tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67974726396035492302024-03-18T21:53:43.382-07:00THE WESTON FAMILYLoving Life in AlaskaLindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13364407785621976817noreply@blogger.comBlogger789125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797472639603549230.post-73478604180516783902017-06-09T21:45:00.000-07:002017-06-09T21:45:27.896-07:00November Writing this post 7 months late, it's hard to remember too many details. But I can remember whatever I took a picture of! :)<br />
The highlight of this month was the visit we got from Grandpa and Grandma Weston! We rented a big van and took a trip to Louisiana for a couple days. We stopped and saw the Baton Rouge Temple on the way to New Orleans. We went to the National WW2 Museum which was incredible! It was a really neat place. We went to the old capitol building, walked along the Mississippi River and saw the USS Kidd from a distance, Toured a plantation, and ate some gumbo and cajun food at lunch, and beignets from the famous Cafe du Monde while there. It was a fun, quick trip. It would've been great to have more time to see it all, but it was still a good trip. We also took the opportunity to have Kenny give Rebecca a name and a blessing while we had both sets of grandparents there. Our bishop came, and also Beth and Ricky and Savannah Westbrook. I made some soup, rolls and salad and we had a nice dinner chatting with them all afterwards. We're so blessed to have such great parents/grandparents in our lives and for our children to look up to as well.<br />
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We were so glad to have them there for Thanksgiving as well! We had a lovely feast!! They got to be there for the kids little Thanksgiving play they did with their CC group.<br />
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Tyler made some cute customized name cards for everyone's plates at Thanskgiving.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I look at this and see how the girls' hair didn't get done nicely, Brigham isn't wearing shoes, there's chalk on the brick wall behind us...everything and everyone is a bit out of order. But that is my life right now so I guess we'll just embrace it. It's chaotic and I rarely have anything in control like I would want. But we'll just keep chugging along and doing our best.</td></tr>
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Tyler got 2 pigs, Hubert and Sassy. Sassy ended up being Bryn's and they each took care of one. If only we knew what we were getting into... ;)<br />
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Riding horses at the Westbrooks. Our second home. We were there every day taking care of the pigs and enjoying their farm.<br />
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These silly girls made fun creations out of the mud/clay in the ditch in front of our house.<br />
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So hard to pick only one pic for this adorable 2 year old.<br />
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<br />Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13364407785621976817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797472639603549230.post-20736283440338535762017-06-04T21:14:00.002-07:002017-06-04T21:14:54.883-07:00Wrapping up OctoberIt's been a good week. Or should I say month, since I haven't written in a while. I recently bought some new math-based board games to make learning a little more fun. I was getting pretty boring and only doing textbook work, and that's lame. So I looked up online and found some great recommendations. We've been playing them all a lot lately and it's great.<br />
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This past Monday we all went shopping together for Halloween costumes. We had to find a last minute one for Ty since he had planned on being Harry Potter (and we had even put off cutting his hair for a long time so he could look the part) but unfortunately we couldn't find one anywhere. So we got him a Batman costume. Tuesday we had to do our family presentation at CC, which is fun. We did another family rap like last year, but this is a new community so it was the first time they'd seen anything like that and it was well received. The kids think that's the best. Wednesday was our big ward trunk or treat. Everyone had a fun time and liked dressing up. The YM/YW were in charge so essentially a lot of it was on Kenny and they did a great job pulling it all off. Kenny even participated in the pie eating contest, which was the most spectacular pie eating contest I've ever seen. There were literally about 60 people in it, and it was insane. They take that thing very seriously here. I got it all on video because it was so crazy. Thursday we had the missionaries over for dinner, and Ty had soccer practice.<br />
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On Friday Kenny met me at the vision center and he and the 4 older kids all got eye check ups. We realized we needed to hurry and get it done since we've had insurance for it all year. Brynlee is the only one that needs glasses, and she only needs them when reading. It's not too bad yet. But I was 7 years old when I first got glasses, too. It's unfortunate that she seems to have inherited my bad eyesight. That night Kenny went to the temple in Houston, with Ricky. It was Ricky's first time going through a session, since the first time he ever went to the temple many, many years ago. He's recently become re-activated, so it was a really neat thing for Kenny to be able to be with him. I showed the kids the movie Hocus Pocus for a fun Halloween flick.<br />
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Yesterday, Saturday the 29th was an incredibly productive and fulfilling work day. We got up and hit the ground running early. I told Kenny that I had called a landscape guy to come and do our yard, because I just didn't think we'd ever get to it. Well the very thought of having to pay someone else to do something he could do lit a fire under him and he got to work! He took out all the seats in the van and loaded up all the boxes of crap we have leftover from when we moved here. Also all the junk on the side of the house that the previous owners so kindly left here for us to dispose of. He took it all to the dump and stopped and picked up 42 bags of mulch on his way home. I finished organizing and cleaning up the garage and it looks awesome now, thank you very much. Then when Kenny got back he laid another layer of tarp down on all the flower beds and spread the mulch and re-stacked the rocks around it. I did soccer game duty so he could keep working. OH soccer I wish you would END already. Seriously takes over our lives on Saturdays and it's so annoying sometimes. Anyway Kenny worked hard all day and it looks a million times better. Now I won't be so embarrassed when everyone comes trick or treating on Monday. And I don't have anxiety attacks whenever I walk into our garage. So huge things checked off our to-do lists.<br />
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Tyler broke my nice, big bowl and tried to hot glue it all back together for me...it didn't work. I feel like my kids do a lot of stupid things sometimes. Not usually intentional, but still just do dumb things. I'm learning that I need to have grace for them just as with anyone else. They're not really trying to mess up so much or break things or whatever the case is, but they do, and I have to be patient.<br />
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A fun lesson on phases of the moon using oreos.<br />
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We had to hurry and get all the kids in for an eye appointment before the year was up on our insurance. Brynlee ended up being the only one that needed glasses. And her eyes aren't that bad, it's just to help when reading.<br />
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Sometimes I feel like I'm in a parade when we go on a family walk/bike ride.<br />
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More missing teeth!<br />
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Ricky's wife, Beth, just got baptized last week (Saturday the 22nd). The Westbrooks are our good friends and have just been so kind to us since we've been here. They are amazing people. I said the prayer at her baptism and she asked Kenny to confirm her the following Sunday. I wasn't able to be at church for that since we had sick kids, but I'm so glad he got to participate in doing that.<br />
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Becca recently had her 2 month appointment, even though she was 2 1/2 months old. But she weighed 14 pounds 12 ounces, and was 24 1/2 inches long. She's growing very well, obviously.<br />
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Our CC director, Lori Glassey organized a lunch where we went as a CC group and ate at the new restaurant her husband is the chef for. It was super crazy and chaotic and the little ones were exhausted and it took like 12 years to get the food out, and then it was super expensive. So I sort of wish we hadn't gone, but oh well.<br />
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Above and below was when I took the kids to the Heritage Festival in Woodville, Texas. A fun way to step back in time and see how they lived and worked.<br />
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One Sunday we drove down to Houston after church to have dinner at my parents' house. My Uncle Jim and Aunt LaDawn and cousin Jenet and her family were there visiting on their way back home. the Allsops also came to join the party adn it was such a great night. I'm convinced I have THE BEST extended family in all the world. I love all my cousins and their great families. I'm so inspired by their good lives.<br />
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Also last week Steph drove down from San Antonio and stayed with us Friday night. The next morning we all went to Madison's 8 a.m. soccer game and brought donuts and kolaches for breakfast. My mom and dad drove over from Houston to be there too. It was so fun having them all there for the day. We hung out here until Tyler's game at 12. From there we got lunch at CiCi's pizza. They took my 3 oldest kids back to Grandma's to sleepover. Only my awesome children put their backpack of all their clothes for the weekend in OUR van, instead of Steph's car. So they actually had no clean underwear, no pajamas, and no clothes for church the next day. It ruined those plans and I ended up having to meet my mom way earlier to bring them back home.<br />
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HALLOWEEN COSTUMES!! The big line-up: Tyler as Batman<br />
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Brynlee as Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz<br />
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Madison as Officer Hopps from Zootopia!<br />
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Kelsey as a Witch<br />
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Brigham as a Ninja Turtle (he has no idea what that is)<br />
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We went to the Children's Museum in Beaumont.<br />
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Every morning Briggs would get up early and come into my bed where I was usually up with Becca. He liked snuggling with us for a little bit before we had to start the day.<br />
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Kenny's birthday was Sep. 8th. He turned 33!! We didn't do a whole lot to celebrate, just had his favorite foods for dinner and dessert. We sure love him!<br />
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Such a handsome little guy. We bought this cute suit for him in Cambodia while we were there. There's a suit coat that goes with it too, but it was too hot and he didn't want it. Glad I remembered to pull it out of the closet before he grows out of it!<br />
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Becca started smiling when she was 4 weeks old. She is such a sweetheart. And absolutely loves bath time (below). She's never cried once in the bath.<br />
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Ty's cheering section at his soccer game. Earlier that morning it was Madi's game.<br />
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Bryn and Madi were asked to sing a song in primary. They sang the second and third verse of Army of Helaman. They were a little shy and nervous, but they sounded great. Kelsey went up there with them, but she didn't really know the words. We'll just call it emotional support. ;)<br />
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sewing lesson with Grandma. She drew straight lines on paper and had them just sew along the paper, no thread or anything at first. They loved it.<br />
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There was a bit of a snake saga at our house, again. I can't remember what day it was now, but I just opened my bedroom door to walk into my room and see this motion on the floor. It's a freaking SNAKE in my room, slithering away from me. I sort of screamed and jumped back out of the room for just a second. I composed myself and went back in, only it was GONE. I seriously couldn't find it anywhere. I had gone out to the garage to get a hoe, and boy was my heart pounding while I was down on the floor looking under my bed and dresser trying to find it. It was nowhere to be found. I closed my door and tried to block the space on the bottom with towels. But hours later Kelsey was in the laundry room, changing her clothes. She started saying that she heard the snake in a grocery sack that was on the floor. I thought that she was just kind of scared and thinking that anything was the snake. So I didn't believe her. But a minute later, she starts crying and shouting that she saw the snake move and it really was in the grocery bag. I went in there with my garden hoe as my powerful weapon. I scared it out of the bag and tried to kill it but it quickly slid under the cupboards that are in there, where my hoe was too big to fit in that space. So I turned it around and tried jabbing at it with the end of the handle. But it just slithered along the edge and underneath the washer and dryer! Obviously I couldn't get it there, nor could I move the machines. We didn't see it the rest of the day. Every time I had to get up during the night with the baby I would turn on my cell phone flashlight and shine it all over the floor before I stepped out of my bed. It was so unnerving having a snake in my house and not knowing where it was. Freaked me out. The kids and I were all on high alert trying to keep our eyes out for it. All the next day we didn't see it, same high stress during the night. The next morning, Kelsey saw the snake hiding under Becca's car seat, in the kitchen. That poor girl has such a keen eye and is really good at finding things haha. Anyway, luckily I had kept my hoe handy and grabbed it. I summoned all my courage (I really, really hate snakes). I quickly threw the car seat off and once it started slithering across the floor I just went a little crazy and started hacking away at it. I cut off his tail and left lots of dents in its body. It was still like hissing at me and opening its nasty jaws in my direction, but he was dying. I used the hoe to pick it up and take it outside and told Tyler to bury it while I cleaned up the blood. It was disgusting but I am SO glad to have that behind us. Thankfully Kenny has replaced the weather seal on the back door, which is how I think they were getting in before. Hopefully we won't have any more snake problems.<br />
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Sweet Ty holds her for me when I can't, like if I'm making dinner or something. She has fallen asleep on his shoulder several times and it's so darn cute.<br />
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We often have frogs and geckos all over the windows, but this morning the condensation made it so that it left perfect marks of the frog hopping all over the window. It was so cool!<br />
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Gotta keep these two busy while I'm helping the others with school work. Briggs likes driving cars in his kinetic sand.<br />
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One day I made up a nature scavenger hunt for the kids. Kenny did it with them and changed it up a bit. They had a lot of fun and get so competitive with each other.Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13364407785621976817noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797472639603549230.post-12077852916045920372016-10-23T18:33:00.002-07:002016-10-23T18:33:24.572-07:00What Homeschool Looks Like Right NowThe main curriculum we use is called <a href="http://thefamilyschoolonline.org/#/dashboard">The Family School</a>. It's so awesome, and I'm learning so much right along with the kids. I'd actually be embarrassed if anyone else realized how much I really am learning. I'm sure a lot of it I was taught at one point in time and have just forgotten over the years. In any case it's a lot of fun and it's going well. There's always more activities and ideas that I wish we could get to and aren't able to. But I love that I'm able to teach to all the kids at the same time, and then give them assignments appropriate to their age level. They also have handwriting pages to complete each day and Ty's doing cursive. He's probably behind a year in learning it, but that's okay.<br />
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Either the night before, or first thing in the morning, I write down in a spiral notebook all the things they need to do for the day and draw a little box next to it for them to check off. Specific math pages, or how many minutes to practice or chapters/minutes to read, etc. (This is just for the older three.) It's individualized and done the day of so I have a more realistic idea of what we have going on and what they need to do. I stole that idea from <a href="http://amongstlovelythings.com/">Sarah Mackenzie</a>, she's a big inspiration to me. It gives a clear list of all that's expected of them for the day and they can work as fast or slow as they want, but they know all the things they have to accomplish.<br />
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We use Saxon for Math. Tyler's grade level even comes with a DVD where the instructor does a short lesson and then he does the assigned pages. It's so helpful for me to have that video instruction that he can watch and free up some time for me to help the girls.<br />
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Tyler's also doing the<a href="http://iew.com/"> IEW (Institute for Excellence in Writing)</a> program and it's great! Our CC community didn't offer Essentials class last minute (the mom who was going to tutor that ended up moving like the week we started, so they refunded the money but I was disappointed he wouldn't have that class). So anyway we bought the writing curriculum that they would've used. Again, there's video instruction from the fabulous Andrew Pudewa and he's a fantastic teacher and does a much better job at making it fun and exciting than I could.<br />
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<a href="https://www.classicalconversations.com/">Classical Conversations</a> is on Tuesdays. I am so glad we chose to do it again this year. The kids are making great friends with such good kids and I love the moms too. It's been a great thing again for us. The kids love doing review for it each day. Sometimes I'll give them 2 candy corns for each question they get right. On CC day we pack up an insane amount of things in the car and are gone from the house from 8:40 to 4:00. CC is from 9:15-1:00. Then we go to the library and the park and kill time until we take Brynlee to her violin lesson at 3:00. They're all up in Beaumont so it's easier for us to just stay up there. It's a loooong day and I'm always worn out by the end. I have to plan ahead to have a super easy dinner because we also have to eat earlier than usual. The kids always have soccer practice on Tuesday evening. Or Madi has it Monday and Tyler has it Tuesday.<br />
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Monday afternoon is piano lessons. I always have to wake Briggs up from his nap early to go to that and I hate that. Wednesday is Young Men's for Kenny and Cub Scouts for Tyler. It's easy since they both have to be there at the same time.<br />
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Overall it's going really well, but Briggs and Becca make it challenging. They are by far the hardest part of homeschooling. But we get through one day at a time.Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13364407785621976817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797472639603549230.post-41598964050852720242016-10-12T18:14:00.001-07:002016-10-12T18:14:28.020-07:00August Pictures<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My brother Tim and his cute wife Lauren were in Texas for the month of August in between semesters at BYU so we got to see them a couple times! They were such good sports to put up with my crazy kids who couldn't leave them alone.<br />
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRIGGS!! 2 years old and as cute as can be. Bday was Aug. 12th.<br />
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I love these flowers that bloom up our walkway.Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13364407785621976817noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797472639603549230.post-70313915366218752642016-10-12T06:07:00.001-07:002016-10-12T06:07:25.670-07:00Kid UpdatesI haven't written an update on each of the kids in a long time. Heck, I haven't really blogged in a long time, and I am sad about that. Life seems to be crazier than ever right now and it's hard to find time to do it. But after a really bad evening yesterday with Becca, she slept all night! So I woke up at 5:30 and wasn't able to go back to sleep. So I'm going to try to take a few minutes and record life these days.<br />
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Rebecca is 2 months old now. She is chunking up so nicely :). She is completely adored by everyone. I think the sweetest interaction is with Brigham. He loves her so much, and tries to talk to her and give her kisses often. He always says "I hold it! I hold it!" So I let him "hold" her on his lap and he's tired of it after about 2.5 seconds. My favorite thing is to just talk to her. Her pretty blue eyes just light up and she's so alert and happy and social. I totally teared up the other day when I was just so overwhelmed with love for this beautiful, perfect baby. She has been a challenging addition, but I love her so much I don't even understand it.<br />
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Brigham is 2 years old and still really not talking very well or very much. He uses a lot of grunting/mumbling noises and sound effects with a few real words thrown in there to communicate. He has had a really hard time since Becca was born and started throwing the worst tantrums. It could be because it also coincided with him turning 2 years old. Also his inability to communicate effectively contributes to his frustration I'm sure. But whatever the cause, he's been a challenge. He mostly picks on Kelsey and those two fight and scream like you wouldn't believe. They go back and forth between being best friends and worst enemies in the blink of an eye all day long. Their relationship is exhausting to say the least! I sometimes with they would just completely stay away from each other, but of course that's not going to happen. It's way too fun for them to pick on each other. But Briggs can become quite physical and violent. He hits and tackles people and throws things. But can also be the sweetest little boy you've ever seen. That's a 2 year old, I suppose. He is pretty obsessed with cars/trucks/trains/etc. and is rarely seen without one. He loves to hang out on the riding lawn mower and just sits on it all the time. He's also quite into balls and loves to just run around the yard kicking a ball. He is seriously the cutest and most handsome little guy. He's got a shaggy head full of hair that needs to be cut right now but he still looks so cute with his tan skin and brown eyes. He moved into a big boy bed about a month ago and has been doing really well. It was a seamless transition from his crib. He's also sharing a room with Kelsey now, which may or may not be a good idea. But so far it's working out really well. Tyler just likes to stay up late reading every night, so we had to change rooms around. There's just too big of an age gap for them to share a room. He is such a thick, solid, and heavy boy. He's an incredible eater and very independent. He will play by himself outside for so long, just riding his bike around or driving his cars in the bin of kinetic sand I leave out there for him.<br />
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Kelsey is 4 years old. She's learning to read and absolutely loves it. She's picking it up really quickly and feels like a big kid. She is in and out with joining us for homeschool, but she always surprises me with what she hears and remembers when I think she isn't listening. She's becoming more self sufficient and loves to make her own sandwiches at lunch and wash her own hair in the bath. I'm happy to let her do these things because it makes my life easier with every little thing my kids can do for themselves. She is such a sweet and loving girl, but almost to the point where it's way too much and I don't know what to do about it. Her love language is physical touch and she's always giving lots of hugs to everyone, and can often be very clingy to people. I feel bad because I know it's very innocent on her part; she just loves them and wants to show them. But I know it can be very annoying for people when she won't get off their lap or leave them alone. Mostly it bothers me as she's acting that way with boys in our CC community!! She is the biggest flirt I've ever seen and she's only 4! It is both hilarious and terrifying. She is somewhat of a picky eater and causes the most struggle at dinner. I've given up the fight and put her back in pull-ups at night time when Becca was born. Sometimes she would go a whole week without wetting the bed, but other times we couldn't go 2 nights in a row and I was so tired of washing sheets every day. I'm pretty bummed about that, but I've stopped trying to fight it and think that I can will her into not peeing at night! She is our most sneaky child. She tends to escape quickly and hide everywhere! Especially when it's time to clean, she is usually hiding under someone's bed or behind a door or something like that. It's pretty frustrating and I hope she breaks out of the habit quickly. With so many kids it's easy to sort of forget about them if you can't see them, and she has figured it out way too quickly and takes full advantage of it. So I'm trying to be more vigilant and demand that she stop sneaking off and hiding. Not a good habit to be into. I'm strongly considering putting her into speech therapy as she still struggles with the letters S and R, and has a few other funny habits that make it hard to understand her unless you're focusing really hard. She loves playing dolls and animals, doing crafts and reading books. She's growing up so quickly and I need to take more time to be with her individually.<br />
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Madison is 5 years old. She is still just a really easy, helpful middle child. She has such a gift for seeing things that need to be done and doing them without anyone asking her to. She's much more aware of situations, or people and their needs and just stepping into help. It's really quite amazing. She does particularly well with numbers and math, just like her dad. But she doesn't seem to be making much progress with reading. It's sort of plateaued and I try to not let it frustrate me. After daily requests I gave in and started giving her piano lessons. I think she feels like one of the big kids when she can say she has to do her piano practicing too. She is playing soccer this season for her first time and really loves it. Or at least she claims to. :) If you were to watch her on the field you probably wouldn't suspect it. She's very shy out there and is not a very fast runner compared to the other kids, but she still loves it and has a great time so I'm happy with that. Anything to keep her active and healthy is fine with me. She still loves dolls and takes care of all her babies so diligently. She is extremely nurturing and sometimes bossy :). Madi has such a silly side and loves to joke around and just be silly and funny. She is the one in our family that plays well with everyone (typical middle child I suppose) and is such a big helper for me with Briggs and Kelsey.<br />
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Brynlee is 7 years old. She recently started up lessons on the violin again and she's very happy about that. She loves her piano and violin and I never have to nag her about practicing, she just seems to genuinely enjoy it. She likes to make up songs on the piano too and is always asking me to transcribe them for her, which I still need to do. (I'm always putting her off and saying later, but still haven't done it.) She's also been doing dance the last few months but won't be doing it after this month. It's just too expensive for what it is and while I know she thinks it's fun to be in a class, I don't think that she cares that much about dance in particular. So hopefully we can find something else to suit us better. Bryn often gets overshadowed as she's sandwiched in between two kids who love the spotlight. But she is really a great kid! She is kind and generous and very helpful. She loves to talk to Becca and hold her when I'm busy. She is pretty shy in general, and often in her own world. She loves to craft and create, and is always writing stories. She has so much energy and moves quickly from one thing to the next, often leaving a mess in her path. She has found a cute friend at CC that she loves to be with and that makes me happy to see her having such a good time with another good little girl like herself.<br />
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Tyler is 9 years old. He is a reading maniac! He recently read the entire Chronicles of Narnia series, and then immediately began the Harry Potter series, and he's currently on book 5. Sometimes it's a problem as I have to constantly ask him to put his book down to eat a meal with the family, do his schoolwork, go to bed, etc. Although truthfully I am very happy that this is the biggest problem we have with him. I'm so glad it't not a video game obsession or something like that. He is playing soccer also this season and really loves it. He's improving a lot and I'm so glad he loves it. He also spends a lot of time doing legos and drawing. He's also made a great friend at CC for which I'm grateful. I've been praying that we'll find him some good friends. Homeschooling is a great thing, and I know it's what's right for us, but it can also be very lonely. He just hasn't found a great friend in our ward unfortunately. Not too many kids to begin with and we live so far away from them all anyway. I would really love if we could find some good kids in our neighborhood. Ty's a great helper and loves to have big responsibilities. He helps with yard work a lot, working with his dad. He also helps keep the pool clean and does a great job with whatever we ask him to do. He still loves to tease his sisters to the point of tears, but overall he is a great kid. He went on a fun father/son outing to dinner and a movie the other day and had fun with Kenny.<br />
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I'm pretty blown away at the incredible, wonderful little people we have to raise. They have beautiful, pure spirits and teach me so much. I am so deep in the trenches that sometimes I forget about the outside world and feel like I've lost myself. But I know that a heavy investment in their early years will hopefully pay off in the end. It won't always be quite so intensive, and I feel God sustaining me from day to day. I feel so blessed to have a healthy body to be able to work and teach and serve my family. We have so much to be grateful for amidst all the challenges.Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13364407785621976817noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797472639603549230.post-41830072277556659282016-09-25T12:44:00.001-07:002016-10-12T17:43:40.777-07:00Rebecca's BirthRebecca is 5 weeks old today, and I'm just now sitting down to recount her birth. I don't know why I think it's so important but I want to remember it, and I want her to be able to read it when she's older.<br />
So backing up to August now, actually further. When Kenny left for his trip to Alaska at the end of July (Yes I need to blog about that too) I asked him to give me priesthood blessing before he left. I wasn't<i> super</i> concerned that the baby would come while he was gone, because I never have my babies early. But of course it was a possibility. So one night after the kids went to bed he gave me a blessing. Wow! I don't think I really realized how much anxiety I had about the baby coming. But I just started crying and felt such peace and relief that I would be able to handle yet another child in our already busy home. It gave me strength and reassurance to remember that Heavenly Father is keenly aware of my situation and my needs.<br />
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Now to August...she was due on the 4th, and my due date came and went. I was huge and very uncomfortable. Going past my due date this time wasn't nearly as awful as it was when I went over with Briggs. Probably because with Briggs, my mom and Sarah had come with the intent to help out after his birth. They had been there for about 12 days, and he decided to be born in the morning on the day they flew home. So that made me very upset. Thankfully I didn't have that pressure this time since my mom is just 1 hr. 20 min. away! :)<br />
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On Saturday night we watched TV after the kids were asleep. I noticed I had a few contractions about 15 minutes apart and told Kenny. He said that if I was in labor we should go on a walk and get things going. But I said that I would rather get some rest while I could and that if it was labor, then it would happen on its own. So we went to bed and I would sort of wake up to contractions and go back to sleep. But I finally got up around midnight and got in the shower. I blow-dryed my hair and packed some stuff in a bag for the hospital. I sat in my rocking chair and listened to soft music while the contractions came. I called my mom around 1 a.m. I think and told her I was in labor. She drove out to our house and we drove to the hospital. Kenny gave me a priesthood blessing before we left, which I'm, always very grateful for. I had a lot of peace throughout this whole experience and I attribute that to the countless prayers I'd said in the preceeding months, and the priesthood blessings I'd received from my husband. I was prepared for whatever and knew that everything would be fine. We got there around 3 a.m. and it took a little while to get checked in. I told Kenny on the way to the hospital that maybe this time I would just get an epidural. I hadn't planned on that, I had been preparing for another natural birth. But the pain always gets to me and makes me question my decision. So I said it would just be a lot easier this way. My contractions were getting pretty strong at this point and by the time we walked up to the labor and delivery unit, I was having to stop walking to breathe through them. The nurses were all pretty chill until they checked me and realized I was at an 8, and that it was my sixth baby. I asked if it was possible for me to get an epidural still, and she said it was too late. I had gone there with the thought that soon all the pain would go away, and then I had to quickly change my mindset. Surprisingly I was still very calm about it, and just thought "Alright let's do this!"<br />
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They all started moving really quickly and called the doctor and got things ready. One thing I really hate about the hospital is how they have so many stupid procedures to go through. They have to give me an IV and get me all strapped up to the baby monitor and sit there asking me a hundred questions and having me sign papers, etc. while I wish they'd leave me the heck alone and just let me focus on having a baby! It didn't last long though. The doctor came in and introduced herself. I'd never met her before, but I really liked her. She was calm, confident, and helpful. This was my fourth natural birth, and I think I felt more in control of my thoughts this time than any other time. I had continually prayed for angels to attend me there and I really felt strengthened by that. I knew I had women on both sides of the veil praying for me and helping me. I knew my body was capable, and this time I stayed in check mentally, and was much more positive. I kept repeating the scripture in my mind, "I can do all things through Christ, which strengthens me." Kenny was super helpful, too. He held my hand through it all and repeatedly told me I was doing such a great job and reminding me how strong I was. He loves when they have the baby monitor on me because he loves watching the chart as it rises and falls. I think it helps him feel more involved when he can get a visual of what's going on with my body haha. I don't know how long I pushed for, but it seemed a little longer than other babies. My mind sort of checks out sometimes while I'm pushing and it's like I'm not in my body. I don't know how to explain it, except that I have no memory of certain parts of it and I don't know how much time passes. Probably only like 1 second, but it's still weird to "come to" during those times. She was born at 4:20 a.m. just as perfect as can be. She had a full head of dark hair, and a good pair of lungs. There is just nothing like the euphoria of when they place that brand new baby in your arms. Once the cord stopped pulsing they let Kenny cut it. I put her skin to skin and started nursing her and she took to it immediately. Then they weighed her and we found out how very big she was! I was expecting in the 9 pound range like Briggs, but she was 10 pounds 5 ounces and 21 inches long! Such a perfect, big baby.<br />
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Here's an interesting thing with my kids' birth weights. The first 3 were in the 7 pound range, and have gone up a pound every time since then. So Madison was 7# 10 oz.. Kelsey was 8# 1 oz. Briggs was 9# 8 oz. and now Rebecca 10# 5 oz. I told Kenny we'd better stop because I don't think I could do an 11 pounder! Yikes. Once all the nurses and everyone left the room we finally got to decide on a name for her. We chose Rebecca Lindsay Weston.<br />
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Kenny went and got me some breakfast and chocolate milk--which is my victory drink after having a baby. :) He didn't stay too long because my mom had to get home since Kim's kids were at her house and Kim had flown out that night (of course! haha we know how to time things). So Tim had gone over to my parents house to be with kim's kids, so that mom could come out here to be with my kids haha. But they all had church duties so Kenny went home and my mom left. He brought the kids by that day to see their new baby sister. They were so excited to see her and hold her. It was just the sweetest thing. My heart was so full of love for my family. Such tender moments.<br />
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I was able to go home on Monday afternoon. We are so blessed to have her in our home and as a part of our family. Of course there's a lot of adjustments and challenges that come with a new baby. But it's all part of the journey. Learning to gracefully accept the good with the bad, the easy with the hard. They seem to always go hand in hand. Some of life's biggest lessons to be learned amidst childbearing/rearing. Mostly we are so grateful to God for entrusting another one of His beautiful spirit children to us. We are all "healthy, happy, and terrific".<br />
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going home! love these big kissable cheeks.Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13364407785621976817noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797472639603549230.post-9054771798680067892016-09-11T13:06:00.003-07:002016-09-11T13:06:28.014-07:00More Visitors!***I wrote this post like 6 weeks ago or something. I still never got the pictures, but I'm just going to post it and move on since I'm so behind.***<br />
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My computer is being too slow and dumb to load pictures, so I'm just going to have to write down what I want and add pictures later.<br />
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My cute sister-in-law Kerri, and her two darling girls Jane and Lyla flew all the way from Germany BY HERSELF. We were lucky enough to have her down here in Texas from the 12th-18th. On Wednesday, the 13th I drove into Houston and my mom babysat our kids while Kerri and I went to the temple together. We did initiatory work instead of regular endowment session. I had a really neat experience while in the temple. During one of the names, I could feel my daughter's spirit so strong! Not as like a baby though. It was just her, but her spirit was mature and older and equal to mine. I knew she was right there with me, and it felt like those words in the blessing were just for me, and tears were just streaming down my face it was such a sweet and powerful experience. Not only me, but the temple worker who was there giving the blessing was also crying really hard and told me afterwards that she had just felt this really strong connection to the early saints and when they used to give each other blessings before they gave birth. It was so memorable and I was really grateful for that tender mercy. I'm getting so excited to hold and meet this sweet babe.<br />
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I went home later that afternoon so Brynlee could make it to her dance camp. I had signed her up long before. She had a fun time, and I love it because it's about 5 minutes from our house! :) I am thinking I want to sort of only give my kids two options of extra curricular activities. We have soccer fields and a little dance studio super close to our house so I'd like to just say you can pick one of those two things and then I don't have to drive all over the place. Anything and everything else is a half hour away. Anyways...they did a different dance style each night for 4 nights and she had a lot of fun. I wanted her to get a taste of each of them so she's sure of what she wants to do if I enroll her in anything.<br />
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Thursday the 14th, my mom and Kerri and Cami and their kids all came out here to our house! We got to celebrate sweet Lyla's first birthday! They all stayed the night and we had fun swimming and playing around the next day. They left in the afternoon. I was so glad I got to know Kerri a little bit better and now the kids will have real memories of playing with their Germany cousins instead of just google hangouts on Sundays :).<br />
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That evening we had been invited to go swimming with a couple families in our ward. The couple that invited us doesn't have any kids, and the other family that came has one little boy in nursery with Briggs. I felt bad that we severely dominated their pool, but it was fun to get to know them better. We're still trying to make friends and get to know people in this ward. Then we went home and put the kids to bed. A couple hours later my cousin Elise and her family arrived! They're on their way to Virginia for a family reunion and I was so glad they stopped here on the way. I haven't seen her in years! Our kids were getting along so well and it's only too bad we couldn't be with them longer. It was a short but sweet visit.<br />
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Madison is currently obsessed with becoming a police officer when she grows up. She and her cousin Sam really got into the movie Zootopia and each take one of the main characters and role play the movie out. My mom has been so nice to further indulge this fantasy with getting them police officer costumes. She can often be seen wearing her hat and badge around the house, even the pants too. The other day we got pulled over by a cop because he wanted to let me know one of my brake lights was out (which Kenny had told me a couple days before we just hadn't gotten around to getting it fixed). But Madi was very happy to see a real live police officer in action. Then this weekend we had another cop show up at our house looking for one of the daughters of the people that used to live in this house before us. I gave him the information I had and that was it. But as soon as Madi saw him she ran and got her hat and came back out to the door. He laughed when he saw her and complimented her on her "nice hat" haha. She was so pleased!<br />
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This past Thursday I went to Houston again. My parents are out of town, but Kim and her kids are staying there right now. Cami came out and hung out too and we took the kids swimming. I stayed the night and the next day Kim and I took our kids to the Houston Aquarium. It was once again a little overpriced, but it was something to do out of the house and the kids really loved it. We had a fun time, and then went to Sonic for lunch afterwards. I came back that afternoon, since I needed to pick up Kenny and Ty that evening. We're obviously trying to soak up a bunch of cousin time while we can before the Bakers leave for Belgium. Caleb's there right now on a house-hunting trip.<br />
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Eliza and Kelsey. They have somewhat of an intense love-hate relationship, but I was happy to catch them showing some love this time :).<br />
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The favorite part for everyone (except Madison of course) was touching all the sting rays. They're so slimy!!<br />
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I'm pretty freaking huge this pregnancy. I've gained a lot of weight, and I'm also dealing with my hands and ankles/feet swelling a lot which is new to me. I've never had that in all my other pregnancies and I don't like it! I guess it's from all this heat and humidity.<br />
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Went on a fun ice cream date with this cutie a while back.<br />
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They love to color<br />
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The Bakers had driven to our house the night before and spent the night. Monday morning we made a delicious breakfast of Texas shaped waffles with fresh berries and homemade coconut syrup. YUM! It was so good. Kim and Caleb were so fun to play kickball with all the kids outside in the blazing heat. We swam a lot off and on that day, and just hung out. I was really wishing Kenny were here at dinner time when I nearly ruined our awesome meal with my horrible grilling. But they were kind and wouldn't admit that the BBQ pork chops were under-cooked and the vegetable kebabs needed more time too. Agh! It was embarrassing. But oh well. We had a yummy American flag fruit pizza for dessert which was fun. Caleb gave a great little lesson on why we celebrate Independence Day, and told the story of George Washington crossing the Delaware River. Then they played some football while we waited for the sun to go down so we could do fireworks. We didn't have any big extravagant fireworks, but we had fun anyway. And plus our neighbors were putting on quite a show too, so we didn't miss out too bad. :) Once we were all sufficiently covered in mosquito bites and ran out of sparklers, we called it a night. What a great day we had, though. I am so proud to be an American, even if the near-future does look bleak. I am always so inspired by the founding of this great nation and what we stand (stood) for, and what we have accomplished because of the principles of freedom and good morals. May we ever fight to preserve that!</div>
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Briggs was super scared of the fireworks (especially the loud ones). He kept crying and clinging to me and going inside the house. But he came back out for sparklers :).<br />
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<br />Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13364407785621976817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797472639603549230.post-27103157360126041162016-07-10T19:19:00.002-07:002016-07-10T19:19:58.528-07:00June Fun with Cousins<br />
This cute picture was from Father's Day, June 19th. We sure love this guy. I'm so glad he's the father of our children. They're all totally crazy about him, and he takes his roles very seriously, which I'm grateful for.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is really random but every night we have 3 or 4 little lizards on our bathroom wall. It's sort of fun and weird entertainment for me and Kenny. As we brush our teeth we watch them catch and eat the bugs that come because they're attracted to the light. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I bought some poster maps to hang in our school room. Kenny hates when I just put posters on the wall. He thinks it's tacky, so he quickly made some little frames for them. :) </td></tr>
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Now on to the fun part: COUSINS!!<br />
We have been so lucky to have so much cousin time this summer, and it's not over yet! My sister, Kim, and her family are in the US for a little while in between Cambodia and Belgium. They have been travelling all around visiting family, and are ending up spending a lot more time here in Houston than they originally planned, as different things are getting delayed. We're not complaining at all! They had stayed with the Webbs in NM on their way down from Utah, and so they caravaned together down here. One day we had fun making tie-dye t-shirts! The kids all loved making them and wearing them and they look cute. We went to see the movie Finding Dory and most of them wore their shirts. It was a cute movie too. Thanks to us taking up two rows and lots of popcorn/candy, Briggs didn't leave the theater. He just wandered around and ate a lot, going back and forth between me and Grandma.<br />
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It's really hot so of course we mostly just swim a lot!! Cami's neighborhood pool is way fun with slides, a kiddie pool area, and a splash pad. Plus the playground!<br />
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Then we moved the party out here to our house for the weekend! We went to Gator Country one day. It's really close to our house, and one of the few things to do around here. It's run completely by rednecks and interns haha. But the kids loved it (all except for Madison. You will notice she is either not in the pictures, or she's plugging her nose and refusing to touch the animals. She didn't want to smell, see, or touch anything! It's so funny to me how different my kids can be.) They got to hold and pet different kinds of snakes, lizards, and alligators. It was pretty overpriced for what it was, but I'm glad we had the experience :).<br />
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On Saturday night Steph, Kim, and I decided to drive back to Houston and hear my dad speak at Stake Conference. He's the Stake President in Houston and we'd never really seen him in action! So once we got the approval from Kenny and Caleb, we left them in charge of all the kids and took off for a super fun night together. We got there in time to enjoy the whole adult session, then we all went out to eat at Chili's afterwards. Then of course stayed up late into the night talking. It was such a rare and unique opportunity for us to be together without any kids and we soaked up every bit of it. I sure love my parents and I'm so grateful for their righteous examples. The next morning we waited anxiously for the rest of our crew to arrive. This is the first time Kenny's had to get all the kids ready for church by himself, not only that but they also had to drive an hour and a half to come join us for the rest of Stake Conf. They all walked in literally as it was starting, and I tried not to be embarrassed at the state of my daughters' hair. But really it looked like none of them had even had a brush run through it haha! Not only that but they walked right up to the front two aisles where we had seats saved. It was a long 2 hour meeting with all those restless little ones who had just been in the car for so long. But we all survived :).<br />
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That night we all went over to Ben and Charlotte Allsop's for dinner. It is always so fun to get together with them. We stood around the piano and sang family songs, just like we always did growing up. It was even around the same piano because they're hanging onto my parents' baby grand piano since they don't have room for it in their apt. Brought back lots of great memories. I haven't had the privilege of singing with my family in years and I only wish the rest of my siblings could've been there too. These wonderful family relationships are what make life so sweet. I'm so blessed to have such a great family, and to have married into such a great family, too!Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13364407785621976817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797472639603549230.post-33335584743769353852016-06-19T08:51:00.002-07:002016-06-19T08:51:38.799-07:00Summer Schedule and HFMD<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Once we had our house back to ourselves after cousins left, we had a family council over the weekend and talked about the new summer schedule. I wanted to start into our "school year", getting a head start on the curriculum so I don't feel stressed out when I need to take time off. We will be taking it slow and lots of breaks, but at least we're moving in the right direction. I also don't want them sitting around all summer complaining about being bored! I am not a fan of being lazy all summer. I told them that they had to get all the stuff done on their chore charts by noon, or they couldn't go swimming that day. The pool is awesome motivation. I started leaving at 6 a.m. to go walking every morning, and it was my favorite time of day. I was back by 6:30 or even a few minutes before to try to read my scriptures. But the kids are all getting up by then and Kenny's getting out the door. So the day begins. I'm seeing a good change in some of the kids as we've been consistent with these morning schedules. Kelsey, especially, used to whine about emptying the dishwasher every single day and would drag it on and on for hours unless I pushed back on it. It was so annoying. Same thing with making her bed. She would complain that she just couldn't do it and it was too hard, and she needed help. But we've been consistent and it's sunk in that she doesn't really get a choice. She's doing so much better now and does it quickly and mostly willingly! </div>
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Their charts include their morning chores (say prayers, get dressed, brush teeth, make bed, do hair, clean room) along with their house chore. The older three each have a room or bathroom they're in charge of. Kelsey's job is the dishwasher, but she often ends up helping Madison with the game room since those two are the ones who make a disaster of it on a daily basis. T & B also have to do 30 minutes of reading each day, and their piano practicing. (We just started taking piano lessons again this month, on Mondays.) Madison does reading time with me as well.</div>
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We start our Family School time at 9:00 each morning. So far it's going really well. We're still getting a few kinks worked out with the set up of our school room, but it's coming along. I really love the curriculum (<a href="https://thefamilyschoolonline.org/#/dashboard">The Family School online</a>). I still need to do better at incorporating a little math each day so they don't forget everything :). That only takes between 1 and 1.5 hours. After that they're free to do whatever. They swim for hours a day, and I'm so so grateful we have a pool. I don't know what I'd do without it, seriously. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One activity for school was making a model of the solar system. We were supposed to paper mache and do all kinds of big crafty things. But I like to keep it simple, or I knew it would end up with me spending many hours on something by myself, and they wouldn't really care anyway. So we just blew up different sizes and colors of balloons, labeled them, and hung them up on the fan to orbit around our "sun". It was great!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They each picked out a little fake animal at the store for different things. The older three it was for finishing some books they'd been reading, and for Kelsey it was for not wetting the bed for a week! She had been doing great and then we moved and I was washing her sheets every day or every other day. I know she is capable though! </td></tr>
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The summer was off to a great start and I felt like we were rockin it! Plenty of time for all of our work and play, things were going so great. In my last post I told that we went fishing with that other family. Well the next day (Sunday), they texted us that evening and said "sorry but we just figured out what's wrong with our daughter, we think it's hand, foot, and mouth disease. Hope nobody in your family gets it." Their daughter had a horrible rash that progressively got worse as we were there. I had never had experience with HFMD so I didn't know that's what it was, and I stupidly trusted the parents. My heart sank when Kenny read me their text and I started praying so hard, but I just knew Briggs was going to get it because he'd been playing with the little girl, who's in nursery with him. He didn't really have an appetite on Monday, which is strange for this big boy. Tuesday his fever started, and that night I checked again and found spots in his mouth. That started this long, hellish week. Kenny's been sleeping in the game room on the couch and I've been up doctoring Briggs all day and night. It's been the worst sickness we've had in our home, I dare say. I'm home from church with him right now. He has horrible sores all over, and they blister and pop and bleed. He is so miserable and the sores really itch and hurt all at once. It breaks my heart to watch him go through this and not be able to take it away from him. He's just the sweetest boy and we're praying it all goes away quickly and that none of the other kids get it. He is starting to do better. He is eating a little bit now after several days of not eating at all. And last night he slept through the night for the first time all week. So I'm hopeful that the worst is over, for him at least.<br />
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I was really angry for several days at this family for bringing their daughter and not just being up front with me. They could have easily said, "let's just go fishing another day, our daughter is really sick and was up all night from this rash". But they didn't. It's not just that Briggs is sick, but the timing of it is horrible. My sister, Kim and her family are going to be here in a few days and I've really been looking forward to spending time with them. They're only here for like a week and then they move to Europe for another year. We never get to see them and if this sickness keeps us from being able to spend time with them for those few days we have, I will not be happy.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">He just wants to be held and snuggled about 22 hours a day. My awkward, large belly is not very conducive to that but we do our best.</td></tr>
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Earlier this week I told Kenny I really wanted to do something fun as a family on Saturday. I wanted to leave the house and go do something all together. It seems like every Saturday since we moved here has been a whole lot of working. Which is good, and necessary, but I wanted to get out for a little bit. So on Friday we all worked hard to get all of our Saturday cleaning done, and Kenny got the lawn mowed early too. We were still trying to decide what we wanted to do. Well a couple weeks ago Kenny got invited to go shark fishing by this guy in our ward. Of course, if you know Kenny, you know he was as giddy as a kid in a candy shop when he got to go do that. Just the idea of catching your own bait, and then using it to get a real shark really appealed to him. Scares the heck out of me, but that's just the kind of adventurous thrill Kenny wants and needs in his life. So they went a couple Saturdays ago, but had absolutely no luck. He's been dying to get back. So that was his first (and final) suggestion. He called up his friend Scott again, and told him he wanted to go back but bring the families this time. </div>
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Our kids had fun with their 2 kids, and I really enjoyed getting to know Ashley too. I don't really know many people in the ward, so I'm happy to slowly be making friends. When we got there it was really overcast and cloudy, and I thought it would be so perfect to stay like that all day! But it didn't and we were all pretty hot and got sunburned, but still had a wonderful time. Unfortunately, the fishing was no better this time. The kids enjoyed collecting oysters or clams (whatever they were), and seashells. And the dads would throw out the net and bring in a bunch of tiny little fish for them to throw back in the water. But there were certainly no sharks caught. The water was so very filthy it was disgusting, but kids never mind that stuff. We were all completely worn out by the time we got home but grateful for such a nice day with new friends.</div>
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<br />Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13364407785621976817noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797472639603549230.post-42964047788638995302016-06-12T13:57:00.000-07:002016-06-12T13:57:07.004-07:00A Week with the Webb Kids<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
My sister Steph and her husband went on a super fun 10 year anniversary trip to Aruba! They flew out of Houston, so we were lucky enough to have their kids from Monday (May 30th) night to Saturday (June 4th). Eva and Brynlee were inseparable, (Bryn pretty much worships Eva, who is 2 years older) and Ty and Leighton hung out the whole time, and Dean and Madi are great friends too. It was lots of fun to have them here and the kids enjoyed having a constant playmate. That first Tuesday it was perfect weather and the kids were swimming all day long. I was thinking how glorious the whole week would be and I would just be sitting on the side reading books and relaxing. Only the rest of the week it rained pretty much nonstop. That really blew up all of our plans, but they still managed to find a lot to do to keep them busy and happy. I was so impressed with these kids and made jokes to Steph about how our kids are such homeschoolers. They would research facts about animals and write little reports on them with pictures, etc. The girls wrote stories and the boys studied birds, snakes and trees of Southeast Texas. They wrote speeches and rules and ran for President of the house. We held a little debate and they all voted. They choreographed a dance and just really had a great time. We love cousins!!!</div>
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They made these little creatures and then took pictures of each other with them. As long as we kept a lot of paper and craft supplies handy, these two were happy!<br />
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Dean is a great little reader, and he would help Madi whenever she got stuck on a word.</div>
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One night we let them stay up later so they could go outside and catch some critters. They all come out when the sun goes down. They caught a couple frogs and a few lizards and got several mosquito bites too ;).<br />
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Eva and Brynlee made a yummy dessert one day too. I thought this picture was pretty accurate. All the boys teasing the girls.<br />
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Pancake breakfast. We got out lots of different toppings and they took time to create funny faces before eating each pancake.<br />
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Sometimes I just let them all go play out in the rain and dealt with the wet clothes afterwards because they were going so stir crazy. Below, Bryn caught another frog.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYMDPM00tg6aIBfCUoD6ZZze6tSc7KC0N6wYCyYc5uTqcVw27zBPA5cmPBiOf_Fh9-VlfFkgiMGu0UyAOsTIkRPsi23S5kmCwDTb11FGsGSxzKgD89xyKKKLfGlOMhmEEhBcEk1BABkrE/s1600/IMG_0264.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYMDPM00tg6aIBfCUoD6ZZze6tSc7KC0N6wYCyYc5uTqcVw27zBPA5cmPBiOf_Fh9-VlfFkgiMGu0UyAOsTIkRPsi23S5kmCwDTb11FGsGSxzKgD89xyKKKLfGlOMhmEEhBcEk1BABkrE/s640/IMG_0264.JPG" width="426" /></a></div>
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They also spent hours catching tadpoles. Thanks to all the rain we had a pretty good pond in front of our house for them to fish in.<br />
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I drove them back to Houston on Saturday night and got to say Hi to Steph and Andrew for a few minutes before heading to the temple that night. It was a great week and the kids all had a cousin hangover the next week. :) Come back again Webbs!!Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13364407785621976817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797472639603549230.post-85216340747728110212016-06-12T13:28:00.000-07:002016-06-12T13:28:01.995-07:00Wrapping Up May and Memorial Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This was taken as we were leaving to go drop them off for their LAST day of school! It was actually 3 days before the real last day of school, but they missed that last week because we had cousins here. (more on that later). They had a great time and it was a good growing and learning experience for all of us. </div>
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We've been doing lots of yard work lately, too. This is one morning (the older 2 were still at school) and these 3 were helping me trim the bushes. I gave Kelsey a big pair of scissors and she was snipping off all the ends of the overgrown palm tree leaves. Briggs could hardly even lift the pruning shears but he sure was working hard and trying to contribute by sticking them in the bushes and then pulling them out again. :) We were having a great time up until Briggs tripped and sliced his thumb on one of the sharp shears. It was no fun, and ended our morning of yard work. But they did all get a popsicle in the end. All's well that ends well, right?<br />
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One night Kenny was taking his newly fixed road bike for a little spin around the neighborhood and nearly ran over a snake. Only this time it was a venomous cottonmouth. He came home to tell me and get a gardening hoe, then went back out in the street after it. He broke it's neck and carefully brought it home. He put it in a container with alcohol overnight so that it was good and dead the next morning. He was anxious to show the kids and teach them what to watch out for. How to recognize the patterns and discern between a snake that will actually cause you great harm, or not. Then we got rid of the body by throwing it in the big ditch next to our house. </div>
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On Memorial Day we had quite a party! We had my parents, the Juergens, the Allsops and the Webb kids over. We had a fun time visiting, swimming, and eating. There was a small issue when I somehow managed to set the whole BBQ on fire and scorched all the meat pretty good. But Kenny came in and saved the day, as usual. It was pretty scary, I've never had that happen before. I sort of panicked and had thoughts of the whole grill exploding and then catching our house on fire (I'm not dramatic, or anything). That would have definitely ended the party. But thankfully none of that happened. :) It was such a fun day and we were so grateful everyone drove a million miles out to be with us. </div>
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<br />Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13364407785621976817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797472639603549230.post-45473974562270119252016-05-22T18:54:00.000-07:002016-05-22T18:54:00.491-07:00Our Week, BackwardsSunday: This morning I woke up around 5:40 a.m. to super loud thunder and lightning flashes in my window. It was a crazy storm and it lasted for a couple hours. Kenny and I gave talks at church today, and my sweet parents drove all the way out here to sit with the kids during sacrament meeting, and hear us speak. It was completely unnecessary and I kept telling them they really didn't need to come, but they insisted. We felt so loved, and of course the kids always love seeing grandpa and grandma. After church, Tyler got to go home teaching with Kenny since his companion was sick, and Ty even helped teach the lesson. He loved it.<br />
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This afternoon something pretty embarrassing happened. Briggs loves to ride around on his little plasma car or trike ALL the time. Seriously that kid will just be outside for hours riding around, it makes him so happy. He's never left the driveway before. It's a really long driveway, and we have a good amount of cement patio in the back. So he normally just kind of goes back and forth and I see him out the window every couple minutes. Well I was reading books to the girls and I realized I hadn't seen Briggs for a while so I sent Tyler outside to find him. Next thing I know there's a strange lady knocking on my door. She was there to report that my baby had gone on his little bike clear down the driveway and down the street and was on the bridge part of the road. Not only that, but our stupid dog had followed him out there. Tyler had already found him and was walking him back home. But this lady still felt it was her neighborly duty to come over and tell me how dangerous it was to have my child wander off like that. Not just because of the cars that can come fast around the bend in the road there, but also because of snakes. (People keep telling us there's water moccasins, and they get worse when it rains a lot apparently.) I thanked her for her concern, but inside was wishing she had never come over in the first place. I know perfectly well how dangerous it is and I was dying inside as soon as I heard how far he had gone. It was a very irresponsible mom moment for me, and I won't let him play outside independently anymore. He just does it every single day and has never once left before. Now I know that he can, and will, and I'll keep a better eye on him. I'm just thankful nothing happened to my sweet little boy.<br />
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Saturday: I watched my friend Lori's kids for half the day as they were packing and getting ready to move. Kenny did a bunch of yard work all morning and then left for a big youth Super Saturday activity. He was in charge of the entertainment and had some pretty fun games. Family Feud, gospel style and another one I can't remember. Anyway he said it went well and they all had fun.<br />
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Friday: After I picked the kids up from school we headed into Port Arthur and Kenny met me at the mall when he got off work. We switched cars and I went by myself to get my hair done, while he took the kids out to dinner and then home for swimming and bed. It was nice to have a few hours to myself, and feeling better about how my hair looks. I got it trimmed with some layers, and highlighted. Fun change for the summer. Kenny taught Briggs how to "jump" (read: belly-flop) off the diving board while I was gone. He is so independent with his little floaties on, it's awesome. He just swims around and gets in and out and loves his freedom in the pool. Makes it SO nice for me.<br />
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Thursday: my mom came out for the day which is always a treat. She had just flown in from D.C. that morning. (Accompanied my dad on a business trip.) It was fun having her around. We had hoped on swimming that day, but it was cloudy and then rained a ton that evening again. She came with me and the older kids to their school's book fair and then drove back home.<br />
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My crazy kids were all playing in the pouring rain. It probably wasn't the smartest to let them jump on the trampoline with all the lightning going on, but they sure had a blast. And rain or shine, that Briggs has got places to go on his bike.<br />
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Wednesday: Tyler was supposed to have his raingutter regatta for cub scouts that night. But he was a little bit irresponsible and lost some of the key pieces to making the little boat. So he hadn't completed it. Not only that, but then he showed up at the church only to realize it was being held at someone else's house. Double fail. So he got to go to Young Men's with Kenny. They were playing a Book of Mormon jeopardy game. The funny--and also pathetically sad--part is that Tyler won by a landslide. Apparently the youth in our ward don't know the scriptures or gospel very well at all. Kenny said it was pretty embarrassing how easy and basic the questions were, and yet they couldn't answer them. Ty knew them all, and it was a big boost to his little ego haha.<br />
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Tuesday: It was a rough day in some respects. I completely cleaned and rearranged our master bedroom. It had sort of become dumping grounds for a whole lot of stuff and I just couldn't take it anymore. So I tackled that huge project and continued to neglect my kids for yet another day while I worked on things. Kelsey especially was letting me know how she felt about me not spending any time with her. She was acting up a lot, and decided to color on her new (white) bed, her bed sheets, and some nice pen on every person's face/forehead on one of our big canvas family portraits. I didn't get upset on the first thing I found, but by the time I had seen all 3 ruined things I yelled at her. I probably said something really cool like she'd never be able to use another pen or marker again. (drama much?) I felt pretty guilty that night after I put her to bed, realizing that I was to blame for ignoring her so much. She was trying to get my attention, one way or another. I will just add though, that our master bedroom does look awesome now and it's a nice, relaxing space. I like to have my own private, CLEAN space, when the rest of the house doesn't feel like that. But anyway, I devoted Wednesday entirely to my little ones and what they wanted to do. Things have improved greatly since I made that change.<br />
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This was our first snake encounter. I found him in the pool. I scooped him out with the net, and then smashed him to death (below) with the metal rim around the net. I didn't really know how else to take care of him, and I certainly didn't want him to live. I thought of the Grinch song, "I wouldn't touch you with a 39 1/2 foot pole" that was pretty much me with this snake.<br />
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2nd snake encounter: Kenny is gone at 7 a.m. to go to church meetings, and then the kids and I leave at 8:30. So he had already left for the morning and I was in the bathroom doing my hair when the kids come running in the bathroom screaming and Brynlee's in tears. I couldn't really understand what they were saying for a minute because they were all shouting and being hysterical. Then I understood there was a snake, a live one, in our house! I followed them out to the living room where they saw it. I guess what happened is Brynlee spotted it first on the floor and Tyler thought it was a fake snake, just a plastic one on the floor. So he nudges it with his foot and it starts to slither. So they both freak out and run to come get me. I watch it for a second, racking my brain trying to figure out how I'm going to get this thing out of my house without touching it. I finally decide on my kitchen tongs. So I grab them and pick up the snake with them, squeezing it harder than necessary to ensure it doesn't slip out and kill me. ;) Then I opened the back door and just swung it out there as far as I could. I was acting brave on the outside, but totally freaking out inside. I shut the door and locked it and said "okay! it's gone! everybody go get ready for church!" Then when we were at church, after Kenny came back and sat down with us after the sacrament the kids all started telling him at the same time, like they were just going to burst if he didn't know right away. "<i>There was a snake in our house!!</i>". He looked at me laughing and he's like, seriously? YES SERIOUSLY. Why is Kenny never home for all the crazy stuff that happens?<br />
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Another friend we found in the pool. We let him live :)</div>
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So much rain and flooding since we've been here. This one week was particularly bad. Our driveway seems to be quite a bit lower than everything else because it quickly floods a good 2 inches at least and stays wet for a long time.<br />
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Below: I even had to drain the pool on this day because we were really worried about it flooding over. I was also concerned about the water coming in the house it was getting right up close to our back door.<br />
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These cuties snacking on about 2 pounds of strawberries while I made strawberry freezer jam.<br />
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If Briggs isn't the cutest dang kid in the world, I don't know who is.<br />
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Kenny was really excited to get his riding lawn mower. It was one of the first things he bought, the same week we moved in. Partially because our lawn needs so much attention and everything grows so darn fast! But I told him it's like watching him step back in time, re-living his glory days of spending hours and hours on his tractor back on his family's wheat farm. While he was mowing, he found a turtle in the ditch part at the front of our yard. He brought it in to show the kids. He even sprayed him off with the hose since he had lots of grass and yuckies stuck to him. Everyone got a chance to touch it (except Madison who stayed far away) and then we set him in the grass and everyone watched him walk slowly away back to the other side of the fence. :) Thanks for the fun visit, Mr. Turtle!<br />
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On our anniversary date at the Houston Temple. Some nice lady saw us trying to take a selfie in front of it, and she offered to take our picture instead. Then we returned the favor and took one of her and her husband :).Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13364407785621976817noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797472639603549230.post-33931647458040492662016-05-15T19:05:00.001-07:002016-05-22T18:08:13.417-07:00Another Month Gone ByI used to make a point to blog at least once a week. I seem to be on a once a month schedule and I don't like it! I'll try to get back into the habit. Life just seems so crazy it's hard to find time to sit down and do it. Plus my memory card in my nice camera was busted, and my cell phone camera is lame so I hardly have any pictures. So here's a big long dump of whatever I can remember right now.<br />
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On April 29th we celebrated our 10 year anniversary!!! I picked the kids up early from school, and Kenny came home early. Then we drove into Houston and dropped the kids (and dog) off at my parents' house. Then we went to The Mad Potter and painted our own plates. All the kids have dishes they can use that they painted/made themselves. So now we can join them :). It was a fun activity and we've always wanted to do that together. We just normally have too many kids to help so it was a fun date. Then we went to some Chinese food restaurant (can't remember the name right now). After that we went to the movie theaters and saw the new Batman vs. Superman movie. We stayed the night at a hotel, and went to the temple the next morning to do sealings. It was a wonderful overnight date and I'm grateful to my parents (and Cami! who took them for a few hours while my parents were at a wedding reception) for helping out. It is so nice to live by family!! :)<br />
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Ty and Bryn are still in school (don't get out till June 2nd). So that's the main structure to our day. I get up at 6 a.m. every day, sometimes hit snooze and sleep until 6:09. Get ready for the day and start making lunches. Everyone's up by 6:30 or 7 at the latest. (Even on the weekends, Ty and Briggs come waltzing into our room at 6:30 a.m. ready to start the day. My kids just don't know how to sleep in!!) We get ready to go, Ty and Bryn have to do their morning chores before we leave. We read a little from the Illustrated Scripture books, and sing a song and have family prayer (without daddy) and are out of the house at 7:35 to drop the kids off at school. Then I come back with Madi, Kels, and Briggs. We eat breakfast if we haven't already and then I help them accomplish their morning chores. The rest of the day is always different, until 3:20 when we go pick them back up from school.<br />
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Speaking of school... I've been wrestling with the decision of whether to keep them in public school for next year, or go back to homeschooling. It was really weighing heavily on my mind and heart and I just couldn't think about anything else. I flip-flopped a million times a day and could think of good supporting arguments for both sides. It was a very serious matter of daily prayer and lots of discussing with Kenny. After months of this I've decided that I will homeschool again next year. I was scared of it, especially with another baby coming. Mostly I just didn't trust myself. I feel wholly inadequate to the task and I didn't want my weaknesses and flaws to get in the way of my children's education. It's also really hard!! I didn't know if I was willing to take it all on again. But there is no denying the Holy Ghost and I know that for whatever reason, that's what I'm supposed to be doing (at least for next year). So I've ordered the Year 2 curriculum for The Family School, and I've contacted the CC director in Beaumont and we'll be joining that back up again as well. I'm excited, but not overly optimistic haha. I also told Kenny I would be hiring a housekeeper to come once or twice a week for at least the first 6 months after this baby girl's born. :) I think it will be great though. I need to learn how to have a little more grace for myself and trust the Lord. Having the kids go to public school for these couple months has helped me to see that no matter how I felt I had surely failed them, they are not "behind" at all! In fact, they're doing really well compared to other kids their age. So even with the bad days, what we did was enough and I'll try to remember that. I just think there's so much more they can be doing and learning with their time every day. Brynlee watches a movie literally every single day in first grade. I don't know if that's normal or not, is that every school? It drives me crazy though. It just proves to me that even they don't feel like kids at that age need to be learning for 7 hours a day. Bascially once they get to lunch time (shortly after 11 a.m.) they're pretty much done with book learning. They have lunch and recess, PE or music and then watch a movie to end the day. So WHY NOT JUST LET THEM COME HOME? I guess because most parents want their kids gone all day, and that's the sad truth. The earlier they can drop them off and the later they can pick them up, the better. Well I don't agree. It's not that I'm against other people teaching my kids. I just don't like the all day every day scenario.<br />
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There are some good things about public school. I hope we can keep the earlier schedule, because I'm a morning person and I feel like it's such an important and productive time of day. But at the same time, I will have a newborn so I'll try to be gentle with myself and especially my children, even when I'm not Ms. happy sunshine every morning.<br />
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Tyler had the STAAR test this last week. That's pretty much all they've been doing in school the whole time we've been here, is preparing for it. He excels at reading and is average at math. I know these standardized state tests are all part of the deal, but that's one thing I will NOT miss. I just don't agree that doing nothing but practice tests on reading comprehension and math is the only thing worth learning when you're in 3rd grade. There's so much out there to learn and be interested in. But they throw it all out the window and focus only on the upcoming test like their lives depend on it. I'm glad it's over with. I don't doubt he did well, but I was never really worried about it anyway.<br />
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Brynlee had a 1st grade Music concert a couple weeks ago and that was fun to watch her. She had been singing the songs all around the house every day so it wasn't anything we hadn't heard before :). But still cute to see her up there performing--she was pretty shy.<br />
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They both had Field Day this past week and I took the little kids over there to watch them for a little bit and say Hi. It was sort of like a weird flash back for me. Doing Field Day every year in Elementary School, even in the hot Texas sun. It's like they're re-living my childhood and it was weird haha.<br />
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Briggs' favorite toy is this big inflatable shark. Tyler is nice enough to help him stay on it and float him around for a while. Such sweet brothers.<br />
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We've been working on some big house projects that seem to be sucking up all my time and taking over the house. I will be so glad when it's all finished, but it is fun to make this home ours. Last Saturday my parents came out to help us, and the Juergens came too. My dad and Kenny spent most of the day with their heavy duty sanders trying to sand off the ugly faux-brick that was all over the walls. It took forever, and despite trying to hang up plastic sheets to block off the rest of the house, EVERYTHING had a nice layer of dust. Kenny and I were up till midnight cleaning and trying to get the dust a little more under control. But I still see it. It's on every book, every little thing on every shelf, the ceiling, the floorboards...literally everywhere. No mercy. It was a big, messy project and we'd all laugh every time they took a break and came outside because they were completely covered head to toe (eyelashes and all) with dust. The kids kept calling them "abominable snow men". It was the first time we've had the Juergens out here and it was so fun to have them, albeit in not ideal circumstances. We had all of our furniture from the living room moved out to the back patio so it was just a total wreck everywhere. But the kids had a blast swimming and playing all day long, and I got to spend time with my mom and sister while my husband worked his tail off :). It was a fun day.<br />
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Totally unrelated to this whole post. But one time Briggs had a blow out in his swimmer diaper. (thankfully he was already out of the pool and we were outside still) so I just stripped him down and sprayed him off with the hose. Then I let him play with the hose for a while, still naked. He loved it.<br />
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This past week, we (mostly me) have been painting our house! Kenny's gone a lot. Not just because of work, but meetings and a hundred different reasons for young men's, and the missionaries ask him to go on splits every week...I told him next week I'm going to make him a sign that he wears around his neck that says "The answer is No, my wife needs me at home." Because I would love to have his help! But he is doing good things so I'm grateful he's such a good man. But this feels like the eternal painting project. We're going with a much lighter cream color. The blue-green that's currently on the walls is just so dark. But it's a huge job and it's coming along slower than I'd like. So much work to do all the time. Saturdays especially are non-stop working from dawn to dark. Stopping to feed my kids seems like such a nuisance ;). We can't really paint at night when the kids go to bed, although that would be ideal. But I have to leave the doors open to ventilate it all (painting while pregnant isn't exactly on their list of recommended activities) but there's so many bugs here!! Especially once the sun goes down you just can't leave your doors open. Kenny tried for a little bit one night and I told him it was a bad idea because all kinds of critters would end up in our home. He laughed at me and thought I was being dramatic. But sure enough, the next morning when I came out into the kitchen and was making the kids lunches, a frog started hopping across the floor!! I made Kenny get him out of the house. That was the second frog that's been in our home actually. I don't like how unpredictable they are. I never know which way they're going to jump and even though I know they're totally harmless, I still don't like to touch them or be near them. But anyway, every bit of progress we make in painting feels like it's a positive difference and we're liking the house more.<br />
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The last two weeks have gone better since I implemented chores once again! The kids had a nice long break from responsibilities and it was just mom doing everything all the time. So I made them all up some nice little job charts. If they have every single thing checked off they can earn a dollar a day. If they have even one thing missed, it drops down to .50 cents. If it's not much at all, then no money. Probably not the best system, but it's working so far. We've never paid for regular jobs before, because it was just expected that they help out since they're part of the family. But I decided that I really want them to be saving and learning how to manage their own money. We don't have chickens anymore to sell eggs, and so until I come up with another way for them to earn their own money, this is really good motivation for them.<br />
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Last Sunday (May 8th) was mother's day. I really wanted to make chicken cordon bleu because it's one of my most favorite meals, but I've never made it because I'm scared at how it would turn out. Well I decided to try it out. We also had the sister missionaries over for dinner again. So they got to try out my mother's day meal. It was okay, but turned out kind of dry, which is what I was worried about. But the carrot cake I made for dessert was yummy! They used our phones to talk to their families, and I got to join in a call with my sister, Sarah for a little bit too. I wished so much I could've stayed on the whole time, but it was good to see her and hear from her. She's doing awesome on her mission!<br />
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Also this last week, on the 12th was my mom's birthday! I took the 3 younger ones with me and we went to spend a few hours with her and take her out to lunch. I love that we are close enough to do that now. I sure love my mom and the great influence she is on me, and now on my children too!<br />
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This pregnancy is still going well. I don't really like my doctor, she's pretty cold and unfriendly and seems totally uninterested in me and my health. Maybe I've just been too used to midwives. I'm sort of hoping she's not on call when I have the baby. I'm sure she's totally qualified, I just haven't really clicked with her. Not a big enough deal to go out and find a new doctor again at this point, but still bugs me. I don't feel like she's going to listen to me or care what I think or say when I'm in labor. I might just excuse her from the room if it gets to that point haha. But baby girl is growing well and doing great. I'm really struggling with how much weight I've gained this pregnancy. I try to not let it get me down, but it's hard on me emotionally and physically. I look forward to working hard to get back to normal afterwards. We still don't know what we're going to name her.<br />
<br />Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13364407785621976817noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797472639603549230.post-4782558704816653372016-04-19T19:42:00.000-07:002016-04-20T14:26:19.471-07:00The Big MoveI've been MIA for quite a while, because of the move. Our computer was packed up, and I wasn't about to type up a blog post from my little phone. But we've been in our house a little over a week now and so I'm going to try to start playing catch up a little bit so I don't fall too far behind on our lives. Just a warning, I'm about to write like a whole book here.<br />
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The second week of March was our big moving week in Alaska. The movers were there Tues., Wed., and Thurs. (9th-11th). We stayed at a hotel in Anchorage on Thursday night. It was, ironically, at the Marriott which is where we stayed our first month in Alaska. We had to get out of the temporary housing we were in and couldn't move into our rental house for another week, and Kelsey ended up being born the first night we were there. So it was a fun trip down memory lane for me as I thought of the beginning and ending of our time there. We had a wonderful 4 years and I'm grateful for the experiences we had. We grew a lot as individuals, as a couple, and as a family and Alaska will always hold a special place in my heart. I really did love living there. So many wonderful people that really influenced and blessed my life. It is absolutely beautiful there and I'll really miss the mountains!! And my house! Oh I loved that house and I was sad to part with it. I know that sounds worldly or materialistic of me, but it was a great house for our family and I really loved it.<br />
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On Friday my sweet SIL, Shalee watched my kids (and our dog!) so I could go out to the house and clean with no interruptions. Andy and Shalee seriously saved us that last week. I don't know how we would've gotten out without them.<br />
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We stayed at their house that night...for half the night. We had to wake the kids up at 2 a.m. and leave for the airport. We had a pretty early flight and a lot of bags and a dog to check onto the airplane. We had 7 suitcases, 6 carry-on's, 2 car seats, 1 booster seat, and a dog. Thanks to Andy for driving us to the airport too! We had turned our cars in the day before for them to ship down here. It was a long day of travelling. During the first flight, Kelsey had been drinking a lot and decided she had to go potty really bad. But it was at the end of the flight when they lock the bathrooms and make everybody stay seated for landing. But the landing part was taking too long for her little bladder and she peed all over herself and the seat. Thankfully we still had her pajamas in her backpack. So the rest of the day she wore her Elsa nightgown. Then the next flight she spilled orange juice all over herself and her backpack and seat. Awesome.<br />
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We finally arrived and were so happy to see my parents, who came to greet us at the airport. We got our rental van and loaded up, then headed over to their house for a little bit. Just by chance, the Webbs were arriving that night also (without Steph though) so we wanted to stick around to say hi to them. We drove the hour and a half to Beaumont and got to our apartment and finally to bed.<br />
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It also happened to be daylight savings that night, and we lost an hour. So not only were we dealing with a 3 hour time difference, but now it's 4 hours difference because of daylight savings. We had to leave by 8:30 a.m. to get to our 9:00 church. Only, it felt like 5 a.m. for us and we were all SOO tired. Remember how we didn't really get to sleep the night before either, and we'd travelled the whole day yesterday? We really should've just stayed home and rested. I felt so horrible. We had put our kids through quite a lot. Madison and Kelsey (and maybe Bryn too?) fell asleep on the bench during Sacrament meeting. Just totally zonked out. Tyler got a migraine from being so sleep deprived and had to go out and throw up during the meeting. Briggs was just as ornery as could be. Kenny and I looked at each other and decided we were going to go home after Sacrament meeting. Only, right when the meeting ended several people rushed up to meet us and were so kind and welcoming, whisking our kids off to Primary without me even knowing. So then we sort of had to stay.<br />
It was a very long 3 hours.<br />
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As a mother I am always struggling between my feelings of wanting to protect my children and not have them deal with anything hard or uncomfortable. I don't want them to ever be tired, or hungry, or cold, or too hot, etc. Those things are sort of like my basic job, right? But then I also think it's good to say "We can do hard things!" And push ourselves a little bit. There's been several times throughout this move where I am debating about what the right thing is to do. How much "toughness" is too much? I just want to wrap them all up in my arms and protect them from everything in the world. But sometimes, things are just hard and there's no way around it. Now having said that, I must admit we've never had a trial that was life-threatening or so hard that it's damaging to their emotional or physical development. Just a lot of big changes and some hard things/long days/lots of work/etc. that go with that.<br />
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Kenny's company paid for our apartment while we were waiting to close on our home. Which was super nice of them. It really wasn't a bad place, we had enough beds and space for everyone. It was stinky like smoke and pets, as apartments like that always are. But the biggest problem was that they put us on the 2nd floor!! We have a big family, and these walls are pretty thin, and I'm thinking that the people downstairs must have been able to hear every step we took. That's the way they acted anyway. I swear this lady had some serious issues. I understand we arrived on Saturday night, pretty late. So there was noise as we all got ready for bed. No running around and jumping, but going from nobody living above you, to 7 people and a dog above you is probably a big change. Sunday we were home for maybe 3 hours total. Maybe. We didn't get home from church until about 1 p.m., then we had to leave by 3:30 to go pick up Kenny's rental car, and went straight to the Farmer's house for dinner (a very nice family in our ward that invited us over that first Sunday). So we didn't get back from there until about 7 p.m. I kid you not, about 15 minutes after we got home I get a knock on the door and it's our downstairs neighbor coming to get after us about all the noise. She says she just can't stand the noise she's been hearing ALL day. I was very polite, but inside I'm thinking, "Seriously? we just barely got home". Anyway. The next morning the kids all slept in until 8:30 or so. We were all slow going and having breakfast, and getting dressed and ready for the day. We'd only been awake for about an hour when she comes back upstairs again and starts yelling at me about the noise she's hearing ALL day and ALL night. Claiming that we're jumping off of furniture, etc. etc. She came up carryign her 2 month old grandson, accusing us of waking him up repeatedly from all the noise. I got mad this time and yelled back at her, saying she must be hearing someone else because nobody was awake between 8 p.m. and 8:30 a.m.! I finally just shut the door on her. But my blood was boiling and my heart was racing and I hated feeling that anger. I felt so bad for how I had reacted to her, but also justified in my position. I decided to pack up the kids and we went to my mom's house for most of the week. Steph was getting there that night, and Cami was going to come with her kids, and it would just be a fun cousin party. There was nothing for me to do there at the apartment except get yelled at. So we left and had a great time in Houston. We didn't come back until Thursday. Kenny was very sweet and understanding. He tried to go talk to the office management (they had already received complaint about us from the witch downstairs) and he tried to go talk to the lady herself and smooth things over. He didn't catch her, just her daughter (the one who has the baby) and she just kind of said her mom was crazy and that was all.<br />
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Anyway it was a fun week of cousin time for the kids, and sister/mom time for me. We went to Cami's splash pad and park one day when it was super hot, we went to the huge water wall near the Galleria, and we went to the Houston Rodeo on Wednesday! So much fun there. I wish Kenny could've been there to enjoy it with us. My mom made matching denim skirts for all the little girls, and Cami is the master braider and did all of our hair in braids! It was a great time being together.<br />
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On Saturday, again we had only been awake and for an hour or two, when we get a knock at the door. I told the kids to not answer it because I was sure it was the lady from downstairs. She had been banging on our ceiling that morning. Kenny is a better person than I am, and he goes to answer the door and it's a police officer. She literally called the cops on us. We invited him in and talked to him about the situation. He was very friendly and understanding, and said that he thinks if she doesn't want to hear anyone else she probably shouldn't be living in an apartment. I wish he would've told HER that. I could understand if we were blasting music or having loud parties all hours of the night. But this is normal life we're talking about. Yes, sometimes Briggs would run down the hall instead of walk softly. But he's a 1 year old and I can't really stop him. I was appalled. We tried to not let that ruin our day, but instead left for many hours, trying to be home as little as possible. We went to the beach, just to see how far away it was and play around for a while. It ended up being a really fun family day.<br />
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The next Monday, the 21st, Tyler and Brynlee started public school. That is a whole blog post in and of itself. But it was a big deal for all of us. I was so nervous the night before I could hardly sleep, it was like the first day of school all over again only it wasn't even for me! haha. Kenny met us there at the school and stayed in the van with the little kids while I filled out 20 hours worth of paperwork. Not really, but it seemed like it. I was starting to wonder if they were even going to get to go that day, after getting so pumped up about it. But luckily it all worked out. The school is close to our new house, but it was a good 30 minutes from the apartment we were staying in. So it was such an adjustment getting everyone out the door by 7:10 a.m. I hated waking everyone up every single morning. I'm used to letting them sleep if they want to (perks of homeschooling) and it was no fun. Dropping them off and picking them up was about an hour and a half ordeal every each trip. I'm so glad that's over with. Our rental van didn't have a DVD player either. But I checked out some books on CD at the library and we listened to quite a lot. Either 8 or 12 books from the Magic Tree House Series, and 4 Gooney Bird Greene books. Those weeks were quite an adjustment for all of us.<br />
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We also had a lot of weird medical things going on during our first few weeks. First of all Briggs had a really bad rash. Started on his bum and it got really, really bad. I thought it was just because it was so hot and humid compared to what we're used to. But then the rash spread up his tummy and even onto his face and I knew it wasn't that. Turns out it was a bad reaction to the amoxycillin he had finished the day we left Alaska. I didn't realize it could be delayed several days and still be connected to it. Anyway we went to the urgent care and got some cream and steroids to help that go away.<br />
I had horrible allergies. Whether it is just spring time in Texas, or the apartment, I don't know. But I was miserable. I didn't do anything about it though until it triggered my asthma too, and then it was a problem. I would sleep on the couch because I was up coughing all night and couldn't get a good breathe. So I went to the urgent care too and the doctor very reluctantly gave me an inhaler and a couple other things. Sometimes being pregnant is dumb when I can't take anything to help me get any relief. I also took the Ty and Bryn to some public health office where people go when they don't have any insurance. I sort of lied and said we didn't. We didn't have our new insurance, but we were still covered under his old company until the end of the month. But they only had 10 days from the time they started school to get caught up on immunizations or else they couldn't go to public school. Glad we got that taken care of and over with.<br />
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A few pictures of when we went to the Southeast Texas Fair. Kenny had to work at his company's booth for about an hour and we all got in free because of it. It also happened to be the night that all the rides were only 1 ticket each. It was a really fun night!<br />
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Another day I took Madi, Kels and Briggs to the Children's Museum in Beaumont. We lucked out and literally had the place to ourselves. There was only one other kid there for part of the time. It was a great place with no end of things to keep them busy and happy.<br />
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We spent Easter at my parents house. My cousin Charlotte and her cute family came over for a little Easter egg hunt, and we all went to the park to play for a couple hours too. It was so fun to see her and catch up. She came back that night and attended the Women's broadcast with me and my mom and we went out for ice cream afterwards. I am so excited to live closer to Charlotte. We spent the night there that night and had Easter Sunday there in Houston. That evening we went to the Juergens home to celebrate Max's 2nd birthday! How fun to have your b-day on Easter! It's fun that we can actually be here to join in on all these fun family things.<br />
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The next week was General Conference and we drove to my parents house Sunday morning and spent the day with them. The Juergens came too and we had a lovely feast that evening. I always love General Conference and I'm so glad I can go back and re-listen to the talks as many times as I want.<br />
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My pregnancy is going well. Baby girl is very healthy and growing perfectly on schedule. I, on the other hand, am growing way too much. I am really struggling with how chubby I am when I'm pregnant. I'm trying to focus on how grateful I am that my body carries babies so well. I always have very healthy pregnancies and great deliveries, etc. so I should just be thankful that I have been blessed with this amazing body that can grow big, healthy babies to full term. But I still have 15 weeks to go and I'm already really looking forward to getting back to my old self.<br />
I found an OB/GYN in a really nice facility so I'm glad about that. Still on my daily dose of thyroid medicine too.<br />
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We closed on our house on Friday, April 8th. On Saturday the movers came nice and early and unloaded all of our stuff. My parents were so nice to come out and help us too. They did a lot of cleaning and helped unpack and keep the kids happy and occupied during the day. We appreciate their help! There's always SO much to do whenever you move into a new place. We have A LOT of yard work to do. I think I could weed for 50 hours straight and only put a dent in it. But every day we make a little more progress and we're slowly but surely getting all settled into our new lives here. I'm grateful Ty and Bryn are in school so that's one (big) less thing for me to worry about. The kids have gone swimming several times, even though no one else is swimming at this time of year. They're just a little anxious, and they're not really used to swimming in HOT weather anyway. So if it's 80 degrees, it's definitely swimming weather for Alaskans. :) We have a lot to learn about how to take care of a pool, but I think it's going to be a really fun thing for our family, and probably the only way I'll survive this summer as a pregnant whale.<br />
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Another night they had a Color Run. They said the course was 1 mile, but I think they're way off. It was not that long. Anyway it was sort of poorly organized, but Tyler and 2 other kids finished as the first 3. There was some confusion as to where they were supposed to finish, so there was a lot of stopping/sprinting at the end and no clear finish line. Then he turned around and ran it again for fun. But they had a good time and Grandma even stayed to watch them! It was the same day that we closed on our house and she had come out to watch the kids while I went to close with Kenny. Then we went over to show her our house and went to their run.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moving day! This shows pretty clearly the ugly, "artistic" torn brick thing they've got going on. I'm not sure what they were thinking when they made the walls like this, but we hate it and plan to fix it soon. Just another thing on the list though, so I'm not sure how quickly we will get to it. </td></tr>
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This last Saturday we spent literally the whole day putting up a gate all the way around our pool. Kenny started out using his little Black and Decker drill, with a massive drill bit on the end, trying to drill holes in the cement and bricks. Each hole took for-e-ver and we were both wondering how many weekends this was going to take to finish! It was so slow going. He would sometimes alternate between the drill, and just hacking away at it with a hammer and screw driver. Thankfully, around 2 p.m. the drill completely broke. That forced him to go to Home Depot and get the right tools for the job. He talked to the right guy who couldn't believe what he was using before. He asked if the drill had caught on fire. Kenny told him that it didn't, but it was very hot. He said we were lucky. I think we were stupid, but that's besides the point. Anyway he came home with this heavy duty power tool and it went SO much faster and better. Even I was out there drilling holes in the cement like a boss! We worked hard the rest of the night and knocked it out. Stopping only because the kids were crying that they were hungry for dinner haha. One project down, a hundred to go.<br />
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This past Sunday Kenny got set apart as the Young Men's President in our new ward, and I am now a primary teacher for the Valiant 9 class. We also had the sister missionaries over for dinner that night and I think of my sister Sarah and hoping people are feeding her on her mission, too :).<br />
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Last week I drove into Houston and went to Ikea, and my mom and Cami met me there. It was so surreal to 1) actually be able to shop at Ikea, my first trip in 7 years, and 2) to be there with my mom and sister! I loved having a second and third opinion, and some help too. :) We went out to lunch together afterwards and then all went our separate ways. Living by family sure is fun!!<br />
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I'm sure there's so much I'm forgetting that I wanted to write about, but I'll end this now.Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13364407785621976817noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797472639603549230.post-67508031724695372772016-03-06T18:32:00.003-08:002016-03-06T18:32:53.139-08:00Happy Birthday Kelsey!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
On Monday, February 29th Kelsey turned 4 years old! Because it was a leap year (obviously) it was her first<i> real </i>birthday. ;) We were excited to celebrate this sweet girl. She made things pretty easy for me, food-wise. She wanted cold cereal for breakfast, Mac n' cheese and hot dogs for lunch, and pizza for dinner. She got to watch some TV while I did school with the older kids, which made her feel pretty cool. :) We also painted, and she helped me make her birthday cake. Back in January we had gone bowling as a family, and Kelsey saw some other kids there having birthday parties. Ever since that day she had it in her head that she really wanted to have a birthday party at the bowling alley! So as soon as Kenny got off work we headed over there (I called ahead to make sure it was okay I bring a cake in) and we brought her presents too. We had a fun time bowling together, and then had cake and presents right there! </div>
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Everything about that day was pink! Pink streamers, pink balloons, she wanted a pink cake with pink frosting, etc. etc. In the picture below you can see she's wearing a bracelet. We were in the check-out line at the grocery store when she saw this bracelet and really wanted it because it was pink! She had no idea it was a breast cancer bracelet, but since it was only $1 I let her get it on her b-day. :) She sure got spoiled and looked so cute in her new outfit from Grandma A. </div>
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Kelsey is such a sweetheart. She can be pretty bi-polar sometimes, but when she's being nice she is the sweetest girl around. She love all things princess and is a really good sister and friend. She loves to make silly faces and make people happy. She loves to look pretty with her hair, or do nail polish, jewelry, make up, etc. anything sparkly or fancy is a favorite. She has such a caring heart, and we're so glad she's part of our family. We love you Kelsey boo!</div>
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Madi was quite a little booty-shaker that night! :) She kept doing a dance every time she bowled.<br />
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<br />Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13364407785621976817noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797472639603549230.post-10699461292099731562016-03-06T18:24:00.003-08:002016-03-06T18:24:49.592-08:00Layover in Seoul<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
We flew out of Cambodia around midnight and landed 5 hours later in Seoul. I was dying to get back home and hold my babies. Kelsey and Briggs had gotten pretty sick while we were gone and it kills me to be away and not be able to help them, especially when they're sick. The problem is there's only one flight that goes out of Seoul to Seattle every day and it wasn't until 7;00 that night. So we had a LOT of time to kill. We found out that the airport did free transit tours for people with long layovers and so we quickly signed up for a 5 hour tour, lunch included. (We actually had to pay $10 a person because of the lunch, but I still think it was worth it!) It took quite a while to get through all the checkpoints and security/customs, etc. to get out of the dang airport. It was a great opportunity for us to see a little bit of the city. I'd certainly never been to South Korea before. We saw 2 different palaces, and walked around the streets for a while, too. We were all SO tired though. Every time we sat down on a bus, or in the airport, all of us would fall asleep (see below). Pure exhaustion that whole trip home. Felt like the trip would never end. </div>
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I couldn't believe how fast this trip went by! Our last day in Cambodia was so much fun. We didn't really have anything planned the day before, but we figured it out and ended up packing in quite a lot. Kim and I got up and played tennis together at 6 a.m. It was so much fun! I love tennis but I haven't played in years. There aren't any courts here in Alaska, so it was really fun to be able to play. Then she made us a yummy breakfast and we all got ready for the day. We went to a super packed market, just to soak up the (stinky) atmosphere. I love people watching there. Our lives are so very different. I try to think about what it would be like to come to the market day after day after day chopping up stinky fish guts all day and bartering with every customer to get the best price. Those ladies are tough! Then we drove to Independence Monument, and then to the Royal Palace where the kids got to feed the birds. SO many pigeons. We bought some corn kernels from a lady there and they loved feeding all the birds. We barely missed a tour of the palace, which was a total bummer. Literally by 5 or 10 minutes we missed it. Then we went to central market where Ty and Bryn each got a few bucks to pick out whatever they wanted to buy. I also got a cute little church suit for Briggs. Can't wait till he grows into it.</div>
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Then we went to lunch at Joma Cafe, and dropped Sam off at his French school that he had missed for like 3 weeks because of all their visitors! Then Kim and the other kids went to a fun indoor playground place called Monkey Business. Meanwhile, Samnang drove Kenny and I out to the Killing Fields. It was quite graphic and a very sobering experience. We could see pieces of bone and cloth from the victims still coming up out of the ground. More are revealed each year, especially after the rainy season. We tried to get through it quickly, and only took about an hour. Then went back and made the rounds picking everyone back up.</div>
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They dropped Kenny and I off to get a massage (for $8 each!!!!) while Kim took all the kids home. The massage place was a little sketchy, as a cockroach ran across the floor, and spiderwebs were in all the corners, and I really wasn't sure when the last time (if ever) they washed the sheets on the bed haha. But I tried to ignore all that and just enjoy it. It did feel really good. We took a tuk tuk home and Kim had a delicious dinner made for us.</div>
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After dinner we all went down (kids and all) to the tennis courts. Tyler had been really wanting to play since Kim and I did. It was a fun night just playing around and teaching them how to hit it. We got some ice cream afterwards and went back upstairs to pack and get ready to go. Of course we finished that day, along with every other day, with family scriptures and prayers. Then we had to say goodbye to everyone and Caleb took us to the airport. </div>
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I just really love Kim and Caleb and their cute kids. They are such a great family and I want to be a better person and mother when I'm around her. I'm so grateful she's my sister and I can learn from her. Overall it was quite an incredible trip and I'm so glad for the memories we made and the neat experiences we had. </div>
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Day 7: Mon. Feb. 21st: We left the house around 8:30 a.m. to drive the 5.5 hours to Siem Reap! Boy those road trips are something else! Not exactly nice paved roads with appropriate speed limits and everyone abiding by the law. OH no. It's sort of a free for all and you just zoom around whoever you can whenever you can. Kenny described it well, sort of like being in a video game haha. Only it wasn't as fun being in the back and I felt nauseated quite a bit. We stopped a couple times on the side of the road to try some local things like lotus and this rice/bean/coconut oil mixture stuffed inside bamboo. I don't know what it's called but Kenny ate it and enjoyed it a lot. The lotus was fun to pry out of there, and didn't have a strong taste one way or the other so they were fun to eat. The shells that were empty you would pop on your head to hear a fun "popping" noise. Brynlee enjoyed that especially.</div>
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It's always nice to have a pool to cool off and relax in once we get to the hotel. Then we showered and ate dinner at the hotel. Then we went to the CIRCUS! haha. I never thought of Cambodians having a circus, and it's not nearly what you'd think of in America. But it was still really fun to see. The kids especially loved it. We even got them popcorn and cotton candy so it was an extra fun night. </div>
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Tuesday Feb. 22nd: Even after a late night, we had to rouse the kids out of bed around 5 a.m., and we left by 5:30. Samnang drove us to get tickets, and then to Angkor Wat to watch the sunrise behind the temple. It was beautiful! And very crowded. We went back to the hotel around 7:30 and had breakfast. Kim and her kids joined us and we all went to ride elephants! This was most definitely the highlight of the trip for Brynlee, and usually the first thing she brings up if someone asks her about the trip. It was pretty neat being up so close to those ginormous animals, and feel their rough trunks. We enjoyed a super bumpy ride around the Bayon temple. We had picked up a tour guide for the day, but I'm not sure it was worth it. He didn't seem very knowledgeable to me, but it could also have been that it was SO hard to understand his english. But the tour included 3 different temples. All of the temples have gone back and forth throughout history from being Hindu or Buddhist temples, depending on the the leader. Whatever the King believed, the whole country had to go with that. Lots of really cool ruins and it was so neat to see. I should have studied a lot more than I did about the two religions. I ignorantly thought I only needed to know about Buddhism, but their history is also really prominently Hindu.<br />
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Kim and her two little girls went back to the hotel after the first temple. They've already seen all of them, and little kids really don't like touring around in the heat haha. But we were happy that Samuel wanted to stay with us for the day. He is unlike any 5 year old I've ever known. So mature and intelligent!! The second temple we saw was like a jungle. It had so many HUGE, old trees grown up through all the rocks. Very cool. Then we took a break for lunch, then went back to Angkor Wat for our final temple. (We hadn't gone inside in the morning, it was only outside shots.) It was really hot, and we are really not used to all that heat. We were pretty sweaty and tired when we got back to the hotel but so glad we had seen all that we did. It was a really good day and I was grateful we hadn't brought any of our younger kids that day :).<br />
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We went back and swam to cool off for a while, then got ready for dinner. Kim had made reservations at this awesome restaurant called Genevieve's. It was rated #1 on Trip Advisor I think, and for good reason! They were SO family friendly and really catered to children. They took their orders first and brought out their food well before the adults. But just when we were worried that it wasn't such a good idea after all because now they were all done eating and we weren't, they then brought the kids out free ice cream with chocolate syrup! It was a great place I'd recommend to anyone!<br />
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After dinner we walked around the night market and bought a few things before going back to the hotel and totally crashed.<br />
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A few things about that hotel. I didn't love it. They must have done the plumbing wrong in our bathroom because after the first night, we woke up and opened the bathroom door, and tried not to pass out at the awful stench. It wreaked of sewage the whole time we were there. I then realized why they burned incense for a while before they let you in the room! :) Anyway it smelled really bad the whole time. Not only that but we had a hard time keeping the mosquitoes and bugs out. During the night, I got bitten or stung by something. I'm not sure what. But part of my right lip swelled up, and then the top of my face. You can kind of make out a large circle, extending into my eyes. It was a super long, uncomfortable night. I woke up and showed Kenny and the kids and they just stared open-mouthed at my freaky looking face. It was pretty funny. As long as I kept my sunglasses on it hid it really well. My lip went down mostly by morning. We bought some benadryl before leaving that day. Kim went up with me and I asked if they had some benadryl for swelling. She asked me what it was for and Kim says, "Show her your face." So I took off my sunglasses and she immediately goes "Aaahhh!!" And quickly goes to get my medicine hahaha. It was pretty funny and we've had some good laughs about it. It went away completely after 2-3 days.<br />
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We drove back to Kim's house that day. We went swimming (of course haha) and then went to Aeon mall. Caleb met us there after work. We ate some yummy dinner there, and walked around a bit. We got some frozen yogurt (which is actually quite sour as yogurt should be, but it caught me off guard when we first took a bite). We also bought some fried crickets there and Kenny and Tyler both ate some!! I was a big wuss and had no desire to try that. I didn't want to gag or throw up in public and I didn't feel like I had anything to prove to anyone, so I chickened out. It revolts me to think about eating crickets. They all got wings and legs stuck in their teeth and that's just disgusting!! Pretty funny to watch though.<br />
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We got up and going early again. We rented at 15-passenger van to drive us all out to the province Kampong Cham. Kim's friend in their ward, Lyly, was born and raised there. She's married to an American guy, and she let us come and see her home and meet her parents and brother. So Lyly and her husband Blake were with us, as well as another American couple from their ward who also happened to be named Kenny and Lindsay! haha we had a good laugh at the coincidence. Before leaving we stopped at the cute French bakery right next to their apartment complex called "Comme la Maison" and got some pastries for the road. It wasn't long before we found out there were swarms of red ants in the back of the van! Yikes. Only Ty and and Sam were brave enough to sit in the back seat after that :). </div>
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A cool part of getting out to the province is that we had to drive across this bamboo bridge. Every year it washes away during the rainy season, and every year they rebuild it. It sounds and looks really flimsy, but bamboo is incredibly strong even though it's hollow inside. So it was a little nerve-wracking driving all the way across, but we made it safely there and back. :) On the way back we even stopped and all got out to inspect the bridge more up close. </div>
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It was really neat to be out there and see their way of life. Their little house, raised on stilts where they raised 6 children! They grow their own rice and some greens in their garden. They have several banana, mango, and papaya trees. They draw their water out of a well, "shower" on the side of the house by dumping water on their heads. No A/C of any kind, of course. It was so different. But they are happy there, and that is what they know. Lyly is pregnant, and has been sick. Ironically, she feels better physically when she's at home. Even though it seems like the last place in the world I could get comfortable or find physical relief, for her it's still the comfort of home. It was a hot day with nowhere to go potty except a hole in the ground again, and by the time we got back home my ankles/calves were huge swollen. I've never had that problem in any of my pregnancies. But it happened several times on this trip! </div>
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Lyly's mom cooked us all up a big, yummy meal which was so kind of them. We brought some ice, soda, water, fruit, and bread to contribute and thank them. We all sat on the floor in the one main room they have and ate together. Lyly's parents actually ate before we came, I guess they are very shy and don't like to eat with other people. :)</div>
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On the way home we made a stop and walked around this big pagoda. I don't know what it was called, or anything about it, but it was still fun to see. Lots more monkeys in the trees!</div>
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When we got home we ordered some dinner from the same french place downstairs and didn't end up eating till after 8! It was a very memorable day though, and I loved the new perspective it gave me. For now I think the kids' favorite part was petting the cow, climbing the bamboo, and swinging in the hammock. But maybe as they get older they will recognize how blessed we are to lead lives of relative luxury.</div>
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Day 6 was Sunday, Feb. 20th: Thank goodness for the Sabbath day, a day of rest. We all needed a little relaxing. We went to church at 10. It was really fun to go and see their branch and meet some new people. Kenny got to ride with Caleb on his moto to church. After church we had a little lunch and nap. Kim made a delicious big dinner and their home teachers came over for dinner and a lesson. That included the old Branch President, a really neat man. Also a french guy who's engaged to a Cambodian girl. She came with him, and it was so interesting for me to see them together. Neither of them speak each other's languages, and they both are very limited in their English. I'm not sure how they communicate and make it work, as that seems to be such a huge/essential part of marriage. But they're engaged and seem very happy so apparently it works for them. Anyway it was a great night and good food, good company.Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13364407785621976817noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6797472639603549230.post-64285998208355445102016-03-01T23:06:00.001-08:002016-03-01T23:06:03.837-08:00Cambodia! Day 4 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
We had fallen asleep at like 8:00 the night before, and woke up around 4 not able to go back to sleep. Kenny had a migraine and didn't start feeling better until after he threw up. I got to talk to my sweet kids back home for a little bit. I missed them! We went downstairs to eat a yummy breakfast and headed to the beach for a couple of hours. They had free canoe rentals though, so Kim took Ty and Sam out for a little bit, then Kenny took Ty again after. Bryn was worried about flipping over so she didn't go. Oh I can never get enough of the beach! So beautiful. We didn't have too long since we had to pack up and check out by 11. It was a long 4.5 hour trip back to their home in Phnom Penh. </div>
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Caleb's company provides a driver for them, so Sam Nang would pick us up and take us everywhere we needed to go. Including these longer road trips. He's a very nice guy, but speaks very little English. Also, there was always 9 of us in a 7 passenger van. Thankfully they don't really have any road laws over there haha, and so we just all packed in and played musical chairs a bit. </div>
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When we got back that night we just made a quick, easy meal for the kids and their babysitter (Chanrith?) came over. She put all the kids to bed while we went out to eat. We took a tuk tuk to the restaurant, Flavors of India. Caleb drove over on his moto after he got off work and met us there. It was my first time eating at an Indian restaurant and it was so good! Pretty spicy, but good! After that we went to the night market and walked around. They had some singers up on stage and just a fun atmosphere. We bought a few souvenirs, including watches for Ty and Bryn. We also got coconut ice cream and strawberry milk with tapioca balls in it. We sat on a mat on the ground and talked for a while, then came home. It was a fun night and I love that we're here with Kim and Caleb!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It was a rare treat when we stopped at a place with ACTUAL toilets!! Not just holes in the ground. But apparently, most Khmer people still prefer squatting and do it on the toilet too so you see a lot of signs like this haha, It's so bizarre to me, but that's what's normal for them.</td></tr>
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