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| I made new curtains! Well, I bought the blue curtains and the decorative fabric, cut the top off the curtains and sewed the colorful fabric into it. I also added a white sheer curtain over the window, but they really aren't as sheer as they look here. |
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| Another Independence Day 5K for the family. We have Grandma with us and Hazel (the kids' cousin). David sat out with a friend, and Brooke and I ran together. I'm proud of the kids for finishing the race! |
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| Hazel and Gabe along for the ride. |
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| The kids always enjoy the parade and the candy after the 5K. |
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| In the evening, we went to the Nissinen's for dinner, games, and fireworks. Zach and Brooke holding Roman candles. |
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| Mike having a little too much fun. Steven, Todd, Sean, and Aaron in the background. |
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| A bounce house and a balloon guy was at the party making fun stuff for the kids. |
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| Awesome show! |
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| Then Zach is off to a week of Scout Camp with the other deacons in our ward: Ryan Klingler, Blake Kelley, and Nathan Millett. Yes, he's pretty excited! |
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| At one of the library shows, Gabe got called up to help. He really didn't like that too much. |
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| He especially didn't like this part! |
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| Annual Stake Activity Day Girls Activity. The theme was from General Conference "Stay in the Boat." Brooke is in the very front on the right. |
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| With the 3 older kids at mutual one hot night, I took David and Gabe to the fountains in downtown Hillsboro and pretty much had it to ourselves! |
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| Mike was invited to be on Gabe Jensen's Ragnar team that competed near Seattle. With 12 people on their team, they took turns and each had 3 legs to run and to finish it in 36 hours, so at all times one person was running. He said he had a great time. |
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| Mike after his late night run. They brought sleeping bags and slept for a couple hours outside. |
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| Brooke's first batch of chocolate chip cookies all by herself! |
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| David turned 7! With Chuck E. Cheese. |
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| He invited Brooke, Kai Podwys, and Ji-uk Odil to his party. |
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| Super mouse! |
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| Big hug from dad. |
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| Super mouse! |
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| Putting together a Bionicle he got for his birthday. |
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| And more cake at home! |
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| AND out to dinner with mom and dad to Red Robin. (on another night) |
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| Nicholas spent 9 days in Nebraska with his cousins and Spencer took him up flying. |
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| He got home late the night before his birthday and so he had an impromptu party at the bowling alley with Warren Squire, (Nicholas), Riley Roecker, Nathan Millett, and Zach. |
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| Three days later he was ordained a teacher. |
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| The next week we were off to 2 family reunions back to back. |
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| We spent 2 nights in hotels to get to Southern California. It was actually cooler in SoCal than in Oregon! The kids took advantage of the pool each night. |
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| Brooke, Zach, Nicholas, and Mike. |
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| David and Brooke on Mike. |
