Day: April 24, 2015

    Cub Scouts

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    I’ve been a cub scout wolf Den leader for the past 4 years! I’ve had half a dozen different partners throughout this time. I got to be Benji’s leader and now starting this week I get to be Packer’s Den Leader. I have the wolf book memorized. I enjoy getting to know the 8 year old boys. I enjoy this calling when my kids cooperate and nap/chill out during den meetings.
    They are changing the curriculum in a month. I don’t like change but I hope it is a good change. Hopefully I can figure out the new adventures quickly and how to help the boys achieve them.

    Categories: Jana

    St. George / Spring Break

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    We had a week of vacation this year during the kids spring break!

    We went to St. George on Monday and didn’t come home until Sunday! It was a ton of fun!

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    An hour and a half into the trip we picked up the Falabella kids and let their parents get towed back and figure out what to do with  a broken van! 2nd road trip (already) that we’ve had a FULL 12 passenger van 🙂 On Monday we got to stay at the new Condo! We ate McDonald’s and watched the NCAA basketball championship game.

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    TUESDAY – we swam and then swam some more!! My kids were so excited. They loved the pool. I had fun swimming with them and trying to help them learn how to swim.

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    WEDNESDAY we went on a hike to the Lava Tubes. We found some neat caves. The hike wasn’t too far but we did not come prepared… I honestly came prepared to be 8 months pregnant and sit around by the pool BUT… the cousins had some fun things planned so we had to go check them out. I’m glad we did. We ended our hikes a little earlier than most but the kids did pretty well.

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    THURSDAY – we hiked again! Millie loved the cold water and thought she was big enough to walk!! All of our kids jumped in the cold water.

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    FRIDAY – my favorite day, we went down to the river and let the kids play and dig and explore. The older people played water baseball all day and the pregnant lady sat on the beach, counting kids and enjoying the weather.

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    SATURDAY – last day of vacation! Play ground, pool, and BBQ. Packer learned to survive in the deep end of the pool. I’m not convinced that he was fully swimming but he was doing really well. Cali is close also. Ray and Rose learned to trust their life jackets and we just had fun.

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    SUNDAY – after church we headed for home. All of the kids chilled out with their tablets. I slept.

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    The Spring Break St. George trip is always one of our favorites. We love being with family and we love all of the ‘summer time activities’ when it’s still spring.

    Categories: Nettesheim

    Easter Week/Conference Weekend

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    We dyed Easter eggs! This is always so much fun. Our kids cranked through the eggs in minutes but we got some pretty neat ones.

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    Ryan came down on Friday night. We got the kids to bed at a decent time and played Agricola. It’s one of those 2 hour, lots of strategy, not for beginner types – I finally won a game so now I like it 🙂

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    Shannon also came down and we watched conference on Saturday and hung out with family.

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    On Sunday the kids searched and searched for their Easter baskets!

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    Then we went over to Joel and Megan’s and ate waffles and watched conference with a bunch of my siblings.

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    And after the last session of conference we headed over to Grandma and Grandpa’s house for dinner and an Easter Egg hunt.

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    It was a busy weekend – we did enough to cover 3 weekends of fun, but… I love Easter and I love Conference and I love Family so it was Great.

    Categories: General, Nettesheim, Robertson

    And now April is almost OVER!! ahhh!

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    I really think time should SLOW down. I feel like I have a long day here and there but never long weeks and NEVER long months. April has gone by so quickly – really all of 2015 seems like a blurrr. I haven’t even set my new year resolutions yet!

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    April Fools, pinewood derby prep, youth missionary dinner, color Easter Eggs! Games with Ryan – Agricola, Saturday CONFERENCE with Ryan and Shannon, EASTER Sunday, conference at Joel’s, Easter dinner at Gp’s, Easter Egg Hunt, pack and drive to St George, Finish march madness, Vacation – SWIM, SWIM, SWIM, hike, play, and eat custard.  Play with cousins, scouts, pizza party, Late nights with Siblings, visit with mom and grandparents, dreadlocks!, find new renters, soccer, LaNell, more siblings, more cousins, more soccer, Sunday dinner.

    Those are the things that filled my month.

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    Categories: General