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| T.J. decided a few months ago that he wanted to try karate. We got him signed up with a TaeKwonDo place near our home, and he has really been learning a lot. It is fun to watch him practicing his kicks and punches. |
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| This is when he earned his Yellow Belt. He had to do a test to show that he had learned everything to progress on from a White Belt. Good job, T.J.! We are proud of you! |
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| Sometimes we all miss Maree and wish we could have her close again so we could express our great love for her. Since I can't pull her down from Heaven (although I wish I could at times), we decided to send some love up to her. We all wrote messages or drew pictures on balloons to tell Maree how much we love and miss her. It can be difficult at times to say what we are feeling, so this gave us all the chance to put some of it into words. Each one of the kids took special care to make their message just right. |
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| We took all of our balloons out to the cemetary and released them by Maree's grave. It never gets easier to not have her with us, but moments like this are comforting to help us connect with her and remember what an important part of our family she is. Maree truely is our angel! How grateful we are that families are eternal! |
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| "Love you, Maree!!!!!!" |
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| Our little Ray loves to read books, and this Strawberry Shortcake book is one of his favorites. In fact, he has the entire book memorized. It is the cutest thing to hear him "read" the book. One night (the week of Halloween) when he had eaten a lot of candy and was super hyper he read the book with me and would do some pages really quiet and some pages really loud - it was hilarious! Ray is such a fun kid! :) |
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| Jaymon turned 5 in December and wanted a pirate cake. I made him this cake, but the ship split in two before the party so I called it a "shipwreck" cake. Then I did my best to put it back together... |
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| I can't believe this cute little guy is 5! |
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| For Jaymon's party he wanted to go to Pojos with his cousins. This is Miss Sophie. |
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| It is always so fun to open presents! |
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| Jaymon has been asking for a "little violin" for over a year now. His siblings all have string instruments (with the exception of Ray), so we finally gave in. It is so cute to see him play. Someday he will sound good playing too! |
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| Jaymon insisted that we needed a pinata or his party would not be complete, so we did this pinata at home with the family (because I forgot to take it to Pojos). :) |
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| At least it was a pull-string pinata since we were doing it inside... It was a great day! |
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| Tylor decided to try wrestling this year for the first time. It turns out that he is pretty good at it and even made the Varsity team at his school. Too bad he really doesn't enjoy it much! :) |
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| Go Tylor!! (I must admit that wrestling is a hard sport to watch as a mother...) |
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| As you can tell, Taylor loved watching Tylor wrestle. Taylor was a wrestler back in high school, so this was really fun for him. |
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| We spent Thanksgiving this year with my brother, Ryon, and his family in Hayden, Idaho. We always have so much fun together. This was the spread for our Thanksgiving feast - so yummy! |
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| As usual, Nichole and I were the Thanksgiving cooks. |
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| Ryon was busy cleaning out an elk head, though (so he wasn't being lazy while we were cooking!). The kids found observing this activity to be quite fascinating, and a little gross. They got to have the new experience on holding an eyeball - which is not something every kid gets to do on Thanksgiving! This was truely a "Schofield-type" of activity for Thanksgiving. :) (I should probably mention that the elk head was NOT part of our dinner.) |
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| Taylie and he cousin, Janna, with the beautiful pie they made. They are turning into quite the little cooks! |
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| Dinner Time! |
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| Crashing with the cousins every night - so fun! |
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| Tylor and Taylie both participate in the Cantus Youth Choir, a community choir that is AMAZING! They had their winter concert in December and did such a great job. |
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| Sicily and Julianne (and Julianne's mom) came to see the concert. Such sweet aunts to come support these kids! |
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| So proud of these two! |
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| Taylie singing |
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| Tylor singing |
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| This was our scarey bunch ready to head out to get some goodies! It was another fun Halloween! |
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| None of us (including Tylor) quite knew what Tylor's costume was... :) |
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| Taylie as cotton candy |
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| Coleton as his Uncle Jayson (BYU football player) |
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| T.J. the ninja |
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| This wasn't the costume we got for Jaymon this year, but as sometimes happens with 4-year-olds he changed his mind about what he wanted to be for Halloween, so we went with his dog costume from last year instead of his new one. As long as he was happy and I didn't have to buy another costume (because that was not going to happen), it was all good! Besides, Jaymon really does have a thing for dogs! :) |
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| Our little monkey, Ray |
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| This is how you trick-or-treat in style! |
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| Was this Taylor stealing candy from the kids? I'm not really sure! :) |
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| Ray ate so much candy when he got home that I thought he was going to be sick! |
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| T.J. and his haul. |
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| Coleton and Jaymon - so proud of how much candy they could get. |
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| Tylor had gone with a couple of friends and came home with the biggest pile of all. Too bad he can't eat a lot of it due to the fact that he now has braces! :) |
