tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16641451493065221332023-11-16T05:41:16.989-07:00The Rimington Family BlogDanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747561684673576543noreply@blogger.comBlogger434125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1664145149306522133.post-36698286174738768182015-12-29T18:21:00.001-07:002015-12-29T18:24:17.165-07:00Merry Christmas!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
We have had an absolutely delightful holiday. </div>
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On Christmas Eve, we made gingerbread houses and invited Grandma, Grandpa, and Kevin down to help us. </div>
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You may notice Natalie's chin...stitches from a fateful sledding incident last week:</div>
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She was very brave and the injury seems to be healing up nicely.</div>
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Back to gingerbread houses though:</div>
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Kevin made a windmill. </div>
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Sadly, I didn't catch a picture before it bit the dust. </div>
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It was a lovely Christmas Day as well. </div>
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Megan got Kinetic Sand. Curses. I find it all about the house now. </div>
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Natalie got an art set, amongst other things. </div>
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Kim and Alicia got ski tickets. </div>
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Each of the girls made something for one of their sisters (the best gifts by far of the day):</div>
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Megan helped sew a Dr. Who Adipose for Kim </div>
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Kim painted a picture for Alicia and got each of them a sister's ring that hadn't yet arrived </div>
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Alicia made an Articles of Faith holder for Natalie.</div>
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Natalie helped sew a lipstick pillow for Megan. </div>
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It was a much-enjoyed day. We spent the rest of the afternoon playing games, watching movies, and putting together puzzles, then enjoyed a Christmas Dinner with John's family. </div>
Danahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747561684673576543noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1664145149306522133.post-82028648934244240802015-12-29T17:30:00.001-07:002015-12-29T17:30:45.299-07:00My First Column!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
So I am a columnist now and this is my first one covering local events in our area:</div>
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Every year
when my younger girls beg us to take them to Layton Commons Park to see their Christmas
lights, I have never envied the trailer riders sitting on hay in a truck-pulled
trailer. I couldn’t figure out why anyone would want to look at lights out in
the cold when there was a perfectly warm family bus for us to sit in while
viewing the plethora of jolly lights.</div>
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However,
after 16 years of seeing the lights snapped inside of a seat belt, I decided it
was high time for us to brave the cold and see what all the hype was about
since the hay riding gig looked extremely popular. Besides, what mother can
resist the lure of “forced family fun?” <o:p></o:p></div>
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It is fairly
difficult to find an activity our entire family enjoys, especially when we have
two children in their teen years and a pair of kids in early elementary grades.
I thought this would be the perfect win-win scenario for everyone. I
underestimated the olders’ pleasure though, beginning with their lack of
excitement helping me comb through the mountainous pile of winter stuff in
search of the rogue mittens and boots for our clan. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Another
reason for my lack of commitment to the hay adventure was my thinking it was
just a marketing scheme by the local burger shop where you start the hay ride, so
I was pleasantly surprised when we walked into the Burger Stop on 323 East
Gentile in Layton, visited with Santa for a minute, then purchased our hay ride
tickets from the Wasatch Rods and Customs club sitting at the front of the
store next to a big sign saying all the proceeds were going to the Safe Harbor
Domestic Violence Center and Honor Flight for Korean and Vietnam Veterans. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Now that I
felt I was doing my part in the Christmas-giving department, I felt even
perkier about the adventure. We hopped aboard our waiting hay chariot, once
drawn by horses when the event started 21 years ago we were told, but when so
many people started showing up, us impatient souls lent the way to Layton City
lending their trucks for a speedier pace. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The trailer
set out toward the lights and I have to confess, I was slightly envious of the
warm cars lined up behind our trailer, but something surprising happened as we
passed the first set of lights, which happened to be the nativity scene in
front of the LDS Institute building for Layton High School students. <o:p></o:p></div>
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A few days
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checking my list twice and determining which of my children had been naughty or
nice, with my thoughts far from the true spirit of the season.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As I looked
upon the lighted manger with its heavenly babe lying in a pile of hay, I
couldn’t help noticing that the hay I was sitting on was slightly
uncomfortable, certainly not infant-worthy, and yet that is exactly how He
began his life. <o:p></o:p></div>
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As the stars
shone down on us, the other passengers on our hay ride spontaneously started
singing Christmas carols, so we joined in. I couldn’t recall having this much
fun watching the lights, what with seeing them up close from the trailer and
singing with our community friends. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I looked
over and even my older girls were singing, seemingly enjoying themselves. My
littles' of course were having the time of their lives, and for 30 minutes, we
were all huddled together as a family, visiting with one another while viewing the
decked out Jack Frost in blue lights, the tried-and true green-lit frogs
jumping over the path, and my favorite – the lit bear trying to catch a devious
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We headed down to Moab during the girls' Fall Break. We had a blast!!!</div>
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We loaded up all of our bikes and spent most of our time biking on family-friendly bike trails:</div>
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So grateful John had the tools and know-how to fix them up.</div>
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During one of our visits, Megan and Natalie (6 and 8) ran into the performance theater as the show started, choosing to sit in the front row just as a chainsaw gang came out with their tools roaring, coming within a foot of us. Those two skiddadled so fast out of the theater - I was laughing so hard!!</div>
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The not-so-scary Halloween picture from Lagoon:</div>
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It's been interesting seeing Kimberly's various make-up renditions from her haunted house venture this season:</div>
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.....and here are the pictures of my gals all dressed up for Halloween and their pumpkin carvings:</div>
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Simply enjoyed the moments and forgot to bring out the camera!</div>
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We did have a lovely Halloween though with a neighborhood potluck, trick-or-treating around the neighborhood with our younger two while the older gals handed out candy, back to the old neighborhood for scones and visiting with friends, and a Jurassic World showing with our older two to round out the evening. </div>
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We got new family pictures...yay!!</div>
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Love, Love, Love my family...</div>
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That's Kimberly to the right. Do you see the family resemblance? </div>
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She is working at a local haunted house this fall to earn money for her orchestra's trip to Disneyland.</div>
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John and I decided to support her work venture by visiting her haunted house one night. As luck would have it, we ran into her! </div>
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Mind you, haunted houses are not my most favorite thing, but thankfully I had John by my side to get me through it.</div>
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In other news, John and I recently went on a hike just up the street from where we live. These two gals tagged along while their two older sisters were stuck at home doing homework. </div>
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Now that Megan is back to being home with just me in the afternoons, she has made a new friend who lives two doors away. </div>
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The two of them spend hours together going back and forth between the two houses playing dolls, dress up, play dough, building forts, playing on the tramp...you name it, they do it. I am glad she has a friend who lives so close by. </div>
Danahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747561684673576543noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1664145149306522133.post-43064050113291420012015-09-15T23:09:00.002-06:002015-09-15T23:09:48.307-06:00School has begunSchool has begun around here, and I was a little sad to have Megan, my sweet companion, start kindergarten. The morning of their first day, Megan realized I was sad and told me I could use her stuffed bear to cuddle with while she was gone. So cute!<br />
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We have quite the day - Kim is up at 6 a.m. and takes the bus to high school at 7 a.m. Alicia is usually up around 6:45 a.m. so she can make it out to her bus to junior high by 7:30 a.m. and the younger two girls are up and going by 7:45 a.m. so they can catch their bus at 8:30 a.m. Then Megan is home by 11:45 a.m., Kim is home at 2:30 p.m., Alicia at 3:15, and Natalie at 4 p.m.<br />
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So, I only have a couple of hours to myself, but I make the most of it! I usually go for my hour-long walk, then get some work in before Megan gets home. I am getting settled into my new resume-writing gig while also still writing religion and stories for Hill AFB. I love what I do and am glad I get to do it from home.<br />
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Let me tell you what we have been up to as a family. Sorry, there aren't any pictures! We keep forgetting to take snapshots of our different activities. Kimberly started up with a local Scout Venturing Crew (which allows girls), but they are their own charter - or something like that - so they rely entirely on parent help, so John attends as one of the leaders. They recently had a weekend camping trip, which included a bunch of different activities in Salt Lake.<br />
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We then headed up to Lava Hot Springs on Labor Day to retry our tubing adventure - remember we got rained out back in August? It was fun, though a little chilly.<br />
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Kim is working at Lagoon right now for their Frightmares. She is a zombie in one of the haunted houses. Sadly, I will not see her in action because I absolutely hate haunted houses. John and Alicia will have to go inside and see her.<br />
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I think that's it for now - just wanted to make sure you knew we were still alive :)Danahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747561684673576543noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1664145149306522133.post-39182315979179664292015-09-04T12:52:00.002-06:002015-09-04T12:53:35.503-06:00Change is Good, Right? <div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
One hard and fast rule about journalism I have become
all-too-familiar with is that change is inevitable. Since working as a
correspondent for the Standard Examiner five years ago, I have worked for
nearly a dozen different editors, waded through hundreds of stories that have
gone to print, and battled the chronic ups and downs of a newspaper budget, but things always got better, things
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The time has come that things are changing again, but this time I
cannot weather it out with the newspaper. With some changes that have been made at the paper and the stories written by correspondents cut back by 75 percent, it was time for me to look at other options. <o:p></o:p></div>
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When I learned of this, I was depressed, sad, deflated, in shock, worried, and then the
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I began sending out my resume a few weeks ago and have found another freelance writer position working from home. I will still do what few stories I can do for the paper, but this new position will be the bulk of my time. </div>
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I am very aware that Heavenly Father knows me, knows my desire to
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John has been telling me for a long time
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Danahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747561684673576543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1664145149306522133.post-11876089530152421162015-08-19T13:39:00.004-06:002015-08-19T21:37:40.065-06:00The End is Near...The air is changing, night is falling upon us sooner, and we've begun pulling out the school backpacks and making lists of school supplies that need to be purchased before school starts on Monday.<br />
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Aahhh!! Does the summer really have to come to an end? It has been a blissful summer and I've enjoyed having older kids as we enjoyed nice lazy summer mornings and then playing until we dropped late into the night.<br />
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We did enjoy August to it's fullest, with our usual Bear Lake fun with the Rimington Clan and then a family camping trip the weekend after, though that turned into an adventure. We had planned to meet up with friends in Lava Hot Springs, Idaho to go camping and tubing down the river, but it was supposed to rain all weekend, so while our friends braved the rain (well, in truth, they got rained out and came home early), we opted to camp up Ogden Canyon where it was sunny. We had a lovely time and enjoyed all things camping, including my famous Dutch oven chocolate cake and the small river by our campsite.<br />
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We still have some fun plans in the upcoming weekends - and we are determined to make it back up to Lava for a day of tubing. However, we will have to be a little more creative in our getaways as I have been asked to work in the newsroom on Saturday afternoons paginating some of the pages for the Sunday newspaper.<br />
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It isn't the most ideal of days to be working, but as things are kind of up in the air with a new editor who doesn't seem to be utilizing us correspondents like the past editors have done, I see it as an opportunity to fill in that gap of fewer stories and building up my work experience from a new angle.<br />
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We went to the Davis County Fair where the younger girls of course enjoyed the princess show and pony rides. The older girls, not so much, but we did all enjoy the elephant show. It is really hard sometimes with a family of "olders" and "youngers" to try and find something for everybody to enjoy!</div>
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One of my dear friends from high school was in town for business and she and I got together for dinner. It was lovely catching up. </div>
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Danahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747561684673576543noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1664145149306522133.post-21687132648058265122015-08-03T22:58:00.000-06:002015-08-04T14:03:00.047-06:00Epic Road Trip<span style="color: #141823;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">It was the Meldrum Family Reunion this July, again up in Lincoln City, Oregon, but it was the "off" year, meaning you don't have to go to great lengths to bring your entire family. As such, in years past, I have just flown up by myself, but this year I decided since my girls are all older, we could handle the long road trip on our own since John didn't have enough vacation days to spend away from work. Besides, the girls and I decided it was an excellent way to enjoy summer break, right? </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">So we set out on our trek in July and covered 1,890 miles through four states (Utah, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington) over an 11-day period. It was truly an epic road trip. I didn't want to do the long drive (approximately 14 hours) by myself up to the Oregon Coast, so we cut it down by stopping at a few of my Meldrum cousins and siblings along the way. It was a riot and I can hardly wait to do it again. </span></span></span><br />
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Kim got to relive her glory days riding a horse at my cousin Sam's house. All of the girls got to ride the horse, but only Kimberly got to go off and ride it on her own because of the two years of riding lessons she had under her belt. She was in heaven. </div>
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Then we visited another cousin who has a yard full of goats. The girls were again in farm heaven. </div>
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We finally made our way over to the beach and made some new discoveries in the tide pools:</div>
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The weather was beautiful all four of the days we were at the rented beach house, which mind you is incredible for the area since many of our vacations up there have included sitting on the beach with our coats on and umbrellas overhead, determined to enjoy the beach during our stay. </div>
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In the sun, we enjoyed bogey boarding: </div>
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We celebrated Alicia's 13th birthday while we were up there:</div>
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One of the memories I will treasure most from the trip was staying up late two of the nights playing our traditional Mormon Bridge game with my mom, brother and sisters. </div>
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We laughed so hard I'm surprised I didn't pee my pants. The empty chair we left in honor of our dad, and it was fun as we laughed and joked about some of our fond memories with dad too. We felt like he was there with us. </div>
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After the beach stay, we headed up to my brother's house in Washington where the girls had fun playing with the massive amount of frogs in their yard (they even spent time making froggie homes for them. so cute) </div>
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We found a waterfall at the end of our journey and took time cliff jumping:</div>
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When we left his house, we took the scenic route past Mt. Rainier: </div>
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Danahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747561684673576543noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1664145149306522133.post-9704512288783804512015-07-12T17:54:00.003-06:002015-07-12T17:54:51.209-06:00Girls CampI got to be the ward girls camp leader this year. The best part? It was stake girls camp year, so I only had to worry about one meal and getting all of our ward stuff together. Sounds simple, right? Well, so did I, until last week when I was getting all of the last minute things together and I was thinking, why the heck did I say yes to this!<br />
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Anyway, we had a lovely time and even better, I got to witness these two share in a few tender moments:<br />
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We really did have a lovely time. Good bonding experiences, fun games, great food. </div>
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We did have some challenges too, like setting our tents up in the rain, being unprepared for the cold weather at night, and several leaking tents. We survived though, especially when this beauty appeared after one of the rain showers:</div>
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I didn't take a ton of pictures, but here are a few:</div>
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It has come to my attention from several family members who live in my house that I haven't updated the blog in some time. As you may have guessed, we are having an incredibly fun summer, and not much time to sit and blog about our adventures, so I will give a quick run-down of our June activities:</div>
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Kim graduated from junior high and received the President's Education award for recognition of outstanding academic excellence with an overall GPA of 3.7 during her junior high years. We are proud of her hard work. </div>
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She also enjoyed her ninth-grade dance:</div>
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Alicia did her hair:</div>
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Actually, Alicia did the hair for Kim's friend Kylee too:</div>
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John and I celebrated our 18th wedding anniversary with a day out together. </div>
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We enjoyed the Asian Festival with deliciouso food and these Japanese drummers:</div>
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We also attended an organ recital at the LDS Tabernacle:</div>
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We've been enjoying our Lagoon season passports. </div>
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Is she scared? Not in the least. </div>
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My sister Shannon was in town for a few days and we took her to Lagoon.<br />
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After Rattlesnake Rapids:</div>
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Kim and I also went rappelling and mountain climbing to pass off some of her girl's camp requirements. </div>
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We have been enjoying time with the Nelson cousins who are in town:</div>
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We have been spending a lot of time in the water - at the lake, splash pads, neighbor's pools, and our backyard sprinklers - as we have been having crazy hot temperatures of late:</div>
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We attended an Ogden Raptor's game with John's family:</div>
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Alicia caught one of their freebie balls:</div>
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We also went and saw the new Pixar movie "Inside Out" as a family in these cozy recliners:</div>
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I love that my kids are all at fun ages - we don't have to worry about nap times - they have plenty of friends to play with - and we are having a blast on all of our adventures. The summer is simply going by way too fast, but we have many more adventures that have yet to be enjoyed, so thank goodness we are only a third of the way through the summer.</div>
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...and if you were wondering, here is the update on Lagoon: I'm almost done - just a couple more days, and it hasn't been nearly as bad as I had feared since last year was so painful. I literally only go in for a few hours to cover people's breaks. Totally doable. Guess I had to work the bad shift for my first year and they must have liked me since I got bumped up the ranks. Sweetness. The only downside? I am working late into the night making up for lost time to write my stories. Sleep is underrated, right? All the girls and I will be recuperating next week once school is out and Lagoon is done. I ain't kidding either. Hello sleeping in and lazy days...at least for a couple days anyway. </div>
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They took us to the Kentucky Horse Park where they were finishing up a really important horse thing (something really big and famous in the horse world. don't remember the name. not a derby though.) </div>
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They took us out to the Shaker Village too. </div>
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I cannot get over how beautiful Kentucky is with its lush, country lane roads lined with trees and horse fields. </div>
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There were several homes near Marian and Randal I wouldn't mind living in - beautiful colonial-type homes with fields surrounding them. </div>
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I also adored spending time with my niece and nephews. It was fun getting to spend time with them, listing to Ethan and Addie play the piano, Addie joining up with John and I for a walk around the block, and Ethan as the master at popcorn making, I also could not get enough of this adorable dude. I could only convince him to cuddle with me a few times because as an avid two-year-old, sitting in one place was not always his favorite thing to do. </div>
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Us adults went out to dinner for my birthday, Marian made a deliciouso cake, and we all played games. </div>
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We stayed up way too late for our ages, but had so much fun visiting that it was worth every minute. </div>
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A week after our Kentucky vacation, we set about tearing down one of the really old sheds in our backyard. Remember that windstorm that knocked down the big pine tree next to our old shed? If you can't, here's the blog posting to remind you: <a href="http://rimingtonfamily.blogspot.com/2013/11/wind-storm-2013.html">Windstorm 2013</a></div>
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Anyway, the roots of the downed tree completely destroyed the cement underneath the shed, so we spent all day Saturday tearing it down. We plan to put a sandbox in this spot...the girls can't wait. </div>
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Alicia decided it would be more fun to step away from her job and take pictures of us working. </div>
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The retired couple who lives just to the north of us commented on what hard workers our kids are...I guess that's because they have slave driver parents. </div>
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On Mother's Day we tested out our official regulation Frisbee golf discs we got for Easter. John and I found a free course nestled up next to the Weber River when we went bike riding a couple months ago. We'd never even realized courses like that existed in this area, so we spent a good couple hours trooping around playing as two teams. It really was a lot of fun, and we tied in the end - no kidding. </div>
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What's interesting is that late Sunday night when I was removing stuff from the backpack I had taken with us and putting things back into my purse, I noticed my keys were missing. I checked everywhere in the backpack and car, but no keys. I realized my keys must have slipped out of the backpack somewhere on the 18-hole course. </div>
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After I went to the gym this morning, I had about 45 minutes to jaunt up there and search for my keys before I had to pick up Megan from preschool. I figured I would check out the spot where my lotion had fallen out, in hopes that my keys had slipped out in the same area, but it was full of trees, long grass and weeds, so I wasn't entirely hopeful about finding them. </div>
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I had finished scouring the area and figured I was doomed - both of my car keys were on that ring and they are very expensive to replace. On my way back out I noticed another trail I hadn't check yet. Low and behold, I found the keys!!</div>
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I was in such shock when I saw them that I actually squeaked! I did a double-take to see if my eyes weren't deceiving me. There really is no way to describe it. I thought there was no way I could possibly find my keys in the park that covered several acres. </div>
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John and I celebrated by going out for ice cream tonight. He was in as much shock as I was that I had found them. Seriously saved us $200. (those keys are $100 each, and that's just for the knock-off version)</div>
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Anyway, back to the grind this week. I actually get to start working at Lagoon soon for school days like I did last year. </div>
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Well, the entire family (including John) talked me into it because we really did have a lot of fun with the season passes I earned. </div>
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I get to be a relief position this year, so it shouldn't be as terrible as last year because I go in later and leave earlier. </div>
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We had a birthday last week!</div>
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Natalie turned eight.</div>
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Kimberly and Natalie decorated the cake - isn't it beautiful? </div>
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Apparently they were taking selfies while Alicia and I did this...</div>
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Natalie got a desk for her birthday. </div>
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Most importantly for the week, Natalie got baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints last Saturday. </div>
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I finally got tired of telling people I didn't have any cards when they kept asking for them with my stories for the Standard-Examiner (since I am a freelancer, they don't do that for me), so I finally bit the bullet and got some cards made. It's the one on the right, and they have come in handy on many occasions since landing in my purse.</div>
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I didn't even have to make the card - my boss made them for me!</div>
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In addition to my work with the Standard Examiner, I am now working as a freelancer for a small marketing company. I've written all sorts of fun things this past month - news releases, blog postings (yes...I actually get paid to blog!! Who knew that could be so much fun!!), and articles for companies. More fun is yet to come and I love that I get to use my marketing and public relation skills I haven't used in years. </div>
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This cute gal is getting baptized next week, so she and I took a trip up to the Ogden Temple today to get some pretty shots in her baptism dress with all of the flowers.</div>
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In other news, Kimberly just finished her performances at her school in the musical Annie Get Your Gun. She had a lot of fun with it, but it was a lot of work, so she slept a lot when it was all said and done. </div>
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Alicia made it onto the track team doing the 200 meters, and is working on the high jump.</div>
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John and I enjoyed a getaway weekend recently - no kids - just us - it was absolutely delightful!</div>
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I also just got home from a getaway weekend to Phoenix where I got to visit with my sister and mom. </div>
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We checked out downtown Phoenix, which included the Japanese Friendship Gardens and some delicious donuts...</div>
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It was really fun watching various performances and musicians, eating yummy food...</div>
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What do you get when you put a male and a female molly fish into your tank? Baby mollies...</div>
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You can see one here. We had two, but we lost one. They were itty-bitty at first. This is after a couple weeks. In a few more weeks, the baby will be big enough to move from the baby tank into the big tank with the other fish. </div>
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Watching the two mollies, I am certain we will have more babies...</div>
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(Megan just thinks they are playing tag. We'll let her keep thinking that)</div>
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Kimberly turned 15. She got a nice bike for her birthday and is thrilled. </div>
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Interesting thing about the above photo, I took several pictures of her with the cake, but this was the only one that turned out good - except that it was really, really dark. I pulled it into Photoshop, and wa-la! You can actually see her face! I have got to play around with that more.</div>
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To get Kim's bike, we drove all the way up to Logan - we got a killer deal - and while we were there, we took Kevin out to lunch and then of course we went out for Aggie ice cream. We asked the gal to give Megan a kiddie cone, but she got a full-size adult cone instead. She did her best to eat it up, but she only made it halfway. </div>
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Kimberly caught this beautiful sunset in front of our house on the camera. I love sunsets in Utah. </div>
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It's been so lovely that we've spent a lot of time outside, including painting fingernails. </div>
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Kimberly and Alicia competed with our ward young women's basketball team. </div>
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My sister-in-law, Delores, gave me this awesome recipe for sugarless brownies using dates, walnuts, almonds, coconut oil, cacao powder, and honey...they are DELICIOUS!!! I am so excited to have found something that is sugar free and yummy. So far I'm the only one in the house that likes it though. Fine by me - all the more for mah. </div>
Danahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747561684673576543noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1664145149306522133.post-13052969427625601432015-02-18T17:06:00.002-07:002015-02-18T17:06:37.684-07:00Here Fishie, Fishie, Fishie...We finally have a working aquarium! Thanks to all of John's several month's of work putting together the sump hidden in the cabinet below and three aquarium's later - the first one got cracked, the second one wasn't working, so we splurged and bought this one with the pipes already in place - and it is working beautifully! If you ever need to sit and relax watching fish while listening to bubbles, you know where to find us...<br />
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We all got to pick our own fish.</div>
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When he gets the hammer, he is going to want to poke some holes into the wall.<br />
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He will discover that taking down walls makes for a very large pile of debris, and a very unsettled wife.<br />
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Seeing the large pile makes John think about his two older girls who spend too much time on their electronic devices, so he will ask for their help putting all of the debris into the garbage.<br />
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Seeing the debris gone and the holes in the wall will remind John that he still has wire to put through the wall, so he will start inserting the wire. <br />
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Connecting the wire to the outlet box will remind John he needs to ask for some electrical assistance, so in come the older girls again.<br />
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Shutting down power for the hallway leading down to the basement allows him to install this fella, which will remind John what the wire was meant for in the first place.<br />
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Thanks to the Give a Mouse a Cookie series that inspired me. Those are some of my favorite books, and apparently there is an actual method that is studied in school, something about cause and effect and Natalie had to write her own version, so I thought I'd add mine to the pot.<br />
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Anyway, as you can see, what was meant to be a very simple project, turned into a massive undertaking. Does this really surprise you though after our adventures with our family room? However, now the hallway leading down to the family room is not so dark and dingy because we've added the light, and as soon as the hole is patched up in the stairwell, I can paint and that section of the house will be done! (really trying to focus on the positive, and not the massive demo area downstairs that now needs to be repaired. On the plus side, John spent all last Saturday fixing wiring, so portions of that are done.)<br />
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In other news, we spent Martin Luther King, Jr. Day ice skating. Natalie was about the only one who enjoyed herself. Kim lasted about 5 minutes, and Alicia for about 30. Actually Megan had a lot of fun too, thanks to help from Alicia, but she called it quits after about 30 mins too. </div>
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Danahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747561684673576543noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1664145149306522133.post-50578772812812864302015-01-13T22:25:00.001-07:002015-01-13T23:31:33.709-07:00Bumping along into JanuaryThough I may be done with Target, there have been some editorial shifts at the newspaper, so I am working for four different editors now - one for education stories, another for the military stories, one for the city news they want me to cover in the north part of Davis County, and another editor for religion stories and other features stories they send my way. That translates into a lot of stories, which means I'm getting inundated.<br />
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I may look like this at the moment.<br />
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However, I am happy because as I burn the midnight oil right now, my awesome husband is sweeping the kitchen and wiping up the kitchen table. Sweetness!!</div>
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Anyway, having my stories increased may or may not be a good thing. Good, because the higher ups at the paper like me. Bad, because I've jumped from one boiling pot into the next. Thankfully, most of my work is from home, so I get to have these fun moments:<br />
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Megan likes to sit on the heaters in the house every time she hears them turn on. </div>
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Aahh, my blog...oh how I have missed you! My time at Target has come to an end, and can I just get an Hallelujah from the blog world! Glad I had the opportunity there, as it paid for Christmas and we could continue with our house projects, but I am ready to get back to my regular life at home with the family and back to solely writing for the newspaper instead of trying to juggle two jobs at the same time. Heaven!!</div>
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On Christmas morning, we woke up to a white winter wonderland...finally. Our first really good snow of the season.</div>
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We spent the morning opening gifts, then the younger two girls headed out to hit the white stuff. </div>
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Kim and Alicia, who are die-hard Dr. Who fans, were thrilled to get a Tardis Lego-like kit from the show - John worked his wonders and found it for them.<br />
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One of my favorite Christmas traditions is the gifts the girls make for each other. We started this a few years ago where they are allotted $5 in supplies and make something for the sister they are in charge of. They spend weeks planning and working on their item, and it's usually the first gift they want to open Christmas morning...LOVE it!!<br />
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This year Kim sewed some barbie clothes for Megan, Alicia wrote a Dr. Who story for Kim, Megan decorated the frame surrounding this picture for Natalie and wrote 'I love my sister.'<br />
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and Natalie (with Kim's help) sewed this lipstick body pillow for Alicia:<br />
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We attended the annual Rimington Family Christmas party where we enjoyed crafts, yummy food, and sharing of gifts. </div>
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Have I mentioned lately how much I love this guy? </div>
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...and of course I love that gal too. She is growing up too fast. </div>
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The girls and I went to the Festival of Trees while John was on a business trip in Orlando.</div>
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While he was there, he went out to the Kennedy Space Center to watch the launching of the new Orion spacecraft. He was mere miles from the launch pad, but sadly, as they were preparing for launch, several things went wrong, so all of the spectators left disappointed. The launch happened the next day while John was on the plane back to Utah. </div>
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However, John brought home some paper rockets the girls put together with him while I put up the Christmas tree lights. </div>
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Kimberly and Alicia's parakeets added their chirps of approval during the project. </div>
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I think I have completely failed to do a blog posting of their birds. </div>
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They saved up their money and bought all of the supplies, got the cage put together, then purchased their birds. They have been a fun addition to the family. </div>
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After Christmas, my Meldrum cousins and Uncle Bob stopped by for a visit. </div>
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It was so much fun being with them again. </div>
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In other news for the month, I was assigned a story covering an event down at the capital where the Governor was learning how to code with several students. </div>
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I had no idea it was going to be held in the Gold Room and a gazillion other media hounds were covering the event too. </div>
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Nonetheless, it was a really cool experience as I've never visited with the governor of Utah before, or any other state governor for that matter. I happened to snap this shot before.</div>
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Okay, back in November I helped out at the Thanksgiving Feast for Natalie's class:</div>
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Now that it is colder, the deer like to visit my neighbors' yard. I love watching them. </div>
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Back into December, I got to play this:</div>
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My friend and I have been playing Christmas piano/organ duets for the last eight years.</div>
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It is absolutely beautiful. I wish we had recorded it for your viewing pleasure, but alas, I didn't even think about that. </div>
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On New Year's Eve we got together with our dear friends, the Oylers, who introduced us to a new game, Seven Wonders. We will definitely be picking up that game because it was so much fun. </div>
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And lastly, we have discovered that Natalie is really, really flexible. </div>
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She did not get that from my side of the family. </div>
Danahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747561684673576543noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1664145149306522133.post-44131666092884220922014-12-16T23:32:00.001-07:002014-12-16T23:34:13.684-07:00I'm still alive...I promise I am still alive and plan to return to blogging soon...I am working at Target temporarily for the holidays for some extra Christmas money so we can continue with our house projects, so on top of that and my stories for the Standard, in addition to still keeping the house afloat, I haven't been able to tend to my much beloved blog. I promise I will return soon!Danahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747561684673576543noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1664145149306522133.post-72041932151640263122014-11-20T16:24:00.001-07:002014-11-20T16:24:36.182-07:00A Chilly Football Game<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We attended a USU Football game last Saturday, thanks to some cheap tickets from John's dad since his company was doing some special things at the game. Thanks Dad!</div>
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As you can see though, it was FREEZING!! We even had to wipe snow off our seats before we sat down. John says it was worth it because he loves watching our Aggies (they won by the way). The girls and I however had a very differing opinion.</div>
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I will not be attending any more November football games.</div>
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John can join Kevin by himself. </div>
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We will go to any September/October games, just saying.</div>
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