Here's our August. Way more pics than necessary, so I'll keep the words up here brief. Needless to say, it was a good month.
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| 8.1.16 (I love to see him curled up in a little ball while he sleeps) |
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| 8.2.16 (bath time! it's been a while since I've got a pic of these two tubbin' it up, and now it's crazy mode trying to bathe them both with Sam crawling (and trying to stand up!) all over the place.) |
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| 8.2.16 (I just realized this was a rare morning bath - must have been a busy evening the night before!) |
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| 8.2.16 (Grandma stories and snuggles are the best) |
bonus video!
8.2.16
(I was testing out the new story feature on instagram
and apparently this video (that I never actually shared)
was saved in my camera roll - bonus!)
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| 8.3.16 (we met up with my great friend from college, Michelle, and her little ones (and her in-laws) at the beach in Huntsville one afternoon - so fun to have a reunion and to play in the sand at the same time!) |
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| 8.4.16 (I looked out the window and what did I see?) |
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| 8.4.16 (So close and so cute!) |
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| 8.4.16 (our only beach day with the local friends all summer! Here Sam is playing with Mattie) |
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| 8.4.16 (so fun to see the kiddos playing together) |
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| 8.4.16 (just a little Thursday night hike) |
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| 8.4.16 (behind us is the north fork waterfall, or what is left of it) |
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| 8.4.16 (she did this mostly by herself - the hike and the pose) |
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| 8.5.16 (more towel makin') |
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| 8.6.16 (waiting for the tour of utah riders to start the Saturday stage at Snow Basin) |
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| 8.6.16 (and yes, your eyes do not deceive you, we are all wearing church clothes while watching; we made the stop on our way to Dray's baptism) |
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| 8.6.16 (she's ready with her cowbells!) |
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| 8.6.16 (and so is he) |
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| 8.6.16 (gorgeous day for a bike race) |
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| 8.6.16 (we took the back way past east canyon reservoir and then down emigration canyon into SLC) |
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| 8.6.16 (there were lots o' cars ahead of us because we got caught behind the riders) |
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| 8.6.16 (the Blanchard contingent and the special baptized boy) |
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| 8.7.16 (he just started pushing the kitchen chair around as a walker - all his own idea) |
bonus video!
8.7.16
(because of course the real action stops as soon as I
try to record it)
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| 8.7.16 (I was trying so hard to get a good pic of his snaggle tooth smile - but alas, it was not to be this day) |
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| 8.7.16 (so blurry!) |
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| 8.7.16 (probably the best one of the day) |
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bonus video!
8.7.16
(skyping with my parents and he noticed
that cute baby up in the corner - ha!)
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| 8.7.16 (we were playing "catch" during our cemetery pit stop on our Sunday evening walk) |
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| 8.8.16 (swinging on the squeaky bench swing at the "library park" in Huntsville) |
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| 8.8.16 (new tricks for this monkey) |
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| 8.8.16 (some more attempts at the toothy grin) |
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| 8.8.16 (there it is!) |
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| 8.8.16 (and then because I just couldn't resist when he fell asleep in my lap before his nap . . . ) |
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| 8.8.16 (a marvelous monday night hike at powder mtn) |
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| 8.8.16 (happy hikers - especially the one who gets a ride up the steep hill!) |
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| 8.8.16 (I got to lug this dude - he's a champion backpack rider) |
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| 8.8.16 (testing out her first chairlift) |
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| 8.8.16 (cool patterns under the lift) |
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| 8.8.16 (kinda smokey, but you can still see for miles into Cache Co.) |
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| 8.8.16 (group shot!) |
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| 8.8.16 (looking to the south towards Huntsville and Pineview) |
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| 8.8.16 (lovely aspens!) |
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| 8.9.16 (I could eat him up) |
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| 8.9.16 (lovely cotton candy hues) |
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| 8.9.16 (our backyard neighbor is a barn and a couple of horses) |
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| 8.10.16 (we had some visitors right as we headed out to the hammock for our evening scripture reading - hard to see, but three baby deer!) |
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| 8.10.16 (they came bouncing back through while we hammocked) |
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| 8.11.16 (our first tomato!!) |
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| 8.11.16 (she was SO excited to finally harvest something from our garden she ate it right then and there) |
bonus videos!
8.11.16
(he's so quick!)
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| 8.11.16 (a fun little dinner at Kirt's in North Ogden before grocery shopping) |
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| 8.11.16 (funky and delicious) |
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| 8.12.16 (more for that biking blanchards series that I love so much) |
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| 8.14.16 (I think I love taking those burley pics of #calandsam so much because they're strapped in and can't escape on me. This is what happens when I try to get a cute Sunday morning pic of these two hooligans) |
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| 8.14.16 (after church park playing while we wait for dad to finish his work in the office) |
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| 8.14.16 (just chillin' like the teenager he is) |
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| 8.14.16 (a little Harry Potter-esque I think, with that wand holding) |
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| 8.14.16 (2 cool 4 skool) |
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| 8.14.16 (sheesh! how many of these did I take?!) |
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| 8.14.16 (trying the #calandsam sunday best pics - again) |
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| 8.14.16 (impossible to get both kids smiling at the same time, let alone looking at the camera/phone) |
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| 8.14.16 (aaaand . . . 'grammed. that'll have to do) |
bonus video!
8.15.16
(this was the first time he really ever
walked with the thing!)
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| 8.16.16 (can't stop won't stop) |
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| 8.16.16 (our newest niece, Baby Grace, praying before she comes home from the hospital to her excited but nervous parents' full-time care. Isn't she the sweetest little thing?!) |
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| 8.17.16 (again, can't stop won't stop) |
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| 8.17.16 (the crossed leg! I die) |
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| 8.17.16 (he loves that sister of his!) |
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| 8.17.16 (swinging sammy is getting too long for the photos!) |
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| 8.17.16 (legs!) |
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| 8.17.16 (legs!!) |
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| 8.17.16 (he's no baby anymore - this guy's a kid) |
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| 8.17.16 (discovered the joys of the bridge part of the play ground now that he decided he can and will climb stairs to get there) |
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| 8.18.16 (chocolate chip cookie dough cheesecakes ready for the oven) |
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| 8.18.16 (good grief, we went on a lot of bike rides this month! also, see what I mean when I say I take way more of these than I post to social media?) |
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| 8.18.16 (notice Min gets her own buckle - she's still very much a part of the fam even though Cal went through a week-long stage where she tested out other creatures (her word) to sleep with at night) |
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| 8.18.16 (I picked these off the side of the road after our hike this evening - something I've been wanting to do since last year when the sunflowers were in full gorgeousness all along the roadsides all August) |
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| 8.19.16 (they stayed inside for a day then my allergieswere getting to me so they moved back outside where I could enjoy them from my kitchen window; also this morning light is lovely) |
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| 8.19.16 (it's balloon festival time! more pics on their own post, I just forgot to post this one there - our view from the kitchen table - it was so much fun to watch them bop around our neighborhood) |
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| 8.19.16 (more of that sunshine + sunflower combo that makes my heart flutter) |
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| 8.19.16 (such a cheery fellow getting his hair combed!) |
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| 8.19.16 (I tell ya, he loves that baby in the mirror!) |
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| 8.20.16 (early morning bundled babies ready to see the balloons launch) |
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| 8.20.16 (help me, those lips! and lashes!) |
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| 8.21.16 (Sunday naps for the dudes) |
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| 8.22.16 (testing out that new (to us) car smell) |
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| 8.22.16 (meeting the newest member of our fleet - Endoor? Yodah? We're still deciding on a name for this green 2012 subaru outback that we bought) |
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| 8.21.16 (how they really felt about the whole process of car buying) |
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| 8.23.16 (there's a shot of the whole thing! we feel really lucky to have snagged this beaut!) |
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| 8.23.16 (at last we get to meet tiny Gracie!) |
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| 8.23.16 (Cal was pretty thrilled, as was I) |
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| 8.23.16 (well, I don't know exactly when this pic was taken, but Baby Bradley surprised everyone by arriving a month early, on the 23rd; he and his momma are doing well, but big sister Evelyn is still getting used to so many changes in her life - they just moved back to Utah and are living in Shelly's parents' house while waiting for their rental to open up a few days before he was born) |
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| 8.26.16 (a fantastic evening at the riot with my dishy to celebrate our 6 year anniverary) |
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| 8.26.16 (we're here for RSL!) |
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| 8.26.16 (and the sunset, I'll freely admit) |
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| 8.26.16 (walking out of the stadium, looking east, the mountains were glowing purple and I thought it was so pretty) |
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| 8.27.16 (since we were planning to spend Saturday playing with the Blanchards, we stayed overnight at Heather and Scott's new house to save us another trip back and forth. Sam and I slept on the floor in Kage's room. Let's just say it was a long night.) |
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| 8.27.16 (boy cousins, just chillin' and playing video games) |
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| 8.28.16 (cheery little passenger on our way home from Logan) |
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| 8.30.16 (yep, one more) |
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| 8.30.16 (zucchini never had it so good) |
bonus videos!
and trying
(there are seven different videos there by the way)
to get a good walking video of Sam
8.30.16
(so glad I persevered! He is a walker!!)
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| 8.30.16 (finished! - and our ward picnic never had it so good either. ;) |
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| 8.31.16 (I've been eating these all week in honor of back to school at USU - that and the fact that I have plenty of garden ripe tomatoes gifted to me from my mom and gregg's mom and they are just dying to be Marv 'n' Joed. I am in heaven!) |
Every other round up here:
So fun to see all of your wonderful photos!! Thanks for sharing!!
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