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June 11, 2009

Elise fits in Memi's seat! Ha ha!!!! One word: Awesome!

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June 10, 2009

Today Mike I and I celebrated our 3rd anniversary. I got off work a little early and we went to Texas Roadhouse for dinner. (hello, yummy rolls) and then we went to the Draper Temple. We got done pretty early and it was nice to kidless SOOO we went to Home Depot for some thing we needed for our new bike trailer. Exciting, huh? It was a fun night.

Oh yeah, after we came out of the Temple.... we drove around the area (pictured behind us). They were beauitful homes and it was sad to see so many of them unfinished and sitting vacant.

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June 9, 2009

So Damien is almost 10 months. Not full on crawling, but definitely gettin' around. He keeps thinking he's big enough to do stairs... I am not so sure-but he'll prove me wrong in no time, I'm sure. They grow too fast. :)

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June 8, 2009

Today HAD to be a bonus picture day... because, lets be honest our lives are THAT exciting.

Chase and Kristi adopted a cute little kitten to go in their new house. At first Memphis was scared, but it didn't take her long to fall in love with the fur ball we call "Meg"! I don't think Meg feels same towards her, but we are very excited for Chase and Kristi. A house and a kitty? So fun!!!

Mike also found this bike/running stroller on KSL. Oh how we love ksl!!!! I never understood why a person would need "running" stroller, but after trying to run with our regular one--- I get it! :) It's been rainy so I haven't been able to give it a good test run, but I will! Oh, also mike got a bike for himself and we are fixing up the good ol mission bike for me! I have not sit on that thing once in 8 years!!!! Yea for family activities!

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June 7, 2009

Breaking Dawn... I have had it since the day it was released and I have not been able to even make it half way through. So tonight, not being able to sleep I thought... I would read-no worries, it put me right to sleep. Sorry Stephenie Meyer-I am just not feeling it.

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June 6, 2009

For dinner me, memi, d-man, my mom, Chase and Kristi went to Wingers. Good times, good food! We are big fans of that sticky fingers sauce! :) Yum!

PS: Chase you are a Geek!!!!

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June 5, 2009

IT'S A GIRL!!!!! Brooklyn Marie Doney was born at 8:08 pm weighing in at 8 lbs and 10 oz (same as her mommy and me). Mike was so nice and let me be at the hospital with Heather while we waited for her to have her baby. For Heather it's always slow going until she hits a 5 then bam... baby time! People think we are crazy for not finding out what we are having, but it's so exciting on birth day! The anticipation is so much fun! Congrats to Heather, Dan and Fam! I am so excited for you guys! Welcome to your crazy, yet-- wonderful family Brooklyn... you are loved by so many!!!

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June 4, 2009

If you know Mike, you know he is ALWAYS winning something on the radio. So far between the two of us we have won 10 tickets to the 3-11 concert. We are not going, so this picture was taken to put them up for sale on KSL. We still have 2 sets if you are interested. :)

Some of his other recent winnings include Green Day, Viva SLC and Ultimate Combat Experience.

I would LOVE to go to the Green Day concert, I am a HUGE fan--but it's on a Sunday, so we will not be going. :(

I guess we can just call Mike my little lucky charm. Now all he needs to do is win lots and lots of money?

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June 3, 2009

Today was a long day. Back to work... stayed late. Came home watched the kids while Mike went to an eye appointment. Ate Cafe Rio (yum). Watched He's Just Not Into You. Haven't seen? I love it! I wasn't going to go running, but I am officially training for a 5k on the 4th of July so talk about motivation!!! Memi and busted out the shoes and the stroller and hit the street. It was a good run. :)

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June 2, 2009

Today we traveled home... so not to many exciting pictures taken. This is just a normal thing for Memphis. She thinks she is old enough and big enough to hold and or carry her brother. Damien thinks otherwise! :) It was a fun trip, but it sure is nice to be home.

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June 1, 2009

Austin's Graduation Day!!!!! Congrats!

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May 30, 2009

This is Justin. One of Mike's good friends from HS. He is another person we always make a point to see. So Justin and his son Derek met us downtown for some ice cream and we headed over to the arcade. So much fun! Can I just say arcades have changed a lot in the last 10 years. I had a lot of fun playing deal or no deal (winning tickets) and then there was this jump rope game... where you jump rope. I am sure I look so lame... but it was F U N and I could not get enough of it.

So in passing I told Mike and Justin they should recreate their basketball picture from 8th grade and much to my surprise---they were game!

Such a great picture.



Thanks for playing Justin! Hope Derek isn't really trying to spend his $100 bills. Ha ha!!!!

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May 29, 2009

Today we flew into Oregon. Mike's family actually lives about two hours from Portland so before we headed out to the coast we had dinner with some family friends of the Smiths. It's Linda's best friends Christy. Christy couldn't actually come but we got to see her girls. Jenna and Lilly! We had dinner and then went to Jamba Juice to see Christy's other daughter Aubree. They are so much fun-- a trip to Oregon just is not complete with out seeing them. :)

Oh so todays picture was taken in Jamba juice... it made me laugh out loud, because serioulsy who has not heard this at least once in their life time???

I am adding pictures of the girls... just so you can know who I am talking about.

Lilly...



Aubree, Jenna and Me


(these pictures were from Feb 08' when Jesse came home from the mish)

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May 28, 2009

Well, as you know from my previous post... Memphis isn't loving bed time. She is getting so much better but it's not uncommon to find her VERY quietly sitting on the stairs. So I was headed up to stairs to take a shower and found Memphis totally out.

Two nights before we found her here...

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May 27, 2009

Lettuce Head! Cafe Rio... teaching this one young!!!!

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May 25, 2009

As the water was draining Memphis and I were in her room, I was cleaning it up and had just put her doll in the baby stroller. I looked over, only to see the doll was gone. As you can see... I guess she too needed a bath.

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May 24, 2009

Kickin' back, loving to shop with Mommy!

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Good Marketing... I saw this, and it lead to this:


May 23, 2009

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May 22, 2009

and to think... I thought WE had weed issues! :)

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May 21, 2009

Fresh off our run/walk and shower! Today was day 4 for my new efforts for making time to exercise. I did really well this week. (isn't that how the first week always goes?) BUT I am really going to try and keep this up. It feels good and the weather has been so perfect in the evenings. Tonight Kristi came along... We went for a good full hour and got in just about 4 miles. My face stays really red for hours after exercise... it's hot (literally)! :) You can't see it in this picture but Memphis has the cutest curls post bath or shower. I just love my two year old terror! :)

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May 20, 2009

Memi the Mechanic

Chase and Kristi were in the garage putting a new wheel bearing on Kristi's car and Memphis just could not get enough of being a big helper. If you click on the first picture you can really see that her face was black. It appeared she had been working pretty hard out there!

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May 19, 2009

So my mom's computer is a hammy down from Chase. It's a great computer with lots of unused space on the hard drive. The only problem is, it's SOOOO SLOW!!!!! So I have working on it, trying to get it to run faster. Well my boss is all sorts of into computers. He has build A LOT of them (including mine). So he wanted to know some information on mom's computer to help it. Lucky for you this is the ONLY picture I took today! Lucky you. I was forced to use this one as my POTD! (picture of the day) ha ha ha!

Side note: Mom's computer needs more RAM... more memory wouldnt hurt. :) He gave some ram to install... it's at Shauna's house somewhere--thank you Memphis and Kyah!

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May 18, 2009

Could we officially be in the terrible two's stage? Memphis is having a hard time going to bed at night. I end up fighting her until 10:30 or 11:00 and when you start at 9:00... that's a long time. I just don't understand. Is she afraid? I have no idea. I have been sitting beside her until she falls asleep(which totally works), but I don't want to make that a habit either. Awww, the joys of exhausting parenthood.

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May 17, 2009

Everyone was over for dinner tonight. Memphis and Kyah are at this awful stage of fighting over toys. It is sooo annoying! The scream, cry and pull on the toy until one of us takes it away from both of them. It's really hard to explain taking turns to 2 year olds. For the most part they play together really well---so we can't complain too much! :)

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May 16, 2009

Ok, it's a bonus picture day!

Chase and Kristi were taking pictures for passports and in the first picture you see that Memphis wanted in on the action. She loves to copy uncle Chase!

The picture of D-man is a new shirt from Uncle Jesse! Go Beavers! :)

PS:Happy Birthday Heather D and Heather AO! xoxox!

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May 15, 2009

Another Birthday present came in the mail for Memphis today. This one comes from Grandma Smith!!! Another huge hit!

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May 14, 2009

Something else we did was put Memi's bed in my moms closet since her room was packed full of furniture. She thought it was great. She loved pulling all the shoes off the shelves and then attempting to lay on the shelves. :)

PS: happy 25th birthday Chase!!!!!

PPS: My mom came home today!!!! I was soooooooo tired but I waited up so I could see her reaction to all that we had done!

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May 13, 2009

One of the projects we had intended to do was this part of the yard... you can hardly see the curbing. :) The plan was to pull it all out and plant flowers. Well all the blinds and windows were open trying to dry the carpet, so I was on the inside looking out and spotted none other than a garter snake in the area we were about to go work in... needless to say, the idea was no longer happening!!!! I told my boss and he laughed at me. He says he finds one or two a year in his yard. I say, No Thank you! :)

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May 12, 2009

Despite all the projects going on at home, I took half a day off to spend with Elizabeth. She is a good friend from High School. I have not seen her in 2 years. She has an aunt who lives in Logan... so I picked her up from the airport and we spent the day together at Aunt Hilda's. It's funny because Elizabeth and I haven't spent a lot of time together and still talk on the phone every now that then... but it's just one of those things where her and I picked up right where we left off. She and I spent the day laughing and remembering the good times. Some friends... will be forever friends regardless of how much time you spend together. That being said, I am anxious for the next time we can play together.

Thanks so much for such a fun day Elizabeth and Aunt Hilda!

Elizabeth... don't forget to wash the top part of your mane!!!

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May 11, 2009

I love being downtown! :)

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May 10, 2009

I had to wait until my mom got home from Nauvoo before posting the pictures of what we were up to while she was gone.

This is Memi's room loaded with my moms furniture in her room because we clean all the carpets... that was project #1. Just minuets after she drove away we went right to work. We lived with no furniture most of the week while we waited for the carpets to be completely dry. We also (all the kids) got her a deep freeze for the garage... which meant we also cleaned and organized the garage. Chase put up her shower door (that she bought over a year ago) and I organized her closet. Chase and I did not call her on mothers day, but hopefull all our hard work was enough! :)

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May 9, 2009

There are not words for how cute she can be sometimes. Shauna hit the jack pot with this birthday gift for Memphis. I do not think she has set her lap top down once since she got it. Most of the stuff is pretty advanced for her, but she does NOT care. She loves it! Now she can be JUST like Uncle Ryan.

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May 8, 2009

Today Me, Mike, Chase, Kristi and Shauna all went for Sushi! Yum! I love how require every high chair in the restaurant when we go out with Shauna. Sushi was good...

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May 7, 2009

This is what teething looks like! Tooth #2 is here!

(it's funny because I am posting this 4 days later and at the time I was beside myself--he wouldn't stop crying and now look everything and everyone is just fine!)

Hang in there, this too shall pass turns out to be oh so true! :)

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May 6, 2009

Today I was helping out at work by picking up one of our orders... this is Dame and I waiting for them to bring it out to us! He is such a munchkin!

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May 5, 2009

So can you see have I have 5 more minuets before the day is over. Some nights can be so long. Tonight my cough keeps me up.

Can you see my yummy brownies? Mike went to the store and bought me a box of brownies, ice cream and magic shell! Yummy!

I also took a picture of the digital clocks because after all these years of having perfect vision, I struggle to see what the clock says far more often then I would like to admit. It's usually late at night or early in the morning, but still I really think it's time to get my eyes checked.

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May 4, 2009

So I am sick... still. Grrr. I busted out of work to get me some cough syrup. After I got the goods, I went to my car and saw this on the car next to me. Duh! I sat there, I called inside the store-customer service was Clueless as to what they should do, so I told the cart collector about it and she assured me they had plenty of cameras and I shouldn't worry about it. Again, that is not going to help this woman if her car is gone when she comes out. Finally, the owner came out. Note to all people, don't leave your keys in the passenger door! :)

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May 3, 2009

Don't blink my friends, it will not look like this for more than .8 seconds. Memphis has a toy collection that is growing. The toys are getting bigger and were beginning to take over the family room. So I moved everything into her room. I already like it so much more. You know from the previous post she got the table for her birthday, but Grandma Straw got her the cute kitchen. She actually didn't break it out for her party and had it set up the next morning and my mom waited for her to wake up so she could see her reaction. Well it figures that on that day, she slept in. That NEVER happens. Mike said that when she did wake up, she pulled up a chair and would not move. SHE LOVES IT!!!!! Anyway, my rambunctious two year now has her own space.



Here is a picture of the actual toys that will be spread everywhere very soon!

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May 2, 2009

Do not be fooled by the closed eyes... this monkey girl keeps getting out of bed. Let it be known, I do not regret the toddler bed-- I am so happy to have Damien in the real crib. But this whole freedom to get up and check out whats going on downstairs is quite the struggle! So I just keep putting her back in bed, despite her frustration at me, eventually she'll get it, right?

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May 1, 2009

I have to really give it to Mike. He is so good when it comes to me going out with the girls. He is home all day with the kids and still maintains a good attitude when I go out. Thank you Mike! xoxox!!!

Tonight we celebrated Ruby's Birthday. It was a great time! After wards we went to Ruby and Teona's apartment and just talked. It's amazing how good girls are at talking. We could go on and on for hours!

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April 30, 2009

Ok, I have to admit I didn't take today's picture. I am officially sick AGAIN! Grrrr. So lucky for me while I was snoozing on the couch Mike took this picture of Memphis at her new table. She got it for her birthday!! I bought it at IKEA and I LOVE it! It's plastic, but seems sturdy and it's just so cute!