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| Gabe & Gracie sitting in the stroller. |
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| Millie on the carousel. |
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Alek & Millie, waiting. | |
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Josiah & Gabe. | |
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My hunky hubby & littles. And what Josiah thought about Disneyland: always wanting mom to hold him. :) | |
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My very strong boys saving the day by holding up the rocks! A silhouetted Josiah crawling through a tunnel. | |
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| Gracie, before going in to see the Playhouse Disney show. |
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| I really didn't take too many pictures in Disneyland. I brought our video camera and never even took it out once. *sigh* Most of my pictures are when the children stopped to play in a play area and I have a lot of Millie and Josiah. Kenton would take the older children on a ride & I would wait with the two littlest & then I'd go on the ride too. I needed something to do while we just sat there & waited. ;) I was pretty proud of my children's bravery! All except Josiah (because of his size) went on the Hollywood Tower of Terror. Alek even went on it a few times. They all tried all the rides they could at least once. Even Gabe! Josiah even went on the Matterhorn 3 times! I won't say he liked it, but he went on it. LOL! | |
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| The Dumbo Ride. Josiah was so excited about going on this one, and he was asleep while he rode on it! You can barely see him in the Dumbo behind Alek & Gracie, asleep in Kenton's arms. The line is always long for that ride so we didn't go on it again. Josiah didn't really want to anyway. He liked the POOH ride. |
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| Josiah asleep in the stroller. Poor tired lil' baby boy. |
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Posing in a stationary Dumbo. |
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The girls playing in Toontown. A is for... well, Alek, of course! | |
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Me and my terrified, poor little children on the Tower of Terror. I look SO sympathetic, don't I? |
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| We're back from our vacation! Bet you didn't even know we were gone! We had a great time but Kenton & I both came down with the FLU on the last day of the drive home. We're still feeling pretty yucky. So we drove down to Mexico and back and made lots of stops along the way. And as you probably already figured out, one of those stops included Disneyland. The children did great on the drive! We brought a set of earphones and a tape/CD player for each of them. We checked out LOTS of books on tape/CD from the library and they loved that. Josiah was pretty grumpy until we got to Modesto though! | |
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| Millie listening to her books on tape. |
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| What happened every time I tried to get a picture of Gabe (notice "empty" car seat behind & to the right of Gracie.) |
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We got to Modesto late Thursday night. We stayed at Kenton's cousin's house, in their very nice almost-like-a-house barn. There is also a Christian school on the property, which meant lots of room to run around! So the next morning we held several running races between the children so they could let some energy out. |
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Later on, we took Grandma Lola out to lunch at Baker's Square. |
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Then Kenton took the two littlest and I back to the barn so they could nap. When Millie got up, she played outside on the playground for a while. I didn't take as many pictures as I should've. That evening we got together with my dearest friend, Jeanette, and her sweet family. We had a great time. It was a little hectic to think about taking pics. The next morning I got my hair cut and went to the Boone's for lunch and then to the hall for a get together will all of Kenton's cousins. They all showed up & it was so nice to see them! It's been well over 3 years, almost 4, since we've seen them! I hardly recognized a lot of the children! Josiah woke up with a fever that day & wasn't feeling to well. I almost just took him to urgent care, but I would've missed out seeing them all. I hope none of their children got sick, but Josiah was the only one in our family that got it, so I'm attributing it to his thumb (germ) sucking habit. The next morning we went to our old church and out to lunch with some friends. It was so nice to be there! Then we headed to Anaheim, with a short stop in Selma (near Fresno) to have Josiah checked out since he still had fever. (viral) We got into Anaheim pretty late. |
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| Gracie's basketball game. A bit of man-to-man mismatch but Gracie held her own. | |
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| Another bit of a mismatch, if you ask me. Gracie is pretty scrappy on defense, so maybe I should look at is as a compliment that the coach thought she could defend these girls (even though the one up above shot over Gracie's head several times.) | |
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| What Josiah thought of having to sit through FOUR basketball games today. |
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| Millie, pretending to be asleep. One of her favorite poses, I believe. |
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| It was so cute. While I was folding clothes the other night, I heard Gabe softly singing Home on the Range while strumming Kenton's guitar. He was all decked out in his cowboy gear and "allowed" me to take some pics. Notice the outfit change. He wanted "more" cowboy stuff, but came back with what seemed like less. | |
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| Come closer. I DARE you. |
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| Gabe, swimming at Discovery Bay. |
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| Alek, wanting Josiah to swim at Discovery Bay. |
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| Jumping on the trampoline. |
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| This week in school we studied the Gold Rush, the Pony Express and the telegraph among other things. The children and Kenton (but mostly Kenton- okay so the children mostly watched- occasionally) built a working model telegraph! |
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| Perfecting it. |
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| Trying it out & it works! |
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| We had a new student in our classroom today! He was a little big for the desks, but he didn't complain. He was eager to get started! |
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| It was immediately apparent that he was gifted artistically. His teacher let the latte slide for today. | |
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| His artistic talents drew the other students away from their work like magnets. They couldn't get enough of him nor his work! His masterpiece now resides on the coveted residential space known as the refrigerator door. |
