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Tulip Festival: Better the second time, for sure.  Orange is my favorite color so I made them pose by the ones I loved the most. 


Amber and I have this step challenge going every Monday through Friday; 83,000+ steps in a week is pretty good.  She's hard to keep up with but I try.  The ongoing competition has me moving way more than I was!

Poor Micah (sad Hulk)... it's a hard life...


Don't let them fool you; they barely tolerate each other...

Taryn got her braces off!

The massive pile of dirt was finally removed from my mom's back yard...

The second grade play; the one where every single second grader has ONE line.  The girls were supposed to dress up.  Dakota was Little Bo Peep and this was the best we could do.  Micah was Rapunzel; she was completely disgusted by it all and said, "Well, I'll be going as myself."  So she wore her fearless dress and Vans sneakers AND she stood there cold-stone faced for the entire program.  No singing, no actions, no smiling.  Hahahaha!  I love it.  Dakota was SOOOO cute doing her line and was surprisingly into the actions and the songs; I wish I had gotten a better picture of her!


Copper: hands down the most beautiful and fun 4th grader.  Our whole family has been hearing the 4th grade Utah songs for months.  Finally program day came and Copper did great!

Kota and Micah getting showered with attention at school, celebrating their birthdays early.

Hulk fighting the Girl with the Sword.  I probably should have advised against it but I kinda wanted to see who would win and who would walk away crying.

This beloved puppy of mine.  He's a stinker.

For our Come Follow Me lesson the other night we studied the Bible story of the 10 lepers; I kind of loved what the girls wrote about after we talked about gratitude.  Such good kids with good hearts!



Found this cute pic of Copper on my phone...


Look at the majesty of Heavenly Father.  I love it.

And, a funny story:
The other night we studied the story of the Prodigal Son.  A few nights later I asked Kota to retell the story, or what she remembered, and what we can learn from it.  She got to the part where the older brother was in the field and heard commotion and she says, "So the brother asked the servant what was going on, because he saw the disco lights and party in the house..."
"Disco lights and party in the house...."  Hahahahah; I couldn't stop smiling and just loved her image of it all.  Bible times, rejoicing going on in the home, and disco lights to top it off...  Sure love Dakota!


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