Odds and Ends from last year

Odds and ends from last year...

Copper has been practicing the art of showering. She LOVES it. She needs help with the massive head of hair she has, but otherwise does a great job! I will always love this girl. What a goofball.

This is the book I made for the girls for Christmas. It has about 200+ craft ideas using all the stuff they got for Christmas. They're set!

Thanks to our sitter Abby. It is such a tender mercy to have someone care for our girls while we work, to not worry about them during the day, to receive so little for their time and love and efforts. I'm so thankful to all the wonderful people who help us with the girls.

The girls the day after Christmas, finger painting. It was early in the morning and we had already taken down all the Christmas decor, read books, and did crafts. Still I heard, "Well what else?"

Copper and her Kindergarten class singing "Alvin and the Chipmunks" for the Christmas program. Thanks to Oma for getting some great pics- not an easy feat with about a million parents crammed into a tiny gym.

New windows for (half) our house! I was completely surprised by how quickly windows pop right out of the wall. Nine windows out in less than 30 minutes. Our house dropped at least 10-15 degrees very quickly. It took about four hours to put new ones all back in and to clean up the mess. They look wonderful!

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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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