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| We finally went to see Santa to tell him what we wanted for Christmas! This year Luke is asking for a laptop and Adam is asking for a drum set! That's quite a list for Santa, do you think he'll be able to fit those in his sack? Let's hope the boys are good enough that Santa brings their wishes! Can you believe how big these two are? |
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| Here's our Christmas card this year! (Front) |
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| (Back) I LOVE MY FAMILY!! |
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| Why so serious? Mr. Cool 4th grader. Luke totally wanted a retake. I told him he just needs to smile and not worry about his teeth. He's kinda self-conscious about it. But they aren't that bad, and they will get better. |
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| So he smiled. And he looks SO GREAT!! Luke, 4th grade, Mrs. Spangler Good Foundations Academy Riverdale, Utah |
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| And my handsome 1st grader! I can't believe it! Adam, 1st grade Mrs. Harper Good Foundations Academy Riverdale, Utah |
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| Mr. Joshua LUKE Summers age 9 4th grade |
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| Mr. Scott ADAM Summers age 6 1st grade |
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| (This was Luke's first take...he hated it...but I still kept it...heehee) |
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| Luke's donut looked amazing! |
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| Adam put Gummi bears on his...of course! |
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| Me and my lovies after donuts. Today the didn't mind being 45 minutes late for school! |
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| At lunch, we got take-out from Cafe Rio! I ate SO much that I was pretty much sick the rest of the day. NOTE...I did NOT count my calories! But I skipped dinner to make up for it! (Photo above - me and Todd pigging out with sweet pork tostadas!) |
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| Michael and Dad showed up after... |
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| That evening was super relaxed. I was a total bum and didn't even cook dinner for my kiddos. I totally took advantage of being the birthday girl. Josh got off early and surprised me with inviting my close friends over for ice cream! Of course I made him tell me a few hours before, I love surprises, but not surprises surprises. If that makes any sense. It was SO sweet of him to do that for me! And I can't believe I didn't get a photo of him and me on my birthday! I'll make it up to him and take a pic of us on our date night this Friday (Sounds good babe?) I feel bad, because he did so much to make me feel special! He had gone shopping with Luke and they gave me the Incredibles 2 DVD, some super comfy cord pants, shoes, headphones and a GC to Downeast! WOot! Adam gave me his book of Pokemon cards, his favorite shiny rocks that he would trade with Luke, a wooden heart he colored with his name on it, and a doterra notepad from last year's convention. So sweet! Kids are the funnest! Luke REALLY wanted to buy me Avengers: Infinity War...but Josh talked him out of it. Any ideas WHY Luke wanted to get that movie for me so bad? He pretty much wanted to watch it again. LOL OK! So the photo above is Katy Ostorga and me. |
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| And here is the rest of the big girls birthday party! (L-R: Bry Collard, Emily King Fox, ME, Joann Davis and Joann's baby girl Camille - isn't she cute?) OH! And I did get a photo of my honey who did this all for me! Josh's reflection is on the window. :) Thanks again honey for making me feel so special! I love you! And I love the beautiful cards you always pick out for me! Thanks to my parents and siblings who reached out to me, And all of the facebook world for all the birthday posts. Also to those random friends who donated to Operation Underground Railroad for my birthday. That was seriously awesome (including you mom!!) We raised $122 for O.U.R.! Just because it was my birthday :) I am ONE LUCKY GIRL! |
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| Happy Halloween!!!!! We're carving pumpkins! |
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| This year marks the 1st year that Mr. Adam pretty much carved the pumpkin ALL BY HIMSELF! |
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| Trick or treating at Grandpa Nelson's is a must! Also we always stop at Nana's! But I guess I didn't get a photo this year! :(((!!! They went around Nana and Papa's neighborhood, because there are a few neighbors that hand out FULL SIZE CANDYBARS. I brought my bowl of candy and the trick or treaters got candy from both my mom and me when they knocked on the door. LOL |
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| This costume was honestly the best idea ever. Why? Because it was so hard for them to walk they didn't get much candy. LOL Luke was super mad about it. But hey, he picked out the costume. Not me! |
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| I didn't have the heart to tell this T-Rex that our new neighbor Cynthia wasn't planning on handing out candy. It was just so darn cute watching him! |
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| Tonight is our Neighborhood Halloween Party! We invited over 90 people! We are ready to party! I made 5 servings of chili! We had some games, 2 fire pits, and costumes of JURASSIC WORLD! Can you tell? Josh and I are Claire and Owen and of course, these are our dinosaurs, Raptor Blue and a T-Rex. My wig didn't work out so well. But it was fun! |
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| We had a pretty good turnout. Probably about 30 people came! I had hoped more would come, especially the neighbors. Because I invited the whole street, then a bunch of families that are friends. It turned out good I think! Plus we had a warm fire pit to sit and visit by until late! |
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| I can't believe it. I am feeling so blessed right now! Heavenly Father answered my prayers and we have a fire pit for our big neighborhood party tomorrow night. We started this project over 6 months ago. And it turned into this ridiculously big overwhelming, we don't know what we're doing, this is costing way too much money project. Have you ever heard of projects that work like that? Not to mention, after all the work we had done, when it came to hire someone to connect the gas to our house it was WAY TOO EXPENSIVE. One guy told me it couldn't be done, and wanted to charge me like $2000! I had 4 bids. And most of them couldn't even get it done when I wanted it. I prayed to Heavenly Father yesterday that I was working so hard to have a neighborhood party to get to know our neighbors and be a missionary to them, and if it was his will if he could help find a way for me to get it connected. So today, I had a thought to call my brother Michael. He's been really hard to get a hold of lately. He was supposed to help me with digging the trench for the pipe a month earlier, and he never showed up. But I thought to just text his girlfriend, and he just happened to have the day off and could help me today. Then he showed up and did it. Come to find out, that Heavenly Father also answered his prayers. Because he felt bad that he didn't help me earlier and the Lord provided a way for him to be able to help us at the end. I am honestly so happy and so grateful! I'm also so proud of Josh and myself for building this firepit. We had to learned to mortar with bricks, flagstone and cementing. Plus a whole bunch more. Not that I'm an expert or would ever want to do it again! It was a LOT of work! We are ready for our party tomorrow!! |
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| FIRE STATION FIELD TRIP for these cute 1st graders! This is Adam's class! His teach is Mrs. Harper. I LOVE her!! Adam says that she is strict, and I'm glad. He needs that structure in his life. She is so nice and great to work with. She's very patient with Adam and tells me how smart he is. Oh and he knows it. He'll tell you he's pretty much the smartest kid in the class. That's probably true, with lots of sass! My S.A.S. LOL |
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| This is Treska, my friends little girl. She just started at GFA 3 days ago. So I had to take this photo and send it to her mom. Treska and Adam are not in the same class, so maybe they will get to know each other better next year. |
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| We were invited to bring blankets and treats to donate to the fire station. I don't know where I got this wrong, but we donated a whole bunch of stuff animals. I'm the biggest doofus. Then of course, there was 1 bear that Adam decided that he couldn't part with. |
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| There were 4 FOUR 1st grade classes running and exploring thru the fire department. It was a little bit crazy.. |
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| This is Gabby, who carpooled with us to the station. He and Adam are good friends...sometimes. LOL I hear the daily update each day from Adam when he comes home. Today Gabby is my friend. Or today Gabby said she's not my friend. It's all very confusing. |
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| Gabby and Adam have been friends since daycare/preschool and Bravo Academy. It was fun for Adam to know someone at school :) |
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| He's riding my bike from when I was a little girl!! It fits him perfectly!! It's kinda busted and the chain fell off. But look at him brought back happy memories of riding that bike and that banana seat! |
