Month: August 2016

    Goodbye Summer Vacation

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    We start school on Monday so our summer is over. We tried to go out with a bang. We swam 2 days in a row and even went to the American Fork pool. Packer, Cali, and Rose all went off the diving board for the first time!!!!

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    Friday night swim with the Hancocks at AF!

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    our little peach tree did good!

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    one more round of plays and skits!

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    Tiago entertaining us on the keyboard!

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    dancing and crashing out whenever you need to!

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    Thursday we went to PG pool with the Falabella’s!

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    I might even miss the towels hanging out and Ben keeping the kids up past their bedtime!

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    Goodbye Summer 2016!

    Categories: General, Nettesheim

    11 Yr. Old Commitment Hike!

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    Benji got to go on a Commitment Hike! It was a stake activity. They committed to get their Eagle, earn their Duty to God, go to Seminary, serve a Mission!! Big commitments for these young men! He said he had a ton of fun and lots of his friends were there. They spent the night in the Canyon with their Dads and came home after breakfast.

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    Categories: Ben, Benji

    Gas

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    Remember that night it smelled a little gassy in the basement. Ben and I decided it wasn’t anything to worry about but we’d call someone in the morning. I called Questar and they said they have to treat all incidences like an emergency: we needed to get out of the house, don’t use lights or phones or even the garage door. Just leave and wait for them to come check it out! We weren’t worried but definitely wanted to see what it was and get it taken care of.  The kids got nervous when I kicked them out of the house… So we had some loose fittings and where the flex pipes come off of the heater/appliances the gas was slowly escaping. I really don’t know what he did but Questar fixed it and we are back in the house!

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    Categories: General

    Otter Pop Day

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    I made a secret Bucket List this summer. I didn’t share it with anyone because I didn’t want to have to do everything on it! But it was to help me have a balance of fun days and lazy days and all that.

    Otter Pop Day was on my list and it just happened. When the kids asked how many they could have, the answer was as many as you want!!

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    Categories: General

    Rose and Dad

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    Rose got to go to a play with Ben. They went and watched Beauty and the Beast in Lehi. One of Ben’s coworkers was the Beast. Rose LOVED it.

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    She wore her Belle dress and carried around her light up rose all day. Everyone watched Beauty and the Beast and danced to the Sound track. Definitely a successful Dad Night!

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    Categories: Ben, Rose

    Drive in Theater

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    This summer we made another sticker chart – that seems to be the best way to get our kids to be pro-active about things. This time they had to do sports or other active activities. They could each earn up to 5 stickers per day by being active. It was a BIG chart and they had to earn a lot of stickers but they got it done just in time.

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    We went and saw “Pete’s Dragon” and “Finding Dory”. I like to stay home with the babies during movies but they convinced me to come this time. Amazingly Tiago slept the ENTIRE time! We didn’t get home until 1am but it was lots of fun!

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    Categories: General

    girls night

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    the boys left for Father and Sons and the girls partied! We couldn’t let them have all of the fun so we headed to the PG pool!

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    Then we spent an hour or two at McDonalds! Dinner, play place, Fudge Sundays…

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    And then Tiago and Millie went to bed before 8:00 and Cali, Rose, and I stayed up watching movies! Teen Beach #2 and My Girl.

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    Saturday morning we turned on My Girl 2 while we waited for the boys to get home. It was fun to hang out with my girlies. Maybe next year Tiago can be a boy 🙂

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    Categories: Cali, Jana, Millie, Rose, Tiago

    boys night

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    the boys missed the ward Father and Sons camp out so they had their own outing. First they went to the movie Grille where they were the only ones in the theater at 5:00. They watched Jungle Book and ordered Dinner!

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    After the movie they headed to Flynns Retro arcade! They spent the rest of the night playing old video games until the place closed at 11pm.

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    Benji got the high score on Mario Bros.!! He got a free drink! (and that’s why we have arcades in our living room)

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    They went to a Hotel for the night. Then hit Kneaders french Toast for breakfast on their way home.

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    Not a typical Father and Son outing, but definitely one they will remember!

    Categories: Ben, Benji, Packer, Raymond

    August

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    We finally went to 7 peaks! We went with Erica and Michelle and Hillary and LaNell. We spent lots of time in the baby area but also in the lazy river and the wave pool and the medium slides that all of my kids did about 30 times. And we took turns riding a few rides. This was the first year that Cali and Rose and Ray wanted to ride the tube rides! And Benji got Brave and did a few of the big rides!

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    New gym at work!

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    Trying on my wedding dress on our anniversary:

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    So excited about new cereal bowls!

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    Tiago climbed in the tub and Millie brought him all of the toys:

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    Fun in a box:

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    obsessed with baby Quincy:

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    Really, Tiago just entertains us all the time. He is so fun:

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    New swim suit at the end of summer:

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    Benji begs us to come out and play World Cup Soccer every evening. The evenings have been awesome weather:

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    Life Size Mine Craft with PJ, Julia, Sam, and Christian:

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    Saturday morning: new arcade chairs:

     

     

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    We have peaches!

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    We celebrated Grandpa’s birthday at our Nettesheim Fireside:

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    Ray has decided to sleep with his Hat on these days, and right in front of the fan:

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    I hikes to Battle Creek falls with my cub scouts!

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    We made Smore’s in the backyard with our propane fire for FHE:

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    And another Summer Bucketlist Item- TRAFALGA. We went with Michelle and the kids and had a great time. I think we did everything except the rock climbing wall:

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    And Tiago just learned to climb up on the table!! Should be a FUN month as he dances on the table and learns to get off safely – – or maybe I’ll teach him not to go up….

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    The kids are getting excited for school to start. Just One more week of summer. I am loving not having to get up early. We’ll soak in this last week of summer and then kill this new school year!

    Categories: General

    Ben and Jana! 13 years

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    We just celebrated 13 years of marriage! It really has been great. We let Michelle wrestle our kids all day so we could party. We spent lots of hours furniture shopping and then didn’t buy the couch. We went to Cubby’s for dinner and we watched Star Trek. It was the perfect day date even though we didn’t get to float the river 🙂

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    On Friday August 5th we went out with a group of my high school besties! and listened to our favorite 1997 BYU band!! and to Ben’s weird Aquabats. It was fun to see the band and hang with Rob and Raeanne and be in a mosh pit again. Hard to believe it was 20 years ago that we were jamming to My Man Friday every other weekend on campus. Super fun date night!

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    And the next night we got to go to the RSL game with Michelle and Udine!

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    Categories: Ben, Jana