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| 1.1.19 (we scheduled a play date with Callie's best "frend" Abby for the 2nd, and during the process got invited to her birthday party on the 6th. Cal immediately sat down and made a card/ note for her and I think it's the cutest thing ever!) |
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| 1.1.19 (the other side of the note) |
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| 1.2.19 (needing to get out of the house to burn some energy, but not freeze our faces off, we opted for one last Christmas break hoorah at Kangaroo Zoo in Ogden with some friends) |
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| 1.2.19 (this is the face of a boy who finally worked up the guts to slide through the tiger teeth slide all by himself!) |
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| 1.2.19 (a bunch o' goofs (friends are Moriah and Rachel)) |
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| 1.2.19 (trouble, I tell you what!) |
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| 1.3.19 (back to school = back to falling asleep in the burley) |
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| 1.4.19 (while Cal and Dad were skiing, Sam and Mom spent some time in the yard, walking around with the sled and swinging in the blue swing) |
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| 1.14.19 (and then he helped me make our Friday-night pizza!) |
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| 1.5.19 (what a lovely mornin'!) |
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| 1.6.19 (first day of two-hour church!) |
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| 1.6.19 (first day of sunbeams!) |
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| 1.6.19 (first day of CTR 5 class!) |
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| 1.7.19 (we got a ton of snow from Sunday-Monday, and it was the heavy, wet, packable kind, so we made sure to get out Monday morning to shovel (of course) but also to do some snowman building. It was the best snowman snow I've ever played in!) |
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| 1.7.19 (they named him Frosty) |
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| 1.7.19 (library day - returning these two, both of which I loved. On the left, a memoir that told many stories of trying to be more empathetic and caring and honest and humble and just a better human being tied in with plenty of grief and loss and cancer (if you don't like language, then maybe this one isn't for you, but I thought the message she was trying to share was good enough to gloss over the swearing). On the right, one of the most incredible WWII/Holocaust stories I've ever heard - it tells the story of a Polish Jewish family during the war and all the unthinkable things that they had to deal with, yet they all survived and thrived and found each other and lived! Simply amazing true story!) |
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| 1.7.19 (in case you wanted to cheat and just find out what those "12 hardest things" things are without reading the book - I took this to help me remember) |
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| 1.7.19 (bonuses found in the acknowledgement section) |
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| 1.7.19 (my favorite picture book in our return stack this week - I don't know if I've ever shared a pic of this one before, but it's super cute and I love the illustrations!) |
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| 1.9.19 (spotted on the wall in the kindergarten hall - I love to look at the artwork they display there each month!) |
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| 1.9.19 (on our walk home from kindergarten drop off - Sam was a- snooze in the Burley, of course) |
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| 1.10.19 (the Valentine's spirit has arrived at our house early (at least for a certain five- and-a-half year old)) |
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| 1.10.19 (filled with heart notes, no less) |
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| 1.10.19 (Thursday = soup day (plus bonus bread and cookies day, too!)) |
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| 1.10.19 ("I'm wearing it like Daddy!") |
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| 1.10.19 ("I made this bag all by myself!" |
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| 1.10.19 (yet another cranberry recipe to try from the Cranberrytown series by the Devlins - this was from Cranberry Christmas, which finally came in at the library and we had to read anyway, even though Christmas is past) |
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| 1.11.19 (fun at the train museum with cousin Gracie!) |
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| 1.11.19 (Cal took this pic for us and I think she did a fabulous job) |
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| 1.11.19 (our friends Charlie and Erin came, too, and it was a loud and crazy time with these hoodlums) |
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| 1.11.19 (they love this part where the model trains drive through the scenery of frontier West set up in the museum) |
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| 1.11.19 (only a minor scuffle at the wheel was incurred in the taking of this picture) |
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| 1.11.19 (after nap time, we walked/scootered/burleyed/biked to the park in our snow clothes for some good swingin' slidin' and sleddin' (off the snow piles near the parking lot from the plowing)) |
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| 1.13.19 (it was a magical beautiful Sunday morning and I had to snap this pic before I hopped in the car on the way to church) |
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| 1.13.19 (glorious!) |
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| 1.14.19 (just finished this one! Holy moley! What an insane company and even crazier founder and such a huge mess of a story. Gregg read it with a business perspective, but I read it with a science perspective and it was seriously just nuts. but super good - I couldn't put it down! (and I'm glad it ended how it did - phew!)) |
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| 1.14.19 (will this entice you to read it?) |
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| 1.14.19 (he fought this one, but eventually sleep won out!) |
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| 1.14.19 (#sleepingsammy - he's getting so big!! (sob!)) |
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| 1.16.19 (it snowed a ton - nonstop all morning!) |
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| 1.16.19 (I liked how our little birdhouse was looking out there with it's white roof) |
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| 1.16.19 (he's my apple eater and I love his little grin) |
bonus video!
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| 1.18.19 (time to go to the library and return these and a whole bag (or two or three) of others - these were my particular faves, either for the art or the story or both) |
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| 1.18.19 (whoa nelly! That'a a big book!) |
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| 1.18.19 (I definitely will NOT be reading this entire book (and it's 970-something pages) BUT I am excited to flick through and browse it and I'm totally curious to see how many I have actually read on his list of 1000. (I heard about this on the What Should I Read Next podcast when the author was interviewed and I knew I had to check it out.)) |
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| 1.18.19 (and then we came home and Sam promptly found all his faves in our new stash and we sat down to read them after his nap - do you notice a theme here?) |
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| 1.18.19 (trains are definitely his fave as of late) |
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bonus video!
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(Gregg surprised her by picking her up
from school with all her gear and heading
straight to the mountain for a few runs
before dinner. Best dad ever!)
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| 1.20.19 (super blood wolf moon eclipse watching from the floor/heat vent in the living room) |
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| 1.20.19 (finished (finally - I started this one back in 2016 but didn't finish before it was due back and never checked it out again till now)) |
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| 1.21.19 (Frosty Returns! Also named "Dad" (the tall one) and "Callie" (the smaller one) ("Sam" was the first snowman we made a few weeks ago, who has been progressively doing deeper and deeper side stretch yoga poses till his head nearly, but not quite, touched the ground).) |
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| 1.21.19 (I'm just the builder - and boy to I love to roll snowballs when the snow is ripe for rollin'!) |
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| 1.21.19 (on our way to the library for a refresh - this one was great and rekindled a lost love for Van Gogh) |
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| 1.21.19 (Cal's "best" of the day was that Dad got to come to story time with us since he had no work today!) |
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| 1.21.19 (since she had no school today, we got to have a prolonged Mom 'n' Cal time with her science kit, something we haven't used much lately, but had a blast doing together) |
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| 1.21.19 (current TBR stack - and as of 1/25 I've finished (and loved!) three (The Bright Hour, Dear Mem Fox, and Reading Magic) so I'm feeling pretty good about that! Though, I'm noticing a not-on-purpose trend in that all the memoirs I've read this month have had a cancer element of some level or another, which is interesting and makes for somber reading at times.) |
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| 1.22.19 (snowman family on a beautiful morning - all a little leany now) |
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| 1.22.19 (Cal's entry in the yearbook cover contest, which also gets entered into Reflections, too) |
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| 1.22.19 (he's been DYING to ride his bike and at last the roads were dry enough again.) |
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| 1.22.19 (while I was cooking) |
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| 1.23.19 (some Mom 'n' Sam time fun while Cal was at school on early-out Wednesday) |
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| 1.23.19 (post-nap snuggles and smiles) |
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| 1.23.19 (I'm just about ready to give up even trying to beat this Mancala champion - she wins EVERY time, no matter what strategy I try.) |
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| 1.24.19 ("Look, Mom, we decorated our tree!") |
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| 1.24.19 (hard to see really, but that whole corner is one solid ice water fall) |
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| 1.24.19 (more gnarly ice formations on our house) |
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| 1.24.19 (Moo!) |
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| 1.24.19 (that there's some snow!) |
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| 1.24.19 (I thought it was funny that all the horses from next door were standing on a snow-covered dirt pile in the back pasture like they were playing king of the hill or something. Also, that sky!) |
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| 1.24.19 (his latest vehicular contraption - design by him, implementation by me) |
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| 1.24.19 (fresh/frozen cranberries in cookies = completely amazing!!) |
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| 1.24.19 (Cal and Sam were crafting at the table one afternoon and Sam made this "front runner train, with rods that move the wheels" all by himself - cutting, gluing, drawing all him. I was impressed!) |
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| 1.25.19 (what an early morning hour on the couch snuggled with a kid on either side can accomplish - and I really enjoyed them all (minus Doll-E 1.0, that one was my least fave)) |
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| 1.25.19 (she doesn't only draw maps for hiking!) |
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| 1.26.19 (since dad has never been to the dino park in Ogden, Cal made sure she set him up with a map so he'll be fully prepared for our visit) |
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| 1.26.19 (fun afternoon showing dad around dino park) |
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| 1.26.19 (two things: 1) Cal ran around this "mystery trail" all by herself in a streak of independence. and 2) Sam "roaring" at her as she runs back to us) |
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| 1.26.19 (our Saturday evening entertainment - and it honestly was way more interesting and entertaining than it looks) |
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| 1.27.19 (currently reading) |
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| 1.27.19 (it's a memoir about his year as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts in Rome, which he spent with his wife and twin baby boys. It's lovely and surprisingly relatable since it seems parenthood has the same ups and downs whether you're in Boise (where he lived before Rome) or Italy. I loved this section starting with "The mind . . .) |
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| 1.27.19 (. . . and ending at "burlap sack". A good reminder, I think, and something to watch out for.) |
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| 1.27.19 (aaaaaaww!) |
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| 1.31.19 (it's a baking day if ever I saw one!) |
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| 1.31.19 (risen and ready for an egg wash before popping in the oven) |
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| 1.31.19 (and done!) |
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| 1.31.19 (back bending snowman - such a strange feat of nature!) |
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| 1.31.19 (another angle) |
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| 1.31.19 (she begged to make dinner from her cookbook and we settled on chili, and she did much of all by herself (and was so proud) and ps - it was delicious!) |
