tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52021541979760611382024-03-04T20:02:26.806-08:00Ramble In The WoodsAdriannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08880580221933633828noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202154197976061138.post-51814858962380102802011-11-10T07:09:00.000-08:002011-11-10T07:09:44.366-08:00Halloween 2011Halloween this year was a little different for us. My kids are getting older and they didnt all need costumes. Good for me because I didnt have to sew four costumes but sad too because, well my kids are to old to trick or treat. However, even though they could not go door to door they made their holiday a fun one. A family in our neighborhood puts on a annual spook alley in their garage. Kelsey and Rachel both spent many hours before Halloween helping the Glazners set up this spook alley. Every night for the week leading up to the big night and halloween night itself they spent working as monsters or ghouls in the "Haunted Garage". They had a really good time and loved every bit of it. Entrance fee into the spook alley is a can of food to be donated to the food bank. For this good will the local paper came to interview the Glazners. The kids were all pretty excited to get their pictures in the paper. Kelsey, Rachel and somehow even Sam got into the paper. I think that Sam was just there playing when the Chronicle came to take pictures so she just hopped right in there. She has been carrying the paper around with her ever since it arrived yesterday.<br />
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</tbody></table>While the older girls were doing their business and Riley was off with her friends trick or treating, Dan and I and the Broadbents took our younger kids out around the neighborhood. The weather was so mild that we trick or treated for over an hour. We probably would have gone longer had Sam not wet her pants during the fun. Sometimes you just cant take the time for something as trivial as a bathroom break when there is candy to be had. <br />
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</tbody></table>Then, of course, was the annual Aunt Kristen Halloween party. Kelsey and Rachel did dress up for this one. The girls always look forward to this family party. Numbers were fewer this year than years past but the kids had a great time. Angry birds were the costume of the year. We had fun doing them.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Happy Halloween 2011Adriannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08880580221933633828noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202154197976061138.post-67562611267185798732011-07-04T08:43:00.000-07:002011-07-04T08:43:13.463-07:00Colorado Family Reunion!Ok, so Im going to try to not make this a travel log but we did so much in Colorado for our family reunion this year that I dont want to leave anything out. Especially, because Grandma and Grandpa Wood were not able to be at this reunion this year. They are in Germany serving a mission and although we know they wanted to be in Colorado with us we are happy that they are serving right now. So, what better way to include them in the fun then to provide a blog full of pictures for them to look at. Of course this blog will lean towards our family. There was so much going on with everyone that I couldn't get pics of it all. For us, the week started out with a long 9 hour drive to Colorado Springs. I am a terrible traveler so we needed to stop after 3 hours for a break. After eating lunch we went over to a Dinosaur Museum and let the girls (and me!) look around a bit.<br />
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Back in the car we were able to endure traffic and construction to finally arrive at the Burton's house. We were glad to be there and loved having so much family around. Besides Grandma and Grandpa and Josh (also serving his mission) , everyone of the Wood family was there. Each day we were together we had a big activity in the morning that we did together then we spent the afternoons doing whatever we wanted. For us the afternoons were spent swimming at the pool, playing games or sleeping off the busy morning. The first day was an all day thing though. We went back up to Denver to play at Elich Gardens, a six flags amusement park. It was hard to move that many people at once so we often times split up. Thanks to cell phones and texting though we all met up at different times, swapped stories, ate lunch, and then went off again. I am somewhat of a ride wimp but it was fun to see all the kids having so much fun on the rides that made me sick to even look at! Sam also was not a fan of the rides. She was terrified of anything that left the ground so she spent most of her time at the bumper cars and loved it.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Riley after a boat ride!! She was soaked all day!</td></tr>
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Kelsey started her summer with EFY. (Sorry, if I posted pictures of that it would only be Kelsey's pictures of way to many different people that none of us know but her!) Sam has already had one session of swim lessons and has another to come in July. <br />
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Riley had a week of British soccer camp. The kids were all divided up into teams with different country names. She was on the England team. All week they worked together to learn new skills and earn points for their "world cup" tournament that was held on the last day of camp. This is the second year she has done this and loved it again this year!<br />
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Rachel has not had her big event for the summer yet, although last week she and her friend did put on a small Day Camp for all the neighborhood kids. That in itself proved to be a big task for her! But in July she will go to stay on BYU campus for four days for a basketball camp. I dont know if she is more excited to stay in campus housing and eat at the Cannon center (like Kelsey does at EFY) or to just play basketball for a week. There is no reason these girls should go back to school in September and say that they didn't do anything this summer. It seems that if there is a day that they are "bored" I get to feeling guilty and take them somewhere. This week we went to an Extreme Sports arena with olympic trampolines and foam pits. They played so hard that the were all dripping sweat by the time we were done.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jumping from one tramp to the next</td></tr>
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</tbody></table>Fun stuff. Now its onto family reunions, youth conference and girls camp. This is the stuff memories are made of. I love the summer when we can play together as a family!<br />
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I cant help but think of the primary song...<br />
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Oh what do you do in the summertime<br />
When all the world is green?<br />
Do you swim in a pool<br />
to keep yourself cool<br />
or swing in a tree up high?<br />
Is that what you do?<br />
So do I!Adriannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08880580221933633828noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202154197976061138.post-44760268926354023052011-06-12T12:13:00.000-07:002011-06-12T15:01:55.994-07:00Jr. Miss Santaquin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
This year Rachel decided with her best friend that they wanted to sign up for the Jr. Miss Santaquin pageant. I was a little surprised at her interest in doing it because I would never have thought that dressing up all pretty and walking across a stage waving to judges and an audience would have been something that Rachel wanted to do. For a whole week before the pageant, Rachel and all of the other girls spent time each day learning a dance and working on posture and their walks. They also completed a service project as a group. When the night of the show came Rachel was glowing. She both felt and looked amazing. The night was a long one for an audience member and Dan may have bribed the girls with money to never do it again but it was worth it to see my girl on the stage smiling like the world was hers for the taking! As Rachel was walking across the stage waving to everyone I was so happy for her. At the end of the her walk she stopped at one end of the stage to draw a question out of a bowl to answer. Her question was "Why did you want to enter Miss Santaquin this year?" Rachel, as honestly and as eloquently as she could said "I wanted to do Miss Santaquin this year because I wanted to ride on the float in the parade. Thank you." Ahh, I love this girl!<br />
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After the dance performance I sent Kelsey in to the changing room to see if Rachel needed any help with getting ready. Kelsey came back quickly and very dramatically expressed concern for her own life in entering that room. She said there were so many mothers in there helping their kids that she felt she nearly suffocated from hair spray inhalation and that she almost lost an eye from a "bump-it".<br />
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</tbody></table>Good Job, Rachel! She will get to ride the float this year for the Payson Onion Days over Labor Day weekend and she did inform her dad that he would be sitting through it all again next year :)Adriannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08880580221933633828noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202154197976061138.post-34175917524640972862011-04-24T12:46:00.000-07:002011-04-24T12:46:46.383-07:00Long ago in a Galaxy Far Far Away.......there lived the funniest four year old ever. April 10, Sam turned four and when asked what she wanted she said that she wanted Ballet shoes (no she does not do ballet) and a new light saber. What an odd combination! She also said she wanted a Star Wars party. I don't normally do full on birthday parties with the whole theme, games, and other peoples children but this year I figured, why not?! I started looking online for ideas for star wars parties and do you realize that there are crazy mothers out there that spend outrageous amounts of money and time on kids parties? It was nuts. One mother was proud of the fact that her 6 year olds party ONLY cost her $250! Well, its a good thing Sam cant read because I was not about ready to make jedi training cloaks for all our guests and outfit them each with a light saber. We did have a great time though and Sam thought I was the best mom ever so really that's all that matters, right? <br />
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Sammie got lots of fun gifts for her birthday and while she did not get her new light saber (I thought two was enough) she did get what she thought was the greatest gift ever.....<br />
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Thank you Nana for the creepy Yoda costume. She screamed when she got it and laughed at herself in the mirror for a good five minutes after putting it on. Sam loved it! What a girl!Adriannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08880580221933633828noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202154197976061138.post-35346740507587215282011-03-11T13:25:00.000-08:002011-03-11T13:25:45.729-08:00American Thanksgiving 2010When Grandma and Grandpa Wood got their mission call we knew that this year's Thanksgiving celebration would be a special one. G and G have been assigned to the Alpine Germany mission and were to report to the MTC on November 29, 2010. We all knew that this Thanksgiving would be the last opportunity for our Wood family to be all together for at least 18 months. Bring on the chaos!! Having five of the six Wood children and all their families were together in one house for the weekend was CRAZY!! 11 adults and 13 children and we have a party! It was perfect! The dinner was amazing (as always) and the games and fun to be had was great. Every year we are together for thanksgiving you can see the kids off in one room playing games, the mom's in the next room browsing the Black Friday ads, the men sleeping or watching football, and Grandma in the kitchen making a pie or watching the kids. This year, though, there was that resounding heaviness that was weighing on all our minds that our special parents would be leaving all this craziness to serve their mission. I think we all are so proud or them and their willingness to serve. The Sunday that the family was there we were all able to go and attend their setting apart with the Stake President. What a great experience that was! While we miss them, we are so happy that they are serving in Germany and even more happy that we will get to go see them in a year!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rachel was offended that the waitress gave her a kiddie menu and cup. </td></tr>
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Happy Thanksgiving!Adriannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08880580221933633828noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202154197976061138.post-23089967193131706532011-03-11T12:34:00.000-08:002011-03-11T12:34:37.812-08:00Dear Kelsey, Rachel, Riley, and Sam.....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Well, my girls, remember back a few entries ago when I was so excited to start a blog to record our lives together??? Well, once again your mother has fallen short. It has been four months since my last attempt at posting a blog and ,well, there really are no excuses. Have we been busy? Yes. Have there been big events occur in the past four months? Yes. Have I been writing them down? No. (*hanging my head in shame*) Even though the past four months have come and gone without a post all I can do now is just push the rewind button, pretend that I never skipped out in my commitment to record the cool and meaningful things that have happened in our lives together as a family, and re post some of the great pictures and events that have happened lately. It may take a few entries to catch up but...lets just do it, k? I figure it will take about three entries to update Thanksgiving, Christmas, and our Disneyland trip. And just to keep you interested, here are a couple of pictures from the past few months.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thanksgiving with the Wood Family. This was right after G-ma and G-pa were set apart as missionaries.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The girls standing in line waiting to see the Disney princesses. Can you see the joy?? :)</td></tr>
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So girls, I am a slacker when it comes to this stuff. I would like to say that I am going to be better but, really, I am only going to commit to doing the best I can. Thats all any of us can do, right? Just know that our time together is precious and I love every minute of it!<br />
Love, MOMAdriannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08880580221933633828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202154197976061138.post-73874602252003669482010-11-07T06:08:00.000-08:002010-11-07T06:08:26.523-08:00Halloween! (and other stuff)We love Halloween here. I love making costumes and the girls love wearing them. Every year we have a family party hosted by Kristin Wood. She is one of my girls aunts and is simply amazing. She has boxes and boxes of Halloween stuff to put out each year at this fabulous party that she puts on. I wish I had gotten more pictures of the games but I got plenty of the costumes and food. The whole night is pretty fun. <br />
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On top of Kristin's party, Halloween would not be complete without pumpkin carving for FHE. This year as well as carving we made these luminaries for the porch. The girls simply modge podged on tissue paper and faces to glass jars and put a tea light into the bottom. They had such a good time making these and I think all turned out pretty great.<br />
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I've had the above written for some time and only now am posting and since I have been so bad about updating this blog I thought that I would add in a couple of odds and ends. This month Rachel ran for student council. She did great. She used her whole super hero costume as a theme for her running. Posters were made with her in costume "saving" the school and her skit she had to preform was all super hero stuff. Unfortunately, she was beat out by the other candidates. (only because some of them cheated though! I have to throw that in) I thought that it was cute that she made t shirts her best friends. <br />
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And yesterday I was putting a chicken in the rotisserie oven with Sam watching me. Once I got the bird in and rotating Sam kind of freaked out. I didn't think that she would react the way she did. I had to explain to her more than once that there was no head or feet because they had been chopped off. She thought that it was all gross. I should not have been surprised when I put a drumstick on her plate at dinner that she burst into tears and refused to eat it. Kind of spazzy but cute.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Before:</span><br />
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(Rachel really will kill me for putting this first picture on but I love it!)<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> After:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(She actually forbid me today from taking any pictures at the ortho office like I did the first time)</span> </span><br />
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Saturday, October 9th, we were invited to go to Aunt Tami's house for a Canadian Thanksgiving dinner. I was so excited for this. I was excited for a couple of reasons. Firstly, because I knew Tami had invited so many friends and family. She was kind of stressed about where to fit everyone but it turned out so great. Tami and Terry have great kids and I was looking forward to meeting with them again. Also invited were cousins from Idaho that I have not seen much in the past few years. It was a treat to see everyone. I was also excited for this gathering because of the food. Ive had a lot of Tami's dishes and I was quite eager to indulge myself. I think I was successful since I really left feeling like I was going to puke. So after the party I decided that this is what I am thankful for today :<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">My Aunt Tami,</span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">She was a wonderful host and I was thankful that she opened her home and slaved over this hot stove all day. </span></span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have to say that this may look gross in this picture but next to Tami's "sweet" sweet potatoes, this was THE BEST! Erin Anderson made this lovely corn pudding and it was Dee-lish. </span></span>So, I am most thankful that she went to Whole Foods, tasted their sample for the day, and came with it to the dinner. Mmmm. Really, I want some more. Right now.<br />
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Why might I be thankful for this? I dont know why, really, but it was so fun to just yell "Car". We had goals marked out with Tami's shoes (one of which got run over), two teams, and a lot of just running around. Riley was surprisingly really good at it. Brant was not. (kidding) His boys, however, were little animals with those sticks but loved every bit of it. I am sorry to say the even though I am Canadian I had never really played street hockey. My brothers and Dad always played but honestly I was to scared to play with them. <br />
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Thank you Aunt Tami and I am marking you down on my calendar for next year!! :)Adriannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08880580221933633828noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202154197976061138.post-16664280483743225572010-09-26T20:07:00.000-07:002010-09-26T20:07:13.995-07:00Kelsey in ConcertSo yesterday we were able to go up into Santaquin canyon with our ward for a dutch oven dinner and talent show. The trees were beautiful with the leaves all turning color and the temperature was perfect. It really was a nice day to be up there. Kelsey was asked to be a part of the show and share her talent on the guitar I thought she did great, so why not share right? After all, isn't that what this blogging business is about? The first song she did is called Leather Bagpipes and the second is a song by Jason Mraz called "I'm Yours" (one of my favorites). I do have to apologize ahead of time for the shoddy camera job. Not so good at the steady hand! Anyway, enjoy!<br />
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The spot we were at is called Camp Koholowo. It is used as a young woman's camp during the summer so I have spent my share of time up there each summer! I was excited to take my daughters up there since it is such a beautiful place. After the talent show, I wanted to take them all on a short hike up to the overlook. This is an amazing site! Pictures just don't do it justice. Anyway, two years ago I took the young women up there and we posted a flag as a reminder to them and to any who may see it that we were pledging to live virtuous lives. We were excited to get up there and see that the flag was still there. Tattered and worn and retied on by strangers it had survived its challenges and was still standing strong! I'm sure there is a symbolic lesson in there somewhere. :) I was glad that some of those young women and my own daughters were able to join us up there. <br />
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So here are some picture of the girls and Aunt Tami in action.<br />
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So, I'm a slacker...I know. I figure I just have to make the time to do this because I really do want to. Just know that I will never promise to be as diligent as those every day bloggers. Im more of a once a weeker-ish. Last weekend we went to the Payson Days carnival that was in town. We took the kids and and the camera. I had these great intentions to post about that weekend. Well, I was snapping photos all over the place and got some really good ones that I knew I wanted to share. When I got home to upload my pix, something had happened and they all erased except for a couple. I was pretty mad. Anyways, I think the problem has been solved by a new SD card. The other one I had was pretty old. These are the surviving pictures from the fair:<br />
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This week my little Sammy started pre-school. It's a great deal for me and a huge deal for Sam. A friend of mine wanted to do a pre school for her daughter and offered to include Sam and a few other little friends to come twice a week and learn the alphabet with them. My friend has done it before and has a curriculum that she bought a few years back but the great thing for me is that the only cost is that of printing for the worksheets and she does it all each day. I just love her. She is a great girl and these kids are going to have a great time. Once Sam has had a couple of days there I will take pictures of her in action at school and blog about it. For now, here is her first day of school excitement. <br />
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Just this weekend I was able to take the girls up to Logan for their cousin, Olivia's, baby blessing. Dan's sister, Danalin, invited the family up to be apart of this special day with her family. Because Dan was on call, I got to drive them up there for a girls weekend. Even though we were only there over night it was really fun. I love Cache county and Logan, especially. It is a great town. On the drive up there Rachel was especially bored and decided to torment Sam while she slept. Yes, that is a Mike N Ike.<br />
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Ok, now down to blogging business. I have a question for all you experienced ones out there. I cant understand the whole positioning of the pictures. Can I not put them side by side? It seems I should be able to drag them where I want. Sometimes I have them side by side but then they move . I know that I do have two pictures beside each other in this blog but I dont know how I did it. I tried with face painting pictures but it wouldn't work. Then sometimes I post a picture and it goes to the top of my blog! Any tips?Adriannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08880580221933633828noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202154197976061138.post-34268991591012106022010-09-01T07:38:00.000-07:002010-09-01T07:38:16.825-07:00My Little ThiefPoor Sam. I spend most of my mornings working in my sewing room so the little girl gets neglected. Now that school is in she is forced to entertain herself for a few hours each morning. Generally she does pretty good. She is much the same as Kelsey was at this age. They both could easily play dolls alone or watch a movie and be perfectly happy. The other day, though, I made the mistake of showing Sam what I would make her for a halloween costume and now she is driving me crazy to make it for her. Yesterday morning she kept bugging me and bugging me to take her out to buy her some pink material for her dress. Well, having guilt over ignoring her all morning, I agreed to take her to Joanne's Fabric to get some for her. (Of course, now, with me being the blogger I am...I took pictures)<br />
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This first blog I thought that I would update on the summer of 2010. You know how at the end of the school year you are always so excited for the summer to come so you can just relax? Ya, that didn't happen for us. It seems every year that the summer is busier that the school year had been. I love it!<br />
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She got to attend her first overnight camp with her BFF, Ashley. They went for three days to Camp Shadow Mountain. (Ya no pictures. I realize doing this that I have got to get better about taking pictures!)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dan and our "boys" pulling through one of the many mud holes.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">4am will do this to a pioneer!</td></tr>
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