Our ward comes up with some crazy ideas...

What do you expect when you show up at a

Ward Halloween (Chili contest, YM/YW carnival, Trunk-or-treat) party?

Do you expect a LIVE BAND?

A convict inside a jail?

A really old car being driven by really old dead pirates?

How about this one....

WAC-A-MOLE?

(or should I say WAC-A-Priest?)

LOL LOL LOL

We got an award in the car decorating contest as well as the really old car with pirates.

Kortlen turned 7

A "dino-mite" birthday for a "dino- mite" kid.

Pizza!!!

Cake!!!

Cake for the family, cupcakes for the friends,

only

this year I thought it would be more fun for 7-yr-olds to eat a dinosaur.

So,

2 cakes.

He rolled out all of the orange gum drops and made

plates for the stegosaurus.

Kauri helping by taking pictures.

This is me making the volcano.

I am frosting marshmallows stuck together with toothpicks.

(I forgot to make an extra cupcake.)

Party time!

Some of my bizzy life

This friend was due 2 weeks before me.

Her baby was born 1 week after Kamarie.

Look at the size difference.

Cute picture of these two girls.

This is where

i spent most of my week that week.

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We gotta get a new router cause ours is moving to Vegas tomorrow with Christopher. (it's really his)

For my birthday:

homemade chocolate oreo ice cream and lemon cake with Hershery's cocoa chocolate frosting.

YUMMY!

except...

hubby let me lick the frosting beater and sample the oreos before we sat down to eat it all, cause this is how I felt half-way through...

Grandma made a cute card as always. (with cute money)

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Got paper scissors?

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Got beauty center mannequin?

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Got 4-yr-old?

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She will experiment with them.

First cut the beauty center mannequins hair , then

give herself a "dyke-do".

And I was going to get her picture taken the next Monday.

Ugh.

Let's end on a happy note...

Can't get much happier than that!

Blessed on her Grandpa Chuck's birthday

Kamarie will be blessed tomorrow.

Between her fussiness from her gas bubbles,

and her hungriness every 1.5 hours,

I have spent the week making her a dress.

I am still working on it.

Lace, buttonholes, buttons, and a headband

is all that's left.

Sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Can write more later.

As you already know...

...I have been enjoying my (early) birthday gift for a month.

At 4 weeks she weighed 7-7.

and 21 inches long.

(she grew 1.5 inches in 2 weeks)

At 1 month, she went camping again.

So far, it's been a "Happy".

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Now all I need is some

homemade

chocolate oreo ice cream

and

whatever kind of cake

with

chocolate frosting

made

with the recipe on the

Herscheys cocoa box.

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(and some gas drops for Kamarie.)

You'll think twice before you leave your Christmas shopping in the car anymore.

As we were all sitting there

discussing who was going home to get the spare keys,

Grandpa Kay walked over to my Suburban

and stuck his truck key in the door

and UNLOCKED my car!!

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http://cbs13.com/local/cars.car.keys.2.568269.html

ps if you read that article or watch the video, my car is 2007.

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pss: I actually saw this video when it was broadcast 2 years ago.

Next clue

We drove our car home,

because Grandpa Kay used to be a mechanic for GM.

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What is it G-pa Kay did to our car?

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How'd you do that?!!!!! another one

Our family drove to the ranch.

When we got there, everyone climbed out of the car.

I was the last one to get out, because I had to get the baby.

As the car door shut behind me, the car "clicked."

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Meaning that the car locked itself.

(Someone had leaned on the "lock" button as he got out of the car.

Then when the doors all got shut, the car locked itself.)

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Why, yes, of course the keys were still in the ignition.

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Luckily, I had gotten the diaper bag out, so I had diapers, and a bottle of water, and gas drops.

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Our options, as we could tell, were these:

1. Kristin could drive me home in her car to get the spare keys. (I couldn't take the baby, as her car seat was still in the car.)

2. Hubby could borrow g-mas car to go home to get keys. (But we were at the ranch to do work projects and that would put a big hole in our efforts to get stuff done.)

3. I could feed the baby, leave her with g-ma, and drive home in either Ann's car or Kristin's car to get the extra keys. (90 min round trip)

4. We could call home and have Christopher get our keys and meet us at the edge of town.

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5. or whatever else.

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we didn't use any of these options, but you get to guess as to how we got our car unlocked or how we got home.

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I'll give you a hint in a few days.

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First hint: no hide-a-key.

Kamarie Moments

One of her smallest days.

I don't know what she got down to, but at her 1 week

check-up, she weighed 6-3

Her first shower.

1 1/2 weeks old.

Her cord already fell off.

She loves to shower!

Yay!

I finally have a baby small enough to fit in this dress

that Sheri made.

She likes her hands by her face, and she struggled so hard

to get them there that she pulled her arm out of her nightgown.

2 week check-up,

she weighed 6-7.

Just barely enough to not alarm the dr.

I am

having

the

time

of

my

life.

My baby is 3 weeks old and she is still a tiny newborn!

Answer:

1. chocolate chip syrup.

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2. chocolate meatballs.

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3. peanut butter walnuts.

According to Kauri........

what are these things called?

1. (the melted choc. chips)

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Your prize is sensational!

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It will be the knowledge that you are as cute and clever

as this 4 year old girl!!!

I used to drive the school bus

and if there was a question

as to where the kindergarteners lived,

I hoped they knew their phone numbers.

They

never

did.

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I was surprised to find that my 4 yr-old

had kept calling her dad on his cell phone 12 times a day.

She had memorized it.

Cool.

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Better than cool when you hear her story that happened today.

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Hubby had taken one of our kids to his school for a football game.

I was sitting at an SEP

for one of our elementary kids.

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Hubby is 7 miles away from our house when he got

a phone call from a stranger (woman) telling

him that she had just found our daughter

riding her bike

in the middle of ______street.

Which happens to be the 35 mph windy road

with blind spots near our house.

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She was trying to follow me to the elementary.

She told Koby that she was coming with me,

and he was in the bathroom when she left on her bike.

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Hubby told her that our son would be right there to get her.

He phoned home and

Koby was out the door to go get her

before he could finish the story.

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No one in that neighborhood 2.5 blocks away knows Kauri.

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The ONLY way

the woman found us

was because Kauri

knew

his

phone number.

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Kauri wasn't scared, but of course,

I freaked out when I found out.

I just barely

started letting Kash cross that street.

Not to mention,

Jaycee Dugaard.

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I found 12 pictures of our home computer

on the memory card.

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and then

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6 of these...

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She has been practicing, remember?

Kamarie Jakaisha

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Birth Day

right after her bath.

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Her first camping trip at 3 days old.