Nana & Papa

Family Tree Cake

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So today in church and I am teaching on Family History and Temple Work so I thought I'd make a cake to go along with my lesson. I spent less than an hour decorating it and granted I didn't start until after 10:00 pm so for the most part I think it is pretty darn cute. Tell me what you think....an be honest.

more pictures from Austin's birthday party

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Opening his presents

Austin turns 2

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Austin turned 2 yrs old on August 18th - went to the Lane County Fair with his mommy.

Today August 21st we celebrated with friends and family. Here are some pictures of Austin at his party and the birthday cake I made him. He's really into trains right now so I thought this would be the perfect cake.

more......pictures of Addison's birthday party

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Addison & Austin riding the trikes together

Aunt Danielle helping Addison - looks likes she's having a blast in her swimming pool

Austin was a little shy at first getting in the swimming pool but once he was in he loved it. All the kids played really good together

Addison having fun

Love her sweet smile - this is right after she said "Again....Happy!"

more of Addison's birthday pictures

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Some of Addison's many guests at her party

opening presents with her Mommy

loves her new helmet from her Aunt Danielle, it matches perfectly with her dress she is wearing made by her Aunt Kimi

Enjoying her cake and ice cream

tooth ache? or just being cute?

Addison's Birthday Party

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What a cutie! Addison has such a nice birthday party - Jon made an adorable "Dora" cake and Amber & Addision made the yummy cupcakes.

Addison was so cute opening her presents the way she would just let the tissue paper fly and we go straight for the toys, heck with clothes. She insisted on wearing her new bicycle helmet while we sang Happy Birthday to her, but once wasn't enough, when we sang and she blew out her candle , she looked up at everyone and said "Again, Happy!" She sat there until we all sang happy Birthday again and blew out the candle for the 2nd time---it was very funny.

Then there was swimming for the little ones and they all played so cute together.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ADDISON - 2 YEARS OLD

I did it! I ran my first 5K

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5k Love Run 8/7/2010

So I'm going thru mid life crisis and have decided it was time to do something to get myself in shape. Amber & Jon having recently ran their first 10k and half marathon taught me that I can do it to.

August 7th was a donation only run for congenital heart defect research and all donations go to Doernbecher's Children's Hospital. I went around the neighborhood and was able to get a few donations to help the cause.

I ran/waled with Laura Leon - I owe her a HUGE thank your for staying by my side throughout the entire race. We kept our momentum by running 2 minutes and then walking 3 minutes. At the last leg we decided to kick it up a notch and sprint the remaining part. It's amazing how the adrenaline kicks in and I was able to accomplish my goal. Since I had never ran a race before I as just guessing a goal of completing the race in 50 minutes, however, I did it in just 44.40 Yeah!

My next goal is to run the entire 5k 10-10-10 for the Race for the Cure in Eugene.

Way to go Archambault's

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Amber ran the entire 10k (6.2 miles) without stopping. Jon ran /Walked the 1/2 marathon (13.1miles) they DID IT. Jon's parents & Aunt completed the 10K annd Jon's sister and cousin ran the 1/2 marathon.We are so proud of you for your GREAT accomplishments.

Nana and Addison....she is so A*D*O*R*A*B*L*E

My daisy cake I made for class and then gave to my neighbor for her birthday

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I made all the daisy by hand as well as the balls for the border. Let me know what you think.

Lots of fun pictures of Sofia, Dallin and Austin bowling in Texas

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The kids were awesom blowers, this brought back a lot of memories of taking Sofia when she was littler.

Dallin gin motion showing Austin how to bowl

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Look at that score....way to go Dallin!

Too cute!

They had a lot of fun together

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Took kids bowling in Austin Texas

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You go girl!

Sofia & Austin

Dallin (can you see the green ball stuck in the gutter....whoops!)

"Oh yeah baby"

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Addison looking pretty cool in her shades when she picked up Nana from teh airport. What a cutie. Her new phrase is "Oh yeah baby!" gotta love it.

Chuck E Cheese look how cute Addison and Austin are

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more pictures of Chuck E Cheese

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Chuck E Cheese 5/5/2010 with Addison & Austin

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Soifa playing tug of war

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More pictures of Sofia at Field Day

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Sofia having fun at Field Day

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Scroll your way through multiple pages to see Kim's progression and baby Rylan

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Dallin & Sofia at hospital and making cupcakes for the nurses at the hospital for Mother's Day

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Sofia & Dallin frosting cupcakes???

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Mother's Day

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Waiting to get prep for c-section

First picture taken of Rylan. I stopped the nurses in the hall way as they were wheeling Rylan to NICU he is just minutes old

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Dallin & Sofia loved to climb in their mom's hospital bed everytime she went to use the restroom

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Since Kim was under quarantine we all had to gown up to be in teh same room with her

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Precious pictures of Kimi & Rylan

Nana & Rylan in the NICU waiting to go home

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Rylan is so cute

Kim....yep this is very typical....always on her phone doing something.

Oh Happy Day

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Rylan in the NICU (The tubie in his nose is a feeding tube)

They had Rylan lie in his carseat for 1 hr 15 mins. to check him for apneia (?) anyway, he did great.

Kim ready to go home with her baby boy

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Precious moments

Kim getting impatient waiting for Rylan's release (it only took 6 hrs) they were so slow.

Surprised Sofia by picking her up from school with Rylan in the van with us. She was SO EXCITED!

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more sibling pictures

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Rylan is finally home after 13 days in NICU he is doing fabulous.

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Siblings........

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This is Rylan in his carseat I took of hime on my way to the airport to fly home

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Ok Pictures of baby Rylan

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I will update more pictures this weekend or tomorrow

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Baby Rylan

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Wow...what an ordeal for Kim. After suffering from Acute Pancreatitis, gallstones, kidney stone, Cdiff, gestational diabetes, hypertension and preclamcia baby Rylan was born on May12th at 10:30 pm weighing 5 lbs 14oz and 19 3/4" in length. Kim was one sick woman so bad we really thought she wasn't going to make it but she saw the light and knew she was still needed here. I also had a premonition that she left us so needles to say I was scared to death not knowing what to expect. Kim spent 20 days in the hospital and had Rylan c-section then 6 days latter had her gall bladder removed. Both surgeries were more complicated than expected. Kim had a hole in her fallopian tube and things had adhered to placed that shouldn't have along with the fact they found a large mass...which we still don't have the results of. Her gall bladder when cut opened should have been the consistency of apple juice, however not in her case, it was the consistency of thick dark pudding and full of stones, they call this sludge, all of which would have eventually turned into gall stones. Just want to say thank you for every ones prayers on Kim & Rylan's behalf. Kim and baby Rylan are home. Kim is not out of the woods yet due to the Acute Pancreatitis.

Here are a couple pictures I hope you enjoy.

Pictures of Austin

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Austin having fun in his bath

Mom....that's too many bubbles

What a cutie little boy

Nichole and Austin

Is this really for me..wow!

Random pictures from our weekend at Amber's

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Addison & Amber

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Look at me....I'm an airplane

You can't see me....

Whee!

Priceless......like mother like daughter. I love this picture

Addison helping dig dirt like her Daddy & Papa ~ what a great helper.

Dad & Jon putting in their sprinkler system

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The guys worked really hard this weekend buying supplies, digging trenches and installing Amber & Jon's sprinkler system. I think they did a great job and worked really well together. It was perfect weather too.

Papa even took time to fix Addison's hair....how sweet!

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As you can see we had an absolute blast with Addison she was a perfect little angel the entire time. We played at the park twice and Addison went shopping with Nana for a couple new outfits and she looks adorable in both of them. We played outside a lot with the weather being so beautiful while Papa worked inside helping Amber & Jon with their remodel. We have the cutest grand babies ever and they are so incredibly. Addison you are an angel! Nana & Papa loved our time with you and hope your Mommy & Daddy will let us do it again and again.

As you can see from all the pictures we have a great time. Thank you again Amber & Jon for entrusting us with little Addison it was a pure pleasure.

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Amber & Jon's first time away from Addison

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Blue Bench

Red Bench

Having fun at the park

My poor cake

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I was leaving my cake decorating class with a cake I was really proud of having just completed when this man bumped into me causing me to drop the cake, fortunately the cake itself didn't land on the floor. I said "Oh my goodness!" and he just looked at me so I said "That was rude!" and he still didn't say a thing looking at me as if I did it all on my own - finally I said "You could at least say you are sorry." Still no response...ugh! I wanted to hit him but more than that I wanted to cry because I was so pleased with how my cake has just turned out and was anxious to let Joe see that I could actually do a good job on a cake. But that wasn't the case instead I cam home and did my best to salvage my now tilted cake and flattened cake. Here are a couple pictures of it. One positive thing..........I learned hoe to make roses.

Happy Birthday Jon

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Happy Birthday Jon. thanks for letting me try my hand at decorating your cake. It was fun going to Mexican food and visting with you on your Brithday.

I loved playing with Addison and taking her for a walk. She loves the flowers and picking up rocks and trying to suck on them. It broke my heart when little Addison was crying so hard when I was leaving - she really was tugging at my heart strings. I miss her so much she is just one adorable little girl.

H A P P Y B I R TH D AY

My first cake

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Alright this is not great because we ere really rushed in class going from one technique to another but I gave it an attempt. It's veru ujuvenile but hey it's what they had us make. It's a white cake with raspberry filling w/butter cream frosting. I opted not to do the writing because I felt way to rush.

My next class I'll be learning to make roses - yeah!! I can't wait.

Fall is here....

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Gorgeous / breathtaking pictures of last nights sunset

Some of my Fall decorating

Life as some of you know has been a best unsettling for me. My blood pressure has been really high and my cholesterol is very elevated - time to take control of my life. I was in the Dr. Monday because my blood pressure was 160/106 I felt like the veins in my head were going to burst. I laid down at work for a few hours - Dave gave me a blessing . Nichole took me in and Joe met us at the Dr. office blood pressure was still 130/92. He prescribed anxiety pills.

he said if I can relax, I will still, therefore I it should lower my blood pressure. Now it several day s later - went to BiMart yesterday and it was still 140/94 and I felt totally calm - not sure how else to get it in check except through diet and exercise - yeah!

Our home never sold - not a single person besides the Bogardus' looked at it (but we think they only came for the free dinner) We are struggling to get by and are most likely either going to start selling off our belongings or get a renter in - someone we can trust to take excellent care of our lower portion of our home or both. Finances suck! Just cant' seem to get on top of things at all.

Ok enough of my soap box.

I love and miss all my kids and grandkids so much. It's killing me knowing I am giong to miss another (yes this make 3 years in a row) one of Sofia's birthday. I just wish I had the extra $200 to fly there I would ove that so much.

Proud Father

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I love this picture I took of Jaris as he was capturing his son enough his first birthday cake.....all I can say is "priceless"

Happy 1st Birthday Austin

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It was absolutely hysterical watching Austin eat his cake and he dove right in. Then there was the 4x4 pickup you can see off to the side that he was putting in the cake and we he did it was playing music which made Austin start to dance.....it's was so funny.

Yep, Austin's birthday is today but celebrated on Saturday so Kimi, Sofia and Dallin were here to enjoy the festivities. Austin had a great time indulging in his cake and playing with all his new toys. Here are a few pictures I think you might all enjoy.

Happy Birthday Addison

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Happy 1st Birthday

It's hard to believe you are 1 yr old today. You have grown so much in just one short year from birth, to walking & talking. You are such a blessing to us. We love you so much and are so very proud of you. You're birthday party was great and Chuck E Cheese and it was definetly the perfect place to celebrate. We are happy to be your Nana & Papa and want you to have a happy life. We love you! xoxoxo

Having fun and taking time off work

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Life has been really busy the past couple of weeks with trying to work and have Kimi & her family here but it's been totally worth every second of it. I love having my family here. I enjoying watching the kids talk, laugh and seeing the grandkids laugh and play. Without them here our home is so quiet and lonely. So thank you for being here to brighten my days.

Here are a few pictures of things that have been happening, like going to the zoo, fishing, playing, just having a good time together.

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Joe kicking back and not thrilled that I was wanting to take his picture.

Jaris, Nichole & Austin at the parade

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Cute cootie Kim. I am so happy you are finally here.

Dallin ws so proud of his cootie.....good job buddy.

Austin waiting for the Blackberry Jam parade to begin

Joe & Jaris trying to find some shade before the parade

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Kim & Sofia showing off Kim's cootie

Sofia was the winner of "Cootie" great cootie....way to come back from behind to be the champion.

Sofia when she arrived at our house. Look how much she has grown up. You are one beautiful girl. We are so happy to have you here.

Sofia & Dallin getting acquainted with Austin. They all play really sweet together. I love having my grand kids around. I am really anxious for next week when they will all be together for the first time ever.

Another really cute picture of Sofia, Dallin and Austin.

My visit to Amber's July 7th & 8th

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Nana playing with Addison in her pool

Addison loves her swimming pool

She's a bathing beauty

Having a convesation with Nana

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Addison looking cute

Eating watermelon......she loved it!

Nana, can I pleae have the keys to your car? I promise I'll bring it back.

I love her expressions

Happy 3rd Birthday Dallin

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We hope you have a super fun birthday with your family & friends. Nana & Papa sure do weish we could be there with you to celebrate your birthday. Have a super duper fun day playing, eating cake, and opening your presents. We love you so very much.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Here are some pictures of Dallin throughtout the years.

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What a crazy week

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Started off with me going to Portland for a TDP class for State Farm on Tuesday & Wednesday. I spent the night at Amber & Jon's, took them to a Mexican Restaurant for dinner. Amber & Jon went on a date....yeah! meanwhile I had the privilege of playing with Addison and getting her down for bed.what a sweet baby she is, I love her so much. Thank you Amber & Jon for putting me up once a month and for having such a beautiful baby girl that I get to be Nana to.

Thursday I had more meeting then afterwards took my 1/2 day off work. Picked up Austin then off to Verizon I went. So far I have to say I absolutely hate my phone (this is now my 2nd one in less than two weeks) their service sucks so if things are better by Monday morning I will be cancelling my contract with them and switching back to AT&T. Austin thank goodness was super good while waiting with me a Verizon for nearly 2 hours. We then cam home and played and cleaned house.

Friday was a normal day at work until Kim called to say Dallin was stung multiple times by African Killer Bees. I felt sick when she told me what had happened. Needless to say I was worried about him the rest of the day and into the night as he went first to the doctor then later to the ER (read Kim's blog for details). I am so thankful to hear he is back to himself this morning. Needless to say, I don't think bees will be in his top 1000 of insects he will ever like. So sorry Dallin had to experience such a tragic event. We love you!

Joe and I went to the movie, ate way to much popcorn and I'm still feeling the pain.

This morning we are driving to Medford as I am going to sing in Sacrament Meeting tomorrow with Gerry Crowe. As of right now I have no clue what we are even going to sing. The pianist blew a disk in her back so they are giving the music to another pianist, if she can't play it, we will sing something else, what? I have no idea. I guess s this is what they mean when they say "winging it" Lucky me! I will be chalking this up as another "experience" that I hope to never repeat.

Still no one had come to look at our home, ugh! We need to sell it so I can pay off our debts. I am so sick of being in debited to so many people, creditors, ect. One we are out of debt this time I hope we never go there again. It is such a heavy burden to carry.

Speaking of burdens I heard a great saying this week "prayer is when your burdens change shoulders". I thought that was a very profound statement.

Off to Medford we go..............

Congratualtions Sofia

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Wow - I can't believe Sofia is already graduated from kindergarten - we are so proud of her for all she did this last year now she moving to 1st grade. (sorry Kim I'm stealing some of your pictures for my blog since I wasn't there to take some my own) Sofia you are one beautiful little girl with such a tender heart. We know you' have been an excellent student for Mrs. Hampton and that you will miss her very much. I know she is going to miss you too - you are such a wonderful, and sweet girl to be around. We wish with all our hearts we could have been there this year to watch you play soccer, and participate in your school programs and just watch you

grow. You are so beautiful! We love you will all our hearts.

Memorial Day pictures

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Cute picture of Papa, Amber & Addison

Addison wanting to share the duck food with her Papa

Papa, Amber, Addison & Jon sitting on the shore at the lake

Cute picture of Addison

Another picture of Amber & Addison at the lake

great pictures

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Amber swinging Addison up in the air

Amber & Addison at the lake

Look how cute Austin & Addison are sitting together on the kid bench

funny how they were both looking the same direction - now if they were only looking at the camera at the same time - too cute

Amber stiking a pose!

more Memorial Day pictures

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Austin & Addison racing to see who can climb

the furniture the fastest...the race is on

Uncle Jaris & Addison

Nichole helping Austin learn to walk

Papa preparing the BBQ

Everyone relaxing before the big BBQ

Memorial weekend

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Amber & Addison at Dexter Lake

Nana, Papa & Addison getting ready to feed the ducks

Jon & Addison sitting at the picnic table

Jon, Amber & Addison ready to walk down to Dexter Lake

what a cute family

Addison anxiously waiting to leave to go feed the duck....

better hurry before she eats all the duck food

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

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By the time the Lord made mothers, he was into his sixth day of working overtime. An Angel appeared and said "Why are you spending so much time on this one"? And the Lord answered and said, "Have you seen the spec sheet on her? She has to be completely washable, but not plastic; have 200 movable parts, all replaceable; run on hot chocolate (or in my case Pepsi) and leftovers; have a lap that can hold three children at one time and that disappears when she stands up; have a kiss that can cure anything from a scraped knee to a broken heart, and have six pairs of hands."
The Angel was astounded at the requirements for this one.

"Six pairs of hands! No Way!" said the Angel.
The Lord replied, "Oh, it's not the hands that are the problem. It's the three pairs of eyes that mothers must have!"
"And that's just on the standard model?" The Angel asked.
The Lord nodded in agreement, "Yes, one pair of eyes are to see through the closed door as she asks her children what they are doing even though she already knows. Another pair in the back of her head, are to see what she needs to know even though no one thinks she can.

And the third pair are here in the front of her head. They are for looking at an errant child and saying that she understands and loves him or her without even saying a single word."
The Angel tried to stop the Lord. "This is too much work for one day. Wait until tomorrow to finish."
"But I can't!" the Lord protested, "I am so close to finishing this creation that is so close to my own heart. She already heals herself when she is sick AND can feed a family of six on a pound of hamburger and can get a four year old to stand in the shower."
The Angel moved closer and touched the woman,

"But you have made her so soft, Lord." "Yes, she is soft", the Lord agreed, "But I have also made her tough. You have no idea what she can endure or accomplish."
"Will she be able to think?", asked the inquisitive Angel.
The Lord smiled and replied, "Not only will she be able to think,

she will be able to reason, and negotiate."
The Angel then noticed something and reached out and touched the woman's cheek. "Oops, it looks like you have a leak with this model. I told you that you were trying to put too much into this one."
"That's not a leak." The Lord objected. "That is a tear!"
"What's the tear for? the Angel asked.
The Lord said, "The tear is her way of expressing her joy, her sorrow, her disappointment, her pain, her loneliness, her grief, and her pride."
The Angel was impressed. "You are a genius, Lord. You thought of everything!

Truly, You do all things well... Moms are truly amazing!"

Thank you Sharon

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It was fun having you come down today even though it was a quick visit. I just want to thank you again for treating me to lunch at the Olive Garden - yummy bread sticks, soup & salad and the company it was great too. It was fun seeing Alisha and Rexy too. Let's do it again soon. Love ya Sis.

Addison & Austin - they are so ADORABLE

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thank you Jon & Amber for taking me to and from the airport

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Addison and Austin sure were cute playing together. I hope you enjoy the pictures. I have the cutest grand kids ever. Thanks again for coming down to visit, it was great having you home with us.

Trip to Texas

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Thank you Kimi and family for having me, I had a really fun time spending time with you all. I hope you and Jasper had a happy anniversary away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. I know I really enjoyed my time with Sofia and Dallin, they are a lot of fun. Enjoy the pictures. I miss you all very much, I can't wait until this summer to see you again.

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Scroll to the next page for more pictures of Kim's family and my trip to Texas

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Home For Sale

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See the virtual tour at http://tinyurl.com/cf7qc9

Yep, it's true we put on home up for sale yesterday. Let's all pray it will sell quickly and for our asking price. We just want to be debt free once and for all. So if you know of anyone wanting to buy a custom built home with an amazing view please send them our direction. You can also see the virtual tour of our home on the website in a few days.

Congratulations Nathan

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Nathan Willie received his mission call to serve in the Hondarus San Pedro Sula Mission and will be reporting to the Provo, Utah MTC on May 13th. As your Aunti & Uncle we are very proud of you Nathan for choosing to serve the Lord and go on a mission. We know you will be an excellent missionary. We love you!

My hair

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No I won't post any pictures of my hair because I did a real number to it this time..........it went from silver to ...well it's now a freaking greenish/gold color....not so pretty. I certainly won't be winning any hair fashion awards anytime soon, darn and I thought I was styling'. WHATEVER! Looks like I'll be making a trip to the salon soon to have it fixed......what was I thinking? All I can say is thank goodness I have a friend (For those of you who know what I mean by that). All I can say is don't buy anything from Sally's Beauty Supply those girls have no clue what they are selling. My hair takes on a whole new meaning to the phrase "Silver and Gold"

No new pictures.....sorry

2009-03-14T11:56:00.000-07:00

I have been really busy at work trying to bring in as much commercial business as I can. I also will be n Tualitin for the next 6 months the first Tuesday & Wednesday of each month to attend a Team Development Program. It's a program you had to be selected to attend, there are only 20 people in the class from Oregon & Washington. I hope it will enable me to implement a new approach as to who I am and where I'd like to improve. Anything to help is always a good thing.

I got a call from Joe Wednesday, he was super ticked off. He had come home from work and heard the dogs barking so he stood at the top of the back steps to see Duke chewing up our railing around our deck. He did all he cold to go and beat the damn dog but couldn't catch him....I say shoot the stupid thing and be done with him. Anyway, he ate 4 our the pickets and a few of the larger posts. It's bad enough that the dogs constantly piss and poop all over our deck.....now they are destroying it. Joe has had it. Needless to say Jaris is in the process of putting up an electric fence downstairs to move them off our deck. Joe says if they do anything to destroy that area they will be missing dogs. We just find it so disrespectful that the dogs are not taken care of. They need to be walked daily at least once if not twice and trained to NOT POOP on my deck.....nothing like trying to eat dinner as you're looking a piles, yes I mean piles of dog poop...it is so stinking gross.

Today Joe is outside covering up a vent to keep the birds from nesting in it. He is also taking down the satellite dishes on the deck, never understood why DishNetwork was so retarded and put them there in the first place. After he is done doing that Jaris & Joe will work on the deck.

For those of you who don't know or haven't heard yet we are going to put on house up for sale. We are using Century 21 just to see what price they come up with but will list with United Country, we like the concept of the company much better since they specialize in waterfront properties. They will do an virtual tour and have it on the Internet in the US, Europe and other countries. We hope that even though the economy totally blows we will be able to sell our home quickly. It been a great place to live and we will miss it a lot, not only our home and are fabulous view but our neighbors too......except Paul of course.

I've been sick with a horrible bladder infection and clogged ears, the Dr. put me on antibiotics...yeast infection here I come (lucky me!)....and said I have allergies that's why my ears are clogged so they put me on allergy meds....whatever!

Looks like Jaris & Nichole are looking for a place to live, some place that will allow dogs.