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Friday, December 30, 2011
A Devine Tradition
We love the tradition of going to Nana's the day after Christmas. The kids always look forward to hanging out with cousins and playing in the open country air. The boys played some fun game with Gavin & Tyrone's new guns. Baili took pictures and video of the girls and they all chased goats and cats. The adults hung out mostly inside laughing and chatting and eating treats of course! We love Lucas's yearly treat of the family movie with pictures from the year gone by. Good job Lucas....go you! Really, it's so fun to sit and laugh and cry at all the pictures. We had a great St. Stephens day (what we grew up calling it in Ireland)!
The pictures say it all....Merry Christmas
ok here's just a few words....Skateboard, Fur real Frenzies, New bedroom, Red Hi Tops, Wii Games, Air Hogs Helicopter, Gift cards, Hair Stuff, Ipod, Basketball, Perfume, Clothes, Shaun White stuff, Sewing Machine, Chocolate, Games, Doll, Skel-animals, massage.
Baili Plays Cello
Baili had a concert at Cadwallader Middle School in December, where shes learning to play cello.
Friday, December 23, 2011
Christmas Cheer
Meet our family Elf - Lucky! Santa sent him to us this year to keep and eye on the children and report nightly how they are behaving. Each night he returns to the North pole with a report on how the kids did during the day. When he comes back he finds a funny little place to hangout around the house and each morning the kids try to find him. He has made the holiday super fun and kept the kids behaving too.
The boys cub scout pack gathered a huge donation for local homeless kids right before Christmas. We read an article in our local newspaper about some Clark County School District students that are homeless. Some of them only eat at school through the free breakfast and lunch program. Many of them don't have clothes, underwear or coats.
Our pack decided to help and gathered lots of supplies in just a few days. We brought the entire back of my van full of clothes, underwear, hats, gloves, coats and 10 huge bags of food donated by a local union, to Catholic Charities with two days to go till Christmas. I brought some boys along with Jacob and Ryan to drop off what we collected. It was a great experience and I think it impacted the kids to see that other kids really have so much less than we do. On the way home I brought the boys for a treat and look what we found, a wholesale candy store.....Ryan thought Christmas came early...ha ha!
The boys cub scout pack gathered a huge donation for local homeless kids right before Christmas. We read an article in our local newspaper about some Clark County School District students that are homeless. Some of them only eat at school through the free breakfast and lunch program. Many of them don't have clothes, underwear or coats.
Our pack decided to help and gathered lots of supplies in just a few days. We brought the entire back of my van full of clothes, underwear, hats, gloves, coats and 10 huge bags of food donated by a local union, to Catholic Charities with two days to go till Christmas. I brought some boys along with Jacob and Ryan to drop off what we collected. It was a great experience and I think it impacted the kids to see that other kids really have so much less than we do. On the way home I brought the boys for a treat and look what we found, a wholesale candy store.....Ryan thought Christmas came early...ha ha!
Monday, December 19, 2011
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Birthday Roadtrip
Look how cute these girls are! Baili took three of her friends to St. George to celebrate her birthday with her. We have a family rule of no sleep overs but made a slight adjustment for such a special birthday. Baili planned this for months and was sooooooo excited to stay overnight, hanging out and playing together. We swam at the hotel, ate dinner, shopped till we dropped, did our own manicures and stopped into the temple grounds. When we got back to Vegas all of Baili's friends came over for a party. She is seriously the cutest thing ever....I love her so much. Watching her grow and develop into her own person makes me so proud of her. Happy Birthday sweetie!
Thanksgiving 2012
What a fun thanksgiving! Sams parents were in town the whole month of November since Ryans baptism. We hosted dinner at our house and as always Sam cooked the turkey. We actually forgot about getting a Ham until we were sitting down to eat and realized we never bought it :) This year we researched and learned how to brine our turkey to made it super juicy. It turned out great. Everyone brought a dish or two to share and we were well fed. Mandy, Lucas and family joined us as well as Joe, Amy, Lucy and Kevin, Tiffany & kids. Mom & Dad Bainbridge and Kati made 23 total! We played Jacobs "Feast Pursuit" a game he created for school with a seasonal theme.
That night we went black Friday - which has turned into black Thursday night - shopping. We left just before 10p.m. and what a nightmare.....Breathe!!! so in the past, Ive shopped at Walmart & Target and its been pretty pain free. Not this year.....I was not in Walmart for more than 10 minutes before I started to feel claustrophobia and stress. I couldn't maneuver the cart anywhere, couldn't find anything on my list and couldn't breath - at all!!! I called Amy and she, Cecelia and Tiffany had all come to the same conclusion. THIS WAS NOT WORTH IT!!! One of the few times I have left Walmart empty handed....boohoo....tears and snots...not really!
We decided to get a jump on the line at Target only problem was it was 11p.m. and they didn't open till midnight. We got our spot in line, Cecelia and I picked up some hot coco and M&M's and we met two cute twin sisters behind us to chat with. It was fun. When Target opened, we got pretty much everything we all wanted but I vowed there and then that this was the finale for me. It just wasn't worth a sleepless night, standing in the freezing (freezing for us Trudi) cold and on top of it all I picked up an ear and sinus infection that lasted for week. I know I sound like a total negative nancy, but for real, I don't want to forget this next year and head out thinking "ah it'll be fun, worth it, exciting...." NO IT WONT..... bring on the online shopping and realistic 7a.m. Friday morning shopping.
On the Saturday after thanksgiving we took all the kids to a Circus for Eli's birthday. It was a bit cheesy in parts but the kids soaked it up. Some of the shows were really death defying and scary. The elephants were awesome. We had a good time.
That night we went black Friday - which has turned into black Thursday night - shopping. We left just before 10p.m. and what a nightmare.....Breathe!!! so in the past, Ive shopped at Walmart & Target and its been pretty pain free. Not this year.....I was not in Walmart for more than 10 minutes before I started to feel claustrophobia and stress. I couldn't maneuver the cart anywhere, couldn't find anything on my list and couldn't breath - at all!!! I called Amy and she, Cecelia and Tiffany had all come to the same conclusion. THIS WAS NOT WORTH IT!!! One of the few times I have left Walmart empty handed....boohoo....tears and snots...not really!
We decided to get a jump on the line at Target only problem was it was 11p.m. and they didn't open till midnight. We got our spot in line, Cecelia and I picked up some hot coco and M&M's and we met two cute twin sisters behind us to chat with. It was fun. When Target opened, we got pretty much everything we all wanted but I vowed there and then that this was the finale for me. It just wasn't worth a sleepless night, standing in the freezing (freezing for us Trudi) cold and on top of it all I picked up an ear and sinus infection that lasted for week. I know I sound like a total negative nancy, but for real, I don't want to forget this next year and head out thinking "ah it'll be fun, worth it, exciting...." NO IT WONT..... bring on the online shopping and realistic 7a.m. Friday morning shopping.
On the Saturday after thanksgiving we took all the kids to a Circus for Eli's birthday. It was a bit cheesy in parts but the kids soaked it up. Some of the shows were really death defying and scary. The elephants were awesome. We had a good time.
Idaho trip
Sam wanted to take our kids on a road trip to Idaho to see the new construction in Rexburg at our alma mater, Ricks College now Brigham Young University, Idaho (BYU-I). I have to admit I was initially not excited about the loooooooong trip stuck in the van with the screaming, fighting and complaining children but being the optimist that I am....jk.....said it would be worth it. And it was......
We broke up the trip by spending one night on the way up in Provo and then visiting Trudi and fam in Oakley, Idaho. On the way back we had quick visit with Selena & Celeste and families on the way home.
We'd never been to where Trudi, Tyler and Noah live and it was really fun hanging out (......ok and eating and shopping). My sisters have all turned into quite the little homemakers so it was fun to see Trudis projects and go find cute deals at ummmm.....various stores!
The kids loved playing with their cousin Noah, who is soooo cute! We left for the two hour drive to Rexburg the next morning.
Oh my goodness.....how things have changed up there. It was so funny how the kids reacted when we went to have lunch on campus. When we went to school, I worked at The Nordic, the food joint in the Manwaring Center (fondly nicknamed the "MC"). Well now the ENTIRE second floor of the MC is the food court, HUGE with like 8 different options of stuff to eat. The kids were freaking out because they felt so conscious that they were the only kids around. Jacob was hiding behind Sam and I saying through his teeth..."lets get out of here"....... Sam calmed them down by explaining to them that first of all no one cared that they were there, secondly, pretty much everyone was LDS too and was super nice and thirdly because we were Alumni, they had a right to be on campus....it did the trick and they relaxed and had lunch. We walked all over campus, up and down the library, showed them the Snow building where I spent a lot of time practicing piano and taking choir and piano. At one point we opened the door to a little theatre where I used to have choir. Class was in session, I had the kids and Sam stand just inside the door where no one could see us. Immediately the "spirit of Ricks" returned to my heart and I remembered how I truly loved my choir class and learning in the Snow building. Of course the fact that they were singing the national anthem had nothing to do with my swelling heart and leaky eyes!
By the end of the day the kids had decided that they want to attend college in Rexburg. They loved it. Baili was talking about things she could do and Jacob where he would take classes to be a graphic designer. Ryan said he wanted to play basketball there and even got to shoot a ball in the big gym. I know it was a really positive experience for them and that made us happy!
We broke up the trip by spending one night on the way up in Provo and then visiting Trudi and fam in Oakley, Idaho. On the way back we had quick visit with Selena & Celeste and families on the way home.
We'd never been to where Trudi, Tyler and Noah live and it was really fun hanging out (......ok and eating and shopping). My sisters have all turned into quite the little homemakers so it was fun to see Trudis projects and go find cute deals at ummmm.....various stores!
The kids loved playing with their cousin Noah, who is soooo cute! We left for the two hour drive to Rexburg the next morning.
Oh my goodness.....how things have changed up there. It was so funny how the kids reacted when we went to have lunch on campus. When we went to school, I worked at The Nordic, the food joint in the Manwaring Center (fondly nicknamed the "MC"). Well now the ENTIRE second floor of the MC is the food court, HUGE with like 8 different options of stuff to eat. The kids were freaking out because they felt so conscious that they were the only kids around. Jacob was hiding behind Sam and I saying through his teeth..."lets get out of here"....... Sam calmed them down by explaining to them that first of all no one cared that they were there, secondly, pretty much everyone was LDS too and was super nice and thirdly because we were Alumni, they had a right to be on campus....it did the trick and they relaxed and had lunch. We walked all over campus, up and down the library, showed them the Snow building where I spent a lot of time practicing piano and taking choir and piano. At one point we opened the door to a little theatre where I used to have choir. Class was in session, I had the kids and Sam stand just inside the door where no one could see us. Immediately the "spirit of Ricks" returned to my heart and I remembered how I truly loved my choir class and learning in the Snow building. Of course the fact that they were singing the national anthem had nothing to do with my swelling heart and leaky eyes!
By the end of the day the kids had decided that they want to attend college in Rexburg. They loved it. Baili was talking about things she could do and Jacob where he would take classes to be a graphic designer. Ryan said he wanted to play basketball there and even got to shoot a ball in the big gym. I know it was a really positive experience for them and that made us happy!
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