Well, Jake has just got on the bus and is now off to school, wearing his favorite color, yellow.  Grandma Murphy sent him this back to school shirt. He was wearing his Lightning McQueen shoes from his aunt Patti. He was so excited, I was so nervous.  I was up before six doing the [...]

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Today we had a back to school party to get Jake excited for school.  The boys all had a lot of fun.  We started the day by playing the classic games of duck, duck, goose and red light green light.  The kids had a lot of fun doing this and they followed the rules pretty [...]

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So Dan is insisting that I learn to write in the family blog, so here I am.  He is totally patronizing me so I suggest to anyone out there who doesn’t know how to blog, don’t have a computer scientist teach you.  But now Dan is encouraging me to change the title of my blog [...]

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This past weekend was going so well. We had fun camping, enjoying my new three day weekends. Well, about 5PM Sunday night we heard a crash and then Isaac just screamed. I ran to the bathroom where he had been playing with the toilet earlier (flushing it). He wasn’t in the bathroom and so I [...]

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Today we returned from a camping trip. We finally had the opportunity to use our camping equipment that has been gathering dust. We went with some other families in our ward and had an enjoyable time. Well, most of the trip was enjoyable.
The not so enjoyable part of the trip was the sleeping part. Or [...]

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Yesterday we went up to Patti’s cabin to help get some work done. The weather was perfect. There was a cloud cover and it wasn’t too hot or too cold. We spent all day outside either working or sitting on the porch.
Patti purchased a swing set that Mark, Jeff and Emily mostly set up [...]

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