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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Bubs the Ref

John, Cassie, Mallory and I went to see Bubs ref a sophomore basketball game today. It was so fun and I had a great time taking pictures. I have never really paid attention to refs before, looks like they get quite a workout!

Bubs did a great job. John was very complimentary about him. He was really pumped about a 'no call' that Bubs did. John was talking about how 95% of the refs would have called it, but the right call was the no call. I guess one of the coaches didn't agree. He called a time out so he could discuss it with Bubs. I took pictures. It was awesome.

Bubs

John & Mallory

Bubs

'No call' discussion

Now I will add a whole bunch of pictures of Mallory, because she is just that cute.

Mallory

Mallory & John

To end the day, we had another Dominion marathon. John's friend Pace has been coming over to play every night. It has been so much fun. Although one day I will have to find some time to sleep. I'm getting pretty tired. It has been worth it though.

Monday, January 2, 2012

School

Matt is gone. We sent him off super early this morning. Well, we still hadn't gone to bed. I think I got to bed around 3:30, but I woke up at 7 to get the kids to school. I can't believe they have school already!

Jorja is a very happy Porge. She got three new frogs today. She earned one from me for speaking Chinese every day to her teacher in December. Well, three sentences a day. She did a great job, I am very proud of her. I got her a red-eye tree frog that she named Pads. She also bought two other frogs with her money that Grandma & Grandpa Parry gave her. She named them Wall-e and Eva. We are still playing around with the names. I'm not sure what she will finally settle on. Maysen told her she should name one Waldo because it always hides in the leaves and is hard to find. Jorja also likes Jumper. When she brought the frogs home and we were transferring them to our cage, Wall-e went crazy! It was so funny!

Tonight John & Cassie went out with their friends. It worked out perfect. They put Mallory down for bed and were able to have a grown-up meal. Mallory didn't make a peep. Easiest babysitting job ever! I worked on posting our cabin trip on the blog. I was trying so hard to get it all up so I could be in bed before they got home. I was so tired, but I knew if they started playing Dominion I would want to play. So, long story short . . . . I was up until 2.

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Happy New Year

We started off with church bright and early in the morning. I am happy with all of my kids new primary/sunday school teachers. It's going to be a great year. John started off the year trying not to throw up. Poor John. He didn't want to eat yesterday or today when we had a ton of food. Glad that wasn't me!

We had everyone come over for dinner. Mike made delicious fajitas. We also tried to get pictures with everyone. I put a ton of them on there, but they are basically the same thing over and over. We had all the grandkids except Marie and Mina. Hopefully when Matt and Sam get married we can get family pictures with everyone!

Speaking of Matt, he is gone. Sam slept over so she could take him to the airport in the morning. He had to leave at 3. John, Pace, Matt and I all stayed up playing games until it was time for him to go. Matt was stressing out because he couldn't find his hoody he got in Iraq. He said that he would rather lose anything other than the hoody. He found it on his laptop. Haha! He would have left his laptop if his hoody wasn't on it! We will miss you Matt! Can't wait to come to your wedding!

Ella, Mallory, Jorja, Blake, Maysen, Preston

Stockton, Lincoln, Abby, Larkin, Skye