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| It was colder this week than we liked, but the icicles were pretty! |
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| Michael and I went to a stake fireside, and well, it never ceases to amaze me how many cookies he can eat. |
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| Hyrum is just adorable between his animals, blankets and now his baseball hats. :) |
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| I didn't take very many pictures, so someone took this one for me. |
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| Making a double stroller into a triple out of necessity. |
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| "Are these noodle seeds?" she asked. Fair assessment. |
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| We have to keep the chairs on top of or away from the table because Ava cannot resist scaling them to get to the table top. This means sometimes, okay a lot, I don't want to deal with getting them down for breakfast, okay a lot of meals. |
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| She put her foot in the air so someone would brush the crumbs off of it. It was such a sweet sister interaction. |
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| Cousin time! My girls have been dying to have a playdate with their nearby cousins for quite some time. Family of 3 girls + family of 3 girls = 6 girls 6yrs and under! |
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| Alaska. I will go there someday to explore the amazing things it holds. The snowy mountains are beautiful. The only time I have been in Alaska was on the way to my mission. If you don't know the story: We were 5 hours into our flight, over halfway to our first stop in Japan. An individual on the flight began having severe seizures, for which the flight crew decided to turn back to Anchorage to seek medical attention for the man. Due to flying restrictions, we had to stay in Anchorage for 24 hours. I just remember it being cold. The skies were clear, but there were mountains of snow on the roads (was the end of March). We continued to Japan, but arrived after the noise curfew had gone into effect, so we stayed a night in Japan before finally making our way to Taiwan... three days late. Was a small adventure to start an even greater one! |
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| One shot of the perpetual sunset I enjoyed for 10 hours on my flight to Beijing. You all know how much I love sunsets, so you know how wonderful this was for me. The sun was setting when we took off, it disappeared from the horizon, then reappeared as we pushed further north, then set again as we turned south again into China (pictured above). Having the sky lit helped me stay awake for the flight, and adjust to the new time zone. |
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| Walking into Hong Kong. I remember the tails of Dad going to Hong Kong when I was little, and then again periodically for the Rugby Sevens. It was always a mystical place in my mind. Now I get to be here for myself! |
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| Not a bad view from the hotel. We are staying in Causeway Bay on Hong Kong Island (left and bottom of the picture). Hoping to get out and explore a little while we are here before heading back to the Mainland tomorrow night. |
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| Hyrum and Simon were playing with each other through the window. It was super cute! |
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| We started our first garbage burning fire. It was great fun. And now my storage room is much cleaner! |
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| I think they all enjoyed this quite a bit. |
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| We had great fun at the library this week. Hyrum LOVES the puzzles, but that is to be expected. |
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| Jacob built an art museum and dinosaur museum. I guess you an tell we have been discussing museums and zoos while on vacation. |
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| I made this big breakfast of potatoes, eggs, bacon, peppers, etc and was just in awe at how much food it was. It was yummy, though! A breakfast of champions! |
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| Simon's first haircut. I hate it because he doesn't look like my baby. But he is still adorable! |
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| We went to the children's museum and I barely saw Hyrum. He was running around and playing the whole time, so I didn't get a single picture of him. But I followed Simon around and we had a great time together. |
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| This little man will be walking soon. The boys messed up his little toy, but he can still push it around, and that was the point! |
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| Ava's beauty, and Ava being Ava. |
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| The pie party we had with friends. |
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| It was a pie sing along party and Justin totally rocked "Let it Go." |
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| It got warm enough to break out the kiddie pool. The girls were overjoyed. |
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| I got a summer dress for Jaime at H&M. She tried it on and we took this photo for Justin to see it. Looking at it makes me feel like she's growing up so much. |
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| Vida! She gets comments even from strangers about how she can touch her nose with her tongue because she's always doing it! |
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| Old pipe in the back, Power cord in the center, new pipe on the left. |
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| We stopped by the DC temple on the way to visit Sarah Johnson Mueller. Yes, the deliverer of the address. The boys thought it was awesome to have a face to put with the name in the story. |
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| We drove into the zoo, but had to drive by the monuments just for fun. |
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| At the zoo we borrowed mom's little monkey backpack for Hyrum. It was FABULOUS! I just followed Hyrum around, so he had fun and freedom, but I didn't have to worry about losing him. |
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| There were quite a few lions. They were pretty awesome! The warm weather made this a fun trip because we weren't freezing, and the animals weren't hiding! |
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| Hyrum loved the entire zoo! |
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| The panda's were wonderful. This little guy had fun playing with that pot. Adorable! |
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| Hyrum loved the fake animals as well as the real ones. He kept asking the animals to come play with him and these ones actually did. ;) He may have told the big Ape that he was on time out at one point because he sat and folded his arms. It was adorable! |
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| Lots of fun playing on the statues! |
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| The boys loved that the animals could roam freely in the Amazon. This spoonbill was quite friendly! |
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| Hyrum loved pushing Simon around on this little car. They had a lot of fun together! |
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| Hyrum loves this weather and playing outside. I took one pictures and then he proceeded to move around the swings telling me to take more pictures. :) |
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| It is hard to take a picture when he is running up and down the slide. |
