Thanks to a visit from my mother-in-law, I was able to go help out with Isaac’s Fall Party. It was held the Friday before Halloween, but it was not a Halloween party. I’m not entirely sure why not, but no one in the school dressed up in costumes. We had an orange-themed party (which worked [...]

Posted on October 31st, 2010 by Kathleen
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Posted on October 31st, 2010 by Kathleen
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Charlotte insists that she walk along the rocks along the sidewalk.  When she gets to the highest spot, she announces that she is “as tall as she can be” and I give her a big hug.

Posted on October 29th, 2010 by Kathleen
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The other day we arrived at the gym after a big rain and Nicole could not resist splashing in every puddle along the way to the entrance. While this is not an uncommon thing, on this particular day she could not pull herself away from her favorite puddle. I tried the “I’m going to leave [...]

Posted on October 28th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Charlotte drew this picture in primary today: There’s something artistic about the picture to me.  She said it was a picture of Jesus feeding the people the fish and the loaves.  (Can you find Jesus?  He’s the one holding fish and loaves in his hand.)  She said they were at church and they were hungry [...]

Posted on October 24th, 2010 by Kathleen
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In the midst of reminiscing about where we were a year ago, more than just the season has me feeling reflective. Zach was contacted by a job recruiter a few weeks ago and as a result he sent his resume out to a few additional companies. He is now interviewing with several companies in different [...]

Posted on October 22nd, 2010 by Kathleen
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This time last year Zach had started working for JTV and we were in Utah getting ready for our big move.  As the leaves have started to fall off the trees here, I’m reminded of when we first arrived at this house and there were leaves everywhere.

This past year has brought so many changes that [...]

Posted on October 19th, 2010 by Kathleen
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I have hesitated to write anything on this topic because I know there are some people in my life who read my blog whose opinions and feelings on this issue are opposed to mine and I do not wish to alienate those people from me and my family. Considering that, one might ask why I [...]

Posted on October 17th, 2010 by Kathleen
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In our family prayer this morning, Isaac prayed that he would get to sit next to Emma at school. 
Last year I asked him who his friends were at school and he said the kids he played with the most were Emma and Storm.  This year Storm is in another class, but Emma is in [...]

Posted on October 6th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Charlotte insists that her Grandma Cochran’s favorite color is red.  The funny thing about it is that grandma’s favorite color is actually blue-green.  Charlotte refuses to believe anyone who tells her that red is NOT Grandma’s favorite color, including Grandma herself.
Today she told me that Grandma Bunny would really like some red framed mirrors [...]

Posted on October 5th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Charlotte’s favorite book lately is The Night Before Christmas.  She “reads” it to Ila every night and has been teaching Ila all about Christmas.  I often hear Charlotte in her room singing or talking to Ila. 

Ila seems to really like her big sister, Charlotte and Charlotte seems to like having such a sweet [...]

Posted on October 3rd, 2010 by Kathleen
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Nicole is a funny girl.  She loves to cheer about stuff.  She usually says “Yay!” followed by some noun.  Yay!  Shoes.  Yay!  Dog.  Yay! Tree.  Yay! Rain.  Yay! Bird.  Yay! Hotdog!  And when she watches something like Baby Einstein, she cheers about everything she sees.  Yay! Toy.  Yay! Cow.  Yay! Water.  Sometimes I like to [...]

Posted on October 3rd, 2010 by Kathleen
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I over think things.  When I have an event coming up or am planning to host something at my house I often think through scenarios in my head and try to predict how everyone will behave and what I can do to lesson the impact of my hoard of small children.  The rest of this [...]

Posted on October 2nd, 2010 by Kathleen
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Isaac’s school is currently having a variety of fundraisers (have I ever mentioned how much I hate asking people for money and thus hate fundraisers?)  They were suppose to get as many donations as possible.  Any donation would let them walk and it took $15 worth of donations to get a T-shirt.  I was inspired [...]

Posted on October 1st, 2010 by Kathleen
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