so, i’m sure you’ve all been waiting with bated breath for a post of some sort since the big move. it’s been so crazy around here that i’ve hardly had any time to do anything. i’m working at my companies’ bellevue office, typically putting in 60 hour weeks. i’m really glad i took the position but it’s really taking a lot of my time right now. jana is as busy as ever with the kids as they’re making the transition to a new home (it takes us at least a year to get fully unpacked and then it’s time for us to move again). as much as we miss spokane, it’s nice to be back in the emerald city. there’s a lot of really cool stuff to do here. why, just last weekend we… well, i guess we haven’t had much time to do that really cool stuff. but when we do get some free time… i don’t have a lot more to report right now. i think i might throw up a couple of songs that caught my ear recently, just for something to do.
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lily is quite the conversationalist. the other night i took the kids to the book store and on the way lily was questioning me about Heavenly Father and Jesus. she told me that she missed them and that she was glad that they gave her a body. she also wanted to know when they were going to put a baby in her body, since of course, that is how they get there. she then proceeded to ask me the unanswerable question, “mommy, who made Heavenly Father and Jesus’ bodies?” what do i say to that? i am so impressed with her ability to think things through. we are quite sure that she will be our scholastic child. that is not to say that the boys wont be scholastic but, i know that she will.
lily is going through withdraws since leaving spokane because she doesn’t go to school anymore. everyday she tells me mommy, i miss going to school. i have her signed up for school starting in september but all of the schools are full for the rest of the school year. i feel sorry for her because i know that she is getting bored which is why her a jack are fighting over everything. i am going to try and see if the community center has something for her or something. she really needs to get out of the house.
i am so grateful to be here in seattle. i know that it is going to be crazy for a while but in the end, i think it will be worth it. Heavenly Father can see the picture a bit better than i can so i will just trust that everything will work out and it will.
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i upgraded our wordpress installation and now something isn’t jiving with our tarsiki theme. so, i’ve had to use the standard wordpress theme while i figure out what the problem is. couple this with the fact that we’re packing to move in the next few days and that makes for a fun time. be patient while i sort this out.
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lily, jack and ash are quite the team lately. they love to spend time playing and just hanging out with one another. now that ash is a little more sturdy, he tries to do everything that they do. he wants to be with them all of the time. when he wakes up from a nap both lily and jack can’t wait to get him out of his bed or get in with him.
i thought that this picture of lily and jack in the bath was really funny. they could not be built more different.
this was a little ball tent that jack got for christmas and it was popped within 1 hour of blowing it up.
asher likes to hold hands and i think it is cute that in both pictures he is trying to hold lily’s. she loves it of course because she just can’t get enough of him. i will indulge her now because in about six months when he is getting into all of her stuff she will not be as amused.
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so, it’s currently 1:53am and i’m sitting in bed typing this on my iPhone because i can’t sleep (this thing is STILL amazing). we found out today that we are going to be moving back to seattle in a couple of weeks. i’ve been asked to manage my company’s seattle office starting the beginning of february. i’m pretty nervous about it, but we’re excited about the opportunity. more details to come…
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okay, i’m going to go on the record right now as to say that most of you won’t get this and you will probably think i wasted your time even submitting this for you to read. i was going through some email from work and found this email thread between someone i work with and myself. the messages were being sent out to all of the managers in our division (whom i think don’t got the humor either). to me, this is one of the funnier email threads that i’ve been involved in. maybe it’s just because i know the other party involved, i’m not sure, but it makes me laugh and maybe one day someone in my posterity will get it also.the setup: last august we had a managers retreat down in san diego and one evening we went out to eat at a really nice restaurant and i had the mahi mahi. the person sitting next to me (the one with whom i had the email thread) informed me that mahi mahi was actually a type of dolphin. this sounded kind of fishy to me (pun intended. and yes, i know that dolphins are mammals) so i did some research. and here we go… Read more…
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i am not really sure why i took pictures of my children eating but i did so here they are. the one of asher is him eating his first cheese. he really liked it! lily and jackson were eating some pumpkin cheesecake that i made and were really enjoying themselves as well.
i am grateful that jackson is such a good eater. most days i have such a struggle getting lily to eat things that when i can give jackson salad and he eats it i feel so fortunate. i never thought that food would be one of my biggest battles so it makes me extremely grateful when i don’t have to fight someone to get them to eat. i pray that asher is like jackson when it comes to food. i would be happy if he had a little less of jackson’s energy but would be thrilled if he got his eating abilities.
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my little boy has finally moved into a big boy toddler bed. i was worried that he would be getting up all of the time but once we put him to bed or down for a nap he doesn’t get up until he is done sleeping. when he wakes up he yells, “i want to get up now!” and then all i have to say is “ok, come downstairs then” and down he comes. it is so fun to see him growing up. it was really hard getting him to sit still for the pictures so these are what i was left with. enjoy!
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so, we’ve been thinking about getting a decent digital SLR camera and it turns out that our friends have the exact camera that we’ve been thinking about getting. being the cool friends that they are, they let us borrow it for a couple of days to test it out. here are some photos from that session.
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well we went to salt lake city for steven’s work christmas party. we took baby ash and left lily and jack at home with steven’s family. it was a lot of fun. we stayed with his sister lani for two nights and stayed at the hotel the night of the party. the pic of ash was on the plane (his first plane flight). the picture of steven and i was at the party. we left asher at his sisters for the night so we could hang out with our friends after the party was over. we stayed up until 2am and in the morning, i wondered why i hadn’t gone to bed early and took advantage of not having to get up with a baby in the middle of the night. i tried to sleep in but 8:30 was as late as i could. oh-well i guess that 6 1/2 hours of uninterrupted sleep is better than normal.
steven’s sister also took us to dogwood and sent us home with a ton of clothes for jack and ash. it was the most amazing thing to just pick out anything i wanted and just take it home. they look so cute in their dogwood duds. dogwood really makes the cutest boy clothes ever!
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