Month: January 2023

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Hurricane Ian!

September 28, 2022

We got as prepared as we could be for hurricane Ian.

**We closed the shutters on the front of the house.**

**And we closed the shutters on the back of the house and much of the yard stuff into the shed.**

Dad and Rachel made homemade eclairs!

It is a very complicated recipe that they have been working on throughout the day:

They were absolutely delicious!!

For dinner Lizzy and Mom went head to head in a “Chopped” (like the TV show) competition. The Ingredients picked out by Sullivan and Rachel were: Panko bread crumbs, egg, green beans and malanga blanca (a root vegetable). Rachel and Dad were their sous chefs:

**Lizzy’s on the top row and Mom’s on the bottom.**

Dad and Rachel were the judges:

We also played Monopoly for the first time!

We had a lot of fun and the hurricane passed us by with barely a tree limb on the ground!

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We Painted Mom’s Bedroom

August 27, 2022

Rachel and Mom decide to paint her room together:

It was hard work, but they did an awesome job!

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Youth Activities

August 20, 2022

We went to Bronson Blue Springs for a fun youth activity with the stake:

**We had fun jumping off the platform!**

**We also had fun playing volleyball** and they also had a Foursquare game set up.

We had a great time!

August 24th, 2022

We did a ward young women activity where we made a diaper tower for a family in the ward who just had a baby:

September 07, 2022

Rachel took the lead on a YW activity where we learned how to paint a whimsical mushroom:

September 14th, 2022

We also had an activity at our house making homemade pretzels:

We have had lots of other fun activities with the youth this year and Mom is now the Young Women President.

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Happy 15th Birthday Patricia!

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Post date January 1, 2023
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8/13/2022

Since Patricia’s birthday fell on a school night this week we waited until Saturday and had her and her family over to celebrate her 15th birthday!

We had pizza and then…

Dad and Rachel made her a cake!

**“Happy Birthday To You, Happy Birthday To You…”**

We are so grateful to have you in our lives!

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First Day Back To School!

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Post date January 1, 2023
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8/10/2022

First Day of Eighth Grade and Tenth Grade:

**Mom made the signs the night before and the emojis matched our expressions almost exactly (Mom knows us pretty well). ~ Miss kitty was eating breakfast**

**This was AFTER early morning seminary (6:15am -7:15am) this morning!!!**

**Rachel declined an individual pic. Here’s mom’s backup pic (that’s pretty much the expression she would make anyway).**

“Happy” First Day of School!

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Family Fun Activities

7/30/22

Kayaking Adventure on Hampton Lake:

**We picked up Lizzy from Youth Conference (she has been gone since Wednesday) and went straight to the lake.**

**Sullivan and I paddled across the lake.**

**Rachel accidentally flipped her kayak and the water was great for swimming so Lizzy decided to hop in!**

**We made our way back for the girls to swim closer to shore.**

**Lizzy was using Rachel head to push off for her flip!**

8/06/22

Mom and Dad are actually not huge “Let’s go to the beach!”people. They like the beach and it’s fun but we Love the beach! School starts next week so we had to go to the beach. We even got up super early so we could get there before the crowds:

**Beautiful day and not a lot of people yet!**

**The waves were going pretty good today. We had a tiny board but we made good use of it.**

**Rachel asked mom to die her hair red!** Beautiful!!

**Lizzy spent almost no time out of the water. Lunch and sunscreen reapplication and that was it.**

**Sullivan and Lizzy were the last to get out. A very successful family beach day** .

Of course we HAD TO stop at our favorite ice cream shop in Palatka on the way home: