tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81695827650768383542012-02-18T12:46:45.553-08:00My experiences of traveling with 4 young kids. This task does not intimidate me, it encourages me.Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02980396321509834767noreply@blogger.comBlogger1461100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8169582765076838354.post-39458269134331988202011-12-13T08:37:00.001-08:002011-12-13T08:37:32.650-08:00

Hello my peeps. It's been awhile and I have been doing lots. Too much really. I've been working through the 9 week couch to 5K app. I'm running on the elliptical to strengthen my legs and lungs first. And hopefully lose some weight!! So far, I'm at week 7 - day 2 and I am kicking butt. I thought I was going to die the first few times, but now I'm pushing to finish the whole 5K. I'm still at a

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Once you get one - you'll have the itch to get more. I got my first tattoo when I turned 19. A heart with a flower through it. I was at a friends house and some (I'm sure he was just out of jail) guy was giving tattoos. I was young, and dumb, and it was $25. Most days I forget it's there. My second tattoo was with my college roommate. We drove around town, getting prices, and discussing what

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Over the years, my husband has turned into the cook in our family. I still make the basics: cereal for breakfast, sandwiches and lunch bags for lunch, noodles or meat and veggies for dinner. But, Marc - he's a gourmet. Or he's trying to be. Want salsa verde? He buys the ingredients, spends 4 hours roasting and chopping and blending. Don't get me wrong, it's so delicious, but I would have bought a

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Today is a good day. It's sunny in Seattle. This is a strange phenomena this year. I have been complaining about the lack of sunlight. I never realized how much I need it until we moved here (8 years ago). But this week has made up for the crap last 8 months. Just barely. When it's sunny here. There is no other place I would rather live. Now if I could only convince my kids to get off the

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I love back to school shopping!! I can fulfill my shopping addiction without guilt. I get to pick out new boxes of crayons and get 5 packs of pencils (that the crazy teacher wants me to sharpen) and then put all of the wonderful supplies in my kids carefully chose backpacks as I prepare myself for that first peaceful and quiet morning. Maybe that's why I love new shoes. It represents my

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We're one of you - mister blue tarp camping family This is camping in the Pacific Northwest in the middle of summer (July to be exact). You would think by this time of year, the clouds would part and the sun would grace us with her beauty. We arrived at Lake Wenatchee, WA on a Friday. The sun was shining (a little), then the clouds came in and we spent the evening moving the shelter over the

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It's official. I'm a gym addict. At first I thought I liked to go because of the cute guys on the weights. But he hasn't been there in 2 weeks and I actually look forward to going even more.  I'm self motivated!! How did that happen? At first, it was all treadmill, treadmill, treadmill with an occasional bike thrown in there. Then I found the rower. I love the rower. Feeling my back,

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For her annual birthday dinner (our kids get to pick where they want to eat), Miss M chose Sichuanese in Redmond. How many 11 year old choose spicy food? She loves to eat the pea vine and drink hot tea. I love how my kids are willing to try most foods. We enjoyed a wonderful day with our eldest. Hard to believe that she has turned 11 already. She spent the majority of her birthday at school.

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Enjoying the Washington sun and emerging from my winter cocoon. Thanks for blogging the winter away. I've enjoyed reading about your adventures while planning my own. It's always great to find a new park. Even if it's old. I was so happy to see the sun (despite the wind chill making it almost unbearable). I'm still trying to figure out when Spring will arrive here in the Pacific Northwest.

Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02980396321509834767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8169582765076838354.post-13537061871682547502011-03-01T20:14:00.000-08:002011-03-01T20:14:54.937-08:00

Do you have a favorite camera? One that you would never leave home without? Something that takes fabulous pictures and is small? I've killed yet another camera. I have been a Canon user for years. Starting with film cameras. The first one died because the flash died. I was told that I could add an external flash (and even more weight). So, I bought a new one. The next one lasted me a few years

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In November, our elementary school hosted a food drive for the local food bank. Our school secretary has a son that works for Frito-Lay. They sponsored our food drive and donated snacks, drinks and a visit with Chester the Cheetah for the class that brought in the most donated foods. I created these cute little turkeys to keep track of the amount of food donated by each class: Each day I

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For Lori - rrsahm your loss is felt around the world My love and strength will envelope you when you need it— Heather from Seattle, WA, United States

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Imagine your life changing in the blink of an eye. Imagine your whole world falling apart without any warning. We all may have this experience at some point (I myself found myself in this situation when my Mom felt bad, I took her to the hospital and she never came home - this is another story), but I'm writing to send my concerns, hopes, prayers to a fellow blogger. I've never met Lori from

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We received snow. For one day (really only a few hours) that due to freezing temperatures lasted for over a week. Luckily, we had finished our grocery shopping and gassed up the cars. The buses were able to pick up the kids and the dry roads made driving easy. But our street, it had an ice slick at the top that kept Marc from being able to leave. It was quite humorous to me. I've found a reason

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Being a stay at home Mom is a hard job. A rewarding and fulfilling job. It my current job and I love it, but I'm ready to go back to work. I'm ready to make some money for our family. I'm ready to add a new level of insanity to my already busy days. To help me transition back into this life, I've been volunteering at the kids school. I started out on a committee or two. Then I volunteered as our

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Mr N and I had a great 1st day back to our regularly scheduled program. The kids got on the bus (3 out of 4)!! We drove over to school to drop off Miss M's cello (I'm afraid it will get broken on the bus). Mr N and I stopped at Starbucks for some morning caffeine. And decided to stop to play at the park on the way home. Despite the park being covered in snow (it's just in our little 4 mile

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Will I try this again? If I remember (I'm always taking photos with my phone) and If I can figure out how to post said photos from my phone to this blog - I'll be updating with a photo each day of some randomness of my day. Today: This is our icy road. Let me tell you, it snowed last week! One day! We woke up Monday to snow. Random and wonderful. I went grocery shopping Tuesday. No problem. By

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Hello, I know. 2 days. In a row. Do I have a fever? Do I have a new years resolution? Well, No to both. Maybe the fever, but it's slight and would explain why my lymph nodes are making my face look like I'm wearing a much bigger fat suit. Time to call the doctor on that one. Now, I'm random. Seriously. The whole family is sick. All 6 of us. Not quite sick enough, but definitely sick. Everyone

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Happy New Year! We had a great night celebrating with friends and family. It's our first year (in many years) that we've had people over. There was plenty of drinks, snacks and talking going on.  Today, 1/1/11, we spent the day relaxing, watching cars try to make in up our icy hill and reading. We ended our 1st day of the new year watching "Percy Jackson and the Lightening Thief" with the kids.

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Look what I found for my Mario obsessed 6 year old daughter. She wantsto marry him. And wants a picture of her and Mario kissing. She hasstuffed Marios, hard plastic Marios, Mario figurines. Even the Mariostrategy guides - she thumbs through them often while making upstories.She will be so happy when she gets home today!

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I'm still here. Watching from the shadows and enjoying catching up on everyone's blogs. We've been beyond busy with sports, family visiting and my duties at PTSA President. I'm busy re-writing our Elementary school science fair notebook that goes home in 10 days. Miss R and Mr N are home from school day (weird school schedules. It boggles my head). Mr N is M, T, W afternoon, Miss R is all day M,

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Living in the rainy state of Washington, you would think there would be MANY indoor play areas for Moms or Dads to take their kids for a few hours. But, there's not. One of the few and my favorite place in this soft play area in the Alderwood Mall. If you get there before 10am, it's pretty quiet and the kids can have a great time running, climbing and playing with each other. It's perfect

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This summer, we took a short and very fun vacation to Redding, CA and Legoland, CA (pics coming soon). But, I'm dreaming of traveling further. I'm dreaming of international travel. My husband and I have finally applied and received our passports. Any travel we've done (inside of the USA, Canada, Bahamas and Mexico) only required our birth certificated. Now we need to apply for each of the kids

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We recently visited Redding, CA where we stayed at Ramada Limited. We were there to attend my Dad's and Bett's wedding reception while having a ton of fun crammed into a few days. This will be a little photo heavy. entering California (one of my favorite signs) We left really early in the morning and arrived in Redding in time to go swimming at Bett's sisters house. We had a marvelous time and

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If you can tell by looking at my left side bar, I am an avid reader. I have always been. I can remember climbing up into the front yard tree with my book, mini boom box and blanket to curl up in the cradle of branches and read for hours (while listening to the radio). My Mom would take me to the used book store to pickup paperback novels for a quarter ($0.25). I put reading books on the back

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MannLand5 has created a "Follow me Chickadee Friday" with 3 of her super friends, Stash Mama,  the adventures of goober grape & monkey man, and the life of a sippy cup mom. So I'm trying this out and finding some fantastic new blogs to follow. Take a look and link up (by following the rules, of course). Happy Friday!! Here's the details direct from MannLand5's blog: Each week, simply stop by

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I have an addiction. I've never realized it was an addiction, but it is. It's not smoking or drinking. It's not even drugs. It's Starbucks coffee. A grande or venti mocha to be exact. Sometimes I add peppermint or an extra shot. Sometimes I do nonfat or 2% milk. It hasn't made a difference to my weight one way or the other. I love the socializing with the barista, who hates that I change up my

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I have never done a review before, but we just finished our vacation and had to tell you about this hotel. I paid for my trip and did not tell the hotel that I would be writing about them after I stayed there. Is this enough of a disclaimer? Marc and I took the family on vacation to California. We started our vacation in Redding, CA to attend my Dad's wedding reception (to the most lovely lady).

Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02980396321509834767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8169582765076838354.post-79881317328827382472010-07-22T07:39:00.000-07:002010-07-22T07:39:29.135-07:00

It's day 1 of our vacation. We are driving from Seattle, WA to Redding, CA (615 miles). Here's the lead up. Tuesday night - 6 haircuts. Wednesday morning - chiropractor appt for me. Shopping for the road with my 4 kids and 1 of their friends (it was super quick). Some play time for the kids while I finish laundry and wonder how we will finish a gallon of milk and loaf of bread by morning. I

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My kids are on summer vacation. I would say we are not busy, so they are bored...but we are busy and maybe that's why we have all the fighting. We've been camping over 2 weekends, three of the kids had daily swim lessons for 2 weeks and now the older two (ages 10, 8) have 4 days of tennis lessons from 9-12. I've been able to entertain the little two (ages 4, 5) because there is a jogging track

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I know I've been AWOL. It's summer break and the sun actually came out to play. I guess 4th of July really is the beginning of summer here. After years of living with LOTS of sun, it's hard for me to adjust that the sun doesn't come out in May or even June. We actually wore our winter jackets to the fireworks display, but it was warmer than in years past and we only needed our hooded sweatshirts.

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Well, well. I wasn't sure about doing a giveaway, but thought I would give it a try. So far, nothing. So a simple comment, a little ditty about your plans this summer (or next summer) posted in the comments would be great. It's pretty easy and a $40 gift certificate from CSN stores will be yours. I'm ending my giveaway on Wednesday, July 8. See my post about the giveaway here. And if this

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Marc, the kids and I drove over to Lake Chelan, WA on April 9th (a Saturday). I have been there once, when we first moved here, and Marc had never been. It was a sunny day, so we hopped in the car and made the drive. We drove out I-90, turning off at Cle Elum and driving through Wenatchee (I thought it was faster). It was 214 miles and about 4 hours. By the time we got to Wenatchee, it was time

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I started painting our guest (kids) bathroom about a month ago. I was nervous about this makeover. But, I knew the color would be fine over a larger scale (at least I hoped). I'm pretty happy with the results and wanted to share them with you. It's not completely done, but done enough to let friends and family use the bathroom again. (This is the main bathroom at the end of the hall that most

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I have been approached to offer my first ever give-a-way (said in a big announcer voice). I'm a little excited and nervous to do this. So, like life, I am plunging in and just doing it. Ready? CSN has offered to sponsor a giveaway for my blog!! Not familiar with CSN? Well, they are a huge online group of over 200+ specialized stores that sells a variety of home goods. There is a current article

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Howdy...or Hola! Did you have a great weekend? I wouldn't say mine was the best, but it made me happy. Actually, all of summer vacation has made me very happy (granted we are only 7 days into our summer vacation). School got out June 21st (a Monday and it was a half day). I took the kids to Build-A-Bear (as it is our tradition). I used all my coupons and discounts and saved $42!! My Dad and

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The end of school is here and summer (or what is supposed to be summer if the sun would come out and play) is here. It's been a crazy, busy 2 weeks with the end of school, the end of year parties, 2 kids birthday parties and my Dad in town for a weekend. I have many, many things and a few trips to blog about, but right now...it's about my surprise Couples Night Out!! Do you ever get those? A

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Have you been watching the World Cup? I have never watched so much soccer (futbol) in my life. I love the game. I started my kids playing when they were 3 years old. That's 7 years as a soccer Mom (recently we have played Fall and Spring Soccer). Sunday, we watched the Germany vs. Australia game. I gotta admit, I was rooting for Australia. Especially after the terrible calls and finally the red

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Mr C has a friend named Mr A. Mr A is a funny little guy. He's 8 and in 2nd grade. His parents seem like great people and they are friends with their kids. They have to be, otherwise why would an 8 year old think it's OK to come into MY bedroom, lay on the end of MY bed, while I'm reading a book, to ask me what I'm doing and how am I. I found it very odd to have an 8 year old boy sit or talk with

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Today is Memorial Day...a day, that for many of us, means BBQ's, family and a 3 day weekend. Many of us have not been touched by war or death. I myself only have my father and grandfathers who were part of the military during the Vietnam War and World War II. They went into battle and returned alive. They have stories to tell that fascinate and thrill me. Now, I have friends whose husbands are

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Is this how you feel?? This is how I feel most days. I love my life and staying at home, but like all underpaid workers, I need to vent a little. So this "Grumpy Meme" has arrived at the perfect time. First I need to Thank my wonderful friend, In Real LIfe, she makes me so happy to read about her walks and her pretty photos (you should go visit her and look around). Now, I get to follow the

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I had a wonderful evening with a great friend. We shared some (a whole bottle) of chianti and ate some pizza while (ignoring) watching the kids run in circles around the couch. A fun way to start the weekend.

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Blowing bubbles with my kids on a sunny afternoon. It's about 65F with a slight breeze. The wind is blowing the bubbles for us.

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Seriously!?! Is this a cool orange-brown color or baby sh!t brown. I like the color and have painted a tiny section of the hall bath with it, but it's bordering on baby poo and I'm nervous to continue. Only because I don't want a guest coming over and being all, "OMG...What was she thinking?" I'm thinking I have 4 kids and the bathroom needed a facelift from cute, little kids to the guests

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New buffet place in lynnwood. Great Chinese, seafood, sushi and frog legs.

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I have been humbly bestowed the honor of a meme from In Real Life. She makes me laugh and reminds me to stay real. The rule (do we always follow these rules, I guess I'm not a fan of chaos, so I'll follow of course) is to re-post your first blog. Can you do it?  I just posted my 100 blog (I'm kind of a big deal around here) and now I'm re-posting my 1st blog, so it's perfectly fitting. Now

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My Friday as incoming PTSA President.

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"2nd cup of coffee" has this great "random dozen" link up she does every week. This is my first week to participate and I'm looking forward to reading the rest of your responses. Feel free to join in. And now The Random prompt for this week: 1. Have you ever been so lost that you were really afraid?I have. I'm sure more than once. When I was 18 I took a drive out of town (Brentwood, CA) and

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I bought 1 of these for Mr. N and Miss R. I just noticed that it is 5 servings at 140 calories each (700 calories total for a sucker!)

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Our Easter was fun filled with all the kids running around. Marc made this great poster for the kids to play "pin the tail on the rabbit". Miss R ended up being the closest and was very excited to win her little prize (a bubble gun). We start out our weekend dying Easter Eggs. Take 4 kids times a dozen each and we have a lot of eggs to dye. This year, we let them do 8 each and then had some

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This is my husband of 11 years. I've known him since we were 15. We've discovered that we had crushes on each other at 18 (while we went to our first year of college together). We didn't discover that we liked each other until we were 20. We weren't ready for that commitment yet as we were in different places on our lives. Our paths crossed again when we were 22. This time...our lives were ready

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So, I explained our whirlwind trip to California for my Dad's wedding. Now, here are some details and our trip home. My Dad and Betts got married on a beautiful, sunny California day at Oak Leigh in Fair Oaks, CA (outside of Sacramento). The best part was we didn't have to drive very far. After all the miles we put on the car in the previous 2 days, it was nice to have a more leisure

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Mr C at his first baseball game.

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Need something to do this month? At least our weekends are free.

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Need something to do this month? At least our weekends are free.

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Long story short, my Mom died in June 2004 from Inflammatory Breast Cancer. This was a shock to all of us and the healing process is long, but we all want to be happy and find that person that makes us happy. After 9 months, my Dad started to look at dating (sorry Dad, I'm spilling your life). He met a woman from Lebanon (the country, not a city is a US state). She came here and met us all and

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We kid A LOT around our house. Miss M learned to peek around the corner when she was 18 months old to make sure I wasn't hiding on my hands and knees to say "Boo". We still hop into the kids rooms (when they are supposed to be asleep) and scare them. The kids have learned to hide and scare too. The best was when Marc came home from work and the kids ran downstairs to hide in the dark. When he

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Marc and I have started NutriSystem. It is a meal delivered program. Marc and I went online and ordered 1 of everything so that we can try all the food. We ordered 35 breakfast, 35 lunch, 35 dinner and 35 dessert. They were all delivered on Monday and we started our program on Monday. So each day our food each day includes 8 glasses of water and then: 1. breakfast entree + a dairy or protein +

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  This is what 35 meals for 2 people look like. Marc and I are embarking on a new healthy eating plan. Let me tell you. We were so supersizing everything we ate. Even though I use the little plate, it was still so much more than we should be eating. That would explain why I haven't been able to lose any weight over the last year despite making many changes to my diet. I've also found that I am a

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Do you ever get to the point where you have a weeks worth of blogs written (in your head), but you spend so much time reading other blogs, facebook and your current book that you end up not posting anything? That would be me. I feel like such a loser, but I know I'm doing this for me and it's a happy coincidence that such lovely people want to follow my misadventures. I would love to do a quick

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I ran the school food drive last week. Thanks to the generous donations of our parents and students and teachers, we collected 1507 cans of food for the food bank.

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While I'm all ADD feeling today, I remembered it's Friday in Austrailia and there is a most wonderfully funny mum there that hosts this awesome link up to other moms called Flog Your Blog Friday. I have found some wonderful blogs to follow and gathered a few friends to read my interesting boring little life. I actually like to write all about myself and LOVE to read all about you. It's like

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Where to begin. Where does it end.  We went to California last Thursday to attend my Dad's wedding. It was beautiful and will take at least 2 posts to capture the photos and words. I've been so busy reading the blogs I'm behind on (I'm OCD enough that I HAVE to read them and not just mark "all read"). I'm loving reading them though. I just finished reading "the Glass Castle" which I loved and

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Last look back leaving California. We had fun. We'll miss you. See you soon!

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Dad and Betts got married today. More photos later. We are off to the reception. Robot-me even teared up a little. Held it together to enjoy the ceremony though.

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Wedding #1:Desiree & Robert MorganPleasanton, CABEAUTIFUL

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Driving from Seattle, WA to Redding, CA

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Hello my lovilies. It's Thursday in the states, but it's Flog Your Blog Friday by Brenda at Mummy-TimeMummy Time (the best blog) a few hours and a day away in the land down under (why isn't it over? Who made North mean up?) Anyway, join us in our quest to find wonderful new bloggers to follow and follow us. Anysun, about California. We are making a whirlwind drive and visit to California. We

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Sat, March 13: I worked!! For the first time in 7 years, I worked. It was only for 3-1/2 hours. But I made $10/hr to help out a friend with her wedding dress alteration. I answered the phone. I instructed the brides and bridesmaids to enter the changing area. I hung the dresses into bags. I put away jewelry they had tried on. I got veils down and even helped most of them get their shoes on (that

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Fri, March 12: We are working on wisely spending blowing through Marc's bonus in record time. First we had the truck repaired. Now I am having the carpets cleaned. Not just a little bit, but every square inch of this house. We skipped getting it done last year and they are just plain gross!! I moved toy boxes into closets, trunks into the bathroom, exercise equipment under the stairs, desks

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Thurs, March 11: The day that leads to my lame rant. Today is a busy day that will lead to many more busy days.  1. Marc takes the kids to the bus and says goodbye. 2. We drop off his truck to find out why it grinds while driving (need new wheel bearings - $450, fuel injection service - $300 and spark plugs). We agree to the wheel bearings and hold off on the rest. 3. Drive to Ikea to buy Mr C's

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Wed, March 10: Today is the last of the last of our basketball season. The trophies are bought and the pizza is ordered. We met at a local pizza parlour to pass out the trophies. Our coach even made it. We all had a fun time talking about the season and what we were doing next. 5 of the 10 boys played Fall Soccer together and are moving forward to play Sping Soccer (or is it ok to call it Futbol?

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Sun, March 7: We decided to have a family fun day that includes a trip to Ikea. Yes, I know...everyone's favorite family fun day. We are out looking for a new bed for Mr. C. He has our hand me down queen size bed. Sounds great until you look for cool sheets for a 7 year old in queen size. Plus, the bed takes up the majority of the room. We arrived at Ikea and we straight to Smalland to check

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For I have been missing. I've worked so hard to make new friends in this blogging experiment of my life. I LOVE reading your blogs. I HATE being a single Mom. And I think it's because I KNOW I'm not single. Marc has had to travel 3 of the last 5 weeks and it's a little old to me. I find myself sitting here wondering if I'll even care that he's home. I'm so used to doing my daily routine and being

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I thought I would try something new and participate in the awesome fill in the blank friday brought to you and me by Lauren @ the little things we do. 1.  The best day ever was:  a toss up of my wedding day and the birth of each of my 4 kids. It's amazing how many best day evers I can think of right now! 2.  My favorite meal of the day is: actually a drink (mocha) because it's feeds my

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We went on a wonderful wander last Saturday (March 7). After our last basketball game (thank god. no more saturday games), we drove up to Mt. Vernon, WA to see if the tulips were in bloom. Every year there is a tulip festival in April. Our weather is so great, I thought they would be up. The green was up, but not the color. There were fields of daffodils though. (photo credit) So, we wanted

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Saturday, March 6:We took an amazing little wandering to Friday Harbor today. It will have it's own post. But here's my photo of the day. This is what I looked like for a few hours.

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Friday, March 5: I had a wonderful surprise yesterday. Marc texted me to ask if he could take the 4 kids to dinner. I have PTSA Thursday night and grudingly volunteered to take the little two with me. His generous offer to take them to dinner was for a work gathering. He said he wanted to take all four. OK says I. I dropped them off at 5:20 and warned them to be super good for daddy's

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Thursday, March 4:School day. We had class pictures and individual photos taken. I had to actually fix my hair since I am the Jr PTSA leader and we were taking group photos too. I wonder how embarassed the kids will be to see me in their yearbook? I'm sure it will be just those wonderful tween/teen years. I am very buay at school this year and next year will be even more.

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Wednesday, March 3:Absolutely disgusting looking. I know. But, I made Brussels sprouts with heaving whipping cream and Parmesan cheese. Mr C (age 7) asked for 2nd and 3rd servings. I'm impressed. There is no way I would have ever ate sprouts at that age.

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Tuesday, March 2:

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I'll make an awesome blog after my PTA meeting. Doing it from my awesomer iPhone is a little hard. But big thanks to Brenda for living us. (that should be loving us)!! Anyway, I had this great blog all planned out in my head last night. I'm debating on what level to reveal my craziness to all you wonderful bloggers. I started this for me and then added my grandfather, father and aunt to get

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Monday, March 1:Today is Mr N and I time. The three older kids are in school. The oldest two are in school all day, but Miss R is in school for 2-1/2 hours. Mr N and I run errands and play. Sometimes I sit at the park and read while Mr N runs around. We do a little exploring and I realize how wonderful he is.Today, we went to Costco to get some groceries, but we also stopped to get our passport

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Sunday, February 28:It started out as a decent PNW day. The sun was shining and it wasn't freezing cold (a blessing in these parts). I called my brother and his family to see if they wanted to play at a new park with us. He said Yes and we were on our way. We went to Saint Edward State Park. It's in the Kenmore, WA area right on Lake Washington. There is a fabulous wooden playground with loads of

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Saturday, Feb 27: Marc is back and he is tired. I believe he fell asleep around 8 last night and we didn't get up until about 10am this morning. I love to sleep in, but usually Marc gets up and entertains (feeds) the kids. But he is seriously jet-lagged from a 3 hour time difference suck it up! Seriously though, we are both tired. Being a 24 hour Mom with no break in site for the week was

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Friday, Feb 26:Marc comes home today. This is his second week in Atlanta. We miss him and I am ready to be a assisted parent again (not a single parent). We do well without him here, but it's so much better when he is here.Miss R, Mr N and I headed over to the mall to burn off some energy. They are at the verge of being too big to play here. They have such a great time. With as much as it

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Thursday, Feb 25:Math night at school. It wasn't very well attended, but my kids had a blast. They had to visit 7 stations to get a sticker on their card. At the end, they received a math night ribbon and goodie bag. It was great for them and I got a chance to talk to their teachers.

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I am working on being "cool" enough to follow directions and link up to a fabulous Blogging Mum. So, we'll see how this goes and if I can work the McLinky and add a button and prove that I am not as brain dead as my 4 kids think I am. Bwaa....haa...haa...ha!

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Wed, Feb 24: My guilty pleasure is reading. I LOVE to READ! Lately, I spent a lot of time playing with games on facebook and just wasting some time. I woke up realized that these games were appealing to my small OCD tendencies to get to the next level and that I wasn't reading anymore. So, I deleted those games (though I still facebook to keep up with friends) and started reading. I have

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 Tuesday, Feb 23rd: My favorite time of day. While getting the kitchen cleaned up, Mr C sits down to read a bedtime story to Miss R and Mr N. He gets to work on his reading skills and they get an extra bedtime story. The are so sweet and attentive. We had a great day today. I find that I pace the day since Marc won't be home at the end. It keeps me from going crazy and drinking more than a glass

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Sunday, Feb 21: I have some great photos of the kids at the park Sunday. We are running out of a sunny forecast and need to get out. We went to the inlaws for a turkey lunch (delicious) and went to a local park with them and our nephew. The kids had a great time running around and the adults had some fun shooting baskets. But, I can't find my camera at the moment. Seriously, where did I set it?

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Happy National Margarita Day!  Yep, I think we are officially crazy and have a National "something" Day for every day of the year. But not one to disappoint a National Day, I opened my Patron Christmas gift (thank you Jeff) and made myself a margarita on the rocks to eat with my chili turkey hot dog for dinner. I hope you all had a great day too.

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Friday, Feb 19: Marc is in Atlanta for work this week. Luckily it's a slow week at home and being a single mom to 4 isn't so bad when you know the Mr. is coming home Friday night. I won't mention that he is leaving again on Monday for another week in Atlanta (yet). (image credit)  We had another day of great weather and I spent a lot of the day at my kids school. We held our Jr. PTSA

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Thurs, Feb 18: We are having some b-e-a-u-ti-ful sunny weather lately. I think Washington is having the best weather in the US (besides Hawaii, of course). Miss R, Mr N and I are taking advantage of the warm sun and heading outdoors. We were to meet some preschool friends at the park by the lake, but everyone bailed. One kid had croup, and the other friend was too excited that her brother was

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Seriously, I get behind and I get overwhelmed, then I realize...this is for me and I'm enjoying sharing my daily life (even if the photos are just ho-hum). I am starting to use my iphone more for photos because I can upload the photos so quickly (I can add comments later). I'm starting to figure this out. And really, I am planning some trips, they just haven't started yet. So, to catch up on my

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Tuesday, Feb 16: This delicious, dense bread was brought to me courtesy of my brother, Scott. I was discussing what a loss it was that my grandfather got rid of his 100 year old sourdough starter when my grandparents moved into their retirement home. He decided to make his own starter and has done a great job. He says that this loaf is dense because it rose on a pan and he had to move it into

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The nicest bowling alley ever. Lucky Strike in Bellevue, WA. I think we've found our next date night spot.

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The wickedly smart and funny Mrs. P has awarded me this Honest Scrap Award which encourages me to spill 10 honest things about myself! It should be easy to come up with 10 items because I love to spill the details of my life (as well as hear yours), but sometimes the top 10 ideas that pop into my head are not always the most important or relevant. Since the wine is currently out of my system, my

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