Thursday, December 20, 2012

December 2012


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Of course, they had to sit on Santa Clause's lap : )
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Taylor's art work was on display at the UW
Art Center(it's the castle on top)
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Our annual ginger bread houses
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Garrett made me a stocking hanger : )
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I have always wanted an awesome Christmas advent calendar, but I refused to buy one.....so, 
I made one : ).

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Halloween 2012

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Right before going trick-or-treating.
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My birthday cake.
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Jack'o' Lantern Quesadillas.

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Mac 'o' Lantern.

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Hotdog mummies ; )
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 Spaghetti with eyeballs.
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Taylor's pumpkin that actually turned out quite creepy.
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My surprise birthday present!!! I'm so excited. I had to leave my other piano in Ohio when we moved. It's in good hands(I gave it to my sister-in-law, Andrea) but it's nice to have a piano in my house again : )

Monday, October 8, 2012

Fall Begins...


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Went to the Wyoming Territorial Prison and did a pumpkin walk and a  straw maze and
painted pumpkins.  All kinds of fun fall stuff.
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Gotta love the cousins together : )
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Candid straw wall photo : )
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Gar's newest creation. Bunk beds for Taylor and Mason!!
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Finished product. They love them!!!
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Here in Laramie, they have what's called a "Downtown Kick-Off." All the businesses downtown have booths and advertise for business. This is Gar's booth. It's all happening, here real soon he will have a brand new clinic and patients!! I'm very proud of him and all of his hard work.
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Oh yeah, and this is happening too. Don't know how I feel about it yet, but bring it on right?



Monday, September 10, 2012

Things Are Moving Right Along....

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 Taylor started 1st grade last week. So far so good : )

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Garrett's clinic is still under construction. They've started putting the dry wall up, so 
hopefully things will get moving a little faster.

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And this pic is just for kicks : )

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Major Update!!!

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Well, I guess I'll start where I left off....Mason's 3rd birthday was in May.
Spider-Man themed obviously.  
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Garrett graduated from the Optometry program at The Ohio State University in June.
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We bought a 1986 Knickles bread truck to haul all of our stuff in. Yep, this bad boy fit all of
our stuff and made it across the country : )
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Claira's 2nd birthday was in July. We spent the summer living with grandma Howell waiting for Garrett's paperwork to finalize, and had a family reunion and  took a few short vacations.
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Finally, August 1st we moved into our new place in Laramie, WY. Garrett is licensed in Colorado and Wyoming, currently seeing patients in both states. His clinic here in Laramie, should be functional in October(the building is under construction).

In a nutshell, that has been our life....we had a few other things happen like Taylor can now rider her bike with no training wheels(which she loves), she has also lost about 5 more teeth and is starting 1st grade Sept. 4th, Mason has picked up on the awesome-ness of Tranformers, Claira is still a pistol, just a very verbal one, we sold the bread truck and got Garrett another Buick since we had to leave his baby in Ohio, and we have spent a lot of time with family and we're loving it!! 

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TAYLOR!!!

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Well, my baby is 6 years old!!! For her birthday we just took a couple of her friends to McDonald's. She wore her pj's all day(per her request) and all in all it was a good day.

Friday, March 16, 2012

Two Peas in a Pod...

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So, lately Mason and Claira have been getting along GREAT!!!! They play together, they read together, they share with eachother....wait a minute, they're planning a conspiracy aren't they?

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Who Needs Toys?....

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When we have old gallon icecream containers.....

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and plastic bins....

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and diapers/wipes boxes....

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and daddy's clinic hair cover thingy to pick our noses through....

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and Giant Eagle grocery bags.


It's a good thing that Santa brought my kids all sorts of good presents because clearly they play with all of them everyday! Why do I even bother? : ) At least they're having fun right?

Monday, January 16, 2012

SNOW DAY!!!

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It finally snows about 2 inches in Columbus and what happens?...Our furnace decides to stop working and they cancel school!!! So, what do we do to stay warm on our first snow day of the season...make forts and wear underwear on our heads(that was mostly Claira's, well, that was all Claira's idea). And yep, that's Mason's undies too : ).

Monday, January 9, 2012

18 months!!!!

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Weight: 28lbs.(90%)
Height: 32"(75%)
Head: 18 1/4" (50%)
Mouth: 10 Teeth

Claira is the sassiest thing you will ever meet!! She does what she wants when she wants to and if something or someone gets in her way you'll hear about it. She makes messes like you wouldn't believe, torments her big brother to no end, climbs on anything and everything. She yells and throws things.....but, I wouldn't have her any other way : ). Because in the middle of all of that, she's sings and talks all day. She laughs, gives hugs and kisses and LOVES peek-a-boo. Eats anything I give her and is just hilarious. I love my chunker girl.

Saturday, January 7, 2012

80's Anyone?

So a couple of weeks back, my good friend invited me to her 30th B-day party. It was 1980's themed-woot, woot! It was over Christmas break so let's just say that Garrett and I got a little creative and WAY to into it....

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Any guesses?

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KEYTAR BABY!!!!

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My sister-in-law(Andrea McClelland) went as well. She was a little more conservative and pretty darn cute if I don't say so myself : ).

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Here's the gang! We had a blast! Who would have thought that looking ridiculous and singing terribly to 80's music at a karaoke place would have been so much fun? I didn't : ).

Friday, January 6, 2012

A Very Late Christmas Post : )

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In a nutshell, we saw some pretty cool gingerbread houses, made some of our own, saw a really good train exhibit, saw lots of lights, made cookies for Santa, got new pajamas and had a good Sunday Christmas Day. Merry(late)Christmas everyone!!