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First Weekend At Home in 5 Weeks!

Posted by Chelsea on Monday Aug 1, 2011 Under Infancy

I can’t believe that I haven’t been home on a weekend in 5 weeks.  Even though it was all fun stuff (vacation, camping, etc.), I cannot tell you how nice it was to have a weekend at home with nothing big on the agenda.

Friday night we had a BBQ at Megan and Luke’s for Megan’s Mom’s birthday.  It was HOT that night but we still had a blast.

Playing Frisbee!

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You can see Lu’s new haircut in these pictures:

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There were flowers from Megan’s garden that I arranged. Arranging flowers is not my strong suit but I thought these turned out really nicely.

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We had a HUGE salmon!

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Everybody enjoying the feast!

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Porter’s Gramma and Lucy hanging out:

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Fireworks!

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And Lu’s reaction!

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Porter’s initial reaction:

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Lucy continued to love them:

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Porter, not so much:

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Then we had musical entertainment!

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And then last but not least, “cake” for the birthday girl.  Megan got this recipe out Sunset and it was for grilled strawberries and angel food cake.  It was apparently delicious.

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On Saturday, Lu and I went to the Farmer’s Market with Lissa and Tessa, then the park and then out to lunch with Shaun at the Crow’s Inn.  He was on the way back from an epic mountain bike ride and liked the restaurant so much that he called us to join him for lunch.  I’m glad we did (but I didn’t get pictures).

On Sunday I attacked the garden or as Shaun lovingly called it, “Chelsea’s Jungle”:

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Most of that is weeds!

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In the middle of weeding, I took a break to get some pictures of Lu.  She picked out her entire outfit.

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It was finally done!

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It looks so much better, don’t you think?

Lu and I harvested some veggies-the garden is about to EXPLODE!

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Lu LOVED everything that we picked:

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Then, later, to beat the 100 degree heat, Daddy and Lu ran through the sprinklers!

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What a FUN weekend AT HOME!!!!

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Camping!

Posted by Chelsea on Thursday Jun 9, 2011 Under Infancy

The weekend before Lucy and I left for California we went on our first Idaho camping trip.  We went about 67 miles away but it took a good 3 hours to get there because 50 miles of that looked like this:

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Dirt road!!!

On the way up we saw a heard of deer!

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Shaun thinks that big one is an elk.  I have no clue.

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Our camp site was right by the river and incredibly remote.  We saw 4 other cars on the main road all weekend!

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On Saturday we went on a beautiful hike.  I was 100% sure that I would die on the drive to get to the hike but thankfully we didn’t.  That road was scary!!!

I did get some beautiful pictures of flowers!

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There was still a lot of snow!

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The river was the focal point of our trip!

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Doesn’t Lucy look jazzed?!?!?!  (she had just woken up from a nap)

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The whole family Smile

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Sawtooth hiking!

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Awesome sights!

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River crossings!

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Our destination was a big, beautiful meadow.

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Lucy loves camping!

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Mommy loves camp cooking-cobbler!!!

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Men playing dominoes.  Aren’t they manly?

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Lucy and one of her favorites-Miss Sarah!

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Lucy got over her fear of dogs this trip (there were 5!).  It was great.  Here she is hand feeding Mateo:

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Her first s’more!

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It was an awesome trip!  Numerous times while we were in CA, Lu asked to go camping-she loved it.  We’re off for another one in a few weeks!!!

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Disneyland

Posted by Chelsea on Thursday Jun 9, 2011 Under Infancy

We just got back from California. One of the reasons we went to visit my ‘rents was because it was my Mom’s birthday and she wanted to go to Disneyland.  Go to Disneyland we did!

We started on my Mom’s favorite ride, the Carousel!

I hate that this one is blurry Sad smile

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Cousin Luke got in on the action too.  As did Mimi (my Mom) but all of my pictures of her did not turn out.

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Next up was Dumbo!

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Lu waiting to get on (one of my favorite pictures from the trip):

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Luke and Papa were behind us:

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Lu loved it!

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Next up was my Mom’s other favorite ride “Small World”.  My Mom and Lu putting a penny in the water:

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Then we went to Toontown to meet Mickey and Minnie!

Lucy, Mommy, Mickey

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I will spare you the pictures of Minnie since Lu got sunscreen in her eyes moments before meeting her and was in tears Sad smile

Lu also REALLY wanted to drive a car!

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Then it was the train all the way around the park!

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Last was the Jungle Cruise but I didn’t get any pictures of that unfortunately.

Before leaving the park, Lu got a balloon, ears, and ice cream! She was a happy girl!

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Minny Lucy

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And TIRED girl!

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Luke had a blast too.  He and Papa went on some of the more age appropriate rides and then when Papa needed a rest, his Mom (Aunt Sheri) went on others.  He had quite the day and got to do basically all he wanted to do.  Something that the youngest of 3 boys doesn’t get to do very often!

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Luke and Sheri:

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Mimi, Luke, and Papa:

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I think Lucy has had it:

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Love this picture though:

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These too:

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It was a blast!  Happy birthday Mom/Mimi!

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Visit to Santa

Posted by Chelsea on Monday Dec 20, 2010 Under Infancy

It went much better than last year!

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She needed Mommy with her but at least there were no tears shed.  What did she say she wanted from Santa?

“A cookie.”

Can do!

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Let it Snow!!!

Posted by Chelsea on Saturday Nov 27, 2010 Under Toddler

It has been COLD and snowy here in Boise.  The coldest I’ve seen is 1* on our outdoor thermometer and we’ve had snow on the ground since Monday. We woke up today to more snow!  There was a Christmas parade and the Farmer’s Market in Downtown Boise this morning so we bundled up and went!  Call us crazy Smile

Lu in the car, ready to go!

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Don’t the girls look happy?

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Wouldn’t you be ecstatic if your Mom dragged you out to watch a line of Minis?

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No? How about a snowman! On a Harley!

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Really?  Are you having fun yet? Maybe not:

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(I think my dear daughter is thinking “EFF YOU MOM.  This SUCKS!”)

The marching band that made both my sister and I start crying-they always do-WTF is up with that?!?!?!

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Dancers…sort of dancing…

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Isn’t this fun? Well at least there are candy canes!

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(“Really Mom?  Really?  Even this candy cane can’t make me smile.”)

Cool old car:

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These people said “EFF IT!” and put up there hard top.  How awesome is this car?!?

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This float was so sad.  The characters were all falling over because of the snow Sad smile

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Horse-in a a blizzard! (not really)

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We ended up going to a Vietnamese place for Pho and watching the rest of the parade from the window.  We saw Santa, sorta…The girls said they had fun or something like that…

  While we were doing that.  Daddy was out mountain biking.  No really!

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He had a blast!  So did we-no really we did! Winking smile

I’m loving the seasons here.  We’ll see if I say that in January or February or March….

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