Parmagranites

Dinner was fettucine noodles with

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a whiteish, buttery, parmesan cheesy, creamy sauce with bits of brocoli.

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Then Kauri informed us that she

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does not like Parmagranite sauce.

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This happened a few days after having pomagranite jelly on homemade Rhodes rolls.

lol

Kauri couldn't get to sleep last night

because of the snow.

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'Why? because you are too excited?"

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"no, because it's too LOUD!"

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lol

Ooopsie

hey, mom, does this look about right if Rhodes says to let them "double" in size?

Kamarie's funnies

Kamarie (16 months) won't acutally watch tv, yet.

She is not interested in it. But...

tonight we watched Toy Story 3,

and she was actually giggling at the toys when they were playing together.

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When it got dark and scary, there were like 3 times

when we enjoyed her YELLING at the tv in her dismay.

"AAAaaahhhh"

and,

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Who knew you could cry at a dumb cartoon?

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Added picture of THESLED

I saw Santa...

Kauri refused to go see the "real Santa" tonight at the credit union.

She said "He is NOT the real Santa, he is just a "helper" so I'm not going."

I kept telling her he was, but she wouldn't believe me.

"'Cause Santa has a sleigh and reindeer, not a CAR!"

We went and saw him anyway, I showed her the car that says

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THESLED

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on the license plate, but she is a firm believer that he was just a helper.

Koby, oh, Koby....

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He should really be on here as much as Kauri, but never quite makes it.

So,

he made it finally.

The other day, Koby was asking where to find some clean socks.

I told him the dryer was full of them, and he said,

"But there are only left socks in there."

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What?

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That's right.

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There is such a thing as a left sock.

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You know, the ones that you put on your left foot and they seem to stretch to fit the foot and never seem to fit correctly on the right foot again?

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Betcha didn't know that one.

Kauri's Kitty Kat

Every week after the block,

all of the children line up at the bishop's door

to get a candy for being reverent.

(Which just happens to be the noisiest place in the

building

when they do, funny how irony works, isn't it.)

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Good for me, cause my kids like to share with me,

and I have a lot of kids in the primary.

Today, Kauri excitedly offered me half of hers:

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"Mom, do you want some of my Kitty Kat?"

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lol

Kortie!

Yeah, I know.

He is NOT old enough for this.

Kamarie and Aaron

Kort's special baptism dinner with mom and dad.

He got a salad. Yummy. Too spicy for him , though.

Did I tell you that we found nearly $10,000 lying in the road one morning.

3 years ago.

It had fallen off someone's car.

The manager of Durangos' car.

We got it back to him, he promised us a free dinner, then lost our contact information.

I called him 3 months ago to cure my curious mind to see how much money it really was,

and he remembered the day as if it was yesterday.

He gave each of the "finders" a $50 gift card.

Our family got $250.

Yum.

How do I say this?

Kauri and I were discussing cleaning (herself)

up in the bathroom, or the lack of it.

I told her that if she needed my help to wipe,

she could just call me from the bathroom

and I would come help her.

(I meant that she could call TO me.)

But the response I got was:

"But there are no phones in the bathrooms at the school."

You woke me up...

Hubby woke up Kauri for school: "That was the weirdest dream I ever had.."

Hubby: "What was your dream?"

Kauri: "I was dreaming that mom went to the dentist."

Hubby: "What happened at the dentist?"

Kauri: "I don't KNOW, you woke me UP." (shrugging her shoulders with her hands up)

There are a few people in this world that enjoy movies WAYYY too much!

my hubby is one of them.

The

dumber the humor, the better he likes it.

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A few people we know can make the worst of movies

seem like we're watching the funniest movie in the world.

Like my hubbies oldest brother.

He

laughs so hard out loud at EVERYTHING that it makes the movie fun to watch.

My hubby,

unfortunately,

does the same thing, but not much of "out loud," so

unless you are watching him, you can't really tell how much

he is enjoying a stupid show.

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Tonight, we picked a free pay-per-view to watch despite it's low rating of 1 1/2 stars.

It was cute. Way worth more than the low rating. Especially for a few in my house that are dog lovers, music lovers, or those maneuvering high school cliques.

But, it was WAY not worth the

"tears of joy" that were streaming down my hubbies face.

It was funny at the end, but come on, hun!

We replayed the funny part to see if it was

more funny than we had thought,

and he cried his "tears of joy" again. Harder this time.

You watch Marrmaduke and tell me if you laugh so hard you cry.

I didn't.

He did.

Koby got sustained today

as a ward organist.

Koby

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is 14.

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is taller than me.

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is taller than Kyson.

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played the tri-toms in the parade on Saturday.

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just got a new calling in our ward yesterday.

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will be sustained next week.

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is following in his great grandfather's footsteps

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since his g-gpa Lenzi got this calling when he was 13.

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I am so proud of him!

We woke up this morning to thunder, rain, and

Oct-toe-ver.

I tried to convince her that it wasn't Octover, but she didn't believe me.

But, when I picked up Kauri from Kindergarten,

Kauri had changed her mind and it was now

Oct-toe-BURR.

Her teacher said so.

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Kort has no idea he made my blog:

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the kids were so excited to see a double rainbow.

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"Hurry, mom, come and see it before it disappears."

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Kauri: After we get out of school, we should go follow it and get all the money!

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Kort: Kauri, there's no such thing as gold.

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Kauri: Yes there is, they show it on tv.

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Kort: The tv lies.

Wrong tube...

Don't read this if you are uber-sensitive to biological functions.

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Kauri drank something and declared that it had gone down the wrong tube.

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I asked her how she knew, and she proceeded to give me biology lesson:

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"You have a tube here, (pointing to her throat)

and you have a tube here, (pointing to the back of her neck.)

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You have privates: one in the front (pointing) and one in the back (pointing).

The drinks go down the front tube and comes out as pee,

and the food goes down the back tube and comes out as poop."

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So,

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now you know.

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and

aren't you glad you tuned in today?

Whose baby is it?

Kinzie was trying to take Kamarie away from me after I had just picked her up.

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I said, "She's my baby! I get to hold her!"

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Kinzie said, "WE want to hold her, too."

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I said, "But you didn't give BIRTH to her."

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Kinzie said, "You didn't let us."

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lol

She's so glad to get a spot on my blog, again.

Kauri started my day...

Picture day at school, and I needed to get the kids dressed and do their hair.
So when I got up and came out of my room I yelled, "Where's Kauri?"
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I expected to hear someone say that she was in the bathroom, but that's not what happened.
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From clear across the house I hear,
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"HAAAAPPY BIRTHDAAAAY, MOM!"



luv it

Kauri wants to try "Frog's Nose"

School got out early today, so if Kauri wants lunch

(which she loves to eat school lunch, it's better than going to McD's),

we will have to come back in 30 minutes.

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I read the school calendar to see what was being served to see if it was worth coming back for: Teriyaki chicken and rice.

We had that last night, so we've still got some in the fridge.

I told Kauri that, and she said she wanted to come back and get some anyway.

The school secretary, who had been Kauri's nursery teacher,

joked that I should have told her it was something gross

so she wouldn't want to come back.

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So, I told Kauri that today's lunch was "Frog's Nose".

She said: "I want to try it."

lol

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We went back and got lunch, and while she was eating it, she found a piece that was extra cooked (burnt) on the edge.

She put it to the side and explained to me that she didn't want to eat it, because it might be a leg...

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a frog leg.

LOL

The whole time she thought she was eating a frog's nose!!!!!!

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LOL

Kyson had a funny...

He's trying to coach me on all the ways I could possibly

get in to the football games for free to see him

cheer and tumble:

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"You could get there really early, and just hang out and stuff."

Then he thought for a moment and added:

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"You might have to hide."

lol

he's so happy to finally have made my blog.

Kauri's Double Feature again

Task card assignment: Lace

I gave her a shoe to lace up and showed her how to do it.

As she is lacing it up, she exclaimed: "Ooh, it's like knitting!"

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Task card assignment: Can bounce a ball

She got a small hard ball from Kamarie's toys, walked into the kitchen where there is linoleum, and dropped the ball on the ground and watched as it bounced away.

"See? I bounced a ball!"

LOL

Kauri's Double Feature for Today

"Mom, today is September.

The last month was Aug... Aug... Augtember...or whatever it was called."

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Me: "Your dvd player's battery is dead, you need to plug it in."

Kauri: "Does the wall have a lot of batteries?"

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Kauri's Funnies some more

Kashton was being a helplful big brother and was finding Kauri a game to play on the computer...

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As he was sorting through the games to choose from,

he verbalized the reasons why he was not choosing this game or that one:

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"You're not a BABY.....

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or

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a TODDLER..."

Kauri piped up to guess the answer to the rest of the sentence:

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"I'm a TATTLE-TALER!"

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lol

of course.

Kauri's Funnies (I hope they never end!)

It's finally Kauri's turn to bring home Kindergarten "task cards."

She was working on one tonight with her dad.

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The card said she needed to do "two-step directions."

So...

she counted

"One, two."

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as she

walked away

from her Dad.

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Then she counted

"One, two."

as she came back to him

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with her arms stretched out

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like: "see? it was easy!"

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It's as much fun to see Dad's reaction to this as it is to witness these events...

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I am still laughing my guts out.

LOL

LOL

Kauri's Funnies

The gray-haired crossing guard

told us to wait

while he entered the street with his stop sign

to make sure there was no traffic.

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When he was ready for us to come, he said, "Okay, mom."

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As we got to the other side of the street, Kauri asked me confusedly,

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"Are you REALLY his MOM?"

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lol.love it!

Kort's funnies:

The walk home on the first day of school was hot!

The second day of school was not going to be as hot for one certain 2nd grader.

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I asked him what was so heavy in his backpack.

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He told me it was a water bottle to drink on the way home.

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I pulled a 2-liter root beer bottle full of water out of his backpack.

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Silly kid.

It must have been hotter than I thought.

Kauri aka Frogger

It is the end of swim team practice.

The coaches are starting to take down the lane lines after they had all the kids get out of the pool.

Kauri's shoes are on the other side of the pool.

I told her to get out and go get her shoes.

Of course, when I said to get out to get her shoes, all she wants to do is swim over to get her shoes.

So, she swims to the lane line, grabs it, then ducks under it, then swims to the next lane line "frogger-style."

Then, the next lane line.

Then, the next lane line.

She can swim far enough to skip the next lane line and swim all the way to the edge, but when she stopped at the second to the last lane, she observed that the coaches had the lane line unhooked and were dragging it out of the pool.

Thus,

taking away her "log on the river" to grab ahold of.

so, instead of risking drowning, she reversed her actions.

Ducking under the lane lines and swimming to the previous lane lines just as the coaches unhook the lines she just had ahold of which makes them not sturdy anymore.

It was more of a frantic, kick-and-swim-for-self-preservation swim this time.

Until she got back to the side of the pool where she started.

I am a Frogger fan, and it was just so funny to picture frogger in my mind

jumping from log to log

trying to stay away from the sinking logs

as I watched Kauri acting it out!!!!!

Kort's funnies:

Obviously frustrated about something...

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Kort: I'll kill myself!

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Me: You don't get to kill yourself, it's against the law.

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Kort: No, it's a free country.

For Kyson..... Go, Team Harry!!!

Humor U is loaded. Youtube it.

Old Spice | The Man Your Man Could Smell Like

New Spice | Study like a scholar, scholar

I was googling randomly, and I found..... MYSELF...

http://wfstakesports.blogspot.com

check a little further, and it's my volleyball team.

"Hi, Mom, this is Kyson, I just got in my first accident."

Really?

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I just joined THAT statistic that I never wanted to be a part of.

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You know the one: teenage driver gets into an accident

within the first 2 days of driving.

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You know the other one, too,

of an unexperienced teenage driver on a motorcycle,

and not living through the learner's permit.

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Yikes.

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Just got him insured a week ago.

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Just paid the money to get the scooter registered 3 days ago.

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Just put the tags on it 10 hours ago.

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Just let him take his first drive on the street 9 hours ago

(watching him the WHOLE time.)

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Just let him take it out of our neighborhood 6 hours ago.

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He has less than 2 hours of experience on it.

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So, why was he driving it on a suicide street like Red Cliffs Dr?

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I never would have given him permission

to ride it on that street this month.

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Too many places for cars to pull out and not see a motorcycle.

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Which is what happened.


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A young male driver



(smoking) (therefore, distracted)



trying to cross the street, didn't see him on the bright YELLOW scooter.

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Thank you-know-who that they BOTH slammed on their brakes and lessened the impact.

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Kyson hit the car and went over the handlebars and landed on the hood of the car.

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He came away with a scratch on his leg-can't even call it road rash, cause it's so minor.

Turkey!!!

He was very excited after we got home.

He had to call all his friends.

I've always told him that you only get to crash

on a motorcycle once, cause you're usually dead.

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I think he realizes that he is lucky to be coming home

tonight instead of going to the hospital

in the ambulance that had arrived to take him there.

I have an announcement to make!

I am the proud new owner of.....

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(no fair looking on the blogger reader!)

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one licensed 'errand-runner' at my house!

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(as long as he is nice to me)

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Sorry, no pics.

If I knew how to fix 'My Pictures' program,

you would get some doosies.

Kauri's Funnies some more

At swimming practice, Kauri fell off her kickboard.

She can't swim yet (that she knows of.)

In an attempt to encourage her

(after her frantic flailing and kicking to reach the side of the pool,)

I told her, "Wow, you were SWIMMING!"

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She said, "No, I wasn't, I was drowning."

LOL

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and,

I had just washed clothes

and was hanging them about the house

in the usual places:

the treadmill,

the other treadmill,

the sides of chairs and such.

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Kauri asked me if I was doing a "shirt" Easter egg hunt.

LOL some more.

Where have I ever seen THAT smile before?

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oh, yeah,

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NEVER!!!!!

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Why the "smile"?

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Cheer practice at the h.s.

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followed by tumbling practice

at the rec. center

on a real gymnastics floor...

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AND he just got a ride with

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***FOUR***

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cheer leaders!!!!!

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(If you were him, wouldn't you be smiling, too?)

Things you might hear on Kauri's 5th birthday (today)...

We had to change my birthday, because my brothers all have games tonight.

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As I am brushing her hair (which she hates because it hurts her tender head):

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OW!!

Is THIS how you are going to treat me today?

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and

a sigh, then:

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I feel like I'm already 5...

Kashton's funnies

"Kashton, bring me 3 AAA batteries for Kamarie's toy."
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He tested 3 batteries out of our loose battery drawer and brought me 3.
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"Are these all good batteries?"
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"One is "good", one is in the ?, and one says bad, so average them all out and they're all good..."
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He was serious. lol

Kauri's Funnies some more

Mom, what grade am I in?
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Pre-K and K stands for Kindergarten. (cause we've already had the argument about her being in preschool and she is NOT in preschool anymore, never was, but that's what we called her.)

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Is it called Pre-K cause all the kids in our family start with a K?

Kauri's Funnies

I was cleaning out my blender with soapy water and a rag,

so that I could make a protein smoothie for breakfast

(and possibly share with Kauri)

when my genious helper offered this advice:

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Don't blend that up yet, or you'll get a

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rag smoothie.

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LOL
LOL

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Can I just say that this made me cry!

Down both cheeks!

and

down both legs!!!

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A while ago, I saw some silly men on tv doing something called

"ghosting".

I saved it to show Kyson, cause I knew it was right up his alley.

He LOVED it and swore he was gonna try it sometime....

Kyson is the one in black shirt and black sweat pants.

His friend is "Devin", the one that posted it on face book.

This was a psychology experiment Devin's cousin from Lone Peak was doing..

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A stinking GENIOUS!!!!!

LOVE THE MUSIC he put it to.

LOVE LOVE LOVE the man in the blue hat!!!

The first time in the history of Pine View High School:

A boy tried out for the cheer squad!

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For the first time in history of PVHS:

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a boy MADE THE CHEER SQUAD!

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Congratulations, Kyson!!!!!!

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(Koby was too young to try out, he has to wait till he's a Freshman to try out.)

My two oldest boys

will make history at their high school this afternoon.

It will be a first for their high school.

Tune in later for more details.

Koby's soccer team

Amazing Koby flip throw in scores goal

In our ward, the Teacher's Quorum has a lot of boys.

This is a U16 game on Sat May 1, 2010

with 4 of them on the white team

and 3 of them on the blue team. Needless to say,

both teams wanted to win, big time.

The white team has never won a game against the blue team,

but the game was scoreless until almost half-time.

The white team held off the blue team for 30 more minutes.

But, unfortunately, the blue team scored 3 times in the last 10 minutes.

Kauri's Commentary

It rained yesterday morning, but the ground stayed wet for awhile.

Kauri and I drove to her school for Kindergarten assessments in the evening, and the sidewalk was wet next to the grass about 4 feet from the grass. (the sprinklers had been on)

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She was so excited and perplexed:

"It rains at the SCHOOL, too?!

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Kauri's Queries...

Visiting teaching this morning went something like this:

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(say this part out loud to yourself:)

"Get your shoes on Kauri, we are going to go visit Sister Bluhm."

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"Is she going to give us a b'loon?"

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Kauri's Funnies

I was peeling a boiled egg to put on my salad.

Kauri was pretty concerned since I was peeling the eggshell into a bowl.

"That looks disgusting!

Why are you gonna eat that hard stuff?"

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After I explained that I wasn't eating the outside,

only the inside,

she waited patiently till I was finished peeling it before

she said one of her finest:

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"It's green!!!

Is it RIPE?"

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PS# 7

The track meet is on Saturday morning till afternoon, also.

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How do you throw a Sweet 16 birthday party

for someone who is more busy than the person throwing the party?

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Hurry with your answers, I only have two days.

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ps.#1: all his friends run cross country which mean they spend up to 2 hours a day running after school.

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ps #2: he has a 2 hour baseball game on his birthday.

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ps #3: Friday is a track meet and all his runner friends will be there.

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ps#4: Saturday is the Senior Ball and if his friends are 16, they will be going to it.

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ps#5: Saturday is the Stake dance and if his friends aren't 16, they will be going to it.

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ps#6: yes, we have baseball games EVERY night this week.

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Kauri's Queries...

Mom, that lady has double babies.

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(twins)

Kort's Quirks

"Hey, mom, can I have some of that bagel butter?"

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(cream cheese)

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and

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as we rounded the corner at the grocery store, we heard a father speaking to his son.

Kort told me that they were Spanish.

I asked him how he knew that, and

he told me

"because I can speak Spanish."

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"Oh," I said.

Steel Drum

Kyson has been going nuts over this thing in his percussion class called a

"steel drum".

He says it's the coolest thing EVER!!!

I thought it was just a different name of another kind of

snare drum.

The first time I ever saw one was at his school talent show when he was playing it.

It looked like a garbage can lid to me.

Sounds awesome.

Then, he took me into his band room to SHOW it to me.

What in the heck is THAT?!

It has actual notes in it that he has to play.

Now, do you see why he thinks it's so cool?

I had no idea.

Now, I want to play one.

Eagles Nest and Girlfans

I forgot to get a picture of the cakes.

This is the best one by Kyson.

Kyson, Morgan, Marissa, Koby, Maquel, Kamarie, Reed

Koby sworn in as an Eagle...finally!

Earned his Eagle 10 months ago while he was still 12.

But, everyone's gone in the summer.

Planned to have Court of Honor in August,

but Kamarie

came a month early and changed those plans.

Then the holidays,

and

voi la

10 months later, we swear him in and he can FINALLY

wear his Eagle award.

His relay team

had to take 3 seconds off their time in order to qualify for state.

They didn't know it at the time.

They thought they just had to take off 1.5 seconds.

They easily took 2nd place of 3 teams in both of their relays.

But, the highlight of the night came

when the 4 of them

shaved off

3 seconds

from their absolute best time in the

200 freestyle relay

and qualified to go to STATE.

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And then,

the mom,

me,

got to wave at the camera and act crazy on the local news

and embarrass my teenager.

Woo Hoo!

Love those parental paybacks.

I have an error

in My Pictures, and it won't let me access my newer pics to post them on my blog.
It is no fun to blog if you can't add pics, so that's why I haven't been blogging lately.
It might be because I've been using a different camera, but I don't know. and Hubby does not have TIME to try to fix it.
Afterall,
he is doing homework 24/7 now.
lol
(but don't tell him I said lol, okay?)

Cutie

What?

I said,

"Kyson, tell me the names of all the girls in your Sunday School class."

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He said, " ummm,.... meee.... and......"

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'nuff said.

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lol

Kamarie's Classics

Have you ever had to tell

your kids to stop

blowing bubbles with their milk?

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How do you tell that to a 5 month old?

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LOL

Our ward is getting split

on Sunday.

Five wards will be divided into 7 wards.

This

will be

the 6th time our

ward has split in 13 years.

If we have to go to a different chapel...

it will be the 6th

chapel

we have been in

since we moved into our house

16 years ago.

We

can't

wait

to find

out.

I hope that

my husband and I

are in the same ward!

Actually,

if they just move the ward boundary

over by 30 feet,

our kids will be in a different ward

than me and my hubby.

Here's

hoping for that!! lol

The best 2009 of my life.

4 month + 1 week appointment weighed 13 lbs. 13 oz.

25 inches tall.

I have to stand in line to hold her.

The 13th Day of Christmas...... Unwrapped

Kinzie: shirt and pants she's wearing, 6 pr. socks and shoes.

Kortlen: shirt and pants outfit he's wearing + they match the MUCH needed shoes, a polo shirt and jeans.

Kashton: long sleeve t-shirt and jeans he's wearing and MUCH needed shoes.

Koby: sweater and jeans he's wearing, jeans and sweatshirt he's holding.

Kauri: pajamas she's wearing, jeans and shirt and shoes.

Kyson: jeans and sweater he's wearing and polo shirt.
Kamarie: soft-as-a-marshmallow sweater she's wearing, 5-pc outfit set (pjs,shirt, pants, receiving blanket, bib) and a toy.

Most of the clothes came from Kohl's.

and a box of school supplies like notebooks, glue, crayons, colored pencils, etc.
OK .

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so, Wow,

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and I believe we had a very magical Christmas!!!