tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14403990949552372132024-02-21T05:13:58.859-08:00Fallstrom FamilyKeith, Hillari, Sareny, Isaac, Finley, and baby Keeleyhillarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879026887469658017noreply@blogger.comBlogger548125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1440399094955237213.post-85919514906206436992014-07-09T13:41:00.001-07:002014-07-09T15:41:14.141-07:00Disneyland day 4<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Our final day at Disneyland, we started off in Cars Land in CA. We got switch off passes for the main ride, and some of us rode Mater's Junkyard Jamboree while we waited.<br />
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It turned out to be Finley's favorite ride of the trip, and since there was virtually no line, we just kept riding it over and over while we waited.<br />
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Once the rest of the group joined us, we all rode together.<br />
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Sareny and Finley re-used their hair-stu's from the day before, so they both looked like little princesses.<br />
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Really, everybody liked this ride. It was pretty mild, until it would whip you around a corner.<br />
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We headed back to Disneyland in the afternoon to catch their Christmas parade. We ended up getting pretty decent spots between the castle and the Matterhorn, right near the bathrooms.</div>
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Eagerly waiting for the parade...<br />
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It was a pretty cute parade.<br />
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Keeley really liked it, and waved at the characters.<br />
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I think this picture really epitomizes the end of the trip--kids still excited and going strong, adults getting worn out!<br />
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We saw Mickey and Minnie in their winter finery.<br />
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Daddy held KeeKee River for the parade.<br />
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And she was thrilled.</div>
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I liked this cute gingerbread dog house.<br />
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And Cinderella's stepmother and stepsisters--you don't see those characters often.<br />
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Then some princesses came by<br />
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Really, it was quite magical! Finley looked so darling watching the parade.<br />
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Santa Claus came by on the last float.<br />
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I'm not going to lie--the park was pretty crowded and we just didn't have the leg stamina that we did on days 1 and 2, so we didn't get on as many rides this day. I have decided that I will try my best to avoid going on a Saturday ever again. The other days were just so much better. We still had a great time, of course, but the crowds made all the lines pretty long. We rode the Monorail, which I hadn't done since my honeymoon, which meant that none of our kids had ridden it, nor had Nancy. And we re-rode a few favorites. Keeley got a ride on Jingles.<br />
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And they had these adorable caramel apples. Super cute!<br />
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While we were waiting for an evening show at the Fantasyland Theater to start (which was a pretty cool show, by the way) Sareny and I snuck over to the exit of Small World ride. </div>
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We snapped a couple of pictures, but our real purpose in going over there was to acquire some princess smashed quarters for my smashed coin collection. It was pretty fun to be on the lookout for the smashed penny machines, and the map from City Hall helped a ton. </div>
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Our trip ended much too soon. Somehow, despite spending 4 days in the parks, we still didn't find time to pick out any souvenirs with the money Grandma Nancy helped the kids earn. So we headed over to Downtown Disney. That poor little Keeley--while we were all tired from walking, she was so tired and cranky from being buckled into a stroller or held all day long. Disneyland is just not the place for a little 1 year old to run around and stretch their legs. So she insisted on helping push the stroller.</div>
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And I do mean she insisted on it.<br />
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Daddy pushed the other stroller with IJ in it.<br />
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Then we drove back to Goodyear.</div>
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This was the kitty that Finley picked out.<br />
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And a selfie of Finely. And that was the end of our fabulous vacation!<br />
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Our third day at Disneyland was yellow and green day. We started the morning out separate from both the Daniel's, who were in California Adventures, and Isaac and Keith, who went on a Disney Magic tour. Grandma Nancy had treated Sareny and Finley to a fantastic morning of pampering at Bibbity Bobbity Botique, and we were supposed to come in with their hair down. Made things easier for me--didn't have to style anyone's hair but my own! We played around at the sword in the stone while we waited for their appointment.<br />
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They were matched up with their fairy godmother's in training, and then picked out their hair style and made color and makeup selections.<br />
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They were so excited and had been looking foward to this part of the trip for months!<br />
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Keeley was pretty good waiting with us.<br />
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Sareny getting started.<br />
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She had one person working on her hair, and another working on her nails and makeup.<br />
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They got to pick which glitter jewel they wanted on their face.<br />
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They picked the same hair style, and really, I thought it was the cutest option.<br />
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Finley getting pampered.<br />
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I just love the happy looks on their faces.<br />
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They had to hold a face shield up to get sprayed with glitter and hair spray.<br />
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Here is the big reveal for Princess Finley.<br />
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So cute!</div>
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And here is Princess Sareny.<br />
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Finley all glammed up.<br />
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Sareny all glammed up.<br />
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The package (which was quite expensive) came with a shirt and tutu that they wore that day, so that was the end of yellow and green day.<br />
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Here they are with Grandma Nancy at the side passage in the castle--right by the exit for the boutique.<br />
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Such pretty girls!<br />
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Then we watched a cute Rapunzel show at a nearby little theater. It was really good!</div>
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We also had time to ride Pirates of the Caribbean while we waited for the boys to finish their tour. Sareny was wearing Isaac's bomber jacket, for some reason.<br />
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A close up of Sareny's hairstu.<br />
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And still in line.<br />
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We also got ourselves a little ice cream treat while we waited, and then Isaac and Keith met us there.<br />
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We headed over to CA and met up with the Daniels, where Winter had gotten her face painted. The girls were so cute together!<br />
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We can't possibly walk by a carousel without riding it, of course.<br />
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Then the Daniel's and Sareny and Isaac stood in line for the new Car's ride, which was like 80 minutes long. We opted out and took the little kids to ride some things in A Bug's Land.<br />
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Keith and Finley had fun on the bumper cars.<br />
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Keeley wasn't tall enough.<br />
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Then we all rode Francis's Lady Bug Boogie.<br />
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Here is Grandma and Finley on Heimlich's Chew-chew train.<br />
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We also saw the Tough to be a Bug show.<br />
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We met up with the rest of our group and were able to ride the Car's ride using the switch off passes we had acquired--so it was a win-win.</div>
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And speaking of win-win--somehow it worked out that every time we rode the car's ride, our car managed to win! That was pretty cool. We had such a super fun day! And since there is an obvious lack of Isaac in this post, here he is first thing that morning in his bright green. Sadly, the Daniel's had to head back to Phoenix the next morning, but we still had one day left.</div>
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We stayed at the best hotel ever on this trip--right across the street from the entrance to Disneyland, and a free super yummy, hot breakfast. Each day we loaded up on breakfast, which was so filling we only ever ate one meal a day in the park. It really saved us time and money. Our second day there was our magic morning, so we of course started the day out in Fantasyland.</div>
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We rode all of our favorites, and even our not quite favorites, like Pinocchio and Snow White. The little girls opted out of those two, however, and grandma and Pete took them on the Carousel. Finley was thrilled to ride Jingles again.<br />
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I took their picture as they went around.<br />
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Winter and Pete were right behind them.<br />
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Keeley and I sat in Mr. Toad's car.</div>
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And we all had fun riding Mr. Toad as well.</div>
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I guess I must have handed off the camera to Keith and told him to take a picture of each car. Because usually I am one doing that. We road Alice in Wonderland.</div>
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And the girls knocked on the White Rabbit's door.<br />
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And apparently we rode Pinocchio again.<br />
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Finley and I were in front of Grandma and Keeley.<br />
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We played around a little. Keith had Keeley pick up these heavy weights.<br />
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She glommed onto them and wouldn't let go. She got quite angry when Sareny and Finley tried to help her, so they had to just sit on the weights instead.<br />
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The kids busted out of the Toontown jail.<br />
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And we met Pluto. Sareny went right up and gave him a big hug.<br />
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Then the other kids joined in.<br />
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Then she helped Keeley meet Pluto. It was the silliest thing I've ever seen! KeeKee was squealing and screaming in delight and saying "Doggie!" That look on her face is excited and possibly a little bit scared. Because hey, who wouldn't be scared of a dog three times your size, no matter how friendly he was?!</div>
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Really, I just loved watching them.<br />
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But eventually we had to tear her away from the doggie.<br />
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The kids sat in this car.<br />
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And then we rode Gadget's Go Coaster. This ride is extremely short, and if you are older than 12, extremely lame! But it seems to have just the right amount of excitement for kids, because they always love it.</div>
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I took a couple of action shots.<br />
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Then we went to Minnie's house.<br />
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Although Isaac wasn't too happy, because Pete took Revan and Secret off to ride Buzz Lightyear, and I made Isaac stay with us. He was a pretty good sport though.<br />
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They all liked the kitchen best.<br />
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Outside, there was a short line to meet Minnie, so I took the kids' picture in Minnie's garden.<br />
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And then we met Minnie Mouse! Very exciting. I also have to point out here that this was our blue day--other than Keeley, who wore pink every day, we all wore blue.<br />
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We let the kids run around a little bit at Goofy's House.<br />
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Then we met back up with the boys and rode the train in a loop around the park. Half of our group.</div>
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The other half of our group.<br />
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And me and Keith.<br />
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I got off the train at the Toontown station with the Daniels, while Keith and the kids rode up to Main Street station. I stacked one of our strollers on top of the other, and pushed them both down and met them there. I beat them there, and while I was waiting I went into City Hall to get a copy of smashed penny locations. We had so much fun finding the machines and choosing which pennies to smash. Before we went, I had collected a bunch of pennies and quarters so we would be prepared.<br />
Anyway, at this point, the we went to California Adventures, and the Daniel's stayed in Disneyland. We rode some of our favorite attractions.<br />
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Tower of Terror and Soarin' Over California. This was Finley's first time on Soarin' (she didn't ride Tower) and she quite liked it.</div>
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We can't walk past a Carousel without this girl wanting to ride it!</div>
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I love her pretty smile!<br />
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Then we took turns riding new Car's ride. We had to wait in a very long line, but it was a really fun ride. Also, is it just me, or do you keep looking at this picture to check if that is someone wearing an ape mask sitting next to me?? Especially when the picture is small like on my phone, it just throws me.</div>
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Finley's new favorite ride was Mater's Junkyard Jamboree.</div>
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While Sareny and Isaac re-rode Cars with Keith, Grandma, Keeley, Finley, and I rode Mater over and over. There wasn't much of a line, so we got a few rides in while we waited. Keeley liked it too and giggled while we rode.<br />
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Then the other kids joined us and we all rode it again.<br />
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They all posed outside the ride by this tractor. It was a pretty fun little ride.<br />
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In November, we took a trip with Grandma Nancy and went to Disneyland! We had such a great time and had been planning and looking forward to the trip for months. Imagine my surprise when, the very day we were leaving for our trip, our friends the Daniel's said they were tired of hearing us talk about Disneyland and had decided to just pack their things and come with us. And they meant it! I couldn't believe they pulled it off--all the planning and packing we had been doing for months, and they did it all in one day! We decided to surprise the kids and not tell them our friends were coming until we were actually there. Our first morning, when we got to breakfast the kids got a surprise!<br />
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The surprise was Secret! Haha, that never gets old!<br />
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Isaac was so excited to see his friends Revan and Secret.<br />
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And the girls were excited to see Winter.<br />
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We started our first morning off in Disneyland, of course,<br />
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We had some time waiting at the end of Main Street before the rope drop, so we took a few pictures. Keeley doing her classic face!<br />
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And a pretty smile.<br />
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Because Isaac has gotten lost at crowded places before and had anxiety about it, we decided to dress him in fluorescent shirts each day. We also had the kids wear color-coordinated outfits. The first day was pink and orange day. Isaac's shirt was way more bright than it looks in this picture. And I must say, that was probably the best idea ever! He worried a lot less, and it really was easier to keep track of him!</div>
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First off, we headed to Peter Pan's Flight. You can see from the above photo that we were really at the very front of the rope, so we had a straight shot through the castle to the ride. Which is a good thing, because the line for that ride forms shortly after the park opens and it never lets up. Before we left for Disneyland, we asked each kid what was something they really hoped that we would be able to do on this trip. Finley said that she wanted to ride Jingles on the Carousel. Since she had a very specific horse she wanted to sit on, we had to race to her horse. But thankfully, we were able to acquisition Jingles just for her.</div>
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Here are a few shots of her on the prized horse.</div>
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Sareny wasn't so picky about which horse she sat on.</div>
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Keeley rode with Daddy, and you can see Sareny behind them.<br />
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Isaac rode by Secret, of course.<br />
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The kids tried really hard to pull the sword out of the stone. Also, looking at these pictures reminds me how hot we were that first day! I guess we're used to that sort of November weather, considering that we live in Phoenix, but I just didn't realize we would be sweating!</div>
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Keeley and I rode Buzz Lightyear and the Astro Orbiters while the rest of the group rode Star Tours.</div>
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Then I rode Star Tours with the boys.</div>
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We took the little girls to see the fairies while the others rode Buzz Lightyear.<br />
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Finley and Winter were so cute!<br />
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I love that Finley wore the Minnie Mouse ears I made a few year ago! They just look so cute.<br />
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This has to be one of my favorite pictures from the trip!</div>
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Then some of us rode Space Mountain. Finley neither loved nor hated it, which I think you can tell from her rather bland expression. Aubrey and Revan are sitting behind us.<br />
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And in the next car up, Sareny and Daddy held their hands in the air, and Isaac and Secret were in front of them. Love the look on Isaac's face!<br />
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We stopped for a photo in front of Tom Sawyer's Island.<br />
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And Grandma took our photo in line for the Haunted Mansion.<br />
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After that, we headed over to Critter Country and rode Splash Mountain and Winnie the Pooh.</div>
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The quality is not so great, but here we are on the ride!</div>
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And the Daniel's.<br />
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Sareny somehow convinced Coach Pete to carry her on his back for a while.<br />
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We rode the teacups at night.<br />
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Above: Grandma Nancy, Keeley, Keith. Below: Aubrey, Winter, Finley.</div>
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And our car: Isaac, Secret, Sareny, and me. These cuties wanted to spin fast, and I think I was the only one who was willing to get in with them.<br />
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KeeKee peeking over her teacup.</div>
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And the spinning starts!<br />
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I love this action shot and the happiness on their faces!<br />
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Our teacup after the ride was over--and we are all still smiling!<br />
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After the ride, we posed the kids in the teacup out front. For some reason, a few of them pretended to be asleep. And Revan really was asleep in the stroller while the evening carried on.<br />
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Then they perked up.<br />
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We rode other things this first day, like Pirates of the Caribbean and Indiana Jones. It was Isaac's first time riding Indiana Jones, and he sat right next to me with Secret on the other side of him.Partway into the ride, I looked over to see how he was doing, and I saw that he was covering his eyes. In the pre-boarding area, they show a silly video about making sure to cover your eyes and not look into the eyes of Mara, and apparently Isaac took that quite literally! He was not going to uncover his eyes and risk turning into a skeleton like the lady in the video. He and Secret were pretty cute, clinging to each other and screaming.<br />
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After we left the park, we stopped at the Cold Stone that was connected to our hotel to use the gift cards Grandma Nancy had given each of us. It was a fun end to a super fun day!hillarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879026887469658017noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1440399094955237213.post-55432583284165985972014-01-21T11:05:00.000-08:002014-01-21T11:05:00.740-08:00Soccer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well, soccer has long since come and past, and here are some pictures to prove it. Although, shockingly and sadly, I apparently only documented the fact that Sareny played soccer, while in fact Sareny, Isaac, and Finley all played soccer this year. I didn't even realize this picture dilemma until this very moment.<br />
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Sareny's team was The Lightning, and our good friend Coach Pete was her coach. Finley played in the pre-K/K division, and she also had Coach Pete. Fittingly, her team was The Bolts and they wore purple. Isaac's team wore gray just like Sareny's and I think his team was called The Wolfs.<br />
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Sareny really has had a lot of fun playing soccer, and continues to get better each season she plays.</div>
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Her team was really terrible this year, and they didn't win a single game. Sad. But they still had a fun time.</div>
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Here she is just after her last game.<br />
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A last talk from Coach Pete, with Keeley running over to be a part of the team. She was rather difficult to contain at practices and games, and occasionally tried to run onto the field.<br />
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Coach Pete had long hair at the beginning of the season, and at the end of one practice, he let his team cut his hair for him. They must have done an okay job, because he sported the haircut they gave him for the rest of the season.<br />
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After the season, we gathered at the park for pictures, trophy's, and ice cream. Although in lieu of an actual trophy this year, they got dog tags. Not as cool in my opinion, but oh well.</div>
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As far as the other kids go, Finley turned out to be quite the soccer player, frequently scoring one or more goals in a game. In one particular game, she scored 5 goals! After her 5th, we encouraged her to pass the ball to other players on her team. This was all particularly shocking considering how she played last year...if she agreed to go out on the field at all, she was usually just chatting with her friend Sydney, oblivious to the game going on around her. This year--she was a force to be reckoned with! Yay Finley!<br />
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Isaac also did well in soccer. I missed the game where he scored 2 goals, since I was home recovering, but it sounded really exciting. He was always quick to point out that he only scored his second goal because his friend David made a really great pass to him. I let his parent's know that Isaac recognized and appreciated the assist.<br />
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It is always kind of bittersweet to come to the end of soccer season. The kids love playing, and I love watching them, I usually enjoy chatting with other parents at practice, and depending on the practice location, the non-practicing kids usually get to play at the park with friends. On the other hand, we were so very busy. Somebody had practice Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, and then our Saturday mornings were spent at games. So I think this year, it was less of the bitter and more of the sweet at the end of it all. :)hillarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879026887469658017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1440399094955237213.post-73257254712344381132014-01-20T10:44:00.000-08:002014-01-20T10:44:00.194-08:00All Hallow's Eve<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I believe this is the first year in the history of the Fallstrom family that I did not make the kid's Halloween costumes. (Of course, there was the year Grandma Nancy was here and did most of the costume making, but still...) These costumes were 100% not made by me or anyone I know. Probably somebody in China worked hard over them. Despite the non-homemade-ness of their costumes, I still think the kids look darn cute!</div>
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Finley and Keeley's costumes came from Costco. Such adorable little princesses!<br />
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Love that silly scrunched face!</div>
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Isaac's costume was borrowed from a neighbor. He didn't love this costume, probably because he doesn't have a clue who Zorro is. He still looks adorable though!</div>
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I think this costume actually shows off his beautiful blue eyes!</div>
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I think the stores have a deplorable lack of cute boy costumes, and we just didn't see anything in the store worth getting, so we had a masked avenger.<br />
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Like the other girls, Sareny was also a princess. My friend Aubrey purchased this adorable costume years ago before she even had a daughter of her own. Her daughter, who is 4, refuses to wear anything girly, so Aubrey was going to sell this online. I offered to buy it from her, and she kindly gave it to us! It is so gorgeous, and so is the girl wearing it. :)</div>
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The girls love Halloween because it is one of the few times in the year when they are allowed to wear makeup.<br />
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Another picture of princess Finley. Who doesn't like you to call her princess Finley.<br />
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All the kids. Sareny had to hold Keeley or she would run away.</div>
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As evidenced by this photo, where she is indeed trying to get down and run away. But I loved the sweet little pose Finley was doing!<br />
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Then somehow we convinced Keeley not to run away.<br />
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My sweet, adorable children!<br />
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I made up another tray of strawberry ghosts and eyeballs on forks for a party we were going to at our friends the Wray's. We had a fun evening with friends eating, chatting, and trick-or-treating together.</div>
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We carved our pumpkins the night before Halloween. In this desert heat, you do not want to carve your pumpkins too early!<br />
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The kids all helped scoop out their pumpkins.<br />
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Sareny clearly doesn't like the way it feels!<br />
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Then we got to work carving. Sareny drew and carved her own design, Isaac drew his and Daddy carved it, and Finley came up with what she wanted, and I drew and carved it. And then Finley set to work taking some pictures of us.</div>
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The camera culprit.<br />
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Here we are hard at work. And I must say, Finley's design took me some time to carve.<br />
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A selfie.<br />
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Here are the finished works of art. Left to right--Sareny's, Finley's, and IJ's.</div>
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Finley wanted a kitty, so I came up with this. The kids also selected their own pumpkins at the store, and while Sareny and Isaac tried to pick the biggest ones they could find, Finley looked for a cute, smaller pumpkin. She didn't want it to be too big.<br />
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Sareny did this by herself, with a little help from me on the bows.<br />
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Isaac's design, with a Harry Potter lightning scar.<br />
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For our annual spooky dinner, we brought back some old favorites and tried out some new things as well. This year, I made ghostly strawberries, which were a big hit.</div>
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We also had witches fingers, and eyeballs on forks. For the eyeballs, I dipped donut holes in white chocolate, then used red, blue, and black chocolate to add creepy details. I'm sure these would work equally well with oreo truffles or cake pops, but really, donut holes were just way easier. I bought a finger shaped cookie pan and used the Wilton sugar cookie recipe, and colored part of the dough green for the witch's fingers. If you didn't have a special finger pan, you could pretty easily shape the dough into fingers. I think the green tapered fingernail adds quite a bit to the overall look.</div>
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Really, I just thought those turned out so cute this year!</div>
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We had deviled eyeballs as well.</div>
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We invited our friends the Daniel's over for the occasion, and it was so fun!<br />
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This year, I tried my <i>hand</i> at making a monster claw. It turned out unbelievably creepy looking! I told the kids that daddy had been out hunting the night before, so monster claw was on the menu. To make this monstrosity, I found a meatloaf recipe online (this was my first time making meatloaf!) and shaped it like a claw. I used a slice of onion as fingernails. Then I spread a layer of ketchup on the hand and baked it according to the recipe. Near the end of the cooking time, I added a layer of sliced cheese and cooked it for a bit more. It gave it the perfect look. Then I transferred the claw to a serving tray and surrounded it with mashed potatoes. Best. Main. Dish. Ever. I even ate some of it. Aubrey also brought some yummy pepperoni pizza bat wings and some cake pop eyeballs, so there was plenty of festive food..<br />
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And here is a shot of the whole group. So cute!<br />
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I had surgery at the end of September, and several weeks later, before I was completely recovered, some friends invited us to go camping with them. I had to convince Keith that I was well enough to go, but I really wanted to get out of the house and it sounded like a fun trip, so we went. I had lifting restrictions, so Keith had to do most of the packing and setting up of our tent and stuff. :)</div>
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Now apparently I am just not smart, because even though we were camping at Lake Pleasant, I did not realize this meant swimming and water skiing. I mean, it was cold! So we were the only family that didn't pack swimming suits for the kids. I sure felt bad. So they just jumped in with their clothes on. The water was so freezing, and the adults wisely stayed out.<br />
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After we packed up our campsite, we went over to a beach and the Wray's took people out in groups on their boat.<br />
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Finley and Alora collected seashells.<br />
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Keeley went for a boat ride.</div>
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Isaac wanted to try skiing--he made a good attempt, but wasn't able to get up.</div>
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Here is the front of our boat.</div>
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After trying the ski's, they brought out a knee board thing, and Isaac had lots of fun riding it.</div>
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He didn't go up on his knees, just stayed on his tummy and held on.<br />
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Then Sareny wanted to try water skiing.</div>
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She made a few good attempts, but she didn't get up either.</div>
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Then she tried the knee board.<br />
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She did great, and moved to her knees.<br />
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She held on and looked like she was having lots of fun.</div>
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They both loved the knee board thing!<br />
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The spectators again.<br />
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Finley didn't want to try the knee board.<br />
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But Sareny got another turn and loved it.<br />
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A happy girl!<br />
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Then Isaac got another turn too.<br />
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Days like this made me kind of want a boat. But that would make me the only adult in our family that thinks it would be fun. Although, 5 against 1, right? Still, isn't going to happen. Maybe we'll get invited to the lake again sometime. And a final picture of Keeley waving goodbye.<br />
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Finley and Keeley have a lot of fun together. Finney is such a good big sister and always tries to help Keeley. They were so cute riding this car together!</div>
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I just love their cute smiles!<br />
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And, of course, if you ask Keeley to smile pretty, this is what she does! So silly.<br />
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Finley got selected as star of the week for her class. We had to make a poster all about her that she took in to show her class.</div>
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It was a fun trip down memory lane to go through all our old pictures of her and pick out special ones for her poster.</div>
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As time passes she has changed so much, but so gradually, that I hardly noticed. She was so tiny, sweet, and silly. I love all of her cute faces! We had a lot of fun making her poster together.<br />
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We get to see this goofy grin a lot, and I love it!</div>
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I'm not sure exactly what went on here, but somehow everybody ended up piled on top of Isaac.<br />
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Then the kids stood on daddy's hands.<br />
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Keeley quickly caught on and loved it!<br />
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Finley was pretty good at it.</div>
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And then Keely line jumped and got on again.</div>
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So proud.<br />
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Isaac had a turn.<br />
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Kind of amazing that Daddy can still lift his 4th grader up in the air.<br />
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Finley is so adorable!</div>
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And more of Keeley.<br />
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Love that little girl!<br />
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I always loved standing on my dad's hands as a kid--it is fun to watch my kids doing the same thing.</div>
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One Friday in September, I dropped Keith and the kids off at the Children's Museum and then I went to a doctor appointment. While we waited for the museum to open, I sat the kids on this wall to take a couple pictures, and then I left the camera with Keith and went to my appointment. Any guesses how many more pictures were taken on this outing? :)<br />
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Yep, that would be it. Keeley can be quite mischievous, and on occasion she has been sent to the corner.<br />
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Why is it just so cute to see her sticking her nose right into the corner? Even funnier is when she puts herself in the corner for no reason at all.<br />
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One day, Finley was lying on the floor and KeeKee came over and laid down right on top of her and gave her a hug.<br />
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It was so sweet and cute! Love those girls.<br />
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Later that same day, we decided to let the kids run around in the sprinklers. They had a blast.<br />
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I think you'll be able to tell from this sequence of pictures that holding the hose was definitely everyone's favorite part.<br />
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The kids all lined up to go down the slide...<br />
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With Sareny waiting at the bottom to spray them all.<br />
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They rotated back and forth from the big slide and the little slide.</div>
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Keeley isn't really very fond of getting sprayed in the face.<br />
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But she managed to have a little bit of fun.<br />
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Actually, Grammy and Bampa decided that the swingset needed to come down, since it was rusting at the base and not very sturdy. It didn't take much for Bampa to push it over. The kids pretended like they were in the middle of playing when it went down.<br />
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And KeeKee really wondered why she couldn't get in the swing anymore.<br />
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It was a fun weekend visiting with family!hillarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879026887469658017noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1440399094955237213.post-2446158378411335562013-11-26T09:09:00.000-08:002013-11-26T09:09:00.681-08:00Visiting Grammy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We planned a trip to Grammy and Bampa's house in September when we found out that Cassidy and James were visiting for two weeks on their way back to Hawaii. We don't make it out to Hawaii very frequently to visit them there, (haha) and we thought Grammy's house was just a little bit easier to get to. We visited Grammy and Bampa at school on Friday, and had lunch in Bampa's classroom. </div>
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The kids had fun checking everything out, like the driving simulator.</div>
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After lunch, we visited the school's memorial garden remembering students who have died while in high school. Cassidy's best friend Nicole May was one of those students, and we posed Ivy Nicole by her stone.</div>
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Cassidy and Ivy together by the stone.</div>
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The next morning, the kids all wanted to have a ranger ride. In the first group was James, Ivy, Truman, Bamps, and Keeley.<br />
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Second group was Sareny, Finley, Isaac, and Bampa. I sat Keeley on Sareny's lap, because I felt a picture was needed.<br />
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And I loved both pictures, so here they are again.<br />
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Then they put on their very stylish Clicks sunglasses, and they were off.<br />
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Keeley was okay being left behind.</div>
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Sareny finally had her dream come true and got glasses in August. I don't think I have ever seen someone so excited in my life.</div>
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The day her glasses came in, I picked the kids up from school instead of having them ride the bus so that we would have time to go to the store and get the glasses fitted. I knew she would want them immediatly so that she could wear them to school the following day. I didn't tell her that her glasses had come in early until we got to the store. She was seriously thrilled.<br />
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And the title of this post is in homage to Lexi, who came up with that <em>clever</em> comeback in gradeschool when some jick-jackle called her four eyes. :)</div>
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The first weekend after school started, we took the kids to the park. Ostensibly, we were there to practice soccer for the coming season, but inevitably, the kids did more playing around than anything else.<br />
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Keeley was so cute in the swing.<br />
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I just love her little face!<br />
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Keith worked with Finley a little bit.<br />
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She actually did pretty good.</div>
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As good as one can do barefoot, that is.<br />
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And then this little girl came over to steal the show.<br />
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Keeley is surprisingly good at soccer--she dribbles the ball quite well.<br />
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It does make us wonder how she will do in a few years. </div>
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Sareny and Isaac did practice a little. I think Sareny enjoyed riding her bike to the park and playing around with our neighbor, who had ridden over with her.</div>
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I do love my handsome Isaac.</div>
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Evidence that Sareny did practice some...but since she wore flipflops despite knowing we were planning to practice soccer, she had to play barefoot as well.<br />
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Love this cute picture of Isaac and Finley.<br />
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And then there is this cute little face! Don't you just want to kiss and squeeze that girl? I kind of think maybe I need to go rouse her from her bed at this very moment just so I can do that very thing...</div>
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She had fun playing on the slides.<br />
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I love the little tongue poking out.<br />
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Sareny played on the slides with her.<br />
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And then our day at the park really turned into a full on photo shoot. Finley would do some sort of pose, and then call out for me to take her picture.</div>
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A balancing act.<br />
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So cute!<br />
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Really, she is quite photogenic.<br />
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At the top of the slide.<br />
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At the bottom of the slide. Photos must be taken at both locations.<br />
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We had a fun day hanging out at the park.</div>
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School started over three months ago, but here are the Fallstrom children on their first day.<br />
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Isaac was excited to start 1st grade and get to go all day.<br />
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Finley was all ready for half day kindergarten.<br />
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And Sareny was ready for the 4th grade.<br />
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Here they are, ready to go. Keith went to work late their first morning so that we could take them to school together. It was nice to have him around to help get lunches made and shoes tied.<br />
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The kids showing off their backpacks. Isaac used the same one from last year, and the girls got new ones this year.<br />
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I love this picture! Everyone looks so cute.<br />
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First off, we took Finley to her class. Her teacher is Ms. Ruff, and she is really nice.</div>
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There are only 4 girls in Finley's class, and they were all seated together.</div>
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Finley got settled in coloring her apple, and didn't mind a bit when we left. (If only that attitude had lasted--she has had some days where she is really sad and cries.)</div>
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Isaac was glad to see a lot of friends from kindergarten, and to be seated by his friend Josh. He has Ms. Danuser as a teacher.<br />
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He got settled in working as well.<br />
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Sareny's teacher is Ms. Bays. She was glad to be sitting by Peyton, a nice girl she had met on meet the teacher night.<br />
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We left her ready to get to work as well.<br />
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And just like that, the school year was off. Keeley and I went home and wondered where everybody was. I always miss the kids so much when they aren't here. And poor KeeKee--she really did have a hard time adjusting. As Sareny said the week leading up to school, "I feel sorry for Keeley. She just has no idea that we are leaving her next week!" Too true.hillarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879026887469658017noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1440399094955237213.post-43223718944199064602013-10-25T08:58:00.000-07:002013-10-25T08:58:00.481-07:00My birthday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My birthday was on a Sunday this year, and Keith made me a yummy snickerdoodle cake and Lexi and Scott came over to help celebrate.<br />
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Cute little Keeley wanted to use a fork to eat her cake like everybody else.<br />
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She is such a silly poser!<br />
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Keith and I had received letters that we needed to renew our driver's licenses and get a new picture taken, so me and Keeley spent the 31st of July at the MVD. Yeah, we put it off until the very last day of the month. Keith still hasn't done it yet.<br />
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Keeley just looked so cute that day! I remember she was pretty squirmy and climbing around, and when she got really restless, I had to push her in the stroller around and around the perimeter of the room. However, I can't even imagine taking her there now--she is so much busier an crazier! Love this cute girl!<br />
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We had originally planned on staying overnight at Grammy Jo's house on our way home from Utah, even though they wouldn't be there. Halfway through our trip, however, Sareny mentioned how excited she was for the stake acheivement day activity and asked when it was...that's when we realized it was in the morning of the day we planned to get home from our trip--which meant we would miss it. So instead of sleeping at Grammy's, we drove all night and got home in time for the special mother and daughter achievement day.<br />
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It was such a fun time! We made hair accessories, learned a new type of braid, and tied quilts together. So glad we got to have this special time together.hillarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879026887469658017noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1440399094955237213.post-20818080996683590032013-10-09T20:37:00.002-07:002013-10-09T20:40:29.782-07:00The Dinosaur Museum<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Our last morning in Lehi, we went to the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point. It was a lot of fun! They had a hands-on room with some fun things to play with.<br />
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The kids had fun making parachutes.<br />
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Then they put them in a wind tunnel that launched them into the air.<br />
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It was pretty cool!<br />
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They played with these magnets things, and Josh made a face.<br />
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They built some structures using Keva Planks.</div>
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Then we went on to the dinosaur portion of the museum.</div>
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We played with this sand and water table and built a pretty cool dam. Plus they had little plastic dinosaurs that I would hide in piles of sand for the kids to dig up.</div>
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Keeley loved playing in the water.</div>
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This shark is massive. Truly. I don't say this about many animals, but I am so glad these guys are extinct. I can't imagine <em>ever</em> even dipping a toe in the ocean with these brutes swimming around.</div>
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We were all appropriately frightened.<br />
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The last room was a giant sandbox. The kids loved it, but the air was full of sand.<br />
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Keeley was a good girl and had fun with us.</div>
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Charlie playing with the sand.<br />
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IJ uncovering some dino bones.<br />
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If you look at the side of the building directly over the green awning, you can see a sign that says <em>Keeley's Ice Cream</em>. We had to take a picture!<br />
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We left about mid-day and drove straight through to Phoenix. We would have stopped over for a night at Grammy Jo's, but they were living it up in Cancun at the time, so we stopped in to drop something off and then went on our way. It was a fun summer trip!</div>
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After spending a couple of fun days with the Fallstroms, we drove five miles to visit Jake and Liz, who also live in Lehi.</div>
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I love their backyard--so green and pretty! Plus it has a green park right behind their house as well. The kids had fun playing around in the sandbox.<br />
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The kids had a great time and they all got good and wet.<br />
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It was fun to see cousins we don't get to see very often.<br />
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As soon as Jake got home from work, we loaded up and drove up American Fork Canyon. It was pretty and relaxing.</div>
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The kids loved playing around in the stream. Except for Finley, who fell in and got all wet. It was pretty cold, at least for us Phoenicians, and it was a good thing I had some clothes in the van for her to change in to.<br />
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KeeKee and her daddy.<br />
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Cute Finley girl.<br />
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Me and baby William.<br />
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More fun in the water.<br />
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Then it was time for dinner. Before leaving their house, we had made up some tinfoil dinners, and Liz had the makings for s'mores. Yum!</div>
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I couldn't believe that William would just hang out in his playpen. Seriously--that has never been any of my children.<br />
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They're more into things like this:<br />
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Isaac loves talking to babies and making them laugh.<br />
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And Sareny loves posing.<br />
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So does this girl.<br />
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That night, Keith and I slept in Josh and Charlie's twin captain beds, and the kids had a campout in the backyard. What a fun idea!</div>
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Here they are in the tent, ready to settle down and go to sleep. Yeah right! They were pretty good and let the adults play a game inside before Liz came out and slept in the tent with them. What a good sport she is! Anyway, it was a really fun day.<br />
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We celebrated the 24th of July at Noel and Jewell's house. First, we had dinner at one of our favorite restaurants in Lehi! Actually, I think it is the only restaurant we've eaten at in Lehi, but that is because we liked it so much last year, we went back this time around. It's called Thai House and it has some pretty yummy Thai food, which I really like. Then we bought some sparklers, and the kids were ready for some fun.<br />
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Daddy and Uncle Noel tried to light them. They tried for quite some time, but ultimately only two sparklers lit. Isaac and Finley were the lucky two.<br />
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We gave up on the sparklers and moved on to these turtle guys.<br />
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They didn't do a whole lot; they moved a little bit and that was about it. Still fun though.</div>
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Then Noel and Jewell broke out some glo sticks, which we used in place of sparklers. It took some fiddling with the camera, but we got a couple of cool pictues of them.<br />
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Here are the kids lined up and shaking their glo sticks around. Kind of cool, right? Well, not quite what we had hoped for, but no matter. It was fun anyway. We went inside for ice cream and more games, of course!</div>
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We visited the Tracy Bird Aviary in Salt Lake one day. Generally, birds are my least favorite animals to look at, but there were some pretty cool birds here. We also watched a pretty fun bird show--that was my favorite part.<br />
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I think when the kids turned this wheel, it made some spinners move at the top.<br />
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Happy Keeley and her daddy.</div>
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The kids took turns peeking out of these fish heads. Above is Finley and Sareny.<br />
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Katlyn and Tyler.<br />
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Sareny and Tyler.<br />
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Isaac and Keeley.<br />
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Katlyn and Finley. </div>
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The kids played in the sand for a while.</div>
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My cute Keekee.<br />
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The girls were birds.<br />
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We listened to a presentation by a river, and the kids got to look for things in the river. Sareny found a shell.<br />
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I think they liked poking around in the water.</div>
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Then I looked over at Keeley and daddy and saw this happening!<br />
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Up, then down--with her arms spread out wide.<br />
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And back up with a smile.<br />
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This one is blurry--but I love the happy smile and the crazy hair.<br />
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After our visit with grandparents, we continued onward in our journey and stayed with Noel and Jewell for a few days. We had so much fun hanging out, relaxing, and playing games, and the kids loved being with their cousins. One day, we all headed over to BYU to check out the campus. We stopped by the admin building to see Jewell's siser, who works there. She is in the above picture, because Tyler would only be in the picture if she was in it too. I think you can tell she didn't really want to be though!<br />
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We went to the Creamery on 9th for lunch and ice cream. It was fun, but extremely slow.<br />
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We also went to the bookstore and the EYC. Then we showed the kids the underground library, which they are lieing on top of. You can see the 'Y' in th background.<br />
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Here they are with the admin building behind them. I would love it and (and they would too) if all of these kids were able to go here to school someday...admission is tough though, so we'll see what happens!<br />
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Sareny and Katlyn--cute cousins in front of the library.<br />
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On our way out, they posed by some of the sculptures. Not sure which picture I like best, but I put both because I like Isaac's tough guy pose in the bottom one.<br />
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These three cousins wanted me to take their picture by this sculpture. Love them!<br />
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Then they all ran over to be in a picture.<br />
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Finley with Ian. He was so much bigger and had grown up a ton since we saw them last summer! We had a fun time touring the campus with our family.hillarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879026887469658017noreply@blogger.com1