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| 7.1.19 (we listened to the first four in this series on audio and loved them, but there is no audiobook for the rest of the series so we've been reading them together out loud. it's been so great!) |
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| 7.2.19 (I DO still have reeds! Gotta practice for the Thornley Family band!) |
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| 7.2.19 (beach day (our first this season!) with friends!) |
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| 7.2.19 (I love where we live - have I said that before?) |
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| 7.2.19 (Christine brought this fun raft to paddle around in - the kids loved it!) |
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| 7.2.19 (lunchtime on the "beach" - Zachy, Timmy, Callie and Sammy) |
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| 7.5.19 (my parents gave us kids a date night to see Newsies at the Ellen Eccles Theater (plus babysitting all the grands!!) - somehow Gregg and I missed the memo about this group shot (oops!) but we had a fun evening!) |
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| 7.5.19 (all the kiddos with popcorn and jammies and blankies and pillows watching Cars. be still my heart!) |
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| 7.6.19 (for future reference - Callie is into these friendship bracelets after spending an afternoon making them with Grandma) |
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| 7.6.19 (We're here for Lion Pups!) |
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| 7.6.19 (baseball game? what baseball game?) |
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| 7.6.19 (we stayed to watch the blue sox for three innings and saw four runs, so that was pretty good haha) |
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| 7.6.19 (by the statue of Coach Hansen at the ballpark in Smithfield) |
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| 7.7.19 (our favorites this week) |
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| 7.8.19 (another one down - Cal has been reading the diary entries at the beginning of each chapter and I read the rest and it's been a lot of fun) |
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| 7.8.19 (we also finished up these in the car - we all really enjoyed Gooney Bird) |
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| 7.8.19 (other recent audio book faves on libby) |
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| 7.8.19 (a stellar summer sunset that photos just can't do justice) |
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| 7.9.19 (a new hair style - and getting so long!) |
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| 7.9.19 (friend day! this is McKena) |
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| 7.9.19 (a few more good ones before we take them back) |
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| 7.10.19 (another friend day! These are Moriah and Rachel) |
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| 7.10.19 (a rose tree? nope - just a long, lonely rose branch tangled in a tree) |
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| 7.11.19 (two baby deer didn't know what to make of Sam biking right past them on the way to the park) |
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| 7.11.19 (we got really quite close to them) |
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| 7.11.19 (we're just flying through these! The library didn't have a hard copy of this one for some reason, so we read it on the kindle app on my phone) |
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| 7.11.19 (hammock time reading with my girl) |
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| 7.12.19 (science in the park demo of elephant snot and mentos in diet coke. the kids also got to make slime and touch lots of cool things) |
bonus video!
7.12.19
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| 7.12.19 (finished the last one today. sniff. we have loved this series) |
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| 7.12.19 (friday night pizza - it just looked extra good tongiht so I had to snap a pic) |
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| 7.12.19 (stayed up past my bedtime (just a bit) to finish this one tonight. I really liked it. The subtitle says it all. She's a great writer and storyteller. But just be aware that there definitely is some language.) |
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| 7.13.19 (brookies for my grandparents' 60th anniversary party) |
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| 7.13.19 (some of the gang at the party - I sure am lucky to have these amazing grandparents!) |
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| 7.15.19 (this week's faves from the library - we've been reading a lot of Tomie dePaola and a lot about the moon landing - so much good stuff!) |
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| 7.15.19 (a pre-library walk by the reservoir with the Larsens had more rock throwing and stick splashing than walking today, but it was lovely to hang out in the shade by the lake) |
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| 7.15.19 (the library is under some major construction and renovations outside (and inside, actually), and the boys couldn't get enough of the digger out the window) |
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| 7.16.19 (I love when they hang the big flag from the white barn in the middle of Eden - makes my patriotic heart smile, espcially on a beautiful blue morning such as this) |
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| 7.18.19 (lovely weeds and wild flowers on another walk by the reservoir with the Larsens) |
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| 7.18.19 (perfection!) |
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| 7.18.19 (Sam's helmet is also perfection!) |
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| 7.18.19 (looking back up toward the spring creek parking area after our walk and rock splashing time) |
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| 7.18.19 (I checked this out on a whim (I didn't even open it up at the library first!) and it was a win! each page is a cleverly told story problem and a cutely illustrated picture that gives clues to help solve it (if you need them). Most of them Cal could solve on her own and the others we worked out together and it was a super fun way to do some math time and reading time at the same time!) |
bonus video!
7.19.19
(he had the cutest explanation for what it felt like when his
feet fall asleep. I had to really probe him in the video (he had just told me
and I thought it was worth recording, so I made him repeat his description, which
of course wasn't nearly as cute as the first time) but I think you get the gist)
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| 7.19.19 (read most of this with both kids, but finished with Cal today just in time to take it back to the library before our big trip - now we're ready for a pizza and a movie night to watch the movie version!) |
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| 7.19.19 (evenings in Eden) |
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| 7.19.19 (research for NC) |
{a big gap in the dates comes here because of our epic adventure
to North Carolina, which will surely take up at least 10 individual posts of
its own}
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| 7.31.19 (I knew it would be sunflower season when we got home from our trip, and sure enough they were blooming along the road as I walked up the street to my ministering sister to pick up our mail that she had been tending for us) |
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| 7.31.19 (I also lucked out on a spectacular sky on my way home. Just wait. It gets a whole lot better!) |
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| 7.31.19 (It was pretty sassy looking east, too) |
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| 7.31.19 (what a welcome home!) |
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| 7.31.19 (back to the west (ish) - that barn is the one right behind our house) |
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| 7.31.19 (#sassysummersunset) |
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| 7.31.19 (on the homeward stretch) |
once again a fabulous post! Keep those photos comin'!!
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