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Crazy Hair Night - Awana

By Leslie Parks - Friday, September 30, 2011
Every year there is a crazy hair night at our Awana and sometimes twice during the year.  The kids start planning and thinking.  We've done something similar to Lona before but this year she wanted an A out of her hair.  Job wanted to carry over the theme from his party - Mad Scientist Hair.  (What does that really look like anyway?)  Around...

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Sports

It's that season

By Leslie Parks - Thursday, September 29, 2011
We are in full swing of soccer at our house. It is six days a week with four out of five of us playing soccer.  And if that isn't enough soccer we must watch the Sounders when they are on a channel we get.  This year as well as last year, Isaac has participated in soccer at his middle school instead of the...

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Family

Mad Scientist Party

By Leslie Parks - Wednesday, September 28, 2011
I was inspired by this site to host a mad scientist birthday party.  Job is my science kid.  he loves science.  He reads an animal fact file and then stores all that information in his brain.  He reads science books like Can You Feel the Force.  He loves it.  What better way to celebrate his birthday than with a party.  So I ordered...

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Memory

Eleven

By Leslie Parks - Monday, September 26, 2011
How did this happen.  Rhetorical question.  I know how it happened but sometimes when I really think about it, it seems surreal.  My 2nd born is 11 years old.  He has very definitive tastes and opinions.  He had decided the night before that he wanted to open presents before John left for work which meant waking up and having a party before 6...

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Learning

Hop to Job's Blog

By Leslie Parks - Tuesday, September 20, 2011
So Job has started a blog: Lego 52  The idea is to create a small lego creation once a week, photograph the steps, and write about it.   He has made two entries.  We are both learning a little bit about photography and photoshop together.  We created a small "studio" to photograph his creation in.  Nothing like a little tag board and natural light.  Job a...

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Family

By Leslie Parks - Sunday, September 18, 2011
C'est que j'ai vu quand j'approches le frigo ce matin.   This is what I saw when I approached the fridge this mornig.  C'est que j'ai vu quand j'approches le frigo ce matin.   This is what I saw when I approached the fridge this mornig.  ...

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Camp Grandma's 2011

By Leslie Parks - Friday, September 16, 2011
We meet half way, sometimes exchanging vehicles when dropping or picking up the kids, sometimes flying home, sometimes just leaving kids.  This year I just dropped off the kids with my mother and enjoyed two weeks at home.  The kids on the other hand were busy.  Starting July 30th to Labor Day they had been gone 28 out 36 days.  Wow!   Two weeks...

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