Thursday, October 31, 2013

.Ames Hears a Who!

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Happy Halloween everyone! Ames makes a cute little elephant this year. I just added a Who Ville fluff and… wa-la! He’s Horton. ...But the best part about his costume is how warm it is! Nice

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And here are his spooky parents…

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Ok, I didn't make us costumes again this year. Last year discouraged me too much when I worked so hard and couldn't get them all put together. Air was wearing his Elvis wig at our ward Halloween party last weekend, but that's about it.
Hopefully tonight is warm enough and not raining so we can take Ames out trick-or-treating! Can't wait!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

.Pumpkin o’ lanterns

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Halloween is such a great holiday… Last night we got together with the family for our annual pumpkin carve.

Here are the pictures:

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Pictures of Ames' costume are coming up next!

Saturday, October 19, 2013

.our tree

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It happened all at once this spring as I was sitting on a folding chair on our back deck. I was staring at the annoying piles of pine needles that fall from the pine trees behind our back fence. Would it be so bad if I chopped those dang pine trees down one day? Anyway, I suddenly had the realization that we didn't have A SINGLE TREE on our property? How had I never noticed this before? How can anyone stand to have a yard with no trees? So, even though we aren't planning on working on our yard until next year (we've got too much to do indoors first) I couldn't wait any longer to get a tree growing out there.

Here is our front yard before the tree (the flags and paint marks in the grass are where the water and gas lines are):

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Our friend Tim offered to help dig one night in exchange for Air helping out with the youth temple trip… making for a late night of digging. In the rain. Awkward.

I was so grateful for their hard work I made them victory nachos.

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This is the beautiful hole they dug. 4 feet wide, 2 feet deep. It rained and rained and unfortunately the tree nursery was CLOSED the next day, so we couldn't go pick up our tree until a few days later.

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Our friend Dan was so nice to let us use his truck and come help us unload the tree. I gave him cookies.

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Here comes our tree… Eek!

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Here it is after we plopped it into the hole. Perfect fit.

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And then we packed the soil all in and watered it.

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I even saved the old grass and put it back over the dirt.

And here she is!

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The most beautiful, perfect little tree you've ever seen. A 2.5 caliper fruitless Spring Snow Crabapple.

These leaves turned yellow and fell off the tree the day after I took these pictures. Woah.

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Friday, October 11, 2013

.insta-vine

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This week Ames learned to climb onto the couches by himself. This boy is too tall and strong for his own health. Things are getting very interesting. Like whenever I try to make lunch or dinner… or do the dishes… forget about laundry… and vacuuming is out of the question since he’s freaked out by the noise. Those cabinet safety latch things are incompatible with our particular cabinets and I am still in shock over that fact. What am I gonna do!!?? Not to mention I bought a million of them. Also sorry about your hat ending up in the toilet last week, Tiana. You guys wouldn’t believe all the things we find in the garbage and laundry baskets.

We’re figuring things out though and I have to say that it’s all worth it to have such a boy as Ames

Gosh I love him…

Anyway, here are the recent pictures and videos from our phones. Sorry again for the repetition to everyone who follows us on instagram and vine.

↓↓↓Ames visited the temple for his first time//our broken car window, I fixed it myself. Classy right Winking smile↓↓↓
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↓↓↓Air went to man camp with friends//so… I had a girl night watching Masterpiece movies alone↓↓↓
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↓↓↓I only went in to Costco to get pictures printed and came out with a cart full of groceries. How does this always happen//our lawnmower string broke… maybe we’ll buy an electric one next year↓↓↓
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↓↓↓finally got the boy some bubble bath//I made breadsticks↓↓↓
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↓↓↓at the tree farm//Beijing House Buffet. Delicious.↓↓↓
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and the videos:

↓↓↓Loves his Auntie Tessa↓↓↓

↓↓↓This may have been our last evening walk of the summer, it's getting much too cold and dark now↓↓↓

↓↓↓Ames ate this entire ice cream cone with minimal mess and I was super impressed↓↓↓

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