tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71020190962427271752012-02-05T20:30:08.110-08:00NOH NEWS is all about the NOH Family! More than you'd ever want to NOH!Billiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03803212272574357626noreply@blogger.comBlogger2241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7102019096242727175.post-45338769143716421542012-02-05T20:30:00.000-08:002012-02-05T20:30:08.117-08:00

Last year we watched the Super Bowl together as a family just to say we did. Or maybe so that when the talk began at the water cooler, we wouldn't be left out. Other than one game a year, we're not really foot ball people. I like sports so I wouldn't mind watching with my sons sometime, but it's not really our thing. But the rest of the day was super too. We had a nice three hours of church. I

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I am blessed to walk with a wonderful woman every morning!! Today our conversation included the sadness and regret that I have felt this week. My wonderful friend gave me such sound advice regarding those feelings and struggles. I believe that I am a good person with good intentions. I love people and I try to understand them and work well with them. I fall short of perfection all the time and

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I have the problem my grandma calls "diarrhea of the mouth". I say what comes to my mind. Sometimes I don't have a very good filter. Maybe no filter at all. This week, I said something really dumb, speaking (or in this case, writing) before I thought through what I would say. I hurt someone I love with all my heart. The thought that I caused this person to feel any added pain in their life has

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Well, we're home! Got home yesterday afternoon to really happy kids and awesome grandparents! We were exhausted from not sleeping much the night before, packing, blogging, etc. So we went to bed at 7:30 in anticipation of the week ahead. This morning I find myself alone for the first time in 4 weeks! I like my mornings alone to exercise and get a few things done. This morning as I was picking

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So, I didn't put anything up for yesterday, but this is the picture of the day. Scott floating in the ocean! He was only out there a few minutes, but he had to do it. We walked on the beach for over two hours yesterday and afterward relaxed the day away! Today was another road trip, this time to Mobile, Alabama. I love Alabama. I love rednecks. I love southerners! Scott was excited to get some

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All in a day. Walk on the beach. 300+ pictures. Sailing. Kite shop and dinner. I'll try not to put all of the pictures up, but it's hard to pick just a few! :) Scott loves the ocean and wanted to get in the whole time we were walking. Tomorrow is his day. He's going to swim in it! He said it's actually warmer water now than the Pacific Ocean is in July. I'm sure he'll be in!It's tricky getting

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We are in the most beautiful place. I wish my small words could describe the quaintness of the towns around, the beauty of the ocean and the sand. The birds the wind, the waves the sun (although I have a gripe with the sun right now, we'll get to that later.) It's is so beautiful that nothing could ruin it. Well, maybe nothing. Let me start from the beginning... I spent months looking at condo

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Wouldn't you love to take a drive through little old southern towns? That's just what we did today, enjoying the beautiful porches on every home from small to large. Brick streets. Neat old southern churches of every kind. Wonderful accents! Trees with moss hanging everywhere. I wish we would of gotten pictures of everything, but we only got a few. Oh, and one of the coolest things of the day was

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Good Morning Ft. Walton Beach! Good Morning Scott! Good Morning creepy guy on our balcony!! Haha! That's how we woke up this first morning in Ft. Walton Beach, Florida on our 20th annivarsary! We were waken by loud noises of scaffolding dangling from the top of our condo building. And while it's only a 6 story building and there's only 12 units, our balcony and our unit was chosen first to have

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In less than two weeks Scott and I are going back to Florida! I'm getting really excited! I'm sure everything will be so different and we won't recognize a thing! Tonight I was going through one of my mission boxes just to see what is in there and I found a million letters from friends and family who had written while I was out. It was really fun to go through them and remember old friends,

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Overcoming myself may be my greatest challenge in life thus far. Overcoming physical desires, overcoming spiritual inadequacy, overcoming emotional weakness. And the list could go on. I'm working hard to break this truth, the truth that says I can't rely on myself or overcome my own weakness. With exercize, with eating, with personal reliability, with spiritual matters, with relationships, with

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I'm excited about the new year. I don't know why, nothing imparticular has happened to make me this way. (oops, I take that back. maybe the fact that I'm 95 lbs. less than I was is a start...)  I don't know if I'll make a change in my home or my spending or myself, but I have hopes that I do. Here's to 1012! My goals are: to continue to make healthy choices and changes in my body. To be a good

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I was part of our Stake Christmas Choir tonight and really enjoyed myself. We put on a program with beautiful songs. It was fun. We have been practicing for a couple of months now. Last week I actually told myself that I wouldn't do it again because of the time it took every Sunday evening to practice, but today as I reflect I'm glad I did it and I'd do it again! It has been wonderful singing

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This is a beautiful quote from Elder Uchtdorf. I saw it tonight and thought how I need to spend some time pondering it. This is a problem for me in my life. I pass over the significant to focus on the non-important things and it really does not help me to be happy in my life. I day dream and live in the stories in my head most of the time. Sounds silly, but it is true for me.

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Saturdays are a precious commodity around our house. And the more there is to get done, the more Saturday's are like gold. Today was no different. With Christmas coming and the holidays it seems like there are a million things to get done. But we spent the first half of this day at Clara Baillie's volleyball tournament. Our Clara Baillie made the middle school volleyball team this year and I have

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Oh my goodness, it's been forever since I've put my fingers to the key board in order to write on the blog! Pintrest has been the death of the blog for me. I sit at night and while Scott it chatting away, or while the TV is playing one of my shows, I sit and browse Pinterest. I like it and it makes me happy to find new and interesting things. But it sure has cut into my blogging time. Time has

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Favorite quote of the day: "He listened. Not just waiting to talk, like everyone else." Off some dumb tv show. But it is how I want to live my life more.  I want to be a better listener.

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We're here! In Carpinteria. Finally. :)  So looking forward to the next 5 days to hang out by the ocean, take long walks, live in a trailer and just not think too much. If a picture is a thousand words, mine is about 500. Because I don't have a camera this year.  Ok, I do have a camera, but not my good one. The good one has broken lenses. I'm going to limp along with the point and shoot I have

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I have lots of thoughts in my head tonight. I really enjoyed General Conference this weekend. I cooked and baked through the last session and in a few minutes we are going to eat deliciousness. I feel kinda strange right now. That's nothing new for me, I'm just kinda strange. I have so many things about myself that I need to work on. I guess Conference made me think about those, and that's on my

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I've become a Pinterest addict! It's true. I love finding cool stuff, putting it on boards and using the ideas! Today I cooled chicken stroganoff tonight, a recipe I got off of pinterst. It turned out so yummy!! Well, I only had a tiny bit, but still, it was Yum! There are tons of craft things I want to do from there too! I hope someday in my life I find time to relax by doing crafting. Today

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I thought it was here this past weekend - Fall! Apparently I was wrong. The heat returned! I love Fall almost as much as I love Spring. I can't wait for the cool weather, the smells, the early evenings. There are so many things about it to love! The only sad thing about fall is that it goes by so quickly!! Halloween comes and you think your there, right in the middle of it, but then it is

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BYU football with my boy.  Texted the BYU student daughter to see if she was watching it too! Yep!  Nice Saturday evening while everyone else is in Seattle.  I miss my family who's gone!!

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In an effort to safe the news of the Noh's, I started another blog to ramble on about that surgery stuff so it doesn't interfere with what's really important here! If you're at all interested, you can read about it at: http://www.icanonlydoit.blogspot.com/  I'll share everything there, gory or not. :D  So beware! Now, I have to talk about being a mom.  Yesterday was a holiday and Kendahl told

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Sorry, but every post for a while will probably be about this damn surgery!  Just a friendly warning. :)  Boy, do I miss crackers and bread and anything else I can actually chew with my teeth! Chips would be nice.  It's not like I had a plethora of them before... well, maybe I did.  But I'll tell you what, I really miss it now.  All of it! Eating is nice.  But! I'm doing my best to combat it.

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It's over! The surgery went well and it's been almost 4 - 24 hour periods since I had surgery.  It seems like a couple of weeks ago.  And that's my only problem... patience! I am feeling well, maybe too well. Can someone coming out of surgery ever feel too well?  Probably not. Felling well is a good thing. Since the second day I haven't taken any pain medication. The nurse in the hospital got

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It's going to be a fun week kids!  I'm looking forward to it!  Tomorrow I have to get a ton of stuff done. Tuesday is the pre-op visits to the doctor and the hospital and Wednesday is the surgery!!  It's here finally! I still don't know what to expect every step of the way, but I'm just glad I'm going to have the chance to find out! Surgery is down in Temecula which is like 90 min away from us.

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Oh, I have lots of thoughts in my head tonight. Tonight is the first night I am a bit worried about Kendahl. I'm not really sure why, but I am.  I haven't talked to her today.  Maybe that's it. We texted for a second, but not much. I miss her. I hope she's happy. In 5 days I'm going to have that "damn" surgery. I'm mostly excited about it. I am nervous about the unknown. I must be nervous

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It only took a couple weeks for Kendahl to get her things in order, a couple of hours to pack it in, the whole back of the surburban to hold and 10 hours to get there!  But we made it! It's hard to believe we have a college student, but as young as we are, it's true!  (I know we look much younger! No laughing please.) We took the opportunity to do everything we could in Provo.  Went to the

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Overwhelmed today!  Feeling like it's all too much. Sometimes life is just like that. Overwhelming. In our business a bookkeeper is a KEY position. Today was our bookkeeper's last day. :(   She decided she is moving to Las Vegas to be near her family. I'm sad about it.  She has played a special roll in my life and I hope I have in hers too. I'm not good at good bye's. I feel like people are

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Saturday: Yard work, weeds, sunshine, Mom and boys in pool to cool off!  Wedding reception, social anxiety, Home to relax in jammies!!  Sunday: Sleep in, enjoying Sacrament meeting, took on ALL roles in Primary. Conducting, Sharing time, Singing time! All Sister Noh, All the time. Happy. Cooking with Baillie, Missionaries for dinner, Good gospel discussion, Talking Temples with Lyndi.

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My Carter decided to switch schools. So now we're going to split the pack. Two at Riverside Prep, one at Apple and one at BYU. I guess the pack was splitting anyway due to Kendahl moving on. Carter believes (and right now I agree) he can get more challenging classes at Apple. I hope he does and I hope he loves it!! They have an established band which is also a great plus for him. Best wishes my

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In the end... All is well. The kids had a good first day of school. Everyone was happy. Kendahl and Scott haven't even arrived home yet because they are working on a huge job at Silverado High School in Victorville. I took the other three kids to Denny's and then to frozen yogurt for Children's day. Growing up my parents made Aug. 1st Children's Day. I guess back then there wasn't anything like

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I thought I'd post about the top ten regrets of the first day of school... But I don't really have any. Why do I feel so sad then? Maybe because Baillie looked so worried. I hope she has a great day. I hope they all have good first days of school. Brodric has a great teacher so I know he'll be fine. Probably better than fine. Carter, if his schedule is good, will be great. I hope Bay is too. I

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Oh, the blogging has to commence before tomorrow when school starts! I wanted to share that Miss Clara Baillie has had her first camp experience. Even though it was only 1.5 days, it was a great time for her! The amazing women of our stake somehow made everything from a weeks worth of camp experiences fit into a day and a half! I don't know how they did it, but they did and it was a huge

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I have a date! A date with Dr. David Suh! On August 31st my surgery is set to happen. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you haven't read my blog for long. ;)  "This post" will tell you all about it. I'm having gastric bypass surgery. Please read the post if you have any questions. It's a good thing and I've been researching it and studying all about it for a long time. I'm ready. There

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I wanted to post about good news I've had for a couple of days. But right now I'm in a grrrrr mood so I can't bring myself to find the words. Grrr and happy don't go together. I'm feeling b.a.d. Yesterday was One complete day with no sugar and no startches and no caffeen!!!  I don't even have the energy to tell you why...  I just feel like crap. So, hopefully after a couple days of this I

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Ok Arizona people, do you really think I'd write about a corner gas station?  I think not!  (If that one person ever reads this, I'm sorry, I wasn't really making fun of you.  Just thought it was cute.)  Although, QT is an awesome corner gas station and often a gathering place for friends and family...And... I wish they had them in California!  But I"m not going to write about that QT now. This

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Summer is almost over, but we got to the Beach!  Finally!  I've missed walking in the sand. The salty water on my feet, wind in my face and sand everywhere!  We spent more time on the freeways than we did in the water, but it was all worth it. Our three kids and our neighbor's daughter went with me. I had fun taking pictures with a app camera on my phone.  There are so many more where these came

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Sometimes: no need to post on facebook. Sometimes: want to post a few a day. It's a sharing thing. I just get silly or weird and want to share. I think I'm a sharer... Or is it some sickness that the sharer's have? Why do some people share multiple times a day and some people never share? I could go on and on with this, but I don't think it will turn out good. :)  In the words of facebook,

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I seriously want your help!  I'm having signs and symptoms of diabetes... shocker, right?! Well actually, my doctor told me I was "pre-diabetic" a few months back and gave me a blood sugar tester. I'm telling you now, I pretty much have diabetes. My blood sugars are way off the beaten path! I mean they aren't even close to where they should be.  So... in trying to be real with myself, I'm going

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Kind of a fun day today. I was excited to cook a bit. I'm not a great hostess, I need to learn timing better. It didn't seem like things came out at the right time. Meat done too soon, potato salad not quite cold enough when it needed to be, you know, that kind of thing. But all in all it went well. I had fun trying a few different recipe's. I made a great simple fruit salad, it needs some

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[The tool shed on top of our entertainment center!] I like being cool!  No I mean I like NOT being hot, get it?  Cool... on the inside.  I don't like being hot!  I don't like sweating, I don't like dieing in the sun...  Lucky for me it doesn't get too hot here. Maybe 10-20 days out of the year it gets over 100*. But on the days it gets hotter than 100, our AC just can't keep up!  It's not because

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Pretty often I think that if I had the opportunity to ask God questions I would overwhelm him with the question, "WHY?" (It's probably not the most productive way to live my life. I should consider stopping that bad habit!) But today I saw an article someone posted on facebook and it really made all the why's of life go away.  I liked it soo much I thought I'd share. http://www.cnn.com/2011/

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I'm going to stalk my own blog so I can have a follower!  :D I've been busy. I should write about it. But I think I'll take a nap first!

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I'm home alone tonight. Younger kids are all tucked away at Stephanie's house and the olders are resting nicely in Nauvoo, I hope!  Scott is on a campout with the scouts. So, here I am. I made broccoli soup in a bread bowl. A bit strange since I don't even cook often for the family and it's hot outside. But I've been craving it and it sounded so good. I was going to start painting the "new"

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So, we traveled down to Hell oops, I mean Mesa today! (Hell only refers to the heat here!) On the way we got off at the Sedona turnoff and went the opposite direction of Sedona in order to go to a little creek called Beaver Creek. It was Beautiful and we had a wonderful time!!  Here are some pictures from that. I apologize but my camera had a smudge on the lens, so if it looks blurry, it is! The

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As promised, a few pictures from the Bearizona trip. I wish it was sooner, but the internet wasn't too quick at the cabin and it was driving me nuts!  Bearizona is a Zoo/Wild Animal park in Williams. It is about two years old. You drive a 3 mile loop and see all kinds of neat animals up close and personal. Then they have exhibits that are like a zoo and the baby animals are in pins. And they also

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We are so blessed to have a place to call home in Williams, AZ! It is truly a home away from home for us. We only come a couple of times a year, so that makes us sad, but we invite people up to use it and hopefully it gets enough love! Since it's summer break we took the first opportunity to come up! We've been here for a few days and finally went out on some great adventures today!! First off

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This handsome young man was baptized on June 4th! He turned 8 only two days earlier and was excited about his baptism! I took this picture before someone told me that I can't take photo's in the chapel.  But it turned out so cute I had to share!  :) This is Brodric's freind John who was baptized a few months earlier than him. He is a convert and is 10 years old. I think he was a really good

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Well, here she is, the Graduate!!  And it's all uphill from here. We're proud of Kendahl and her wonderful grades and her admittance to BYU! We love her and look forward to all the exciting things to come!

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1. Old people are old and wise and you should listen to them. No matter how old you are and no matter how old they really are, they have been there, done that, and lived to tell you how not to do it! So listen! 2. All of the problems we think we have are made bigger right between our ears! 3. We should trust ourselves more. We’ve made it this far, why would we go off the deep end now? 4.

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One of the most difficult weeks I can ever remember. Feeling totally overwhelmed... Am I allowed to be honest on here, or is there a blog clause that says I have to pretend everything is ok? I was talking to someone at church who brought up, letting others crash and burn, or trying to save them from the pain of it.  I said that we all crash and burn at some point, don't we?  This has truly

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I started this day with nothing prepared for Easter Sunday. I'm ending it ready! So happy about that. I was busy today. Obviously had a lot of running around to do. As my Mesa family started posting their pictures of Easter picnic's I kinda got a little sad I wasn't there... But that went away quickly. :) Tonight we went to a choir concert Kendahl's choir put on. It was really nice. It was a "

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I'm so looking forward to Saturday!!  But I'm starting to have anxiety about it.  It's like the only day to get things done. So WhAt To Do FiRst??  What if we don't get much done at all?  That would stink!  And then there's the charity fund raiser...  Ahhhh, I don't know if anything will get done.  Saturday is stressful and great all at the same time.

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I think I'm in love with my kids!  And isn't that great?  They have been sick. :(  Strep.  That makes me sad. But, it has given me a chance to stay home from work two days this week that I didn't know I would be.  I was so glad!  I got to do dishes and keep the kitchen clean for a few days straight.  That was fun!  Just like a theme park....  I also have made dinner and kinda enjoyed the time in

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I actually took pictures with my phone, but don't have anything to show for it because I don't have a converter to use to post them.  Story of my blog life lately. I don't mind necessarily, but it makes it more boring. Oh well. I've been considering taking this blog private...  I didn't think I'd ever want to do it, but I have reasons to change my mind. We'll see. I've been in Mesa for nearly

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It's time I guess. I'm just going to get it out there. There comes a time in every large person's life when you have to look at really tough things. Well, I've been looking, and I've come to the decision that I am going to have gastric bypass surgery. I know, I know, everyone has an opinion about the idea, and that's ok. I'm even open to you sharing if you'd like. And I hope that there is a time

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A picture is worth a thousand words. Since I'm blogging from the iPad I dont have one, but I wish I did. It would be of my friend Lyndi, with a huge smile on her face. Today she was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Her faith and her willingness astound me! Her humility and her testimony inspire me. She is a beautiful soul! I am a better person becaus of

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Dear Marina,CA, It's flattering that friends and family enjoy my blog, or at least look at it every once in a while so I don't feel like I am writing to no one... But,I can't figure out who you are. So, if I know you please reveal yourself. I understand it if I don't know you. I mean, I blogstock every once in a while too. But, it may be getting a bit serious. For a couple of days now

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Oh... *heavy sigh*... I don't have a computer to write on lately. Its a pain because when I want to write I can't. At least not very easily. Right now I'm writing on an iPad, with the three finger hunt and peck method. Don't like it much... But I have thoughts to get out. Nearly every week or day or month or minute it seems like I am watching my kids grow before my eyes. It's humbling as a

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Yes, I love brussel sprouts.  Just needed to get that out.  But the good news is...  Kendahl got into BYU (Provo)!!!!  after waiting for what seemed like forever we finally found out last night.  She was excited like I've never seen her before. Little eeks and screams through a HUGE smile!  So sweet and exciting from her. I'm happy for her and I'm worried about all that will have to get done to

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In Primary we are learning about the scriptures. The kids have been challenged to read their scriptures as many times in the week as possible.  In the past it's been a struggle for us as a family to find a time to read.  The older kids are off to seminary at such an early hour in the morning, that didn't work, and then in the evenings everyone is going their own way, that hasn't worked either. 

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When you saw the smile on this boy, did you believe it? It's sweet, but it lacks energy! Just like him. Home sick, fun... but not really. Who wouldn't rather be out running around? Lucky mom gets to stay home too. But I'd rather him feel better and have to be working. I love this boy!

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Sunday, a special day. Superbowl on Sunday? Not us... Sunday morning Baillie says, "can we watch the Superbowl today?" I say, "really? You want to watch the Superbowl? Why?" I think it's because it's so she can be in the conversation at school tomorrow. Or maybe she has a crush on a boy who loves football. I don't know. But tonight we have the missionaries over for dinner. And lucky enough, both

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Homemade pizza tonight for dinner. I comment to the kids, "oh man, I forgot to take pictures so I could blog it." Carter says, "you're blogging again?" I say, "ya, didn't you see the blog I did about you?"Brodric says, "you should blog about the first time I took a pill."I thought that was funny! Ya, I should blog about his first swallowed pill. :) That'd be pretty interesting. What a cute kid!

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I learned a big lesson today. After hearing some really hard news mid-day, I spent time just pondering, thinking, trying to understand this whole mortality gig. My little hurt feelings from yesterday seemed soooo insignificant. So I have my little problems, so what. I can handle problems, but could I handle it if something really hard came into my life? Which begs the question... Well, it begs a

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People say hurtful things. They don't mean to. One minute they are talking about cats, the next they have said something that is painful to hear. Too close for comfort, too real to ignore.I'm not sure what to do with the pain.

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Time: 11:40pm. Science Fair project due tomorrow. Young man still working on it. Mom sits up waiting for young man to finish. Story of my life.But dang, he's a cute young man, isn't he??? The asleep picture was staged, but after finishing the calculations, he collapsed like that. He's tired. But he's still working. He says he'll be done in a minute or two. We can hope! Really it's not the story

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These are our beautiful, naughty dogs. They got a bath tonight by some lovely girls... and they were good to stay in the house with us. I do like them, but I really don't like the way the rip up the back yard. Puppy washers!Aren't they silly and cute!?This little guy didn't play with the dogs, only played with Donkey Kong! Crazy!!

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Kendahl got an acceptance from BYUI!!!!!!! Now we wait for BYU to see what happens. I'll hope for the best.

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January 16th is a big day around our house. It's the day Scott and i were married, and the day Carter was born!Carter turned 15 this year! It's surreal to me that my son could be over 6 feet tall and 15 years old. I don't know when the time passed. Just a while agod he was a little boy. Now? Now he is quickly becoming a man. And quite the man he is becoming. He is smart, he is responsible,

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Ok, so he's not a beast, but it sounded so cute with beauties! :) This is Brick in his first basket ball game ever. Once he did it when he was 3, but only if I held him. Last week was first team game, he wouldn't get out on the court. Anyway, look at that smile!! He was so happy, energetic, bouncy! He had a great time. They didn't win, but it didn't matter. He has potential too! I think he'll do

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After my big driving trip to ID and UT you'd think I wouldn't want to go anywhere for a while, but Monday my husband said he had to go to Tempe, AZ to get some chemicals we had to have at work. And you know what I did? I said, "Let me go!!!" Of course, right? Because you know who is there? Yes! My baby, and my grandma!! I'd jump at the chance to be with them for a while! And I did!! So the

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I'm home, I'm happy about it, I'm cranky and tired and so are others around here. Driving all these hours is pretty hard. Driving and listening to music make me nostalgic. It makes me all weird. Today Pandora played eighty's rock. Journey, Styx, Kansas, Boston, John Melencamp, REO Speedwagon, Def Lepard... Lots of good stuff. I enjoyed it. I was wanting some of those big hair power ballads

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Well, first the BYU part. WONDERFUL day again! Again we took a little (kinda big) golf cart all around BYU Provo today. A nice young man told us everything we needed to know. What I learned was that the two BYU's are really similar! There are a couple of differences, one is that BYUI is smaller but is pretty much patterned after BYU Provo. Kendahl was thrilled to see this campus. She really hopes

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Success today on the college front. We had a great tour of BYU Idaho. We got carried around by a little golf cart and a nice young man who gave us a nice tour. The campus at BYUI is really nice. It seems newer, and yet established. They have everything anyone would need close enough that walking to everything is doable! I liked it and I think the girls liked it. A wonderful plus is the Temple up

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We're here! This is Rexburg day one. Kendahl and her friend are taking a trip to tour the LDS colleges. Stop #1 is Rexburg, ID to see BYU Idaho. Tomorrow we have an appt at 9am with administration. But tonight we drove around the temple and the school. In the dark and snow it looked new and really nice. The hotel we are staying at is brand new and it is really cool! Kendahl said if she can

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Jan 3rd and we had snow! Yay! The kids played in it most the morning till there wasn't any left. I love my kids. They are growing up, so they aren't as cute as little tiny kids, but I see them just like that still. Even the kid who's 6' 2". He's just as cute to me as he was when he was little! I love that about love, it just keeps getting better and better.

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Ringing out the old, and in the new. Calm new years eve tonight. Went to the movies with the littles, then came home to take the bigs to the stake New Years Eve dance. Bless Carter's heart, he didn't want to go. I took the pressure off of him and said it just didn't matter what he did, and then he chose to go! Good kids. We are blessed with really good kids!! Cleaned up Christmas and the house is

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Ya... true. It's gonna be a new year in a day or so. I can't believe it! Scott and I took the kids down to Scandia tonight for the LDS youth new years party. We had a little party of our own and went out to Famous Dave's BBQ, which was super good and had really cute decor and atmosphere. Then we went to a movie that had so much motion in it that it made me sick to my stomach and I thought I was

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This picture looks small, I'll find another copy...On Christmas night after eating a big Christmas meal I look around the room and everyone was on their ipods. I thought it was so funny, so I gathered them all and said we had to take a 4 generation picture of everyone on their ipods! So we did. I thought it was cute. A couple of days ago my friend called and said she was writing an article for an

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Family photos that Steph took for us. I didn't teach her how to use the camera, so there was not many that weren't blurry. It was hard to find a few. Oh well. I don't know why my camera isn't better. I have to learn how to use it better!!There wasn't a picture that someone wasn't doing something silly. In this one Scott was giving Carter a swirley in his ear... Boys will be boys.This was a

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December came and is now going just as I thought it would, very quickly! It is crazy how in a seemingly brief moment the year has past and we are starting all over! It takes me by surprise every time. My December was different this year. We spent the month working a lot. We had moved our office to a new location the week before Thanksgiving and then the freeze hit! We knew it would. We hadn't

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This was my son's post on facebook tonight..."Well, today my band teacher resigned. This is his last week. He said the amount of pressure on his head was unbearable. He is putting is family first by moving to a school where he feels more secure, where he will teach choir. I say good for him. Mr. Dingeldein was probably one of the most influential teachers I ever had. I'm sad that I only had the

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Shareing thankful thoughts on facebook has been a really good experience. I have found myself more and more thankful all the time. Thankful for big things, thankful for little things. Thankful for lots of things. I am feeling really blessed lately. Thankful is a good thing.

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I'm going to take a risk here. In front of the blog world, or at least to those people who ever stumble onto my blog. Why? I don't know. I'm feeling the need for honesty right now.Unbearable Lightness is the name of a book written by Porcha DeRossi about her fight with anorexia and bulimia and the obsession with being thin. I watched an episode of Oprah tonight, (I don't watch it much anymore)

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Oh man... I didn't think about writing on here till just now, and as I'm contemplating I realize I don't have a way to do pictures again! Ugh... Oh well, here I go anyway. At Carpinteria, home away from home. I saw a trailer that had a cute sign on it that said, "our beach house". Its always nice to have a beach house, even if out does have wheels! (It's not easy to blogspot from a phone.)The

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If I hurry and post this it will be one month exactly since I've posted! Cool or just lame?? Wish I thought of posting more. Went to Boston, it was very cool. Working a lot...Have friends and family on my mind. I wish I was magic and could help people in need in a significant way! My heart hurts for people too often. But I am blessed with their friendships and blessed with wonderful people in my

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I've spent several wonderful days in AZ. The clouds have gathered through the day, the heavens have opened and the rains have poured down. The sun has beat down on us and the hot, wet air has caused us to sweat ourselves silly! Brodric's description of it was "the air is really heavy". And it has been! A typical summer monsoon season. (This would be a good time to make a great analogy, but

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I wish I could upload pictures from my phone, but I don't know how yet... so I'll just have to tell you, and you can imagine how beautiful it was today when Scott was flying. We got to go up and watch him launch and fly at a place called Hat Creek. It was, as always, very cool.Scott wanted to go so badly, and he wanted to share it with his family. I think for him it is such an awesome thing, and

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I really shouldn't be blogging because I havnt had decent rest any night yet, but I've tried to sleep and can't, so what the heck.After I finally pulled myself off my very uncomfortable " bed" and out of the trailer things were all up from there. The things that were cool... well let me recount. I rode a bike for the first time in probably 17 years or so! To tell ya the truth, I was kinda

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Sad to say but roughin it for me is NO hookups at the campground! Or how about no public showers? Yep, I had to shower in the trailer with water we hauled from Apple Valley! Life can really be rough sometime! I mean that shower is really tiny. You know? Today consisted of a trip to the lake for some, with swimming, paddeling rafts, watching two cute puppies frolic through the water, and

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My friend Annette has been blogging from her phone for a month, I thought I'd give it a shot. So I blog now from Eagle Lake, in No. CA. Its east of the really beautiful mountains, yet has a peaceful beauty all its own. Its pretty out of the way so not much traffic or people around. That's nice!We are having a family reunion with Scotts family. Just a small one with his parents and sibs. Not

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I'm so lame brained, I swear!! I go to work day after day and pay bills and be so tedious about the money situation there and then I come home and just never pay my own bills! I forgot to pay my ticket I got in APRIL!!! It's probably gonna cost me an additional $300 for that mistake!!! I can't believe it and I am really quite mad at myself. Dang! There are a couple more important things I

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Can't sleep. Love Annette's blog. Love the beautiful pictures of Utah. She's lucky to be able to take a reprieve from the hustle and bustle! Things weigh heavy on my mind and it interrupts a very important thing... SLEEP! I wish I was open Nettie, like you are. I wish I was adventurous. I watched a movie tonight called "Remember Me", it was odd, kinda pointless. Maybe I'm still waiting to find

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In the beginning we had some healthy weeds. Now usually, we don't get enough rain to make green weeds, let alone this many, and grass too! But this year was so different, we had a super wet month or so. Soooooo, we began with crazy yuck grass and lots of weeds. We had fun making something out of nothing... doesn't that look like fun? For me it does because there are 4 boys out there! :)

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Piano recital today as well as a Shenanigans show. In fact, it may well be Kendahl's last Shenanigans show because she is trying to prioritize all her many activities! I'm not sure about Baillie and Brodric. We can't decided if they really want to do it bad enough for the effort... We'll see. Regardless, they are great kids, every one of them!!

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This amazing kid turns 7 in a few hours! The things that make him amazing are many. First off, he is sweet and loving. He loves people, he's a good companion, a great friend. He thinks he doesn't have any friends, but just to give you an example, his big sister Baillie was saying her prayers tonight and in her prayer she shared how thankful she was for her little brother. Thankful that he is

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As promised, a few pictures of the Prom Kendahl attended this past weekend. Isn't she beautiful? I know!These are a few of her friends. And this is the group she basically went with. I won't tell you she has a crush on one of these boys, cause she would kill me if I did! :)This isn't the greatest pictures of her because she's talking, but it was the only one of the group. So sorry about

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The middle of the night seems to be when I feel like writing. Just a few tid bits about us before May is over. Well, I guess I missed it by an hour or so... May is over. But I'll share just a few things before I lay me down to sleep. ;)The garden this year is both soothing and frusterating. We planted it big and a friend is helping me out a bit by watering it in the afternoon and she

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