DAY 7: We spent much of day 7 exploring my parent’s property. We kicked off our adventures with the traditional forklift rides. Isaac and Charlotte took turns riding the forklift with their grandfather. He showed them how to lift a pallet up and down and even gave them a ride on the pallet and loaded [...]
Posted on November 14th, 2009 by Kathleen
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DAY 5: Our first day in Ohio was mostly spent relaxing at my parents’ house. Lee stopped over as we were having some lunch and introduced us to his girlfriend, Jen. We had a nice visit with Lee and Jen as we munched on french fries and BBQ chicken. Nicole took to Lee right away. [...]
Posted on November 13th, 2009 by Kathleen
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DAY 4 CONTINUED: The airport experience with three little kids is a little crazy. The kids were actually quite good, but just the management of them all would have been impossible on my own. Once we made it through security, we stopped at a little play area before going to our gate. This provided [...]
Posted on November 12th, 2009 by Kathleen
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DAY ONE: We were lucky enough to have Zach’s new job pay for a moving company to pack and move our belongings. I think if not for that I really would have lost my sanity. They came at 8:00 AM and worked until 7:00 PM packing and loading our things onto a gigantic semi-truck. [...]
Posted on November 9th, 2009 by Kathleen
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I think almost everyone who reads this blog already knows about our upcoming move, but there may be a few who we we don’t see often and don’t use facebook so for those few, here’s our official announcement: We’re moving from Orem, UT to Knoxville, TN.
When Zach first suggested taking a job out of state, [...]
Posted on October 18th, 2009 by Kathleen
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Today was my ultrasound and of course the big news is we’ll be having another girl. I’m always amazed at all the different things that they can see and measure and I can happily report that she passed every test and measurement. Our fourth child now holds the record for giving the doctor the hardest [...]
Posted on July 29th, 2009 by Kathleen
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There’s some unspoken rule where you’re not allowed to say which of your children is your favorite or which of your siblings is your favorite—I guess I’m breaking that rule now. (I honestly couldn’t really say which kid is my favorite, but that’s a tangent).
Krista and I have been really good friends for most of [...]
Posted on June 28th, 2009 by Kathleen
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There are some things that instantly remind me of a time or a place or a person. Today I was at the store and saw a box of ‘Danish Style Butter Cookies’ on sale and it instantly reminded me of my grandma O’Bryant. During Christmas time, she always had a tin full of these [...]
Posted on June 20th, 2009 by Kathleen
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I have no pictures for most of the next few rooms, unfortunately. Grandma’s bedroom was at the end of the hall. I remember thinking that she had the softest bed in the world. Her blankets were a light turquoise and she had a headboard with shelves. She probably had books up there, but I only [...]
Posted on June 8th, 2009 by Kathleen
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Last August my dear grandmother passed away, so on Memorial day I wanted to visit her grave. When she actually died, I was too emotional to talk about it with my kids so today was the first real experience I had to tell them about my grandmother and her death. Charlotte didn’t say much, but [...]
Posted on May 25th, 2009 by Kathleen
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**I could only find pictures of one of the rooms that I describe here, so I scattered pictures of that room throughout the descriptions of the others**
Through the kitchen was the opening to the hallway. I loved grandma’s hall. She kept giant bullion boards filled with pictures. She had an assortment of pictures old [...]
Posted on April 26th, 2009 by Kathleen
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The door that we used most to go in and out of Grandma’s house was probably the back sliding door. As you walked in the door you were instantly surrounded by the dark wood paneling that covered the walls. There was a stone wall to the left with a fireplace and a stone ledge [...]
Posted on April 24th, 2009 by Kathleen
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We usually visited my Grandparents in TN twice a year, at Christmas time and once in the summer. They lived on Yarnell road just off of Campbell Station road. I remember Campbell Station as a treacherous windy road with a cliff to one side and a forested hill on the other. The road was slightly [...]
Posted on March 31st, 2009 by Kathleen
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Living out in the country meant that there were few kids our age around, so when we were young our only playmates were our siblings and the great outdoors. I remember playing with my younger brother, Lee when we were little. I can remember building block structures and playing with little action figures. There was [...]
Posted on March 29th, 2009 by Kathleen
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I had Mrs. Moyer for third grade and then again for third/fourth split. She was my favorite teacher and I think I may have been her favorite student. At one point I got a C on my report card and I think she didn’t want me to feel bad about it because she gave me [...]
Posted on March 11th, 2009 by Kathleen
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I went to Clinton Elementary school from Kindergarten through 6th grade. Of all the elementary schools in our school district, I thought Clinton was the most attractive. It was located in the middle of the country with big white columns in the front. I have a very imperfect memory of things so I’ll do my [...]
Posted on February 15th, 2009 by Kathleen
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Barbara Elisabeth Orman Bird was my grandmother’s name. When mom had her first child, Grandma suggested she name her Barbara. Mom was not thrilled about the idea because the name sounded like an old woman name to her, but mom thought that grandma would be unhappy if she didn’t take her suggestion and so [...]
Posted on January 23rd, 2009 by Kathleen
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**I should start with a disclaimer. I know that Grandma’s office was on Lincoln Ave. in Bellevue. I browsed Google Earth and the pictures I’ve included look somewhat like the places I remembered. Although my grandmother’s house looks the same that it did 20 years ago, downtown has changed some. I do remember seeing a [...]
Posted on January 21st, 2009 by Kathleen
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We loved to play outside at Grandma’s house. In front of her house just under the windows was a flowering tree that had these leaves that would turn brown and curl up in the fall. We used to pretend they were tacos and fill them with dirt (beef). Grandma also had these plants in [...]
Posted on January 19th, 2009 by Kathleen
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We visited my Grandma Bird in Pennsylvania whenever we could. We always called her Pittsburgh Grandma, although she lived just outside of Pittsburgh in Bellevue. I thought the drive took about 5 hours, but Google maps thinks we could get there in 3 1/2. We took toll roads most of the way. This meant [...]
Posted on January 19th, 2009 by Kathleen
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