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| Happy Mothers day to me! Got spoiled, as per usual. |
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| Loving our home but not the yard work |
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| Cozy taking a trip with her grandparents to Pennsylvania to see the Martinez's. |
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| Celebrated 12 great years with this guy! |
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| Anson doing great while dad gives him a haircut. |
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| Family time up the Canyon. We love our kids! |
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| Happy Fathers day to the best Dad ever! |
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| Swimming at the rec center. |
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| We love our cousins! |
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| Tracy Aviery with Grandma and Aunt Mara. |
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| It has been a great Kindergarten year for Aurora, partly due to her wonderful teacher, who just so happens to be sisters to an old and very adored mission companion of mine. We loved getting to know Mrs Nay! |
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| Lots of Selfies~ |
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| Fun to have friends in town |
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| Not much better than having dinner dates with my two bests! |
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| My turn to host Bunco night. It was a success! |
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| 6 month evaluation for foster care. Love having our daughters~ |
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| Easter Fun |
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| Right before church, trying to get a picture feels darn near impossible sometimes :) |
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| family Easter hunt - Some pretty amazing cousins~ |
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| Cozy getting flexible |
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| Shower for Rachele and Megan put on my the young women - Food was awesome! |
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| Volunteering for zoo day in Aurora's class. Great group of kids and lots of fun, minus the hale storm! |
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| Valeri is our newest foster daughter. She was originally supposed to come live with us, but we had not done all of our training so she was placed with another family. It was upsetting to me because I had felt good about having her ( we had talked on the phone and gotten to know each other a bit ) but her last placement didn't work out so we took her and have enjoyed getting to know her better. |
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| Gisele has been with us since November and she is a joy to have around. She is from Rwanda and has improved her English by leaps and bounds these last few months. She loves to sing and dance and is so good with the kids. It has been very rewarding to do foster care for these beautiful girls. They have taught me so much! |
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| This girl woke up sick on her birthday but had such a good attitude and happy countenance. She was all dressed up for her school talent show (with inhaler in hand) I hate that she was sick but she said it was still a great birthday. |
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| All dressed up to see Les Mis at Hale Center Theater. It was fabulous!! |
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| It was fun to take our best friends- (missing Devon) |
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| Elias said it was "The best birthday!" |
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| He got a brand new bike and some gear and couldn't be more excited about it. We finally have some nice weather for him to enjoy riding it. |
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| So, for some 'self care' I recently joined a Musical Theater class. My dear grandpa asked me if I was still performing because about 15 years ago I was involved in a few productions and really loved it. I told him no, and laughed at the thought because of how incredibly busy I feel these days (in fact I am posting this when I should be doing math homework) But while signing Cozy up for an acting class at Hale Center Theater I noticed they had an adult Musical Theater class on Saturdays. Chris looked at me and said "You should do it!" And thats all it took :) Its been a fun six weeks and we just had a small performance on Hales huge stage. It was great fun! |
