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I LOVE when they DON'T FIGHT!!!!!!!!!

While trying to get them all ready for bed, I peaked into Madi's room and saw this.

I thought it was so sweet...

'cause this NEVER happens!!

And I LOVE when it does!

NEED HELP!!!!

I want the honest truth...

your honest opinion!!!

I get the opportunity of shooting the Boise Fire fighter Calendar this year.

But we are stuck on one issue.

Do we try to shoot a calendar that has cool action/artistic/emotional shots...something that can be hung in the administrative offices in Boise...

OR

Do we go for the classic beef-cake calendar???

The reason for the calendar is to raise money for the burn-out fund, money to go towards fire victims.

So we want to sell as many as we can.

There are a couple other cities (Eagle) that have just started to make calendars, before we never had competition...

So what do we do?

What would you buy????

What would you hang in your home???

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I LOVE Relief Society

No, I am not gonna get all churchy on you....

But today has been a very Relief Society filled day!

Of course at church, where the lesson was about Relief Society and the blessing it brings to our lives...

I have been so blessed in my life by way of the Relief Society...most recently the help we got from everyone when we had to go back to the hospital after Porter was born.

I wish all those ladies could really know how much we appreciate that, and their willingness to help.

But then today I had the opportunity to take dinner to one of the ladies I visit teach who just had a sweet, beautiful baby girl.

Visiting Teaching, another great blessing.

I have so many special friendships made because of Visiting teaching...

And the last thing today was the opportunity I had to sew a quilt top for the Humanitarian service project we have coming up.

They supply me with all the blocks and I just sew it together, but the thought that I had a hand in something that will keep a family warm in the cold night.

There sure is something neat about being a part of that!!!

Anyway, I am so grateful for the blessing of having Relief Society in my life!!!

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ALSO...

Happy Birthday to my little sister Sara, who has always been the peace-maker in the family and is just about the sweetest thing anyone could ever meet!

I love you Sara and I am so lucky to have your example in my life!

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I LOVE to re-purpose!!!

Can you guess what this WILL be???

(It's not there yet, but getting there...)

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We LOVE visitors!!!

We love when people come to visit!!!

Aunt Kay (Brent's sister), Uncle Johnny, and their daughter Monica came to stay with us for a couple days!

We are already having so much fun!

It is great to have such a great family!!!

(Thanks Monica for letting our girls maul you!)

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Elsie LOVES her fishies!!!

Yes, there are fishies in there...

they are just so tiny!!!

The sales lady told us not to get the ones we wanted, cause our tank wasn't big enough!!!

So each of the girls picked out a little guppy.

Madi's is orange, named Rainbow.

Cassi has a yellow one named Sunny.

And Elsie's is purple...and her name is Dory.

This is Elsie's late birthday present, that we finally got around to getting.

She loves them so much!

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We LOVE how proud the girls are of their art.

Tonight the girls had their art exhibit.

Each child from the classes got to display their favorite piece.

The girls thought it was pretty cool to have their own art show!!

I loved how proud they were when they saw their pieces on the wall!

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I LOVE early Christmas presents!!!

We have needed new carpet...for a LONG time!!!

We finally decided to do it.

Well, we decided to go price it.

We found this piece that both of us fell in love with...and it wasn't too far out of our price range!
One question...does anyone think it is too dark?

I put pictures of the sample next to our couch, and the wood floors.
We are loving it.

The only little problem is that the carpet has a small olive green tint to it...you can't really see it, and I don't think I would have noticed it if the sales lady hadn't said it.

I just worry that the whole room done with end up looking green.

But when it comes down to it, we both love it, so why not?

Anyway...tell me your opinions on the dark???

Brent and I like it cause it is different.

Anyway, happy early Christmas to us!

(I wish it wouldn't take 2 weeks to get in!!!)

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I LOVE squeaky clean kids...

Especially when they are on their way to bed!!!

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I am so THANKFUL for great emergency rooms!!!

(And AWESOME friends to take your kids on a seconds notice!!!)

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Yep...

It's real!

Poor guy.

It was an easy going kind of day.

Brent started out the day not feeling very good, so we all took it easy.

Later in the day we ventured outside, where Brent saw that his wheel barrel had fallen off the wall in his shed.

He wanted to quickly fix it...just like he likes to fix everything...

This was the nail guns fault...not Brent's!!!

He was putting a nail into a 2x4...the 2x4 was a scrap and a kinda old scrap.
Well, the 2X4 splintered and the nail followed the course of the splintered piece of wood, and went straight into the palm of his hand.

Poor boy.

I heard a call from the garage saying..."Hey Kimi...will you come in the garage for a second, I need to talk to you."

I thought I was in trouble.

When I got out there he showed me his hand and I kinda panicked!!!
Sometimes I wonder how much help I really am.

So I hurried and called Heather and she gladly took our kids for us so I could rush him to the emergency room.

It was an exciting night for them in the emergency room too...

we had lookers peeking into our door quite often.

Kind funny...

He is doing good.

He is actually quite lucky.

It did go through the bone....but it did not shatter it or break it...just put a big hole dead center!

It was a good thing it was dead center, if it was a little to the right or left, it would have broken it.

So that is why he is lucky!

Thanks to all the nice nurses......and the pompous doctor....

And a BIG thanks to Heather for being so willing to take all the kids for so many hours!!!

And wish Brent luck in his recovery!!!

(By the way...the picture was Brent's idea...so don't be thinking I am a terrible wife for doing a little photo shoot before the emergency room!!!)

x-ray with nail in...
x-ray with nail out...the red circle is around the hole in the bone...