tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34060398994722119262024-03-19T05:41:28.870-06:00Evans HeavenStephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08300512014999586953noreply@blogger.comBlogger139125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406039899472211926.post-23951159903910499932014-04-29T23:51:00.002-06:002014-04-29T23:51:43.350-06:00Busy but BlessedDoes life ever slow down? I thought once we finished building our home and were settled in, then I would have more time to catch up on <u>so</u> many missed blog posts. Ha! Life just keeps going and writing posts and publishing don't seem to happen. <br />
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This last month of our life has been very busy. I don't know if I can say it's been the busiest it has ever been because I do remember other very busy times but it has been crazy and when I sat down and thought about all that happened in the last month I am amazed we made it though it all. <br />
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On the first weekend of March (exactly one month from the day we moved into our new house) Zeke and I were called into the Stake President's office. After some causal talk with the Stake President and the first counselor, the stake president said to us "Zeke the Lord wants your life to change". For someone that resists change, I just about blurted out "IT ALREADY HAS!" but I reframed myself and he proceeded to call Zeke to be the new bishop of the Mapleton 19th ward!<br />
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The first few days after the call we were in a state of denial. Luckily, we had 3 weeks to let this shock set in and for us to be able to finish unpacking our home. Zeke also spent that time pouring over the ward directory trying to put a face with each name. Our ward is very large with several new families moving in each month. So even though we knew several people in our ward there were yet so many to know. </div>
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It's been a month since he was sustained and he has been busy busy busy. </div>
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*Has already spoke at 4 different meetings </div>
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*Help two missionaries submit their papers</div>
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*Attend and carry out a ward youth conference </div>
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*And all the other many things a bishop does<br />
*Not to mention being busier than ever at work (when it rains it pours)</div>
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Now the question I get all the time is "How is single life?" </div>
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He is gone lots more, but he is such a good man that still puts his family first and makes time for everyone of us. As hard as this adjustment is, we feel blessed as a family and are grateful for this opportunity to serve the Lord. </div>
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These pictures were taken right before we went to church on the day he was sustained. Do I look nervous? Well I was, and I thought I just might not ever stop shaking. But once we went into the chapel it all went away and I felt the Lord sustain Zeke and our family in this calling. I was even able to speak with out shaking. A true miracle!<br />
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We were so grateful for the love and support of many family and a few friends. After church we hosted almost 40 people at our house for dinner. It was the first dinner "party" at our new house. Never thought our first dinner party would be for this type of event. My parents even traveled down from Washington to be with us during this time. Grateful my mom took these picture on this day, because it's all I have of the day our life changed again!<br />
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We love having visitors. In the last month we have had visits from 3 different families who we hadn't seen in quit awhile. We love visitors! </div>
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<b><u>1st came the Bliss's from California came for a weekend.</u></b> It was fun to spend sometime with them and get caught up. </div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><u><b>2nd came the Patterson Family from Washington.</b></u> It had been many many years since we had seen them even though they only moved 45min out of Auburn. Our boys did preschool together and were good buddies back in the day, and Colleen was a great friend of mine. Now their oldest is graduating and going on a mission. It was fun to see them and spend time with their family. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><b><u>3rd came Zeke's brother Bill and his family from Nevada.</u></b> We hadn't seen their family for 2 years. They spent a day with us and we enjoyed hanging with them for day. No matter how often my kids see their cousins, they are instant friends. </span><br />
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In the last month 3 of our 4 kids have performed on stage....</div>
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Lydia had a dance recital where she danced a combo of ballet and jazz to "Dancing in the Rain". </div>
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She did a great job and loved performing this dance. We were glad Grandma and Grandpa were able to be here for the performance. </div>
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Landon and Mason were also part of their Jr. High Musical this year. </div>
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It was called <u><b>"A Night on Broadway"</b></u> where they sang several numbers from broadway shows. It was truly enjoyable. In fact opening night was on Jacob's birthday and he has said many times since.... </div>
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"That was the best birthday ever, I loved that show!" and the funny thing is I don't think he knew any of the songs before going into the show. </div>
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Landon and Mason had a duet from "Guys and Dolls" in the production. Prior to the performance they would not practice or perform for us, as they wanted it to be surprise for our family. We were a little nervous as they are at that age where voices are changing..... but oh my WOW! </div>
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They can sing and they can sing low! It was so fun to watch! I loved it! </div>
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Video coming in separate post soon (I hope). </div>
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Lydia got to be part of an AMAZINGLY patriotic production this year for school. It was called "Hope of America" and is sponsored by the Freedom Festival, who puts on the Stadium of Fire every 4th of July in Provo. </div>
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All the 5th graders at her school learned several patriotic songs and met up with 3500 other 4th graders from the valley to sing them in the Marriott Center at BYU. Together they made a large flag. </div>
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With Zeke's new calling we had a conflict with the Stake President on the night of the performance, so we went during the day to the dress rehearsal. Even though I heard the evening performance was even more amazing, the dress rehearsal was something else. Watching this many kids sing songs about our country was spectacular. I love our country and I am so blessed to be an American! </div>
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We were grateful Grandma Evans came down from Centerville that night to take the boys and support Lydia for us. </div>
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Lydia was in the bottom center of the flag. Wearing a red shirt. </div>
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She is on the bottom center red row, third from the isle. </div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"> Jacob turned 7! </span></b><br />
Jacob is such a fun, loving, kind, smart boy! We don't like the idea that he is getting older, but he loves celebrating his birthday and we love celebrating him too. <br />
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Out of all our kids, it was probably hardest on Jacob to move from WA to UT. He had several good friends, and a close cousin in Washington that he misses lots. Plus he spent the first 6 months living here unable to really have friends over to play because we were living 15 minutes away from everyone we knew in our rental. He is a social boy, and about a month before we moved into our house one day he said to me as we were driving home from school. "Mom, I need to make friends in Spanish Fork, or I will not have anyone to invite to my birthday party." I knew how hard this was for him, but I reassured him we would be living in Mapleton for his birthday and he would be just fine. He would be able to invite the friends he had already made at school and church to his party. </div>
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We brought a little bit of Lakeland to Mapleton for Easter this year too. My two youngest asked if our neighborhood would have an Easter Egg hunt like Lakeland. I told them we would find an egg hunt to go to, but when I asked around about egg hunts no one had any good suggestions. So with the help from a friend we planned the first annual <u>Mapleton Highlands Easter Egg hunt</u>, and it was a hit! Since many of us do not have grass in our yards yet we held it at the elementary school. Everyone that was in town came and we decided it would become a neighborhood tradition.<br />
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And we couldn't leave out the teenagers so on the Friday night before Easter we had a teen flashlight hunt, just like Lakeland Hills always has. These kids had a blast collecting soda, chips, candy and bags of cookies. They can't wait till next year! </div>
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Easter Sunday was special. Our ward has a tradition to have mostly music on Easter Sunday. Mason and Landon sang in church in a youth choir and Mason sang a solo. Mason also played his violin for a piece the choir sang, and Zeke gave the talk. It was truly wonderful! </div>
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After church we had a nice Easter dinner just our family. We missed our family in Washington that we spent many Easters with, but it was nice for us to have a quiet relaxing afternoon at home after a busy weekend. </div>
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The kids were out of school for a whole week in April. We did a variety of activities. </div>
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One day we drove up to Cache Valley to spend the day with my Grandparents. How grateful we are that we get to spend time with them. We love them very much. </div>
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After visiting with them we went up to USU and to First Dam to feed the ducks. It was a perfect weather day and Cache Valley was radiant. The kids wanted to play football together at the Dam. </div>
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Watching them enjoy being together warms my heart.</div>
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One day we ventured out to the Provo Beach resort and the kids enjoyed the ropes course there. </div>
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This month has also consisted of lots of yard work. During Spring break our neighbors next door went out of town and offered for us to use his tractor while they were gone. We had 3 large dirt piles that were formed when they poured our driveway back in January. Much of the dirt in these piles had been frozen dirt chunks but it had mostly thawed so we were anxious to get it spread. We were so grateful for our neighbor's tractor. Even with the tractor though it took a far amount of time. </div>
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25 hours is what we put on this great little tractor. </div>
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Because there is never enough time in the day for Zeke, I learned how to drive the tractor and had a great time doing it. I have always been a country girl at heart. </div>
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During this time we also planted 10 fruit trees, had a rock retaining wall put in around our walk out and our back patio poured. Just a start to finishing our "overwhelming" yard. </div>
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Lydia is playing spring soccer in Spanish Fork this spring. Mapleton only plays soccer in the fall, and since she loves this sport so much we signed her up with the SF league. She is having a good time and enjoying getting out on the field again. She has two games a week.</div>
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The boys were excited that the first Eagle's nest they sat in was for their cousin!</div>
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Since we have moved to Utah, Lydia and Jacob have been fascinated with the letter Y painted on the side of the mountain. One Saturday we couldn't resist the gorgeous 70 degree weather and decided to take a family hike up to see this painted Y. Since it was fall we dressed in long pants, after starting up the mountain we were all wishing we had all worn shorts. </div>
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I had read in our Spanish Fork cable bill that the capital Christmas tree was going to be a the city park. We had a half hour to spare between basketball games so we thought we would go and see it. For some reason I was thinking the tree was for the Utah capital. When we got to the park, there was a huge diesel covered with a white tarp and people were writing their names on the tarp. After we parked and walked over we realized this was the US capital Christmas tree, and it was making it's way across the country. Stopping in selected cites. Even more exciting was that the tree had been cut down in Washington! We made sure to write our names on the tree's trap as it made it's way through Spanish Fork towards Washington D.C. </div>
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The 5th graders at Mapleton Elementary participate in a fun learning activity. Instead of a typical report about someone from history they participate in what they call a Wax Museum. They pick a person who is no longer alive and study about them, write a report, memorize a 30 second dialog about them, dress up as them and then share it during the day with students and in the evening with the parents when the school turns into a wax museum. </div>
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No 5th grader can be the same person as another 5th grader. Lydia picked her top 5 women in history and ended up with her first choice Laura Ingals Wilder. Since Lydia already had a pioneer costume that she wore a few years ago for pioneer day we thought we were set.....until she tried it on. Lydia had grown so much that it no longer fit, with the exception of the bonnet. So we pulled the sewing machine out of our storage unit, made a trip to JoAnns and spent a Saturday sewing. Now she was set. She also insisted she needed a wagon. So we went back pulled the wagon out of the storage unit and dad and her covered the wagon and even found the rocking horse to use to make it look even more real. </div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">UCCU Family Fest</span></b><br />
One Saturday our family (minus Landon and Mason) spent an afternoon on the UVU campus at the UCCU Family Fest. This activity sponsored by the UCCU credit Union, was a free event that taught the kids the value of money. Each child was given $5 when they entered the event. Then they could make more if they wanted by doing activities and/or putting their $5 in the bank for 30 minutes. With their money they could use it to buy treats, play games, jump in jump houses etc. Lydia and Jacob first took advantage of earning money and earned about $25 each. Then we participated in many activities until we were tiered and ended up giving our left over money to a family walking in the door.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Thanksgiving</b></span><br />
This was our first Thanksgiving in Utah for the past 13 years. We were grateful we could spend it with Zeke's family in Centerville. <br />
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Lydia made her traditional turkey treat. (This year just a little different version)<br />
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We loved Jacob's turkey. You can see he is learning about adjectives, because he used them so well. </div>
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She loved holding and playing with Luciana during Thanksgiving. </div>
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We have always loved Thanksgiving weekend. For the past 8 years we have spent the day after Thanksgiving going into Seattle and watching and catching the free Frangos at the Macy's Santa Parade. After the parade we would make a stop at Macy's and the kids would write a letter to Santa. This Friday after Thanksgiving was a little different this year. Zeke and I went out for a short (and useless) Black Friday shopping day. Later in the afternoon, we make a trip into downtown SLC. We did a little shopping and found that the Macy's in SLC has the same Santa letter writing area. Lydia and Jacob were excited to write their letters, and we even picked up from Frangos while we were there. </div>
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On the Saturday after Thanksgiving it really started to feel like Christmas. Landon and Mason signed up to be in a Fun Run and this fun run was really FUN! Everyone in the race had to wear a santa suit.<br />
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The race course was a little different. They runners ran up and down Washington Blvd two times. With milk and cookie stops along the way. Towards the end of the race the younger kids wanted to jump in and run some of the course. I think they just wanted the milk and cookies.<br />
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After the race was a Christmas light parade that went along the same race route.<br />
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Jacob loves balls, always has. So he was excited we signed him up for his first basketball rec. team in Spanish Fork. Since we live in Mapleton and sleep in Spanish Fork he didn't not know anyone on the team. That was ok because this boy just loves to play. <br />
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This basketball league was not like anything we have experienced before. Jacob was put on a team and they met at a local school two days a week. The first half hour was ran by high school kids, and the kids pretty much just practiced shooting. The second half hour was a scrimmage against another team. Since these were all 1st graders and the instruction the first 1/2 was weak it was a free for all. Nothing was called... a kid could foul, double dribble, go out of bounds, etc. <br />
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For the last couple of years I have been trying to talk Lydia in to playing basketball. This year when Mapleton City put up a banner announcing the upcoming girls basketball season, I again encouraged her to try it. Since she had such a good experience playing soccer in Mapleton she gave into my request to get her signed up. And after the first practice she was in love! <br />
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Football in the fall is a big deal to some of the members of our family and cheering for the Aggies, Huskies and Broncos takes some effort! </div>
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We thought it might be hard to live in Utah county and be Aggie fans so I was a little nervous sending my younger two to school in these shirts on the annual BYU/USU game, but come to find out they were not the only ones at their school cheering for the Aggies. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Lifetime Friends! </b></span></div>
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It was wonderful having a visit from a good friend of mine and her daughter over General Conference weekend. Tracy and Brinkley are good friends from WA who moved to AZ last year. They stayed over at our house while they attended a session together. It was great to catch up with them compare notes about moving, eat and laugh together. Our family truly enjoyed their visit. </div>
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It's also be great to get reacquainted with some of my favorite college buddies. Cheryl (a former roommate) and Kathy (the first friend I made at USU). Kathy and I had completely lost contact with one another and Cheryl got us in contact with one another. We all live in a short distance from one another, so we decided to have regular girls night outs. This picture was taken from our first night out. We had such a great time out together we could have stayed out all night.</div>
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It is wonderful to have lifetime friends! </div>
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Lydia and Jacob loved the witch scavenger hunt. It was a perfect fall afternoon. </div>
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One Friday evening Zeke and I did something we had not done since our college years. We went to a Haunted Factory! Dan and Johana went too, and it we exciting because Johana had never been to one before. We waited in line for about 45 minutes while cast members would come and try and scare us. Once we were in, this haunted factory in SLC was an hour long scary experience. Zeke lead the way and I think I about ripped his arm off (or he says twisted his arm to death). About 1/2 through he made Dan lead the way and it was fun to follow behind them. We screamed and had a great time. Hopefully it's not 16 years before we go again:)</div>
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With the sun shining the cooler air and the beautiful fall leaves we only wanted to be outside. </div>
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One Saturday we spent hanging out with the Findlaysa. We spent that Saturday hiking before attending baptism for a second cousin of ours. On our hike we found this fun car. The kids loved exploring this abandoned car. </div>
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Starting at a new school can have it's ups and downs. My kids have learned that no two school will ever do everything the same. Our conversations on the way to school have sometimes been spent talking about the differences. I always tell my kids, <i><b>there are great things about your old school and there are great things about your new school.... they are just different. </b></i></div>
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One of the differences the whole lunch eating process. There is a cafeteria at the new school. At first Lydia wasn't so thrilled about eating in a cafeteria. She was use to eating at her desk in her classroom. </div>
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(a cafeteria can be hard when you are the new kid) She has since warmed up to the idea and loves eating with friends in the cafeteria. During the month of October Lydia's class was in charge of being the kitchen helper. Lydia loved being the kitchen help! She could tell that not to many in her class liked it, so she would volunteer to take their jobs on her days off. </div>
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Mason joined the school districts Philharmonic this year. The Philharmonic is for grades 9-12 grade for four high schools. Mason is one of the youngest musicians in the Philharmonic. He attends a practice every Monday for 2 hours. He had his first concert and it was very enjoyable. Mason looked sharp in his bow tie and suit coat, and we are so proud of him and all the work he puts forth playing the violin. </div>
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Mason also had a fun school orchestra concert. For this concert all the kids got to wear their Halloween costumes. Mason is a huge Dr. Who fan so he was the "Doctor". He planned his outfit all by himself and looked pretty good. It was fun to see all the Jr. High kids costumes. We got a kick out of Mason's friend Joseph costume, he was Winnie the Pooh. </div>
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The kids were excited that they got to wear their halloween costumes to school on Halloween. They were up bright and early getting decked out for the day. </div>
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The elementary had Halloween parties. I was able to go and help with Jacob's party and then I left early and went over to Lydia's party as I was in charge of the craft/treat. We made spider cookies:)<br />
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After school we went to Dad's office at Novell to trick or treat. The kids and I had only been to the cafeteria so we were all excited to see the new building where dad worked. Novell is bigger than Attachemate so there were many more offices to trick or treat at that we didn't even get to all of them.<br />
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That evening we set out to trick or treat the neighborhood we are living at in Spanish Fork. </div>
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Landon and Mason wanted to stay home and pass out candy. </div>
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Our family was excited for the Century of Honor program, but Lydia was especially looking forward to it. Having never been to a general conference or an event (that she remembers) in the conference center, Lydia anxiously awaited this night. She was so excited, and kept saying she just couldn't wait to see President Monson in person. We told her it was going to be really neat to see him, but it wasn't like we were going to be able to talk to him. She was still so excited and mentioned many times the week before that she was just so excited, she could hardly wait. <br />
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Every choir member received 2 tickets to the event, which worked out perfectly for the 4 of us in our family that were not in choir. Landon and Mason were seated on the far left side of the choir so we were hoping that our tickets would be on the right side of the audience so we would have a good view of our boys. We were excited when we picked up our tickets that we would be in the bottom section 2 (which is on the right side looking up to the left:). They seemed like perfect seats especially since the podium was placed directly in front of section 2. This would be the first event in the conference center where we would not have to watch the big screen to see the speakers, or the show.</div>
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The day of the performance the boys had to be there at 3pm. Which gave the 4 of us time to kill in Salt Lake. As it seems like decisions about our house are always lingering over us, it was a perfect opportunity to go and make a final decision about the stone for our house. Poor Lydia and Jacob are our tag alongs to all these places and lets just say they are not very exciting stores for kids. At least this place had popcorn and a puppy:)<br />
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After hemming and hawing over our final selection. We decided it was best to get some dinner at the Lion house, we can't resist those Lion House rolls. Upon entering the Lion house we ran into a well dress man that we recognized as a speaker in the recent General Conference. He waved and said hello to us and Zeke quickly recognized him as being the general authority that related his experience of being a football player. (a comparable that is unforgettable when you are a football fan like Zeke:) It was Elder Gifford Nielsen. </div>
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When we finished our meal we made the short walk over to the conference center and found our seats in our section towards the bottom. I thought they were great seats and was quite comfortable, but Lydia wanted to get as close as she could. I did not think there were enough seats for all four of us any closer, but in the section next to us there were many empty seats. So after testing out the seats and making sure we could still see the boys we moved down to the second row on the very far right. We had the row all to ourselves. </div>
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About the time we were moving seats we noticed Elder Russell M. Nelson walk in from the corner of the stage. I pointed him out to both Lydia and Jacob and said lets walk down the isle and see if we can say "hi" to him. Both of them were rather timid so I walked down in front and asked the usher if we could say hi to him. He said <b>"no you can't get close to them"</b>. About then, Elder Nelson was passing by and I yelled out his name. He turned around and walked towards us reaching out his hands to greet us. He thanked us for saying hello and asked where we were from. At that moment I didn't quite know what to say. Where am I from? I still feel like I am from Washington, am going to live in Mapleton but currently living in Spanish Fork. So what do I say? I said Mapleton, but we recently moved from Washington. He said "Wonderful! and again thanked us for saying Hello" He moved on to find his seat and I exclaimed to Lydia and Jacob "You just shook the hand of an apostle!" </div>
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After that several other apostles, general authorities and people we recognized walked through the same door. Wanting to respect them and the wishes of the users and security we just sat in our seats and waved when they looked our way. My kids have watched the leaders of the church walk out of general conference on TV several times, so they (especially Lydia) was able to recognized many of them including President Monson's daughter, Uchtdorf's wife, the general RS president, and several of the apostles etc. </div>
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About 5 minutes before 7pm security appeared to be getting in their places, and we could tell President Monson would becoming out shortly. Sure enough seconds later the man we know as the Prophet who we completely respect, love, honor, obey, sustain, pray for and are very grateful for entered the room. The audience rose as he was escorted by a security guard to his seat along with President Uchtdorf and President Eyring. I told Lydia if he looked over at us she could wave hi to him. As he walked by he looked over our way and Lydia waved and he smiled and waved back. It was a sweet moment and Lydia beamed! </div>
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Seeing the first presidency made me so happy, but I also began to shake. Out of respect and not wanting to look like the paparazzi, I did not want to use my big camera and instead only used my iphone for pictures. The combination of shaking hands and a touch screen phone camera do not produce very good pictures. But these pictures will be some of the most cherished and worst pictures I have ever taken. <br />
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Prophet again. President Monson was sitting in the front row of the third section. We were in section 1. As he got up he greeted everyone along section 2 and it was taking some time. There was only a few people in section one so when he came to our section he pointed to Jacob and came right up to him. </div>
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President Monson also asked Jacob if he was going to be a missionary. Jacob responded "YES" and said after his favorite primary song "I am a missionary now". It was very sweet. <br />
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In the row behind us was a small family. They had gone to the end of their row to greet the prophet too. When their little boy approached Pres. Monson, his parents were trying to get a picture. President Monson said let's let your parents get a picture and he undid the rope that was between the crowd and himself. He then motioned for Jacob to come over. He put his arm around him and gave him a squeeze and posed for a picture, and said </div>
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After this I was pretty much a mess. I remember when I was about Lydia's age meeting the Prophet: President Benson. We could not shake his hand, but we did get to wave to him and say hello. I remember my mom crying and it being such an amazing experience to be it the presence of a living Prophet. It was a moment that our family cherished forever and I now two of my children we getting the same experience. <br />
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After President Monson moved along, here came President Henry B. Eyring. He greeted us too and was so kind and full of light. As Lydia and Jacob shook his hands I was attempting to take a picture. He said, "let's have your mom get a picture of all of us together." He posed with Lydia and Jacob and I pushed the camera button on my phone several times. President Eyring even said: "Am I doing alright Mom? " In which Zeke replied "you are doing great!" Feeling a little rushed I said I think I got it. Only to find out later that none of the times I pushed the button with my shaking fingers resulted in a picture:( </div>
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We greeted them and they both said "Good to see you". Elder Hales was very frail and needed help walking out of the conference center. But despite his frailties he was so happy and cheerful. Both Zeke and I felt a special love and admiration for this man at that moment. </div>
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Then Elder Holland came next. He greeted Jacob first and commented on how he really liked his ruby shirt. It almost seemed funny to be greeting an apostle in street clothes, let alone have him make a comment about it. Then like many of the other apostles we shook their hands thanked them for his service and dedication and told him we loved him. </div>
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After everyone had gone, we stood there in a little bit of disbelief of what we had just experience. These were men with a special witness of Jesus Christ. They were men we listened to during general conference, we strive to follow their counsel and teaching. We love and sustain them! <br />
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When we met up with the boys after, Mason was excited to tell me that he had seen Elder Christofferson in person waiting for the elevator back stage. I asked him if he shook his hand and he said, "I kind of forgot I had a hand". As we shared our experience with them they were a little bummed about not being there with us, but in the end they were happy for our family and grateful for the experience they had being in such a wonderful production. <br />
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Our older boys Landon and Mason have been involved in scouting since they turned 8 years old. They have learned and experience so much from their involvement in scouting and this past summer right before we moved they were awarded their Eagle Scout award. We had a very busy spring completing two eagle projects in our family. Landon worked hard with many volunteers landscaping the courtyard of his middle school. Mason held a book drive for a homeless resource center and was able to collect over 1500 books to donate. Both of them did the majority of this work and we were so proud of the work and effort they put forth to accomplish these big tasks. </div>
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A few weeks after settling in to Utah, Zeke had read on the church news website that they were accepting applications for participation in an Eagle Scout choir that would perform during a celebration broadcast the church was putting on at the end of October. The requirements were you needed to be an Eagle Scout, have singing experience, and live within 100 mile radius of SLC. This opportunity seemed to fit Landon and Mason. Both love scouting and have been involved in school choirs and performances. They submitted the application and were accepted a few days before the first practice. There were 8 practices over the course of 6 weeks, so our family or either just Zeke or I would make the drive to SLC weekly. Sometimes we would stop over at Grandma and Grandpa Evans, sometimes we would do some shopping for things for the house, attend a session at the SLC temple, or just sit in the conference center and watch the practice. This was a busy time for our family but very awarding none the less! </div>
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Many of the practices went late on school nights, and adding an hour drive to that was a big sacrifice for these 9th grade boys! But sitting where the tabernacle choir sits, singing for the Prophet, celebrating scouting and being part of something wonderful was all worth it. <br />
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The 90 minute program started off with two Boy Scouts rappelling from the rafters down the stage carrying the American and Boy Scout Flags. Trumpeters, located throughout the Conference Center, sounded the call to attention. A choir of adorable Cub Scouts ran on to the stage and sang the national anthem and a Scout led the audience in the Pledge of Allegiance. </div>
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A fun song that was added after rehearsal started was "Mom you earned your Eagle". This was a tribute to the moms of scouts. I loved it! </div>
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President Thomas S. Monson was in attendance and received recognition for his lifetime support and exemplary leadership of scouting. It was also announced that the new Leadership Excellence Complex being constructed in West Virginia will be named after Thomas S. Monson. A well deserving man!</div>
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Jacob is loving 1st grade. He comes home with the cutest cheers and songs. We love that he always wants to share them with us. Here is his September cheer that we heard daily. </div>
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September started out with new adventures for many. <b>Kaitlyn our niece started collage at BYU.</b> We took advantage of the one day (move in day) to let the boys go and see her new dorm room (after that no boys are allowed in her bedroom). She has the cutest dorm room. It brought back a flood of memories for Zeke and I of when we went away to collage 20 years ago!! Can't believe this fun, smart, pretty freshman is starting collage, but we are excited to have her only a short drive away. <br />
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The Findlay's invited us to spend the weekend up at Bear Lake. They have a fabulous piece of land with a trailer on it. Since we were feeling like our lives had just started to settle down from moving all our stuff, we opted out of digging all our camping gear out of the storage unit and instead just woke up early on Monday and drove to Bear Lake. My kids had a blast! They love spending time with their cousins and they also love hanging out at a beach. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We finished off the night at Old Ephrim Pizza Parlor where we ordered the largest pizza ("Old Ephrim") we had ever seen. It was so big that even with 3 teenagers and 7 regular eaters you would think we would have finished all of it but to our disappointment we couldn't. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">There is a temptation not to far from our home. It's call the Kong Kone. At the local Macey's grocery store they sell super large yummy ice cream cones for just pennies. The ice cream is thick and creamy and they even have an option to get it dipped in chocolate or the flavor of the day (ie butterscotch, bubble gum, blueberry etc). When we read in the store ad that they were going to hold a kong kone eating contest we were all over the opportunity to win a kong kone every week for a year. Landon and Mason were up helping their cousin Cameron with his Eagle project so rest of us decided this would be a fun Saturday afternoon activity. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">First there was the eating contest for kids under 7. Jacob joined in the fun. He tried his best but there were other kids that had a greater craving for ice cream. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">After was followed by Lydia's age group. She was more excited to have some free ice cream and said early on that she wasn't in it to win it, but she had fun none the less. <br /><br />After was the teenagers and adults. We all thought Dad would win it for sure. He loves ice cream and this eating contest was right up his ally. He had a plan about how to eat it fast, but in the end the large amount of cold ice cream in his chest and cold headache prevented him from finishing. It was a fun afternoon and it's probably better that we did not win the weekly ice cream cones. </span></td></tr>
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We sure enjoyed our visit with my brother Josh. He came to speak to the faculty at BYU for a few days and we got to spend the evenings with him. He was able to come to one of Lydia and Jacob's soccer games and hang out at our house. Then the next night Melissa and her boys came up so they could see him too. The adults went out to eat and Josh took us to one of his favorites collage day eateries. The funny thing about this restaurant was that it had shrunk since he had been there. There were only 2 tables in the restaurant. One for us and the other was full of collage students. </div>
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It was a big deal for Jacob to loose his first tooth. He has been waiting since he was 4 to loose a tooth so it was very exciting for him. We were glad the tooth fairy remember to come on the first night, as it often takes her several nights to get to us. </div>
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Lydia loves to camp and she was feeling a little slighted that we never got the opportunity to camp during the summer. With several camp grounds up the canyon, only minutes from where we are building our home, Zeke thought the kids would enjoy an overnighter in the woods before it gets to cold. Landon and Mason have had plenty of camping experiences with scouts that they opted out of this camping trip and Lydia and Jacob went up the beautiful Whiting canyon in Mapleton and found a great camping spot. Zeke found the bare essentials in the storage unit to make the experience bearable. Zeke bought all the yummy treats that make camping fun, they went on hikes, jump roped, threw ballse, etc. These three had a great time together. In fact, they had such a good time that they spent the majority of Saturday up there and with out cell service Mom began to worry and thought they may have been eaten by a bear so she went looking for them only to find out they had just left. </div>
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Due to some internal issues with our builder nothing happened on our house in August. After everything was ironed out, September was a very productive month. We love to drive by and see the daily progress. We started the month with a big hole in the ground and by the end of the month the house was framed except for the roof. </div>
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Filling the big hole with the beginnings of a home! </div>
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Future basement... the neighbor boys who are in our primary class tell us that when it was just the foundation it was a great place to play spies! </div>
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Starting to look like a house. </div>
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The 3 of us sure enjoyed this simple pleasure each day. </div>
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We love Utah State University, Logan, Aggies Ice Cream, Aggie Football, and family so we were excited to be part of USU's homecoming this year. My parents came down for a visit during that time and it was fun being able to spend that time with them too. </div>
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We started out the homecoming celebration running in the 5K. Both Zeke and I ran, along with Landon and Mason and my parents. It was a blast running around campus. </div>
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A picture after the race. We didn't know this was a category but our family won for having the most members of a family run. The prize was an awesome USU blanket, 2 sport bottles, a pennant, and lots of great gift certificates and coupons. We scored big time with this prize! </div>
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Zeke killed it! Earning 1st place for adult male. He has had a goal to run a 5K under 20 minutes and he did it with two seconds to spare! Way to go Zeke! </div>
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After the race we went straight to the parade, where we showed our Aggie spirit and our post 5K oder:) </div>
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One of the best things about going up to USU's homecoming is getting to see my wonderful Grandparents. We stayed at their house and had a nice visit with them over the weekend. We are so blessed to have both of them around. </div>
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Landon and Mason joined cross county this year. It has been such a great thing for them to be involved with. When the season started the weather was in the 90's and the altitude was a lot higher than we were use to, but these boys stuck it out and are great runners because of it. It has also been a great place for them to make some good friends and feel involved in a new school.</div>
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Every Friday they have a meet in the district somewhere, and every meet they get faster and faster. We are so proud of them and they both have developed a passion for running now. </div>
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Jacob has always loved anything that has to do with balls. He has enjoyed playing soccer the last two seasons so we knew it would be important for him to be able to play this fall. He enjoyed every minute of it. No matter what the weather was, or how the team played Jacob had a blast with his teammates. He also continues to be a good little player! </div>
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Lydia has played soccer for many years and she has been fortunate to always be on nice teams with great coaches. We were a little nervous about having her start fresh in a new place. But this year was no different. She had a very nice team of girls and a great coach. A new soccer player emerged from Lydia. She found greater confidence in the sport as well as some fierce competitiveness. Her team won all but two games and she was one of the top goal scorers for her team. </div>
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Summer for the Evans kids we exactly 2 months long! At the end of July the kids were feeling a little bummed knowing that the schools in Utah start almost 2 weeks before their school in Washington would start. But once we got down to Utah and went through the long school registration process and they visited their new schools the feeling of being jilted out of few weeks of summer went away and they became excited to get back into a routine and meet their teachers and new friends. </div>
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Going to a new school is not easy when you are in 9th grade, but these guys handled it with ease. They have gone to 3 years of middle school and now they get to attend Jr. High. This Jr. High is fairly new and it feels a little bit more like High School. Overall they like their classes. Mason's favorite is Orchestra of course and Landon liked all his classes the same, but we were pleased to hear that he had been pegged as the Seminary Pianist for his class (more motivation to practice:)</div>
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Lydia and Jacob school day starts exactly one hour later than the boys. Since we are not currently living in the school boundaries, Zeke drives the boys when he goes to work and I take these two cuties one hour later. Lydia started 5th grade this year and Jacob started 1st!</div>
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Lucky enough she had met two girls from church that were going to be in her class. From these friends we found out her teacher is a first year teacher that student taught 4th grade last year at the same school. Everyone loved her and she was wanted by many as for their 5th grade teacher. We were able to meet her at an open house the day before school started and after that Lydia was super excited for the school year to start. </div>
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It has always been hard for me to send off any of my kids to 1st grade. I love having them home with me for at least some of the daytime. However, this boy has been on a 1/2 afternoon schedule for 3 years, so he was thrilled to be able to go to school in the morning with his big sister. We visited Jacob's class the day before school started and got him familiar with his surroundings. He has a vey sweet teacher who has been at the school teaching 1st grade for 12+ years. Jacob's biggest worry about starting school was what playground he would get to play on. There are two playgrounds at the school, one that he felt like was for little kids and one that is for bigger kids. Luckily enough he gets to play on the red and black playground that he thinks is more for the bigger kids! </div>
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<br />Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08300512014999586953noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406039899472211926.post-51347986467119529622013-08-18T22:21:00.000-06:002013-08-18T23:14:45.130-06:00Catching our breath! It's been a long time since we have posted anything on the blog, can you believe I am updating it? I can't! Seems like the more behind I got the less I would even look at our blog or any other blog for that matter. Now that we have moved to Utah, it seems a good time to start up again. Hopefully, I can update it regularly so not to get too far behind. It is our desire to keep in touch with many of our family and friends in Washington and in other parts of the country. <br />
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Well, we have been in Utah for 1 week. It's been a whirlwind! Leaving Washington and our friends and family there was very hard! After a very busy month, with a family reunion, packing, farewell parties, loading the truck, cleaning the house, court of honor for both boys, and trying to squeeze in every last experience in. Surprisingly, we were able to get everything done without having a nervous breakdown. We were so grateful for all the help and support given to us during the move. We had more people than expected show up to help us load the trucks and I had several friends come by and help me clean the house for the new owners. Moving brings out the true dirt of a house, and letting my friends see that dirt was difficult for me, but it was so nice to spend the afternoon chatting with them while we cleaned, and I have to say the house looked pretty good when we were done with it! We could not have gotten everything done with out the support of all our friends and family. <br />
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We spent our last night in WA at my parents house and enjoyed dinner with Matt and Jama's family. Our children love their cousins and it was hard to say "see you later" to them. In the morning we went over to the house one last time to gather a few things and say our goodbye to our home of 9 1/2 years. It was a tender time as we walked around our home and reminisced about all the good times we had there. A few friends stopped by to say one last good bye. Looking around our empty home it was almost surreal, all our stuff was out of it and it was just a house now. The most important part of our house were those that resided in it. At 9:30am the new owner showed up with their moving trucks. Zeke answered a few questions he had about he sprinklers and security system and then it was a handshake and the house was theirs. They were excited about it and that was nice to see, but I have to admit it is very weird to think about another family living there. <br />
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Later we met my parents for breakfast at a Sunbreak (a favorite breakfast spot). We figured it would be good to get all our stomachs full for the long drive, since packing snacks and other foods was the last thing we wanted to worry about. The majority of us had whip cream with hot chocolate. The amount of whip cream they put on their hot chocolate is ridiculous, we figured they probably used 2 cans just for our table. However, I the whip cream helped easy the pain a little. Saying good bye to my parents was the hardest part. We have had so many great times living close to them. They are very supportive of our decision to move, but I know it's very hard for them. We look forward to having them visit us and our visits back to Washington. <br />
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We have made the drive to Utah yearly, so we consider ourselves very use to the 12 hour drive. This time was different. It seemed longer than normal, and defiantly slower than usually, since the Penske truck could only go 70mph max. Plus, I am usually the one sleeping in the passenger seat, but this time I had to drive our van, so there was no break for me. Our emotions were raw, and we were pretty exhausted after such a busy month. We made it to Ontario with tired headaches and got a room for the night. </div>
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We arrived in Spanish Fork around 7pm the next day and were greeted by two of Zeke's brothers and kids, his parents and a former college roommate of mine. Having people here that we love, gave us a boast of energy and made us feel at home. My friend has three girls and Lydia and her oldest hit it right off, and Jacob had 3 cousins to play with, so he was in heaven! </div>
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We met our landlord who is awesome and saw for the first time the furnished house we will be renting for the fall while our home is being built in Mapleton. We feel very fortunate to have found such a great place to live for a few months. It feels like a vacation home. There is a pool out back, a pool table inside, a great playground on the side and a jetted tub (a favorite amongst the little kids). That night while tucking Lydia and Jacob into bed, they both said "Can't we just live here forever". So I guess we should forget building, they just want to live here even if they do have to share a room and a queen bed:) </div>
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After a late night a unloading and a little unpacking Zeke and I snuck away at 11:30pm to Maceys so that we would have some food for Sunday. It's a minute from our home, so it's supper convenient. We crashed after mid night so that we would be able to make the 9am church meeting in our new ward in Mapleton. </div>
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It was miracle that all of us were able to find church clothes, shoes and scriptures and be out the door by 8:30am the next day. We were tempted to miss church and just sleep in, but we knew that going to church was where we should be and we would find the strength we needed there. When we pulled into the parking lot and got out of the car, a gentleman saw our WA license plate and commented "You must be the Evans?" We were just talking out you. He was the Elders Quorum president and had just come out of ward counsel where it was mentioned that our records had arrived. </div>
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We were warmly welcomed into the ward. We were one of three new families that day that had moved in. The other two families are building homes that are not done yet just like us and they are both on the same street we are building on. The ward had been divided last fall and was quite small after the split. But since this last spring they have grown 25% with all the building. The youth program seems slightly larger than what we are coming from, and Lydia and Jacob's primary classes are larger. All the kids made friends. It was not the Mill Pond ward, but it was friendly and the gospel teachings were the same. </div>
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That afternoon we tried to get a few things unpacked the best we could. Then we went over to my college roommate's house (she lives 3 minutes away) and had dinner. Later we came home to a visit from my sister and her family as they were traveling through from St. George. It was a nice Sunday and we loved spending time with these friends and family. </div>
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The following days were filled with getting kids registered for school, the boys went on a temple trip to the Manti temple, unloading the ABF trailer into the storage unit, Lydia and I had a Mom and Me activity day activity, it was Zeke's birthday, and just trying to get settled in to our temporary home, etc. </div>
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We had a some Washington here this week too, as we met up with our friends the Tew's for dinner one night and went to a wedding of a family friend from Auburn who had a reception at a church just up the street. We love that no matter the miles in between friends can still be friends:)</div>
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*Yes, it's hot! But not unbearable, we have stayed cool by going swimming in the pool at our house and the city pool a 5 minute walk away. Plus, there is ice cream at every corner. Not to mention the kong cone at Maceys around the corner from us. (those are dangerous)<br />
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*I miss my morning running friends! Now our 3 oldest kids all want to take up running and now I have 3 running partners, plus Zeke. It's been fun to start my day off with them. </div>
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*On Monday we got a family library card to the Spanish Fork Library. It's only a short distance away. Mason rides his bike there daily (somedays: three times). They only let us check out 10 books at a time, so he returns and checks out books constantly. He loves the freedom of going to the library whenever he wants. It not nearly as big as the King County library, but he does love the LDS church section.</div>
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*The boys are planning on going to Education Week for one day next week. I took them to the BYU campus on Friday to sign up and show them where the youth classes will be. Not even realizing it Mason was wearing a Utah State shirt. An older lady stopped us right before walking into the Wilkinson Center and told him he needed to change his shirt. Ops, didn't even notice. <br />
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We already thought they were a little wacky, then "Wacky Day" came along at the middle school, and these two got WACKIER! </div>
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Landon and Mason are both ASB officers this year, so they got to be involved in planning the first pep assemble of the school year. </div>
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Zeke and I took a sneak peak into this assemble to see all the fun. We love that the boys don't mind us being there. They are confident kids, and it brought lots of memories back for us of the our days in Middle School. Which was only a few years ago-Right?<br />
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Mason (left) participating in a "Minute to Win it Game".<br />
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Mason our future politician looking comfortable at the mic and sitting up front. </div>
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From the time Jacob could hold a toy he loved balls. Anyone in the house could throw or roll a ball to him for hours and he would never get tired of it. So we were excited to have him start soccer this fall, knowing he would enjoy being on a team, especially after watching his older siblings for so many years. It was almost a perfect season for his first time playing: great weather, small team with nice boys and great parents, and one terrific coach! </div>
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The Team "Blue Dragons"! </div>
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Zeke became the coach after the original coach went AWOL</div>
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At the start of the season Jacob did fine, he dribbled the ball, laughed, played and enjoyed making new friends. He was excited every night he had go to practice. He was into the game some times and then in his own world another. </div>
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<span style="font-size: 13px;">Below: At one of the first games giving a fellow teammate Leo a hug. </span></div>
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Then one game mid way through the season... he got it!! Almost as if he all of the sudden understood how to play the game. He was not afraid to attack, was determined to get the ball and the only thing slowing him down was an occasional fall on the ground. </div>
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I love the picture below: taken right after Jacob steals a pass from the opposing team and goes for a goal. The coach of the other team has his arms out asking his team, "What happened?"</div>
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<br />Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08300512014999586953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406039899472211926.post-67552991396689206002012-09-27T22:22:00.000-06:002013-08-18T22:26:18.725-06:00What a deal!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
The ladies in our family have always enjoyed the ballet, early one morning while checking my email, there was an email from the Pacific Northwest Ballet, saying they were having a special (15% off) on the recent show "Cinderella". My first thought was "Lydia would love to see the Cinderella ballet." Out of curiosity to see how much tickets were I clicked on the link. To my surprise every ticket in the house was $2 . Not believing it I decided to pretend I was ordering some, so I picked the seats that would typically be the most expensive, still $2 each. With Lydia not even awake yet and knowing that my boys wouldn't really like the ballet, I ordered 4 knowing Grandma and maybe Jama would come with us. One hour later the website was fixed and the price was back to normal at around $100 a ticket. Jama wasn't able to so Lydia invited her good friend Ella. Our seats were awesome and the performance was amazing. It was perhaps the best $2 I had spent in a long time. </div>
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<br />Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08300512014999586953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406039899472211926.post-13377594297751910602012-06-24T22:14:00.000-06:002013-08-18T22:27:08.019-06:00Sunny days<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Camping has been a Memorial Day tradition for many years. With the dance festival falling on the Saturday of Memorial Weekend our plans were changed and this year we decided to celebrate Memorial Day honoring those that served our country and those that gave their lives for the freedom that we enjoy. </div>
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<br />Zekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01650079469782740380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406039899472211926.post-45939449401286382822012-05-26T21:40:00.000-06:002013-08-18T22:26:42.853-06:00Arise and Shine Forth Dance Festival<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Every four years our stake participates in a multi-stake (Kent, Maple Valley, Renton, and Auburn) dance festival. This was our stake's youth conference for 2012, and since Landon and Mason are deacon they got to participate in the deacon dance, which was a "Tinkling" Philippine Dance. For the six months before the dance festival they would practice every other week learning the steps to their dance, it was a lot of work, and at times very discouraging but in the end it paid off when they got to perform with over 1000 other youth in the area at the Sho-ware Center in Kent. </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The "Tinikling" dance is a pre-Spanish dance from the Philippines that involves two people beating, tapping and sliding bamboo poles on the ground and against each other in coordination with one or more dancers who step over and in between the poles in a dance. It was a difficult dance for anyone, but especially for growing deacons. Zeke spent many of the practices with the deacons so he knew how hard it was. On the day of the performance they practiced out on the blacktop in the hot sun. The ground was hot and the boys worked hard. After the first performance, Zeke felt a little teary knowing how hard these boys had worked, and how all that hard work showed. </span><br />
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<br />Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08300512014999586953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406039899472211926.post-7625804281017865292012-05-15T15:02:00.000-06:002013-08-18T22:27:53.635-06:00PianoLandon, Mason, and Lydia continue to play the piano. During this time of year we are busy with piano recitals. Lydia had her recital in May and she wanted to do something fun for one of her pieces. So she choose to play the song "Bunny Bunny Fo Fo! She in-listed Mason in helping narrating her piece. Mason was a great big brother and was willing even though he felt a little silly. It was memorable!<br />
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Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08300512014999586953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406039899472211926.post-79130983211216860772012-05-11T15:53:00.000-06:002013-08-18T22:28:12.491-06:00Lydia turns 9!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Happy Birthday Sweet Lydia! </div>
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Jacob was a fairly easy kid to potty train except for night time. We tried the don't drink anything before bedtime thing, and make sure he went a few times before he went to bed. We even tried to take him to the bathroom before we went to bed a a few hours after he had gone to sleep, but that still didn't work. </div>
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He didn't like that he had to wear a pull-up and occasionally we would hear him get up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, and on those night he was dry. However he would not get up every night, and so we even thought about getting him an alarm clock that would wake him up. He didn't like that idea so instead we set our alarm clock for 2am and got up with him. Zeke and I sleep pretty soundly, so getting up at 2am was a little bit of a struggle for us. Sometimes one of us would turn off the alarm without even realizing it, other times we would stagger down the hall to his room thinking this is so hard. Then one day as we were talking about it, Lydia suggested that she get up with Jacob. She had an alarm clock and she thinks it would be fun to get up in the middle of the night. Jacob and her love to have sleepovers in her bedroom, so he was thrilled with the idea and so was she, and we didn't seem to mind it as well too. The only condition was that she would need to send him in to our bathroom so we could see that he came, and she could wait outside the door. </div>
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Lydia got Jacob up once a night for two weeks and he has never wore pull ups again. We felt a little guilty about having Lydia do all the work, but she really did like getting up with him and she loved that she was the one that made the difference. </div>
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Easter weekend was wonderful! </div>
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Full of sunshine, festivities, and remembrance of the sacrifice and resurrection of the Savior. </div>
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Saturday was the annual <b>Lakeland Easter Egg Hunt.</b> </div>
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Lydia and Jacob always look forward to this event. </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Lydia's hunt is in the woods. She<br />found lots of eggs and had a great time. </span><br />
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Landon and Mason were able to participate in the teen flashlight hunt the night before. They came home with lots of soda, chips and cookies. (Enough to make these two 13 year olds very happy and hipper!).</div>
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Lydia has enjoyed being part of the Lakeland Hills school musical since Kindergarten. We are lucky at the elementary school to have such an amazing music teacher that puts on an amazing play each year. Every year over 100 kids try out, they have to make a big commitment to be in the play, but making it to play practice every day after school for 3 months, sports and other activities come second when it comes to a conflict. This is an especially busy time of year for Lydia as she is starting soccer, has piano lessons and attends activity day girls. This year since Lydia was a 3rd grader she was secretly hoping for a principal part. After trying out she was trilled to get the role as Duffy in Honk Jr. (One of the ugly ducklings siblings)</div>
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Lydia has a grand entry in the play, when the play starts their are 4 eggs laying in a nest. Lydia is under one of them and she is the last one to hatch. At each of the 3 performances she was all smiles as she cracked open her egg and showed herself to the world (audience). </div>
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Here are some pictures from some of the scenes she was in. </div>
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Lydia had a few speaking parts. In the picture on the righthe is saying "It's not fair Mama"</div>
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Below is their reaction when they first see the ugly duckling. <br />
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Every year Lydia is in the play she makes some new friends and gets to interact with other kids from different grades that she would otherwise be able to.</div>
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Below: The duck family<br />
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Way to go Lydia! We were so proud of you! Looking forward to next years play! </div>
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We went on some great field trips this spring, and it was fun for mom to be able to go on some of them too. </div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Mason at Evergreen State College </span></b></div>
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Mason spent the day down in Olympia, WA at Evergreen State College. </div>
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His Orchestra was given instruction from Dr. Cobbs from the Tacoma Youth Symphony, and then they performed with 3 other schools (from Kent, Seattle, and Centralia).</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Lydia's 3rd grade class to the </span></b></div>
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Lydia spent the day in Tacoma at the Washington History Museum. I got to chaperon these fun 5 kids. </div>
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Hunter, Mckia, Kate, Elizabeth and Lydia</div>
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Kolby, Jeremie, and Bruce</div>
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This is a beautiful museum, with lots of interesting facts about Washington.</div>
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The favorite part was dressing up like the early settlers of Washington.</div>
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It was super fun to go see how they make ice cream at sub-zero. </div>
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Tyler's mom and grandpa own the ice cream shop, so we got special treatment!</div>
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Sub-zero does a science experiment lesson along with showing us how they make ice cream. It was neat to see what liquid nitrogen would do to many different things. </div>
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Yummy!!!</div>
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Mason and Landon have always enjoyed being on stage. They had anxiously awaited the announcement of Mt. Baker's middle school production would be. When it was announced that it would be Cinderella they were a little disappointed. Landon decided he would still try out. Auditions were a week long. Landon would practice at home and occasionally have Mason read lines with him. On the last two days of auditions Mason decided he would try out too. Both landed parts and the show was a great success. boys had a fun time making new friends and being in a cast. </div>
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<b>Starring</b>: <i>Mason</i> as a Royal Guard </div>
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<i>Landon</i> as the Prince's Dad: King Max</div>
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The show was double casted so when they were not the above parts they were extra or town folks. Having two casts makes for two completely different shows, and it makes for two very entertaining evenings. </div>
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Our favorite part of the show was the "Ball". Since both boys are in 7th grade and will not attend dances until they are 14, dancing with a girl was a new thing. Thanks to Mr. Char who taught them how to ballroom dance a little bit. They did a great job and didn't even seem uncomfortable:]</div>
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The Cinderella for Landon's cast was Raylene. She was a beautiful Cinderella and it was fun to see Landon have a dance with her at the Ball. </div>
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The emotional ending of the performances. These kids loved putting this play and Mr. Char is well loved. It is especially hard for the 8th graders to say good bye to Mr. Char and the other cast members. Landon and Mason are thrilled they still have one more year of these drama productions. </div>
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After the show Lydia, Jacob, and Quinn are happy to greet the performers, and Jacob and Quinn test out what it's like to be on stage. </div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">On March 28th <u>Jacob</u> turned 5 years old! </span></b></div>
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Jacob started counting down to his 5th birthday about one month into turning 4 years old. He could hardly wait to be a big 5 year old! Though we hate to see him grow up so fast our family sure loves this little boy and we were excited to celebrate him and his firsts five years of life! </div>
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After our cruise earlier this year, Jacob has become interested in pirates. Nowadays, it seems like every birthday needs a theme to go along with the celebration. So a pirate theme was a perfect choice for him. Jacob was especially fascinated with Captain Hook from "Peter Pan". He had asked for a cake with Captain Hook on it. Due to lack of time and creativity, he got a hook cake instead. He loved it! </div>
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Jacob's birthday is one week after Grandma McKinney's birthday. Since Grandma and Grandpa were going to be out of town over his birthday we had a family party the Sunday before to celebrate both of them. </div>
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The day before his birthday, he wanted to take birthday treats to his friends at preschool. He loves Rice Krispy Treats so these cone treats were perfect for the his special day. </div>
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On Jacob's birthday he woke up bright and early and wanted everyone to know it was his birthday. He opened the front door and yelled at our neighbors: "It's my birthday and I am 5 today" </div>
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As a total coincidence, our family scripture study that morning happened to be in Jacob chapter 5.</div>
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And a few times trough out the day I would hear Jacob singing "Happy Birthday" to himself. </div>
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He was one very happy birthday boy! </div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Jacob also had a birthday party with his friends on his actual birthday. </span></div>
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He had lots of fun and loved every minute of it. </div>
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We started the party making pirate pictures with stickers. </div>
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Perfect for a party of friends that ranged from 2-6 year olds</div>
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Other activities included: A <u>balloon stomp</u> where the kids had to attack (pop) the balloons to find a treasure inside (candy).</div>
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<u>Digging for buried treasure</u>: In the sand table in the garage the kids dug to find buried jewels. They each were able to collect several jewels along with some sand for their little sacks. The jewels were so shiny that many of the kids thought they had struck it rich! </div>
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We ended the party with a <u>treasure hunt </u>through the house (due to the rain). The kids had lots of fun looking high and low for clues. In the end they finished by finding chocolate coin favors just in time for the party to be over. </div>
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That evening Jacob got to pick a restaurant to celebrate with his family. His first choice was McDonald's and his second choice was Red Robin (we went with his 2nd). He sat across the table from Zeke and I and just seemed so much bigger all of the sudden. He enjoyed being sung too and he especially enjoyed his free sundae. He ate it slowly savoring every single bite, as if to realize that birthdays only come around once a year. Happy Birthday Jacob! We sure love you! </div>
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We enjoyed a quiet spring break at home this year. With 3 kids involved in school plays, piano, one in soccer, and two in scouts, the kids were excited to just stay home and hang out around the house. </div>
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At the beginning of the week I asked each of them to pick an activity that we could do as a family. I offered to take them to the zoo, go on bike rides, bowling, movies, etc. But they all picked activities they wanted to to at home. </div>
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To start the week, Lydia was in the baking mode and made some yummy chocolate/ mint cookies. We were all glad she wanted to bake, so that we could enjoy the rewards:)</div>
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Lydia took her cooking to a new level with Landon and they made a funny noodle hot dog lunch! </div>
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It always been fun to get together with my High School/ church girl friends. We use to get together almost bi monthly, but with growing kids and busier schedules it has become a semi annual thing at the most. Susie (currently living in Utah) was in town for the weekend, so it was a great excuse to get together. Zeke and I had attended a wedding reception earlier that night and on the way home he dropped me off at a local restaurant for a night out with the girls. It was a surprise too all of us when two HS/church guy friends showed up for our girls night too. Brooke had heard Brian (who lives in Utah) was in town, so she arranged the get together with him and Zach, but didn't tell any of us, as she wanted it to be a fun surprise. </div>
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Brian and Zach were kind of like brothers to all of us, Zach and I were playmates as far back as kindergarten, and Brian was the first to take me on a date. Although it wasn't the typical girls night out conversation topics, we had a fun night laughing and catching up on each others lives. </div>
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We counted between the 6 of us we have 21 kids-- hard to believe.</div>
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Grateful for the friends of my youth! </div>
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The last weekend of Feburary was fun. My sister Melissa came into town with her husband Chris his work. He needed to attend a show held over on the coast in Ocean Shores. We were able to catch breakfast Friday morning with them in Auburn before they had to head out to the coast. But a few hours of seeing her was not enough for my mom and I. Since Chris was going to be working a show most of Saturday we decided we would drive over early Saturday morning and keep her company for the day. Being February and the Washington coast, the weather was definitively not the greatest. When we were about 30 minutes from Ocean Shores, Melissa called and wanted to let us know the power was out in the whole town. She didn't know what exactly we would do in the dark and rain, but we insisted it wasn't the weather we were coming for. It's not very often that the 3 of us get to spend time together with out our children or husbands, so we were going to make the most of the day regardless! </div>
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Even though I brought my camera with me that day, I failed to take any pictures. Guess I pictured taking one of us with the ocean in the back ground, but it was just too darn windy to want to even attempt walking on the beach. Thank goodness for access to pictures on the web, I am able to document our day with pictures that just don't include us with our wind blown hair. </div>
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A favorite stop place for my family along the coast is Seabrook. It's a cute new town 20 minutes from Ocean Shores with quaint home that give a Cape Code/ Norman Rockwell feel. Melissa had only heard us talk about Seabrook, so she was excited to see it. Lucky for us Seabrook still had their power and the rain died down when we were there too. </div>
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After we went to the Elementary School in Pacific Beach where we sampled an array of chocolate! Surprisingly enough to make us sick of Chocolate for a while. </div>
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It wouldn't be mom/sister time with out a little shopping. However the shopping along the coast is pretty sparse. After browsing the one boutique in Pacific Beach we hit the thrift stores. Nothing against thrift stores, I actually get excited about finding a good deal at one every now and then. But this Wacky Warehouse was like shopping the dumpster. Everything was well use, or completely worn out right down to the dirty forks that still had food on them. It was an experience and a memory! </div>
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