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My finished painting: Bowl of Cherries from 'The Painted Cork'. 

I had such a fantastic time painting this. It was so much fun and great time spent with my mom!

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Painting Monet's Ocean Cliff at The Painted Cork in Folsom. So much fun! Even if my picture didn't look like Monet's I enjoyed myself and will back to paint more! 

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I stole a pear when you weren't looking, and I'm going to sit here and look cute while I eat it. Go ahead, just try to tell me I have to take it back into the kitchen...

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After lots and lots of drama and weeks of waiting I finally got to see my doctor (isn't insurance fun?). She was so good waiting in the doctors office very, very patiently for almost 2 hours!

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My beautiful sister.

I admire her so much. She's stunning and beautiful (even with coloring I can't get hair and dark as hers), intelligent, generous, funny, fair.... The list goes on.

 I admire her strength, her parenting, and how great she is with all our kids. She is creative and helpful in so many ways and I feel so blessed to have her as my sister. 

She works so hard and so often that I have very few pictures of her. Turns out the most recent picture of her is from my wedding and even then she managed to avoid the camera for most of it, only getting caught while filming the ceremony for me. 

I love you, Sis!

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Her new thing is telling me to take her picture every time she sees a large rock! This time it's outside Nugget market during the farmers market.

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I braved a new candy and actually liked it. The unreal peanut butter cups and the unreal Twix were both pretty tasty and just a little more guilt free then their counterparts. 

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Bug loves Auntie Lissa's jam and wants it with everything (even beans!). It wouldn't be so funny if she wasn't picky and refused to eat the store bought stuff.
Of course, we can't blame her. We love the stuff so much we're willing to pack the weight in and out of the hole!
Nothing like seeing jam where it doesn't belong.

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Car lights are on again. Ut oh.

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After walking the boys to school, we stopped on the way home to play at the park

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She picked out her outfit and wings, then let me do her hair so that she could look like tinkerbell. It was so cute and she was so proud!

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Holy Cow! I have a 2nd grader and a (eeeek!!) 6th grader! Bear and Gator are growing up so fast!

First day of school

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I am addicted! Passion Iced Tea with no syrup (sometimes with lemonade) is so yummy!
And now, I get free refills on my tea when I use my card? Yes, please!

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Picture taken at the Dave Wilson Informational *8.4* 

"Take my picture when I climb the rock, Mama!!!"

Rock climbing is her new 'thing'

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We found a new game at shower time. This is her painting Ariel with bubbles

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10+ years in 2 and a half hours. 

Catching up was great! It's funny how much people can change, and yet how you still remember why you were friends in the first place. 

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Bug's portrait of Mommy and Daddy (Mommy has the extra hair on the left) and one of those smiles (or maybe all of them) is her. It was in my kitchen so I may have accidentally spilled some water on it, oops.

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Mamaw and Grandma Debby have been teaching her to ride a bike!

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We took a picture of this car because I thought it was supposed to say "MCC WOLVES". I thought it was hilarious they spelled their mascot wrong. When we passed, it was written more clearly on the side, it says "MCC WAVES". Guess it was a good thing I got my new glasses after this!  Mockery fail.

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I love taking my boys to the fair. So much for us all to enjoy! Got this picture from Mamaw today

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Although we've known for awhile, we finally got the announcements finished - and since I didn't keep the blog current, I can post this now.

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Last day in Monterey! We decided to check out the Mirror Maze (the kids museum was closed for another hour!) and I was surprised with just how fun it was! Us adults actually enjoyed the mirror maze portion and the kids had a blast with the laser maze. They gave you these 3D glasses to wear (I think the kids wore them) but most us adults couldn't handle the vertigo/seasickness type effects they caused. 

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My first time ever visiting the Monterey Bay Aquarium and naturally she only smiled or let me take her picture with it was Liv's idea first. So thankful for good friends!

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Not only do we have the best friends in the world, but these best friends planned and went on a last minute vacation with us, and found a great place to stay where the let us use their trailer for the weekend! With kids in tow, this was an awesome way to travel!

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So tired she literally passed out on me.

*Taken 6.25

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Our strawberry garden! Our plants never left root stage but we got these happy plants from the farm. So thrilled to have them!
*Taken 6.29

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Although she loved the idea of this (as did I) actually getting a picture I liked was difficult. This one ended up being the one we sent out to everyone. She really loved her party and this year even helped me sign her thank you cards. Of course, she got really mad when I wrote on them too...

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Trying to take a picture for thank yous. This one didn't work, but her smile is precious. She LOVED dancing in the bubbles

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Another picture from our visit last week at the State Fair. We had such a good time!

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I love the state fair! Father, Daughter rides!

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Our favorite wine maker had a new wine for the summer. As you can see we liked it

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Brother and Sister actually getting along

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Avocado, bacon, tomato, onions, bbq sauce, and a hamburger made of ground beef and ground bacon filled with onion cheddar cheese. I'm sorry arteries, but yum

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Finally getting to the State Fair! The boys really wanted to go on the farris wheel so they bought tickets. 

The ride totally jipped them but they still had fun

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Dark and purple. 

I loved it while it lasted!  

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Got our pool from Target and let the kids cool off in the back yard!

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Hanging out in the back yard in a great mood

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Making wishes late at night with the weeds on the lawn. 

Childhood is precious. 

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Tired and happy after a long day of playing.

20 Questions at age 3

1.   What is your favorite color? Purple! 

2.   What is your favorite toy? Rapunzel! 

3.   What is your favorite tv show or movie? Tinkerbell (she's never actually seen Tinkerbell, just got a cup today and decided she was her favorite. Favorite TV show is Go Diego, Go and favorite movie is Tangled or Toy Story 3)

4.   What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? Peanut butter toast 

5.  What is your favorite outfit? A princess dress

6.   What is your favorite game? Hide and seek 

7.   What is your favorite creative activity? Play in the world  (I don't think this question is very clear. She loves to color but asking it with this wording and I think she was confused.)

8.   What is your favorite animal? Jaguars

9.   What is your favorite song?  Someday ('Mean' by Taylor Swift)

10.   Who is your best friend? Noralee (Who this is has yet to be figured out. She LOVES Olivia most, but she likes to tell me that she is her sister so maybe that's why she picked Noralee as her friend)

11.   What is your favorite thing to do outside? Water plants

12.   What is your favorite drink? Milky (We don't actually normally call it this, she's just in a funny *good* mood today)

13.   What is your favorite holiday? Thursday *best answer ever!

14.   What do you like to take to bed with you at night? jaguars, bum bum (blanket), and night light friend

15.   What do you want to be when you grow up? A mermaid

16.   What is your favorite thing about your brothers?  Playing outside with them

17.   What do you love about yourself? Dancing

18.   What is your favorite book? Tangled and Merida

19.   What’s your favorite thing to do with Daddy? Hang glider

20.   What’s your favorite thing to do with Mommy? Hang from her hair

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Shoot me. Shoot me now. Broken AC means it's 95 degrees at 9pm. NOT okay in my book!

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Suffering with a terrible headache and my lil one takes it in stride. Time to read a book on the iPod! 

*taken 8.5.12*

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In her new dress, happy as can be!

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Well, that was a stupid mistake. Glad it was only two stitches and it's healing well. It'll come out soon.

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Rocking the guns at her cousins birthday party at Wacky Tacky!

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Bubble machines are so much fun! 

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Yesterday I was using scissors to open the bubble machine package. I got distracted talking to people and snipped my finger instead. After bleeding (all over my poor sisters kitchen) I was taken to urgent care for stitches. This is my band aid.  This thing makes it really hard to type!

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To think I almost skipped the singing part this year. 

Last year she hated it, this year she said it was her favorite part.

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Trying out one of the games for the party. She got in it and started hopping without even being asked! Apparently kids just know what to do in sack races!

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Another attempt from trying to take her picture for her birthday

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Someone was happy to run away with my Jamba. I got the big one so we could all share but the cup is almost bigger than she is