Christmas and Life Happenings

Every year we have a baking day at my aunt Penny's house. Sometimes we make chocolates, gourmet popcorn, hard candy, etc., and often as gifts to give to neighbors. This year we did simple... cookie and pancake mixes. So much easier. In this picture is my sister and mom (on the left), and my grandma, Penny, and Kathy (my grandma's friend).

My mom's side of the family rarely gets together, maybe every few years, even though most of us live closeby. This year my grandma threw a Christmas party. A bigger turnout than expected, and all siblings were there save my aunt Jennifer. Below is a picture (starting at the left), my uncle Shannon, aunt Penny, my mom, uncle Dennis, my grandma, uncle Jeff, and uncle Kevin. They are all wildly different from each other but fun.

The only other picture I got at the party...

Copper making rolls. She rolled the life out of them, cut them into pieces, and rolled and molded some more. She's a baker in the making. Below... her cleverness... I was busy doing something and heard her ask how to spell certain names. I rattled them off and before I knew it she had addressed envelopes... her invitations to a Christmas party I was unaware we were having...

These girls! How I love them... love love love. But seriously. Get out of my bed.

Can you smell that? Roasting cinnamon almonds... too bad only a few are staying with us. They make great gifts but boy are they hard to give away!

As part of our continued "craft a day" we made reindeer candy canes. Micah immediately wanted to eat her animal. Dakota kissed hers on the nose.

Our lifesaver Abby. A great sitter. We're so blessed. She bought the girls an outfit each for Christmas. The twins wanted nothing to do with a picture. She got me a frame with pictures of the girls, and a number of prints of fun things they've done since she's been coming over. So fun!

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Easter-ish, belt exams, and more

Micah's belt exam was last month. She advanced to the top of three brown belts and her junior black belt exam will be this fall. She asked me not to tell or invite anyone except Auree... and Auree is her karate friend. She said, "only karate people there except you guys." Copper was in NY, so it was just Tim and I and Dakota. Kota's phone died about one hour into the almost four hours we were there, and what a trooper. Haha. Micah is awesome! While waiting they had to do all sorts of "the grind" exercises. Here she had to put her feet on her friend (boy Ronan) legs and then do push ups. It looked really hard. Jujitsu fighting with friend (girl) Ronan... Three hours in and she just sat and took a break. She looked beat. I'm grateful for girl Ronan's friendship with Micah. They're all such great friends with her. Ronan, Kristine, and Micah Ms. Kassie came back to see everyone who was advanced testing! Micah was thrilled; this is her mentor...

She's Here!

Yea! Copper is here and is so beautiful! She was born on June 8, 2009 after a surprise "You're not leaving the hospital" induction. She was 6.13 pounds and 18.5 inches long. She had the cord around her neck twice, so she was this dark haired, albino skin girl with quivering lips. But so cute! She got some color right away and has stayed pink since! Here's a few pics...

We went to California! Micah has her annual karate in the woods event through ISKA, and this year we decided to take the whole family and go a few days early. It kind of stinks because the girls had 4 days of school and then we took off! I don't regret it though. They are hard workers and they got caught up pretty fast. We got there really early Wednesday morning after an early flight, and started off the day off with a baseball game with the San Francisco Giants. Micah is now baseball's biggest fan. Especially the Giants, and especially number 51. I can't remember his name but she knows everything including his stats. 🤣 Wednesday we also walked Pier 39 and about exhausted ourselves from a very long day. Thursday we hit the national monument and visitor center of the Golden Gate bridge and then walked along it until we got a pretty decent view of the ocean. So pretty! After that we spent the whole rest of the afternoon at the San Francisco zoo. I think this was Dakota...

A Day in the Life...

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