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From Facebook: June 25, 2013  It's 10:30pm you say? You are tired you say? Work kids, work! Get that applesauce done! Child labor laws can't save you here! (j/k, they are having fun and begging to keep going, 10 big jars filled and we are only halfway done, will start again tomorrow afternoon, gotta love summer!) Brighton & Adaira helped me with the apple harvest and stayed up until after 10pm helping me make the sauce. They were having such a good time I just couldn't send them to bed. Dale was still  awake at 10pm (yes I'm crazy, and these kids will be cranky tomorrow) and he saw my previous pictures on FB and said "Mom, you nee take picture ah me too!" so here it is.

 I have been too distracted the last few months. I need to do an update on our Darling Daisy. She is 19 months old now and such a joy! These pictures are from May and early June. Daisy has probably 10 words already (we are afraid she will be speaking clearly before Dale is...). She says Mama, Dada, Dara, Cheeze (Chees!), Shoe, Diaper (Di-pah), no (she always says "No no no!), Go Car, and I'm sure there are a few others I can't remember off the top of my head. She waited a while before giving us any kisses, but sometimes she will do it now, and that is just adorable, makes my heart melt. She loves sticking out her bottom teeth and you can often see her with what we call the "Pop-eye" face as seen in the background here: She is pretty easy to please, and doesn't make a peep when she wakes up after her nap. I typically leave her in her crib for 3.5 hours every day for her nap. She's always awake when I go in to get her but she's just chilling with ...

Aura's & the Restoration I've been meaning to record two special things that occurred this year, but hesitated because other people read this blog and I didn't want to sound self righteous or bragging, but now that I have updated the blog through October and this post is going to be dated in June, nobody is likely to see it :) In February of this year an older sister in our ward, Sharon Christensen, had a stroke and passed away unexpectedly. She had been my visiting teacher a few years prior and was always very consistent, so I knew her fairly well. She had this dark curly hair that she had a habit of twirling around her fingers at church. One time her husband saw her twirling her hair and he kind of nudged her and when she looked at him he pretended to twirl his own hair; his own way of telling her to "stop it". For the past year or so Sister Christensen had been largely inactive. There were rumors that she wasn't coming because she was struggling with...

Baseball Brighton just finished his Spring baseball season. His 3rd season so far. The team he was on for two seasons in the past seemed like good teams. We won some, lost others and Brighton learned some of the fundamentals. By the end of season 2 he was getting hits most at bats against the pitching machine. Because Brighton turned 9 in March he had to move up to the kid pitch league. In this league they have tryouts and then sort the kids based on their abilities. Watching the boys at tryouts Brighton was certainly the small fish in the big pond both in size and talent. Brighton was placed on the Sea Dogs. I took him to one of the early practices and hung around to see if I could help but there were already 4 coaches/dads actively and more knowledgeably coaching the boys. We learned that the boys on the team have played together for some time now. I guess they had an opening on the team and since they were a good team they were assigned Brighton. Poor Brighton had a lot to l...

Easter The Easter Bunny pooped eggs and chocolate all over our yard again this year.  I will mention that while our pictures are all about the Easter egg hunt, we did sit down and have a lesson on the real meaning of Easter. The hunt was done near the end of the day.   Daisy joined in with Daddy's help The Easter bunny even laid eggs in the apple tree! (We lost this tree to gophers - it fell over - less than 2 months later) Enjoying their spoils. I'm a pretty lenient mom in some respects, and one is with their Halloween and Easter candy. I don't save it and only give them 2 pieces a day for a month. Just get it over with I say. I remember doing it as a kid and I loved the feeling of having all of that candy to myself. I just draw the line at meal time, they can't be snacking on it within an hour of meals. The candy rarely lasts more than 3 days. Miss Daisy. Always gives sweet smiles And Dale is always up for a goofy fac...