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The Long Drive Was Worth It... November 18, 2008

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We had such a good time together.  I love being with my family... I'll tell more about our vacation later, but tonight I just had to post a few of my favorite pictures from Thursday when we went to the beach.  The lighting was so bright, beautiful, and soft, even if it was a bit hazy. I used my long lens and captured a bunch of priceless pictures of my two favorite people.  It was hard to pick which ones not to share because I loved how they turned out so much!  Part of that is that our time at the beach that day was so wonderful.  My Christopher got to go surfing.  I love him so much that when he gets to do something that he loves so much and has the opportunity to do so rarely, it really makes me happy.  (It makes him happy too!)  While he was off somewhere in the waves, Noah and I played on the beach.  The tide was way out and so the beach was covered in shallow tide pools.  I could almost see Noah's mind expanding as we explored them together.  What a priceless experie
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Spontaneous! November 10, 2008

One of the many reasons I love my Christopher is because he said this to me last night, "Why are we driving half way to Disneyland and not going the rest of the way?".  Chris has a meeting for work this Wednesday in St. George and we had planned to turn it into a little family get away and go with him and then tack on an extra night at Zion National Park.  Well, thanks to my honey, last night we decided to cut out Zion and head straight to southern California after his meeting instead!  Can it really be true that I'm blessed enough to get to go to Disneyland with my sweet little family not once but twice this year?!!!  I'm so excited.  We are going to drive down to St. George on Wed, play for the rest of the afternoon, then Chris will go his meeting that night.  Then early the next morning we'll drive to the beach and Chris can go surfing.  Then Friday we'll spend all day long at Disneyland!!!  Then Saturday we'll have a really long drive home...but it wil
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President Will Turner? November 07, 2008

We love our nightly scripture time with Noah.  We use pictures from the gospel art picture kit and tell the stories or sing a song about the picture.  Noah definitely has his favorites, like Jesus washing Peter's feet, Jesus's empty tomb with the startled Roman soldiers, and Moroni burying the plates.  But I think his favorite, at least lately, is the Latter-Day Prophets picture that starts at Joseph Smith and has pictures of all the prophets up to President Hinckley.  We always sing the primary song, "Latter-Day Prophets", when we do the picture. A couple of weeks ago I (daddy) decided to have him fill in some blanks while I sang the song.  To my surprise, he knew a few of them.  He's learning more and more each time we do it.  He loves to answer when we point to a picture.  Much like when I was a kid and misheard song lyrics (I still haven't figured out what a "shallminnow" is from "As I Have Loved You"), Noah doesn't quite know th
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Moments of Mommyhood... November 07, 2008

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I'm so grateful to be able to experience Mommyhood, and, Noah, I'm so grateful for you.  There are so many wonderful moments in it that make me laugh and giggle, feel carefree and fulfilled, and so happy.  We had a lot of fun and funny moments yesterday.  Here are just a couple of them: (I can't really believe I'm admitting this...by the way.)  We went to the Treehouse Museum yesterday and you told me even before we got there that you were excited to play with the "horsies".  They have an entire table of medieval figurines including lots and lots of horses dressed for battle and knights--armed with spears and swords--to ride them.  This is fast becoming one of your favorite parts of the museum.  When we got there though, the firefighter truck and costumes were too much to resist so we spent the whole first hour playing there.  Then I reminded you about the "horsies" upstairs and we headed up.  It'd been a while since you went to the bathroom,
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Happy Halloween! November 01, 2008

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We've pretty much been celebrating Halloween for weeks and weeks now because Noah has loved it so much.  He loves to find all the creepy decorations every time we go to the grocery store, begs to go down the "scary aisle", and wants to push the buttons on all the interactive Halloween decorations over and over whenever we see them.  We got his pirate costume in the mail about a month ago, which he has loved wearing every chance he could.  So, when the actual week of Halloween came for real, we were all set! For FHE we carved a pumpkin while we all rocked out to scary Halloween music.  When we pulled the top off the pumpkin and showed him what was inside, he was totally grossed out and didn't want to touch the slimy pumpkin guts at all.  Daddy and Noah carved the face in it once it was all hollowed out, and then Noah proudly put the pumpkin on our front porch, along with the tiny one he and Daddy colored.  That tiny one is actually my favorite because it has so many
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Things That I've Been Grateful For Lately... October 26, 2008

PBS Kids  I love that the cartoons aren't violent in any way, that they totally entertain Noah, they are pretty educational, and they don't have any commercials.  I love snuggling with Noah in the mornings every day while we watch them, and they keep him busy and happy while I get things done.   Dumdums  and that someone thought to make them really small so that I don't feel too guilty when Noah has like 5 or 6 of them a day for potty treats.   Conference talks  available to listen to on the internet, specifically Pres. Uchtdorf's ones on  hope  and  happiness  and Elder Holland's on  angels .   Sisters , sisters, and more sisters.  I love mine!  A wonderful  husband  who works from home on Mondays and is my favorite person in the whole world.   Pandora .  Music.  Books.  Freecell.  Scrabble  with my honey.    Stability  and  security  in a world of in(security/stability).   Pushing Daisies .    Friends , especially Terri Okey.   Neighbors  and how nice it is to go
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Potty Training... October 21, 2008

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