tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31236432841006078162024-03-19T04:43:02.311-05:00melis and aaronblogmelis & aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00373696595208894403noreply@blogger.comBlogger498125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123643284100607816.post-10978573601870997402018-05-02T13:44:00.004-05:002018-05-02T14:39:00.289-05:00Part 5 - Chengdu and going home!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://melis-aaron-life.blogspot.com/2018/05/china-part-1-travel-and-arrival-to-xian.html">part 1 - travel to xi'an and terra cotta soldiers</a></div>
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<a href="http://melis-aaron-life.blogspot.com/2018/05/before-we-were-to-leave-xian-we-got-to.html">part 2 - xi'an and travel to baoji</a></div>
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<a href="http://melis-aaron-life.blogspot.com/2018/05/china-part-3-baoji-dentistry.html">part 3 baoji dentistry</a></div>
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<a href="http://melis-aaron-life.blogspot.com/2018/05/china-part-4-baoji-tourist-stuff.html">part 4 - baoji tourist stuff</a></div>
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Our time in Baoji had come to an end and so we were off to Chengdu.</div>
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After saying our goodbyes to everyone in the hospital on Friday, we made the 2 hour drive back to Xi'an to go to the rail station. It was fun to stop off at the convenience store and buy some yummy and not so yummy snacks.</div>
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The rail station was just like many of the other places where no one really gets in line, but everyone just sort of fights for position. Somehow, we were given a special invite to go down to our train before everyone else and that made the boarding process much easier for our group of 16.</div>
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Stunning country views between Xi'an and Chengdu. We travelled around 200mph and had a 3 hour train ride. It was crazy how much of the train ride was within tunnels through the mountains. Very green and very mountainous.</div>
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Yummy snacks. Barbecue chicken flavored fried potato things.</div>
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Inside of the cabin. Pretty darn comfortable with plenty of room.</div>
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When we got to Chengdu, Tyler was debating extending his trip because he didn't have anything in particular to hurry back to. For fun we walked around the city and Tyler inquired about getting a room. The front desk spoke absolutely NO english. Tyler's Chinese, while improving, wasn't quite there. They eventually found out this hotel was booked. Off to find another place to go.</div>
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Depending on how you count it, Chengdu might be considered China's 4th or 5th largest city. 18 million people. About the size of New York City.</div>
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These dudes were visiting from Inner Mongolia and wanted a photo. I've always wanted to go to Mongolia and so I got a picture too. For real, when I was going on a mission I was thinking Mongolia or Madagascar would be just perfect. I guess this was close enough.</div>
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I asked them if I could take this picture. They all said yes and then turned away! So funny. The kid was laughing though. I guess looking back on it now, it seems a bit weird to have 4 people, dressed up nice, on a scooter... but it just felt normal there.</div>
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There is everything you could think of in this city. Knock off stuff and stuff nicer than anything here.</div>
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Hot spot for hot pot right across the street from our Chengdu hotel.</div>
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And some random clothing site where the dump all the misprinted or other sort of clothes. Found some great stuff to bring home for the kids here. My favorite kind of stuff is the stuff that looks real, but has a misspelling. I got a couple "Aidads" sweatshirts this year instead of Adidas. Top notch.</div>
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Here are a couple of quick snaps from Church on Sunday. For a city of 16 million people, there were 16 people at the meeting that day. So you could maybe say 1 in a million is an active LDS participant in Chengdu. It is held in a pretty nice home. The home used to belong to the district president, but when he moved, the church started renting it out for their services.</div>
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They meet for 2.5 hours each week. They begin by reading a letter from the Chinese government outlining the stipulations under which they are permitted to meet. They talk about how proselytizing is strictly forbidden. If someone asks you questions about church or the gospel, you must tell them you aren't permitted to talk about it. Only foreigners or spouses of foreigners are permitted to meet each week.</div>
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Another interesting thing about the LDS church in China. If you don't live in one of the 10 most populous cities, you are part of the largest geographic subdivison of the church. They meet virtually and are composed of the entire country of China. I was told there are around 260 members. They pause for 6.5 minutes for the sacrament and then resume with someone from within the area giving the sermon for the week.</div>
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Crazy story, but my mission trainer's trainer was the branch president of the ward here. And one of the Dentists from the Chengdu group was companions with him when he was a missionary back in San Jose. So we had a little impromptu reunion.</div>
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My flight out of Chengdu was delayed 6 hours, so I arrived in Beijing too late to catch my flight, or any flight to America. I had to get a hotel room near the hotel in Beijing. I was booked the next day on a flight direct from Beijing to Dallas so I was jazzed about that. But the next day that flight was delayed, then cancelled, then undelayed. It ended up taking of 6 hours late. Because of the delay, we had to stop in Los Angeles instead of heading direct to Dallas. All in all my flight home started Dallas time 9:30pm on Sunday and I walked in the door of my house at Wednesday 4:30 am. 55 hours of travel. Melissa asked me when I was ready to go back, I said if she could come with me, I'd go back tomorrow. Ha! I don't mind travel.</div>
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We worked hard each day, played hard each night. We weren't planning on sleeping much this trip and we were gonna see as much of Baoji as we could. First night we came here, some of the group was looking for a bit of an americanized style of chinese food, so we hopped on the tour bus and went over to a food court next to The People's Park. It had a lot of great options, but I was honestly still full from the amazing lunch we had at the hospital that day, so Tyler and I just walked around the park. The whole city sort of feels like Vegas, there are neon lights and signs and loudspeakers all over the place. Su Jiang-Tao and Tai Bin accompanied Tyler and me and the rest of the group as we wandered around the park.</div>
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Here's that lunch I was talking about that kept me full through the whole day. There were amazing noodles. That bool in the middle is the noodles with a kind of spicy sauce. I had a bunch of those. In addition there were a bunch of yummy veggies. They seemed to add walnuts and peanuts to everything. After I was full on the cold noodles, this amazing ramen style soup came out and I think I ate two bowls!</div>
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The "authentic" chinese food was a bit much for some of the group, so the next day a request was made for fried rice. They did not disappoint. I ate a little bit of everything but the green beans in the middle of this picture (with walnuts) was the winner of this meal. Amazing. The mangoes were really good too.</div>
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In keeping with the food theme, the hospital treated us to a 38 course meal. This was at a restaurant called "Original Baoji"... they prepared a bunch of Baoji specialties and had some traditional chinese music and performances going on in the backgroud. I think I really enjoyed 27 or so of the dishes, tolerated the other 10, and hated their 1 special dish. I didn't bother to learn the name in Chinese, but in english, Tyler and I called it Formaldehyde noodles. It was terrible. I felt bad to offend our friends, but I just couldn't handle the stuff. Su Jiang-Tao dared me to eat another bowl with him and I did it. I about threw up right there in the middle of the restaurant, but I did it!</div>
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After dinner, Tyler and I realized we were just across the river from our hotel, that tall building beyond the bridge, and so we elected to walk home. Took some pictures as we went across the river. Melissa called and we chatted a bit on the bridge. 9:30 pm for me, 8:30 am for her. Wonderful end to a great day.</div>
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Our restaurant was the yellowish light toward the end of the lights on the right side. The big yellow building on the top left is the Baoji Bronze Museum. The big pagoda on the right is how China is everywhere.</div>
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Picture from doorway into the restaurant. The fella in front of me is our tour guid, John, (Zhang Hui-Qi). He is awesome. He is buddhist. Everyday he would tell me and Tyler, "Everything is perfect". He wants to to business with me in China. I'm not sure what we are going to do.</div>
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Tyler looks like he is 3 feet taller than these foot masseuse dudes. He really was just about 2 feet bigger than them. 2 hour massage - $30.</div>
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We went to the Baoji Botanical garden. While there I found out that the first (and one of only two) female Chinese Emperors was from Baoji. (That's a little disputed, but if no one looks it up, it's cool for me to write it down here). One of the reasons I like her is because I have the same Chinese name as her. In China I am Aaron <span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.32px;">武</span>(<span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; font-size: 12.32px;">Wu)</span></span>. We took a picture next to our names.</div>
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There was a little market outside the Botanical Garden. Really there's a little market everywhere in China. They served up some of Tyler's favorite, barbecue gluten arrows, and we got some watermelon and hung out with our friend from Australia, Ellen.</div>
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After the botanical garden, we had one more place to visit, The Jintai Taoist Abbey. This is the birthplace of Tai Chi. I didn't know about this, but Tyler has independently come up with another method of self-expression called "Ty - Chi". Needless to say, this was gonna be a special place.</div>
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This is where it gets amazing. These four monks were walking out of whatever they had been working on and stopped to chat with us. They found out about Tyler's Ty-chi and asked if they could put on a demonstration for us. This guy was UNREAL. He did a 9 minute beautiful Tai-Chi demonstration. Kicks, jumps, punches... the power was awesome to behold. For real!</div>
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Tyler told us the Bronze museum was really cool and so a bunch of us that were at the clinic the day before made a visit over to the museum at lunch. It's a little interesting how they do their schedules over there. They work from 8am to 6pm each day. The clinic is open 7 days per week. Each employee gets 1 day off per week and they stagger their days off. Because they have to be there all day, wether or not the work is done, they tend to take veeeeeeerrrrrrrrrryyyyyyy long lunch breaks. Sometimes they'll even change out of their clothes into regular clothes. It's like a big family at the office. They all hang out all the time with each other. It's crazy how much time they spend with each other. But I guess they don't have yards and kids to take care of outside the office.</div>
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This dude outside the bronze museum looked awesome. We told the kids smoking isn't awesome, but he does look awesome.</div>
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Here's our group headed over to the Bronze Museum. This place was insane. It was free of charge to us. In the photo below is Anne from Boston, Karl (hidden from view), Lori from SLC, Suzzane from St. George, Kristen from Logan, Dr. Tsai from Taiwan, Christie from Boston, David from Taylorsville, and Angie from SLC.</div>
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Here was a little family visiting the museum that yelled out "Foreigner" when they saw me. So naturally I went over and said hello and talked with them. :)</div>
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Last night in Baoji and some of our friends from the hospital invited us to Hot Pot with them</div>
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We didn't know Karaoke would be going on prior to hotpot. The choice of songs was pretty funny. There were some popular ones and some songs the Chinese thought were popular but we had no idea what they were. I think we ended up singing "Fix You" by Coldplay. There is video of this... but it seems to have disappeared. Darn.</div>
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Hot pot was awesome. We sat every other seat, american, chinese, american chinese around the table. Pretty darn fun to have dinner with all of them who know just a teensy teensy bit of english.</div>
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One half of the hot pot was spicy and the other half was not spicy. The dinner tasted awesome. We got some "normal" stuff - beef, pork, chicken, tofu... and some not so normal stuff - cow stomach... Everyone had a great time.</div>
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That was our last night in Baoji. When we made it to the Train Station in Xi'an to take the high speed rail to Chengdu, I indulged in a little McDonalds. It was pretty tasty.</div>
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We were scheduled to work a full week at the Little White Rabbit Hospital in Baoji. We hopped on the bus at 8am and got to the clinic about 20 minutes later. It was amazing, they literally rolled out the red carpet for us. There were TV cameras and a host straight out of the Price is Right to great us. There was a 30 minute ceremony right at the beginning and we got some group photos. They explained how the Little White Rabbit Hospital has grown and it currently is up to 17 locations, with a goal to be at 30 locations by the end of this year or the next. That sign behind my head says something along the lines of, "Grand meeting of Chinese and American dental professionals gathering together to share ideas and methods and treat those who are in need." The Head of the hospital came in and spoke, as well as Karl Koerner, the leader of this trip. His non-profit is called "Help the Children" and this is the 16th or 17th trip he has done. Pretty neat guy. Amazing surgeon as well as he speaks Chinese!</div>
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Picture of the head of the hospital and Dr. Koerner along with some children we'd be seeing this week.<br />
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Dr. David Blanco of Salt Lake City, Dr. Koerner, and Tyler. We'd go have lunch each day across the street at the hospital cafeteria. Which is really just a third floor apartment.<br />
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The hospital arranged fun activities each day at lunch for us. This was calligraphy day. There was also a paper cutting day, a tour of the museum, a day to make pot stickers.<br />
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One of the cute kids I got to see.<br />
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Su Jiang-Tao was the man. Here he is with me. He made sure I had a great experience in Baoji. We FaceTime chat every once in a while now that I am home.<br />
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Group photo of pretty much everyone there. I think we had 7 dentist, a hygienst, and then some daughters and sons.<br />
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The walk to lunch each day<br />
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Here's Su Jiang-Tao teaching Tyler and me how to roll up pot stickers.<br />
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Here's a bunch of shots of Tyler entertaining the kids while they are waiting to get treatment.<br />
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Each day a portion of our group would go on a field trip outside the hospital to tour a school or orphanage. On the day that I went, we went to a school for children with hearing disabilities. These children were screened by the government when they were young and many were given very expensive cochlear implants. This school's purpose is to get them ready to integrate into regular society. We did a little performance of "Once there was a Snowman", toothbrushing instructions, and then chatted with them in small groups. They did some little songs and dances for us as well as gave us pictures they had colored for us.<br />
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Tyler and I got pretty good at dancing with these robots<br />
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There were opportunities throughout the week to lecture to the dentist. Here, Christina, an endo resident from Tufts University is lecturing about tooth reabsorption. It was pretty fascinating listening to the lecture in english, then translated into mandarin.<br />
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This is Dr. Hao Bai. He is now a facebook friend of mine. In China you have to use a VPN if you want to access google or facebook. Everyone there uses an app called WeChat which is amazing and I think it might take over facebook and instagram and venmo. It combines all those apps into one and it is good for donating to beggars on the street, renting a bicycle, sending a picture... everything.</div>
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This here is Tai Bin. He rocks. He spent one of the evenings walking around with Tyler and Me and was just concerned for all of our safety. Good guy.<br />
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It was kind of a quick turn around on the ground in Shanghai. I arrived a bit behind schedule. After I got off the plane, I had to go through border patrol and customs. I had a carry on and had checked 2 larger pieces of luggage. One of them had most of my dental supplies and one of them had clothes and food (I ended up not eating ANY of the food I brought). Once I made it through border patrol, I went and picked up my luggage. It was probably 6:30pm Friday night China time... 5:30am Friday morning Dallas time. After grabbing my luggage, I went through customs. No big deal there as you just wait in a big line with a bunch of Chinese people and then walk through. No real examination of luggage. After getting through, I was excited to be in China for real now. I was tempted to go on the street and check out Shanghai, because I knew I had a 2 hour layover initially, but looking at the clock, I realized I'd already been on the ground for an hour plus, and I needed to get a move on.</div>
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I went and got in the line to check in for my flight to Xi'an. After getting to the front, the ticket agent told me I was in the wrong place because I needed to be in the domestic check-in and I was a the international check-in. Well, I got to the domestic check-in, waited for about 10 minutes before I asked some ticket agent if I could skip ahead because I thought I might miss my flight and was sent over to another line. I jumped in front of about 100 people and went to the other line where there was only 20 people. I jumped to the front of the line. I felt bad, but I think Americans are already known for being kind of rude, so I didn't feel that bad.</div>
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Got my luggage checked in and a new boarding pass and it was off to the races. There was a special security line for people who are late, so I got to go in that one. At this point I was speaking a bit of Chinese, but I was still pretty rusty, but I was really enjoying it. Got through security... it was a little bit of a stalling point when they inspected my back up batteries for my headlight and cell phone charger batteries, but made it through and ran through the airport to my gate.</div>
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At arrival to my gate, I walked right through because most everyone had boarded and was ushered on to a bus which took me to the plane. I made it on the plane and was united with the rest of the Baoji group. Brother Tyler was there and so was the rest of the crew that was traveling from Salt Lake City.</div>
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The next morning we were headed to see the Terra Cotta soldiers. These were buried over 2,000 years ago by the first Emperor of a unified China, Qin Shi Huang. Each soldier is unique, like a snowflake. As we entered the hotel lobby, we got the chance to take about a million selfies with some of the locals. Pretty fun to be in a place where everyone thinks they should get a picture with you.</div>
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I'd have to dig through some old photos, but I have a picture of me doing this exact pose from 2003 in this exact spot. The progress was pretty neat to see. China seems to be a much wealthier country than last time I visited. Last time I came solo and toured the country by train, staying in hostels that cost $8 or $13 / night. Shared rooms. No toilet paper. It was a very different trip.</div>
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This is the main pit, and I think it was the only pit open when I went back in 2003. I think there are around 6,000 figures in this one pit. When they were buried they were brightly colored. These figures were only found in 1974 when a farmer was out ploughing his field. All of this was underground for over 2,000 years!</div>
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There were a couple of other pits to explore, none as huge or impressive as the first pit. There was also this little section of the museum that I was able to grab a nice photo of Tyler in. There was a lot of interest in this place. When we got back to our hotel that night, we noticed our lobby had the exact same display, only there weren't 2,000 people crowded around looking at it.</div>
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This is day 1 of talking with some people visiting from Chengdu. I had gone pretty much 12 years or so without speaking any Mandarin, so it was relaly fun to see that I could still communicate with the grandmas and grandpas, but it was also pretty sad to see how much I had forgotten. It was crazy how fast it all came back though. I think my language abilities increased about 10 times the first day I was there and then tripled a couple days only increasing by about double each day by the end.</div>
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After a day of touring, we went to the Tang Palace Dance show where we were treated to a sort of a Dim Sum meal. I included the menu below so you can see all the food we ate. I had to laugh a little bit when we went in to the performance because it might as well of been in Dallas or Salt Lake or something. It was a very international/American crowd. The servers spoke english, there was an english menu, and it was very much like being in what I imagine Branson or a Viking River Cruise might feel like. I embraced it and it was a lot of fun to have everything described in English.</div>
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We met these little 9 and 10 year olds out playing on the street. It was fun to talk with them. They yelled out to each other "Waiguoren" when we walked by which is how they say "foreigners", so I called back at them "zhonguoren", which is how you say "Chinese". They laughed and wanted to compare phones and talk about good places to take photos. They were making fun of how thick my phone was until I showed them it was a case for my credit cards I use and then they thought american technology was cool again.</div>
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<a href="http://melis-aaron-life.blogspot.com/2018/05/china-part-1-travel-and-arrival-to-xian.html">part 1 - travel to xi'an and terra cotta soldiers</a></div>
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<a href="http://melis-aaron-life.blogspot.com/2018/05/china-part-3-baoji-dentistry.html">part 3 baoji dentistry</a></div>
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Before we were to leave Xi'an, we got to visit 3 tourist spots. The Giant Wild Goose Pagoda, The Great Mosque of Xi'an, and the Bell Tower and Drum Tower. Xi'an is a far Western Chinese city and it's location has made it somewhat of a gateway for outside religion and thought. This Pagoda houses Buddhist scriptures and such. It used to be 3 stories taller, but an earthquake in 1556 reduced the height by 3 stories. Crazy to think this thing was here way before Columbus ever came to America.</div>
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Now we are getting to what I was real excited about. These are called roujiamo<span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span lang="zh-Hans" style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" xml:lang="zh-Hans">肉夹馍 </span>and taste delicious. Basically a slow cooked pork sandwich. It is said that Islam would've penetrated much more into China, but China loves it's pork. You'll notice in the pictures how happy I am after eating this. I think the photo of me is me offering Tyler a bite. I was hoping he'd say no. </div>
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And here it is. Walking in to the lobby of our hotel in the small town (3,000,000 people) of Baoji. I have to admit, I was embarrassed when I first walked in. I thought I was coming in to a destitute little village to help people out. We showed up a 4... maybe 5 star hotel and were treated like royalty in there. The Chinese overdo everything and this hotel was awesome. By the end of the trip I was at ease that we were being able to help out a ton of less fortunate Chinese kiddos and still have some of the creature comforts of home. The hotel is the Baoji Crown Plaza.</div>
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aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12777579907182572587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123643284100607816.post-16206490843423550262014-03-04T17:48:00.001-06:002014-03-04T17:48:14.267-06:00These are my kids.So, I took some photos of the kids today. Why? Because the house was clean (a small miracle, if you know this crew). There is something magical about a clean space---you just feel better being in it. The kids could feel it too.<br />
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Tillie is 5.75 years old. Calvin is 4. Benny is going to be 1.5 (tomorrow). <br />
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Sometimes I want to freeze time. This afternoon I wanted to do that.<br />
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(this morning at Costco when Cal was whining b/c he "was staaaarving!" (even though he'd just eaten 5 Wendy's chicken nuggets, a mini frosty, fruit snacks, and panda chocolate snacks) and Benny was wiggin' out screaming his guts out b/c he was ready. to. be. out. of. that. cart!!! (it was nap time, I was pushin' it)-----I DID NOT want to freeze time this morning. Frankly, I would have been happy to fast forward it!)<br />
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Sigh.<br />
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Where were we? Ah, yes. The time that I wanted to freeze time.<br />
Let's take a look at these little stinkers.<br />
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I love this last one. Benny feeling so proud of himself as he runs to the camera, Cal yanking at Tillie's dress (those two are constantly badgering each other...)<br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">This is my life as of March 4, 2014. Feeling pretty lucky right about now.</span></div>
<br />melimbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13933896899999395418noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123643284100607816.post-81631185075342483502014-02-03T15:40:00.000-06:002014-02-03T15:40:11.631-06:00calvin and tillieMelis just sent me a text and it said:<br />
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Cal said to Tillie, "hey you can help me make my jake ship" (referring to his duplo lego jake and the neverland pirates ship he hasn't stopped playing with since he got it for christmas).<br />
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Tillie replied, "Oh, sorry bud! I gotta eat my snack and then do my homework. But I can help after that!"<br />
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Cal said, "That's ok Til. I can wait for a thousand years."<br />
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Melissa said, "I die!! So cute!"<br />
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Anyway. Quick story. We are trying to organize our lives and get the blog working again. We just printed off a blog book for 2008 via blog2print and it was super fast and easy and awesome, but a little pricier than blurb, but WAY quicker. Just less flexibility with layout and formatting and that sort of thing.aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12777579907182572587noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123643284100607816.post-58442009253743831842013-11-25T22:05:00.003-06:002013-11-25T22:05:57.178-06:00Week before Thanksgiving 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well, well, well. Looky here. I'm blogging tonight. Aaron and I had a deal that if he started working on printing out our dear old blog into books, then I needed to start doing more blog posts. DEAL. </div>
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In the past few months, I've really wanted to start bloggin' again, but knowing I'm a full year behind and 6.9 billion photos have been taken (or there-abouts), you can imagine how overwhelming that sounded. </div>
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So, I'm taking it week by week. Starting NOW. And, when I can/feel like it I'll blog some more. Deal? Deal. (Sheesh, I'm all about making deals right now!)</div>
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He is 14 months now, and he looks 5 years old. Okay, well, maybe not 5, but at least 3 to me. I think the baseball hat really tipped the scales for me. This kid became a TRUE walker this past month (Til and Cal started walking at 13 months, so we weren't concerned.) This boy does things on his own terms. The stinker has been able to balance, stand on his own, and walk a few steps whenever he felt like it for the past few months---but the second we tried to coerce him into walking, he'd go limp and throw his head back or "go BONELESS" as one of our new books coined it. </div>
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Becca came up to town for the weekend, so we decided to try out the new <a href="http://emporiumpies.com/" target="_blank">Emporium Pies</a> that just opened (check out their website. Their branding is off the hook!). Their other location in Dallas is phenomenal, and Becca has been a huge fan, so obviously we had to go do some taste testing. Cal's stance? Priceless.</div>
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Check out that packaging! Too fun, right? We ordered their Cloud Nine slice and thought we were getting their banana cream, but ended up getting their Smooth Operator. No worries. It was all delicious. Check out the descriptions on their website. We were big fans.</div>
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From there, we ran up to Aaron's office so we could trade cars/kids because Tillie was invited by some of her school friends to go to one of those paint-your-own-pottery places. She'd been living for this day, so we wanted to make sure we were on time (and obviously, didn't want to bring the baby, b/c he'd have a field day in that place!). Luckily, Becca was still around b/c Aaron was running late with a patient, so she watched the boys in his office waiting room and we zipped downtown for the fun. THANK YOU, BECCA!! (turns out she was waiting for him for 45 minutes!?!)<br />
We got there and the girls had already picked their gifts for the teacher (that's the whole reason we went, so they could make a Christmas craft for their kindergarten teacher, fyi!)---luckily, they chose an ornament to paint. The price tag on the ornaments were MUCH better than a huge vase or platter! :) <br />
Tillie quickly got to work when she started complaining about her tummy "not feeling so good." Uh oh. Luckily, they had a little tiny bathroom there, so I told her to take her time. Poor baby, her tummy was so rumbly and she felt horrible and kept saying, "Oh, mom, I don't know what to do! I just don't feel so good." Next thing I know she's throwing up everywhere. :( It was so sad. She threw up a few times while we were in that tiny bathroom, and when she felt like we could leave, we quickly left the bathroom, paid for the ornament, wrote her name on the ornament, and grabbed a quick picture with the girls. Look at this poor pale and fake smile face below!<br />
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Poor girl felt miserable. We told the girls we need to do another playdate soon to make up for our quick departure!</div>
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On the way home, she threw up a few more times (amazingly enough, she was able to throw up in a fast food cup! GLORY! GLORY! that girl has skills!). Throwing up became the theme for the day. She couldn't keep anything down for almost 24 hours. I gave her a bath and she her little teeth kept chattering, so I grabbed this towel to help keep her warm. My sister made the comment that I must have really felt bad for her, otherwise I wouldn't have used our "decorative" towel for her. Stinker. But, she totally called me on it. I did feel SO bad that she was sick! <br />
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Is that a miserable face or what?!</div>
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Because it was such a sad weekend, we decided to do something to lift our spirits! There's no way better way to cheer someone up than Christmas cheer! :) I was super excited to pull out our BRAND NEW TREE that we bought the day after Christmas last year! As we pulled it out to start decorating, we discovered that our colored lights had died, so we started putting on white lights (my fave!) to decorate the tree. Year after year, I've told Aaron I wanted our tree to be decorated with white lights b/c it looks so darn classy. But, he LOVES the colored lights, so year after year, I go along with it. (I'm a super nice wife like that. So charitable and loving.) So, I was secretly thrilled that those colored ones bit the dust!</div>
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BUT! we got one strand of the white lights on the tree and I wasn't digging it! It looked too commercial to me! WHAT!? I found myself wishing for the colored ones b/c it just seemed so much more... inviting and warm. haha! Talk about a 180 degree mind shift! </div>
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So, obviously, Aaron capitalized on that and ran to the store to grab some new lights. Here is Jake (and the Neverland Pirates), I mean, Calvin testing out the lights for his dad. He took his job very seriously.</div>
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Don't mind that random "W"---the mantle is not "Christmas ready" quite yet!</div>
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Fast forward to the next day::: Because Tillie was a mess, we decided that Aaron would stay home from church with her (I was on organ duty that Sunday, blast!). And, it just made sense for him to keep the boys home too. Here they were reading a book while Tillie slept. I love this picture.<br />
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Turns out, church was like a vacation for me because I wasn't chasing after/entertaining the kids---especially a certain crazy 14 month old (whom I love dearly!). Lo and behold, I actually got to take notes/draw! A novelty at this stage of my life!</div>
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Tillie was doing much better, but still wasn't 100%, so we kept her home on Monday. We LOVE having her home! And, since we had so many bananas around, we decided to make some <a href="http://www.melskitchencafe.com/2012/09/healthy-banana-blueberry-muffins.html" target="_blank">banana-blueberry muffins</a>. We love that recipe around here.</div>
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<strike>Jake</strike> Calvin approves. Here's the proof. He ate 4 in this sitting. Crazy boy.</div>
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And here's my little sleeping beauty. I love when she can take a real true nap.</div>
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Lucky for me, we still have our old Christmas tree that is about 5' tall, so I put the white lights on it and decorated it for our front room. Look at that beaut!</div>
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Here's the view from outside! So magical! I've always wanted a tree in a front room!</div>
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And, since we had all the lights out, I decided to do a little decorating with our huge "W" I found at a flea market (wow, why does it seem like I have a billion "W" letters around here? I don't! I only have two!). Anything with twinkly lights? I'm a fan. It's staying! I love this whole Christmas decorating game!</div>
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A few other noteworthy events... in our church, my calling is the Relief Society activity coordinator. We put together a really great night. Here's the flyer I made---I omitted a few specifics, but here's the gist:<br />
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::: Here's Tillie in front of her darling pilgrim in the kindergarten hallway. I die when she draws those little eyelashes! haha!<br />
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::: Calvin (as Jake---can you tell he's a fan?!) playing trains while Benny boy naps and Tillie is at school. We've become quite good friends now that we have so much time to spend together. It's one of those "silver linings" that my mom talked about with Tillie going to kindergarten. She was right. It's been really great for us both!</div>
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So, there you have it. The week before Thanksgiving 2013. Blogging is fun! Let's try this again soon!melimbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13933896899999395418noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123643284100607816.post-75914899307070765032013-09-10T12:47:00.002-05:002013-09-10T12:47:45.193-05:00More Tiny Dancer fabric delights!!Dear friends and country-men!<br />
Guess what Kokka decided to do? Interview us for their <a href="http://kokka-fabric.com/en/textile-story/tiny-dancer/" target="_blank">blog</a> (now you can know the 411 about each pattern) and then they showed some of the LOVELY samples they created for Spring Quilt Market 2013!<br />
Here are a few gorgeous professional photos from their <a href="http://kokka-fabric.com/en/textile-story/tiny-dancer/" target="_blank">blog post</a>:<br />
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Pretty exciting, no? Seeing as I'm not a photographer, I was so sad that I couldn't show you guys an ACCURATE representation of the fabric---and alas, now we have these!</div>
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Feel free to head to their Kokka blog to check it out <a href="http://kokka-fabric.com/en/textile-story/tiny-dancer/" target="_blank">HERE</a> in English and if you know Japanese, then you can go <a href="http://kokka-fabric.com/textile-story/tiny-dance/" target="_blank">HERE</a>. :)</div>
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And, of course, if you are interested in purchasing for your shop and you're in the US, contact <a href="http://www.sevenislandsfabric.com/melissawoodforkokka.html" target="_blank">Seven Islands</a> and they can hook you up.</div>
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But if you are wanting to purchase some for your stash, so far, I've only seen it at this <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/156420897/kokka-japanese-fabric-melimba-tiny?ref=shop_home_active" target="_blank">Etsy shop called Miss Matatabi</a>. She has a ton of amazing Japanese fabric in her shop and carries almost, if not all, of our Tiny Dancer patterns! Woot! Woot!</div>
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Here's a cute photo I took from <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/156420897/kokka-japanese-fabric-melimba-tiny?ref=sr_gallery_16&ga_ref=similar_items_sash&ga_filters=supplies+fabric&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery" target="_blank">her Etsy shop</a>:</div>
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Anyway, fun news on the fabric front!</div>
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Of course there's a BILLION other things going on in NORMAL regular Melissa life---like my baby girl starting FULL DAY kindergarten (trust me, I have LOTS to say on this matter...)</div>
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Or we could talk about how I might need to retire soon from being Calvin's translator, b/c he just started speech therapy at the elementary school this past week. We're already seeing progress!</div>
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Or we could talk about the fact that my husband and I are both now playing the organ for our church worship services (talk about anxiety!). Obviously I have no pictures of that, b/c no one wants to see a picture of me at the organ bawling my eyes out! :) JK! That might be a great picture.</div>
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Here are some dolls I created before Market to showcase the fabric. Vendors like to see project ideas with the fabric, and I thought these would be fun to do. And, yes, the dolls each have strong magnets in their hands and feet so they can do all sorts of tricky dance moves. Just call me fancy pants!</div>
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Here they all are together for their close ups. :) Originally, I had planned on them all holding hands together, like the fabric depicts, but I made the arms so long that they could go over their heads and do the splits... so to have them sitting together and holding hands would mean they'd need to be sitting about a foot apart... which isn't wonderful for photo purposes. So, they're crossing arms instead.</div>
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If you would like me to do a little tutorial for you with some helpful hints in re-creating your own Tiny Dancer doll, let me know in the comments and I'll try my hand at it!</div>
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::: Luckily, for me, my sweet mother-in-law agreed to fly down to watch Tillie and Calvin while Aaron worked. It was SO great to have her come down and I'll do a post dedicated to all the fun they had while I was away AND the great times we had together after I got back home. Sufficeth to say, Grandma Wood is the BEST! </div>
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::: I planned from the get-go to take little Benny bear with me. And, luckily, Becca and my mom agreed to come along to Portland to join in the fun and tag-team with this little 8 month dolly. Having a baby along for the "girl's weekend" was a little tricky at times, and the flight was SUPER fun (oh wait, when is flying with a baby EVER fun??), but we made it! And, honestly, who can't help but LOVE that baby face?! Thankfully, Becca flew out from Dallas with me and she was the best helper! Especially on the flight home when Bensey decided to have a blow out of epic proportions. Thank you for that, Benson. We really appreciated it.<br />
When we arrived in Portland it was approximately 2am for us, making for a SUPER late night. Here we are in all our glory. Notice the happy camper in the baby wrap. Amazing!<br />
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::: Upon entering the Convention Center, we knew we had to get in touch with the Seven Islands crew, because we had the quilt, dolls, dress, and a bag to give them to use in the display AND they had our special badges (your ticket into the show). The only problem was, we couldn't get a hold of anyone. Uh oh. Luckily for us, the Seven Islands booth was located pretty close to one of the side entrances, and I was able to convince the guard to let me go in to get their attention. </div>
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Anyway, we were able to get in, give them our delights and they were genuinely excited to see what we had whipped up! So many nice comments! That was a fun moment for us all. They got to hanging the quilt and setting out our stuff. It was all very thrilling!</div>
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And, best of all, was that they had a whole huge area dedicated to our line! They split their booth into four sections and ours was one of the big lines they were spotlighting! Woot! Woot!</div>
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We had no idea they'd market the line so well! And, we didn't think they would have any samples made up (that's why we scrambled to make so many things ourselves) but hello! They had a ton of bags and dresses all made up! I think there were 17 pieces in total! Amazing! (can you tell how thrilled we were? Look at all those exclamation marks I just used!)</div>
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Here's the quilt my mom created, on the bottom left is the navy/orange tote bag that Becca sewed, and then in the middle are my three dolls. The rest were sewn up by the Kokka team in Japan! Neato!!</div>
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They even had a pretty sign made up with the images we used on the selvage! Check out those cute little bags! I wish there was a way I could steal those samples! They'd made perfect little scripture bags! ha!</div>
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Agh, those yucky lights at the convention center don't do the colors justice! The yellow looks almost neon in these, but as you are aware, that's not real to life. It's a wonderful mustard color and the blues are much prettier in real life. Oh well, carry on, we must!</div>
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See the goal with the panel, was that if someone bought a small chunk, they could do several different projects with it. An easy tote bag, a cute skirt (like the pink one my mom made below on the left), a dress, etc. No need to coordinate fabrics with it, unless you want to! We also think it would be really cute as a border print on a quilt. That could be cute, right?</div>
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Cute Becca. Looking darling, as always.</div>
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And that Nana Nise with her grandbaby, Benson Elmer (her dad's namesake). He's looking so dapper in his floral tie that Becca whipped up for him, right? I about died when I saw it. And, watching people's reactions when they spotted him... priceless. I told you, bring a cute baby and they will EAT out of your HAND!</div>
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Here's a few more closeups of the dresses. My mom sewed the orange panel dress (which looks DARLING on Tillie. I can't wait to post pictures of her in it!), and the Kokka folks did the others. I love them all. It was so fun to see this fabric, that has been on my computer screen for ages, turned into such darling REAL little things! </div>
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Oh, you want to see the rest of the Kokka booth? Okay, I'll oblige. :) It wasn't all centered around us, even though all my pictures make it look like that. Anyway, here's Melody Miller's line for Kokka. She's a big deal and I think this is her 4th or 5th line for Kokka. That portrait print is her grandmother. Pretty cool, right?</div>
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Fun fact, Melody was SUPER helpful when we decided to sign on with Kokka, and for several reasons along the way! She's wonderful and we brought her a little package from Texas to thank her for all her great advice! </div>
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Fortunately this picture is super great of me. What?! I'm mid sentence, apparently. Oh sheesh! Oh well, you get what you pay for. Stop looking at me now. Let's focus on Melody. She's wearing a dress made from her new line. Hello, how cute is that!?</div>
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Okay, I met this gal from Portland and she was a total delight, but I can't find her business card for the life of me! I need to be reminded of her name! GAH! But, she was so nice and lovely and warm and complimentary and wonderful. In fact, she even gave me a coupon for a free Jamba Juice. I mean, come on! How nice is that? If any of you in blog-land know her name and contact info., let me know, because I genuinely want to keep in touch with her. </div>
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More Kokka delights? Sure. I love this bear print.</div>
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Nan Iro, another Kokka delight. This little area was tucked in the corner by our stuff. She is a wonder and an amazing artist and I want to buy yards and yards of her fabric. Look how sweet that little sample shirt is?</div>
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Echino is a huge Kokka headliner, for good reason. She's the bomb and has such quirky fun designs. (Side note, do you see our display in the back corner? Pretty cool!!)</div>
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The other designer they headlined was Ellen Lucket Baker. This is her second line with Kokka and she's done really well with them.</div>
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Heather Bailey. Yes, she embroidered that picture on burlap. Bravo!</div>
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Monaluna's booth. Thought the sheep/farm fabric was pretty darling.</div>
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Jen Kingwell Designs. Amazing quilts. Amazing!</div>
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Oliver + S booth. We used their <a href="http://oliverands.com/oliver-and-s-patterns/OLV-OS038RS.html" target="_blank">Roller Skate pattern</a> for our Tiny Dancer orange panel dress. It is the same pattern that's featured below on the right.</div>
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another cute dress pattern of hers. So many darling ones! I want to buy them all!</div>
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Can you tell I was in a dress mood? These next samples were in Rashida Coleman's booth for Cloud 9. These were super fun. </div>
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Alexander Henry can do no wrong. I love <i>most</i> of their fabrics. They are fun and unique, and they don't use outside fabric designers. Every design comes from their in-house team, which is different than most fabric companies. I thought it was fun that they had a few dolls featured in their fabrics too. (And, if we're playing the honest game, I think my dolls were cuter! ha!! Did I just say that? Why, yes, I did.)</div>
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Birch fabrics. All organic cotton, I believe. And I thought it was super cool that they brought on Charley Harper's designs. He's amazing.</div>
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Camille Roskelly's quilts. She is an amazing quilter (and she and her mom design fabric for Moda too). Here are a few of her quilts. Super impressive. And, yes, those are most of her fabrics featured too. Bravo!</div>
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I thought it was funny that Jaybird Quilts had a pattern come out with the same title as our fabric line, Tiny Dancer! They must have been on the same wave length! And, it's a cute pattern too!</div>
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I thought this hanky panel was really sweet. I think it was from the Japanese company Yuwa.</div>
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We used to sell Anna Griffin stationery at the stationery store I worked at in San Antonio (shout out to <a href="http://www.lovemoonmippy.com/main/index.php" target="_blank">Moon Mippy</a>!). She's now entered the fabric world, and if I'm not mistaken, these were some of their new fabrics. </div>
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Love that circus print. I did a circus print and I don't think it's nearly as cute as this!</div>
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These big bugs were super fun too.</div>
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Next up was Heather Ross. She is one of my design idols. And, in fact, she designed with Kokka for a while! She was even nicer than I imagined she'd be, and ate Benson boy up! She was a delight and I couldn't believe how great she was to talk to us candidly about the fabric world we are in and advice. She knows her stuff!</div>
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She was a doll. And, hello, she loved Benson! It was funny, she held him for about 10 minutes and found him a clothespin for him to munch on. Too funny. It was seriously great! She is designing for Windham Fabrics now and it seems like the fabric world is super happy that she is back in the quilting cotton line up again (meaning sold in normal quilt shops again).</div>
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Looks like I'm really concerned here. Ha! I wonder where I learned to talk with my hands? Thanks, Denise. </div>
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Speaking of highlights... umm... this was my mom's! :) </div>
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This is at <a href="http://www.such-designs.com/" target="_blank">Such Design's</a> booth. Carrie Bloomston is also a designer for Windham, and creates fun quilt patterns too. Obviously, my mom was wiggin' out over the nest one. She loved it. She told Carrie one of her favorite poems about a nest, started to cry, and Carrie was an absolute doll and got teary with her! hA!!!</div>
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I think that's what we call "kindred spirits". :)</div>
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sorry, blurry photo, but I thought the quilt below was super fun. She translated a drawing of her daughter's into quilt form. Awesome.</div>
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I love this shot of them. Too funny.</div>
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::: A teensy bit of sight seeing happened. We were pretty wiped at the end of each day, and let's be frank: Benson is not the fine dining type. We managed to steal away to one nice place... which I can't even remember what it was called. Mama's Italian? Something. I don't know. I was fried (and so was the raviolli. bam!). But the meals were delicious! And look at that darling little french oven!</div>
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Benson loving the full length mirrors by the elevators at the hotel.</div>
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Seeing the sights! He is so stinkin' cute!</div>
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::: That first night we decided to try out the famous VooDoo donuts. They were good, but I am no respector of donuts. I think every donut has something good to offer. And, they lost mega points when I saw the menu. So many crass titles, it made me angry. But... sigh. I still supported them with my business. What do you do? When you are hungry for a donut, you let your guard down! </div>
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Do you love this decorator fabric like I do? I didn't think to find out who it was by, but I was in LOOOOOVE. Maybe I should have bought a few yards for a future Tillie's room...??</div>
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I spotted this gem. Yes, it is a line called PAWrates. Cat Pirates. So clever. I died. Anyway, I have no idea what company produced it, but cheers to them. Very funny.</div>
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If you know me, you'll know that I'm a sucker for small FAKE animals. I don't love animals very much in REAL life, because they scare me. But, animals in ceramic or plush? Give me a break! So, it's no wonder I snapped so many pictures at the Ric Rac booth. Hello, these owls with a knap sack? I mean, come on!</div>
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And hedge hogs with party hats? Seriously?! </div>
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Oh, and they also had a super fun dress made from the selvage edge of fabrics. So clever, right? I thought it was amazing.</div>
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I think this Blythe line was for Robert Kaufman? Can't remember. But, I loved that quilt pattern.</div>
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Again with the small FAKE animals... it's no wonder I loved Penguin & Fish. I took several pictures of her booth at our last quilt market, and here are a ton more shots of her embroidery patterns this time around.</div>
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Before we left, I ran over and took a few more shots at the booth. I know, I'm a dork. But, it was such a surreal & gratifying feeling seeing it all up there. It was pretty fun. So, sue me! I was having a moment, people. And, to memorialize it, I took a few more pics with my baby! hA! And, yes, Benny had konked out by this time.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFIekr4kXT0o9tQDK4bwbRFTZml3B8boW47UWaQSBMXLxN-2hDoMMbtGjDpB6v4lAM7gJR-HguHzjZXMBLkvJE4DIXnXtRT88wUkcUZJi_o15aX0A82_TwW8h_GQnUyrWz61CYgfSAvdc/s1600/IMG_4434.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFIekr4kXT0o9tQDK4bwbRFTZml3B8boW47UWaQSBMXLxN-2hDoMMbtGjDpB6v4lAM7gJR-HguHzjZXMBLkvJE4DIXnXtRT88wUkcUZJi_o15aX0A82_TwW8h_GQnUyrWz61CYgfSAvdc/s640/IMG_4434.jpg" width="480" /></a></div>
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::: After we got back to the hotel, Becca went on a date! She can tell you more about that! :) And that meant we needed to fend for ourselves for dinner. Weird that no one wanted to take US out on a date! Luckily, there were a few food trucks a block away from our hotel, so we checked them out. Little side note: my mom and I aren't very adventurous... so it was funny b/c we eliminated 5 of the 6 food trucks automatically. We're not big Indian or Greek or Middle Eastern food fans, apparently. We are Mexican fans. </div>
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We tried this food truck. And, sadly, I didn't love what I ordered. Too many potatoes in my plain jane breakfast burrito. And, ha! I don't think my mom enjoyed hers either... But, we sure look happy here! </div>
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::: The next morning, we dropped my mom off at the airport bright and early so she could catch her flight to SLC. Then, Becca, Bensey, and I decided to explore some neighborhoods. The weather was perfect and luckily, we felt pretty confident with our GPS navigation systems on our phones. God bless the portable GPS device!</div>
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It was so nice to drive around and chat with my amazing sister after being overloaded with all things fabric and flooded with artificial lighting for two days straight.</div>
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Let's talk about more important things! In case you were wondering if our new fabric line debuted, it did! Hooray! <br />
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Kokka signed us on over a year ago and we finally have something to show for it! We named the line, "Tiny Dancer". Yes, because we love to sing great songs AND the fabric is all about "tiny dancers!" So, <i>viola!</i> It's strange because these designs were created so long ago, and we've had to keep them hush-hush for so long. But, it's a secret no more! <br />
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If you've been following the blog for a while, you'll know that the idea of the paper dolls has been a favorite of mine. Back in the day, my mom would use her scissors and whip some delightful paper dolls out of a regular sheet of paper! It was an amazing concept to me! And, luckily, she taught me how to do it.<br />
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One of my best friends growing up was an amazing dancer, and even danced in college (yes, she's THAT good). I remember she had a big concert and I wanted to do something for her, so I figured out how to make ballerina paper dolls for her. I was obsessed and started cutting out a billion of them for myself and anyone else who wanted them. So, this line was directly inspired by her.<br />
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Also, my little sister, Lizzy, is an amazing dancer. We don't know where she got all this graceful talent from, because the rest of our family pales in comparison. I mean, she is amazing and just has such a natural grace. It's beautiful to watch her dance. She even walks different than the rest of us. So obviously, she was a big part of the inspiration for this line. And, in fact, when I was drawing these on the computer, she helped discuss that the bent leg needed to go higher and connect at least to the knee, discussed what point shoes looked like... little details like that. It was fun to enlist her help!<br />
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And, if you remember a while back, Tillie was really into ballerinas and was taking a little dance class. It was darling to see her in her little leotard and she just ADORES dancing and loves to have me turn up the music so she can dance her little heart out. Of course, that dolly was a big part of the inspiration.<br />
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I wanted to represent these beautiful girls, and also some others of my favorite people. Chances are, if you are close to me, you are one of the dolls. True story.<br />
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Excuse me while I wax poetic, but we also really wanted to make sure we had the entire WORLD represented, because dancing is a universal language. I just love the concept of people coming together because of a common denominator. Isn't it a neat idea? Becca and I worked for HOURS to make sure we had several different ethnicities represented in both the skin color and hair colors. It was hard work, but it was really important to us. I hope, as people see this fabric, and have dancers that they know and love, they'll be able to pick out one of the girls that represents their special dolly.<br />
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Of course, we wanted non-legit dancers, like ourselves, to enjoy the fabric as well. So, we made sure we had a fun floral print, a great dotted stripe, and a classic damask. So, if you're not the dancing type, maybe another print will speak to you?<br />
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So, with that, may we present <span style="font-size: x-small;">TINY DANCER</span> (a fabric line created by me and my sister, Becca, for Kokka Fabrics). <a href="http://www.sevenislandsfabric.com/kokka.html" target="_blank">Seven Islands</a> is the distributer, so if you're interested in purchasing from them, or locating retailers, give them a holler. They are SUPER nice and we couldn't be happier to be a part of such a great team.<br />
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Let's take a look at the fabrics, eh?<br />
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*One thing to note on the panels, when it came time to run the fabric, we needed to make a few color changes, so it's not precisely as these computer files show. If you look on our website melimba.com under patterns (<a href="http://melimba.com/patterns.html" target="_blank">click here</a>) you can see the true colors on the panels! The photos aren't the best, but I wanted to get the actual fabric up on there! Also, on the melimba site you can see the scale of these prints too! :) The fabrics are approx 43" wide. Another little tidbit for your pleasure.<br />
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The fabric is a lovely cotton/linen blend and is great for both quilting or apparel sewing. In fact, my mom created a darling dress for Tillie, a cute skirt, AND an awesome quilt that we use all of the time! (pictures to come very soon, in fact I've already started that post! be proud!)<br />
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Oh, and you want to see the selvage edge? Sure! Maybe I've already shown it here, but oh well! Here 'tis again, b/c I'm so darn excited about it! Pretty fun, right?</div>
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Anyway, there is much more to come. In fact, I'm 90% done with a Spring 2013 Quilt Market recap post! Get excited, friends! Mind reels that I'm going to be posting more in such a short amount of time!</div>
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If you have any questions about the new line, leave them in the comments and I'll do my best to answer them. Thanks for letting me show and tell tonight!</div>
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melimbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13933896899999395418noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123643284100607816.post-76427994638679178502013-05-07T15:39:00.001-05:002013-05-08T02:23:11.237-05:00just some boring ol' musings from aaron<div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div></div>New in our life - Benson is getting tubes in his ears on May 14th.... due to multiple ear infections. He is happy through it all.<br />
</div>Tillie got a hair cut the other day, first one in a while and of course she looks super cute. She's just getting the hang of sounding out words and trying to read. We registered her for kindergarten and have been actively discussing if she'll be going to public school or maybe some other option including staying home with us for an extra year. The jump from nothing to a full day of kindergarten seems to be a big deal to us. The latest is that she will be going the elementary around the corner from us. You can fill out a character attribute request chart for your child's teacher (they don't allow you to select your teacher) so we have done that and melissa met ther registrar and the registrar said "I have the perfect teacher for you". So good signs there.</div><br />
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Calvin will be doing speech therapy at the same school as tillie 3 times/week when school starts. He's a very bright boy that is also learning to read and write right alongside his big sister. He also loves to draw pictures lately. (see instagram)</div><br />
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Melissa is turning some of her fabric into cute dolls/quilts (see instagram) in preparation for "Quilt Market" which is in Portland in two weeks. It is a big expo where a lot of fabric is displayed and the big companies and mom and pop shops can order what they want to resale to the public. She will be going with Becca and Denise and Baby Benson. Mom is coming down to Texas to help me with the kids while Melissa is out of town. We are SOOOOOOOOO excited.</div>I'm playing indoor soccer one night a week with a friend and his friends. I play basketball. </div><br />
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We continue to enjoy the beautiful weather we've had here since September, but are bracing for the summer months. <br />
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</div>Tillie is just finishing up her first soccer season and I'm finishing up coaching her team. It has been fun and I have seen the full spectrum of parents/coaches/players as the season progressed. We had a celebration at Chili's after our last game and gave all the girls trophies. Very cute (see instagram).<br />
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</div>I have installed 4 fans in the house and only have a couple more to go... that's 1 fan per 3 months. not too shabby.<br />
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</div>We continually debate over buying a backyard play area for the kids. They jump on the trampoline every day, but love going to the park. I dunno.</div>I'm trying to get tillie interested in riding a bike, but she just LOVES her trike.<br />
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</div>Calvin and Tillie are anxiously awaiting the release of Daft Punk's next album.<br />
</div>Hmmmm... Hopefully didn't bore you all to death... Those were just the words in my head as I sat here at work not working.aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12777579907182572587noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123643284100607816.post-8831671304947623172013-04-03T22:13:00.002-05:002013-04-04T00:02:40.148-05:00That one week when all three kids got sick, Aaron was out of town, and we lived to tell the tale. March 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Did you catch the title of this post? "That one week when all three kids got sick, Aaron was out of town, and we lived to tell the tale." After a good dose of medication (5 different ones for Calvin), and a solid two weeks later, I am here to tell the tale. I'm a surviver (thanks, Beyonce). <br />
After we found out Aaron's Grandma Petty had died, we decided he should make the trip to California to help with the funeral preparations and to be there with his family. (another post is coming with much, much more on the matter.)<br />
The timing was perfect for him so he wouldn't have to take time off work, so he flew to San Francisco late on Tuesday night. <br />
As luck would have it, the next morning at 5am, three year old Calvin woke me up to tell me his pjs and bed were soaked (he wet the bed). So, I stripped him down, stripped the bed down, and gave him a bath. As I was washing him, I noticed his arms were super red and splotchy so his little ears were bright red. Weird. I lotioned him up, had him climb into my bed with me, and decided I'd call the pediatrician when their office opened in a few hours. Just as I was laying back down, Bensey decided he was ready to wake up (5:40a.m.) and was screaming his guts out. <br />
Looks like my morning had officially begun.<br />
Luckily, Benson had his 6 month well check already scheduled for that morning, so I called and asked Cal to be put on the appointment too. Since I had planned the appt thinking that Aaron would be around, I had scheduled it for the exact time that Tillie's preschool started. Whoops. We split the difference and got Tillie to school a few minutes early, and got to our appointment across town a few minutes late. :) <br />
Both boys did great during the appointment. Check out the chompin' cheeks on our chubby Bensey:<br />
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6 month stats: babbles & sings, can roll easily front to back & back to front, starting to pivot and scootch around, sits up on his own for a few seconds, does solid foods like a champ, and is a great sleeper... not to mention the happiest baby on the planet.</div>
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29 inches (98%) and 19.5 pounds (85%)</div>
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Here's another shot of Cal's bright ear and arm:</div>
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I had already been giving him allergy medication each morning (his allergies are bad here, just like Aaron's), but she upped his dose, declared he had mycoplasma pneumonia and prescribed four more medications. :(</div>
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This kid is a champ at taking medications and really is such a good sport.</div>
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We made it through the day... everyone survived. Too bad the kitchen didn't.</div>
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Here's what it looked like in the morning:</div>
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Knowing there were several messes to clean up, I did what I do best... procrastinate. </div>
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The kids and I had a lovely morning creating our faces on my phone app.</div>
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Can you tell who is who?</div>
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Eventually, we rolled out of bed, got dressed, and started plugging away on the day. This face of Baby Bensey is a great way to start the day, wouldn't you say?</div>
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Here's Cal happy as a clam b/c he was able to watch a show while doing the nebulizer.</div>
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Obviously, Tillie was pretty happy at the amount of tv watching she got to do, by default. Here they are finishing their show on the ground. I told Bensey to lay down with them so I could attack those dishes, but he didn't love that idea.</div>
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Darn. Guess those dishes had to wait. </div>
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That poor baby had a mega diaper rash, so he needed extra love in his life. </div>
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Let's take a time out and marvel at our fore-bearers and their ability to survive CLOTH DIAPERS.</div>
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How they did it, I do not know. Here I am giving it a whirl so I could "air out" Benson's little bum, but still be protected in case of an emergency.</div>
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Mad skillz. Looks like it would stop any leak. oh, wait...</div>
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After a while, I put him down for a nap, grabbed a quick shower, decided to ignore those dishes a bit longer, worked on Grandma Petty's funeral program for everyone in California to edit, and then did some laundry (remember how there was pee-pee bedding awaiting me? Oh yes. Delightful).</div>
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Guess who promptly woke up?</div>
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Cal decided he wanted to take pictures of us all (see folded laundry and dirty dishes din the background?)</div>
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And then our photo session commenced...</div>
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Since the kids were in a picture taking mood, I took full advantage of the moment and we got these gems:</div>
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uh oh, looks like we lost the baby... man down! man down!</div>
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And here is my personal favorite series... </div>
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I entitle it "So Sad, Yet So Funny, Yet So Sad."</div>
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For the record, the baby is not a fan when the kids scream-sing. I wonder why?</div>
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After I calmed him down, he let me take a few sweet shots:</div>
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His favorite snack these days are his toes---his big toe, in particular. I love his face on this next one.</div>
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Check out the big boy sitting up on his own! Woot woot!</div>
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The next day was a blur. I think I finally did get <i>some</i> of those dishes done, Calvin's bedding got washed and haphazardly put on his bed just in time to go to bed that night---but the clean laundry never did get put away, and wouldn't you know it? Tillie and Benson both caught the same cold bug. </div>
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Snot, snot, more snot, and sneezing. I kid you not, we went through three boxes of tissues. There is a reason I have zero pictures from this day. </div>
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Biggest victory of my life? Both Tillie and Cal know how to TRULY blow their noses!!!</div>
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I've been working for YEARS at this... and finally, Calvin figured it out and helped Tillie figure it out.</div>
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LIFE CHANGING!</div>
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I have no greater joy than when I hear my kids TRULY blow their noses.</div>
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forever and ever, amen.</div>
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And then, Aaron came back.<br />
The heavens sang. I cried. And suddenly, all was right in the world.<br />
Even though he was at work all day, just knowing he was back on Texas soil and 12 minutes away if I needed him was such a relief. <br />
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And, my awesome sister, Becca, was able to come up over the weekend to hang out/help. It is ALWAYS a treat to have her come... for a million reasons! For some odd reason I have no photos of her up here this weekend, but it was a blessing for SURE! I LOVE THAT SHE LIVES HERE!!!<br />
Since Aaron is Tillie's soccer coach, he scored cheap tickets to the FC Dallas/SL Real soccer game and took the kids to the game. Even though they were still sick, it was a nice excuse to get out of the house for them (and for me!). <br />
And, yes, we couldn't find Cal's other boot. :) When my dad saw this picture, he said, "Who is that little homeless boy?" hA!<br />
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Super hero poses, always.</div>
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Obviously, they had a ball.</div>
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This little guy had a nice time too, at home with Becca and me.</div>
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::: Since both kiddos were still contagious, we decided to stay home from church. Check out the Mickey/Koala bear pancakes we whipped up. Fun for all.</div>
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Aaron read them a few books.</div>
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Cal was feeling much better, but now the rash had spread to his face. It made me so sad to see him so splotchy!</div>
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It was a lazy morning... just what the doctor ordered. (errr... doctor wood... the dentist.)</div>
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Since we're pretty close to the Oklahoma border, we decided to go on a Sunday drive and cross the state line. Woot! Woot! The kids were thrilled to be in Oklahoma. </div>
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I took a picture of them right when we crossed the border:</div>
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Later that night, Cal requested Aaron to hold him during his nebulizer time. Aaron was happy to oblige. (In case anyone was curious, Cal ADORES his dad, and vice versa.)</div>
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Someone was feeling MUCH better. I don't know if it was because of the chocolate milk, or that he was finished with his antibiotics. We'll never know.</div>
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Yes, Calvin was feeling much better. Here he is in the bathtub sporting a new hair style. He looks like a 12 year old version of himself. Amazing.</div>
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We really did live to tell the tale.</div>
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Pretty stoic picture to start out this post, eh? I thought it was so funny to see the kids sitting patiently together on an IKEA piece of furniture. Always an adventure, that place! </div>
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I loved this next picture too, with everyone testing out the chairs while waiting for their dear old mom.</div>
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Later that same day, Tillie's preschool class had a field-trip to the Fire Station. The kids were pretty jazzed to see all the ins and outs of that cool place. </div>
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I traded in my old flip flops in for the same model. I love them. They are yoga mat material and make me feel like I'm walking on a cloud.</div>
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I had my resident airplane maker make me a few paper airplanes for a mobile I was wanting over Benny's crib. They turned out pretty darn cute.</div>
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Mr. Bob, our wonderful neighbor, brought this huge bag of eggs to the kids. He is too good to them/us! </div>
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And the biggest project of our lives was going on. Aaron created bookshelves for me in our front room! I'd seen things on Pinterest that I liked, but to hire out a huge custom job was gonna cost a lot of money---and I wanted the shelves to be adjustable---so, we measured and remeasured and figured out that IKEA had some lovely bookcases (BILLY) that would fit pretty perfectly in our niche. I was so happy Aaron said he'd put them in and then add molding to make it look all built in!</div>
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I helped paint the molding in the front yard while Aaron did the heavy lifting/building.</div>
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Benny was my happy compadre.</div>
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Here's some progress shots! Go, Aaron, Go!</div>
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We got the job finished in time for Easter Sunday! Look at these cuties in their Sunday best!</div>
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Attempts on a family photo with the self-timer. Love that game.</div>
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I love how Benson and Calvin are making the EXACT same face in this next one, hence the reason why I made it larger. It's worth seeing.</div>
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Ahhh, you win some you lose some. Benny and Tillie are looking at Aaron, but we'll take it.</div>
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In case anyone was wondering, I am obsessed with this baby.</div>
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And little boys in bow-ties? Perfection.</div>
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Even though these next ones are a little blurry b/c of the excessive movement from both crazies, I still had to include them.</div>
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my blue-eyed boys in blue shirts.</div>
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notice the wee one's tongue. gah! so cute!</div>
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For the first time in Tillie's little life, she didn't feel like doing mega poses. She was pretty mellow in these next shots, which is just fine with me. I know that I am biased, but I think she is the most beautiful girl I've ever seen. </div>
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After church, we spied these awesome yellow roses in bloom. I had noticed them last year and wanted to take photos, but never got around to it. Since the kids were pretty happy, we pulled over and took a few shots---they were, after all, dressed for the occasion too!</div>
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And, yellow roses are my all-time favorite. I think they might be my mom's too, and her mom, Grandma Vivian. They grew all over in Spanish Fork and they have a special place in my heart.</div>
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We did a mini egg hunt in our backyard and the kids found new butterfly catchers. It was pretty sweet to see them running around like crazies.</div>
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Happy kiddos ready to go to sleep---or not. :) They love sharing a room and playing together at night. It was a happy Easter week, indeed!</div>
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A few weeks ago I read a <a href="http://augustfields.blogspot.com/2013/02/40-bags-in-40-days-2013.html" target="_blank">blog post </a>where the writer talked about getting rid of 40 garbage bags full of stuff for Lent. They would finish their goal on Good Friday. I liked that idea and wanted to follow suit...</div>
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And then yesterday, we watched a part of the documentary <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2125666/" target="_blank">The Queen of Versailles</a> on Netflix. (I linked to the IMDb page to give you a synopsis.) Basically, it's a <i>riches</i> to rags story. And it's crazy, b/c the couple starring in the film had so much money and STUFF that it was disgusting. So many pets too, all over, pooping everywhere, eating food left on the coffee table, over the top parties... it was all SO gross to watch. I only could stomach watching for about 25-30 minutes. Aaron had been watching it a little longer than I had. Anyway, after turning it off, we had that same feeling you have after watching Hoarders (or in my case, an episode preview for Hoarders, I can't bring myself to watching a real episode b/c my stomach is weak). Aaron and I now have the hankering to go through the house and chuck everything! In fact last night, we got started on all the random mail and paperwork sitting around the house, filed the important ones, and chucked the rest! So cathartic.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">I found this on <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/184788390931096866/" target="_blank">pinterest</a> tonight. So funny.</span></div>
In light of these few experiences, you can see why I lost my patience this afternoon. Our house has been a total disaster. In our defense, Aaron was gone a few days last week for his grandma's funeral (more on that later) and ALL three kids have been sick. Sometimes do you feel like you are living in survival mode? Why? Cal had mycoplasma pneumonia and both Tillie and Benny caught some cold bug and have needed extra attention, so I've eased up on the whole "cleaning up messes promptly" concept. Also, Cal has a new fascination with cutting up paper into a million pieces, and Tillie likes to dump out ALL of the crayons/pencils/markers when she colors (and if there's not an open spot on the table, she just goes to the floor), we've gone through boxes of tissues, there have been pillows, blankets, and toys everywhere... you get the idea.<br />
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So today, I became a crazy mom. I said, "That's it! I"m grabbing the vacuum. Anything that is on this floor will be vacuumed. If you don't want your stuff sucked up, you'd better grab it now!" Of course they both started panicking and sobbing, but that didn't deter me. I was <b>over</b> the messes. Mom fail.</div>
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Who knew that such a threat would light such a fire under their rear-ends?! They cleaned up in RECORD time! And they did a great job! </div>
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After our little crisis, we took a moment and I hugged and congratulated them on their fast efforts. I then asked, "Do you like living in a pigsty? Do you like tripping over your toys and crayons? Do you like having stickers stick to your feet? Do you like it when mom is a crazy mama?" </div>
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Then Tillie said, "It's not fun when you are a bad mom." </div>
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I quickly reminded her that actually I was being a GOOD mom by having us clean our house (but probably didn't need to flip out like I had), because if we didn't clean our house then rotten ants and bugs would come into our house, and even rats might come and it would be disgusting, and we'd all cry.</div>
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Thank you, Disney.</div>
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We were ready for a break and luckily, the weather was PERFECT. 75 degrees in our backyard. We played in the backyard the rest of the afternoon. Thank you, Texas Spring. Here are some pics we took:</div>
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This 6 month little stinker is doing such a good job on his tummy these days (which he's previously hated!) and is even being able to lift his stomach off the ground and is able to roll and pivot most anywhere. His favorite direction to travel these days is backwards.</div>
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yes, even though she is 4.5 years older, he's catching up! Look at the size ratio!</div>
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Cal couldn't be bothered with posing for me. He was too busy painting the bricks and filling up his water bucket in his new soccer duds from Nana and Papa. </div>
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Later tonight, Tillie came out of her room and said, "Mom I need to tell you something."</div>
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She then whispered in my ear, "Dad said he's going to take away everything that is good in my life." </div>
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I burst out laughing and said, "Uhhh, why don't you talk to your dad about that." </div>
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Dad fail.</div>
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Aaron quickly explained that he had made a poor decision in his frustration with the messes today. HA! </div>
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Ahhh, in the end, even though we fail quite often as parents, thankfully our kids see us as a happy family. Maybe, <i>sometimes</i>, we do things right.</div>
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melimbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13933896899999395418noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123643284100607816.post-47379403997428294222013-03-27T00:09:00.001-05:002013-03-27T00:12:58.734-05:00knock, knock?So, rumor has it that April 1st is the new January 1st.<br />
Am I right? or am I right?<br />
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(insert pathetic clapping here)<br />
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Resolutions/schmesolutions. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">(Why did I include my chicken in a party hat? I don't know. Perhaps, we need to celebrate that I'm really blogging. Plus, adding a chicken is ALWAYS a good idea. duh!)</td></tr>
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Honestly, the reason for my absence is not because I don't believe in blogging anymore. I do! I'm a believer!! <br />
It's not because I have three kids now (although, that is PART of the reason).<br />
It's not because my hands don't work properly (although, that has been PART of the reason too---more on that later, obviously). <br />
You wanna know why I haven't blogged for so long? <br />
Wait for it. Wait for it...<br />
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I just uploaded 3,872 pictures to my computer from the camera. <br />
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Do you realize how big the number 3,872 is? That's a lotta blogging, my friends. That's the number of pictures I've taken since the week before Thanksgiving. hA!!!<br />
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The only reason I finally decided to upload them, is because my phone/camera's memory is full. So full, in fact, that it wouldn't allow me to take any more pictures! What!? Amazing. <br />
And then, as I started uploading them all, our iphoto kept having issues. Come to find out that our hard drive and our external hard drive with ALL of my photos of our life had been corrupted! It was scary. A real nail-biter. But, after the expertise of a professional (plus a few hundred dollars---not doll-hairs), we are back up and <i><b>running</b></i>!<br />
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So, we'll take it slowly (obviously). You know that I only run when being chased.<br />
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But, in case you thought I was abandoning this ship, I'm certainly not.<br />
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You see, I am a forgetful person. Really, I forget EVERYthing. <br />
You've called me? I probably forgot to call you back. <br />
You've texted me? Yep, I probably forgot to respond. <br />
We had an awesome memory together that one day? <br />
Sorry, it's not personal, but I've probably forgotten that too... UNLESS I have a photo to jog my memory! Truly.<br />
There was a quote I had on my bulletin board in college that said, "Seen it all. Done it all. Can't remember most of it." Perhaps I've shared that quote with you before? Who knows! I've forgotten! <br />
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Case and point?<br />
As I look at this new 6 month Benson-boy in my arms, I see so much of Tillie! And, yes, they look so much alike it's uncanny---but! as I was thinking about it, I really don't remember much about Calvin as a baby. Why? We were living in CrazyTown! Tillie was 19 months? 20months? (Aaron says 20 months, I say 19---when honestly, it felt like they were 5 months apart!). Really, it's a blur now. But, when Tillie was a baby, I had ALL the time in the world to study her face and memorize everything about her. No wonder when I see Benny boy, I see a mini Tillie!<br />
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Thank heavens I was sane enough to blog about it all! I can easily look back to that time in life when Cal was a baby and see exactly how my Calvin looked at 6 months and the milestones he was accomplishing. I can see records of what we did each day and how we did it and how I felt about it. Amazing!! Especially because when I try to recall that information in my <i>brain</i>, it's gone! <br />
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So, you see, I blog to <i>remember</i>.<br />
I blog because I love the relationships I'm able to maintain while we live so far away in this little corner of the globe.<br />
I blog because my kids are freaking darling (my mom is going to ground me for using the word "freaking"---whoopsie daisy!) and they <i><b>need</b></i> to be seen. I mean, look at those photos above!<br />
I blog because it's a tangible record of our daily lives---and heaven knows, I need tangible evidence that we are moving forward and not just living in a mess!<br />
I blog because it's validating.<br />
I blog because it's a time for me to reflect on where we are RIGHT this minute, and where we've been. <br />
I blog because it makes me happy.<br />
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There you have it. I'll be bouncin' in from time to time. Because we have so much to catch up on! (for example, where did our newborn go?, Tillie is almost five, Cal is already three and completely potty trained! I've found a new way of eating and lost all the baby weight I gained with Bensey-boy (insert a HUGE woot! woot!), Aaron and I went on a grand excursion with NO kiddos, we had lots of sick children with the horrible flu and ear infections and even pneumonia, I've been decorating our house and have hung several frames AND curtains (with lots of help, obviously), AND I've just got the strike offs for our new fabric line that is going to be debuted at this upcoming Spring 2013 quilt market (boo yah! <i>finally</i>!). Whew!<br />
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See what I mean? Lots to talk about!<br />
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In the meantime, if you want to be friends on <a href="http://instagram.com/melimba" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, my "handle" is melimba.<br />
Let's be forever friends. Great? Great. <br />
Ta ta for now.<br />
<br />melimbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13933896899999395418noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123643284100607816.post-30622727249711799052013-03-20T09:10:00.000-05:002015-11-05T09:26:25.373-06:00Grandma Petty's funeral in Vallejo, California - March 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Grandma Petty was wonderful in every way. From what I heard, she was teaching piano lessons on Wednesday and then passed away on Monday. She was sweet to everyone every where. I'm going to include Dad's life sketch he put together for Gma Petty's funeral because I thought dad just did an amazing job. Here is the life sketch put together by my Dad, Scott Wood.</div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Atha Bowen Petty, age 95, passed peacefully in her sleep on March 18, 2013 of causes incident to age (some of us are not sure, but it may also have had something to do with her son Jon getting her taxes done early this year). </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mom was born on November 25, 1917 in Arimo, Idaho. She is survived by her sister, Afton Hyde of Washington Terrace, Utah, two sons, Jon Curtis Wood (Cheryl) of Benicia, California and Scott Riley Wood (K’Lynn) of Alpine, Utah, 12 grandchildren, and 13 great grand children and one great grand child due in April. We are pretty sure that she is talking to her soon-to-be arriving great grand daughter right now, providing thoughtful advice and instruction, including her opinion on what her name should be. (that’s a bit of an inside comment). She was preceded in death by her sister Fern Hodson, her brother Jean Donald Bowen, and her three (yes, three) loving husbands Frank (Woody) Adrian Wood, Charles (Chic) Watland Cornell, and Carmine Nicholas Petty. All three brought her great joy and happiness. For those of you who are married, you may recognize the interesting proposition of making a marriage work with 3 very different spouses. At the time of her death, Mom was still actively teaching piano students. I like numbers, so I did a bit of calculating. Between school teaching, glee clubs, piano student, cherubs, I figure Mom DIRECTLY touched the lives of around 5,000 people.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mom grew up in Malad, Idaho. Every morning, my Father cooked a big kettle of mush, usually cream of wheat. Early in the morning he served himself and left the rest for the family. By the time I was up and ready for breakfast, the cereal was cold crusty, and unappetizing. I develop a dislike for cooked cereal. Regardless my mother served me the bowl of what I refused to eat. At lunch, the bowl appeared again, by this time, I was getting pretty hungry. This went on for 3 days, a battle of my Danish stubbornness against my thrifty Danish Mother. She told me no food until the mush was gone. By the 3</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9.6px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">rd</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> day, layers of mold had formed. My sensitivities would not allow me to eat it. I paid my little brother Don 25 cents to finish for me.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “I found myself ready to graduate from Malad High School at the age of Sixteen. This proved to be a problem. My parents didn’t object to my being with students two years older than I in school, but they did object to allowing me the same privileges, hours, and freedom that my friends enjoyed. It was the bane of life that </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I had to go to primary</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> when I was in High School.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mom graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Utah State University at age 20. Of her school years, she said:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I lived with my Grandmother part of the year while I was attending Utah State as a sophomore. This was the middle of the depression. My father paid Grandma $15 a month for my room and board. Grandma would buy a soup bone and make a big pot of soup. It was really very tasty for the first three or four days. I was always glad when we finished it. The very next day she would get a little piece of meat, and immediately start the next pot of soup. I guess I should have been glad there was food on the table.” When I read about Mom’s humble upbringing, with no complaints, with making due, with independence, her fierce determination, and I think of our easy life, indeed our sense of entitlement, I can only shake my head. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“A high school boyfriend was a student at Utah State, so I was happy to transfer. We continued to date for a while. While I was commuting I invited him to my home in Brigham for Sunday Dinner. My mother was unable to be there, but told me what to prepare. She said there was a roast in the icebox I could cook. She neglected to tell me there was also a pigs head. She was going to make headcheese with it. When I cooked my roast, there were pig’s teeth floating around in the pot. And it tasted awful. I decided to make mashed potatoes. I failed to drain them properly. The mashed potatoes needed to be eaten with a spoon. Mother used a salt pack to preserve her corn. I opened a bottle of corn but didn’t know it had to be parboiled three time to remove the salt. I just heated it. The corn was so salty, we had to spit it our. I guess my Mother’s bottled peaches were the only redeeming feature of the dinner. Mother told me if he ever came back she would know that he was a serious boyfriend.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Following college, she started teaching at Boothe Valley School, a one-room school with all eight grades in the farming and ranching community of Promontory, Utah. Mom completely won over the community by introducing these children to music and creating a Christmas program unlike any the community had seen. A young widower, Frank Adrian Wood, returned at Christmas time to visit his family, and the two of them were taken with each other. They parted reluctantly and each week following brought at least 3 letters and eventually a proposal. They married in 1939 and Woody took her to California to seek their fortune. They were both part of the war effort (WWII), Mom as a payroll clerk and Woody as a welder and ship fitter, both at Mare Island Naval Shipyard. Mom then took a teaching position in Vallejo, beginning a teaching career that spanned four decades. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“When I first married and moved away from home, I had no idea how much I would miss the piano. I say an ad in the local newspaper for a piano for $15 at a furniture store in Martinez. I still had $25 from my last teaching check. When I saw it, I knew I had to have it. It was ugly, rickety, and when I pressed one key down, three different pitches would sound The sales man assured me it could be repaired an recommended a piano tuner who would be able to put it in playing condition To close the deal, the sales man thre in free delivery.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“When I got the piano home, it sounded so terrible; I immediately called the piano tuner. He was a blind man and needed help with transportation. He declared the piano a disaster, only fit for piano heaven. Since the piano salesman had used his name, the tuner went back with me to see that I got my money back. The pathetic instrument went back. Since the blind man tuned and dealt with many pianos, he told me had had an old player piano on hand. It was a huge ugly black upright, a former player piano. I’m sure it weighed over 400 pounds. He would sell and tune it for $25. It took four strong men to maneuver that monster up the steep stairs to our apartment.” And now, my favorite part of the story, “I think Woody paid them off with a six pack.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When I was born, Woody already had a shock of white hair. Apparently, when we came to visit Mom and I, the nurses told him that only husbands and fathers could visit. He promptly informed the nurse that he in fact was NOT the grandfather, but the proud father of his new son.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Within a year of the birth of her second son in December 1953, Woody suffered a massive heart attack and was hospitalized for many weeks. After two years of illness, Woody passed away. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Through a school teacher friend, Afton Harvey, Mom met Chic. He was a fun-loving man who not only fell in love with Mom, he loved her two sons. The deal was sealed when Jon told them, “Why don’t you marry Mom? We need a Daddy”. They married in 1958 and sealed their marriage in the Oakland temple in 1965. Tragically, Chic suffered a fatal heart attack in September 1966. Mom, irrepressible as ever, pressed on, raising her 2 boys, teaching school, organizing glee clubs, continuing her music studies, adding additional certifications to her teaching credentials, serving in church, and teaching private piano. Mom was greatly comforted by her family and friends, especially Marjorie Parks and Margie Shallenberger Rose, who became fast friends. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1969, Mom met Carmine Petty, who loved to dance, as did Mom. They danced together for a couple of years, their relationship developed seriously, and they married in 1971. She wrapped up her school teaching career in 1979. However, Mom lived by the motto, “Retire early and often”. In 1983, she and Carmine organized “Cherubs”, where she introduced preschoolers to music using the Orff and Kodaly method (the kids just thought they were having fun). They danced, sang, had finger plays, recited nursery rhymes, played rhythm instruments, played games, and enjoyed stories together. Carmine and Mom enjoyed 25 years together before his death in 1996. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1975, she wrote an original musical extravaganza for the ward, a “Hootenanny” as she called it, involving over 70 ward members, modeled after L’il Abner. Mom involved anyone and everyone – she was not to be denied. Orchestra, chorus, soloes, duets, jokes, quips, square dancing, and audience participation. Vallejo’s Mayor Florence Douglas as a special guest. When the company sang, “the Old Gray Mare”, she thought it was directed at her, but with a little skillful commentary, she understood they were singing about a horse, not a local political figure. Mercifully, I was serving a mission at the time and avoided the draft. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bishop Carl Stine gave Mom and little seed money and in May 1983, Carmine and Mom initiated “Cherubs“ which become one of the truly great joys of her life. “At one of the early sessions, I received encouragement from one little four-year-old with her limited vocabulary when she said to her mom, “This is my best day!” Her mother told Mom that each morning her daughter would ask her mother if this were Cherub Day. At first, each Wednesday morning when we returned home, Carmine would say, “How much longer are we going to do this?” (Clearly he was still getting to know Mom)As he became more involved, he changed to “What are we going to do next week?” Mom hosted over 500 Cherub Days (that’s right, 500)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mom took music lessons from many people, working on developing her talents until her blindness forced here retirement from organ, including Dave Froehlich, Richard Purvis, George Herbert. She was exacting in her demands of her students. Without question, she started in me as in hundreds, if not thousands of others a love of music and an appreciation of its power. At an early age, we decided it was time for me to start my music training with “Madame Kowalski”. I would take my books, go out the back door, run around the house to the front door, ring the doorbell, and behold, Madame Kowalski would invite me in for a lesson. While we made some progress, eventually, my stubbornness overcame and she sent me for some more traditional lessons.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mom loved to see people happy, loved music, and took great pride in her sons and grandchildren. She taught us the value of dedication, hard work, independence, and a love of God. She was a “party animal”, always putting together gatherings for friends and family. We’re pretty sure that in the next life, her new career will be as a Cruise Director. She made sure no one was left out and knew how to draw out the best in people. I remember the many thanksgivings where we hosted lots and lots of family. One year, with another overflow crowd, we literally set up a boys dorm in the garage, complete with cots and sleeping bags. Jon and I remember watching all hundred or so pounds of Mom, with Jon as the ringmaster, calling the match, as she wrestled a 30 pound turkey, dressed it, trussed it, and pinned it. Then there was the time she made like 20 dozen chocolate chip cookies and unfortunaley, somehow replaced “teaspoons” with cups or something like that for the salt. It was HORRIBLE, but waste not, want note, and we stored them, thinking that at some point they would magically become edible. Mercifully, she finally relented and tossed them out. Then there was Bishop “” who wanted us to use the parable of the talents, gave us each $XXX, and mom made so much tuna casserole, which, shall we say, was not a big hit. This should explain to my wife why to this day, I find tuna casserole a ghastly experience.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I would like to speak a few minutes directly to Mom’s grandchildren, my sons and daughters and Jon’s sons and daughters. All that we have today is a direct result of the sacrifices of our ancestors. Her legacy is a legacy of love, trust, devotion, loyalty; of grit, determination, and sacrifice, fierce independence, and an unrelenting need to make the world a better place. We can honor her no better than to incorporate her spirit into our lives. Mom was truly part of the greatest generation, which is fast leaving us, and if we neglect their legacy we do it are our own peril. Shoulders of Giants.</span></div>
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<i>I will definitely squeeze these kiddos tight on yours and K's behalf. It's been such a sweet experience doing the program for your darling mother. I've loved, especially, reading different memories from all those cousins about what she meant to them, and of course, I've loved the chance to sit down and reflect on what she meant to me. </i></div>
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<i>Having <span class="il" style="background-color: #ffffcc;">Grandma</span> <span class="il" style="background-color: #ffffcc;">Petty</span> in my life was like a breath of fresh air. I remember telling my mom after I'd first met her, that I wanted to be JUST like <span class="il" style="background-color: #ffffcc;">Grandma</span> <span class="il" style="background-color: #ffffcc;">Petty</span> when I was a <span class="il" style="background-color: #ffffcc;">grandma</span>. She cared about me and what I was doing with my life---and I truly felt like she loved ME deeply, and not just bc I was Aaron's wife. You know? </i></div>
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<i>She was SO thoughtful too. I mean, hello, she'd send a baby gift for the new baby AND a new shirt for me. I'd never heard of someone doing something like that for the mom. </i></div>
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<i>I LOVED her stories too! I am fascinated at the life she lived and truly loved listening to her memories of being a new bride, being a school teacher, her days of dancing---she really LIVED, didn't she?!</i></div>
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<i>Oh, there's so much I could say, but please know how grateful I am that you have included me in your life. It was a true gift to know your sweet mother and love her. </i></div>
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<i>I hope that all the details can come together seamlessly today so you can all be relaxed and truly bask in the celebration of that amazing woman. </i></div>
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<i>Lots of love to you all,</i></div>
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gma petty would always remember your birthday. every year you'd get a card with money equal to how old you were turning that year.</div>
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gma petty kept a collection of music boxes</div>
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her backyard at 125 los santos court, vallejo, california. the lemon tree always smelled real yummy.</div>
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always like the pictures of dad and his brother.</div>
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I cried when these little "cherubs" sang</div>
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I hope to conduct myself like me dad when I'm grown up. Way to go Dad!</div>
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melimbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13933896899999395418noreply@blogger.com1Vallejo, CA, USA38.1040864 -122.256636738.0041459 -122.4179982 38.2040269 -122.0952752tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123643284100607816.post-56652493285015059052013-01-31T12:14:00.000-06:002015-09-29T09:48:14.064-05:00California vacation part TWO---Disneyland 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
A big reason we went to California, was so that we could go see our favorite California friends, Mark and Bekah! They said they wanted to meet up with us at Disneyland and we jumped at the chance to hang at the HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH with them! The first day they joined us and it was a ton of fun! I have hardly any captions, b/c they're all pretty self explanatory... we had fun and LOVED it!</div>
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Highlight of MY time at California Adventure---clam chowder in the sour-dough bread bowl. Aaron took the kids so I could eat in peace. It was DREAMY! haha!</div>
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Wait, I lied. I loved the sourdough bread bowl, but it was MAGIC riding the carousel with my little dolly as the park was closing. It was just one of those TOTALLY happy moments where I wanted to freeze life. Tillie was grinning ear to ear, I was grinning ear to ear... it was the sweetest. And, yes, it DID top the clam chowder. ;)</div>
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Tillie picked out a sparkly Mickey necklace and Cal got Jessie, the Cowgirl. They were BOTH super pleased with their purchases. All in all, it was a WONDERFUL trip and so fun to spend all that time with our sweet little family.</div>
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The perfect way to end a great trip! THREE SLEEPERS IN A ROW! Thanks, Gardner family. Thanks, Mickey Mouse. California was a dream!</div>
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Well, Tillie found my phone. And we were bored at the airport. So, I give you the many faces of Matilda Mae. A great way to start off a vacation post, no? We're on our way to CALIFORNIA! Everyone is gearing up for the flight! Benny was happy just prior to take off---that's something! And the kids? They were thrilled to check out the flight info pamphlet. </div>
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Benny? Oh, he's just happy to be here! :)</div>
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Benny touching the ocean for the first time. I think he's confused! haha!</div>
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All in all, it was a LOVELY and BEAUTIFUL day in Southern California. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Melissa told me to go up to Utah and hang out with the guys so I took a quick Tuesday night Thursday night up to see everyone and go to Snowbird. Ben, Mark, and Adam all took a day off and then we finished the night with a trip to Buffalo Wild Wings and hangout at Adam's House.</span></div>
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Ended the day with a group dinner and over to Adam's house to chill.</div>
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melimbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13933896899999395418noreply@blogger.com0Snowbird, UT 84092, USA40.5818948 -111.6552024000000115.0598603 -152.9637964 66.1039293 -70.346608400000008tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123643284100607816.post-2190915666607312842013-01-15T17:12:00.000-06:002015-09-25T17:20:05.473-05:00January 2013---Tillie gets the flu, my hands still won't open, Benny has another ear infection, life treks on<div style="text-align: center;">
Ahhh, there's nothing like taking all three kids to the doctor by myself! I'm a regular veteran now. Don't let these cute faces fool you, they get crazy when we're all cooped up in a tiny room!</div>
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Poor Benny wasn't sleeping well and extremely fussy in the night, so I took him in and sure enough, another ear infection. :(</div>
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We got some antibiotics and came home. After I fed him, look who was all wide-eyed and bushy tailed?! :)</div>
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His expressions kill me dead! haha! Poor boy felt so miserable, but still mustered up all the grins.</div>
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We're still not sure what to do about my hands that won't open up. It's just so strange. These shots was taken as I went to bed at night, and in the middle of the night it just gets worse and worse with less use. Sometimes it is so bad that I have to have Aaron come and pick the baby up from the crib. Mostly, I just make fists most of the time to try and scoop him up.</div>
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Sweet baby boy in the middle of the night. I love having solo time with that dolly.</div>
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I love seeing Benny's wide-eyed face when he's gulping down his bottle. I give him a bottle once a day so he's used to it if I ever need to go out during a feeding. He LOVES that bottle!</div>
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We got a bunch of red frames to put the kids' artwork in after I saw an idea online. Tillie was helping me to envision the wall. I love her as my little design assistant. She thinks it's just as fun as I do!</div>
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While I nurse, this is my view when I look down.</div>
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And this is my view when I look out. Love that these kiddos play so well together.</div>
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Tillie took this shot of me with my two boys to send to Dad. Did I mention that Aaron went out of town on a ski trip to Utah? So, we've been doing life solo and miss him so much. </div>
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I kept Tillie home from preschool b/c she was starting to feel crummy and sleeping a TON---which is NOT like my Til-Bil. I knew something was up.</div>
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When she woke up, she was pretty weak, so she decided to lay down on the floor and create a nice little picnic for herself. That girl is something else. Quite the spread, eh?</div>
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Still feeling miserable, I took her into the doctor's office. She fell asleep in the exam room while waiting for the doctor. If THAT doesn't speak volumes, I don't know what does!?! Poor baby.</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Turns out that second dr's appt in one week was LEGIT. Tillie came down with the full-meal-deal FLU! And, the DFW Metroplex was completely OUT of children's Tamiflu---so she had to take the adult version and I had to crush the pills. They tasted nasty! And if you know Tillie, you know she is a DISASTER when it comes to taking medicines. Let's just say, it was really, really, really a hard week. But, this photo below made it look like I was cool, calm and collected with a super clean house. ;)</span><br />
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poor flu girl. I love that even when she feels COMPLETELY miserable, she still popped her hand for a pose. Hello! haha!</div>
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While Aaron was still gone, I wanted to let him know that we were surviving and thriving, regardless of all our maladies. Here I am giving him the best "peace" sign that my crooked fingers could do! HA!!! do I look well rested or what?! haha!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUbt1n6lVTvDFkvpKyBpXblkyNFCP_hPq50mqvYD9OlRhpcao7gXYfNHvfHVaS12tzHPiz-Ph4zPFpq_rRX5DNWA0fZFW20uVgWVgsRxQzI5fHDphDUx1z6tHM6iLI0dGTboWoxZebfws/s1600/IMG_9250.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUbt1n6lVTvDFkvpKyBpXblkyNFCP_hPq50mqvYD9OlRhpcao7gXYfNHvfHVaS12tzHPiz-Ph4zPFpq_rRX5DNWA0fZFW20uVgWVgsRxQzI5fHDphDUx1z6tHM6iLI0dGTboWoxZebfws/s320/IMG_9250.jpg" width="240" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP9M-nCRHxCqFQfV9w9sr3eKyUXX4d8OxPLLzQA9FVJiZLIPOe3rY0CNhSd2i5pq3bfAnWOcdCITaN9HHTWFTsJQSiBWdSDEajay4foZ3Y1qcpjV7MG7-BEFe91hFJlEkgH-Qjegl_olo/s1600/IMG_9251.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP9M-nCRHxCqFQfV9w9sr3eKyUXX4d8OxPLLzQA9FVJiZLIPOe3rY0CNhSd2i5pq3bfAnWOcdCITaN9HHTWFTsJQSiBWdSDEajay4foZ3Y1qcpjV7MG7-BEFe91hFJlEkgH-Qjegl_olo/s320/IMG_9251.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>
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And, lest we forget the wee lad, don't you worry! That antibiotic was making him feel lots better. Here he is in one of my MOST favorite shirts ever!</div>
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Here's what I posted on instagram below... a little collage.</div>
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And, because I couldn't help but compare all the kids at this exact same age, here's a photo comparison. Tillie and Benny are cut from the SAME mold. I mean, hello! Same faces! And Cal is doin' his own thing, but looking oh, so cute in that orange stripey number too!</div>
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Tired of feeling sick and unproductive, Tillie decided to "bow up" and make a DESK for Calvin. A styrofoam desk. With painters tape. She was getting frustrated that her tape was sticking together and I caught her saying, "Oh for goodness' sake!" She is such a funny gal.</div>
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Aaron is back!!! Hallelujah! </h4>
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He came out to jump on trampoline with the kiddos. Tillie's spirits were up for a little bit, as seen on this nice expression below.</div>
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Started jumping and got bonked and then sneezed---poor girl. Glad dad was home to comfort that baby dolly. So sad!</div>
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Cal, on the other hand, was ready to play! :)</div>
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Crack the egg sounded good to Til, go figure! I love seeing these two side by side.</div>
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Amazing what nice weather, dad coming home, and fresh air will do to ya! Running and running!</div>
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Benny even caught a few rays after he was screaming his guts out inside. (Notice the blotchy face---I passed that gene on to him. You're welcome, child. You're welcome.).</div>
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New day and Tillie is feeling better enough to do legit jumps!</div>
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And get messy with chalk! So nice to see this girl get back into the action!</div>
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While Aaron was gone, I had lots of time to think of projects that he could do when he got back. ;) Hanging up photos was high on the list! He's getting REALLY good at this game!</div>
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Aaron is in charge of the Webelos in our ward, so he decided to make rock candy with them. We got to have them sit on our counter for weeks. That was fun. ;)</div>
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Aaron grabbed a pic of what we do best---nightly baths! All three kids love bathing and I love bathing them.</div>
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Tillie's latest spread on their night stand.</div>
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Cal LOVES to be a sidekick in the kitchen. I love that Aaron did the same thing with his dad growing up. Here they are cooking some eggs for dinner.</div>
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Another sign that Til was feeling better---TOMATO soup. This girl LOOOOVES tomato soup. So happy to see her eating finally! For over a week she didn't want to eat ANYTHING!</div>
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Thankfully, she felt well enough to accompany her dad when he came to preschool to talk about dental care! She was THRILLED to have her dad come to school. And Cal? He was happy to be included in the photo. ha!</div>
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Speaking of happy campers---look at my mini Santa Claus!!! Those cheeks!!! I die!!!</div>
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wait for it, wait for it... BOOM! Baby squirrel storing up nuts for the winter!!!</div>
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I'm getting started on Quilt Market prep with our new fabric line that is coming out for KOKKA fabrics! I thought it would be fun to design some dolls for the occasion to display. Here are my mock ups. </div>
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With Aaron back in town, we decided we should see a neurologist, since the rheumatologist had no answers for us. Here are my hands at the appointment. He did all sorts of tests, nerve tests, etc. and what do you know? No answers. Said we should get an MRI.</div>
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Luckily, I was able to get into do an MRI that very day, but let me tell you, it was not fun. I had to shove my hands in a form thing that stretched them open so wide and I thought I was going to die. And you have to lay so still! Then they did one on my head/neck too---that wasn't so bad, but I couldn't help but think of our friend's sweet little Jaylie who had to do MRI's all the time with her brain cancer. I can't imagine these little kiddos having to stay so still! I was a wimp!</div>
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No answers from the MRI, sadly. But! I heard about a physical therapist here in the area that was supposed to be great, so I went to her and she listened to my woes, and looked through one of her fancy books and came up with some ideas as to how to fix me! These pictures were VERY exciting to see!</div>
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Benny was ALSO very excited at the news. :)</div>
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Come on! Was there ever a happier baby that lived? I think not!</div>
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Almost at the end of this LOOOONG post. Aren't you glad? Let me leave you with a highlight of the month---this mantle display from Tillie. Complete with Aquaphor, Baby Magic and chalk markers. She loves to decorate!</div>
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Aaron and I are very fancy and decided Pei Wei to-go and a chalk board was the perfect way to celebrate our 8th Wedding Anniversary! Thanks for the pictures, kids!</div>
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Eight years later and I feel REALLY glad that we were so smart and married each other! </div>
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We make a great team!</div>
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Calvin Malvin is turning three and I wanted to document this dolly boy. Here he is in his new Target LONG SLEEVED tshirt---this boy loves to wear long sleeves and long pants. Luckily, it is January, so it doesn't seem too out of the ordinary. He konked his eye on something---darn it! Oh well, I guess it's good to document the good, bad, and crazy of his toddlerhood!</div>
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He sucks on his bottom lip, and with the dry weather, it makes for a nice red rash under his lip. I'm constantly trying to put vaseline on it, but you can BET that he LOVES that game! ha! His lips seem rather full in these photos---ha! But, alas, that happy face says he's not too worried about it all.</div>
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Cal suggested Benny boy should be in some of the shots too---good thinking, buddy!</div>
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There's that genuine, happy smile. Sigh. Such a doll face.</div>
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I love when the kids come out and see it all. Calvino was so pleased. I love his pleased face. Because he'd been doing so great on the potty, we went to the Disney store the night before and he got to pick out Buzz Lightyear. So, now Buzz and Woody could pal around with him. Of course when he came out, he toted them both along. :)</div>
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Off to birthday donuts! He was THRILLED to do such a thing!</div>
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We told the sweet Korean owner it was his birthday, so she brought out a bowl and a special candle. It was the sweetest and made the morning even happier!</div>
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On our way home, we had to stop off at Albertson's to grab a few items the birthday boy had requested, and we were shocked to see that Benny fell asleep in the carrier! That never happens!?!</div>
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Opening new Golden Books he got for his birthday. I love that my kids love to read!</div>
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Going through a new birthday sticker book from his grandparents! So fun. Tillie made sure to help him figure it out. ;) So helpful, that girl is.</div>
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For lunch, Cal requested his favorite, Nachos. Nachos it is! :)</div>
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Next up was making the birthday cake. He had VERY specific requests. He saw a tiered cake and really wanted me to make it instead of cupcakes. Uhhh. Okay. First attempt and probably should be my last. He wanted purple frosting, lots of sprinkles, and Toy Story figures on it. Done and done. Looking OH, so delicious! hahaha! My finest work.</div>
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Lucky for us, Aunty Becca drove up from Dallas and joined us for the birthday dinner! She got to play with Woody and Buzz and then gifted Cal his VERY own Bullseye horse to ride!</div>
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Next up was hotdogs on fancy Toy Story plates with Mac N Cheese! A perfect meal for a new 3 year old. haha!</div>
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Aaron made sure to pick out Brainquest for Cal. Of course, Calvin is Aaron's mini-me, so he loved it! And he rocked it---knew SO many of the answers for the preschool level. This boy kills me!</div>
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Another shot of the amazing cake. By this time, it had "melted" and "slid" a bit. Just added to the affect. haha!</div>
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Admiring the handiwork on the board. I love this boy.</div>
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He had a perma-grin on his cute face all the live long day. :)</div>
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Cal made me in potato form. Thank you, Cal! :)</div>
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After the festivities were over, and the house quieted down, Cal climbed on my lap and had me read his new books to him. One of favorite things to do at night is snuggle with Calvin. It's one of the only times he really likes to let me squeeze and love on him. So, we took a few pictures, b/c he LOVES being the master of my phone. :)</div>
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What a happy night for our happy boy. Birthdays are my favorite because we all get to celebrate and show these sweet babies how special they are to us. I hope Calvin knows how much we adore him and what a gift he is in our lives! He is smart, darling, fun, and an overall JOY to have in our family. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MR. CALVINO!</div>
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After Team Wood left town, we had a few days before Aaron had to go back to work. Lazy days are my very most favorite thing on earth... especially when we all get to be together. Aaron appeased me by letting me take some happy pictures of he and the Bensey boy. I just love them all. </div>
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The jammied crew wanted in too.</div>
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Aaron testing out the new trampoline. White men CAN jump! :)</div>
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Gorgeous Benny boy. I love just looking at that sweet face.</div>
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Non-stop jumping from the crazy duo.</div>
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Cal selfie. Thank you for that.</div>
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The kids love to entertain Benny when he wakes up from a nap.</div>
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I love when Benny happily entertains himself in his flight simulator. He's such a happy camper!</div>
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Be still my mama heart. Sigh.</div>
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Freshly painted orange beds for Til and Cal's room. Finally put into their proper places and I found blue bedding at Home Goods. Aaron helped me finally hang up the lantern/hot air balloons and I'm excited to see the room get put together!</div>
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Mom's night out at Target. Me and some friends went out to eat and then each of us needed to make a stop at Target. Such a fun night and so nice to have some friends!</div>
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Calvin in the throws of potty training---pull-ups on, Froggy Potty always near---he's doing pretty well. I love this shot of these two happily playing with the markers.</div>
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Tillie loves a good fashion party and recently discovered that she can be-deck her hair with a million bows by herself. She can be found sneaking into the bow drawer, and comes out a few minutes later all ready to go. Notice the hands. Where did this girl come from?! :)</div>
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Same party trick, new night. This girl is New Year's magic. </div>
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Mom has pretty good skills---but doesn't like to show off too much. :)</div>
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So, my hands are still ridiculous. Can't open. Combine that with a huge, brand new, French cast-iron pot---not a good equation. My fabulous roast, potatoes, carrots, and onion meal landed on the floor when I couldn't pull it out of the oven. In fact, when pulling it out of the oven, I dinged the oven door pretty good and it slammed the floor leaving nice reminders of the incident. Here I pose sheepeshly, and luckily Aaron had just come home, but don't worry, I sobbed my eyes out after the photo op. Aaron scraped up the mess off the floor, and cleaned it all up while I continued my meltdown, and finally we were able to salvage a fairly good portion, and we ate. Three cheers for a successful fancy dinner. HA!</div>
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No mood could be sour for long when this dolly is nearby. I took this pic right after dinner and was reminded that our life was pretty darn awesome. HEART EYES!!!</div>
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Cal had been searching for Woody's hat for a few days and finally found it. Again, all was not lost! It turned into a happy night!</div>
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Early morning hang out in mom and dad's room. Dad had to go to work, and I was feeling lazy so I let the kids play with the ipad. I don't care how I get the early morning snuggles. haha!</div>
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Aunty Becca is one of the best things about living here! We love when she comes up to play!</div>
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Dapper Dan ready for church in his new bowtie. Such a dolly!</div>
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Posin it up in the Sunday duds they picked out.</div>
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I taught the kids how to make snowflakes--- they are big fans! Cal is getting used to the whole "scissor" business, but doing pretty darn well, considering he's still TWO YEARS OLD! Love watching these two craft it up. Happiest moments in my life.</div>
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We are pretty lucky b/c the Alpine Wood crew (what's left of them, anyway!) flew all the way to Texas to spend Christmas with us! HOORAY!!! We couldn't believe our luck!!!</div>
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This was the night that they arrived. Melody and Tyler giving the kids a spin on their trikes in the backyard. HEAVEN ON EARTH!</div>
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Aaron finally buckled down and got a bike that he's been talking about for the past several years. He was able to pick it up just in time! Let the tricks begin!</div>
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Uncle Tyler giving it a spin...</div>
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Grandpa Wood took a spin too!</div>
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While everyone was biking, I was fine tuning the patterns for KOKKA. It was tricky getting the colors nailed down---I was only allowed 14 colors in the end. And we were having some trouble communicating about the files, so luckily the kids were happily entertained while I worked.</div>
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Aaron and his dad were troopers and helped one of Aaron's co-workers by assembling this crazy, huge barbie doll house thing. Such good guys!</div>
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We took the crew to the Arboretum---our favorite place to take visitors! The Chihuly traveling glass exhibit happened to be there and it was so fun to see so many blown glass pieces everywhere.</div>
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Tillie loved watching this bride get her bridals done. She about died when she let Til come over by her too. So sweet!</div>
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We found the BEST Santa ever! I mean, look at how jolly he is! Such a fun surprise!</div>
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Selfie in the mother's lounge. Dapper Dan by my side.</div>
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Who doesn't love a good Sunday nap?</div>
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Get a load out of that Christmas forecast!</div>
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I made Christmas Eve jammies for the kiddos. And then Aaron and I ordered fun shirts for us all to wear. It's the state of Texas in x's with Wood Family 2012 written inside. I think they turned out pretty fun.</div>
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Do you love the chalkboard that Uncle Tyler did?! I do too! Melody and Tyler's stockings were forgotten, so K' did some emergency sewing of new stockings! Luckily, we had lots of fabric on hand (that's weird!) so she whipped up two stockings for them!</div>
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Grandpa's Birthday celebration. Happy Birthday on the 24th of December!</div>
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Benny's teeny shirt was my most favorite!!!</div>
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Miracles of miracles! It really did SNOW on Christmas morning! Can you believe our luck! The kids were dying! And they loved the new trampoline Santa delivered! I got a new lens for the camera JUST in time, too! YESSSS!</div>
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So funny that the licorice string ended up drooping making it a sad snowman! HAHA!</div>
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We love when our family helps with fun projects! :) Maybe not so fun for them, but I LOVE being able to have so many helping hands!!! They painted the kids' beds orange for me! HALLELUJAH! It was a big project! So happy Tyler, Scott, and Aaron did that!</div>
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Everyone was a good sport to head to Garden Ridge the day after Christmas so I could get my tall, 9ft. skinny tree! It was 50% off so $50 was a perfect price for my dream tree! Booyah!<br />
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The roads were all icy and crazy, so we spent a lot of time hanging out, eating, playing games, and enjoying having our family around! </div>
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After the Woods left, our house was pretty darn quiet. So, Tillie helped fill the silence by reading to Benito. She loves that slip that used to be mine and Becca's, then Lizzy's.</div>
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We also entertained ourselves by finding new ways to get this darling 4 month old to grin! GAH! Too cute!</div>
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After we let the beds dry, I put them back in the kids' room! So much fun! I am in love! Thank you, Team Wood!</div>
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The kids took full advantage of the blow up beds still up and enjoyed sleeping in the guest room.</div>
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For New Year's we had our friends come over and we baked cookies and toffee. It was a super fun night!</div>
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It was a happy holiday season, for sure! Thank you, Alpine Wood Crew for making the holidays bright for us in Texas!!! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!</div>
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