tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57010197184800661822024-03-05T08:09:00.070-07:00Spitzer Family BlogJennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398940447118443816noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701019718480066182.post-20509304936948308762012-08-13T08:59:00.004-06:002012-08-13T09:25:23.038-06:00All About the Benjamin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Do you remember when I had my first baby?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I never stopped talking and blogging
about her? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Well, I suppose I still never stop talking about her..or her
brother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But as far as the Internet
goes...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Perhaps that's one of the greatest things about having your
second child.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">(Though remarkable and completely essential information to probably everybody)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">You don't feel as inclined to publicize to the world the substance
of their every breathing moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sometimes, though, I regret getting carried away with that
feeling when I look for the story of his first year and realize it’s only inside
of me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never to be written and
remembered in exasperating detail like Zoe’s first year was. Hah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I used to pour so much time and thought into
this blog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Back when I had time to
think, and time to write.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a very
different time now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An Instragram
snapshot and caption is my extent of scrapbooking these days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I have been feeling the pull to put some of my favorite
details about him down, though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So allow
me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">My sister and I were always complete opposites, so I don’t
know why, as the days unfold and reveal his personality, I fancy it as such a curious thing to discover that Zoe
and Benjamin are turning out that way as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s impossible not to compare your children to one another when their
ages are relatively close and it’s fun to see how much two people with similar
nature and nurture can deviate so greatly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">These are a few of my favorite things about my boy:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He drills
his face into the nearest cuddly object.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The moment I drape a blanket across my shoulder, he imediately face plants it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I pull him out of his crib after a nap,
he goes to touch the tiny stuffed Winnie The Pooh characters on his mobile,
brushes them against his cheek, all with a tickled grin and giggle like he’s
meeting a celebrity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">2.</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">His lips.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>His beautiful, intense sapphire eyes may be a window to his soul, but those
lips are tell tale to how he is feeling. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are the most expressive/communicative
lips.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I was 20 weeks pregnant with
him, though his features were still developing, those lips stood out to me
first thing on the ultrasound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">3.</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">HE actually EATS! A lot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When I think about what his favorite foods are, I can’t even deduct
because he accepts it all graciously.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As
long as you let him feed himself and make a huge mess.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He will clean a plate before Zoe agrees to gag
down her third bite.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">4.</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">He thinks Zoe is the funniest person alive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He follows her, chases her via crawl, watches
her in awe, and is always watching her -- anxiously awaiting her next move.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I realized they were true
siblings one day when Zoe did something that I found completely irritating while
her and Benjamin laughed together forever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She loves him back just the same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A little too physically hard sometimes, which is the only time she makes
him cry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Oh and when she takes all his toys.</span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Boy has an insatiable demand for being carried
and held. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At 26 lbs., it sucks for
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The boy is stout. He's not what I'd call an easy-going baby. He demands a lot and really needs that physical closeness. Maybe because he lacks that one-on-one time that is difficult to give with his sister around.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">His hair is so silly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s this down feather naturally occurring Mohawk
thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve already given him his first
haircut (to keep it off his ears).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
it puts me at a loss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know what
to do with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everywhere we go old
ladies offer their commentary on how cute but funny it is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">He got six teeth in one month (His 8<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>
month, I think?) and none since.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">He’s a strict tummy sleeper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And a light sleeper like his mama.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I find it hysterical when he throws his fits
because I’ve never been around baby boys in my life enough to realize the
extreme of their theatrics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May even
rival the girls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is king at throwing
his body back and kicking across the floor at even the slightest hint of
thinking he’s going to get his diaper changed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And clothing him?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t even
know why I bother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is usually dirty
within 10 minutes and half the time I’m physically unable to hold him down and
accomplish the undertaking of dressing his belligerent flailing limbs
anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">But he makes the cutest little gruff monster noises
in the back of his throat and yells at you when he’s displeased.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dada was his first word, around 6 months or so,
but Mama is his favorite word.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Baba is
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Boy loves to clap. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">13. He also loves music. Zoe never cared for me to sing to her, and now she tells me to shut up when I try. Benjamin snaps right out of whatever ill temper he's in when I sing to him and smiles so completely. It melts my heart. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">14. We call him Benjamin half the time. I personally like to call him Benny, which BJ hates. Zoe usually picks up calling him whatever I do. I slip and call him Benji a lot, too-- a name we agreed not to use, but it has grown on me, eh. He's also Benja, Been-Jamin, Booba, Benny-B, etc.</span></div>
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Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398940447118443816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701019718480066182.post-32008384351354241682011-09-27T23:26:00.000-06:002011-09-27T23:26:13.646-06:00Zoe (age 2 1/2) & Benjamin (6 days old)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWFJVx1_cGDRMm4la_gAtEFBapItUER8rxKtFjw3-8XgH2igER69S6dmJs3UMTyginz6jw5YhajVvmxatw8dVyVHKQ9inMEWnOMSo61GDJI_JJibarWQMkIJsUwj4gqquq9m-m8FVAOjnb/s1600/IMG_5849.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWFJVx1_cGDRMm4la_gAtEFBapItUER8rxKtFjw3-8XgH2igER69S6dmJs3UMTyginz6jw5YhajVvmxatw8dVyVHKQ9inMEWnOMSo61GDJI_JJibarWQMkIJsUwj4gqquq9m-m8FVAOjnb/s640/IMG_5849.jpg" width="418" /></a></div><br />
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my heart could explode...Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398940447118443816noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701019718480066182.post-36574793267162625232011-09-19T13:41:00.000-06:002011-09-19T13:41:24.860-06:009/11 + Utah State Fair<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7XPnjVkdNqDMN27N2ZQlT8f7QNv3gWrWgRUBoIkqdqf6IchsF2AZO1fjWRs3WMKcZnXfNfOZQPHekpWXD3T17rMhXJF9PMvHDFu9GIArOB4jQu8d7Afp6s07487uncGyVRJMdO-F5gW4p/s1600/IMG_5702.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" rba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7XPnjVkdNqDMN27N2ZQlT8f7QNv3gWrWgRUBoIkqdqf6IchsF2AZO1fjWRs3WMKcZnXfNfOZQPHekpWXD3T17rMhXJF9PMvHDFu9GIArOB4jQu8d7Afp6s07487uncGyVRJMdO-F5gW4p/s640/IMG_5702.jpg" width="425" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Nana + Zoe at the display of 3,000+ flags honoring the victims of 9/11 (each flag had a tag with a name, age, and story). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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And her Dad was really proud that she chose the black car with flames on it over the sparkly pink one.</div>Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398940447118443816noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701019718480066182.post-18191656375805154502011-01-16T22:50:00.003-07:002011-01-16T22:58:16.868-07:00Silly girl<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I was downstairs sorting laundry this morning, calling Zoe to come follow me (as she typically, eagerly does), but this time she fell to a distraction -- calling back to my request, "I washing!"</div><br />
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After stuffing a load of laundry in, an alarming slippery slick oily sound emitted from her space as she continued exclaiming "I washing! I washing!" <br />
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I ran upstairs to find her washing the couch with my grapefruit scented body butter. <br />
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Parenting nose-dive for LOLing, seizing my camera, and <em>then</em> insisting she bring this sofa “cleansing” to a halt while I dashed like an E.R. doctor to the poor greasy buttered couch.<br />
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I just love this child so ridiculously.Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398940447118443816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701019718480066182.post-58397950554909630872010-11-23T09:54:00.001-07:002010-11-23T10:17:33.488-07:00Snow DayMy sleep was so sound last night. The lights went out around ten, and suddenly the alarm was going off – not my inner-neurotic-mother-checkonbabywhatifshesdying alarm clock, either. When BJ gets up for work, I ordinarily follow so I can shower and do some reading. Today I stayed in bed. In fact I'm still lying here in bed under the sheets listening to the wind thrash around my backyard. Sipping Columbian roast & thinking about the pumpkin bread my sister gave me, just out of reach in the kitchen..so. far. away from my bed, though.<br />
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I'm allowing myself unproductivity today for two reasons – 1. It’s become apparent that I’m stressing myself out. I’ve been being a biatch, as a result. What is it about stress that makes us want to blame our stress on everyone else? I need to relearn how to chill, like I did when I was a working mom. I feel so pressured to have everything perfect now that I don’t have the excuse of a job, but I’m discovering that it’s still impossible to live up to the standards I set in my head for myself. 2. I will be cooped up in a house with a toddler all day, and I’d like to be present in that inevitable state of lunacy as short and simply as possible. It is...n't easy being inside. <br />
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This weekend was the first real snow storm. We took Zoe out in it Sunday afternoon. She was reluctant, but inquisitive. Eventually she grew quite taken with it. She calls the snow "NO!", her toddler rhetoric omitting the S for a mysterious but maybe significant reason? <br />
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Our neighbors huge branch from their mammoth trees broke from the weight of the snow. It may stay there for awhile until we can figure out how to grow hulk muscles and move it...or get something heavy duty enough to chop it up.</div>Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398940447118443816noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701019718480066182.post-59526394101549012752010-11-16T17:26:00.001-07:002010-11-16T19:40:05.052-07:00Quick update.It's been awhile. <br />
I had some time today, and this was on my mind. Time isn't that free anymore, you would think since I lost my job I'd have time to do this kind of thing, but it's just the opposite. Zoe and school don't allow me to sit still (unless I'm reading a textbook while she sleeps). <br />
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Things are really, really good. The holiday season is upon us, and I've been in my element with the Autumn. It's my favorite season by far. Christmas shopping for Zoe has been easy, we've already stock piled toys in our basement. <br />
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BJ got a new job, one that pays better and treats him better, all around. That is a big relief. He deserves it. I'm so grateful that he works hard for our family so we can keep living while I'm out of work. <br />
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Being home with Zoe was really rough for me at first. It was a shock to the system, and I doubted my ability to do it (happily). After a week or two, I feel so happy to be home with her. It takes more out of me than my body was used to. I've stepped it up with eating better and working out every day. Morning stretching is key for all the bending over and time on my feet I spend all day long. We have so much fun. I take her to daycare 1-2 days a week so I can clean and do homework. You would think I'd revel in this time, but I always feel pretty empty all day alone and miss her something fierce. <br />
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Anyway, about three month have passed since I've updated this thing. A lot has happened, but I wont try to fit an ocean in a paper cup, so I'll just give you what's going on now. <br />
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Zoe is really obsesssed with pumpkins. She calls them pokes, and she kisses them all the time and tries to feed them her food or binkie. <br />
She learned about Santa this weekend, but sometimes calls him "Satan"... hehehe<br />
She continues to be crazy about shoes and boots (and saying those two words)<br />
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Anyway, I'm sure there is more but I think she might be waking up. <br />
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Here are some pictures!<br />
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<div align="center">We also fed some ducks and walked around Wheeler farm.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJizwoCk3pCeUINMY_AOZC_qaa6TaXkOEhXCCvs8QjbZbF4cyho6eH5NGfp2xvrTa2t13PWsd-fU3k7j4J4m__ziO9KTc9wcXxNPJJcgBIMvkzH7EBbdO4eT3pVgj6SsI8e30NXgE7Yuxn/s1600/IMG_4376.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJizwoCk3pCeUINMY_AOZC_qaa6TaXkOEhXCCvs8QjbZbF4cyho6eH5NGfp2xvrTa2t13PWsd-fU3k7j4J4m__ziO9KTc9wcXxNPJJcgBIMvkzH7EBbdO4eT3pVgj6SsI8e30NXgE7Yuxn/s320/IMG_4376.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I recently altered my work schedule. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Well, to be lucid – I recently gambled hard and volunteered a considerable pay-cut so I could focus on the rest of my life. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">You know, the one moving at express velocity without me as I sit at my desk counting money and printing reports.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I have a Human Biology lecture at 5 on Monday's starting next week, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;">so I figured it would be good to take the entire day off with child.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It will be nice to get back to the maddening and exhilarating world of academia. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And for Fall to set in.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I feel its suggestion in the air now and then, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and it’s a complete tease, has my mind wandering and ready to take the last of Summer for granted. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;">When summer has been nothing but good to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Yesterday was the beginning of this new schedule where I just don’t work on Monday</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">it was brilliant. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We slept in bed together until 10AM</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I set the coffee on</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Made her breakfast</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Did laundry</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Cleaned in general</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Shopped</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Cooked</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Rested</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Played</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;">Cuddled</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Against numerous temptations, I refrained from updating Facebook status with my Zoe mania.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The cuteness refuses to cease, ceases to surprise me and makes me laugh my ass off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">What is it about being a mother that forces the terrible need to share these things with people that don’t care?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Maybe I’ll start her a private twitter.</span>Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398940447118443816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701019718480066182.post-38670664221913467192010-08-09T14:16:00.006-06:002010-08-09T14:22:53.225-06:00Still playing catch up<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Not yesterday, but the Sunday prior, we went up to the Park City Silly Market. I would like to thank Park City for keeping me sane. Throughout my poor adult life it has acted as "pretend vacation" when I need one. It's nice to get up there and hang out with all the yuppies now and then and get away from the Wessiiiide.</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398940447118443816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701019718480066182.post-13483883627822525682010-08-06T16:38:00.003-06:002010-08-09T10:36:04.022-06:00Shake it like we got no bones<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Well, what do I say? I wanted to write in depth about this concert because it deserves that kind of justice. From beginning to end, it was basically magical. I would not have called myself a fan of Michael Franti, but that has all changed.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">My friend Mimi invited me to a soundcheck/lunch she won from a radio station. I blindly followed, not really knowing what to expect. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I want to hesitate to say "it was my favorite concer EVER!!!!" because in the back of my mind I wonder if there is another concert from the past that I'm overlooking. It's not unlike me to fall head over heels with live music and obsess over it for the following week. But...maybe I'll be bold and make that statement. It was (probably) my favorite concert. Ever. So far. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The day began when Mimi and I drove up the canyon on a boiling summer afternoon discussing death and funerals. We got lost when we got to Deer Valley, but eventually located our venue after I got help from the hotel clerk. We arrived, met up with her friend Lyndsee, got a free boxed lunch and sat down among about 15 other radio winners to watch the sound check. The bass was rumbling in my chest, the venue was breath-taking, I hadn't realized it was going to be like this. I knew then that it was ON.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It’s been like 10 days and the high from this concert still hasn’t completely worn off. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And yeah, I carry the laptop around my house blaring Michael Franti. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Thank you for this memory.</span>Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398940447118443816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701019718480066182.post-18964684445030228412010-08-06T14:24:00.002-06:002010-08-06T14:30:59.308-06:00I'll miss you, July.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A couple weekends ago my friend Jill invited Zoe and I along with Lindsay and her two boys out to the pool at her apartment complex. It was the first time for Zoe in a swimming pool, I had been anxiously waiting this landmark in time since she was born and it had arrived at last! I was sort of nervous how her fickle reactions to water would fare. (Mostly she loves it, but sometimes she refuses the bath tub.) I waded in with her snuggly in my arms as her body sank with mine and cool pool water encased us and a giddy smile immediately came across her face. The one that invites the question, “what is all this?!?!” We bobbed up and down she tried to back float and I put her in the ladybug floaty that had been patiently awaiting utilization in her closet for six months. She loved every moment of it. I got out and made her aunt Jill pose for pictures with her.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Jill and Lindsay were two of my best friends in middle school. The fates of High School teenage theatrics tore us apart and I never really heard from them again. A few years ago, B.J. and I were dining out at Market Street Grill (this was before baby, when we could afford it), and a cute little boy in the semi-circle booth next to us kept popping his rosy-cheeked face over the back of the seat and saying hi. When his mother got up and walked past our table toward the bathroom, the realization struck that it was my old friend Lindsay! We talked tentatively and made preparations to get together with Jill at Chili’s a few weekends later. We have been hanging out regularly since. Spending time with them is as comfortable and enjoyable now as it was then. It’s amazing how even after years and so many life changes your chemistry and care for certain people never changes. Our personalities still mesh perfectly together. </span></div><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We had to make a sudden break when Zoe got sunscreen in her eye and Jill and I endured the longest walk in the blazing hot sun with a hysterical toddler, it was so sad, but she fell asleep on the car ride home. Later that afternoon we drove out to Bountiful for the annual 24th Of July Parade in front of my Aunt DeAnne's apartment. It's a tradition every year, and BJ was able to make it this year. It's way fun to see all the kiddos and hang out making the occassional sarcastic comments to my sister and BJ about the "floats" as they go by.</span> <br />
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I had too much fun last night and snuck in around midnight (details on that to come). This girl wakes me up at four and insists on making my arms her bed, screaming everytime I set her down. My drowsiness made me feel like it was God awful punishment, but now that I'm awake I like to think it's because she missed me. :)Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398940447118443816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701019718480066182.post-45922014518096571152010-07-22T14:27:00.009-06:002010-07-24T13:29:54.700-06:00Soul to squeeze...repeatedly squeeze.<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We went camping last weekend. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Overall, it was a nice time. A nice memory. Best to stay a memory, as it was not without calamity. Not exactly one of those trips where everything falls into place. Quite the opposite, actually. I just had to cry a laugh after awhile. Cars broke down not once, twice, but three times. Lakes were closed due to overcrowding. Spices were neglected, food was bland. Midday beer migraines were had, an unpleasant confrontation with a law official occurred, and worst of all -- my bikini makes my boobs look small. Woe. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I've never seen so many stars though. One night after everyone retired to their respectful tents late, BJ and I lay on the blanket underneath the stars and just...gazed. The black sky is filled with constellations of freckles. It reminded me of my shoulders, since I have been looking at them a lot lately after my skin cancer scare. But unlike freckly skin, it's majesty gut-punched the breath out of me. Watching the sky from a place where the air is clearer of pollutants is something I will never grow sick of. I still remember learning about outer space in Challenger School. I have yet to feel a fascination so intense since. Well, maybe when I learned about dinosaurs, but I digress. I feel sad that I have to drive two hours away to see the true sky. My Mom said when she was a child she could see a thick blanket of stars from her house in Bountiful. I wonder if Zoe will ever be able to witness a star-abundant sky, or how far she will need to drive to get to it by then. </span><br />
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</div>Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398940447118443816noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701019718480066182.post-76236046823946255902010-07-15T11:16:00.009-06:002010-07-15T14:03:19.426-06:00Over the river and through the woods...<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdQXDMgzeSZDBIfnrm-wmPNzfHxpD5Kgsqakqu5B3Gzi_afW8IqoJG1xqJJDsCtDreC1g_77Gsh9g9MOmniEHnSpCVmEb1BXQHmhq1r6lI24rCtOvZ0YHZIDR3ACaS3YD7AnZIfo_mjMwN/s1600/090.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="427" rw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdQXDMgzeSZDBIfnrm-wmPNzfHxpD5Kgsqakqu5B3Gzi_afW8IqoJG1xqJJDsCtDreC1g_77Gsh9g9MOmniEHnSpCVmEb1BXQHmhq1r6lI24rCtOvZ0YHZIDR3ACaS3YD7AnZIfo_mjMwN/s640/090.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I remember random things about spending time with them: </span></div><ul><li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The discarded toothpaste tube that was flattened in the road like paper from all the cars that drove over it on our walks across the street to Winegars, where she would let us pick out puzzles and The Little Critter books.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"></span></li>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Waking up to her cooking us breakfast in the morning. She would express amusement telling me (as if it was the most exceptional thing) that I slept on my tummy the whole night through, every time she checked on me. It made me feel special.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"></span></li>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">One time, while she was dressing me after my bath and my sister was still in the tub, I told her my sister’s shirt was my shirt because I wanted to try it on. So she put it on me. It was a belly shirt. I felt guilty the whole time I wore it. Michelle must have been too young to care, because hell did not happen.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"></span></li>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Driving around downtown Bountiful. She stopped off at some store, leaving us in the backseat of her running car, and reappeared with two lofty ice cream cones, “it’s swirled, chocolate and vanilla together”, she explained. I was impressed and delighted at the expertise of swirled flavors even though I probably still went for the chocolate part.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"></span></li>
</ul><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">My grandparents are elderly. I never can remember the exact number. Somehow they keep chugging, and they live generally independent despite each year whittling away at their health. They are also two of the sweetest people I know. I have never seen one without the other. They have been married 63 years. </span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">My Grandmother endures her days with dementia. She has such a sense of humor. My mom keeps very close tabs on her and said she has her good and bad days, and I think we showed up on a good day. She wasn’t quick to recognize B.J. and Zoe, despite meeting them several times, but she recognized Michelle and I as her grandchildren (we were afraid she wouldn’t) and instantly lit up, taking us in her arms to receive us, as did my Grandpa.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We sat out on their backyard patio, ate gourmet mint brownies, and chased Zoe around in the grass. My Grandma found the name Zoe to be rather peculiar. </span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It was a calm evening. My Grandpa is frail and exhausted. I just wanted to sit with him and not speak, because I could see that holding a conversation even takes a lot out of him, but he is stubbornly self-sufficient. He would not let me help him with anything, insisting on playing the host while we were his guests. </span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">As I stood in the kitchen cleaning up the wake of hurricane Zoe, my Grandpa stood in the door way watching us, and the thought rose to me, “When you are gone, I will never see you again. You will be gone forever. This moment will never occur again in the history of time, ever”. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I look up to them, and I really love them.</span>Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398940447118443816noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701019718480066182.post-80389600051108961142010-07-12T16:47:00.002-06:002010-07-12T17:01:11.689-06:00<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">By unwritten law of internet social networking, this entry was supposed to detonate with the rest of the millions of 4th of July pictures posted to blogs exactly a week ago, meh. Sorry. Some people have been waiting for it since I'm the only one loyal to her holy archival ethics. Last week, however, I dunno. let's say I was too busy. Most of these pictures are substandard quality because I am ridiculous and failed to wipe off my smudged camera lens all weekend, but cute nonetheless thanks to the objects. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">On Friday night we threw a family shindig at our place. All of B.J's siblings and their families came over, my parents also stopped by. Jill brought over a pool and Amy brought a Slip n Slide! We chased the kids around and hung out on lawn chairs in the backyard, then moved to the front yard and sparked sparklers and ejecting army parachute men high in the sky. The kids chased them down and Zoe was pretty eager to do like them, but we all managed not to get hit by the jerk vehicles that fly down our neighborhood. Later BJ and his brothers amused us with a gripping firework show and we passed out 4th of July party favors of mini-flags, stickers, and these cool red/white/blue blingy blinkie rings. It was seriously such a fun night, it turned out even better than we anticipated. Everything fell into place and I think everyone really enjoyed the evening. Worthy of tradition, even.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMIfwC5h79gOiP9-GDELPoAE2c-XX4c6pxaY0ULejax0G3ueYKpykv-Ohw5XdUmcM_kL3IrIKuPJdfpC1eIBVDx-ZVcN7sNfCHqufm8EP7fwg63eO63K1b_aStFYHekpZ5tfPcPtJQ6Vr7/s1600/j1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="352" rw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMIfwC5h79gOiP9-GDELPoAE2c-XX4c6pxaY0ULejax0G3ueYKpykv-Ohw5XdUmcM_kL3IrIKuPJdfpC1eIBVDx-ZVcN7sNfCHqufm8EP7fwg63eO63K1b_aStFYHekpZ5tfPcPtJQ6Vr7/s640/j1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"> Zoe and her cousin Winston kicking it poolside.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVMszCYz-BZgrSKCWUnJvgyuTMECBkNI024WdknCVed4YgjNF9yDzakgqJLNWEQl6CuFW6F5i14NDKRFUoAsfl7rtmQYaphqUa-3Hofv7HLY1p66eKLeJHEZzAoaJKs6S0q7RiQXRK4_J1/s1600/j2jpg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="618" rw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVMszCYz-BZgrSKCWUnJvgyuTMECBkNI024WdknCVed4YgjNF9yDzakgqJLNWEQl6CuFW6F5i14NDKRFUoAsfl7rtmQYaphqUa-3Hofv7HLY1p66eKLeJHEZzAoaJKs6S0q7RiQXRK4_J1/s640/j2jpg.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">Water balloon brawl!</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We left the pool out overnight and played in it the following day after it had warmed up (a little) and all three of us slowly waded in until the chill turned to numbness and we were okay being there.</span> </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYDHv90p4lgilb6UPixVa55W1tFShRMCia3LNFeglrDsRfNunqZJQHwa7PinsRKotG2N6eOaH6FHkWZtLLnqRZldT6xQDLO8OCFknMlPy2pBDva00Kt8Kqq9KpAiTLS1qd2qmJ765RKNwL/s1600/j13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" rw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYDHv90p4lgilb6UPixVa55W1tFShRMCia3LNFeglrDsRfNunqZJQHwa7PinsRKotG2N6eOaH6FHkWZtLLnqRZldT6xQDLO8OCFknMlPy2pBDva00Kt8Kqq9KpAiTLS1qd2qmJ765RKNwL/s640/j13.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Zoe's suits are getting a little small on her. :( They are all becoming flasher suits.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-6E4btBw55GWiMmKxiL5memD3HOV_1-4K7D4TZqWCCOBE6YISjyOkdimYpWUheH_-moVE67eeUYtuzniwuIA1GUDpNB2HEXzs3QmHp0Ogdj26QyjRijzLk3QGFPLVLihMh-C3fJuh70lV/s1600/j14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" rw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-6E4btBw55GWiMmKxiL5memD3HOV_1-4K7D4TZqWCCOBE6YISjyOkdimYpWUheH_-moVE67eeUYtuzniwuIA1GUDpNB2HEXzs3QmHp0Ogdj26QyjRijzLk3QGFPLVLihMh-C3fJuh70lV/s640/j14.jpg" width="534" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUzdXmgKVgDgF9995zWFzU2_EJPc6ScS4MfwbRuIt8W3Z86_QuvSjtSNsQsXonwm5_tGmrV7FWtiOqS0MTHHwBqD5RZ1g6mVnlK2L-PNuS35kVi3iFEIJKmNaMssqI1-fNTRpbyfF0qEhb/s1600/j12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" rw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUzdXmgKVgDgF9995zWFzU2_EJPc6ScS4MfwbRuIt8W3Z86_QuvSjtSNsQsXonwm5_tGmrV7FWtiOqS0MTHHwBqD5RZ1g6mVnlK2L-PNuS35kVi3iFEIJKmNaMssqI1-fNTRpbyfF0qEhb/s640/j12.jpg" width="468" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">We also filled a cooler up with water balloons, which Zoe found fast and created mayhem with. Mostly mayhem on herself. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Saturday was up in the air. We defaulted to having another BBQ at our house. I mean, I really haven't been able to find a good reason <em>not</em> to have a BBQ.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw5EVRkvQKNSVxtQgHT0G4AYq0M0oNbSWoX7fX76bHolY2mJaI6ouQxm49-4fEp_dG3PSWBPO2IkqXgECy2oM_nOYqlyB9xSjFugvXg9fgbr724Vnh7kUENWXJBpDyxeoQtOQ4j6hdRQ73/s1600/j16.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" rw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw5EVRkvQKNSVxtQgHT0G4AYq0M0oNbSWoX7fX76bHolY2mJaI6ouQxm49-4fEp_dG3PSWBPO2IkqXgECy2oM_nOYqlyB9xSjFugvXg9fgbr724Vnh7kUENWXJBpDyxeoQtOQ4j6hdRQ73/s640/j16.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0-5l9uk2CaocwRVTzfDWXFLZHc9Y3hGQC0NVBu7XEUP7s0lnXnSjyhVNUL0o3aC6fpclQL3t1DLz_oSarSWPfU_2yH9JBIUQqro715ZM9AKwX10qOrnljlqjyLRS4hWfgDzgTwEy20CUj/s1600/j18.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" rw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0-5l9uk2CaocwRVTzfDWXFLZHc9Y3hGQC0NVBu7XEUP7s0lnXnSjyhVNUL0o3aC6fpclQL3t1DLz_oSarSWPfU_2yH9JBIUQqro715ZM9AKwX10qOrnljlqjyLRS4hWfgDzgTwEy20CUj/s640/j18.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Night light version of baby! This lighting looked so pretty through the naked eye, but didn't translate.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHNaq-9ExA0cyr3bFTtR4_Aqy8uFLdcNNu5cIgOavDvuiePW979VzK9I1t4D922hC0dMjANKQ2bbQAlYm9WToWcNM028jhM1b9yLEIMzrc5xiboGG3X7rZeyhKrw3McyT-70EUU6q0WTCV/s1600/j19.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" rw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHNaq-9ExA0cyr3bFTtR4_Aqy8uFLdcNNu5cIgOavDvuiePW979VzK9I1t4D922hC0dMjANKQ2bbQAlYm9WToWcNM028jhM1b9yLEIMzrc5xiboGG3X7rZeyhKrw3McyT-70EUU6q0WTCV/s640/j19.jpg" width="636" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Sometimes Zoe and Penny look like they could be sisters...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix81pBoAhO24lb2W36hgUaMC1EcFK0RARdcudvXEThye6hvmr2se3GB3PTtOVgvR7ENGO9h6C1BBV7qX0fCuHtefwlyk_rPs8GqHgYo81K3OXfWhoviiWjLMoYIDc-Kp6OaV6fBAN7eA9z/s1600/j21.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" rw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix81pBoAhO24lb2W36hgUaMC1EcFK0RARdcudvXEThye6hvmr2se3GB3PTtOVgvR7ENGO9h6C1BBV7qX0fCuHtefwlyk_rPs8GqHgYo81K3OXfWhoviiWjLMoYIDc-Kp6OaV6fBAN7eA9z/s640/j21.jpg" width="622" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhY1brpVs95XZv5fvPOz-d6NNOfeigiqIFQqNI0IBAfAn3A6RqhArr_P3yEz0cZCa0qBzcw-Hli2hABvvfR_iicYj5LFbXQ-p_ZDewwQZAG0DItSMQmiDwp6GSlPtthdCywbpQG5TNPg_8/s1600/j20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" rw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhY1brpVs95XZv5fvPOz-d6NNOfeigiqIFQqNI0IBAfAn3A6RqhArr_P3yEz0cZCa0qBzcw-Hli2hABvvfR_iicYj5LFbXQ-p_ZDewwQZAG0DItSMQmiDwp6GSlPtthdCywbpQG5TNPg_8/s640/j20.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Hahaha. They reminded me of two old men veterans sitting at the parade.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsGQFI-a_yKhLHPaC7p3VmLNu3_9SLoT66uPH0sUKwNaS61ChZ7Jn0oCMYlwytna_AwTW1R5lhF9WnxxIhTIoWia2JGo-uYaPIwO97GnwqUoe34UVggk_brrsz3n2xZ8b0L2RZHCbl8jFY/s1600/j30.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" rw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsGQFI-a_yKhLHPaC7p3VmLNu3_9SLoT66uPH0sUKwNaS61ChZ7Jn0oCMYlwytna_AwTW1R5lhF9WnxxIhTIoWia2JGo-uYaPIwO97GnwqUoe34UVggk_brrsz3n2xZ8b0L2RZHCbl8jFY/s640/j30.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Lolz. I took advantage of Zoe's will to be like all her friends and strapped her in a carseat like Penny was in hers so she wouldn't run into the road while we were doing fireworks. It worked for about 15 peaceful, beautiful minutes.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZBFyMlqJCGLwsUwn9fgqDaoa2qunRwIK20sY2Z3lrVMw9C4Ec1FIITXnPiNcAJjDsrPpQescE5wbMM66Zu6F6-QkTx5Hmhn3C-fZKxG15gelwgNi2sjlA0k5RfYX4Ga-QGuts6lYejcW5/s1600/j24.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" rw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZBFyMlqJCGLwsUwn9fgqDaoa2qunRwIK20sY2Z3lrVMw9C4Ec1FIITXnPiNcAJjDsrPpQescE5wbMM66Zu6F6-QkTx5Hmhn3C-fZKxG15gelwgNi2sjlA0k5RfYX4Ga-QGuts6lYejcW5/s640/j24.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">My pretty and patriotic sister and Ace.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The following day, we went on a picnic with our friends Ian and Stef at Silver Lake. The canyons were swarming with people, I had never seen anything like it. By some miracle they located a perfect picnic spot away from the chaos...it was beautiful! </span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo5gJvNNXQO-t7_cFSd7bLCGV3PkBBU2MXqVRVd14FoqiNqO9IePMCJYDLHfOq18g0rXul5RcAiretR-rIEC8SU7cxJU_SDUJHHRHLiu-V_8NbPcIzC2i2QxAh7F0Bn8az7neVEbNVQsHI/s1600/zs2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="544" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo5gJvNNXQO-t7_cFSd7bLCGV3PkBBU2MXqVRVd14FoqiNqO9IePMCJYDLHfOq18g0rXul5RcAiretR-rIEC8SU7cxJU_SDUJHHRHLiu-V_8NbPcIzC2i2QxAh7F0Bn8az7neVEbNVQsHI/s640/zs2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I didn't realize these spiders had puppy dog eyes, but they do. They implored my soul. I don't know why I have such compassion for spiders. They scare me. Maybe it's left-over guilt from discontinuing vegetarianism.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRqDmdnKf9pEaPPHv1qDwFzy9aN-KunwLiChAt9YkGtnNE2F71svZlVuOVI4UZQwLkNeyoO0EHvVeouc1e5ctZwqm5NszEmvwpeYFly7YoXSZt0iiXTinuJ4W8UBKJvOf5SqzFxdLtKHto/s1600/zs3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRqDmdnKf9pEaPPHv1qDwFzy9aN-KunwLiChAt9YkGtnNE2F71svZlVuOVI4UZQwLkNeyoO0EHvVeouc1e5ctZwqm5NszEmvwpeYFly7YoXSZt0iiXTinuJ4W8UBKJvOf5SqzFxdLtKHto/s640/zs3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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She is obsessed with otter-pops.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi63mj9xqPQtXu71L7tyoiG2iHWSMUvWRz8xNbVYASTA3O9mr2czkZuvfoNfpxSARdXKSA8VBJKlUV4ksJMoV0fpXBvl3TxvBMMCsywzdsGa4W12TXf3kfU9RX_1059H4F67kuiCCegVVGI/s1600/zs6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi63mj9xqPQtXu71L7tyoiG2iHWSMUvWRz8xNbVYASTA3O9mr2czkZuvfoNfpxSARdXKSA8VBJKlUV4ksJMoV0fpXBvl3TxvBMMCsywzdsGa4W12TXf3kfU9RX_1059H4F67kuiCCegVVGI/s640/zs6.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Gypsy woman. Nana was the sweetest to take Zoe over night and give us a break from life. We drove out to Pineview Reservoir for a somewhat impulsive camping trip (we planned it and canceled every other hour), godspeed with nothing but the bare essentials.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSyPsKMzZJS7ArdRfm7NDqFq9oeh3kDGNGRJp3MAchea-f2uls2JNOt5qY-yCvL8B8pxoHqeGsYJKqB6vFHVEhrO28L28qXqUFyfHoMoLwTWuPWNZsGPuaYzWiqFw6u3hI-szbc_shl2_f/s1600/zs7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSyPsKMzZJS7ArdRfm7NDqFq9oeh3kDGNGRJp3MAchea-f2uls2JNOt5qY-yCvL8B8pxoHqeGsYJKqB6vFHVEhrO28L28qXqUFyfHoMoLwTWuPWNZsGPuaYzWiqFw6u3hI-szbc_shl2_f/s640/zs7.jpg" width="422" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">So beautiful up there. I was reveling in the open ranches.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTCYGwvDv4UHUlOVSAufGi68fGu7zYcbuYoM5h1okR7xLmBnuWjx7n2dlvNrnOU1SYXIRfRt_UtYsQxY-tIk60H3Zn6y5eNj41Fd7OJuW-M7fvUXzdwL5updw3bLVzY6-s-4K6uzK8sEOY/s1600/eden.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTCYGwvDv4UHUlOVSAufGi68fGu7zYcbuYoM5h1okR7xLmBnuWjx7n2dlvNrnOU1SYXIRfRt_UtYsQxY-tIk60H3Zn6y5eNj41Fd7OJuW-M7fvUXzdwL5updw3bLVzY6-s-4K6uzK8sEOY/s640/eden.jpg" width="428" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Hanging out in the gas station parking lot of Eden/Huntsville/Monte Cristo/who the hell knows while B.J. solicited guide from the gas station attendant.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihXYzrqNIsr03GzNQy6Ie4psY2jGCK2QyNtqhqT7kH_GR-9u4JmNsNJHYMws1sGa7OWvXUv9xJvYdabMJRtheUKjftKHGkfXo4hguuEKfysio0pZv3qdleHaUMlhSziCBwsSd1Hvnl7344/s1600/zs8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihXYzrqNIsr03GzNQy6Ie4psY2jGCK2QyNtqhqT7kH_GR-9u4JmNsNJHYMws1sGa7OWvXUv9xJvYdabMJRtheUKjftKHGkfXo4hguuEKfysio0pZv3qdleHaUMlhSziCBwsSd1Hvnl7344/s640/zs8.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">We drove for over an hour looking for a camping site. EVERYTHING was filled up. We were turned away over and over again and growing discouraged and frustrated. Finally, the final camping ground we went to -- we were told it was full. As we were looping around to leave with our hearts in our stomachs having to turn around and go home, we spot this beautiful open spot! We were elated and relieved.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Yod99zbxQnlNc0YGLw6Kf0ocj6Jv-841dkjVad1mmHkWEeWxG46kvIP4iMVMNxuZPJoncqlzO-zYMrs2lsmJ97MP2slFh3CSqWlCUxnVdT1rYERfjZcVRGnm3sU29N-4gl-9x7XXvcMC/s1600/zs9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Yod99zbxQnlNc0YGLw6Kf0ocj6Jv-841dkjVad1mmHkWEeWxG46kvIP4iMVMNxuZPJoncqlzO-zYMrs2lsmJ97MP2slFh3CSqWlCUxnVdT1rYERfjZcVRGnm3sU29N-4gl-9x7XXvcMC/s640/zs9.jpg" width="428" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">B.J. drove back down the mountain to get reception on his phone, so I moseyed about taking pictures of pretty nature.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Leaping out of the trees and making girls scream.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">First camping trip of the summer. It was good for my head. Next time we plan on bringing the trailer and boat so Zoe can join the fun. </div>Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398940447118443816noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701019718480066182.post-20726735810432247512010-06-25T10:24:00.009-06:002010-06-25T11:12:03.511-06:00<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; CLEAR: both" class="separator"><a style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-RIGHT: 1em" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfrLQqNN0eDhEAQFSqacH5WsTJmz0KPNAVN3HDGrW2f0x2W1H7wJ4DpMcjM3So3G5Y2BkWveYJtxuuPXwpVv1yLFynRRWwmz8HhsyNrqUY5DNCXtQVIJLU8zRW8Cu0EL3I9MO2SXsZ2Jnw/s1600/IMG_0247+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfrLQqNN0eDhEAQFSqacH5WsTJmz0KPNAVN3HDGrW2f0x2W1H7wJ4DpMcjM3So3G5Y2BkWveYJtxuuPXwpVv1yLFynRRWwmz8HhsyNrqUY5DNCXtQVIJLU8zRW8Cu0EL3I9MO2SXsZ2Jnw/s640/IMG_0247+copy.jpg" width="428" height="640" ru="true" /></a></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; CLEAR: both" class="separator"><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;font-size:x-small;">Cherry bear. </span></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; CLEAR: both" class="separator"><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;font-size:x-small;">Turned sixteen months this week. </span></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"></span></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;font-size:x-small;">She better knock off being this beautiful by the time she's sixteen years old</span></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;font-size:x-small;">Is all her father has to say.</span></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><br /><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></span></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><br /><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></span></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;font-size:x-small;">Her dictionary is exploding, and her will is obstinate. </span></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;font-size:x-small;">She is so alive…animated, so joyful.</span></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;font-size:x-small;">Such a mama's girl lately. </span></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><br /><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></span></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;font-size:x-small;">I love that she clings tight to my legs as I trip over them and her while I’m loading dishes</span></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;">I love that she trusts me to make it better</span></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;font-size:x-small;">I love that she cries for me while stretching her arms out as far as her miniature body will agree to until I sweep her up against my chest, sustaining her in the aching bend of my arm, jut of my hip, pain in my back, welcoming her up to the world from the stance of 5’5”, venturing it together.</span></div>Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398940447118443816noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701019718480066182.post-65876223208904068422010-06-15T15:25:00.006-06:002010-06-15T16:24:35.261-06:00Domestic bliss + grass.<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It's official; we are a little less white trash! The backyard has been somewhat of a taboo subject since we bought our house. It was generously spacious, but it was also just a dumphole of dirt and dead trees, and probably the only house on the block without grass. I would post a before picture so you could truly gauge the massive improvement, but it would just kill the mood of this post. And I'm not in the mood to ruffle through archives. With the sweat sacrifice from some of our friends, B.J. gave us this gift of grass! It's been a process several months in the making. They had to clean up the grounds, level them over and over again, dig out stubborn roots, dig trenches and install the sprinkling system, then plant the seed and wait. Plant more seed and wait some more. </span></div><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;">It all came together just in time. Zoe demands to be outside every minute we are inside. We would have been effed if it was still death valley back there. </span><br />
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</div>Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398940447118443816noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701019718480066182.post-76263762331067993952010-06-10T10:17:00.008-06:002010-06-10T12:59:49.902-06:00Sunshine, sunshine it's fine. I feel it in my skin, warming up my mind.<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqVLRXXCQRh7zS9pgfPWHBNl91Rayd5KLdLdkKGf8UrJy431Csu5vhXEkP2CqCtyAADSHp_3b-DClZ65BUeGY46pWtmCBTyVB_2DE5mbcp1TSILEL99KUZKNxrC8cz4K3oz9TOjYnVGfHd/s1600/blog20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="488" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqVLRXXCQRh7zS9pgfPWHBNl91Rayd5KLdLdkKGf8UrJy431Csu5vhXEkP2CqCtyAADSHp_3b-DClZ65BUeGY46pWtmCBTyVB_2DE5mbcp1TSILEL99KUZKNxrC8cz4K3oz9TOjYnVGfHd/s640/blog20.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Sunday B.J. had plans that required physical exertion, something that is not compatible with my summer goals. I surrendered for awhile and cleaned the bathroom, did laundry, and vacuumed. Enough of that. I took Zoe to my parent’s where she did more (hesitant) frolloping through the backyard sprinklers before her eye was battered with a flyaway eyelash and runny sunscreen. Poor Zoebot.</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">My mom joined her for moral support. And my dad, true to his blessed form, found a hitch to fix before he could go on with life. We ate from large platters of Mexican food at a quiet cantina down the street then Zoe passed out in her nana's arms. I took advantage of her nap time to sneak away across 13th East where this adorable stuff was taking place on the front lawn:</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Zoe woke up so I relinquished my parents of her and brought her back with me. There was a BBQ and general lollygagging.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Then the sky turned and painted everything with this lucid maize glow.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqhUpSmL-0PhOBcS46xocuKMT7Dbw34-9vnLv6w0RbB4e3L3oOBJ3Gre2ng69H5z-yYPSTz1kTnhe-sdblYBNb4bCH-9p7MD_uOFdCUrqnyvOgERh-YhG5TjhUXig0euXSDgx_DQ5j8zv_/s1600/blog7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqhUpSmL-0PhOBcS46xocuKMT7Dbw34-9vnLv6w0RbB4e3L3oOBJ3Gre2ng69H5z-yYPSTz1kTnhe-sdblYBNb4bCH-9p7MD_uOFdCUrqnyvOgERh-YhG5TjhUXig0euXSDgx_DQ5j8zv_/s640/blog7.jpg" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKmjdc4rofDU-b3DSh0ZAQfBAbBQJ3t5E56qYhZDWq6VsxG7QjQuLulhzSgPGm-vIJlUwyZ-V8OX8hWoa6Yfxg0bUcbcoCd4ZuGQKBJhZGasRhwoXtrRUEdg4yMeBErnTdTF_M7sxGxpei/s1600/blog15.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKmjdc4rofDU-b3DSh0ZAQfBAbBQJ3t5E56qYhZDWq6VsxG7QjQuLulhzSgPGm-vIJlUwyZ-V8OX8hWoa6Yfxg0bUcbcoCd4ZuGQKBJhZGasRhwoXtrRUEdg4yMeBErnTdTF_M7sxGxpei/s640/blog15.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNmBCryp9d620ZU2x_CM85EXqqTxqFaRynJsRZRxj8LwGIkXy2GQDAsYSHAKk_ujZEd8ChvF9qSuurR6Fk7nyP4QPh5ti6vOd9kTs-vZL412NvdvkKhtw9m8EH7w5j49jnm78NUyjlQAGy/s1600/blog13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNmBCryp9d620ZU2x_CM85EXqqTxqFaRynJsRZRxj8LwGIkXy2GQDAsYSHAKk_ujZEd8ChvF9qSuurR6Fk7nyP4QPh5ti6vOd9kTs-vZL412NvdvkKhtw9m8EH7w5j49jnm78NUyjlQAGy/s640/blog13.jpg" width="424" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A rainbow popped up. Clearly a "Happy Gay Pride Weekend" wish from the heavens.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmztQ4OIARGXn-6ymkqXfC9mdpi7R2dMB-oMlPa8bUJ7gz7ukifEUl-ELOOGLItDzImYd78ybysVjqs5ecpDm59sZoA6KUNebdGM-j17CEVRlhn9JYyaq7CuvpRn612EgbhSy6AspbFNX6/s1600/blog12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmztQ4OIARGXn-6ymkqXfC9mdpi7R2dMB-oMlPa8bUJ7gz7ukifEUl-ELOOGLItDzImYd78ybysVjqs5ecpDm59sZoA6KUNebdGM-j17CEVRlhn9JYyaq7CuvpRn612EgbhSy6AspbFNX6/s640/blog12.jpg" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVpQYeTb4ahrd6YMbSqwQNZv8a-W9RKTr_NZ5GN9xfQU_bN5pW7cKXRt9AAEzoyCwjtwtqG8Jt0225RBrGPZQuRIISf2UnS_ZzELpzSciMjoHY_0cMZMMIr5UNZ2O0l8B-BOhAo_p_6EWu/s1600/blog11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVpQYeTb4ahrd6YMbSqwQNZv8a-W9RKTr_NZ5GN9xfQU_bN5pW7cKXRt9AAEzoyCwjtwtqG8Jt0225RBrGPZQuRIISf2UnS_ZzELpzSciMjoHY_0cMZMMIr5UNZ2O0l8B-BOhAo_p_6EWu/s640/blog11.jpg" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuQu0uh54qbNw5Rc0l2aN33N7OMCsq04TklP4beUPPQXRk1umcVLVKdzFEpAKhy2gU3vNWHwR5htUOlyq0bIqzAon4xkdQZI-99Ul8QWwHHYyPU9OwOCxiuoj_U-eqqX7HPeaOp97ZtvXr/s1600/blog3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuQu0uh54qbNw5Rc0l2aN33N7OMCsq04TklP4beUPPQXRk1umcVLVKdzFEpAKhy2gU3vNWHwR5htUOlyq0bIqzAon4xkdQZI-99Ul8QWwHHYyPU9OwOCxiuoj_U-eqqX7HPeaOp97ZtvXr/s640/blog3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYULPDzY-4Nar2mQMwzUjlx9Wa2rAXKdbwZUnQjoAIIQJ-aIBYr-QIaWvVeXwqc_P4O3ONJkiCSRAShSlGQp4ZuS6rwS-5lZkyKC1al1iWcsUU36D8HDqCkljvt2pGAU70WXhRWfOyO-Ac/s1600/blog10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYULPDzY-4Nar2mQMwzUjlx9Wa2rAXKdbwZUnQjoAIIQJ-aIBYr-QIaWvVeXwqc_P4O3ONJkiCSRAShSlGQp4ZuS6rwS-5lZkyKC1al1iWcsUU36D8HDqCkljvt2pGAU70WXhRWfOyO-Ac/s400/blog10.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Then the sun bowed out and, just as we were leaving, the heavy churning sky above emptied its fat, voracious rain drops. We convened under the awning and watched cozied with delight, among friends, our first summer storm.</span> </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398940447118443816noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701019718480066182.post-54142135397184772892010-06-07T13:45:00.007-06:002010-06-10T09:25:10.769-06:00Every woman looks better in a sundress.<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioZK3x8lxXzNRi6VKyFM1KSYs-f6RmwlcluxY1gFZCPXinMal7P8oWyp3Abg7f74DuxeJFnOiTM-9LIBqX4K12Q69jb_WGMRV6Ci8RLOS2Qh47bhiCjqupQ0tkn7t-808TYgXti_ZNbl-s/s1600/blog1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioZK3x8lxXzNRi6VKyFM1KSYs-f6RmwlcluxY1gFZCPXinMal7P8oWyp3Abg7f74DuxeJFnOiTM-9LIBqX4K12Q69jb_WGMRV6Ci8RLOS2Qh47bhiCjqupQ0tkn7t-808TYgXti_ZNbl-s/s640/blog1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So. As I mentioned before, I am currently in ownership of a new pretty camera. I continue to insult it with injustice by being too impatient to learn how to operate it to standard, but life isn't over yet. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In fact, it's just beginning...again...</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">'CAUSE IT'S SUMMER!</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;">Summer is the most fleeting feeling. I have vowed to absorb as much of it as I can handle this season. In writing, in photographs, in actively making memories. In order to do that, I have made myself completely free of all responsibility in my control. No school, keeping the housework to a minimum, etc. We have weathered the indoor life for far too long. Anyone with a toddler understands the true torture that being indoors is. We are all saved at last. Bring it all on. I even love the dry hair and sweaty skin, the dirty feet and the heat lethargy.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDBu9rMxAAXZ1QTh0s1UpIjl-g3WJkCrGov2-4pUJRoKTEpHSr54vSa_UNooJMBzUVX-mSValQ5EBYOm8vwvRlgeFfEUL30zCB3sFMgeoHEX_uvDfm4WYUqngiul0smy8TFc9TV7zHULyL/s1600/blog29.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="435" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDBu9rMxAAXZ1QTh0s1UpIjl-g3WJkCrGov2-4pUJRoKTEpHSr54vSa_UNooJMBzUVX-mSValQ5EBYOm8vwvRlgeFfEUL30zCB3sFMgeoHEX_uvDfm4WYUqngiul0smy8TFc9TV7zHULyL/s640/blog29.jpg" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilopKX83t7bbMDL1tO0HeMY0FU_56BYForYLR2MhIgEd9iY7O3SjwuP55_ggMJmRZqpbXTulfj9EpVJVYwDwu6yJ_RncgySdy7JUz2zxgA3TAQDiqtvU-uG79ndA9GBsz9G2nudVuSyfqO/s1600/blog4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilopKX83t7bbMDL1tO0HeMY0FU_56BYForYLR2MhIgEd9iY7O3SjwuP55_ggMJmRZqpbXTulfj9EpVJVYwDwu6yJ_RncgySdy7JUz2zxgA3TAQDiqtvU-uG79ndA9GBsz9G2nudVuSyfqO/s640/blog4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Saturday we all woke up late at 10AM. Bypassed the housework and yardwork nagging us everytime we looked up, and instead packed it to Gateway fountain, where thrills are cheap. Zoe frolloped (new hybrid transportation mode of frolicking and galloping) through the surprise jet showers in the ground, made a few friends, my flourscent white legs <em>may</em> have turned a less flourscent shade of white. She had me giggling giddy the entire time! Probably the smallest kid running around through the water.</span> </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj51oTnbjRTfpYGXFbMiIbG9M94fkpUXsYnItxhv7DAuA-ZWKVTuI3LcCUWRRsXiwtwP4_3xQxqgUALgf7P-CzJAzGUtemYs4DeDVjD5QHBMvUBKfrKrjXyLddV37SalM1Q5drcCFbiGyzG/s1600/blog30.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj51oTnbjRTfpYGXFbMiIbG9M94fkpUXsYnItxhv7DAuA-ZWKVTuI3LcCUWRRsXiwtwP4_3xQxqgUALgf7P-CzJAzGUtemYs4DeDVjD5QHBMvUBKfrKrjXyLddV37SalM1Q5drcCFbiGyzG/s640/blog30.jpg" width="428" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My little Pisces fishy.</span> </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF6H6Fm7brDJ3O2BubVLZT63rJ_TugztsWkz88aZwjQ8iOFqsyWXwRrouutcC5g5Mab5PmP507jFz_dllCpRr-MVabVL2A2Rv-Dc0RA2TFFXmUUVBhzvDEaqVD9ynHTa-YneB-QXo-hXR4/s1600/blog2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF6H6Fm7brDJ3O2BubVLZT63rJ_TugztsWkz88aZwjQ8iOFqsyWXwRrouutcC5g5Mab5PmP507jFz_dllCpRr-MVabVL2A2Rv-Dc0RA2TFFXmUUVBhzvDEaqVD9ynHTa-YneB-QXo-hXR4/s640/blog2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We cooled off with a community scoop of Ben & Jerry's ice cream in the shade. Zoe ate most of it because ice cream brings out her selfish side</span>. [Sidenote: We ate at that Thai food place in the background while I was in active labor with her..ha.]</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN9nzQNv9G6Fqez0v_VWev5HhInuYT7PT4Sdo_JCKgd2PgR-rskY7-8jtZ2SMvJksnV3v_HPSjb0gFF8LYWSuCfjovjB9aY8utMQXY57g_oUltpNeM66W4Jqk57lHBnKIw3StL8RUjvv1K/s1600/blog28.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN9nzQNv9G6Fqez0v_VWev5HhInuYT7PT4Sdo_JCKgd2PgR-rskY7-8jtZ2SMvJksnV3v_HPSjb0gFF8LYWSuCfjovjB9aY8utMQXY57g_oUltpNeM66W4Jqk57lHBnKIw3StL8RUjvv1K/s640/blog28.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">She also danced around the flower patches with no pants on. 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Ba-Ball! Ba-Ball!!", stretching her arms out to touch the balloons from her place in BJ's arms. An older man came up to me and softly offered, "Now isn't that cute? That is just cute". It touched me.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSA2U_6W-DuK6QaR3aCkUVhzVO4x3qiJpQhRBQhCq3zs7K7TwxVmSqJNzvh9_m5qvz452lAtMbAl8qF_GbXEPAHekDrjaeztAQXyzWHQYNItm-lznlZDcdgvBE_fI0KeBkxGHOUGKiFu6g/s1600/blog24.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="427" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSA2U_6W-DuK6QaR3aCkUVhzVO4x3qiJpQhRBQhCq3zs7K7TwxVmSqJNzvh9_m5qvz452lAtMbAl8qF_GbXEPAHekDrjaeztAQXyzWHQYNItm-lznlZDcdgvBE_fI0KeBkxGHOUGKiFu6g/s640/blog24.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwQhJtd1rm9eBHwRGBr4dyj4T5VdBxC4R8zhOPMSvZE5eOlG6J4JwSmuFnWnYLmkGhnu_MJbRJP9DUAEt6mx0g7DlADMgsZKEfC-Z9El3RXTrKlcW3tbxbHZkmwg20QZ3ldVrmWRS-bZO5/s1600/blog25.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwQhJtd1rm9eBHwRGBr4dyj4T5VdBxC4R8zhOPMSvZE5eOlG6J4JwSmuFnWnYLmkGhnu_MJbRJP9DUAEt6mx0g7DlADMgsZKEfC-Z9El3RXTrKlcW3tbxbHZkmwg20QZ3ldVrmWRS-bZO5/s640/blog25.jpg" width="385" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We stopped at Hansen Planetarium last minute. I've always loved the place. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgiLVyAhFZtG5nXaWNLsSPE7T2yDezOvJwFLwPXPb2ZHwl6029gEzb_nPqFgCfDD-93yub7CZ3P0nyyCPKFh7a_2abJCM_lm3MkiragoNOAQtzrnQvwoqsg-mDHMjvLXGsWMvHdcYyoofs/s1600/blog23.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="435" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgiLVyAhFZtG5nXaWNLsSPE7T2yDezOvJwFLwPXPb2ZHwl6029gEzb_nPqFgCfDD-93yub7CZ3P0nyyCPKFh7a_2abJCM_lm3MkiragoNOAQtzrnQvwoqsg-mDHMjvLXGsWMvHdcYyoofs/s640/blog23.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">She was pretty stoked about meeting a slinky for the first time.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSLplJJRhNxJIEW5EYIxCjnnrl7kgrmC1RuZ5kwUJlI1xe5OfH78XDeBBXlIffusnKFN5Csc_vqiEilkwH9sbOgTQj_U3803oRvptqC3Pe2nRGdeAwMnCv8P5ejy-tzXiyEoeG1LaL4Owd/s1600/blog22.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="427" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSLplJJRhNxJIEW5EYIxCjnnrl7kgrmC1RuZ5kwUJlI1xe5OfH78XDeBBXlIffusnKFN5Csc_vqiEilkwH9sbOgTQj_U3803oRvptqC3Pe2nRGdeAwMnCv8P5ejy-tzXiyEoeG1LaL4Owd/s640/blog22.jpg" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmHat5OjP9l_l_hU5N_l9rKKZ01K6ET353tSmRj4QZ0h59hfEsuv_kJ73ANnbVtk8z6GMacNp6wMdIYlEtFUvlN_Ik3D6GswxcvxRiu8otfPy7DvgM1mDWAUQj9a5YCVzMpl4drPTtzz1U/s1600/blog21.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="512" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmHat5OjP9l_l_hU5N_l9rKKZ01K6ET353tSmRj4QZ0h59hfEsuv_kJ73ANnbVtk8z6GMacNp6wMdIYlEtFUvlN_Ik3D6GswxcvxRiu8otfPy7DvgM1mDWAUQj9a5YCVzMpl4drPTtzz1U/s640/blog21.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I wanted to buy her a velvet baggie of some rocks for a souvenir, but BJ made a good point that she would probably just eat them. As we were discussing this, she grabbed one and attempted to stick in her mouth before I bravely intercepted and thus caused Zoe tantrum 2010 in public. Love them. I thought this wasn't supposed to start yet? :( We got her a bug bucket instead.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
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</div>Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398940447118443816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701019718480066182.post-87969497919539735692010-06-07T12:19:00.003-06:002010-06-07T12:19:45.985-06:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398940447118443816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701019718480066182.post-801369111222911302010-06-02T13:55:00.003-06:002010-06-02T14:00:14.386-06:00Morning Glory Muffins<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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</div><div align="left" class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">These live up to the name.</div><div align="left" class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I cut the sugar & oil from the original recipe, and it was still super sweet and moist. </div><div align="left" class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I may replace half the sugar next time with agave nectar. </div><div align="left" class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">My objective in making these was mostly to sneak veggies and other substantial nutrients to Zoe.</div><div align="left" class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">She fell right into my trap and ate them gone! </div><div align="left" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Muahaha. </div><div align="left" class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">2 cups all-purpose flour</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">1 cup white sugar</div><div style="text-align: center;">2 teaspoons baking soda</div><div style="text-align: center;">2 teaspoons ground cinnamon</div><div style="text-align: center;">1/4 teaspoon salt</div><div style="text-align: center;">2 cups shredded carrots</div><div style="text-align: center;">1/4 cup raisins</div><div style="text-align: center;">1/4 cup chopped walnuts</div><div style="text-align: center;">1/2 cup unsweetened flaked coconut</div><div style="text-align: center;">1 apple - peeled, cored and shredded</div><div style="text-align: center;">3 eggs</div><div style="text-align: center;">1 cup vegetable oil (I did a little less than 1/3 C oil and 1/2 C applesauce)</div><div style="text-align: center;">2 teaspoons vanilla extract</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1.Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease 18 muffin cups.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2.In a large bowl, mix together flour, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt. Stir in the carrot, raisins, nuts, coconut, and apple. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3.In a separate bowl, beat together eggs, oil, and vanilla. Stir egg mixture into the carrot/flour mixture, just until moistened. Scoop batter into prepared muffin cups. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4.Bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of a muffin comes out clean. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5. Give to baby, if you can spare one after heffing your first one down, and take adorable pictures.</span></div><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Zoe's fever had me holding vigil at her every move yesterday and B.J. called it a day after installing a water heater. That meant that Thursday date night (that usually consists of watching The Office and eating pizza) turned into date day! Once Motrin cracked her fever, we were off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We had a business errand to run in South Salt Lake, while we were out that way I optimistically recommended we stop at Grove's Market for lunch, fearing that B.J. would protest, but he didn’t! And I think he was reminded that good places DO exist away from the West side. I think a craving inspired me to make the drive once during my pregnancy, but otherwise it had been way. too. long. This 50’s era market (not 50's inspired or mock -- thank God) on the corner has always made me feel so, so happy. Also, their sandwiches are enormous and unrivaled in scrumptiousness. Pictured above is their immaculate variety of hot sauces. Some with pretty funny names, one's I don't feel comfortable repeating to you, blog. </span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Later we went to Murray park, it was fun and lush and peaceful as well, but I don't feel like writing about it.</div>Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398940447118443816noreply@blogger.com1