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28 November 2011So we had Michelle over to celebrate her 25th birthday. Normally I give my kids money, but Michelle had expressed that she enjoyed getting presents and surprises from her family. Therefore, I attempted to purchase something that I thought she would like. Yes, I would try something different to please my new daughter. My husband told me not to make this attempt, citing the fact

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24 November 2011 Thanksgiving morning I was able to go to BlessFest and help provide service for some of the homeless here in Las Vegas. There were a few thousand that were provided for on this day. When I drove up I immediately began to cry, because the amount of people in need were staggering. It was hard to hold back my emotions. Basically, the homeless were fed, given clothes, sanitary

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22 November 2011My hubby fried a turkey for a friend on Sunday and the skin was a little blackened. Therefore, he wanted to find out why before Thanksgiving. Apparently, the people rubbed it with something that had sugar in it, so it caramelized the outside, but Frank wanted to make a turkey anyway to make sure. When I got home from school on Monday, I found my family out in the street partying

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23 November 2011 I normally give my children money ($50) on their birthday and let them pick out what they want instead of me surprising them with gifts. This stems from the fact that when I grew up my parents always allowed us to go and buy our own presents, come home and wrap them, and then surprise our siblings with what we decided to get. Hahaha! Honestly, it was fun. We would be sneaky when

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November 2011 Can a computer game really absorb a person's entire life? Answer: yes! Every moment that Brandon is off of work, he is playing this game. Hours upon hours upon hours... (sigh)

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November 20111I guess we have really been running Kela into the ground. We have found her randomly crashed out around the house. She has been so TIRED!!! Poor thing!

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Kela is sporting her newly made scarf and beanie...compliments of Noah. (Well, Noah made the beanie and I made the scarf--Noah actually made the beanie for himself, but Kela decided that it belonged to her, so now Noah is making him a different one. Haha! Girls rule!) Kela absolutely loves her new Fall Fashion! She even wants to wear her accessories to bed. I've had to sneak them away from her

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28 October 2011So my hubby had a work picnic at the park and had his whole family join him. They had a pumpkin carving contest and I tried to talk my boys into carving something, but noone wanted to participate. Well, they all went off to play basketball instead and left me with a whole bunch of people I didn't know. Really? Thanks! After about 20 minutes of boredom, I decided to go ahead and

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28 October 2011 X-Men is my favorite scie-fi series. I just absolutely love all of the movies! I can't wait until the next one comes out. They are soooo good!!! My sister told me that she was dressing her family in X-Men costumes and, of course, I thought it was a fabulous idea so copied her! Thanks Mary! I had to choose characters that I thought we kind of favored and could pull off. Therefore,

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October 2011Soooo...Dad wanted to lose some inches off of his belly and shed some pounds. Therefore, he decided to do a colon cleanse diet to rid himself of toxins and built up waste, and hopefully feel a little better in the process. He opted to do this diet for a week: It consisted with starting and finishing with a Sea Salt drink (gives a burst of motion to the system because the body rejects

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1 October 2011A small part of my dental hygiene class wanted to get together and go hiking. Of course, I was up for that! We met at Mt. Charleston and hiked Cathedral Rock. It's only about a mile and a half up (3 miles round trip)...not too bad! I invited Brandon and Michelle to come along, because I know they like to do things outdoors too. I'm glad they decided to join me. :) It's alwas nice

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24 September 2011We were invited to a Cuban BBQ at a friend's house and it was amazing! The Fisks roasted a whole pig in their pit and had all kinds of great side dishes, and hosted about 60-75 people. Here the boys are eating some of the skin (pork rind). They said they loved it! It was a wonderful social event to just go and hang out with great folks. Thanks! It was awesome!!!

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18 September 2011 Well, the teeth are starting to fall...thank goodness! Noah is almost NINE! He was very happy that his second tooth came out. It was pretty loose since his permament tooth was coming in right behind it. Here's the new smile!

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17 September 2011 Gabriel and I had Youth Conference this fall and participated in a great service project. We went to a Las Vegas park and pulled weeds for the community. That is a BIG 'ole pile of weeds!!! Have you ever seen that many WEEDS???? Honestly, it didn't even take that long with as many hands as we had. These are the group of girls that we had show up. Gabriel worked really hard and

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15 September 2011How fun is racing a boat you've made? Super fun!!!! Well....we can't really claim that Noah made this boat. Unfortunately, noone had time to help him sand his little boat down, so he just assembled it (as is) and painted the thing. It's no wonder it didn't race as well as the others and he lost every race. However, he still had a great time. He thought it was super cool! Towards

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14 September 2011 Here's my little munchkin patient...lovely pink bean bag, huh? Hahaha! I had to put that under Noah, since the chair was way too big and his head wouldn't reach the headrest. This is Noah at the end of his appointment getting a fluoride treatment. He can't open or swallow. Doesn't he look like he's enjoying it? LOL I've cleaned everyone in my home now, except for Gabriel and

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9 September 2011 Here in Las Vegas there was a young high school girl who was raped, stabbed 40 times, and then burned by some Sick-O. At the football game, the other students dressed in neon to honor her. Here's Gabriel about to leave.

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9 September 2011 Learning to do impressions. I've had so much alginate in my mouth lately that my lips are chapped!

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11 September 2011The YW medallion is the equivalent to the Eagle Scout award, and requires dedication and hard work to earn. Eight months ago, this special man, Bishop Hinrichsen, was inspired to ask our young women to take on the daunting task of achieving this honored award on behalf of Kela. The girls did not hesitate to accept this challenge. They did 53 value experiences, plus 70 hours worth

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5 September 2011We love $1 bowling!Here were the teams for our Labor Day competition (we played 4 games):Frankie and MichelleSteve-O and GabrielThe missionaries.And, then me and the hubs. :) Of course, we were the winners of the competition!!! We won two of the four. Frank's high score was a 198 and mine was a 121 (not too good). Frankie actually had the highest individual score of the day (214)

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29 August 2011 Gabriel was up bright and early (5:00 am) to make sure he made it to seminary. And, of course, he had to sport his Spongebob bookbag. LOL...a boy with confidence! Kela's bus arrives at 6:30 am. Can you tell she's not fully awake? She would not look at the camera to save my life! My two high schoolers!!! Both sophomores! Noah gets dropped a little before 7:00 am so I can get to

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27 August 2011 Frankie had his orientation into the ROTC at UNLV and had to do his physical fitness test right away. He scored a 93, but hopes by next semester that he will bump his score to a 100. He was a little concerned about coming into the program as a sophomore, because he won't have much time to prove his leadership skills to the commander in time to participate in a Field Training

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19 August 2011 I have thoroughly enjoyed spending time with my husband lately. Having some spare time outside of school has been great. We have been able to truly connect again (much neede) and I have loved every minute of it. This past weekend we decided to go to the foothills of Spring Mountain and enjoy an outdoor play of Fiddler on the Roof. (We've been trying to make it up there for awhile,

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16 August 2011 I went to the temple with our Young Women and had a great time (I'm at the front left). It was the first time that I've gotten to go to the baptistry at the Las Vegas Temple. It was bigger than the others that I have been to...pretty cool! However, the best thing about this trip was getting to be there with Gabriel. It was very special because it's the first time I've been to the

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12 August 2011 Life is so different with our two oldest boys out of the house. I must admit it's ever so nice when we get together. We love spending time with them, no matter the occasion. We probably play cards more than anything else, but the other day we invited Frankie/Michelle and Brandon to join us to see Rise of the Planet of the Apes. It was awesome! Just hanging with the boys makes me

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10 August 2011 We had a fun Young Women activity the week before the youth went on their temple trip to excite the girls about temple attendance. We had two of the girls give beautiful testimonies of the service they have done at the templ recently, and then we split the girls up into groups and had them design modest dresses out of toilet paper. Right now they go to do baptisms, but one day

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Well, by me saying that this movie is good...is not news, I know. However, because I liked it so much, I wanted my parents to see it, especially since I knew that my mother had "help" when she was growing up in the south and I wanted to get her reaction after seeing it. Thus, I encouraged her to go see it and then give me feedback. After viewing it, she called to tell me that her experience was

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Well, for Summer School our main focus was learning how to give injections and administer nitrous oxide. It was actually pretty cool and tremendously laid back.After we studied the anatomy and practiced sticking our needles in grapes...we ended up giving around 50 injections to other students.... PLUS, we received around 50 injections ourselves!!!! I have to admit, injections aren't painful if

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30 July 2011 I have to say Greg's baptism is one of the biggest surprises that our family has had in a while. It's hard to express the feelings that we feel right now. It's difficult to convey the joy we feel to others without one having some type of background information on our nephew. However, we don't feel that we can publically display his personal information to the world. :) Just sufficeth

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29 July 2011 My neice, Amy, came to visit and we had so much playing Loaded Questions with her and her family when they stopped by. It was really awesome, because I haven't seen her in about five years. I'm so glad we had the opportunity to reconnect. The purpose of their trip was to be sealed in the St. George Temple where Amy's husband (Keaton) is from (or where his family is living now). They

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For our Enrichment meeting in July, I took a mini class on how to knit a scarf. I also won the early bird drawing and received a knitting kit to get started. I was so excited, because I've been wanting to learn to do this for a long time. I started right away. I made Kela a cute fuschia scarf, my hubby a limo scarf to wear while he drives down town (he was disappointed because he wanted it in a

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4 August 2011 Kela's melting Cookies-n-Cream icecream cake...17 candles and 110 degree weather didn't help much. Kela was happy that everyone came over to see her! She couldn't get all of the candles out by herself, so the family pitched in and helped her. (The boys made a point that Kela will legally be an adult next year. They laughed and said, "Can't you imagine her going to a gas station

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31 July 2011 Noah's hair was getting sooo sooo shaggy and needed to be cut badly. I wanted to shave it down completely, but my hubby wanted me to cut his hair like Tadd off of SYTYCD and give him a faux hawk. I agreed to do it for a couple of weeks before school starts back. Thereafter, he will be getting a buzz. Of course, Noah's hair isn't as thick as Tadd's, so it looks a bit different, but

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People ask me all the time how I feel about Frankie and Brandon being out of the house. Well, I have to admit that it's been a little strange. However, it's definitely had its benefits I must say. The other three kids go over and spend the night with them, and then me and the hubs have the house to ourself. That's a plus, right? =) I honestly didn't think Kela would stay over and actually sleep

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21 July 2011 I took Kela back down for another night of Girl's Camp. The program was about going to the temple. (Remember the overall theme was Steady the Course, so...) The leaders had a cruise ship that ported at different locations around the world. They had on display beautiful framed photos of every operating temple (134). Each was represented in a special way. It was to remind the girls of

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19 July 2011 Well, it's official. My little angel is getting her initiation into Young Women. Atleast that's the way I look at it. I believe you haven't really experienced Young Women until you've gone to camp, and now my baby doll has. I took her up to Camp Stimpson on Mt. Charleston for a day to meet some of the others from our stake and enjoy some fellowship. I plan to take her again later in

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6-13 July 2011Wednesday night they arrive! Thursday night we went bowling [Frankie walked away the winner. ;)]Friday afternoon Papa and Nanny took Noah to the Stratosphere and bought him a hat (their rental charge for taking his room...lol) and a remote control helicopter (just because). Friday night Papa and Nanny took Frankie and Michelle out to eat. Saturday we had our all day hike of Mt.

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Since I'm serving the Laurels in the Young Women class at church, and they are required to go on a 4th year hike for part of their camping requirements, I felt I should go with them as their leader. The hike that they do is a 9 mile strenuous hike to the peak of Mt. Charleston and then once at the top another 9 miles back down (for a total of 18 miles roundtrip). This map shows the terrain and

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20-24 June 2011Gabriel left for scout camp to go to Moapa Valley, Utah to white water raft down the Colorado River (class 3).(photos taken with disposable water camera...not good quality) Bus ride Tour group helper: Lexi with Lexi Campsite. All meals were cooked for the scouts by the tour group. About to hit the water. 50 degree water....brrrrrr!!!! Jumpin in the raft and flipping them for

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4th of July, 2011I consider myself very patriotic. I don't think I've ever heard the National Anthem and not got a tear in my eye. Many things go through my mind, but I inevitably think of my Savior, who fought for freedom long ago. I am reminded when Christ stood up in heaven and battled with us for agency there, when he came to this earth and fought for our spiritual freedom here (in the Garden

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16 June 2011Well, my hubs tore his ACL AGAIN! He had to go in and get it repaired. Here are some shots that the surgeon took. He had to drill out a new hole in his femur to attach the ACL to. He kept the screw in his tibia, but replaced the one in his femur. His surgery lasted for four hours and when he came out into recovery, he stayed there for another five or six hours because he was throwing

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11 June 2011Gabriel was invited to a Masquerade Ball for a friend's sweet 16. He was really excited to go, and I helped him get all decked out for it. I must say he was lookin' pretty fly! The only thing he was missing was a cane, but I couldn't find a formal one, so he had to settle with this get up. :) HOWEVER, when he gets to the party...he is the ONLY person with a mask on (not even the bday

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6 June 2011After the Memorial Day competition (and Frankie losing by a breath), Frankie challenged his Dad to a one-on-one smack down on his turf (Santa Fe). He was averaging a 200 for the day (he played 5 games with Brandon), and his high was a 243. He was pretty confident that he would clean house. This is in response to the question, "Who do think will win? Frankie's bowling pretty good." Dad

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5 June 2011 Gabriel completed his first year of seminary. He actually really enjoyed going and I didn't have too hard of a time getting him up at 5:15 am to go. They studied D&C this year. Here he is with some of the students in our stake. I think they had over 200 teenagers that attended this year. That's awesome, isn't it? ...especially since it only covers a several mile radius.**I will have

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1 June 2011Gabriel is officially a Life Scout. He's actually had his stuff passed off for awhile, but his pack just had a Court of Honor to give him his patch recently. After he goes to Scout Camp in a couple of weeks, he will have all of his requirements for Eagle, except for his project. I'm hoping he will pin that on before his 16th birthday. We'll see... We love Br. Howard. I never deserve

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30 May 2011Can anyne guess where we went for Memorial Day? You don't know do you?...hahaha. Bowling! It was a fierce competition, as usual! Uhhhh...us oldies won the first game. Surprised? Of course not! Actually, Kela had the high score with her bumper/ramp bowling. You go, Girl! :) Frankie and Michelle won the second game. (It looks like Gabe is a little upset. He and Kendall couldn't do the

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28 May 2011 We got ready to leave for our night at the Ward Luau. Noah was pretty excited! I tried to get Kela pumped up too! I decided to wear my mumu instead of a lava lava. Brandon ended up showing up and made someone really happy! ;) Frankie and Michelle made it too...which made me happy as well...yay!Gabriel brought his friend Kendall along too.I actually didn't get many photos from our luau

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22 May 2011Guns, guns, and more guns... Frankie told his dad he wanted to buy a gun to have in their apartment. Well, his dad said that's fine, but if you don't want to spend the money, come pick one of mine and you can keep it over there for safety. Hmmm...Honestly, my husband has an arsenal. This is probably not even a fourth of what he has! My husband thinks that he has to have enough weapons

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I had to make a statement... I was tired of wearing the same colored scrubs day after day and looking like everyone else! So in our perio lab, I showed up with this bright outfit on! hahahaha~! I knew I would be sure to stand out! LOL Everyone got a big kick out of it! But...it's always back to the same old, same old.Here we are learning how to take intra-oral photos. Currettaging a tomato. Can

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15 May 2011We celebrated Brandon's 19th birthday a day late, because he wanted to hang out with friends instead....figures. ;)He doesn't really like cake, so I made him a strawberry pie. I get two thumbs up for that decision! :)The photo above is Brandon the year before (2010). I never blogged about it, so this pic is a flashback and an effort of me trying to make up for my slackness. Ashley came

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6 May 2011SPRING FLING @ Trigg's Elementary(This is Noah's newly built school. He was in the first class to attend.) I had to pay to throw Gabriel in jail, since he was hanging out with the ladies. (These two little boys were in charge of arresting people, and I told them they might have trouble with getting him. hahaha....but much to my surprise, he cooperated and graciously went with the little

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5 May 2011Well, since Frankie moved out of the house, I gave Gabriel the option of taking his room if he wanted it. Surprisingly, he refused it. He thought it would be too much of a hassle to move all of his stuff. Therefore, I told Noah he could have it instead. Noah immediately said he wanted a Gamecock room. He was pretty thrilled to have his own room!!! Can you tell? Plus, a BIG bed! IIIIII

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30 April 2011 Okay. Brandon has had the bestest friend in the whole world: Ashley Rumsey. They have been buddies for four years now, and have been there for each other through so much during that time. It's probably fair to say, though, that Ashley has had to pick Brandon up more than he has had to pick her up. ;) Anyway, Ashley was a little down because her date for prom was kind of falling

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30 April 2011 There was plenty of food...Philipino food (not all pictured). :) It was really awesome! These were the ladies who were responsible for it all (minus me, of course). They did a wonderful job. They came in from Utah and California to cook for Michelle. :) They are her aunt and cousins. Frankie and Michelle were nice and did not smear any cake on each other. Thank goodness. They

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30 April 2011Well, Frankie decided that he shouldn't wait any longer, but that he should go ahead and marry Michelle and not put it off anymore. The quicker he could make his vows, the quicker he would get to the temple to be sealed to her. Thus, he made all of the arrangements himself and invited us the WEEK BEFORE to attend and witness this blessed occasion. :)(You know, it worked out because I

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28 April 2011I was very happy when my brother, Alex, called to tell me that he would be in town for business and would have a little spare time to visit with us. We headed out to Red Rock and climbed some trails... What are they pointing at???? A chipmunk!I don't even know what THAT is! I've missed you bro!!! Hurry back!!!!!

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As usual, I am behind in posts...24 April 2011Since we are not in South Carolina to participate in my family's Easter egg hunt, I have to improvise to make things a little fun for my kids. This year I hid, not only their baskets of goodies, but also money randomly around the house (dollar bills). The biggest prize was a 20 dollar bill. Everyone was trying to find it. LOL! It was serious business!

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16 April 2011Kela drives me cRaZy with some of her OCD habits!!! One of which lately has been eating her hair! I can't hardly keep it clean, because she twirls it in her fingers and sucks on it...not to mention greasing it up with food! Ughhh! Well, I had just about enough of her nonsense and decided to chop her hair off to a length where it wouldn't reach her mouth. I was determined to rid her

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14 April 2011School is coming along, and I'm learning all kinds of things. It's interesting when we go to perio lab, because we get to work on each other outside of our clinic. We've done some cool things, but we've also done some pretty awful things. See...we get to play clinician AND patient. The worse thing so far has been air jet polishing...nasty...and painful. It feels like you're getting

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13 April 2011The youth had a talent show and, as leaders, we performed a lip sinc dance for the girls. We dressed in crazy 80's style and sang Pretty Girl Rock. During the chorus when it says,"Don't hate me 'cause I'm beautiful. Don't hate me 'cause I'm beautiful. My walk, my talk, the way I dress..." We held up signs representing the things that make girls beautiful as reminders to them as to

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10 March 2011Frankie turned 21 this past week. We tried to get everyone together to celebrate, but our schedules just didn't allow it. Consequently, we decided to have a dinner for him on Sunday instead. We thought it would be nice to invite Michelle's family over to join us. This would be our first time meeting them, so we felt this would be as good of time as any. We had already eaten red

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24-26 March 2011Noah had his first Cub Scout Day Camp and loved it! Thankfully, he happened to have it on the week that I was off for Spring Break, so I was able to take some pictures. I volunteered to help out each day and I was happy to do so. The theme for Day Camp was "Cub Scouts of the Roundtable." Everything was set up to be midieval. They got to shoot BB guns, do archery, train with

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28 March 2011Well, after a couple of weeks, Noah's tooth became more and more mobile. He was anxious for it to drop out, and because it was pretty wiggly, I took a photo of it before he left for school that day. However, by the time he made it home, he had already yanked it out. He said it didn't hurt at all and never felt a thing. =) The school gave him a little tooth necklace to put his tooth

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27 March 2011 A little blurry... So Frankie went and bought this ring about a month ago. He had decided that he wanted to marry Michelle and he wanted to be prepared. He has been so happy since meeting her, and figured that he should settle down, because he loves her so much. Both of them had talked about marriage many times, but Michelle kept telling him not to ask her yet, because she wanted to

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22 March 2011I have been having food impaction in my mouth and it has been about to drive me crazy!!! I have to floss constantly throughout the day, no joke! Two spots in particular (the space between my left premolars and the space between my left molars) is quite troublesome. My dentist wants to put crowns on my teeth to close up the spaces. (Don't mind that big 'ole hunk of a filling back

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11-14 February 2011 The boys decided to take a trip to South Carolina. It all started when my dad offered one of his time shares for us to use at some ski resort in Utah that he had reserved for Alex, but couldn't go. Well, because of school, I knew I couldn't use it. So, I asked the boys if they wanted to go. They said they would love to. However, they never let my dad know that they

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15 March 2011Today I was winding down after some brutal midterms this past week, and I decided to plant a garden. It's was kind of a spur of the moment thing--kind of hit me suddenly!!! I have to be honest, I miss plants soooo bad! I used to enjoy my wonderful garden back in the south: I had cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, blackberries, scuppernongs, apples, plums, etc (all kinds of stuff). I

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11 March 2011I think Brandon and his new girlfriend are on a race to see who is going to do more surprises for the other, because just in the last couple of weeks there have been 6 sets of flowers and goodies delivered and a lot of nice little gestures given...wow! My kids are growing up too fast...literally! Caiti showed up with flowers and Peeps in hand (Gabe and Noah tried to devour them).

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9 March 2011Well, it's FINALLY happened! Noah went to brush his teeth the other day, but came running out of the bathroom to exclaim that he had a loose tooth. This is his 1st one that he has ever had and he is over 8 years old! You know, being the student hygienist that I am, I've realized that this is a very good thing. Most kids lose their first tooth at around 6-7 years old, but having that

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6 March 2011I got a phone call mid Sunday morning from my brother telling me that he was going to be arriving in Vegas that afternoon for a couple of hours. Apparently, he had a layover in our city, and was going to be able to stay long enough to have lunch with us. I was soooooo excited!!! I hadn't seen my brother in around 3 years!!! WooHoo! What an awesome surprise!!!! Of course, I skipped

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5 March 2011My Uncle Joe and Cousin Chris came in town to see the Nascar race this weekend, so I was able to snag a few minutes with them and hang out for a bit. (I always love when I'm able to see my family...so exciting!) [Chris is an actor and currently has a commercial out for Wal-Mart and GM. He's done some films too. If you want to check out some of his acting work click here. He's done a

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March 2011Brandon and Caiti decided to go on a "nerd date." They dressed up like geeks and went to the Circus Circus Arcade and then later to the Olive Garden. They originally wanted to hang out at Chuck-E-Cheese, but they opted to win tickets at the arcade instead, and give their wad of tickets to a kid to make his day! =) They had a blast! Unfortunately, I didn't get a pic of Brandon's date. I

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21 February 2011Gabriel had a few visitors show up unexpectantly for his birthday. Unfortunately, I didn't get a picture of each of them. You know I hate that!!!! These girls (Sarah and Alyson) brought Gabriel a couple of shirts, which he LOVED! Then later while Gabe was at the movies, a couple of other girls dropped by and brought him some brownies. **We had spent the early morning bowling with

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21 February 2011What do you think our family did on President's Day???! Hmmm....if you pay any attention at all, you would know that we went bowling! Yes, that seems to be the tradition of ours for holidays. We invited some friends along and had a great time! The Rice's, Nower's, and Perkins' families came. We had 26 people, I think. Brandon brought his new girlfriend, Caiti, along. He tried to

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17 February 2011Noah had another Pack Meeting. He was happy that he got his music belt loop. His best friend, Caden, moved up to a Bobcat and had his face painted. Noah thought it was the funniest thing, and he can't wait until he can get his done! Afterwards, the boys got to shoot a bow and arrow. Noah thought that was pretty cool too!

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17 February 2011 I love that the trees are already blooming! It makes me feel SO good...mainly because it means that spring is right around the corner! There's just something about God's creations that give me a wonderful feeling of peace. I love plants!!!!Noah loved being up in this tree....................................................until he realized that it was swarming with bees. LOL! I

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9 February 2011Kela had her first Young Women Activity. It was the New Beginning program and they used a football theme to enhance their evening of fun. The decorations were adorable! The leaders divided the primary room into a stadium, football field and all, with goal posts at each end (pvc pipe spray painted yellow). They even had concessions that lined the entire back wall, including a

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5 February 2011Sadies finally arrived. However, it ended up that Brandon only attended one of his dates when all was said and done. (Apparently, Kiffyn and Caitlin were asking for the same school after all.) Caitlin bought them matching outfits (a western tradition). When Caitlin came and picked Brandon up Saturday morning, I snapped some photos of them at the house before they took off...(

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12 February 2011 Since all the boys are gone (Gabriel camping/Frankie, Brandon, and Noah in South Carolina), we took Kela out for a special breakfast. =) You know she loved her one-on-one attention...and this fabulous smoothie!!! Mmmm! Mimi's Cafe is awesome!

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24 January 2011Well, school is once again consuming me. I had my first day back and it was SO stressful! I had a lot of glitches in my day, and by the time I got home I was so sore and exhausted! I plopped myself on my bed and I told everyone to go away! However, noone ever listens to me, so that didn't happen. They decided to keep me company, even though I was a grouch and asked them not to.

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20 January 2011Noah had his first Cub Scout Pack Meeting and he was sooo excited for it, because he was going to get to be in the color guard and carry the American flag! He kept telling me, "I can't drop it or we'll have to burn it." He was so serious! LOL! So, I told him, "Yeah, so be very careful!"Well, I ran out the door with my camera, but I left my battery at home...ugh! I didn't get to

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17 January 2011It seems that every time there is holiday, our family tends to go bowling. That has kind of become the tradition since we moved to Vegas. Well, MLK Day was no different. We had another family come with us this time (The Rice's), but Frankie couldn't make it because he was working. We had a blast! Wish he could have been there. Brandon and Gabriel ended up beating me and Dad for the

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20 January 2011I got a phone call last night, and the young lady on the other end of the phone asked me to tell Brandon to go outside and look at his truck. I didn't think anything of it and sent Brandon on his way...without me! However, I wish I would have followed him with my camera so I could have gotten his reaction, because he was invited to another Sadies dance!!! LOL! His truck had a

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15 January 2011Even though Brandon has graduated from high school, he is still getting asked to the Sadies Dance at Shadow Ridge. Caitlin called and asked if she could come over and decorate Brandon's room while he wasn't home. Of course, I said yes. This was the first time I met Caitlin (left). She and her friend, Tiffany, hung streamers and scattered balloons all over the place. You know, I

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14 January 2011 We got a surprise at our door...Elder Childs (a beloved missionary who served in our area a few months back) came to visit! He was delivering another elder into our area and decided to drop by. Yay! The boys were so excited! They used to hang out with him a good bit! Frankie was sick (I actually took him to the ER later in the evening to get him some strep throat medication), so

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1 January 2011Well, New Year's Day I decided to straighten Kela's hair. Let me just say that she does NOT like to have that done!!! (She doesn't like me blow drying it either!) So, this might be a one time thing. ;) Hahaha! Thus, I had to take pictures...After we made a fuss over her, though, I think she felt a little glamorous! =) We had to make a big deal about it!(Noah does have on underwear,

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3 January 2011It snowed last night and this morning. Fortunately, nothing was able to stick. =) I hate snow! LOL!However, Noah loves it and was very excited when he saw it coming down outside of his window! He had a small amount of time to enjoy it before leaving for his first day of school in the new year. He was sad, though, that he couldn't make a snowman. Maybe we can head to Mt. Charleston

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30 December 2010 Kela was too cute today. When I got home from eating lunch with my hubby (Cafe Rio), Kela started chanting, "Hat! Hat!" She saw me with a hat on and she demanded that I give her one too. She was very adament! She wanted to be just like me! Consequently, I put a hat on her that was similar to mine. =) She was sooooo excited!!! She thought she was a little DIVA! It's amazing how

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25 December 2010We started with a redneck Christmas breakfast...hahaha...southern style food served on paper and plastic! Then we ended our evening with an untraditional Christmas dinner...steak and potatoes (we were all turkeyed out and I couldn't find a ham--atleast an uncooked one, so we settled for red meat.)Kela was the most excited about Christmas. She had been trying to get into presents

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Shewww! I've spent my entire Christmas Eve editing photos and blogging! My goal was to post pictures of me and my sisters when they were in town back in August. However, I had too much to update before I could get to that. The following pictures are from the end of August until December. I'm just glad that I've finally had time to update some things. I've neglected this for too long... You know,

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4 December 2010Gabriel had his first JV wrestling tournament the following week after his Beginner's tournament. Of course, Brandon was there to help coach him. He gave him some instruction before his matches.However, his first match he got beat 12-1. You could tell this kid knew what he was doing. He rode Gabriel very tightly and just dominated the match. Gabriel was very upset, but we had to

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27 November 2010Well, it's that time of year again...wrestling season. Only this time it's Gabriel, rather Frankie and Brandon. Here in Vegas they don't have middle school wrestling, so Gabe had to wait until high school to participate. His first tournament was a beginner's tournament for all those who had no experience. Frankie and Brandon devoted some time into teaching him some moves that he

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9 December 2010 Our Dental Hygiene class is broken up into two sections. This is our half (it's the best!). This is us celebrating our last day in clinic for this semester!!! Yay! I'm happy to say that I finished my patient (husband) and he is still alive! =) Our instructors were amazing (Able, Neuman, and Sampson--their kindness and attitude was so inspirational to me). I love this little

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29 October 2010After I worked at the CSN Fall Fun Fest as a Dental Hygiene student, I went home and got my family and came back to it--mainly because I had been smelling all of the great food and stuff...it reminded me of the fair. And, you know I LOVE THE FAIR!!!! Of course, this was a small, deflated carnival compared to what I'm used to...but it would have to do. It was the closest thing that

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29 October 2010Our college had a Fall Fun Fest that our Dental Hygiene program participated in. We used it as a source for fundraising (selling teeth whitening kits), screening for new patients, and teaching children how to brush. We have around 60 students (Jr-in pink/grey & Sr-in blue/black) and these are the people I worked with on my shift. Sommer, Me, and Ruth sporting our nice clinic gear.

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I am so far behind in posts...but I figured I would post a picture of what is CONSUMING my life right now...Dental Hygiene school, of course!!! This is a part of our small class (29 total students) in our locker room.Claudia, Jacqueline, Viona, Rolanda, Ashly, Me, Brooke, Jen, Janice, Josselyn, Niki Viona, Brooke, Rolanda, Jen, Elizabeth, Janice, Josselyn, Kelly, Me (I can't wear my bangs down)We

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Lesson #4: I love the Book of Mormon! Okay, that's not really a NEW lesson that I've learned, because let's be honest...I have loved the BoM for a very LONG time, but those feelings were rekindled in me recently. You see, Brandon came to me several months ago all excited about the Book of Mormon. He said that he had been challenged to read it in 100 days by his leaders, but wanted to include me

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I have had so many feelings that I've wanted to express in my blog lately, but because I have been soooo far behind with blogging, I haven't done it. I've just been trying to play catch up.[You see, over the summer I took a little time and posted some things from this year (January to April, since my last post was in December), but now that school is back in, I'm not really sure how much more I

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4 April 2010Well, Easter is really tricky for me. Considering that we are away from our large family in SC that has a BLAST on Easter, we try to make do with what we have. There is so much fun going on there that it's hard to compete while being away. Honestly, there's really no contest! I know that my kids are missing out, but sometimes you just can't have everything you want, and just have to

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4 April 2010Easter is THE BIGGEST holiday in our family (even more than Christmas). Unfortunately, Brandon was the only one who could make it back to South Carolina for all of the festivities. Over the years, we have had our get-together at different places. It started out for many years at my parents' house, then it moved to my cousin's house on the lake, and finally to the Pine Island Club on

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