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How much was in the Wii before Adam opened it up and took out the change. It sounded like a lot more, but only two coins made their way inside the disk drive. Luckily they didn't do any damage and....

It is no longer a designer piggy bank, but a working Wii!! Thanks Adam.

Baptism

So even though I was at a photowalk that morning, and was in "picture mode" I did not get very many pictures of the baptism or the party at our house afterwards. I think maybe the last minute running around (because I put the wrong address on invites), left me too flustered to focus enough to take many pictures.

(yes, he has had a haircut since then. The plan was to get one before the baptism, but we ran out of time)

New Year- Fresh start

 New Year's day we spent the day switching the Pantry with the "Office". I don't have any before pictures to show- I am awful at rememering to take pictures before I start a project. The small bedroom had become really cluttered and the pantry area behind the living room was making me crazy because the kids were constantly getting into the food.

I have already liked the move- it's great to be able to close the door and keep the kids out of hte pantry, and it has given us a place to move the hamper so it doesn't block the hallway.

The Sewing machine was in the family room already because I needed to be with the kids while I worked on projects. So now I can work and have access to all my supplies without running back and forth.

This is still a mess, Adam moved everything for me, so it's going to take a while to organize it into a working system. I am excited to have the sewing machines next to each other again- it's nice when I want to switch between them.

It will look better and eventually we might even get to finishing the basement.

Summer Dinners

Of all the family dinners this summer, I did remember to bring my camera a couple of times:

July 17th

Aug 2nd

Disneyland (Just a few Favorites)

These are a few pictures that I couldn't fit into any particular category for a post, but I love them and had to get them up.

MiMi started smiling when we wanted to take a picture so now we get a cute but fake smile.

Imogene never stopped smiling the entire time we were on the carousel. She says her favorite ride is the Haunted Mansion, but I would think from her reactions that carousels are the best.

I have more pictures of this face than I can count- she isn't sure she likes the flash or the little red eye light.

I don't have words for this picture- I just love it.

Sweet as Honey (hahaha)

Xander's favorite ride: Space Mountain!

(Though he looks a little terrified, I guess that's part of the thrill)

10 Years

We have been married for 10 years!!

I wanted to find a picture from the Wedding, but if I did that, you wouldn't see a post for a long while !

While June 24 has been special to us for the past 10 years, it was also an occasion this year for another reason:

So we had matinee tickets in IMAX to see the show. (of course!)

Some days I can't believe it has been 10 years, and others it has ONLY been ten years, but through all the ups and downs we have had a great ride and look forward to many, many more years.

How's the Beach?

We had a great time at the Beach.

On Newport Pier, a fisherman asked the kids of they wanted a starfish. So they got to touch a real live starfish before they returned him to his home.

When they turned it over they could see all the "tentacles" waving and reaching.

First Xander had to try to bury himself, with a little help from Imogene.

Shows how quickly kids can make new friends and have a great time. I don't know what the little boy's name is, but he played with the kids until his mom told him he needed to go.

After about 15 trips by Adam, the kids started carrying their buckets back and forth to bring up water for the sand castle.

Here is the final product:

MiMi had a great time, her suit was unrecognizable by the time she was done, no longer pink and white, but sand on sand.

More pictures to come, I still have Disneyland Pics and Some from the stop in St. George.

Settling in and a few pics

We are home from a great vacation, and now have to get back to real life.

We had a great time and took tons of pictures so you will have to put up with Disney and Beach fun for a few days.

Xander and Imogene each wore a special Happy Birthday button, on their birthdays. And all three of them wore a first visit button the first day.

The pictures are out of order, but here are three of my favorites.

Goofy really liked our T-Shirts, Mickeymus Prime, he did his own transformation from "car" to "robot".

This is one of the few pictures with MiMi out of her stroller, and standing on her own. (she still isn't walking by the way)

Imogene met Jasmine, Ariel and Aurora on her birthday. She was a little disappointed that Cinderella wasn't there, but later in the day we found the Fairy Godmother.

Gardening

We planted most of our garden Saturday, but we started with Adam trimming the apple tree

Here is the before of the garden:

Halfway finished:

The result in the front yard:

(still a lot of work to get done here, and i plan on putting some tomatoes in here as soon as we add some topsoil to fill in the holes)

The garden in the back:

(this brick used to live in the front yard, but we didn't like the shaped garden so we moved the bricks and luckily had the perfect amount to line the back garden)

We have broccoli, chocolate peppers, red peppers, purple potatoes, and two kinds of watermelon.

In the front I will put in Roma tomatoes and Pumpkins.

We also have a few hanging planters (DIY topsy turvy) for tomatoes and peppers.

A little bit about us...

Adam and I have been married for (gasp) almost 10 years!

Update 7/17/09: It has officially been 10 years!

We have three beautiful children:

Xander

6 years old and can't wait for a loose tooth

(update: he lost his first tooth 2 days after this posting)

Imogene

age 3 aka "Bree"

(now if we could only channel this for good)

and

Maggie Mae

more commonly known as MiMi,

and who is now officially 1.

Here we are in one of the only pictures we have ever had of the whole family:

So, I know I have said I am a little leary of setting up a public blog, but I enjoy reading about and keeping up on what everyone is doing, so it feels like it is the right time to start getting my feet wet in this "new" blogging world.