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On New Years we had family over to our house for games and movies. Surprisingly all the kids made it to midnight! And I even found Camden still awake in his bed at 1:00 am.<br />
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This season we had both Julia and Micah in soccer. This was Julia's fourth season playing, and Robert's second season coaching her team (he isn't able to coach in the spring because April 15, Tax Day!). </div>
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This was Micah's first season of soccer and he loved it, but he wasn't the most attentive player. He mostly likes soccer because he is super friendly and he loves being with the other kids. Which means he also gets distracted really easily by the other kids.</div>
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He loves to take a break on the ground in the middle of the game.<br />
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Super excited to get his end of season medal<br />
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Julia has shown so much improvement since she started soccer. She used to be in it for the socializing as well and liked the practices more than games because there was more socializing. And she probably does still like practices better for that reason, but she also has shown she has Robert's competitive side in her. She has found her calling as a defender and she does not let that ball get past her even when she is up against girls almost twice her size (defense also means less running up and down the field, which she likes ;) )</div>
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Some they all looked lined up with Julia in the lead, a second later they were more scattered, but I thought it was funny that little Julia was the one taking the lead.<br />
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Up against girls twice her size and still getting the ball away from them.<br />
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This kick really upset Julia. It was almost the end of her last game and she was trying to do a power kick, but either the ball didn't go far enough or she missed the ball completely and she had to try it again like five times. You could tell she was getting more and more frustrated and embarrassed with each kick, and by the time the game was over a few minutes later she was in tears and declared she was never playing soccer again. We'll see.<br />
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The next day we went to the Aquarium with my brother Richard. They were also all decked out for Halloween and even had skeleton divers in the shark tank.<br />
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You can see Camden in the background with Richard trying to coax him onto the rope bridge. He never did end up going across.<br />
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He played on the frog instead while his siblings went across over and over again.<br />
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Football season has started. Julia went to a late game with Robert and they rushed the field afterwards. Micah has also has gotten to go to a game and Camden is up next to go.<br />
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From a while ago, but I thought I'd put this somewhere, celebrating Aunt Debbie's birthday<br />
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Just brothers being cute.<br />
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All our kids are really into Jake and the Neverland Pirates right now. They will ask me if they can watch "a Jake" and because I am busy taking care of a baby they usually do get to watch a couple episodes a day on Netflix. Sometimes I try to get them to watch something else, but they won't have it (except Camden who now likes Go Diego Go a lot as well). Anyway, so near the end of September on one of the many times they were watching "Jake" it occurred to me that that would be a perfect theme for their Halloween costumes since it's one girl, two boys, and I think Micah and Camden even look like Jake and Cubby. And they all thought it was a great idea!<br />
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I "made" their costumes, meaning I bought clothes that look like their clothes (or found stuff that we already owned) and modified them in some cases. Mostly no sew except some buttons and Cubby's felt patch. Just cutting, gluing, and even some taping- the yellow border on Jake's vest is yellow duct tape ;) .<br />
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Some of the things we did for Halloween weekend:<br />
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We went to a Halloween party that a real estate agent in our ward put on with her team. Camden came home and immediately lined up all his candy to check out his goods. Oh boy, that was just the beginning of the candy deluge.<br />
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Micah is just a sweet, happy boy, who loves cotton candy.<br />
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Camden was scared to ride in the train car so Dad got to ride on the back of the locomotive and hold him. Camden is a crazy three year old, but he always surprises me by how cautious he is.<br />
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We also went to a Halloween carnival at Micah's gymnastics. Games, snacks, decorating cookies, but our kids mostly liked just running around the gym and bouncing around.<br />
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We carved our pumpkins with my family the night before Halloween.<br />
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Camden did not like the slimy texture of the pumpkin guts, but he was as willing scooper.<br />
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Micah and Julia did their own, then drew on their faces and Robert cut it out with his power tools. So much easier that way!<br />
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I went to Micah and Camden's preschool for their Halloween party. Lincoln dressed up too. We had originally thought of making him the parrot from Jake and TNP, but i decided not to put that much effort into a costume we probably wouldn't wear all that much. So we went with the cute, traditional first Halloween Winnie-the-Pooh<br />
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Micah and Camden both performed a dance to Thriller with their own classes. After a couple seconds of not dancing Micah started dancing along. Conversely, after a couple seconds of not dancing Camden shook his head and ran off the stage to me.<br />
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He looks like he's dancing, but he's actually just really excited to see Lincoln.<br />
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Trick or Treating at Dad's work<br />
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After church in Kauai</div>
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The one day we really did leave the resort was Sunday. We went to Sacrament meeting and then opted to skip the other two hours to enjoy God's creations on Kauai.<br />
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We drove up to see Waimea Canyon, the Grand Canyon of the Pacific.<br />
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Then continued up to the top of the mountain where you get a view of the largely inaccessible Na'Pali Coast.<br />
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My cute guys<br />
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We went for a short hike at the top. Since it was cliff on both sides everyone got a hiking partner to hold onto.<br />
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My hiking partner cried until he fell asleep and I carried him the whole way.<br />
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Kauai is beautiful!<br />
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Afterwards we took the winding road back down the mountain towards our hotel. As we neared the bottom of the mountain I thought, "hmm, this winding road is making me a little car sick." And as I had that thought Camden threw up in the backseat. I had an extra pair of shorts and underwear for him but not an extra shirt. While Robert was getting Camden dressed Robert could see that Camden was going to be a little upset that he didn't have a shirt, so before Camden could get too sad about it Robert took off his own shirt and said in Hawaii we don't even need shirts. See, I'm not wearing a shirt either. So that is why Robert and Camden are not wearing shirts in the picture below when we visited the Hanapepe Swinging Bridge.<br />
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It really was swinging. It was even a little difficult to walk on it holding a baby like I was.<br />
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Watching the sunset and eating ice cream</div>
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View from another one of my sunset runs.<br />
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View from another one of Robert's bike rides.<br />
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The resort put on a small hula show in the lobby one morning, this was the dancer.<br />
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Julia made the cloth flowers as part of a resort craft. When did she get so grown up?<br />
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Another resort activity was learning how to make spam and cabbage. It was quite delicious. Oil, garlic, onions, spam, teriyaki sauce, and cabbage, served over rice. An island favorite!<br />
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Eating shaved ice on our last full day.<br />
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A close up of the rooster, because there are wild chickens all over the island.<br />
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Before we went to the airport we drove out and saw this waterfall. The boys fell asleep in the car though on the way, so Julia and I got out to see it, then I switched with Robert so he could come have a look. One last view of the island before we took off.<br />
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The flight home was a red eye flight. It wasn't too bad because the kids slept pretty well, although Robert and I didn't sleep all that well. The hardest part was getting them off the plane and to the car when we landed because they didn't want to wake up.<br />
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What a fun vacation!<br />
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Back in August Robert's parents asked us if we wanted to join them on their trip to Hawaii since the friends they were planning on going with could no longer go. It was a little daunting to think about making the trip with a newborn and three little kids, but we decided that all of use could really use a vacation as a family with all the craziness of having a new baby.<br />
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Since it was only a month away we decided not to tell the kids and make it a surprise. They have been asking to go on a plane for a while (none of them remember ever going on a plane, but they love planes) and we thought it would be a great surprise. I kind of hinted to them that something was coming by telling them they would get a surprise if they were good kids with the baby, but they had no clue. We even packed a large family suitcase a week before and sent it with Grandma Wheat and they didn't even notice.<br />
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The day of we sent Julia to school as usual. Robert stayed home while I took Lincoln in for his two month checkup (and opted not to get his shots that day so we wouldn't have a grumpy baby on the plane). After the checkup I went and checked Julia out of school early. She was very, very confused. I told her we had a surprise for them. We got home and my brother Richard was there (to drive us to the airport). We gathered the kids around and video called Robert's parents, who were already in Hawaii, and then I told them that Uncle Richard was going to take us to the airport (a little confusion) so we could go on an airplane (excitement builds) to Hawaii (Yay!)! And since I wasn't quite sure Camden and Micah knew what Hawaii meant I added, "to the beach and the swimming pool" because I knew they would get excited about that.<br />
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It was hard keeping the secret, but it was so fun too! The ride to the airport was so fun seeing how excited they were. Micah has a book about the airport and he knew exactly what to expect, right down to reminding me to take my phone out of my pockets when going through the metal detector so the alarm wouldn't go off.<br />
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Right before we got on the plane. So excited! For Julia and Micah that excitement continued during takeoff, they squealed with delight and thought it was like a fun ride. For Camden that excitement was squelched the moment we left the ground. For him it was SCARY! He screamed and said he wanted to go home! It was up to Robert to calm him down since he sat next to the boys and I sat a row behind them with Julia and with Lincoln on my lap. It didn't help that we had a bit of turbulence going up as well, but once we were actually in the air the flight to Los Angeles went quickly while they watched movies, and even the five and a half hour flight to Hawaii wasn't so bad because they just sat and watched movies the whole time. Lincoln was still small enough that all he did was eat and sleep.<br />
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In Hawaii, our flight was an hour late so it felt like 1:00 am to them, but we were in Hawaii! Micah has caught the travel bug and reminds me all the time now that he loves to travel and he keeps pointing out the places he wants to visit to me when he sees pictures (Paris and Tikal being some of the most recent)<br />
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The next morning we woke up before sunrise because our bodies all felt like it was late morning, so I got them all dressed and said we were going to the beach (the resort was right on the beach, we just had to walk over from our room) to watch the sunrise. Micah and Camden don't really remember the last time we were at the beach so it was all new to them. It was a gorgeous sunrise. Lincoln pretty much was always up before sunrise, so I ended up spending a lot of mornings watching the sunrise on the beach.<br />
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I told them not to get wet, that we would come back later with our swimsuits, but I still let them play along the waters edge. And of course, Julia left the beach absolutely drenched.<br />
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Camden walked up onto the sand, then a big wave washed up all the way to past where Julia and Micah are in this picture and washed up onto Camden's feet. That freaked him out and he ran screaming from the sand back onto the grass. This is him cautiously watching the ocean from the grass. It took a lot of prodding to get him back out onto the sand later on to play with the sand, and he never had any desire to go down to the water.<br />
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Later, after breakfast, we went to feed the koi<br />
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Then most days we just spent the whole day at the swimming pool or doing resort activities. Robert said on the last day that maybe we should have gone to a luau or done more outside of the resort. I had the same thought earlier in the week, but decided that with four little kids the most relaxing thing was just to stay put. The kids had a blast just staying at the resort anyway and the one day we ventured out, while fun, was exhausting.<br />
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Babe Lincoln hanging out at the pool. He did amazing. His newborn personality was very needy, he always needed to be comforted, but around this time he seemed to "wake up" and become more aware of his world. In Hawaii he became content to just sit and watch this exciting world. And he sleep amazing, something I have not been able to replicate back home.<br />
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Playing in the sand. They waves were pretty strong on this beach, so Micah and Julia only went in the water with Robert, which is why we spent most of our time at the swimming pool.<br />
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Documenting that Lincoln was at the beach.<br />
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We also saw quite a few sunsets at the beach. Sunrise and sunset were my favorite time of the day. Also, I think there was only a couple times when Julia was not in a dress or swimming suit. She is very girly.<br />
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S'mores at sunset on the beach. Gah, take me back, it was beautiful and such a fun family vacation.<br />
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Like I said, the resort had a lot of kid friendly activities you could just show up for, and we used them to the fullest. All the activity employees knew us by name by the end of the week. This was bamboo pole fishing (catch and release).<br />
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A hula lesson, which I attended with Julia and had such a fun time. I used to do cultural dances and it reminded of that.<br />
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Tissue paper painting.<br />
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Robert and I went for a sunset run together.<br />
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Robert also rented a bike for three days and rode all over the island. He really got to know the streets of Kauai by the end of his bike rental. This morning he rode 77 miles, all the way from our hotel to the top of Waimea Canyon and to the Na'pali Coast and back, pretty crazy.<br />
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And while Robert was doing that, Camden and Lincoln and I were watching the sunrise on the beach with the sea turtles.<br />
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Another resort activity, finger painting with Grandpa. Because we went in September after school was out there were not a whole lot of other kids, so for a lot of the activities our kids were the only ones and the swimming pool was never crowded.<br />
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Swimming with Grandma and Grandpa. We were sure lucky to have their help, it made for a much more relaxing vacation to have the extra hands (and eyes).<br />
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A lady with a baby came up to me at the swimming pool one day and said they were leaving to go home and not taking this baby chair, did we want it? Lincoln looking like a big boy.<br />
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I went on a couple more sunset runs, this was the view from one.<br />
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Last Sunday was a beautiful fall day for a baby blessing. We first started thinking of when we were going to do the blessing back in August. But one week we had ward conference, then we had a regional conference, then the grandpa's were going to potentially be out of town, then <i>we </i>were going to be out of town, then it was general conference. So we finally found a date that worked even though it was a little later than we had originally anticipated.<br />
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I thought that would work out well with Lincoln's baby personality anyway since newborn Lincoln was needy and either wanted to be eating or sleeping and if he wasn't doing those two things he had to be vigorously rocked to be happy. Two month Lincoln has finally calmed down and has been a lot happier, even dare I say, a very smiley and joyful baby. Much better chances for a calm baby during the blessing.<br />
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But two month Lincoln also does not like laying down flat on his back and it freaked him out to have the priesthood holders holding him like that and he cried through the whole (beautiful) blessing Robert gave. Oh well, Heavenly Father still heard it.<br />
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We've pretty much given up getting a family picture with everyone looking. No one was crying, this is how we roll.<br />
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Lincoln enjoyed getting held by many people at our house afterwards and it was nice to have our families come together to celebrate his birth.<br />
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This was the first time Lincoln and Hunter were together. Hunter is my cousin Katrina's son. Katrina and I are two weeks apart and also have July birthdays. We wondered if Hunter and Lincoln would be born around the same time, but Hunter was born nine days before Lincoln, which is still pretty close.<br />
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Chubby baby hands<br />
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We have a three year old in the house! Camden had a fun birthday celebration week. On Wednesday when I picked him up from school he was wearing a birthday crown that they had given him (and I realized, wow, his birthday is tomorrow. This week went by fast!) and he was so proud of his crown.<br />
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On his birthday we tried our best to make him feel special...by taking him to his three year well checkup. He did have to get a flu shot,but besides that no shots. The nurse distracted him by having him look away and he didn't realize he was getting the shot until it was already over. I also decorated with a pirate theme because he is crazy about Jake and the Neverland Pirates right now. That night we had pirate cupcakes and he got to open his present, a huge ship from Jake and the Neverland Pirates.<br />
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When I asked him what he wanted to do for his birthday he said he wanted to go on a boat. And I told Robert, "where are we going to find a boat ride in Utah in October?" Then I saw this deal on KSL deals for a Halloween boat ride on the Provo River...ta da! It was just a short 25 minute ride, but it was a boat, with life vests, and spooky stories and pirates so for a three year old it was great. It is actually suppose to be a spooky night ride, but we purposefully got there right as they opened for the night so it was still light because I didn't think Camden would like the spookiness of it. He was so funny with his life vest, a little unsure of it all, but happy to be on a boat.<br />
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The pirate brought candy for us.<br />
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Then on Sunday we had Lincoln's baby blessing, but we still had not broken Camden's pinata because it was such a busy week (I kept telling them "after such and such we will break it" but it never happened). So with all the kids over that day it was a perfect day to break the pirate chest pinata, even though it didn't really fit with Lincoln's blessing...<br />
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Half the kids are still in their church clothes :O<br />
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Camden at three has great big sweetheart brown eyes and a ready smile. He is looking more like a boy than a baby. He is learning that he has opinions on everything and likes to make himself heard. He used to eat anything and everything, now he only likes treats and it's a chore to try to get him to eat anything healthy. He is sort of potty trained, meaning he knows when he has to go, but we keep confusing him by putting him in pullups and he forgets to use the potty.<br />
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He used to be afraid to go down slides, but the other day I saw him go down a slide and I was surprised. According to the kids he's been doing it for a while, but I never noticed. He is just growing up super fast.<br />
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We spent Labor Day this year at the Ranch and got to sleep in the newly renovated "bunk house"</div>
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It was a little cold and mostly too windy for little Lincoln so he spent most of the time in the bunk house<br />
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The other kids ran free playing at the Ranch<br />
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Work Projects that weekend were putting insulation in the second room of the bunk house<br />
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And installing a new front gate. That's Robert up in the front loader bucket putting in the cross bar<br />
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Now others are up there welding it together<br />
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Good morning! Micah fell the night before chasing chickens and I didn't get a good look at him until that morning. I wondered what had happened to him in the night! (Then he told me about the chickens)<br />
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Micah got to get into the cab of the front loader. He was sooo happy.<br />
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Julia started 2nd grade this year.</div>
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This was from Back to School Night the night before school started.<br />
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Morning of, a little nervous, but feeling confident with friends she knows in her class this year.<br />
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"Though she be little, she is fierce" Shakespeare. Julia got that as her back to school literary shirt this year, I thought it was fitting for her. She also got a kids version A Midsummer's Night Dream in book form, which is where the quote is from. She read it in two days and loved it, she thought it was funny and she liked the fairies in it. She probably knows the story better than I do now.<br />
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Micah and Camden also started school. Micah in preschool 3 days a week, Camden in the 2 year old class 2 days a week. Same place, different classes. They really didn't know what to expect.<br />
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Micah trying to look happy<br />
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I'm going to preschool!?<br />
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I think they look adorable in their uniforms.<br />
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Lincoln didn't get to go to school, but he did get a back to school literary shirt and (board) book like the others did. Le Petit Prince.<br />
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Camden got Harry the Dirty Dog and Micah got Mike Mulligan's Steam Shovel, which I couldn't find a picture of him wearing, but he loves it. They did also get the books and we read them over and over again the first week.<br />
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Venice! Venice is such a neat city and probably my favorite city out of the four Italian cities we visited (Venice, Florence, Pisa, Rome). The top tourist draws in Venice are San Marcos Cathedral and San Marcos Square and seeing the canals (including the Grand Canal) and famous bridges. There are also lots of historical buildings and museums to see as well. My favorite thing to do in Venice however was just walking around the city. I loved how cute and quaint it was, and since there are absolutely no roads, just canals, it is much quieter outside the tourist areas than a regular city because... no loud stinkin' cars!</div>
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Just your typical, quiet Venetian neighborhood. Everyone gets around on boat or by foot. Our hotel was outside of the tourist area in a quiet neighborhood like this, but they offered a complimentary speedboat shuttle to San Marcos square. We ended up taking the shuttle to San Marcos square twice, and then walked back to our hotel so we could walk through the city. We got to see a lot of the city that way, so we also walked a ton! I think we had about 25,000 steps on our one full day there (we had a red eye flight in our first day, so we only had about a half day to sightsee, then we had one full day to explore Venice, and then we left for Florence the next day. It was a busy week) </div>
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There were lots of Catholic churches, really old Catholic churches, all over Italy and even all over a small city like Venice. We chose a random church to practice some light painting.</div>
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Venice was built on over 100 small islands that are connected by bridges, so that is why there are canals all through the city, every canal separates an island. To get to the city from the airport we took a 45 minute waterbus through the lagoon. I didn't realize it before we went, but Venice is right on the ocean (a "duh" now that I think about) so it has kind of a beach city feel to it with the ocean right there and plenty of seafood, although there are no beaches in Venice (there are beaches on some of the other islands in the lagoon though.) </div>
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Dinner at a restaurant pier on the Venetian Lagoon. Lots of seafood on the menu in Venice.</div>
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The history of Venice goes waaaay back, to 421 AD (or earlier) when farmers got tired of being attacked and moved out to the marshy lagoon for protection. They built houses by pounding long wooden pile-ons into the mud, and by the 13th century Venice was one of the most important cities in Europe. For over a thousand years the ruler of the Republic of Venice was called the Doge, who was elected for life. While we were in Venice we visited the Doge's Palace, which includes the Doge's apartments as well as the rooms where the Republic's governing bodies met.<br />
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The Palace also housed the Venetian judicial courts and is connected to the prison by an enclosed bridge called the Bridge of Sighs. After a prisoner had been sentenced to jail they conveniently only had to be lead across the bridge to the prison. It is said the bridge got its' names because the prisoners would sigh as they got their last glimpse of Venice through the stone bars of the bridge. If you look closely at the picture below the last bridge you see is higher than the others and enclosed. That is the Bridge of Sighs. More from the inside of the bridge later.</div>
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One of the major sites in Venice is St. Mark's Basilica, so named because according to legend in 828 AD two Venetian merchants stole the remains of St. Mark where they were in Alexandria and brought them to Venice where a new Basilica was built to house the remains.<br />
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St. Marks Basilica at sunset with crowds of tourist<br />
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St. Marks Basilica at sunrise with almost no tourists. We got up early the day after we got there and walked through Venice at sunrise to get to St. Mark's Square when it wasn't too crowded. </div>
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Inside the Cathedral. St. Marks tomb.</div>
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Pala d'Oro, the altarpiece from 900 AD that is made of gold, silver, and gems.<br />
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The Cathedral is famous for it's stone mosaics. This is made out of tiny stones!<br />
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After we visited St, Mark's square in the morning nothing was open so we walked around Venice, picked up some pastries for breakfast and sat down to eat them while we watched the boats come in from the mainland with people and families commuting into Venice for school and work. We crossed the Grand Canal and walked out to one of the very end points of the city and visited another basilica<span style="font-family: inherit;">, <span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;">Santa Maria della Salute. This basilica </span></span>was just opening when we got there, so we were the only ones inside.</div>
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Robert with the Grand Canal. That is the church in the background we are walking to, but to get there we had to go inland and walk past it to find a bridge that crosses the canal since there are only four bridges that cross the Grand Canal. It's pretty easy to get lost in Venice because the walkways zigzag and dead end all over the place. You can't just walk in a straight line to get from point A to point B.</div>
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The two pictures above are inside the Doge's palace. I'm guessing the top picture was part of the Doge's apartment (but I honestly don't remember). The lower picture was a way for people to anonymously report each other.<br />
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Rick Steves briefly explains more about the Doge's Palace if you are interested in more information.</div>
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Taking in the "view" from the prison. All you can see is the side of the Doge's Palace.<br />
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Back outside to the canals.<br />
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Remember there are no cars or trucks in Venice, so everything you think of to transport needs to go by boat. The stores were restocked by boat as seen here, even the laundry was taken away from our hotel by boat.<br />
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The largest of the bridges that crosses the Grand Canal is the Rialto Bridge built in the 1500s. The inside of the bridge doesn't even look like a bridge. The bridge is lined with shops so when you are walking down the street it feels like you walk up some stairs on a hill and then back down, you can only see the Grand Canal from the very top (and when we were there they were doing renovations and had that part blocked off too).</div>
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"Gondola, gondola, gondola!" That's probably the most common phrase heard in Venice because the city's 400 gondoliers are constantly yelling it to get people to ride on their gondola. Gondola's are the traditional mode of transportation in Venice (most locals use motor boats now). They have flat bottoms to navigate through shallow canals and are built slightly titled to one side so the gondolier can steer the gondola using only one oar on one side. Yup, we did take a gondola ride down the canals of Venice.<br />
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Mostly we stayed on the small canals and passed regular local homes. But anywhere in Venice is old so we also passed the homes of Cassanova and Marco Polo.<br />
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We ventured onto the Grand Canal just long enough to get a view of the Rialto bridge. The Grand Canal is too busy for a leisurely boat ride like a gondola ride, too many large boats and too crowded. The small canals can get crowded with gondola's though and it's crazy how the gondoliers can steer around each other with just one oar- and legs and arms to push off the buildings.<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KQPmojcG1tE/V6DqEjxDhEI/AAAAAAACSwk/nab-TRpjogMYG87-YDPHwUf179pPBnLWACKgB/s1600/IMG_1882.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KQPmojcG1tE/V6DqEjxDhEI/AAAAAAACSwk/nab-TRpjogMYG87-YDPHwUf179pPBnLWACKgB/s640/IMG_1882.JPG" width="640" /></a><br />
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While walking down a quite Venetian walkway I stopped to take a picture of a random coke can. Robert though it was funny and took a picture of me taking the picture.<br />
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I loved wandering around these little alleyways.<br />
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View of Venice<br />
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St. Marks Basilica from above<br />
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A closeup of the cities rooftops.<br />
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Oops, not from the top of the Bell Tower, this is from a museum, but I thought the old books looked cool.<br />
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I tried to figure out what this says in Italian, and I think it means: Galileo Galilei, with his telescope, from here on August 21, 1609 broadened man's horizons in the fourth centenary. Not quite sure what it means about the fourth centenary (a 100 year anniversary), but in the 1600's Galileo demonstrated his telescope for the Doge of Venice from the top of the bell tower.<br />
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The end of St. Mark's square, the Grand Canal on the left, and a view of Venice.<br />
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For our family summer vacation this year we spent a few days in Eastern Utah camping at Steinaker Reservoir State Park and visiting Dinosaur National Monument and Flaming Gorge.<br />
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Day One<br />
Before we left we stopped by Orem to visit Robert's grandma who was in the hospital with pneumonia. She was pretty weak at that time and later she told Robert's mom she doesn't even remember her hospital stay. She has since been moved to as rehabilitation facility in Orem to get her strength up so she can finally go home to Sacramento. She got sick when she came out to visit and be sealed in the temple to her parents.<br />
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Lauren was also visiting and Julia was taking pictures with my phone.<br />
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Then we drove three hours out to Eastern Utah, just outside of Vernal. We set up camp and had dinner and campfire cones.<br />
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We went to Dinosaur National Monument and saw their impressive wall of dinosaur fossils. There are over 1,500 fossils on the rock wall from almost a dozen different dinosaur species including Allosaurus, Diplodicus, and Stegosaurus. The kids all got a junior ranger booklet and completed it while we were there so they became junior rangers and got a Dinosaur National Monument Junior Ranger badge.<br />
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Some of the fossils you were allowed to touch.<br />
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This area used to be the end of a river bed. These dinosaurs died in various places along the dried up riverbed during a drought. Then the river came back and washed all the bones downstream where they all ended up stuck at this one spot.<br />
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No, they don't normally let people climb on the fossil wall. The two people behind Robert are the head paleontologist for the site and a visiting paleontologist who was going to be giving a presentation that night.<br />
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Micah is such a sweet boy. He's pretty good at posing for me when I want to get a nice picture.<br />
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To access the fossil wall, called "The Quarry," visitors ride a tram from the visitor center up to the Quarry building (they have built an entire building around the wall to keep it protected). The kids loved the tram, they called it a bus and it was one of their favorite parts of the trip. On the way up someone on the tram started humming the theme song to Jurassic Park, and it did feel kind of Jurassic Parkish, where you had to take a tram through a closed gate.<br />
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With one of the iconic dinosaurs at the visitor center. This dinosaur was one of nine dinosaurs sculpted for the 1964 World's Fair in New York and arrived at the monument in the late 1960's. It has been painted a variety of colors over the years and in this picture it's paint job was inspired by the African Gemsbok (an antelope-like animal). Just a few weeks after we visited I saw on the Monument Facebook page that the dinosaur got a new paint job, this time a more, umm, natural looking paint job, or what you might actually think a dino might look like. So we were one of the last ones to see it with the old paint job. They said this new paint job should last it forty years!<br />
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Julia was really into sneaking my phone away and texting people and taking pictures. Her other front tooth, which she has been missing since December, finally come in in July.<br />
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After the Quarry we found a picnic site for lunch and then headed off to explore the monument. We did a driving tour which gave background on the geology and other, later, inhabitants of the monument besides dinosaurs. The tour included getting out to see some of the various sites.<br />
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Native American petroglyphs. We saw a lizard petroglyph on the driving tour pamphlet but we couldn't find it among these petroglyphs.<br />
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The next stop was a longer hike to the petroglyphs that including a lot of uphill to the side of a cliff.<br />
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That's where we finally found our giant lizard.<br />
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Camden was having a great time going uphill, until we got to the top and he realized just how far up we had gone. Then he wanted Dad to carry because he was scared. More petroglyphs.<br />
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Don't let me go Dad.<br />
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The view from where we were.<br />
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Other inhabitants of the area were early settlers. This was the cabin of a lady named Josie Morris who lived out here by herself for fifty years, until 1963, without running water or electricity. <br />
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Having fun back at our campsite. There was a beach to get wet at the reservoir, but we never did make it down to the beach. Getting everyone fed and dressed or ready for bed was our priority when we were at camp. I was also eight months pregnant and not feeling all that adventurous.<br />
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This day instead of driving East towards the Monument we drove North to Flaming Gorge. We had some lunch at the reservoir and then went for a hike.<br />
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We started our expectations low and just said we would go however long it took until everyone was tired. We ended up going about 1.5 miles roundtrip, and that's with no one in a hiking backpack. Camden actually is a great little hiker when he wants to be, he will even run to keep up since his legs are shorter than everyone else.<br />
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Then we went on a tour of the dam. We were the last tour of the day and it was only us, so the tour guide gave us an abbreviated kid friendly tour so the kids wouldn't get bored. We mostly just walked through the dam and fed the fish that congregate at the base of the dam, Flaming Gorge was at high capacity so they were letting water out of the reservoir that day right next to where we were and the rate that water shoots out is incredible to see.<br />
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Some of the electrical workings inside the dam.<br />
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Walking across the dam. It was really windy!<br />
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Looking down to where we were.<br />
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We got back to camp that evening and had dinner and desert (cinnamon and sugar biscuits cooked over the campfire), but it was really windy and not that enjoyable to be sitting out in. So we made the decision that since we were just going to get up and pack up and leave the next morning we would go ahead and pack up that night. Robert was going to leave for a Ragnar race the next afternoon so we needed to get back early anyway.<br />
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It was like 9:00 pm when we left and around 1:00 am (we stopped in Park City to pick up some things Robert had left up at the Holiday's cabin) when we got home. But the kids fell asleep about an hour into it and slept the rest of the way, even Micah who had slept for a long time at the campsite when we got back from the dam! We could not get him to wake up even though it was windy and hot and didn't look very comfortable. Camping can be hard work for a little kid (and the adults)!<br />
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We have been very busy this summer trying to do as much as we can before the baby was born. Our June was full of camping trips and our July was swimming lessons every morning, followed by some sort of activity, followed by a nap for for everyone (or quite time for Micah and Julia since they never wanted to take a nap) because by then I would be exhausted.</div>
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Slurpees for 7/11 day.</div>
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Draper Days Children's bike parade<br />
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Followed by games and train rides at the park</div>
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The parade went very slowly so Julia had to stop and wait for people to go and then ride until she caught back up with them because she couldn't ride her bike that slow.</div>
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One weekend my parents went down to the Ranch for the Bryce Canyon Half Marathon and they took Camden with them. The other two kids and I took advantage of not having wiggly Camden with us and went to the movies and saw <i>Finding Dory</i>. The whole movie is about Dory trying to find her parents, and by the end of the movie Micah was sobbing that it was so sad. Spoiler alert: she does find her parents in the end, it just took a little too long for Micah's four year old attention span. I loved the recling seats at this theater, and it's only two minutes from our house.<br />
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He had so much fun at the Ranch and didn't miss us at all.<br />
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Another morning we went to Wheeler Farm and had a tractor ride.<br />
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Visiting the Planetarium<br />
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Homemade ice cream on the back porch.<br />
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Neighborhood 4th of July bike parade<br />
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This parade was not too crowded and was just around our neighborhood, so they got to speed down the street multiple times<br />
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Sparklers and fireworks at Grandpa and Grandma Sandberg house for the 4th of July. Camden did one sparkler, which I was surprised that he would even hold one, and then he was done with the sparklers. The fireworks also scared him so he he went inside after a while.<br />
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Visiting the Logan Temple</div>
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My cousin Katrina moved back to Logan and her daughter Ali was baptized at the beginning of July. Katrina was due with a baby boy around July 15th, my due date with Lincoln was July 22nd. We wondered who would have their baby first period. Katrina ended up being induced early that next week on July 7 with baby Hunter, and Lincoln came early on July 16th, so no one made it to the 22nd! </div>
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Our friend Annie also came to the baptism with her smiley baby.<br />
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My last bump picture, 37 weeks. Robert thought this was going to be a small baby because he said I didn't look that big. Lincoln was bigger than Micah, smaller than Camden, and about the same size as Julia.<br />
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Camden right before he got his summer haircut. He was excited at first, but by the end I had to work really fast to try to finish off the haircut without him running away.<br />
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This year Julia and Micah took lessons from a swim instructor that was recommended to us who runs a swim school from her home pool with her daughter. Micah was in level 1, Julia was in level 2. By the end of their four weeks of lessons they both just had a couple more skills to pass of in order to advance to the next level, so they will be in the same level again next year. Julia is a lot more comfortable in the water than she used to be. Micah has always been comfortable in the water, he just needs to work on the actual skills. The day after they finished their last swimming lesson I went into labor and we had Lincoln the next day.<br />
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Watching the fish in the wetland<br />
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Visiting with Great-Grandma Ramiro and Grandma Sandberg<br />
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Great-Aunt Magdalena<br />
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Aunt Lauren<br />
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All three of the boys at one week. Camden on the top, Micah on the bottom left, Lincoln on the<br />
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Saturday morning we had a 5k run. My Dad and Robert in the lead on the way back. Camden was the only one of my kids awake that early, so he and I went out for a walk to follow the runners and then walk back in when they started coming in. It was weird for me not to be running this year.<br />
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Riding their horses on the way out. Uncle Don said this year it was a horse race and gave everyone a stick to ride out on. Robert said he was going to ride that way the whole way....<br />
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Dave getting an early start with the dogs, or the dogs getting an early start with Dave?<br />
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Camden waits with me to see the runners take off.<br />
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The two sleeping kids. It's always exhausting playing at the Ranch all day.<br />
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Robert got up early on Saturday and went for a hike to the top of the hill with a view of the main part of the Ranch.<br />
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Friday night hot dog roast.<br />
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Just lots of chatting and getting reacquainted<br />
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I see lots of love in this picture<br />
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Camden didn't remember the Ranch from last year, so it was like it was brand new to him. He loved it. A couple weeks later my parents went back down and offered to take one of the kids and Camden jumped at the chance to go back. He didn't care at all that I was not going to be there.<br />
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Micah in the Dodger hat and Italian soccer clothes.<br />
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Friday before the hot dog roast Robert wanted to go up to a lake above the Ranch to check it out as a possible place to bring his Scouts next year. He also brought all his guns and targets to target practice.<br />
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The lake, beneath volcanic scree.<br />
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When we were planning our Italy trip we debated if we would have time to go out to Pisa or not. It is just a 45 minute to an hour train ride from Florence, but we didn't have much time to spare in our itinerary. We decided to go for it and I am glad we did, it was fun to see such an iconic site. We only stayed for a couple hours but it was plenty to just see the tower and church area.</div>
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The train station. We need a better train system in the US, train transportation in Europe is great.</div>
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I liked all the Italian cities listed.<br />
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The Leaning Tower of Pisa. It is actually the bell tower for the church in Pisa, but you never see the church in most pictures because the novelty of the leaning of the tower overshadows it.<br />
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My holding up the tower pose. Can I just say I loved my Altra shoes on this trip. We were walking 20,000+ steps a day on this trip and I don't think I could have done it being pregnant with any other pair of shoes.<br />
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Inside of the church.<br />
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The baptistery, also almost never gets seen.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"> The front of the church. Construction began in 1063.</span><br />
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The tower. Construction began in 1173 but it wasn't completed until 1350. The soil that it sits on is clay and sand so the tower began to lean when they got to the third floor. They stopped construction for a while, then started again and tried to compensate for the leaning by building one side taller than the other, which did not work and the tower leaned even more.<br />
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Waiting in line to go up to the tower.<br />
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It wasn't until 2001 that the tower was stabilized. Until then the tower continued to lean more and more. Under the stabilization project they actually brought it back upright .5 degree because of fear of a collapse with how much it had begun to lean.<br />
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Going up! This was actually the second tower we were climbing that day. I thought I did pretty good considering I was pregnant!<br />
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The inside of the tower has a series of counter weights and monitors.<br />
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The stairs are so worn down from all the people through the ages trekking up and down. You could definitely feel the tilt as you went up. On one side it was harder to walk up the stairs!<br />
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Bell at the top.<br />
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You could really feel the tilt at the top<br />
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Looking down at the square where we took our pictures before.<br />
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On my way back down.<br />
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Coming on here to post about Lincoln I didn't realize how far behind I was with blogging about our year. We have been busy, apparently too busy to blog! I have made quite a few Youtube videos though so I will try to post those all here.<br />
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Julia and Micah both did gymnastics for about half a year. I signed up Micah because he was going crazy at home in the middle of winter, and then Julia wanted to to it too. Micah loved it, Julia took a while to warm up to it (she wanted to quite but I made her see it through to the end of the session), but in the end she really loved it too and was sad when it ended. She is a perfectionist and had a hard time with not being able to do everything just right, I wanted her to see that if she kept trying she would get better.<br />
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Micah is a very active little boy and gymnastics was right up his ally. I worried at first that he would be shy and not want to go in, but he never had any problem and just enjoyed having fun.<br />
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Yesterday the kids were playing around with their Cougar blanket and I told them to bring the blanket to the bedroom and we would have an impromptu photo shoot with Lincoln. They all love Lincoln and were happy to get their picture taken with him.<br />
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Camden was exited, but could not hold still for the life of him.<br />
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Micah was the perfect little model<br />
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Julia says Lincoln is so cute, he is the second cutest baby ever. The most cutest baby in her opinion is still her cousin Cameron.<br />
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Linc by himself<br />
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I tried to unswaddle him and he was not having it. This is no way represents his feelings on being a Cougar, I just thought that face was too cute not to post.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">On the morning of Friday, July 15th, 2016 I was exactly 39 weeks pregnant with Lincoln. I had been very busy that week trying to keep the other three kids entertained so they wouldn't mind as much just hanging around the house once the baby was born. That week we went to a friend's house and got wet, went to a splash pad, finished up a session of swimming lessons, went to an outdoor movie, Julia had a playdate with a friend, we went to the Draper Days bike parade, and had well-child check-ups for Micah and Julia. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">I had been thinking of doing something else fun on Friday as well, but by that time the house was a mess because I hadn't had the time or energy to keep up with the cleaning with everything going on that week. So I decided we would just stay home and catch up on cleaning until that evening when we were going to go to my parent's home in Saratoga Springs to spend the night. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the end, the birth of our fourth baby turned out to be nothing like we were expecting. But since he was our fourth baby none of it really fazed us. We went with the flow and what happened was what happened. We were just happy to have a new happy, healthy, baby.</span><br />
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I had this post with a few pictures in it just sitting around as a draft, so I'll go ahead and quickly post it. The first week of April David and Jen came to visit us, and Grandma Whitehurst was also in time at the same time.</div>
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The Cam's, Camden and Cameron. This was in the middle of the afternoon, but Camden did not want me to change him out of his pajamas all day because he said he wanted to "be a pirate." He is wearing his Jake and the Neverland Pirates pajamas.<br />
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