tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14805844129304226652024-03-14T04:07:42.691-04:00The TrulocksOur Trulove Storysamandjenaetrulockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07554395214785805450noreply@blogger.comBlogger201125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1480584412930422665.post-91238627655940685572014-05-05T01:17:00.001-04:002014-05-05T17:06:32.732-04:00March<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">March was a tough month for me. I need to back up a bit to explain. Back in January, Sam accepted a transfer to Wichita, Kansas so he spent most of February and some of March working in Kansas, and that is where he was until right before Owen was born. Personally and professionally this is a really good move. Not only did he get a great promotion, but with the death of Sam's brother in December, we decided we would like to live within a day's drive of his family. I never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever in my life had any desire to live in or even visit Kansas, but this is what happens when a person from the east marries a person from the west and you want to live within a day's drive of both families. You end up living in Kansas. Singles be warned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All joking aside, I don't think it will be a bad place to live, although it is very flat and constantly windy. Wichita is a decent sized city, so we have everything that we want or need. We actually live in Goddard, a suburb of Wichita, so everything is very close, but we're not in the middle of it. The schools are really good here, there's a great zoo close by, and the ward is nice. I think we will be happy here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On to the March wrap-up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One morning the kids got out of bed before me and took all the cushions off the couch looking for a lost toy. When I came downstairs, this how the couch was put back together. They couldn't figure out how to fit in one of the bottom cushions. I found it hidden behind the recliner. Like I wouldn't notice if I couldn't see the missing cushion :) It gave me a laugh. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mila made a bill for me to give to Owen once he was born. She said he needed to pay for ruining my tummy. She spent the last couple of months laughing about how strange my belly button looked. That's what she meant by "ruined."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">39 weeks huge. I've taken pictures in this same outfit at 39 weeks with each baby. Not that it's a very cute outfit, it's just how it worked out. Each time I'm a little fatter. It's still fun to compare though.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Owen was born on Monday, the 17th (see previous post), we got out of the hospital on Wednesday, and the movers came to pack us up on Friday. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These are the only pictures I have of Owen in our house in Pennsylvania. He was sleeping while I was cleaning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And we said goodbye to PA. I wasn't quite ready.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We drove to Ohio on Saturday, and I stayed with my family for the rest of the month and Sam went on to Kansas to work and meet the movers with our stuff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The kids had a lot of fun while we were in Ohio.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mila kept wanting to play restaurant so Grandma bought her an apron and chef's hat. Grandma made menus and Mila would take our orders and bring us our food. It was pretty cute.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tori and Emmitt looking over the menu.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mila found this scarf and used it as a cat's tail for days. She even slept with it in one night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Emmitt spent lots of time following Tori around. She is always a good sport about it and is really good at playing with him. She's a fantastic aunt!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sleepover with the cousins. Emmitt is on the phone saying goodnight to Dad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I took tons of pictures of this handsome little guy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Owen is even hip with the loom bands trend. Brielle made him a baby-sized bracelet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So this is fun. The top picture is Owen and the bottom is Emmitt. They were taken in the same place at about the same age. It is interesting to see the similarities and differences. They look a lot alike, but Emmitt's head was so much rounder!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sam and I also celebrated our NINTH anniversary on the 25th! Nine years sounds like so long. Sam got me the best anniversary present. He bought me a HOUSE!!! We have some painting and a few other projects we want to do, but we are really happy with it. Eventually I'll get some photos up. For now, Owen is asleep so I'm going to bed.</span></div>
samandjenaetrulockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07554395214785805450noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1480584412930422665.post-16450932260111916572014-05-01T03:14:00.000-04:002014-05-01T03:14:13.770-04:00Owen Lee<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Considering Owen is six weeks old, this post is way past due, but things have been busy. I'm tired. And better late than never, right? Buckle up, this is a long one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Owen Lee Trulock</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">March 17, 2014</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7 pounds 12 ounces</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No, we did not name him Patrick. Got a lot of jokes about that in the hospital.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We chose the name Owen Lee after his grandfathers. My dad's middle name is Owen and Sam's dad's name is Lee. Owen was actually due on my dad's birthday, but he stayed late. We've liked the name Owen for a while. After Emmitt was born, we said that if we ever had another boy that we would probably name him Owen. I never really thought I'd have another boy! Not with the track record for having boys in our families.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's what happened...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As previously mentioned, Owen was due on Sunday, the 16th. Sam was out of town until late on the 12th. I was so stressed out that Owen was going to come early, but thankfully, he waited. I had a checkup on Tuesday, the 11th, and I was dilated just barely over one. I didn't feel much going on over the next couple of days. On Saturday we cleaned out the garage, did some organizing in the house, and went walking at the mall hoping to move things along.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I didn't sleep much on Saturday night because I was so crampy and uncomfortable. By 5 Sunday morning I wasn't really sleeping anymore. At 6:30 things were hurting enough that I thought I better get up and get showered. Each pregnancy I have something that kind of consumes me before giving birth. With Mila it was having the house completely disinfected. I was up until 3 in the morning before she was born scrubbing every inch of the bathroom. With Emmitt it was having my toenails perfectly painted. This time it was having my hair washed. So I got my hair washed, got my makeup on, and got my bag packed. I expected to have a baby by early Sunday evening.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the time I was all ready to go, contractions had pretty much stopped. The rest of the day they came and went at very irregular intervals and pain levels. I thought I would have another quickly progressing labor like I had with Emmitt, but things were moving so slowly. There were times contractions were strong and close together and then for hours they would be weak and far apart. I was so frustrated. Sam and I went on a long walk in the freezing weather, and I was even running up the stairs as fast as I could every time I had to go to the bathroom. Still pokey progress.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Daytime came and went. Evening came and went. Contractions were happening more often, but it still wasn't time to call the doctor yet. We put the kids to bed and settled in to watch the Downton Abbey season finale to distract me. Before we could finish it, it was time to call the doctor. Contractions were irregular, but they were still close and I was afraid to wait any longer. I called about 10:20 p.m. and we headed to the hospital.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the time we got there things were feeling harder and I was quite uncomfortable. They checked me and I was dilated to 4 so they admitted me. I would have freaked out if they hadn't!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wanted to do a natural birth again, but was not totally against an epidural depending on how labor progressed. Truth be told, I am so scared of getting it put in that that's one of the main reasons I don't like them. But I tested positive for group B strep so I needed the antibiotic treatment, so once I was hooked up to everything, I couldn't get comfortable enough to deal with the horrible back labor I was having. After a few hours of trying to make it work, I was too tired from not sleeping much the night before and laboring all day, I was in a lot of pain, and I was nowhere near delivery. After all that time I was still only at 5. I got an epidural about 1 or 2 in the morning. Getting it put in was just as uncomfortable and terrifying as I remember, but the relief was wonderful! More importantly, I could get some rest. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Owen was taking his sweet old time descending and his head was not properly engaged for birth. I had two different doctors say that if things didn't change that they might need to do a C-section so the cord wouldn't rush out first when my water broke or something like that. So I worried about that all night, but it ended up being fine. Finally, at about 8:40 my water broke. I thought things would take off after that, but almost an hour went by before it was time to push. Contractions weren't terribly strong or consistent, but the doctor decided it was time to start pushing. Even to the very end, he took his time. There were some really long breaks between contractions during pushing, and it was really awkward sitting on full display with no action happening. I pushed really hard for 16 minutes and finally, at 9:23, a new little soul entered my life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Look at all of that dark hair! He has more hair than either Mila or Emmitt had.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I believe the look on my face here...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...is in reaction to this...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can't stop kissing him! Newborns smell ridiculously good.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They love to hold the baby!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Poor Mila and her grubby fingernails. Apparently that's one thing that fell through the cracks while I was worrying about my hair being clean.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I tried so hard to get a picture of him right before going home, but he was moving his arms around like crazy. This is one of the better shots.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can't get over his hair!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He gave himself a nasty scratch by the eye.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I laugh every time I see this picture! He looks so grumpy about being in his seat! And the puffy newborn eyes and scratch by his eye make him look like he was in a fight or something. The funny thing is that he hates being in his seat more than anything and screams pretty much the whole time he's in it. It was a hate relationship from the start.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Welcome to the world, Owen!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">February was a lot like January. Crazy cold with tons of snow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mila's birthday was on the 13th, but Sam was out of town until the next day so we planned to not do anything without him except go to Mila's choice of restaurant.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The night before, I covered her door with streamers after she went to sleep to surprise her first thing. I was hoping to wake up before she did and see her first reaction, but she woke up before me and crawled underneath them and came to get me. She was so excited! She crawled back in to her room and then busted through them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">School was cancelled on her birthday, and the roads were too bad to go to a restaurant so she had a really lame day. I felt so bad! But she was so grown up and sweet about it and didn't even complain that she didn't get to open any presents. She did get to play in the snow for hours while I dug us out. Since w</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">e live in a townhouse with a postage stamp for a yard, there literally was nowhere to put all the snow except for up.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mila on top of one of the snow mountains in our neighbor's yard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">School was also cancelled on Valentine's Day. After some more snow shoveling to get out of our driveway, we went to Red Robin for Mila's birthday meal. I thought it was kind of a funny choice for a six-year-old, but the last time we went was with friends so every time we drive past she reminds me that she ate there with Ana.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She told me that she wanted them to sing to her for her birthday, so I asked our waitress when we ordered, but then Mila was nervous for most of the meal about it actually happening. She is funny like that. She barely looked at them while they sang. In the end, she decided it was totally worth the nerves for the ice cream sundae. She talked for the rest of the day about how she couldn't believe that they brought her a sundae, and she kept asking me if I knew that they were going to do that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Friday Mila had mismatched day at school. She was so excited about its arrival and couldn't wait to go to school in her funky outfit. After school, I asked her how mismatched day was and if she liked everyone else's funny outfits. She said one boy wore two different shoes, but other than that she was the only one who remembered! She didn't care at all. I laughed so hard! I could only think that in a few years something like this will matter to her a lot more. I like her not caring. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And the next time I post it will be to introduce my new little handsome!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the 15th, Mila had her first birthday party with friends. This is literally the first year that we have been healthy enough to have people over or to feel better in time to get a party together. The weather was a bit nasty outside, so we were glad that most of her friends could come. She has such a cute little group of friends here. We have been so lucky!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The girls decorated crowns to wear,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">decorated their own tea cups,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">played pin the lips on Mrs. Valentine and Valentine Bingo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mila still loves drawing and coloring. She sings non-stop and has loved taking piano lessons since she now has another way to make music. Her favorite color is still pink with purple in close second. She is very thoughtful and is constantly making drawings, cards, and little gifts for family and friends. She is a patient big sister and such a help to me around the house, especially now that I am huge. She is a quick learner, and it has been a delight to watch our sweet girl grow this year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not a whole lot happened in January. It was bitterly cold and very snowy. We did a lot of shoveling and had lots of school delays and closings</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One snow day Mila and Emmit built this cute little snowman out of big snow chunks all by themselves. Emmitt was too busy scaling snow mountains to get a picture with it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mila got Emmitt this weird glow-in-the-dark pointing skeleton hand at the book fair in the fall. I really just want to throw it away because it never seems to get put away and I think it's pretty useless. Emmitt loves it though. Here he is using it to roast a marshmallow on the kitchen floor. He colored the paper with orange and red crayons and crumpled it up to make a fire. Then he put the marshmallow on the pointing finger to roast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And to my joy, Mila got Emmitt another pointer finger at the Christmas store at school. She said she didn't know what to get him, but thought that he would like another pointer finger. Thanks, Mila. But still, he loves them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here he is using both of them as oars to propel his bale of toilet paper along. He also played with this toilet paper for days. It became all sorts of things over the couple of days that I left it out. I wish my imagination was still as sharp.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here I am at 32 weeks. Pardon the weird bunch in the back of my dress. I do not in fact have a smaller bum growing on top of my actual bum. Thank goodness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I tried to explain that we needed to spread ornaments that were the same all over the tree, and the kids seemed to understand that and were doing it. After a few minutes though, the ornaments became more like dolls to them and they began to make them talk and to put the ornaments into "families" as Mila said. So we had a family of silver stars all grouped together, a family of glittery blue bulbs, etc. It was cute to see their ornament families, so we left them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">DECEMBER 3RD was one of the strangest days ever. Long story short, my grandmother died in the morning and Sam's brother died in the evening. The next week and a half was spent traveling and attending funerals. We drove to Ohio to attend my grandma's funeral. She was 95 and had been suffering from demensia. Her funeral was kind of a sweet experience actually. I was able to help dress her with my mom and sisters, and over our visit we talked about the faithful life she lived and our experiences with her. The Gospel truly gives us such a wonderful perspective on death. It doesn't make it not hurt, but what a comfort to know that the ones we love aren't lost to us forever, that the separation is just for a time. We were able to feel happy for grandma because she is herself again and is reunited with her sweetheart. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The night she died my little family and I prepared mugs of extra rich homemade hot cocoa in tribute to grandma. Chocolate was her very favorite thing. It helped keep her alive in her final years for sure. She wouldn't eat most things anymore, but she never refused chocolate. She had lots of chocolate Ensure and her fair share of Nutella sandwiches. During our toast to grandma we each said something we loved about her and sang her favorite song ("In the Hills of Old Kentucky" which in her state of dementia, she sang constantly and often at inappropriate times like in the middle of prayer). Then we clinked glasses and said, "To great-grandma!" I still laugh when I think about it because the kids wanted to do it over and over and Emmitt pronounced the 'g's like 'd's so it was, "To dreat-drandma!" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saying goodbye to "dreat-drandma" on a very cold December day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first time all six sisters had been together in years. Five years maybe? I don't remember. So happy that I could be pregnant and wearing an ill-fitting dress for this rare photo op! We all wore a bit of grandma's very favorite color--pink!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mila loved holding Maggie. Maggie looks a little unsure. Mila can't wait to hold our new baby!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sam went to Utah by himself to his brother's funeral. Since we had literally just gotten back from Utah just over a week before, we couldn't afford to turn around and fly us all back with expensive, short-notice tickets. I think it was good for Sam to be able to go without us though so he could focus on spending time with his parents and other siblings without worrying about keeping the kids and I entertained. Once again though, what a blessing the Gospel has been to Sam and his family as they've dealt with the sudden loss of his brother, who was only 34. We have been so grateful for the peace and understanding provided by a loving Heavenly Father.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mila's school was canceled one day because of bad weather, but she had a dentist appointment so we were out and about in the wintry world anyway. I was so glad we were because it was so beautiful out! It was the kind of snow that stuck to everything and made me feel like I had been transported into a snow globe. After Mila's appointment the children were patient enough to let me drive around and take some photos of the incredible beauty. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">THE NUTCRACKER</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mila and I were able to attend a performance of the <i>The Nutcracker</i> by the Moscow Ballet. We went with our dear friends, Mary and Abby Pinegar. Mila and Abby have been cute little playmates ever since we moved here. Mary is Mila's piano teacher so Mila loves to go to lessons because she gets to play with Abby for a little bit afterwards. But anyways, the show was amazing! The costumes were breathtaking! The whole thing was just captivating!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My cute date and I. She cried quietly almost the entire second act though because I wouldn't let her sit on my lap (I don't have enough of one anymore) and then once she'd gotten over that disappointment, she continued to cry because she was worried that I was upset with her for crying. I was very patient, but a little irritated just because I wanted her to enjoy this amazing experience and she wouldn't stop crying. And that's life with our emotional Mila.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The theater was gorgeous too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Leaving the show. This little alleyway was so quaint and the girls were so adorable!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AND ANOTHER SNOW DAY</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We've had quite a bit of snow around here lately, but we've had a lot of fun in it too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Building a snowman together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our snowman had some pretty sweet eyebrows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WINTER CONCERT</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mila had a "winter" concert at school. It's sad how nothing can be "Christmas" anymore, but it's also very culturally diverse here. Mila got school off for Rosh Hashanah in September! This picture isn't very good, but it's the only one I took because I was trying to record it. I could hear her singing over everyone, and she did all the motions too! She told me later that she was nervous, which made me even prouder of her performance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CHRISTMAS</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Pinegars were kind enough to host us for Christmas Eve dinner. We listened to the Nativity story from the Bible while the kids reenacted it. I didn't get any good pictures of it because I only brought my point-and-shoot, and it doesn't know how to take a decent picture without the flash. Then we sang Christmas songs and read a Christmas book together. We always have such an enjoyable time with them!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New jammies!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our tree stand hadn't been working too well, and the tree fell over one afternoon when Emmitt and I were finishing the ornaments. It got worse and worse until the stand wouldn't really hold it up at all, so our tree leaned against the wall most of the month. I got a new stand on clearance so we'll be good for next year.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our tree all ready for Christmas morning!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The kids didn't wake us up until 8:30!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Coming down the stairs Christmas morning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mila loved this set of Barbie ballerinas. They have a little stage that they spin on to music from "<i>The Nutcracker."</i> We mostly gave them clothes and books this year. They were both in desperate need of pants that actually reach their ankles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My parents and youngest sister, Tori, came to visit after Christmas and the kids couldn't have been happier. It was so nice having them here! The kids wanted to be around them constantly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Emmitt wouldn't even let poor Papa take a break from sword fighting to go to the bathroom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While they were here we took a trip to NYC. I think being pregnant has ruined the city for me. I went this summer when I was just starting to feel sick, and I still continue to have a sensitive sense of smell and New York City smells so bad. Plain and simple.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First we went to see the Statue of Liberty. We didn't ride the ferry to it, so we saw it from across the water, but it was still so exciting. I've always wanted to see it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since my family was leaving on New Year's Day, we had our traditional New Year's Day meal of pork, sauerkraut, and mashed potatoes the night before. It's supposed to bring luck and prosperity, and I look forward to it all year! Nothing like a delicious pile of mashed potatoes, pork, and sauerkraut all mixed together. After eating this meal every year for most of our marriage, Sam finally this year said that the sauerkraut actually tasted kind of good to him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And finally we toasted to the New Year with Shirley Temples. We are a wild bunch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">November was a fun and busy month! We started the month off with making our annual Thanksgiving tree for FHE. This year's tree was a little different than the ones we've made before because I had the kids help a lot. I had one small pack of foam leaves, and then we traced and cut out the rest. Mila made a bunch of them! Only one of Emmitt's leaves actually made it to the tree because the rest he cut into shreds. Mila was thankful for yellow leaves, milk, and cozy beds and pillows among other things. Emmitt was thankful for his bike (his most prized posession), his buddies Jordan, Hyrum, and David, and blue (the color I'm guessing).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mila had her first piano recital. It was so adorable! All of the students were still in the first level book so most of the songs were super short and barely sounded like songs. It was the shortest and cutest recital I've ever been to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mila played </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and another song from her book. She did a great job! She's doing so well with piano and learning fast. Emmitt likes to have "pwano" practices too, and I'm often surprised at how close he comes to playing the songs he hears Mila practicing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">UTAH TRIP!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We traveled to Utah to spend Thanksgiving with the Trulock side of the family. The kids were great little travelers. It was so nice to get to see everyone since we hadn't visited in almost 2 years! We did get to see my family as well because my younger sister, Kelly, and her husband are living in Provo and they had their baby blessed on Thanksgiving Day and my parents and youngest sister, Tori, and oldest sister, Terra, came to town for it. I got to spend lots of time with Kelly and little Maggie and it was perfect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We went to Nickel City and the kids had soooo much fun!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All the "kids" :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My sister and her husband have a digital piano that the kids couldn't get enough of. Since it plays songs on its own, Emmitt would turn one on and play the keys along with it. He would bob his head with the beat, and I really think he thought he was playing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We HAD to go to the dino museum. The kids have talked about it since the last time we went.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This picture is funny to me because Emmitt is studying the map.This kid loves maps so much. He draws his own maps all the time and he's always rolling up any papers he finds to look like maps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This time around Emmitt actually kept the sand in the water table instead of throwing handfuls of it on the floor. He was so happy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Their dino creation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shark attack!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Thanksgiving Day Sam and his sister ran a 5K and got to wear these awesome hats during the race. These hats traveled all the way back to Pennsylvania with us. Emmitt still wears it a lot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My brother-in-law, Andrew, and sweet baby Maggie. Andrew's mom made the blessing dress and it was so beautiful!</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our attempt at a Thanksgiving Day family picture. Didn't go well. Emmitt scratched his cheek while throwing a tantrum and refused to put down the tissue. And I just have the fantastic puffy pregnant look.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The kids with their cousins, Lucy and Sophie after a yummy Thanksgiving dinner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With Grandpa, Grandma, and Grandma's new puppy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our kids now want a puppy. A big N-O on that one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had to leave the day after Thanksgiving and head back to normal life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was sad saying goodbye to everyone and then having Sam go back to work the next day. That's always hard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And that was November!</span></div>
samandjenaetrulockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07554395214785805450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1480584412930422665.post-72763986396374560352013-11-05T15:56:00.002-05:002013-11-05T15:57:27.042-05:00Baby News<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I first became pregnant, we seriously talked about not finding out the gender so it would be a fun surprise at birth. As the months passed, and I kept predicting the gender based on one thing or another, we decided that we (mostly poor Sam) couldn't handle listening to my predictions until the birth. Plus, I went to Target one day and they had tons of adorable baby clothes for the first year that were on major clearance, and since I didn't know the gender at that point I didn't buy anything. That was sad for me and made me crazy curious. So we decided to find out. I'm too impatient for such games.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sam didn't come to the appointment with me, so I closed my eyes during the parts where I would see something, and the tech put the gender pictures in an envelope for us to open together. It was so fun opening it together with the kids!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's a BOY!!!</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mila cried for the longest time because she wanted a baby sister so bad. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Emmitt was excited because he wants another boy that we can name Emmitt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I thought it was a boy for the first few months because of the way my sickness was, but then toward that last few weeks before the ultrasound I really started thinking it was a girl because I was still feeling so sick all the time. Then my friend who is two weeks ahead of me found out she is having a girl. It seems like babies are often born in gender batches, which happened with Mila and Emmitt, so I was a little surprised it was a boy. Although I think I would have been surprised for one reason or another no matter what.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A handsome profile already!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GENERAL CONFERENCE WEEKEND</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mila and Emmitt watching Conference together under an umbrella.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Something about Elder Hales' talk sent the children in to fits of joyful dancing. I don't know why Mila doesn't have any pants on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Between sessions we went to the pumpkin patch with the Hobbys. It was fun, but 83 degrees was way too hot for such a fall activity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cambria and Mila on the hay ride out to the pumpkins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Poor Nathan, all Emmitt wanted to do was tackle him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This farm also had some rides and food vendors. We let the kids pick one ride each. Emmitt chose the cars and Mila wanted the obstacle course leading to the giant slide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mila missed all the festivities at school because she had strep throat, but luckily we were well enough to enjoy everything else.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We went trick-or-treating with the Coopers and Hobbys on beggar's night, which was sadly on the 25th.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jake and the Neverland Pirates is a cartoon on Disney Jr. that just came out in the last few years so only one person actually guessed who Emmitt was. Emmitt likes the show, but we also borrowed the costume from our neighbor so it was free.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Understandably, most people guessed that he was a rock star.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mila and some of the other cute girls at Trunk-or-Treat the next day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Practicing her princess wave.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Emmitt spent all of the chili cook-off dinner and trunk-or-treat glued to Sam because another boy wore an alien mask and scared him to death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We carved our pumpkins the day before Halloween. Things had just been too busy to get it done before that. It was fun to have something to do closer to Halloween since everything was done by the 26th.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sam working on the 37 pound beast we got from the pumpkin patch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Emmitt would not leave the little carving knives alone. It was driving me crazy. Carving pumpkins is tough with little kids since there is so much of it they can't do. It was great just coloring them last year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mila jumped right in to help clean out the pumpkin goop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It took Emmitt a long time to touch it. He kept saying it was too yucky.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He changed his mind so he could help collect pumpkin seeds for roasting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We made half of them plain roasted with salt and the other half kettle seeds with a sugar glaze. They were delicious! The kids loved them and they were totally gone by lunch the next day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mila picked the Grim Reaper design for the pumpkin (from a pattern book), and we made the gourd into a fairy house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She even decorated the inside and saved some of the seeds for fairy food.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A couple of Sundays ago a woman at church gave me a pumpkin baby hat for next year, and Emmitt has been wearing it constantly even though it doesn't fit. Just details for a three-year-old. On Halloween I peeked in on Emmitt in his bed and he was wearing it while he was sleeping. Sadly, that was about the most Halloween thing about the 31st. Otherwise, it was a fun and very busy October.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We took a quick day trip to Philly with the Hadfields. We saw the temple construction site and some historical sites. Going to the temple site was neat because they gave each family a piece of granite dug from the bedrock during excavation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Independence Hall. Unfortunately, we were too late to get tickets for a tour. We went on a Saturday, and they were gone early.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The stairs from <i>Rocky.</i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We couldn't visit Philadelphia without getting a real Philly cheesesteak from one of the famous rivals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We chose Pat's this time. It was tasty, but I'd still like to try one when I'm not feeling pregnancy nausea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FOOTBALL AND APPLE PICKING</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SVU played the College of New Jersey so we met the Hadfields again in New Jersey. The boys went to the football game while the girls (plus Benjamin) went apple picking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Emmitt absolutely loves going to games with Sam. It is adorable! I think Emmitt goes mostly for the popcorn and snacks, but whatever, he still gets so excited to go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I made some homemade bread this summer while I was feeling so sick, and all I wanted was some homemade apple butter to go with it, but sadly the stuff I made last year was long gone. Plus, apples were one of the only things that sounded good to me for months, so I could not wait for fall to get some really good apples to eat and to make more apple butter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mila picked like five apples and then she wanted to leave. It ended up being quite hot the day we went and we both had pants on. She really just wanted to go back to the entrance to play with these chickens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Emmitt and I made apple butter a few weeks later, and it is so good! Now I just need to make some more bread to give that craving some closure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And those were the high points of our September.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mila started kindergarten on Monday!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She was so excited to go and loved it! She was the most excited about riding the bus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we went to the bus stop, he had to have his backpack as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has been so hard for him to watch her get on the bus because he wants to get on the "lellow stoobus" so badly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Waving good-bye to Mom and Emmitt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> About three hours later and she's back!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A successful first day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After school on Wednesday, she realized that we hadn't had any playdates this week, and she decided that she doesn't like going to school everyday because she misses her friends. Friday night at bedtime she had a full-on meltdown about it. Her enthusiasm for school lasted an even shorter time than I thought it would. Oh Miss Mila, if you only knew how wonderful half-day kindergarten is!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Monday morning I had a Dr's appointment that I've been looking forward to for weeks. I got to see that there is indeed a living baby with a heartbeat growing inside me. It was such a relief. I'm due March 16, which is also my dad's birthday. I will not try to post the ultrasound picture because it's quite blurry. The baby was being very active. Plus, at this stage they aren't that interesting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Needless to say, this has been a miserable summer. I feel like I'm just trying to make it through each day. Getting everyone dressed and fed each day plus dishes and one, maybe two, other chores/activities is about all I can handle. I've been such a boring mom. Thank goodness my children love to have me read to them and will sit through movies. We've also been doing abcmouse.com a lot and playing with toys in my bed. I am certainly grateful that I get to have this experience again, but I will be so grateful to feel better.</span></div>
samandjenaetrulockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07554395214785805450noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1480584412930422665.post-82189069844152890352013-07-22T16:25:00.000-04:002013-07-22T16:25:32.615-04:00NYC!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This weekend was fantastic! My dear friend, Julie, and I went to New York City to see the musical <i>Wicked</i>! We loved it! We got there Friday night and walked around the city for a few hours. We stayed at a hotel and talked until almost 2 like a couple of teenage girls with no responsibilities. It was fun! We did some more exploring on Saturday morning and saw the show in the afternoon. Then we headed home. NYC is such a busy place, and I've never been anywhere like it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lego Statue of Liberty, ferris wheel, and the Wonka section at the Toys R Us store.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A neat outdoor restaurant in front of the Rockefeller Center.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are flags from around the world surrounding the plaza.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Manhattan Temple.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This guy was rockin the steel drum in the subway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Wicked</i> was wonderful! It is such a clever twist on the story we are all familiar with. The music was amazing, and I particularly loved the voice of the actress who played the wicked witch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That night Emmitt started screaming about 2:30 in the morning because he had thrown up all over himself and his bed. I mean all over. I think the weekend he spent with dad was too wild for him. Had I not just spent more than 24 hours away from him I might have been upset, but I really missed my children so it felt nice to be able to wipe him clean and make him feel better. Mila hopped in bed with me in the morning and was so excited to tell me about all the things they did with dad while I was gone, and I was excited to hear about it too. It's hard to be away from them that long! Thanks, Amos and Julie for making all the arrangements. And thank you, my sweet love for letting me have a fun getaway!</span></div>
samandjenaetrulockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07554395214785805450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1480584412930422665.post-53531464380159833342013-07-17T19:03:00.003-04:002013-07-17T19:03:40.638-04:00A Week in the Ohio<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sam had work stuff in Minneapolis last week, so instead of flying out from PA, we drove to Ohio and he flew out from there and the kids and I stayed with the fam. It was such a relaxing, but busy week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We went swimming a few times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All Emmitt wanted to do was shoot hoops. I started making him come in the water with me to retrieve the ball because he was getting so sweaty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I wanted to get a picture of the kids and I. This was the best one. Emmitt was crying to get out of the boat and Mila didn't understand that she wasn't supposed to get into the boat, we just needed a smile. I really love the photos of reality sometimes that remind me what a funny job I have.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pirates on the high seas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> A crying pirate. He wasn't having a very good day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I had the kites in the trunk that we took to the beach so we played with them one evening, but we only had two so the kids were taking turns.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This prompted Brielle and Mila to try making kites out of paper and sticks. They didn't fly very well, but I loved that they tried. Kids are so creative!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> My sister, Megan, and I let the kids stay up until it got dark one night so we could do leftover sparklers. Sparklers never get old.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The kids started putting them into the grass because it would start bits of the grass on fire. Kids are such pyros. I know I was. My sisters and I used to start fires on the patio underneath our deck basically every time our parents would leave us alone. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My favorite spot at home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Emmitt playing by "the tube" as everyone calls it. It just goes underneath the road to the other side to drain water. I actually really don't like it when they play there. It's too close to the road and there can be quite a bit of mud. Both of which increase it's allure. Mila is fine there, but Emmitt's still too young.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A picnic of fake food and cereal on the driveway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Slip-N-Sliding!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mila only went down this one time and decided it was too cold and hurt her bum. She wanted to go back to playing dress up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Emmitt loved it, but he never quite got the vision of getting a running start to pick up some speed. He pretty much scooted down every time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He dressed himself. The ensemble included a pink velour shrug he took off one of his cousin's stuffed animals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We celebrated Brennae's birthday while we were there. The kids wanted to fly kites again so grandma got one for everyone. It was a perfect day for kite flying.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Caylee, Brielle, Brennae, Braelynn, and Mila (who may not learn to look at the camera without 10 tries until she's 25).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We ended the trip with the traditional trip to Young's Jersey Dairy. We enjoyed tasty ice cream, and the kids couldn't get enough of touching and feeding the animals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Especially these cute baby goats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We miss being at Papa and Nanny's!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I am officially caught up.</span></div>
samandjenaetrulockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07554395214785805450noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1480584412930422665.post-23420479631303900112013-07-16T16:55:00.001-04:002013-07-17T19:04:15.933-04:00Fourth of July!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love the Fourth of July! The more I learn about the founding of our country and those who worked tirelessly to make it happen, the more amazed I am at the miracle of it all. Those brave souls who took a leap of faith to claim the independence of the United States of America truly put everything on the line. There was no guarantee of success, and if they failed they would be traitors. Our country has a strong history, that continues today, of brave people willing to give their all for the safety and liberty of others. It certainly makes me proud of my country!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Hobbys were kind enough to host us, the Pinegars, the Lloyds, and the Gundersons for the celebrations. It was fun to celebrate with the Hobbys because this was Amos's first Fourth of July as an American citizen. We had a fantastic cook out, watched the fireworks from the Bethlehem Steel Stacks, and talked the evening away. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">God Bless the USA!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two major things happened at the beginning of this month.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Sam turned 30!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. I was finally able to surprise him!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sam's birthday is July 2, so the Friday night before, I told him our friends, the Coopers, were going to watch our kids while we went on a date, and that they would be working in their backyard so we needed take the kids straight to the back. When he walked in their back gate everyone started singing "Happy Birthday!" We had a cook out, the kids played, and we just had a good time being together. It was perfect!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Amos Hobby with Cambria, Sam and Mila, and Danny Cooper. Just some of the wonderful people here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I put 25 candles and 5 sparklers on the cake. The wind blew out almost every candle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The birthday wish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I modified a recipe I saw on Pinterest and made an ice cream cake with Reese's cups in the ice cream, a thick chocolate graham cracker crust, fresh whipped cream, chopped Reese's cups, and caramel drizzled on top. It was delicious although i</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">t looked like one of those "Nailed it" memes you see on Pinterest where they show what something was supposed to look like and how it actually turned out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nailed it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On his actual birthday, the Coopers really did watch our kids and Sam and I saw <i>Man of Steel</i> in 3D. It was really kind of them since it is a long movie. We enjoyed it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can't believe you're 30 Sweetheart!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next day our friends, the Hobbys, had a birthday party at their house for two of their children, Cambria and Nathan. They are moving to Australia at the end of the year so instead of buying more stuff they would have to pack up they had horses for the kids to ride. It was so much fun for Mila and Emmitt, and they got to ride over and over again!</span></div>
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samandjenaetrulockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07554395214785805450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1480584412930422665.post-86231937997646201642013-07-10T00:26:00.000-04:002013-07-22T13:31:53.313-04:00Emmitt's 3rd Birthday!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Emmitt turned 3 on June 22! We had a wonderful day together!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The birthday boy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sam took Emmitt frisbee golfing a couple of months ago. Naturally, it has been like the highlight of his life and he frequently brings it up. All week Emmitt had been talking about how Dad was going to take him "golping" so for his birthday we went mini golping. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Throwing a stone in the water. I caught him in the act!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mila did a victory dance every single time her ball went into the hole no matter how many putts it took. It was entertaining :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The place we went to had mini train rides so we did that too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During the ride. Emmitt was so happy! He loves trains!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They also had an ice cream stand so of course we had to enjoy that too. This beauty is called the "Train Wreck." Five scoops of ice cream, your choice of toppings and plenty of whipped cream and cherries. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Emmitt has been on a pirate kick for a while. I love it! In our family we often say in a piratey voice, "Aaarr, me pirate's booty!" and the kids think it's hilarious because we're saying the word "booty." Well I think Emmitt just laughs because Mila does. We don't really use the term booty. We prefer bum, but I digress.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His cake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We got home pretty late so I had Sam bathe the kids while I decorated the cake. That's why they are in jammies with wet, crazy hair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Emmitt LOVES Curious George. I sometimes think Emmitt should have been named George since the two have so much in common. Being a literal monkey is not one of them. I don't believe in that kind of evolution :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At long last it made it to the $5 bin at Walmart!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Out of everything he received, his favorite gift without a doubt was a basketball hoop. He talks about it constantly. And I mean constantly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We played until it was waaay too late. What a happy ending to a fun day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Emmitt continues to be busy boy, but he is still very affectionate and gives lots of hugs and kisses. He is talking so much more, but he still mixes up some of the letter sounds which makes his speech so adorable. His favorite color is blue. He likes to get going right when he wakes up. He loves green smoothies and he drinks one with me every morning. The rest of the day he would be happy to eat only cereal (that's not what we do). He loves anything chocolate (which he rarely gets since it keeps him up at night). He has two favorite shirts: a blue one with a gray elephant on it, and a gray one with red and white baseball bats and a blue baseball. He always wants to be outside. Daddy is his favorite person in the whole world. He also talks about Papa and cousin Conlon all the time. He loves to carry things around in his pockets. He likes to have some sort of ball with him almost constantly. He loves to run and chase. But his very favorite thing to do of all is pester his big sister.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The last week of June we participated in a co-op summer camp. It was a blast! Each mom chose a country and prepared information, a craft, a game, and a snack from that country to present to the children. The moms learned a lot too! There was a lot of interesting information. In all we learned about the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, New Zealand, France, Canada, Germany, Morocco, Italy, and China.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We played lots of games including baseball, spinning a hula hoop like they do tires in the Dominican Republic, and Un, Deux, Trois, Soleil!, the French version of Red Light, Green Light. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mila and Emmitt enjoying the flags they made and a chocolate sandwich, a favorite French after-school snack.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Emmitt eating the gingerbread decorations shortly after putting them on during the Germany lesson.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mila with her leaning tower of rice cakes made during the Italy lesson.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Emmitt and his partners in crime, Jacob and Bryce. They were more interested in this gate than anything else that was going on. Unless it was snack time :) I've also been informed that Emmitt and Bryce pair up together and make nursery quite interesting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I forgot to post this year's Father's Day photo update!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I took the letters to the beach and we did them there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The side-by-side comparison of last year and this year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The walk back to the car. One of my favorite photos ever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What a difference a year makes!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm finally going to finish it all up today!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We used a rainy day to visit an aquarium on Roanoke Island.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was a large, very ugly shark.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mila really did not want to stand with her back to the tank while the big shark swam by.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They boys, on the other hand, were glued to the glass.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While on Roanoke Island, I made my family go to Fort Raleigh. The English attempted the first settlement in the New World here. There was a pretty nice visitor's center, but because of the rain we didn't see any of the outside stuff. Instead, we looked at some exhibits and watched a movie that was probably too violent for the children, and I missed the most interesting part because Emmitt had to pee.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This room was neat because it was covered in wood paneling original to 1585.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few miles from the beach house was the Currituck Beach Lighthouse. We got to climb the stairs to the top! It was so fun for me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sam carried Emmitt all the way up the 217 steps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We went to a beach across the street from the lighthouse. We saw a couple of dolphins in the water, but I didn't get a good enough picture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lincoln and Mila enjoying some bananas on the swing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The kids playing their own games in their jammies while the adults enjoyed an morning game of Carcasonne.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Matt and Sam enjoying the game room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We found a horse painted with a mermaid for Mila.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">THE BEACH!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Buckle up guys, this is going to be a long one. These are just some of the highlights since we spent hours and hours at the beach. My one regret is that we didn't get to the beach in the evening to catch the sunset. We had a few nights of bad weather, and just didn't make it the other nights. There's always next year!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mila scampering around the beach collecting shells. Her favorite beach activity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sam trying to get Emmitt to go in the water. No success.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Emmitt would stand with his arms out like this every time while waiting for the waves to come to him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Building a sand castle with Dad. He was so excited when Sam removed the bucket unveiling the tower of sand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is my idea of keeping an eye on the kids.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mila spent half the time "washing" the shells she collected then rubbing them until they were dry and smooth. She takes very good care of her things.</span></div>
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C<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rabs were everywhere! It was so fun to watch them scurry all over the beach. They were seriously fast too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The boys got skimboards. Skimboarding is hard! Since you are doing it in just inches of water, it hurts bad when you fall. I found that out the hard way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Emmitt loved dragging the body board through the water, but he would not get on it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He would get on the gator, but not in the water. We could not convince him to get on anything in the water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What a lovely time indeed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We spent the first week of June with the Maggards and Hadfields in the Outer Banks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the fun we had on last year's trip to Virginia Beach with the Maggards, we had to do it again. Last year wasn't long enough, and since we stayed in a hotel we didn't get to spend any time together once the kids went to sleep. This year we were able to stay in a beach house in Corolla for a whole week. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We decided to take the Altima on the 8+ hours drive for gas mileage purposes, and boy was it a tight fit. Things were packed all around the children and I. Mila and Emmitt were troopers and handled it well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> We crossed the Chesapeake Bay on and through miles of bridges and tunnels. The kids loved it! Personally, it made me a little nervous.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And so commenced our lovely week at 852 Sea Cliff Court.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sam came home from work a little late one day at the beginning of spring bearing gifts for the children. New bikes and helmets! Boy were they excited!</span></div>
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You have to pedal, Emmitt.</div>
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He would rather go play on the playground over there.</div>
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</span>samandjenaetrulockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07554395214785805450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1480584412930422665.post-39529730528799588762013-05-14T16:06:00.000-04:002013-05-14T16:06:25.852-04:00Mila's Birthday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decided this was the only thing from the last few months that I wanted to spend time with at this point. Now maybe blogging will be easier to do...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This sweet little thing turned 5 on February 13th.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She wanted a yellow, heart-shaped cake with pink frosting. She allowed me to be a little lazy and do cupcakes. She was so happy about the pony on top, and that it had its own cake as well. She's so easy to please.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We're still alive and well. It will come as no surprise that we've moved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We now live in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Christmas City, USA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sam was contacted about a transfer to the Honeywell site in Allentown. We really like it here so far and have made many great friends. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We're excited about the location because we are about 45 min from Hershey (the chocolate city), only about an hour from Philadelphia, just over an hour from NYC, 3.5 hrs from D.C., 5-6 hrs from Boston, 7-8 hrs from Sam's brother in Montreal, and we can still drive home to my parents in Ohio in 8 hours. Plus, Matt and Amber Hadfield just moved to Jersey, and we got to go visit them on Sunday. It was so good to see them, and it only took us 1:45 to get there! We are looking forward to lots of fun weekend trips!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's been a while since I've posted much about the family. I think Emmitt lost our camera cord after Halloween, and it took me a month to realize that I could just put the SD card into the computer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After that I just really didn't feel like blogging, so I didn't. I'm ready now, so I've decided that I will just post some highlights from each of the months I've missed. Today I'll cover November 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We made the yearly Thanksgiving tree adding to it every few nights until it was nice and full.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mila's preschool had a harvest party. Since it's a Christian preschool they wanted to focus on Heavenly Father's gifts to us instead of dressing up as superheroes or whatever. Mila was a fall tree. Paper leaves weren't the best idea, but I already had them for our tree and the whole pack was $1, and that's about what I wanted to spend on this costume.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These two would maul each other with hugs every. single. time. we'd pick up Mila from school. The girl next to Emmitt was also a tree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My oldest sister, Terra, came to town with her family from Vegas for Thanksgiving. It was a crazy week since all the grandkids were together. We had a huge bonfire one night. It was awesome because our shredder broke, so I had tons of papers to burn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sam and Emmitt folding paper airplanes to fly into the fire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Thanksgiving Day, we held the First Annual Family Turkey Trot. The kids made t-shirts. This is Mila with hers. The race ended up being fun but quite chaotic. The adults ended up jogging around just trying to keep all the kids together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Swag Bags. I love how turkey is spelled "turky" on the bags!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My parents pulled a prank on the little ones, and as my dad was carving the turkey, he pulled a smaller chicken out of the it (of course being very animated and dramatic about it). The kids were floored!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mila made this at preschool. I believe these really are her top three. In that order.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eight years ago today I was married and sealed to my best friend on a windy, snowy day, much like today. These pictures are of us arriving at the church for our luncheon. I remember how happy, or should I say ecstatic, I was to have just been sealed to this sweet, kind (and obviously handsome!) man. I am still so happy and even more in love! He is an amazing man and being married to him is oh so easy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our marriage by the numbers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">100+ </span>gray hairs on Sam's head from living with me for eight years</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Happy Anniversary my Sweet Love!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will be forever grateful that you chose me.</span></div>
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