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| I went down to Marietta for a quick pre-Christmas visit. We spent the afternoon making twice baked potatoes and peanut blossoms for their ward party. The family also performed a Christmas song and I got to sing, too. |
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| Every Christmas since they moved to Marietta, Wendy's family have had a live tree, but this year they bought a huge pre-lighted artificial one. They had to buy 100 more ornaments because it is so huge. |
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| Elyana, 6 years old is wearing a skirt that I made each of the girls this year. |
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| Riley and Dallin spent Saturday at a Lego Invention competition. They came home with a medal! Riley, Dallin and Allison earn money cleaning their Dad's office at 5:30 in the morning 2 days a week. Good practice for seminary. |
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| Allison, age 8. We had lots of fun with the little min-bean bags I brought. Austin learned to juggle in about 15 minutes. Allison and Riley are both great singers and were thrilled to go with the whole family to a professional production of Fiddler on the Roof this last week. |
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| After the party, we took in some of the town's decorations. These windows are always so popular with the kids. |
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| Allison and Sam doing farm chores. Because of the rain--it was a mud hole. The red mud of Marietta stains everything |
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| T-bone's mother died of an infection, and so now they feed him 2 of these huge bottles 3 times a day. I am still in amazement at the animal husbandry skills of Wendy. |
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| This morning, he gave Allison a fat lip, when he pushed up on the bottle and it hit her in the mouth. Good thing I took the picture before that happened. |
