The young men from our ward had the chance to have a presentation from the King County Bomb Squad this evening, and I thought I’d bring Isaac along. It turned out to be a great idea. He was completely riveted.
The officers were very gracious, answering lots of questions. They told stories about some of [...]

Posted on April 28th, 2011 by Zach
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I wasn’t going to write about Easter because I didn’t get a lot of good pictures.  I was trying to capture some great video and I wasn’t thrilled with the results of that effort either.  Nevertheless, I really loved Easter morning this year, so I decided to write about it anyway.
The Easter Bunny of my [...]

Posted on April 27th, 2011 by Kathleen
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We were lucky to have Great Grandma Cochran and Great Aunt Margaret for family night this week.  The kids were so excited when they saw them arrive.  They danced around yelling that they were here.  Zach taught a lesson about choosing the right and gave the kids CTR rings.  Charlotte told me that she will [...]

Posted on April 25th, 2011 by Kathleen
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Remember this book that I had adapted?  Well, it kinda fell apart last week at church, but it’s destruction gave me an idea for a new project, just in time for Stake conference.

They are letter sized pictures that I had taken of our house and one generic picture of a park.  I glued the pictures [...]

Posted on April 24th, 2011 by Kathleen
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We invited two other couples over with all of their children.  The kids had a movie night while the moms and dads played games.  I was a little worried about how the movie part of the night would play out because the group was made up of 8 little kids (I put Ila to bed [...]

Posted on April 23rd, 2011 by Kathleen
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It’s been a busy day and I should be in bed, but I wanted to post some pictures, so here I am.
At 12:30 we joined the wives and children of some of Zach’s cousins (and his aunt) for an Easter Egg Hunt.  It was hosted by a preschool that Olive (a cousin’s daughter) attends.  Nicole [...]

Posted on April 23rd, 2011 by Kathleen
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We put a baby gate up on the playroom door.  But I’m not sure if I want to keep it there.  I feel cruel locking the girls in to play.  Ila hates it.

It seems like a reasonable thing to lock the girls in to play while I finish cleaning the kitchen.  Especially when you consider [...]

Posted on April 21st, 2011 by Kathleen
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Charlotte doesn’t like loud sounds.  Whenever I get out my mixer, she puts her fingers in her ears in anticipation of me turning it on.  She flushes the toilet with her elbow so that she can plug her ears against the sound of the toilet flushing. I knew she did this in public restrooms [...]

Posted on April 20th, 2011 by Kathleen
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We love the library, especially when we find a new fun book.  So instead of catching up on all the other things I have to write about, I thought I’d recommend a book.  As you may know, Charlotte absolutely loves cats, so we were sold on the title alone.

If you like silly interactive books like [...]

Posted on April 18th, 2011 by Kathleen
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I just have not had it in me lately to stay up and blog so now I feel very far behind.  I think I’ll start back up slow.
Nicole discovered that I had gotten the Easter Box out and this is how I found her:

Notice how she’s opening up all my egg coloring kits.  Those little [...]

Posted on April 18th, 2011 by Kathleen
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Can I just start off by saying, Isaac does not like to write.  I offered him a dollar to finish up this story with one more page and he turned me down.  I love his writing.  I love hearing how his brain puts ideas together.  His teacher asked him to write a journal of his [...]

Posted on April 10th, 2011 by Kathleen
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Once again.  Here are some birthday cards the kids made for their other grandma.  I can say “other” because she never reads my blog.
Text (including random capitalization and punctuation errors):  Dear Grandma Bunny,
are you having a good Day!  It’s your BIRTHDAY!  Banana.  HAHA I made you read banana!  I mIss you
Love Isaac
Charlotte: [...]

Posted on April 5th, 2011 by Kathleen
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We were so excited to be in Utah for General Conference this year.  It was our first time back since we moved away in October of 2009.  We have really missed living close to Mom and Dad Cochran.
Here are some pictures.  Why?  Because I love pictures:

Posted on April 5th, 2011 by Kathleen
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I really wanted a good picture of my four kids together.  I ended up buying a few more pictures as well because they did such a good job. 
The following were taken on March 22, 2011 at Portrait Innovations:

Posted on April 4th, 2011 by Kathleen
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We arrived safely in Utah late Friday night.  On Saturday the weather was beautiful.  We visited with our great friends, the Kelsons, and the kids played out side with no coats and at times with no shoes.  The kids had so much fun that on the way home, Isaac told me that if we don’t [...]

Posted on April 3rd, 2011 by Kathleen
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We have been in the car since about 7:50 AM PST and now it is about 6 PM PST with many hours left to travel.
This will be my first blog post from the passenger seat of the car.  Here are some pictures:
Nicole held on to her backpack for the first part of our journey—she really [...]

Posted on April 1st, 2011 by Kathleen
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