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Projects

family photos

By Leslie Parks - Friday, January 29, 2010
I have been wanting to take a family portrait for a while.  Our church is putting together a photo directory and is requesting family photos from people.  They will take the photos if we want or we can email them in.  I thought that today would be the ideal day.  It is so hard to get everyone to cooperate.  It should only take...

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Sports

Indoor soccer

By Leslie Parks - Friday, January 29, 2010
This year the boys are involved with indoor soccer at the Sportsplex.  All three of them.  Job plays on Mondays and sometimes Fridays.  John plays on Thursdays.  Some of his games start at 11pm.  Yikes.  Isaac plays Saturday afternoons and sometimes Thursday evenings.  We are down there a lot.  I don't always go, in fact I only go about half the time.  I...

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Learning

Beethoven Day

By Leslie Parks - Thursday, January 28, 2010
Why did Beethoven get rid of his chickens? Because all they said was BACH, BACH, BACH The kids are studying Beethoven in their piano class.  At their recital this year they will be presenting their research on Beethoven.  Lona is making an ABC book about Beethoven and writing a story from the perspective of a neighbor.  Job is writing a story as if...

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Family

Little Furry Warriors

By Leslie Parks - Monday, January 25, 2010
         This is my gerbil Kesha. She is my nice one. The other one (Kia ) bites. They are only calm when A: they are sleeping or B: they have a nut. (by Isaac) These gerbils are fun to watch.  Kesha will take a nut while being held but Kia is too up tight.  This is the longest we've had a rodent, not to mention two rodents.  I've...

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Projects

Scrapbooking Class and Social Hour

By Leslie Parks - Sunday, January 24, 2010
Every other Friday we have a scrapbooking class.  We learn all sorts of design stuff.  We have learned what monochromatic and complementary colors are' used a color wheel and made a page using monochromtic colors and black and white photo.  We learned about using one main color and two accent colors and chosing those colors based on a dominate color in the photo. ...

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Projects

House Projects

By Leslie Parks - Friday, January 22, 2010
We moved into this house 9 years ago this February.  Ever since we moved in there are a few things that I wanted to change.  In fact I have an ongoing list.  Some are major, some are minor changes. Major changes:  Fireplace surround with built in bookcases (John will never go for that one) Granite counter tops in the kitchen.  (possible but way...

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Learning

Dog Training and Camera Practice

By Leslie Parks - Tuesday, January 19, 2010
So we've signed up for Dog Obedience classes at Cedarwoods.  I really like his philosphy and his teaching style.  It is so good.  The kids are learning about consistency and it is great practice for us as well.  Our motto around the house is "Say it once and then make him do it."  So if we say come, then we'd better make sure...

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Activity

It only takes a spark

By Leslie Parks - Saturday, January 16, 2010
When I was little I loved going to Vacation Bible School.  I would spend a week with my Aunt Vieth and Uncle Charlie at their ranch.  Every morning we'd drive into to town for VBS.  Then in the afternoon I would play with a flannel board, check gopher traps, and run around the ranch yard.  Then in 4th grade I read a book...

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The best laid plans...

By Leslie Parks - Friday, January 15, 2010
Sometimes things just don't work out the way we plan.  We have some idea in our head and that somehow it doesn't quite work out the way we had visualized.  The other day I decided that we would have a PE day on the ski hill.  I thought strike while the iron is hot.  We had a virtually empty day on Thursday.  John...

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Memory

Race Results

By Leslie Parks - Sunday, January 10, 2010
John entered a 10k race this weekend.  On Saturday he raced around Lake Sammish.  It was his first race in Washington.  He has always wanted to run a marathon.  He encouraged me, helped me train and figured out my training schedule.  I couldn't have done it without him.  Now it is John's turn.  When we were dating in Montana, he ran the 1/2...

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Ski Trial

By Leslie Parks - Friday, January 08, 2010
Today we tried something with the kids that we have held off with for a long time.  Mostly because of cost and partly because of age.  Today we took them to Mount Baker to go skiing/snowboarding.  Isaac's friend sold Isaac a snowboard for cheap and for the last three years, everytime we went to the library Job always checks out books about snowboarding. ...

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Holiday

Packing up

By Leslie Parks - Wednesday, January 06, 2010
We have officially packed up our indoor Christmas decorations.  I wrapped the last decorations in tissue paper and bubble wrap and placed them in their box.  It just needs to be hauled up into the attic.  The last to go is the outdoor lights.  Every year I'm tempted to keep them up.  I love the twinkling little lights and would love to have...

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