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Love Week: Birthdays

I failed miserably at blogging everyday this week for love week so I’ll just pick myself up and start again. I love celebrating birthdays; friends, family, and definitely my own. This year was no different. For some reason I’ve been really dreading turning the big 3-0. I was having an internal crisis. I soon realized […]

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Someone Used My Credit Card

Because the guys got to do something together, we girls wanted to get out and do something fun together. We went shopping. So before we left I gave Jim specific instructions about when the kids should nap and how they would love to go to the park. I even summoned my brothers to help him. […]

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Christmas in Virginia

4 suitcases, 4 carry-ons and we are off to Virginia for Christmas. We packed our warmest clothes and big puffy jackets ready for the East coast winter. Lucky for us though we didn’t need our big puffy jackets. The weather was beautiful.  Part of my family was awake to greet us the night we arrived. […]

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Positive Reinforcement

I’ve since calmed down after my crazy week with two toddlers in the house who are still driving me a little crazy. The new arrangement of the room is wonderful and the kiddies are really liking it too. After about an hour of coming in and out of their room, lots of tears and begging […]

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I’m Not Always A Quitter

There have been very few things that I have quit. Okay now that I think about it, it might be more than just a few. When I was a freshman in high school I tried out for the basketball team. I quit, long before tryouts were even over. It was just too much running for […]

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Music Is Good For The Soul

I think it was the first Christmas we were married. Jim and I went progressive caroling with Jim’s family and other members of the ward. While we were in the car, traveling from house to house, we were warming up our voices by singing “Hallelujah.” I remember making Jim laugh because I was trying to […]