tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13613835795085963932024-02-21T02:16:12.876-08:00The Wright FiveThere's a lot to keep up with!janet wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988921293488565980noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1361383579508596393.post-86604830316086883022012-10-15T10:46:00.001-07:002012-10-15T10:46:52.223-07:00Unlimited Airplane Rides and the Never Ending Popcorn. Fall fun Wright style. The biggest, or best advertised, pumpkin patch around here is the Country Mercantile. We hadn't gone yet this year until Dad's work rented it out last Friday for employees and their families. The past few years, we've gone there four years now, they've added a few carnival rides which are open in the afternoon evening- our kids love those things so we went. Part of our admission included unlimited rides, popcorn and drinks. The place has four carnival rides, a pumpkin patch, cut outs for taking pictures, a petting zoo, two hay bale pyramid structures to climb on and a hay bale maze. This was the first time we've gone in the evening. In spite of chance of rain and wind the kids had a ball and we were there the entire time! <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They loved this ride! The rider could control whether the plane was higher or lower as it went around. About the 20th ride Tommy figured out that if you pull the stick down and then shove it quickly up you could make the plane bounce. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This ride was so old. I'm pretty sure that the seatbelts it had were retrofitted later. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More airplane ride. It was the first and last thing they did!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The second time the boys were by themselves and they sat in the middle. The operator came and put sandbags in the other seats. I was about to jerk them off the ride but Aaron said it was fine....</td></tr>
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We had so much fun. Last year Rachel was too small and didn't like the animals or walking in the pumpkin patch. This year they all had a good time. I had to laugh when we left, we got on the highway behind a truck that sprayed corn silage all over our car. How Eastern Washington is that? Our admission should have included a car wash! </div>
janet wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988921293488565980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1361383579508596393.post-20634725412997848042012-09-30T19:58:00.000-07:002012-09-30T19:58:10.729-07:00September BusySeptember is almost gone and it's gone really fast..... This week we may be getting that turn in the air that signals Autumn. This is my favorite season since we've been back in the NW and this part of Washington, though more desert landscape than lush tree covered hills, doesn't disappoint with crisp cool mornings and evenings with sunny dry days. The Farmer's Market is also full of apples. The past three years I've come to count on a beautiful October so lots to look forward to. Right now it's been warm and we have dirty air from the Eastern Oregon and Wenatchee fires. Yick. <br />
Between the two cameras these pic uploaded out of order but my readers are smart and I'm feelin' lazy so here's what we've been up to in no particular order! <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We put the boys in soccer! It's been a great experience for the boys and they're mostly enjoying it. Before each game they announce the teams and the kids are supposed to run through a parent tunnel. We participated the first game but our boys want no part of it. NO PART AT ALL. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the last year of preschool! They love their teachers this year, "They're funny." </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They're getting so big. No babies here!</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aaron's still loves to use his pellet smoker. Here he his with Tommy and Opie the brisket hound. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Daddy left us for five days to go to Boston for a proteomics conference.... I desperately wanted to tag along with him but it didn't work out this year. When I uploaded pictures I found this on the camera..... </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aaron jumped seats and sat close enough to see and hear the coach get thrown out. He sat close enough to be seen on TV when a left handed batter was up. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On Aaron's birthday weekend we took a last minute nearly spontaneous (in our house that means you scour the Internet for hotel deals) overnight trip to Spokane. Thanks to my facebook friends we had a wonderful and kid friendly dinner at The Spaghetti Factory (we were close otherwise it would have been Tomato Street) and the kids loved this carousel. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Who told Rachel it was a funny face shot? Who told Ben it wasn't? </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We rode the sky tram over Spokane Falls and with this crew it was anticlimactic. Oh well, when you're a tourist for the day...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bedded down for the night. It was the last weekend for the hotel's outdoor pool and water slide to be open. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rachel bedded down for the night. </td></tr>
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janet wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988921293488565980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1361383579508596393.post-36465787905573987872012-08-23T22:09:00.002-07:002012-08-23T22:09:28.036-07:00Anniversary Trip in the SticksAaron and I celebrated our 11th Anniversary on August 4th. We took a two day trip that Aaron planned to Washington's Methow Valley. There's many parts of Eastern Washington that I haven't been to so it was lot of fun just to go somewhere new. It was also very relaxing as we didn't take the kids! We stayed in a wonderful little lodge that had a very good restaurant and a private lake surrounded by cabins. This area is popular with mountain bikers and cross country skiers. We just relaxed, ate two wonderful dinners, wine tasted, biked (it's been a long time for me, unless circles in the driveway with the kids count), and enjoyed the scenery. The only caveat was the lack of phone service, a bit tedious for this mommy but everything went fine! <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The crew all ready to go stay at Grandma's. They're a lot to take on, thanks Grandma and Grandpa</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our room at the Freestone Inn, complete with a porch and Adirondack chairs. We watched a meteor shower!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More views, here on the left is my new vacation home.... maybe someday!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The town of Twisp had this little gem of a gourmet pizza place. </td></tr>
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<br />janet wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988921293488565980noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1361383579508596393.post-83665803411082527362012-07-15T15:33:00.002-07:002012-07-15T15:33:36.367-07:00The First Installment of Summer.....<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">U-Pick Fruit. The Yakima Valley is a foodie's dream in the summertime. Lots of produce, cheap! This is the first year we attempted to go cherry picking. </td></tr>
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<br />janet wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988921293488565980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1361383579508596393.post-60831436639259950182012-06-15T08:07:00.000-07:002012-06-15T08:07:04.701-07:00Preschool's Out For SummerThe boys finished preschool this year and are getting so smart and so big! They finished their two day a week class with a spring program at night with the whole preschool. Next year they will go three mornings a week and then they graduate and on to Kindergarten! I've taken a picture of them a the beginning and end of each year they've gone, always in front of our front door. Here they are in order smallest to biggest, oldest to most recent!<br />
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<br />janet wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988921293488565980noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1361383579508596393.post-55539376947315466082012-05-31T14:31:00.001-07:002012-05-31T14:31:33.973-07:00Success With a Vacation of Firsts and No Dirty Looks on the Plane!It wasn't the boys first plane trip. The summer before they turned one they flew to both sets of grandparents homes, one house hunting trip and one move to Washington and they remember none of it. Recently we went to Southern California and took a big vacation: five nights at a resort and an airplane ride, rental car, Sea World, sandy beach and at least 50 swims in the pool. We had a great time and the kids did wonderfully in a room all together. Rachel is still in a crib so I was pleasantly surprised with how well she did on a pull out bed in the same room with the boys. I didn't take a ton of pictures but here's the highlights.<br />
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<br />janet wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988921293488565980noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1361383579508596393.post-34358189938411148992012-04-30T18:39:00.000-07:002012-04-30T19:15:19.378-07:00Springtime for Aaron means a lot of hole digging....Yet he enjoys it too! This October will be four years in this house! I remember so clearly Aaron's excitement at visiting our local Home Depot to buy the things these previous Southern California renters didn't have; a lawn mower, weed eater, ladder.... he had a wonderful time! While we moved into a newer home that had completed landscaping we've made a lot of changes to yard. I think we're taking a low maintenance yard and morphing it into a high maintenance.... oh well! I'm thankful that Aaron enjoys yard work and is very efficient at making my ideas happen while letting the kids "help." He's also good at cleaning up the planting mess that I've left behind. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was our backyard when we bought this house. We removed a bunch of those basalt boulders for more lawn space and a rock garden with remaining boulders and plants. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aaron and the boys in '09 adding plants. No Rachel yet! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Opie is a year now and has wreaked a bit of havoc on our backyard this winter. Our first projects were repairs on holes he's made and the sandbox that he thought was his. </td></tr>
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<br />janet wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988921293488565980noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1361383579508596393.post-24532258055829201422012-04-03T19:52:00.000-07:002012-04-03T19:52:57.810-07:00Ooh Rachel Gimme One More Chance....my girl busts a move.<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/KRIEnnQiCgw?fs=1" width="480"></iframe>janet wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988921293488565980noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1361383579508596393.post-88747943750311341222012-02-07T20:01:00.000-08:002012-02-07T21:03:03.533-08:00My Funny ValentinesI moved the couch and did a Valentine's photo shoot in our front room. It started from an idea off of Pinterest. The kids were all into it so I had lots of success getting my idea made into a product. So Happy Valentine's Day from the Wright kids!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Back off ladies, they already have a sweetheart! Mommy!</td></tr>
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Last week we had a big snowstorm here at home. We had one day of great powdery snow and then nasty ice and ice rain. Aaron was able to work at home for three days and over the weekend. The kids had a great time playing in the snow and outside of asking about the missed preschool day, mom was the only one who had cabin fever! Like true Northwesterners we were excited to see snow and excited to see it gone! <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The few pictures that I got of Rachel in the snow! "Too sticky!" Translation: to hard to walk in.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We must have had close to six inches. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aww c'mon! I'm not that wet! I won't jump all over the couch. Promise!<span style="background-color: black;"></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>janet wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988921293488565980noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1361383579508596393.post-57340013562307184122012-01-18T13:45:00.000-08:002012-01-18T13:51:04.536-08:00The Christmas Photo Saga..... was at present frustrating but historically humorousThis past December I busted out the camera, a hobby I'm into, and costumed the kids to get some photos and, hopefully, a Christmas card shot. Getting three kids in one shot is difficult. Getting three kids in one shot looking normal is nearly impossible. Getting three kids in one shot, looking at the camera with a pleasant look on their face and hands NOT somewhere unnatural or doing something weird is a case for divine intervention. Looking through my photo archives I see I have more outtakes than successes but I think that's just photography. I think that's just kids.<br />
Grouped together they're actually kind of funny. Even to this slightly high strung mom of three cute kids that had a vision in her head. Here's her hail mary mother of the photo shutter....<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scene wasn't quite what I'd pictured. The half of a mirror was bad... Kids cooperative and pleasant looking. Should have quit while I was ahead!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What a bunch of sweeties. No, they're not in a mexican restaurant. That wall is just mauve like that. It would be difficult to change and oddly enough a lot of the recent stuff we've acquired works with it. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nose picking child #1</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nose picking child #2</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I thought they'd like this prop....I'll bet Tom is wondering if he keeps shining that light in his ear and opens his mouth, will light come out?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Really mom?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not bad except there is supposed to be three...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thomas about to throw down. Mom about to throw down too. At least I wasn't forced into a vest. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">no comment</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">naughty</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">getting positive reinforcement from brothers for being naughty </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">change to more natural scenery is helping...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">whew. Ok. Let's eat lunch! </td></tr>
</tbody></table>janet wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988921293488565980noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1361383579508596393.post-59442078002117830022012-01-18T11:55:00.000-08:002012-01-18T12:04:40.877-08:00Happy 4th Birthday (and one month... oops)I'm almost caught up on this blog! I had a post I wanted to do today so I thought I better catch up on the backlog.<br />
The boys turned four! They're such great little guys. I can't believe they're not babies anymore. I know everyone says that but raising twins is an intense experience and while some days, hours, minutes go slowly, the rest by and memories of them can be fuzzy.<br />
Four has been a magical age and having two constant companions make for some fun times. They are constantly pretending and talking and talking and talking...<br />
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</tbody></table>janet wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988921293488565980noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1361383579508596393.post-5731329515703622882011-12-31T16:31:00.000-08:002011-12-31T16:31:33.713-08:00Thanksgiving Weekend 2011.Thanksgiving 2011 was at our house this year! Since Aaron and I married over 10 years ago (wow) we've eaten everywhere from a restaurant with my parents in 2001 (our first apartment was soooo crappy), our next little house in Austin with my folks and a few other friends, Aaron's parents house, Aunt Kathy's house in San Diego (I was sooo pregnant with the boys that we had to stop for Mylanta for my heartburn and I was wearing flip flops) and Aaron's sister, Valerie's house. Based on that lineage alone, we have so much to be thankful for: people who love us and share their homes, plenty of food lovingly made. We've never had a year without somewhere to go. <br />
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This year was particularly fun for me as I love entertaining in our home here. Our kids are also getting old enough to understand holidays and traditions. Their excitement motivates me to make the most of these annual events. Also, for the first time in a few years I had the energy (sleeping through the night) to tackle and enjoy extra project. We had 15 people for dinner and two sets of house guests: Aunt Alene and then the grandparents. Opie enjoyed getting to play with Lacey, who I guess would be his mother in law? <br />
Unfortunately, I took very few pictures! A couple of these I stole from Alene who is excellent in the kitchen and behind the camera. She's good at Lego building too. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aunt Alene caught the boys in their matching shirts. Apparently Tommy was feeling feisty. He told one of our guests that they "sure had a big, fat head" sigh.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table>janet wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988921293488565980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1361383579508596393.post-8351715822837958062011-12-31T15:39:00.000-08:002011-12-31T15:39:33.653-08:00It's The End of the Year as We Know It! And I'm Behind!My last blog post was Rachel's turning 2 and now that's old news! From Halloween till New Year's we're super busy and having fun. All the kids turn a year older and Thanksgiving and Christmas are staggered between. After having lots of colds and stomach bugs last year we've been very healthy this year, and that I'm very thankful. Here's a look at some of our happenings.<br />
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<span id="goog_688266923"></span><span id="goog_688266924"></span>janet wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988921293488565980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1361383579508596393.post-13912005156988441862011-12-07T22:28:00.000-08:002011-12-07T22:28:46.638-08:00Our Rachel is Two NowRachel Autumn turned 2 this past month. When she showed up in 2009 I hadn't realized anything was missing here. I guess what was missing was a little girl because we just love everything about her. Her brothers, the neighbors, older women at church, the dog- all love her. She's been growing into a happy, independent, talkative, expressive little girl. Happy Birthday Rachel Autumn!<br />
I'm really not sure where else to take this post. Here's a list of random things both that you may not know and I want to remember.<br />
1. The morning that she was born there was the most brilliant harvest moon I have ever seen. I will not forget it as long as I live.<br />
2. When she was born she screamed the entire time they cleaned her, took her stats and eventually quit when they wrapped her up and were "done." When they took me to our room Aaron wasn't holding her but watching her in a box thing. "She's quiet." After that she was the most peaceful baby ever. Amen. <br />
3. She has pinky fingers that turn inward, like her mother and great grandmother. The boys do too. All over the house there's little handprints with crooked pinkies. <br />
4. She's never tired at night..... party girl... ready for college I guess.<br />
5. Whoever gets her out of bed in the morning is obligated to hold her for at least 20 minutes. She's our snuggle bug.<br />
6. She now tells us "no, no way"<br />
7. When it's time for the last bedtime book she holds up her finger and says, "Just one more, one more book."<br />
8. She loves to play with her baby dolls. When she gets upset she goes and gets one to love on.<br />
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Here's what we've been up to!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I've just had a lot o' trouble getting a good photo of all three of these kids. Hooligans</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rachel is off with her pumpkin from the MOPS pumpkin patch trip. They got to enjoy a hayride to the patch, choose a pumpkin, play on the tower of hay, hay maze and farm animals. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was Rachel's favorite thing in the animal barn. Farm Animals, Bowling Alleys and County Fairs do not sit well with Rachel. I guess she's our 5th Avenue Girl!</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All dressed up for the local nursery pumpkin patch/photo shoot. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Good Gourd, this kid was grouchy there and hard to work with. It's a shame as she's so photogenic! I guess you don't have to be a teenager to know how to get under you're mother's skin! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ben was so excited to carve a pumpkin with Daddy. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trick or Treating in our neighborhood. This year the boys picked their costumes. Ben loved loved loved trick or treating. When Tommy got tired I took him and Rachel home (after doing about 20 houses. Ben and Daddy did one whole other street. They came home when he couldn't carry his candy bucket! Ben would also tell neighbors to "Give Racheee one!" when they were doling out treats. It was a fun night. Lots of our neighbors were home and the weather was good. </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table>janet wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988921293488565980noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1361383579508596393.post-21838962619440359322011-10-30T15:14:00.000-07:002011-10-30T15:15:53.707-07:00All the Creatures That Live Here; the young, the old, the ones we like and the ones we tolerate.Most blog posts are devoted to what the humans that live around here are doing. This household is nine members strong. Only five human members and four that belong to the animal kingdom. This is post is about them.....<br />
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This is Iris, otherwise known as Kitty. She's been with us the longest. She's made two major moves with us and has even gotten to fly on an airplane. Aaron and I adopted her from a shelter when we still lived in Texas. She's pretty low maintenance and boring. She doesn't go outside often, she doesn't come around guests and she won't acknowledge that our offspring are here to stay. She's stated her position on small children and dogs quite clearly... they're all afraid of her. With the boys she's hissed when cornered and has growled a few times. Now when we send the kids to another room for something and they see her at the end of the hall or sitting on some furniture they'll refuse to go any further. "Kitty's in there!" It's a similar reaction that one would have to a ghost. We recently got a dog (see below) and when the dog was sniffing innocently around our upstairs loft the cat came tearing out from behind the couch and chased him downstairs. The dog and the cat have an understanding now.<br />
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Last year I thought it would be fun for the kids to have some fish. So now I have some gold fish to feed and change the water for. If I tell them to they're happy to feed the fish and Ben has found a new job in catching them in the net for a water change. Here we have Bert and Ernie II. The first Ernie lived a long time for a goldfish but unfortunately never had his life documented. He rests in the potted dogwood tree in the backyard....<br />
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I only took some pictures during the trip. Here they are. My first picture should be the local Wal Mart because that was our first stop. The car DVD player died. It had been threatening to do so for sometime now but I didn't want to believe it would let me down. Luckily the store had one left that was similar, a double screen, like the one we had. Good thing since I said I wasn't leaving the county without one. So off we went, Aaron, Janet, Tommy, Ben, Rachel, Dora, Diego, Elmo and Caillou on the five hour drive to the coast. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ben had the best quote of the trip. Our first outing after we got there was to go out to eat. "I don't think they have restaurants here, you go catch fish." </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This man offered to pull out his sheep for us pet but nobody with the last name of Wright was touching that thing. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Hey Dad, move me to the left a bit.... would ya?"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bunk beds happened earlier this summer but have been poorly documented. The super hero phase is also here. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They make us laugh everyday. Ben told me "this bird wants to watch cartoons, that's why it landed here." </td></tr>
</tbody></table>janet wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988921293488565980noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1361383579508596393.post-13134944059150301522011-08-07T21:44:00.000-07:002011-08-07T21:44:45.861-07:00It was a Great Weekend In Spite of the Overly Springy Sheep.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-R-iFn34J_vY9zDSf3ADAjPtT_VUVd3uus1DwugqfW-H1_EmyMuvwlEq-LooDQ6yxkn_HmtK2Do2oHmai_ZEGxmbb8W8Cj95t7lFefWreJzHncatXAp1sqtuFkv5x378zaw6trpYNMQ8/s1600/IMG_5353.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"> </a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-R-iFn34J_vY9zDSf3ADAjPtT_VUVd3uus1DwugqfW-H1_EmyMuvwlEq-LooDQ6yxkn_HmtK2Do2oHmai_ZEGxmbb8W8Cj95t7lFefWreJzHncatXAp1sqtuFkv5x378zaw6trpYNMQ8/s1600/IMG_5353.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"> </a></div> We celebrated our 10th anniversary by heading to Seattle to visit Grandpa and Grandma. It seems like traveling and our little family is starting to get easier. We've always had a good time traveling but this is the first time that: 1. All three kids slept great. 2. Nobody got sick. 3. We got a great mix of doing fun Seattle things with some or all of our kids, 4. Aaron and I went on a date. 5. And just relaxing with some of the people we love. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa and Aunt Alene for babysitting for us and letting us eat all your food. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">"I didn't know there were these kind of bugs here."</span></td></tr>
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janet wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988921293488565980noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1361383579508596393.post-42434995139107658692011-08-04T10:19:00.000-07:002011-08-04T10:19:05.014-07:00Nearly 1/3 of my life has been WrightTen years ago Aaron made me the happiest woman in the world. Blah Blah Blah.<br />
Yes, of course the above statement is true and a milestone in our life has been reached. On August 4th we have been married for a decade. It's gone fast. It's been an adventure. The last four years and three kids have been particularly life changing, intense and joyful. It's been quite a life! Aaron, you really are my best friend. Some of my favorite memories are packed into these past twelve years that I've known you.<br />
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10 Years Ago<br />
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<span id="goog_761417299"></span><span id="goog_761417300"></span>janet wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988921293488565980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1361383579508596393.post-33227061951642477692011-07-07T22:33:00.000-07:002011-07-07T22:41:45.169-07:00The Summer Love TriangleWe love our boys to death but they can be quite a pair.... <br />
This is Thomas<br />
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This is Ben<br />
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But the little person in the middle here just thinks they're great!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And this little person went with me to drop them off in her stroller last September.</td></tr>
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Ben: Where do you find glasses that don't come with a beard? Explanation: We have some Groucho Marx glasses and this is in response to Thomas finding Aaron's swim goggles. <br />
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Daddy: Why ARE you in (bathroom)here? <br />
Thomas: Because I like to be with you.<br />
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Benjamin about Thomas: I'm getting awfully tired of that kid!<br />
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Benjamin when caught sneaking a drink of coke: Well, you shouldn't have put it so close to my plate it should be there by yours. ( yes, it will be nice to have an attorney in the family)<br />
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Mommy: You guys are going to go with Daddy on Saturday and have an adventure while we have a baby shower here for Andrew's mommy.<br />
Tommy: How are you going to shower with babies? <br />
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Rachel: Ow On = all gone!<br />
I sit<br />
more<br />
mine!<br />
MaMA<br />
Da DA<br />
Bike<br />
woof woof = dog<br />
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