8ueJg0R2YUi_qYw9Q6KKjw5vXZccg7O0f4Z-k6u5tSCiBO8zVkVBkmzRLt9c4oKeb5tLCe50pH8FMC4vYHToU/s1600/IMG_0591.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519489622586822274" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyjVxIKXDA4vlBDbCSdttwYCF56L8UnTmfWGp5V6AOfSQiC8k8Fs7DFcf8ueJg0R2YUi_qYw9Q6KKjw5vXZccg7O0f4Z-k6u5tSCiBO8zVkVBkmzRLt9c4oKeb5tLCe50pH8FMC4vYHToU/s320/IMG_0591.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Hailey playing more dress-up at my parent's house. Good thing my mom saved all those ancient clothes, right mom?<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGr4oil6oRo2mXgcwjHY3qWyb5Bk3VJRP6IytLDznjW3aaOnzBrlI8RmEHPNi_tQmRgJS30zuTHxNX-1lJLaFILUoMmxKdcjxcd_1WoNHT4JXd7zSfJ4mXS8eU8Qr8cZnphYrb7WMuaK4_/s1600/IMG_0590.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519489405221204162" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGr4oil6oRo2mXgcwjHY3qWyb5Bk3VJRP6IytLDznjW3aaOnzBrlI8RmEHPNi_tQmRgJS30zuTHxNX-1lJLaFILUoMmxKdcjxcd_1WoNHT4JXd7zSfJ4mXS8eU8Qr8cZnphYrb7WMuaK4_/s320/IMG_0590.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br />One of our last trips to the beach before school started. This was at Del Mar Beach. It was one of the few very sunny, very warm days we have ever been to the beach. Of course Trent missed it--he was at work. But most of the time when we've gone to the beach it's either a little cloudy, all the way cloudy, and it's just breaking 65 degrees. But this day, it was actually in the upper 70's!<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTu1RbBb-MaqIthzxV76MVw6fIX4u4tT15xeVDCd-RNknRM-ZTcC5xAen0k71LDqTz4-QuU_KkaR4kb0a72TiKOaDOrL5t2D5HTfWcBjsUUTTxX7Jc6szle2TmuKdYaWyUaDgP7FP-BOGe/s1600/IMG_0582.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519489257294413106" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTu1RbBb-MaqIthzxV76MVw6fIX4u4tT15xeVDCd-RNknRM-ZTcC5xAen0k71LDqTz4-QuU_KkaR4kb0a72TiKOaDOrL5t2D5HTfWcBjsUUTTxX7Jc6szle2TmuKdYaWyUaDgP7FP-BOGe/s320/IMG_0582.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Cory had so much fun jumping in the waves with all his friends. (It was finally hot enough to want to jump waves!)<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgkqnmRMxetvug_YXU9EspYxgzU32FpJeT3cx6GYSY_VOKApEwJ28Q5aLTeT1Rv-0L683wmCx2bRauHPZtsZTY-X8KWEf3UZMQ-1Y6HY7I3NKkaFOwssKNP-jUhPvjeFc0w8pzzXAaaBFK/s1600/IMG_0581.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519489042431754738" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgkqnmRMxetvug_YXU9EspYxgzU32FpJeT3cx6GYSY_VOKApEwJ28Q5aLTeT1Rv-0L683wmCx2bRauHPZtsZTY-X8KWEf3UZMQ-1Y6HY7I3NKkaFOwssKNP-jUhPvjeFc0w8pzzXAaaBFK/s320/IMG_0581.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Hailey and Sophie with some friends at the beach.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjJlTy6059Va5VjG7i3shvRnRR4dx0oJcf90DWnkL8_HwzQNcW6G730YMNlrvsWIyN1UVvwal6YDcaSdch7Wi_puenwtIVoTZHYIhIEMT5vqxckcrC1eKi7u-7UHqpXMWuMNqzezYiAmBT/s1600/IMG_0579.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519488886216008002" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjJlTy6059Va5VjG7i3shvRnRR4dx0oJcf90DWnkL8_HwzQNcW6G730YMNlrvsWIyN1UVvwal6YDcaSdch7Wi_puenwtIVoTZHYIhIEMT5vqxckcrC1eKi7u-7UHqpXMWuMNqzezYiAmBT/s320/IMG_0579.JPG" /></a><br /><br />This is the position our kids assume when we say "family prayer time". It all started with Sophie diving under Trent's frame to "kneel" underneath him and then all the kids had to start copying her, until now, it's turned into this. We do make Cory and Hailey at least kneel down under daddy. Sophie is still allowed to just sprawl about wherever.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNtKfWx6pFKLv53-P-GkupvJsKVRjejkVqMSSWzpEeqHaWf2VI7mpFQ2EeKuJkkl_wd3vIaBiaj-DvXAibBNNyKdlN3D-NVjtmR14XKDF_67aJWuWOODdZip2QWfAb3iCQyUJAxQ_rwva7/s1600/IMG_0575.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519488668935317794" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNtKfWx6pFKLv53-P-GkupvJsKVRjejkVqMSSWzpEeqHaWf2VI7mpFQ2EeKuJkkl_wd3vIaBiaj-DvXAibBNNyKdlN3D-NVjtmR14XKDF_67aJWuWOODdZip2QWfAb3iCQyUJAxQ_rwva7/s320/IMG_0575.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br />Eating S'mores at our ward campout.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9qMY38Sw8W6S9WzPuE0jsqUTpLHjakBm93WLFKhduvDMj9Lh6YjyElP4wHV9AfI9fmK_R5LurnVJNndqt-nh0r8kALbiaoqO9AvEOkf03wH_CXh0aMdCXm_UX2UKj1ro3bCKqv_8Tc6va/s1600/IMG_0569.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519488527623934258" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9qMY38Sw8W6S9WzPuE0jsqUTpLHjakBm93WLFKhduvDMj9Lh6YjyElP4wHV9AfI9fmK_R5LurnVJNndqt-nh0r8kALbiaoqO9AvEOkf03wH_CXh0aMdCXm_UX2UKj1ro3bCKqv_8Tc6va/s320/IMG_0569.JPG" /></a><br /><br />The view of Escondido from our campsite. Hailey is just a few feet from where our tent was set up.<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifWsU_XoSBpZ59NJS-Rg-5YRJlqscx-kQ-a-jCveAHBeR1Xs3NCEijdai9GELf2swVmTO37_fVCQCJvslkd7rRiCUc14hl9mS8nhwL26EFgOCzTN0FAyzwT-MsS-6c1BUQx4avkArGtg3v/s1600/IMG_0559.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519488377614995554" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifWsU_XoSBpZ59NJS-Rg-5YRJlqscx-kQ-a-jCveAHBeR1Xs3NCEijdai9GELf2swVmTO37_fVCQCJvslkd7rRiCUc14hl9mS8nhwL26EFgOCzTN0FAyzwT-MsS-6c1BUQx4avkArGtg3v/s320/IMG_0559.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />The view from the other side of the hill at the ward campout. This campground was just a 30 minute drive from our house.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhKltzj_yqg9nAvg2nzEqsMlR97d5EJfdGLhmaGjvkc67xB3eWT-87QNlXVGkrac8GZp1TAhHT_YXnJhQKEOCLqrVCEB93e1INWrrQSRE4yqR6w7IwRMDumpsolASiaA2Y6cx0qwTmgL2V/s1600/IMG_0563.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519488078611827202" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhKltzj_yqg9nAvg2nzEqsMlR97d5EJfdGLhmaGjvkc67xB3eWT-87QNlXVGkrac8GZp1TAhHT_YXnJhQKEOCLqrVCEB93e1INWrrQSRE4yqR6w7IwRMDumpsolASiaA2Y6cx0qwTmgL2V/s320/IMG_0563.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Trent grilling up some mean steaks and modeling his new apron I got him for Father's Day. (It says Real Men Don't Use Recipes.) Those were some of the best steaks he's ever done. They fed all 5 of us for 2 nights. (I think we made steak fajitas on the second night.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiit4SV83rl9_rzz9zq_r8rZMX97HYxT2Ew2LHWiX112hF1FFd3bLxjL_P9uU-3f93x-Boxq1NiPVsMDhHUftBVfK8xYh0jJeu3z_tilunQGPmlsaiJYOQ-dXq3CnjbNzvDP4q2l3xwgOjp/s1600/IMG_0539.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519487887654198482" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiit4SV83rl9_rzz9zq_r8rZMX97HYxT2Ew2LHWiX112hF1FFd3bLxjL_P9uU-3f93x-Boxq1NiPVsMDhHUftBVfK8xYh0jJeu3z_tilunQGPmlsaiJYOQ-dXq3CnjbNzvDP4q2l3xwgOjp/s320/IMG_0539.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />Play time with daddy on the floor. <br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdC_FKf9SeDLxKGFrWDjlr6jYeojo0G0NxuVhtlA1qyxXtZ68tVo4jV2mx7GdMtDfLnKz707EqBWEpT7YCmtCd5wY7RIaPmRbu_dsSaWaONZzN5oOlbZiooE2my6gy3Zhf5YB6C03p0Hvw/s1600/IMG_0543.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519487692764431186" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdC_FKf9SeDLxKGFrWDjlr6jYeojo0G0NxuVhtlA1qyxXtZ68tVo4jV2mx7GdMtDfLnKz707EqBWEpT7YCmtCd5wY7RIaPmRbu_dsSaWaONZzN5oOlbZiooE2my6gy3Zhf5YB6C03p0Hvw/s320/IMG_0543.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br />After our many trips to Sea World this spring and summer, the kids collected everything they've gotten from Sea World over the last year. (We usually don't buy them souvenirs, a lot of this stuff was when we went to Sea World in April of 2009 before we had any idea we were moving to San Diego.) They put on the dolphin show for us using their stuffed animals and the Sea World Barbie that Hailey's holding. I was trying to sing the song that you hear during the show. It was pretty funny! (My attempt at singing a song I've heard just 5 or 6 times, not the show.)<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjicdlHC_GSP_JVejJBR1DKwhKbiOm6pINEEr7Xnv4-0X76atUFCji0E86_Ra58EPEsbcu_6hBykzR_5zgCH_0fqOtWi2BOLyuGcjdf5aDjcBTE2tVu6OPBxiaWfnNNJuMUN2u7zIkF2VI/s1600/IMG_0542.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519487545966224274" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjicdlHC_GSP_JVejJBR1DKwhKbiOm6pINEEr7Xnv4-0X76atUFCji0E86_Ra58EPEsbcu_6hBykzR_5zgCH_0fqOtWi2BOLyuGcjdf5aDjcBTE2tVu6OPBxiaWfnNNJuMUN2u7zIkF2VI/s320/IMG_0542.JPG" /></a><br /><br /></div><div>The Cirque de la Mer set at Sea World.<br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlODndQozIQZXVPAdjawA7TNk_mWmw4-tLFatMtGj5jtLiU7TFITd3zTWDH_ou7i4Wga6wFIxWtpg7oVN1xL3h3HhB0hjkgN9hlNYjP4EGa0sTCp_BR-x0W7FjRUCER6jeVAUWHQ5Y9De1/s1600/IMG_0528.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519487349131953714" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlODndQozIQZXVPAdjawA7TNk_mWmw4-tLFatMtGj5jtLiU7TFITd3zTWDH_ou7i4Wga6wFIxWtpg7oVN1xL3h3HhB0hjkgN9hlNYjP4EGa0sTCp_BR-x0W7FjRUCER6jeVAUWHQ5Y9De1/s320/IMG_0528.JPG" /></a><br /><br />The kids with a giant Shamu that someone didn't want and offered it to us. We took lots of pictures with it, and then left it on the grass and told some people no one wanted it. (Maybe if we had a giant, empty basement we would've taken it home with us!)<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOe98Fd7gzgwMP8UIIK053i9_mrdI1A5LrJ0IBgEfMXWUK2P1DolLAnjXerIGiUXw0Y0-bvuGKm9EVFfi3uSaDYXQd_BA0QW3CSuJIyKpdz0af5VRRHJyjHcXz0aCKHO_slTPjf7Iol0vK/s1600/IMG_0522.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519487136226092226" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOe98Fd7gzgwMP8UIIK053i9_mrdI1A5LrJ0IBgEfMXWUK2P1DolLAnjXerIGiUXw0Y0-bvuGKm9EVFfi3uSaDYXQd_BA0QW3CSuJIyKpdz0af5VRRHJyjHcXz0aCKHO_slTPjf7Iol0vK/s320/IMG_0522.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Cory lost BOTH of his front teeth within 4 days of each other, and then a couple weeks later, school started. What a great way to start out first grade!<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj3_LYX68oeMuCyE1G7OHm7sa3aaRTHgzP3xjpVmsiUA8NbkrDVBl6IiJSad-S6W60_oybT6LpnChi3h57usq9BNJ0jfPFj8dqU1Vv2ja3ykQpQnV3YAopYUTMNLDGDxorpSk-T4CKFB4Q/s1600/IMG_0514.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 213px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519486818348534978" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj3_LYX68oeMuCyE1G7OHm7sa3aaRTHgzP3xjpVmsiUA8NbkrDVBl6IiJSad-S6W60_oybT6LpnChi3h57usq9BNJ0jfPFj8dqU1Vv2ja3ykQpQnV3YAopYUTMNLDGDxorpSk-T4CKFB4Q/s320/IMG_0514.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br />This was one day when Hailey gave Trent very explicit instructions on how she wanted him to do her hair. He thought it looked pretty silly, but Hailey was so proud of her creation, and Trent wanted to document this hairdo, so he took a picture.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhey0fVRPCctMESrtk7uFHSQHJkisTAYx1LAulBsqCIXfJvyCNzZwww_CSOa4Jfcg7ONtWn7Ic6w_wP-46WIOQFoMjpP5u57kAupb65LM33_EID8ujae_94N_nR2LfHjEaVSRAuEjSyTQX5/s1600/IMG_0510.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519486604905164482" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhey0fVRPCctMESrtk7uFHSQHJkisTAYx1LAulBsqCIXfJvyCNzZwww_CSOa4Jfcg7ONtWn7Ic6w_wP-46WIOQFoMjpP5u57kAupb65LM33_EID8ujae_94N_nR2LfHjEaVSRAuEjSyTQX5/s320/IMG_0510.JPG" /></a><br /><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Trent and Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01279513269252669235noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1637732167385009664.post-12868218701643673042010-08-03T08:13:00.000-07:002010-08-03T08:23:03.345-07:00Sunday Walk on the BeachOur family on Sunday evening at Pacific Beach in San Diego. This is 35 minutes from our house. (Without traffic!)<br /><br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMJqxaroxg3cStLDbwsmhclsvaVCqa4DXRLqtrEgY2AxfoxVrCQFcUtJssK4B47Xm4ygtQO2W8RH0hnRJhswKniIck9EAv0gDi6YK6XWTZ7AAzF2hGTAR5__MhXmBLWF_KyAC4OduENSZI/s1600/Close+up+of+family+at+beach.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501202823427837362" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMJqxaroxg3cStLDbwsmhclsvaVCqa4DXRLqtrEgY2AxfoxVrCQFcUtJssK4B47Xm4ygtQO2W8RH0hnRJhswKniIck9EAv0gDi6YK6XWTZ7AAzF2hGTAR5__MhXmBLWF_KyAC4OduENSZI/s320/Close+up+of+family+at+beach.JPG" /></a><br /><br />We went to Ryan and Julie's house (cousins) for Sunday dinner, and then we took a stroll at Pacific Beach at sunset. I can't believe we've lived here for 7 months and we've never done this!! (Probably because our kids ended up going to bed way too late that night!) <br /><br />But it was still so gorgeous and so much fun.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYmtyU_4bo-223oBC9e29I1ZkVq-YTpzJ6_DESgNxp4U7NVZhaB4Ga6xK6I75A0B6E5PI43Fr8Ir98TT6v_9T8bfKkpU_OxORYc6huZ_JWQqja4ZQ3QLsEZZxI5JfMGXCNh6yBgSx1aYYk/s1600/Family+at+beach.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501202769005928786" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYmtyU_4bo-223oBC9e29I1ZkVq-YTpzJ6_DESgNxp4U7NVZhaB4Ga6xK6I75A0B6E5PI43Fr8Ir98TT6v_9T8bfKkpU_OxORYc6huZ_JWQqja4ZQ3QLsEZZxI5JfMGXCNh6yBgSx1aYYk/s320/Family+at+beach.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMnhirm5-8J5i8zeCNbEUgFeE_RYtQLsu42kYbMm-98GAPYyOvRNrS6eOAW6CX7c_CsqDPn4dB6_AcS-VfugA1NeGHgeU6v964cqFuPWx9U2RbR2arrwhQyS74Syyc-7TvMVtqc8yZdGmd/s1600/karent+and+trent+with+sophie.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501202640123596162" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMnhirm5-8J5i8zeCNbEUgFeE_RYtQLsu42kYbMm-98GAPYyOvRNrS6eOAW6CX7c_CsqDPn4dB6_AcS-VfugA1NeGHgeU6v964cqFuPWx9U2RbR2arrwhQyS74Syyc-7TvMVtqc8yZdGmd/s320/karent+and+trent+with+sophie.JPG" /></a><br /></div><div>The kids were just running around with their cousin, Sam, the whole time. <br /><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKqp5aQmsi6pzZE92zcx_SWh8dCZJirOshpLdvmCzzOd2WgP282wRvx2-4_mFXF2jzr-Hwvk5tM1eFGfSmVywmAfDniSp_0SA-2xPBkcTJhXJHk9a8Oc8I_8cwxqIasXz7ubhukb3_3AU-/s1600/Running+at+sunset.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501202550435473842" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKqp5aQmsi6pzZE92zcx_SWh8dCZJirOshpLdvmCzzOd2WgP282wRvx2-4_mFXF2jzr-Hwvk5tM1eFGfSmVywmAfDniSp_0SA-2xPBkcTJhXJHk9a8Oc8I_8cwxqIasXz7ubhukb3_3AU-/s320/Running+at+sunset.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Sophie took a few minutes to warm up to wanting to get down from daddy's arms. The water was practically warm compared to what it is in the winter. (65 degrees compared to 59)<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp_L-bF6GKEDjwiz-1mfC1UDPMR8RSEOz26eN4einKc3Cof6hyphenhyphenWYYTwPgEN4GHHGB9jHxTZBWlcslrXiM4cyQS-KKWnLEYiNnzPyviGTHGYodlfJaT3C0QZOWkj9dRa3-h2WfJdaDjWKZc/s1600/Sophie+running.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501202458774023890" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp_L-bF6GKEDjwiz-1mfC1UDPMR8RSEOz26eN4einKc3Cof6hyphenhyphenWYYTwPgEN4GHHGB9jHxTZBWlcslrXiM4cyQS-KKWnLEYiNnzPyviGTHGYodlfJaT3C0QZOWkj9dRa3-h2WfJdaDjWKZc/s320/Sophie+running.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS41dgx1j6qOhO6Tx6qpLSrWtWKj0oShxirFqDs8QGGXRuTvvKnHrnRfnCeDceKORKj16WdUoI95i59CIFeXQHSEWy8yOvggKM1Um_E5V79q6Ht2ZT5Ea3DylnyqGgwPreujXj-7F9_KiH/s1600/sunset.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501202369053300706" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS41dgx1j6qOhO6Tx6qpLSrWtWKj0oShxirFqDs8QGGXRuTvvKnHrnRfnCeDceKORKj16WdUoI95i59CIFeXQHSEWy8yOvggKM1Um_E5V79q6Ht2ZT5Ea3DylnyqGgwPreujXj-7F9_KiH/s320/sunset.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8QH42g14wQdsUpg0U1JNuMqHiUH2-2C-K_18BG4M5F0QydzufcOaXkppDxjJNTbGNdms_eagm9i0ZpgnO9bj8a-BUrX7TyoqK2RIXUoitZC0hj4fdS5PefMLXPMawlfXwYA9iBGwnQxbj/s1600/Sophie+and+Cory+running.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501202244513255266" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8QH42g14wQdsUpg0U1JNuMqHiUH2-2C-K_18BG4M5F0QydzufcOaXkppDxjJNTbGNdms_eagm9i0ZpgnO9bj8a-BUrX7TyoqK2RIXUoitZC0hj4fdS5PefMLXPMawlfXwYA9iBGwnQxbj/s320/Sophie+and+Cory+running.JPG" /></a><br /><div>So the real question is, is San Diego worth the insane home prices, gas prices, and everything prices in exchange for this? I think it's all relative with how much money you make, and if you have family close by. So for us, it's great to live here while Trent's in school, but probably not for long after that.</div></div></div></div></div>Trent and Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01279513269252669235noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1637732167385009664.post-12217537350738752532010-07-28T09:07:00.000-07:002010-07-28T09:50:27.739-07:00SAHM Again!When they ask me at work, "Why are you leaving?" The answer is simple. I will point to these three pictures.<br /><br /><br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAJYyPZxv5LSFMW7LX64lE1o4iHnbmJQG5DjcIw8uLstPp4thhj4XJMYY8I2oviNa0QOklBcnZg8Y1_VN1VBw6sEbWtmEPSnZGtQmHaZwgXxncK8sUDuFB16a4zvOEfxJg3tev2fmoYMpU/s1600/Just+Hailey.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498998304490281586" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAJYyPZxv5LSFMW7LX64lE1o4iHnbmJQG5DjcIw8uLstPp4thhj4XJMYY8I2oviNa0QOklBcnZg8Y1_VN1VBw6sEbWtmEPSnZGtQmHaZwgXxncK8sUDuFB16a4zvOEfxJg3tev2fmoYMpU/s320/Just+Hailey.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSZpFBTMjB6GV2NKPCwLBJQB3fz7at1GJ3Q6h5LJ4gSTORsrzVil_YABKxPxu1G-gAK7sfdyWvFiowHkm4pRk8cI7MX4hoyYeF3_t-cN0ieSGP20E_i3Aln_Sfb8gS2nOVDo3CKNZExZCX/s1600/Kids+on+wagon.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498997379962613346" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSZpFBTMjB6GV2NKPCwLBJQB3fz7at1GJ3Q6h5LJ4gSTORsrzVil_YABKxPxu1G-gAK7sfdyWvFiowHkm4pRk8cI7MX4hoyYeF3_t-cN0ieSGP20E_i3Aln_Sfb8gS2nOVDo3CKNZExZCX/s320/Kids+on+wagon.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlNxzo30uQNDZa8TFJeIHdxdTmwXe5UGpheJtG3CbbfbvpM3f0eQ_a3_Ma1zQmLcASMSrZv3LMALcn6fZUZRC324fmfYq1GEo_UE_OYRi6d3uK-dtX9OFXxRPAvfgerSZKR-ulpjYv9D63/s1600/Just+Sophie.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 214px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498997164255284034" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlNxzo30uQNDZa8TFJeIHdxdTmwXe5UGpheJtG3CbbfbvpM3f0eQ_a3_Ma1zQmLcASMSrZv3LMALcn6fZUZRC324fmfYq1GEo_UE_OYRi6d3uK-dtX9OFXxRPAvfgerSZKR-ulpjYv9D63/s320/Just+Sophie.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div>I will be officially leaving my part-time job on August 6. I'm so excited! Which is strange because when I first got my job in March, I really liked it and I enjoyed the breaks it gave me in the mornings to step outside the home. (It was my first paid job in over 6 years.) But now that I've been doing it for over 5 months, now that Trent has a full-time job, and now that our student loans are finally coming, I'm happy about returning home.<br /></div><div>Sophie is growing so fast each day, I miss her terribly, even though I get home by 1pm. Sometimes when I'm sitting at my desk, I imagine her walking around the corner with her pudgy, tanned arms outstretched to me and her unruly blonde curls, and I get all choked up! When I told them my time was up here and I wanted to return home to my kids, they asked me how much I would need to be making per hour to make it worth it. (They knew my daycare costs were the large majority of my paycheck. ) I told them $20/ hour, partly in jest because what company in their right mind would pay an HR Receptionist $20/hour and also because even if they offered that, I still wouldn't stay. Pretty much no amount of money would compensate for missing out on the 17th month of Sophie's life. Or the 42nd month of Hailey's life. Those months can never be re-lived. Once they are lived, they are gone for eternity. Why should my daycare provider get to see those moments, and not me? (Even though Shauna is amazing, like a sister to me, and my girls adore her--they always want her to hold them at church!) But she's still not ME!!<br /><br />Working the few short months I did was nice because Trent didn't have a job for the first little while, and then I stayed because of the possiblity of helping Trent get a job at the same company. Now that he's working elsewhere at a good place for him, I can leave. </div><br /><div>Money will always be there. Or NOT be there. Money is just money. My children's lives are my children's lives. The same children that I was blessed to give birth to, given the trust to raise them, and teach them, and love them. It's not hard to see which one is more important.<br /><br />Of course we need occasional breaks from our children--a night out with girlfriends, dates with our husbands, or working out a few times a week alone. Even a special hobby we can work on a little each day. All these things make us better moms. But those quiet (or CHAOTIC) mornings when my husband is at work, and I am at home being my kids' mom (as Dr. Laura would say), are the moments that will get me all bleary-eyed when I'm 60 years old, and admiring my clean house and my quiet house, and missing them terribly. </div><br /><div>(Unless of course, I'm like my parents, and every few months another one of my kids comes to live with me and brings their kids with them, so I get to see them and my grandkids every single day!)</div><div> </div>Trent and Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01279513269252669235noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1637732167385009664.post-45235146818578050732010-07-09T11:47:00.001-07:002010-07-09T12:01:44.970-07:00Sometimes Kids Do ListenWell, a couple months ago I posted about how difficult it was for me to convince Cory to do reverent, quiet activities on Sunday and how we've been teaching all our kids about how to keep the Sabbath Day holy. Hailey has been setting a very good example and telling Cory good things we can do on Sunday that will make Jesus happy and how we shouldn't play with our friends outside. It's been really cute to listen to her "preach" to him.<br /><br />Anyway, so about 3 or 4 weeks ago, his friend came knocking at our door (even though we've told her in the past we don't play with friends on Sunday--I think she keeps "forgetting.") And I was in the kitchen getting lunch cleaned up and I heard Cory say, "I can't play on Sunday, but I can play on Monday!" And then he shut the door. I came out with my jaw dropped. I asked him what he just said and he told me and I just went up and gave him a hug and told him how proud I was of him for making that decision. I didn't make a big deal of it. I didn't even mention it again after that. (When you praise Cory too much or make a big deal with him, it seems to backfire.) So ever since then, he has stayed inside on Sundays. If he goes outside at all on Sundays(which is very tempting living here and how it's still been in the low 70's all summer), it's because he asked if we could go on a family walk or sit outside or something of that sort. Which we do, of course.<br />So I figured this would be a one-time thing, but pretty much every Sunday for the last month, he's been not playing with his friend outside. Before, when he would sneak outside to play, we wouldn't yell at him or punish him, we would just ask him if what he was doing would make Jesus happy and leave it at that.<br /><br />I guess setting a good example, giving constant love, and consistent gentle reminders and lessons actually works!Trent and Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01279513269252669235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1637732167385009664.post-10720619717267235272010-05-11T13:56:00.001-07:002010-05-11T14:22:43.695-07:00Mothers Day PicturesI finally have a kid with curly hair!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhepjJz5PebqNXiwG7-XonoTmziLLG8xVH0ybVvl4A3wICwxi8sfpclMLdFFF9qMgVqQ2WZc42FgS2sRFh04crFoGztq-GUTq7N7GdEI92asfc6GyydxZFW2bW2MFuetpflMQ596CmdKIFb/s1600/IMG_0262.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470125344581714946" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhepjJz5PebqNXiwG7-XonoTmziLLG8xVH0ybVvl4A3wICwxi8sfpclMLdFFF9qMgVqQ2WZc42FgS2sRFh04crFoGztq-GUTq7N7GdEI92asfc6GyydxZFW2bW2MFuetpflMQ596CmdKIFb/s320/IMG_0262.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Sophie was not cooperating for these pictures. She kept running away.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiL9YYd78yegO_mMmaLDFasWZ-GapHuV__sfoPgSyE9GLM-UmFxwqGf8pIHcmQzeA8XkClLNbrADezfKH_z1hP4e9F0VdiipkDw1Rkp09rvJ-u0ZedclPI8hZgztru5r7BBNw5UZb-Scpf/s1600/IMG_0280.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470124992779949538" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiL9YYd78yegO_mMmaLDFasWZ-GapHuV__sfoPgSyE9GLM-UmFxwqGf8pIHcmQzeA8XkClLNbrADezfKH_z1hP4e9F0VdiipkDw1Rkp09rvJ-u0ZedclPI8hZgztru5r7BBNw5UZb-Scpf/s320/IMG_0280.JPG" /></a> </div><div><br />Hailey and Cory were cooperating just great.</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcXUdbA-fwLp4Fer0SnTl8XCKJMntgXqM7BEwYMHEPHfhKoNg-mWBWGLN2QYLZuGdTJHz78rt8euknV-POPzYdhhrFC0S4dLyvdTV4HUbRI-4b_FIhlJrvNcnq9CAIzv3rERyJpaMeFLwg/s1600/IMG_0282.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 214px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470124663712408082" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcXUdbA-fwLp4Fer0SnTl8XCKJMntgXqM7BEwYMHEPHfhKoNg-mWBWGLN2QYLZuGdTJHz78rt8euknV-POPzYdhhrFC0S4dLyvdTV4HUbRI-4b_FIhlJrvNcnq9CAIzv3rERyJpaMeFLwg/s320/IMG_0282.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO08LhpSyxeVd936fwFS35cstA7rYPitdNchkwfMMOtV_ehG1T-AJC4X58VsT-X6BiFf3cotmWg16LoUMDoIKNO_8c160z2sIm5ONtJcPeB6jjysyysEtHpvuD1G3zRqBJYER32BAMc3EI/s1600/IMG_0276.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470124079093997394" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO08LhpSyxeVd936fwFS35cstA7rYPitdNchkwfMMOtV_ehG1T-AJC4X58VsT-X6BiFf3cotmWg16LoUMDoIKNO_8c160z2sIm5ONtJcPeB6jjysyysEtHpvuD1G3zRqBJYER32BAMc3EI/s320/IMG_0276.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Sophie was happy at first.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsr5_20GwnKaQh2ff-BhOojb9Jw4305BRu2-K1xY7ees34VWy66Ii9_yEgfMRXBgd3BfD-5Tb-A2kxQtkSx9pyv6TODN669Q7NSlUAW7y9reMvM87KzAUtvCqm5tkPw-fGm866F5NJh7ws/s1600/IMG_0277.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470123918357434578" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsr5_20GwnKaQh2ff-BhOojb9Jw4305BRu2-K1xY7ees34VWy66Ii9_yEgfMRXBgd3BfD-5Tb-A2kxQtkSx9pyv6TODN669Q7NSlUAW7y9reMvM87KzAUtvCqm5tkPw-fGm866F5NJh7ws/s320/IMG_0277.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br />Then....not so happy.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxCpyh0lUE2h4JT_8uyTTqjLSMA922aHengjApJHlnUO6t3G7tKAZyYUo6gIdIRSJNDZeldsMvFyLLIhYRY287uyWdz115a8N977WRSza0STGaaY2YfW6zPybG6gFxPDG-S3HvreJ2vtHg/s1600/IMG_0283.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470123766913318034" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxCpyh0lUE2h4JT_8uyTTqjLSMA922aHengjApJHlnUO6t3G7tKAZyYUo6gIdIRSJNDZeldsMvFyLLIhYRY287uyWdz115a8N977WRSza0STGaaY2YfW6zPybG6gFxPDG-S3HvreJ2vtHg/s320/IMG_0283.JPG" /></a><br /></div><div>Happy again, but running away.</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV7jRvcwqhg7DoK2L41hizFitKmTDHQsCOsTOeew9OmlxALprGFKZr5GlWLt_TqGgMJZfq-WZi8MgOYORypyzWEb_KR6kr9xQihFA1e_ORDQmY_BqnOwROCxhU_tSmN9Kn78-MySBoc_58/s1600/IMG_0278.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470123557635633858" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV7jRvcwqhg7DoK2L41hizFitKmTDHQsCOsTOeew9OmlxALprGFKZr5GlWLt_TqGgMJZfq-WZi8MgOYORypyzWEb_KR6kr9xQihFA1e_ORDQmY_BqnOwROCxhU_tSmN9Kn78-MySBoc_58/s320/IMG_0278.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div> </div></div></div></div></div>Trent and Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01279513269252669235noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1637732167385009664.post-84358808441944978812010-05-07T08:19:00.000-07:002010-05-07T08:55:40.989-07:00The Workplace vs. The HomeI have been working part-time now for 2 months. I really enjoy it. I get projects done, I'm learning new things, I'm remembering computer skills that I haven't dealt with for over 6 years. It's a very good company I work for, with a beautiful work setting and buildings. Anyway, it's all good.<br /><br />I'm always amazed how happy people are every single Friday. It's a "Happy Friday!" here and a "Thanks goodness it's Friday!" there, etc, etc. They say things like, "This week's been exhausting, I can't wait to get some sleep!" Or, I'm so glad I can just relax this weekend or go to this restaurant or see this movie or go to this show or whatever it may be.<br /><br />Well, a huge part of this may be the fact that I only work 25 hours a week, not 40 like everyone else here. BUT I don't look forward to the weekend NEARLY as much as everyone else, it seems. First of all, the term "sleeping in" whether it's on a weekend or not, left my vocabulary on Nov. 24, 2003 when Cory was born. And things like "getting away" and "having a fun night out" pretty much left my vocabulary as soon as we moved to San Diego where we don't have family to babysit our kids so we can go on dates. The going rates for babysitters (if you have 3 kids) is $12/hour here. Okay, so we've been out ONCE in 4 months.<br /><br />Also, what exactly is relaxing about a weekend anyway? Is it our plan to purchase, cut, and hang 5 window blinds tomorrow? Or the fact that we're planning on making homemade pizza to feed the missionaries tomorrow night? And cleaning our whole house?<br /><br />Or no, maybe it's Sunday, where we get to sleep in until 7am (during the week I wake up at 5:30 on the days I go running, 6:30 on the days I don't go running), frantically get 3 tired kids out the door for 9 am church, after preparing my primary lesson late Saturday night and gathering all my materials, object lessons, and treats for my 8-9 year-olds that I teach. Then attending choir on Sunday afternoon, only to be followed by trying to entertain my children by doing activities in the Friend, singing songs, playing games, reading books, and providing endless hours of stimulating, yet reverent Sunday entertainment in order to keep the Sabbath Day holy and try to keep them from wanting to play soccer outside with the neighbor kid. (Which lately, btw, I have been failing miserably at.) Why is it so physically (not spiritually or emotionally), but PHYSICALLY exhausting trying to get your kids to keep the Sabbath day holy? <br /><br /> Maybe because Cory's idea of a "regular day" is going to Sea World, the beach, the pool, or going to the park and playing soccer with mom for an hour, followed by a rousing kite-flying session with Hailey, followed by an exploration/walk with Sophie around our neighborhood, followed by playing with them outside until 7pm. So Cory's idea of a "down" day is maybe taking out one of those activities. He is so incredibly active and has so much energy that Sundays are SUCH a struggle. He actually does really well (now that he's 6) to sit still and make it through 3 hours of church. Mostly because his best friend, Spencer, is in his class. But after those 3 hours, he can barely sit down to eat lunch much less be expected to reverantly watch a movie (HA!) or quietly play games or read or do other appropriate Sunday activities. Seriously, am I expecting too much from him? Do I wait until he's almost baptized to really start stressing the importance of the Sabbath Day? See, I don't think I should wait, because children can learn when they're very young, but there is a reason they get baptized when they're 8, and not 6.<br /><br />SO back to my point. What is more draining--emotionally, physically, mentally, and spiritually. Being at work where I get PAID, recognized for good work, and get to engage in competent, adult conversation? Or being a mother in the home, attempting to provide an emotionally, spiritually, physically-enriching environment, while at the same time providing healthy meals with lots of variety, a clean living environment, (which includes spraying Lysol on my kitchen tile counters 3 times a day to keep the darn fruit flies away-gross! We keep our doors open pretty much all the time here) and providing intellectually-stimulating lessons--all while engaging in a regular exercise regime, paying the bills, clipping coupons, dealing with occasional sick kids, teething babies, and nightly homework. Well, all I can say, is at least I love my children and Sophie is so dang funny (and adorable with her leg rolls), because that job is not paid. Well, at least not temporally paid anyway. <br /><br />I do love my kids and being a mother, I'm just saying if people here can say "Happy Friday", then I think on Mondays I'm going to start saying "Happy Monday!"Trent and Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01279513269252669235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1637732167385009664.post-45378693398741678542010-04-06T23:15:00.001-07:002010-04-06T23:28:05.533-07:00Easter<span style="font-size:85%;">Cory looking for Easter eggs around the house. </span><br /><br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj71vPk2TKURE4VcVtryiZOiuICb9wWshotFZkisg0SJBkMVlszSF0jPDrYG9BTp_XgP7HCa6va_qDAkg1CPlPohaOGFWxVOXYPwYsZW3Od7aseipeS1SV2PLE444wlXIotlg4cejZIFJyd/s1600/IMG_0239.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457277194787295682" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj71vPk2TKURE4VcVtryiZOiuICb9wWshotFZkisg0SJBkMVlszSF0jPDrYG9BTp_XgP7HCa6va_qDAkg1CPlPohaOGFWxVOXYPwYsZW3Od7aseipeS1SV2PLE444wlXIotlg4cejZIFJyd/s320/IMG_0239.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Sophie on Easter morning.</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrNG1LhWoWsNvIKNxWPI2rwlvZ_ZhzzPwjyzBx2tjGYUJW6pDxaa77oiNqOhLCPXZaXlqM0_LG9EOMe3zddpFWeCqkw9Qwwc-x-maVagKWTVkl9YJHP9iR3cWphsL4QH6hF5X2McOT2tN8/s1600/IMG_0243.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457276947694923794" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrNG1LhWoWsNvIKNxWPI2rwlvZ_ZhzzPwjyzBx2tjGYUJW6pDxaa77oiNqOhLCPXZaXlqM0_LG9EOMe3zddpFWeCqkw9Qwwc-x-maVagKWTVkl9YJHP9iR3cWphsL4QH6hF5X2McOT2tN8/s320/IMG_0243.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Hailey looking for eggs.</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPYQkNCsBtNQFAW5U46C9nR4dP-PdF6bLsM3pSMdR5lPaPar9WfJ0QXjd4KTWpvZZUz5zw1GlMmqn6p8e5q10BOICwycXKVQIE_yVQlk1r_zkTGYFyo-SKffRMFoJYe4SnF1zuYx0VNbGG/s1600/IMG_0241.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457276784064430258" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPYQkNCsBtNQFAW5U46C9nR4dP-PdF6bLsM3pSMdR5lPaPar9WfJ0QXjd4KTWpvZZUz5zw1GlMmqn6p8e5q10BOICwycXKVQIE_yVQlk1r_zkTGYFyo-SKffRMFoJYe4SnF1zuYx0VNbGG/s320/IMG_0241.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Don't you love Hailey's Diego pajamas? She is so girly and everything has to be pink or purple--except when it comes to wearing Cory's old pajamas. She loves these.</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDzcvzHAjkMBvE5qPxYLHHuGRIhyphenhyphenH9mQzP0v-AF_dypDzlTzEUw4PvJKYlolKKlHOiBS-TAQ_9UYe-YrYIi3iUbKWXbHgvOneKC-RVEoRLdtJFQTHWebDNhgl1m7CKY1okQ3_ZKXRR86dI/s1600/IMG_0237.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457276539359998578" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDzcvzHAjkMBvE5qPxYLHHuGRIhyphenhyphenH9mQzP0v-AF_dypDzlTzEUw4PvJKYlolKKlHOiBS-TAQ_9UYe-YrYIi3iUbKWXbHgvOneKC-RVEoRLdtJFQTHWebDNhgl1m7CKY1okQ3_ZKXRR86dI/s320/IMG_0237.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Cory at the nearby rec center's Easter Egg hunt on Saturday morning.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgruxdTTkr1nAhvD6gt7drc3IN4Wytldi3_SRZS4u20U5i2qRD9jF5d9qnvflW7VIfYvP9MsAaRPrcaAL96D8XQzlaBEVJpUKLe7MFo-cMuv6dK5Ps2y0RaeUWyofFkJkZr2vIxca8OQeV4/s1600/IMG_0228.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457276304498559650" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgruxdTTkr1nAhvD6gt7drc3IN4Wytldi3_SRZS4u20U5i2qRD9jF5d9qnvflW7VIfYvP9MsAaRPrcaAL96D8XQzlaBEVJpUKLe7MFo-cMuv6dK5Ps2y0RaeUWyofFkJkZr2vIxca8OQeV4/s320/IMG_0228.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMOpSN-ppapmv4C0I0bj9XatTCsVetVyir6iZLbjQVnDjBUkvEIjS5j67-z7MzH0LgiNcLIUq9ezODdObvi732WMmMm_4dh48F5rf2Sz3BVcjdxyfLF00WxsYprSqrhBYzJItgm9TN8kuP/s1600/IMG_0225.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457276083209607058" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMOpSN-ppapmv4C0I0bj9XatTCsVetVyir6iZLbjQVnDjBUkvEIjS5j67-z7MzH0LgiNcLIUq9ezODdObvi732WMmMm_4dh48F5rf2Sz3BVcjdxyfLF00WxsYprSqrhBYzJItgm9TN8kuP/s320/IMG_0225.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Sophie really understood that she needed to pick up those eggs! The kids had been having mock Easter egg hunts at our house all week, so she had good practice!<br /><br /></span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq8PykQWr6p2xYcrSg1DckCl4yeGpil2ZJI6f9coYrXMWmUdiXf0hTBvsK4yVlmo7eNiEeoWCMX2xR0_FCEa-tAorVIngN6ipuj8jPui8WWFN8-n0y8le-lbxhcL5WqFALfco8ARHhFD0k/s1600/IMG_0223.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457275859355550210" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq8PykQWr6p2xYcrSg1DckCl4yeGpil2ZJI6f9coYrXMWmUdiXf0hTBvsK4yVlmo7eNiEeoWCMX2xR0_FCEa-tAorVIngN6ipuj8jPui8WWFN8-n0y8le-lbxhcL5WqFALfco8ARHhFD0k/s320/IMG_0223.JPG" /></a> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-size:85%;">This is the kids before the egg hunt. (Hence the not too happy faces.)<br /></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh9HknZeYypx59dbqpfpp4fjUG2m137BDvMJGfvrMFRP_ZCTjrgl12Gq4GZ2r-mXG2oZlNZsJXwXipcgnI7sXJJb_1gaWH51CxV98ydslZun5R-UVo1KA5K4NEnHYOjlrzqsNfOPrdfnNc/s1600/IMG_0221.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457275648816688210" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh9HknZeYypx59dbqpfpp4fjUG2m137BDvMJGfvrMFRP_ZCTjrgl12Gq4GZ2r-mXG2oZlNZsJXwXipcgnI7sXJJb_1gaWH51CxV98ydslZun5R-UVo1KA5K4NEnHYOjlrzqsNfOPrdfnNc/s320/IMG_0221.JPG" /></a><br /><div> </div></div></div></div>Trent and Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01279513269252669235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1637732167385009664.post-4853655405778885962010-04-06T22:58:00.000-07:002010-04-06T23:14:31.140-07:00March Fun<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">This is at the Mormon Battalion Museum in Old Town San Diego. I (Karen) </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">was at work when the rest of them went there. My parents came to visit for my dad's 70th birthday. My sister, Annette, came too with her 3 boys. (Her husband, Frank, is deployed in Afghanistan right now and so she's living with my parents in AZ.) </span></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;"></span><br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAxCrHT-ViPjymK1cUJPiN9aNfoBZqOdpepvp_F6gQ0jDKkbh6rs9vyhwjhmuppiS5UaEZV9pcQrBR6WSNwMZpam6cMy91NOnxmEtWw_IW6LKhx-7IarSMvIkJew_TJAu8guC_GLVeaFCe/s1600/IMG_0190.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457272948923860130" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAxCrHT-ViPjymK1cUJPiN9aNfoBZqOdpepvp_F6gQ0jDKkbh6rs9vyhwjhmuppiS5UaEZV9pcQrBR6WSNwMZpam6cMy91NOnxmEtWw_IW6LKhx-7IarSMvIkJew_TJAu8guC_GLVeaFCe/s320/IMG_0190.JPG" /></a><br /> <span style="font-size:85%;">This is Hailey's very excited face about seeing the walrus at Sea World. </span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPrggXKVRAuojQdoaBQqgb-QmiOF5L-MnbSOybfR9U5AXZ_iyzx4R8lAQfQjvO_yMsQtSj3yuNnLJ1OLV9ktKrFM7mqwqBJdtz35iQyF5zGmDkHPauW8HKWvY3zlCu1PC75ZLLI_t28qRN/s1600/IMG_0202.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457272766218894594" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPrggXKVRAuojQdoaBQqgb-QmiOF5L-MnbSOybfR9U5AXZ_iyzx4R8lAQfQjvO_yMsQtSj3yuNnLJ1OLV9ktKrFM7mqwqBJdtz35iQyF5zGmDkHPauW8HKWvY3zlCu1PC75ZLLI_t28qRN/s320/IMG_0202.JPG" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Sophie still likes to get the sand a little too close to her mouth. This is at La Jolla Shores beach. March 17, 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjnbmOrbO0AEzijIxoQqkOu7QPwKfzZVKqOhvUO-5rK7-WzIJ4fIBnFJXvPgTzGR0-mOGdYIJTCGastq2So_Y05wfzNnzO0G6ges3IFblQufUbb1rnjWK-d5PfXOmK24N5aWtp6XFCKxqq/s1600/IMG_0218.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457272522367692594" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjnbmOrbO0AEzijIxoQqkOu7QPwKfzZVKqOhvUO-5rK7-WzIJ4fIBnFJXvPgTzGR0-mOGdYIJTCGastq2So_Y05wfzNnzO0G6ges3IFblQufUbb1rnjWK-d5PfXOmK24N5aWtp6XFCKxqq/s320/IMG_0218.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Cory and his cousin, Caleb Bigelow at the beach.</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9fCbA0Hq_c48fKXFvAphyphenhyphenYza_Vl7Enht1NusDczBZTLUituQlD8go19P9AHSFIIBmPNq7BIWio0OafG_S9BUX4N9QzK6pecf8len4gc5Y977qEiM0I2g9PbVSEX0aWd_0lWShFdgQvH1J/s1600/IMG_0217.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457272376207624082" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9fCbA0Hq_c48fKXFvAphyphenhyphenYza_Vl7Enht1NusDczBZTLUituQlD8go19P9AHSFIIBmPNq7BIWio0OafG_S9BUX4N9QzK6pecf8len4gc5Y977qEiM0I2g9PbVSEX0aWd_0lWShFdgQvH1J/s320/IMG_0217.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">These dolphins were out in the water. We had never seen them in the wild like this before. It was pretty neat.<br /></span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnPq_Gv3-hscGm4X5IkkV3MzjYAPLG-suZq7nwH7ACLcWf_tdcyzmQC_9RsijATx3FNyl5ISV9Xceg1h46PkB4m7Yo6lQL62_6tPx2shP7Y1QPo2d6K5jlKehXxkh8VgllAnuT65yizyDW/s1600/IMG_0212.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457272189962451122" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnPq_Gv3-hscGm4X5IkkV3MzjYAPLG-suZq7nwH7ACLcWf_tdcyzmQC_9RsijATx3FNyl5ISV9Xceg1h46PkB4m7Yo6lQL62_6tPx2shP7Y1QPo2d6K5jlKehXxkh8VgllAnuT65yizyDW/s320/IMG_0212.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">All of us that went to Sea World. Yes, even Grandpa went down this water roller coaster ride with us called "Journey to Atlantis." Annette and Caleb were in the front seat, so they got pretty soaked! Grandma stayed behind with 4 children under the age of 3. I'd say she's the brave one!<br /></span><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiczIBSarLdxA58RgPAEswL6Bq_HMuuxQnyjjBAY3CfzajN0l0vzNgLb5MLhc8G6unucw0sqGNAHKU6f2h0S7gBJZO5mTR_-HFByykVDlnkdCZuux0v97rsLz2AsKuYiG6MLCauTfm8zlMU/s1600/IMG_0208.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457271924613001298" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiczIBSarLdxA58RgPAEswL6Bq_HMuuxQnyjjBAY3CfzajN0l0vzNgLb5MLhc8G6unucw0sqGNAHKU6f2h0S7gBJZO5mTR_-HFByykVDlnkdCZuux0v97rsLz2AsKuYiG6MLCauTfm8zlMU/s320/IMG_0208.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Sophie (13 mos.) just chillin in a big 'ole rocking chair.<br /></span><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiqy381-TQshMu4I5s9GA6h2pMSY71IzOdDbWmS4NGmmS-HXzNqZZKlMBnnY4cdecbjt89mtb-KBXIFERGspY7DI0WZlUY81Ca0alQobFe4u8id6Kp60P3XgZNL9-yki0H_LbVEdnHEK0n/s1600/IMG_0193.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457271677078272626" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiqy381-TQshMu4I5s9GA6h2pMSY71IzOdDbWmS4NGmmS-HXzNqZZKlMBnnY4cdecbjt89mtb-KBXIFERGspY7DI0WZlUY81Ca0alQobFe4u8id6Kp60P3XgZNL9-yki0H_LbVEdnHEK0n/s320/IMG_0193.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div> </div></div></div></div>Trent and Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01279513269252669235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1637732167385009664.post-70928552182520923222010-03-07T13:08:00.000-08:002010-03-07T13:35:40.146-08:00Karen's New Job<span style="font-size:85%;">Well, this is something I didn't ever think I would be writing about at this stage of my life! A couple of weeks ago, we still didn't have a job, and I was starting to freak out. (Trent wasn't so much--I am much more paranoid and get more worked up about things in life than he does. He really does balance me out!)</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">I had the thought to just update my resume and write a cover letter and just check out Craigs List to see what was there. Before I had Cory, and after I graduated from BYU, I worked as a full-time secretary in one of BYU's Advisement Center offices. Before that, I had been a receptionist and held a variety of office jobs. So I thought--why don't I just check things out and see what happens? </span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">So I applied to several jobs on Wed., Feb. 17. The next morning I got a call from one of them. Actually, it was a recruiter for their company. The company is called Gen-Probe--about 20 minutes away from us. They are a biotech company that produces and manufactures nuclic-acid test kits and several other tests that have early and more accurate detection of human diseases. Ironically enough, Trent had applied to them once or twice since we've moved here. (But didn't get any because of lack of experience.)</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">After the inital phone screening interview (for the receptionist position), they called me the same day to set up a face-to-face interview. I went in the next week, and a few days later, they called me with a job offer asking when I could start. I started on my birthday, Monday, March 1. They are paying $6 more per hour than any other receptionist job I saw here-and twice my hourly wage at my last job 6 years ago. So it's good!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Things are going so well. I really like what I'm doing. The company is great--voted one of the best places to work in San Diego. And they are one of the most successfull and fast-growing biotech companies in the area. I only work part-time--it's 7:30-12:30, so I'm only gone in the mornings. Trent gets Cory ready for school and then has the girls in the mornings. He's even taken them grocery shopping, went to their first doctor's appointment since moving here (so LOTS of paperwork to fill out!) and Hailey's speech therapy meeting on Friday. He's been so positive and helpful and wonderful since I started working! I don't like calling him Mr. Mom (plus he is only by himself with them in the mornings--and he still is going to school AND looking for a job still) because he's not Mr. Mom. I mean, what does that make me? Mrs. Dad? He's our children's FATHER and he's extrememly capable of feeding them, cleaning up after them, doing our laundry, running to the store, taking them to appointments, etc. Just because he might be home with them more, doesn't mean he's a mom. It means he's a really great dad who pitches in when the family as a whole needs something. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Sophie has definitely formed a special bond with him this week (as if our girls weren't already daddy's little girls). She will bring him book after book and plop herself down on top of him and scream and grunt if he doesn't immediately start reading books to her. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">SO my first week of work went really well. It's so refreshing having something else to do during the day rather than straightening, cleaning, cooking, and changing diapers. And I still get to do those rewarding and important things all afternoon and evening! Trent is still applying to jobs--in fact he has a very promising second interview early this next week. So if he gets it--then we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Our very good LDS friends that live just around the corner from us have their own in-home daycare. I've spent many hours in their house observing their daycare and how things are ran (mostly because Hailey and Cory LOVE to play over there--so I just go to hang out and bring Sophie too, and it's like a big party.) They are great with kids and you can really tell they love children. They've been doing it for the last 2-3 years since her husband got laid off doing construction work. Anyway, I casually mentioned to them last week that if Trent finds a job soon we may need to find somewhere for Hailey and Sophie to go for a few hours in the morning. They said they should be able to take them, and they've actually been hoping for a couple more kids lately to help make ends meet. Chad (the dad) takes Sophie sometimes at church for us and she goes to him so well. I would have no qualms at all about leaving the girls with them for half a day. I mean, this isn't a permanent thing with me (working part-time). Once Trent does find a job and once we get our credit card debt paid off, I'll want to return to the home full-time. I mean, Sophie still is my little baby (even though she's one) and I really have started to miss her in the mornings, even though it's only been a week!</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">We'll see what the Lord has in store for us. But I really love being able to step outside for half my day. It makes me really cherish my kids more--I'm happier when I am around them--and I gladly want to play with them and go outside with them--instead of just doing it so they'll stop begging me. </span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">So that's it for now! I would love to hear feedback from moms who have worked either part-time or full-time outside the home and how they felt about it.</span>Trent and Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01279513269252669235noreply@blogger.com1