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| We celebrated Memorial Day with Matt's family on Sunday because Matt's Mom had to work on Monday. It was a great day! We had a BBQ, went to BJ's grave, and then stayed up late watching home videos of Beej. Hope yours was as FINE as MINE! Happy Memorial Day 2012! |
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| I am almost done! I can almost see the light at the end of the tunnel :) My body is SLOWLY, ever so slowly getting ready for labor. I've gone from being dilated to a 1, to a 1 1/2, and now currently a 2. So it is taking it's time, but it is making some progress. I still feel pretty good! I am totally content to wait for this little guy to come all on his own, and I am prepared for that to be pretty much right on his due date which is the 5th, UNLESS he messes with me. Every now and then, I'll wake up in the middle of the night having contractions, and think maybe he's coming early but then the next day I am totally fine. Those are the days I am tempted to just go to the medicine cabinet and take a few sips of Castor Oil just to finish the job :) But thus far I have remained a ROCK! |
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| Lola is OBSESSED with my belly! She is constantly trying to lift up my shirt in public and show people baby Cooper (who she calls Tupper by the way, it is so cute I hope she doesn't learn how to say Cooper any time soon.) She also loves to poke my belly button, which at the moment is an outie, and say "Button, Button, Button". Every now and then we even catch her trying to lift up other children's shirts to see if they have a "Baby Tupper" in their belly, and to poke their "Buttons"... Good Times! |
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| This was the last of our many school functions and programs. All the kids have left pretty much is field day. Once again thanks to Erin and my Mom who came and supported because it ended up being another long day. It has been fun having Erin around more since she doesn't have school this semester! Hopefully she isn't sick of us already! I did try and make it worth her while on Friday by treating her to a school made sack lunch... If that doesn't get a pregnant girl excited, then I don't know what would :) |
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| I didn't bring a video camera this year because I don't find that I ever really feel like going back and watching stuff like this. But I was kicking myself that I didn't because my kids were cracking me up. Zoe does everything half way all the time with this look on her face like "this is so DUMB! I can't believe I am doing this." Aspen on the other hand gets really into it, and hams it up. And then we have Chase who is pretty mechanical about it, in fact you can see him counting the whole time he dances... 1,2,3,4... 1,2,3,4... They were all very cute and entertaining! |
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| Before I end, just thought I would throw in a picture of Siri in her little Hipi Hat :) I love how she scrunches up her nose when you tell her to smile... SO cute! |
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| Scott had his last day of pre-school last week, and he is already anxious to start his 5 year old pre-school where he is going to learn how to read. In fact last week he got in trouble for something and when I was talking to him about it I told him he needed to learn to be obedient, to which he responded "Then you better send me to my 5 year old pre-school today or I won't be able to learn it". By the way, just to explain all the pictures, I just couldn't resist posting all of these because I think his facial expressions are hilarious. And just for the record I don't say "Scott Smile, okay now do your David at the Dentist face, okay now try and look handicapped, good how about angry, yes yes now let me see excited..." I simply say "smile" and he takes it from there while I just snap away :) |
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| Zoe and Addie had the Kindergarten program last week. It has been so much fun having these two be able to go to the same school. They are good buds, and even though they didn't end up in the same class together this year they always have tons of fun at recess and on the bus. I didn't grow up with cousins anywhere near me, so how cool is it that these two live in the same neighborhood and go to the same school... |
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| The program happened to be on the same day as Chase's plays, so it was a long day for my Mom, but she was nice enough to stick around. The program itself was SUPER SHORT! Seriously I think it lasted 15 minutes, so we decided to make it worth my Moms time by going out for treats afterwards at Paradise Bakery... YUM! |
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| Each 4th grade class did a play about something that happened in Utah's history. Chase's class did theirs on when the crickets were destroying all the crops, and Chase got to be a cricket. They did a good job at putting a fun twist on them, and I think the kids had a good time performing them. Chase is really ready for school to be over, every time he would see me he would say "Can you take me home with you when this is over?", at one point he even said if I checked him out of school he would just take a nap with the little kids (which is really weird for him to offer because he isn't a napper, and hasn't been since he was like a year and a half). But the play was fun, and he managed to survive the rest of the school day as well. |
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| My Mom and Erin came to watch his play, so my Mom ended up holding both babies for some of it because they are both in love with her. I thought it would be a cute picture so I asked them to say "cheese". That's why Lola is pushing Siri's face, she is trying to turn her towards the camera, and she kept saying "Say cheese Siri" |
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| We just got done with the much anticipated Pinewood Derby. Chase wanted an original car this year so he decided to make it look like a pencil. Matt did such a good job making it, it looked really cool. And the hard work payed off because he did end up coming home with the award "Most Unique Car", which he was excited about, but not the fastest and I think he was hoping for both :) |
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| Here are Chase and Matt posing for a pic after the first race where Chase's car came in 4th out of 4... Hence the "What the heck" expression and the 4 fingers :) |
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| Chase just finished his second season of competition soccer. So just a warning but there are a ton of pictures on this post. We spent usually four days a week at soccer during spring and fall, and then he had futsol games once a week during the winter, but ask me how many of those I brought a camera too?? None, so I tried to make up for it by taking a million pictures at his last game :) The season has been fun, they had a rough fall just being a new team and kind of learning to play together, but they came a long way and finished off with a GREAT spring! In fact they won their last game 10 - 0! Chase LOVES soccer, and he is getting really good too, so it is fun to watch him play. |
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| It's not like his games are super long or anything, but the girls just aren't that into them so they start packing their bags hours before to make sure they won't get bored while they're there. They bring the most random stuff, toys stuffed animals, paper and glue, hair brushes and clips, seriously it amazes me the stuff they pull out of those things, but they stay busy. My Mom was a good sport and let Aspen do her hair for her, and then she didn't even take it out when I started taking pictures. |
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| Lola is happy as can be at the games because there are balls EVERYWHERE! She loves to run around and kick the balls and she is a solid lefty when it comes to her feet, but not with her hands, with her hands she uses her right. |
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| Scott was being a little punk and wouldn't turn around for the camera, so Matt decided to make matters worse by showing off his backside, and then I one upped that by putting it on the blog... We're good parents right? |
