tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31184340329860385572024-03-04T13:22:33.187-07:00The BeckstromsThe Beckstromshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17253550733785734836noreply@blogger.comBlogger317125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3118434032986038557.post-88889597865031795052013-02-17T09:19:00.001-07:002013-02-17T09:19:23.727-07:00*Minute to Win It!*<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Copse; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;">Getting together with my darling aunt and uncle and cousins and their families does not happen often enough. Every time we hang out, which is usually our annual Christmas party and the random baby blessing, we always say we need to see each other more. But we just can't get it together enough to make it happen so I cherish the time we get to spend together at Christmas.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Copse; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Copse; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Copse; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;">There was discussion last year about whether or not the kids--meaning first cousins once removed--would continue to exchange gifts since because the kids were getting older, the presents were getting more expensive and pocketbooks were tight. We decided against gifts and my aunt was worried that because there weren't any gifts, no one would want to come. Unanimously, we told her that absolutely wasn't true. The party would still continue because we don't come for the presents, we gather because of the good company and the fun and love we share together. And just as if to put a great big exclamation point on that statement, the kids never even noticed there wasn't anything to open. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Copse; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Copse; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Copse; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;">We ate dinner and visited for a while.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Copse; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;">Then to the entertainment. My sister and I were in charge of coming up with Minute to Win it games for the party. I had never watched the game show but the internet is innundated with different ideas and we planned eight different ones. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Copse; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Copse; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Copse; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;">We didn't really have teams or a set amount of people who could play each game. Basically, whoever wanted to play, could. There were some adults who needed to be gently coerced into participating, but had fun once they got going. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Copse; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Copse; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Copse; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;">We didn't even get around to all eight games. A minute is a long time! And after playing at least two or three rounds of each game time really flew by. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Copse; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Copse; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Copse; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;">We first started with who could blow the most bubble gum bubbles in a minute. I don't have any pictures of this one. It was fun but not everyone could play because not everyone knows how to blow bubbles with bubblegum. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Copse; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Copse; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Copse; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;">So we moved onto a more versatile activity. Moving a cookie from your forehead to your mouth without using your hands. This was a huge hit. All the facial expressions and different techniques people used to move the cookie were hilarious.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Copse; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;">Then the final game of the night. Have you ever tried to knock over water bottles with orange filled pantyhose that are attached to your head? No? It is harder than it looks. But at least we looked super fashionable while we tried.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Copse; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;">Seriously some of the most fun I have ever had. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Copse; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Copse; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Copse; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;">There was more visiting and laughing and love after the games were over and we settled in and ate dessert. </span></div>
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The Beckstromshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17253550733785734836noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3118434032986038557.post-25071735112376610022013-01-30T10:30:00.001-07:002013-01-30T10:30:30.281-07:00{7 months}<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Our little "woo" as we call sweet Jane just pulls on our heart strings all throughout the day.</div>
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She is still a calm little spirit among the fray and she is so content to just go with the flow.</div>
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She is loving eating her solids, mostly green beans, peas, carrots, and sweet potatoes.</div>
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She does not like squash so much and still gags when she tries it.</div>
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She has started giving wet slobber kisses on our cheeks and it makes her giggle.</div>
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Sitting up and staying up is getting easier for her.</div>
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She has two tiny and sharp teeth.</div>
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She is super smiley baby, unless you take her to get pictures done :)</div>
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When you arrive home after being away from her, she is one of the best welcoming committees I</div>
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The girls, minus Jane here, enjoyed talking to Santa at our ward breakfast. Caroline sat for what seemed like 15 minutes on his lap, deep in thought because she wanted to tell him just the right thing to bring.</div>
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Our Elder's Quorum put on quite the bash! We had a progressive dinner with small groups which was fun to get to know a few families better. Then we had a white elephant exchange and dessert back at the ward. I was thrilled that we had the perfect gift for this party. We have toted around this gift from New Hampshire, to D.C. and back to Utah, waiting for just the right crowd. Well, why not bring it to our first ward Christmas party?</div>
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We brought The Sperm Bank that I received at a friend party years ago. It was a hit and had everyone rolling, I would highly recommend this if you want a good gag gift!</div>
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We were relieved that it went over well and that our dear friend Brooke found the humor in it!</div>
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Another real life moment that was very sad for Olive was when her gingerbread man fell off of her plate and was decapitated. I felt bad for her, but I was also fighting back the laughter because she was hysterical!</div>
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Our family Christmas parties were cozy, relaxing, and delicious. We had one with my dad's side of the family that I will post later because there are too many funny pictures! My cute parents getting the feast ready.</div>
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My mom knit these Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty dolls for Caroline and Olive. You flip them over and under their skirt is the more casual Ella and Briar Rose. The girls now sleep with them every night.</div>
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<br />The Beckstromshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17253550733785734836noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3118434032986038557.post-50591592287306765382012-12-30T21:00:00.000-07:002012-12-30T21:02:37.160-07:00{Rainbow Party}<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Happy Happy Birthday to our sweet 3 year old Olive!</div>
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She is such a silly, happy, intense little ball of delight.</div>
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People walk away from talking to Olive and they are usually chuckling because of a funny expression she made with her eyes, or something nonsense she said.</div>
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If you know Olive, you know that her favorite color is purple. She is obsessed.</div>
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As I started planning a purple party for her, it became a little boring just focusing on one color, so we involved all of the colors of the rainbow!</div>
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Olive was super excited about the idea, so we went with it.</div>
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It was fun looking for all sorts of rainbow things to spice up the party. We kept it pretty simple with fruit, veggies, rainbow jello and the cake. The circle garlands came together super fast with just a continuous line sewn with the sewing machine. On the clouds I just wrote,</div>
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What sealed the deal for having a rainbow party were these darling favor bags from <a href="http://www.papernook.com/collections/favor-bags?page=2">Papernook</a>. I instantly fell in love to have these for her little friends. </div>
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We filled them with a few little things like a<a href="http://www.orientaltrading.com/ui/browse/processRequest.do?requestURI=processProductsCatalog&categoryId=377320&sku=56/10&BP=10879&ms=search&source=google&cm_mmc=google-_-PLA1-_-56/10-_-productads-sku^56%2F10-adtype^pla-adid^16304791568&ci_sku=56/10&ci_src=17588969&ci_kw=&kwid=productads-sku^56%2F10-adtype^pla-adid^16304791568"> rainbow crayon</a>, a sparkly mini notepad, gold coins, and a few other goodies. </div>
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The cake was a trial and error process. I filled the 6" cake pans waaay to full on the first go around. Once we figured out to only fill them about 1/3 full, they turned out great! To even out the top of the cake I used the dental floss method where you wrap floss around the top of the cake and overlap it. Then gently pull it and it slices the slightly rounded tops right off to make a nice flat layer! I used this <a href="http://www.food.com/recipe/white-almond-sour-cream-wedding-cake-69630">Almond Sour Cream cake recipe </a> but I halved it because it makes a ton. And for the icing I used this <a href="http://www.wilton.com/recipe/Buttercream-Icing">recipe</a> which was the perfect consistency. </div>
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My favorite part about the cake was that Olive helped make it all. She helped add the food coloring and mix it in. She sat on my lap the entire time while I frosted it and it was definitely a treasured moment for me.</div>
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At her little friend party with all of the bouncing 2-3 year olds, we had milk in these mini mason jars.</div>
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On the invitation we invited everyone to wear their favorite color. Our cute sister Kate wore her cozy rainbow socks which were a hit!</div>
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Here is an example of one of her many hilarious expressions. She was mesmerized by this light up wand.</div>
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Olive makes everyone smile and is such a blessing in our home. She has a tender heart and has such a contagious excitement for so many little things.</div>
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She has some sweet dance moves, pretends to read books out loud in a jibberish fashion, and is really loud like her mama.</div>
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Right now one of our favorite things she does is her bedtime routine. She MUST give us a regular kiss on the cheek, a butterfly kiss, an eskimo kiss, and then a huge bear hug.</div>
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Melts my heart every night!</div>
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Happy Birthday sweetheart!</div>
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I have been wondering why I can't find the time to blog. I guess blogging was more of a necessity when we lived away because our family didn't get to see the girls all the time. They weren't involved in all of the activities that we were doing. Now that our families are living our life <i>with</i> us, I guess I just slack on posting about our lives.</div>
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I miss having more updates though more for the sake of our own memory book.</div>
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I love printing the blog out and having a book with all of our pictures and priceless times.</div>
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Hopefully after the holidays I will visit here more often! This week is crazy with something every night of the week...including Olive's 3rd birthday!!</div>
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For now, meet <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgWV882nqwA&list=UU9GHR1-kBK5JCo0u3Wx6VNQ&index=4">David Berkeley</a>.</div>
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We spent a very cozy evening with him and other friends a couple of weeks ago.</div>
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We had no idea who this guy was, but they mentioned the buzz word of "Guster", who he opened for several years ago, and we were in for sure after that. We also invited our cool sister and bro-in-law, Jamilyn & Nathan.</div>
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Right when he walked in the door I feel like we all had an instant connection to this laid back, chill guy.</div>
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As he set up all of his equipment, he was just talking to us about his day, why he flew to Utah...and yet he was hilarious! He wasn't trying to be charming and funny, but he just couldn't help it.</div>
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He writes all of his own songs and they have really amazing stories behind them. One of which is about his life abroad in Corsica.</div>
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We relaxed by the fire, chowed incredible food and listened to all of his wonderfulness.</div>
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Thank you David, come again soon!</div>
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We built two snowmen, one named Snowman, the other named Frosty. We lost power for half a day and had a cozy sleepover at Grandma and Grandpa Winegars. Fall is officially over and we have been enjoying the 18" of snow.</div>
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Gardner Village with the Winegar cousins. This is the day that my cute sister surprised us with a tiny pumpkin and said they are "adding another pumpkin to their patch!" Boy number 5 is on his way and that announcement brought me to tears. We are thrilled for them!</div>
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Another day at Gardner Village with friends in 70 degree weather. The girls spent most of their time enjoying the company of the horses. I have always loved horseback riding and would absolutely love to have horses. Dream on, I know. It was fun to see the girls be so into them as well though!</div>
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We have continued on with our joyous play school that we were involved in back in Virginia. Caroline was off early the day I hosted and she had all 7 little toddlers eyes on her. She lead the music, told Halloween stories, and had them dance. I may keep her home on the days I host and she doesn't have a short day :) She made it so easy!</div>
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Farewell Fall, you were lovely!</div>
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What a holiday we had! It was a good old fashioned Halloween, with trick-or-treating throughout the neighborhood and all. We have not just taken off from our home and gone to all the neighbors on Halloween in years! It was so fun to see what spooks and silliness went on in our neighborhood. We loved it!!</div>
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We had so much fun dressing up several times for different events, the celebrating just continued on and on.</div>
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We loved taking our flower and two little bees out on the town.</div>
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We started off the candy extravaganza at Adam's work, where they had trick-or-treating. </div>
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They went all out and totally decked the office out! One group created the Gnomeo and Juliet movie, have you seen it? The girls and I caught it on Netflix once and Caroline loved it. </div>
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Another area had all the details of Harry Potter. Fake potions, candles hanging from the ceiling, and Dumbledore was even there!</div>
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The girls scored about 10 pounds of candy each it seemed. The little girls were booking it from house to house, we could seriously hardly keep up. We were exhausted when we got home and slept in the next day, which made Caroline miss the bus. We did not even care, we were too tired to rush, we just enjoyed our morning.</div>
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We love our friends in the area. We are so blessed to have tons of little girls around that are so fun to have for playdates! </div>
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<br />The Beckstromshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17253550733785734836noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3118434032986038557.post-5821954449399662122012-10-30T09:55:00.000-06:002012-10-30T09:55:26.301-06:00Celebrating Jane<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
On September 30 we were able to bless dear Jane Terena Beckstrom.</div>
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It was such a tender day full of emotion. Being close to family has been such a blessing for us this past summer. They totally helped us get settled, adjust to our new little one, support us while Adam studied endless hours, and they let us use their cars all summer! </div>
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We were grateful that they could all be here to be a part of Jane's special day, it had a different feel from when we <a href="http://beckstromfam.blogspot.com/search?q=Olive%27s+blessing">blessed Olive</a> in New Hampshire. It was still a perfect day, but a lot more low key with just my sisters there.</div>
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It was also very emotional because although Adam's mom wasn't here physically, the feeling of her there was so strong, especially while Adam was blessing Jane. We felt so blessed to feel that spirit. </div>
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Jane's middle name is meaningful because it was her Grandma B.'s middle name. It is a Maori name and it was the name of Adam's grandpa's first convert in New Zealand. </div>
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Jane's blessing was beautiful. She was blessed that she would be a peacemaker, which she has already proven to be just with her calm temperament and smile that makes anyone feel better.</div>
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She is happy in anyone's arms and content just sitting and being loved.</div>
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She has helped me appreciate a little slower pace in our days and has opened my eyes to the speed that these busy, often chaotic, but yet pleasant and priceless days go by.</div>
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The way these three girls interact is my favorite live movie and I have been working on capturing everyday things more on video. I love how Caroline sings while she organizes cans in the storage room, how Olive says "wonderful, actually, awesome" and wants to read so bad and makes her own stories. Lastly, how Jane crushes on teachers at church and shrugs her shoulders and wiggles her head when she grins.</div>
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Thank you everyone for being a part of Jane's days and for being wonderful examples. We are incredibly lucky to be so close to you all!!</div>
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<br />The Beckstromshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17253550733785734836noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3118434032986038557.post-91342143891149223122012-10-24T13:00:00.003-06:002012-10-24T13:00:28.337-06:00Nightmare<div style="text-align: center;">
I forgot to mention the funniest moment that we had in September. We were sitting at the table eating breakfast and Adam was still sort of in a waking up daze. Caroline looked at him and said, "Daddy, what are you thinking about?" He replied, "Mommy."</div>
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Caroline thought about this answer and then quickly responded, "Whoa, were you having a nightmare or something!?" </div>
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Apparently I have left a pretty great impression on our 5 year old. When I am thought of, it is like being in a nightmare. </div>
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We laughed about this little conversation all throughout the month, thanks Care Bear!</div>
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And if you happen to need to switch your thoughts from a spooky nightmare to a dream, enjoy this crisp fall canyon. Afternoon drives are the best thing to get our little Olive to relax and fall asleep once in a while!</div>
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The Beckstromshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17253550733785734836noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3118434032986038557.post-34207102834791506832012-10-22T15:23:00.000-06:002012-10-22T15:23:02.397-06:00Routine<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
September flew by and I think there was only one post here on the blog. Now, here we are almost at the end of October, scary! September was a favorite month of mine. It was a time where things were finally calming down around here a little bit. I crave routines and schedules and September helped us get on a schedule that feels comfortable and predictable. I heart summer for sure, but there is something so calming about a nice routine! Adam is working a regular schedule now instead of insanely studying for the bar exam (which, in case you didn't hear, he passed by the way!). Caroline is so happy to be attending school everyday and has so many stories to tell when she hops off the bus. With Caroline at school in the mornings, Olive and I have a new found time with just us while Jane is napping. Olive is loving playing Starfall and learning her letters and she is such a different person without C around. She is grown up, still a comedian, and loves helping me.</div>
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With our lovely new schedule, we also introduced a darling <a href="http://www.leahremilletblog.com/?p=730">chore chart</a>. I thought it wasn't going to go anywhere, but it has been a hit! They only have 3 things to focus on: make their bed, put clothes away, and clean up toys when they are done. When I have reminded them to do one of the tasks, they seriously are so excited. It has been a month and they are still thrilled about it, so hopefully it sticks!</div>
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(PS: we really don't make them scrub the cupboards, they were doing this for fun one day. They were singing as they were doing it and it melted my heart!)</div>
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We hit up the all you can eat ice cream event at the fair one evening with my family. The best part of the night was when we took a ride on the ferris wheel! Have you been on a ferris wheel lately? I couldn't remember the last time I had and it was the BEST. RIDE. EVER! The girls were shrieking with delight and had the most animated faces and actions the entire ride. I think it will be one of my favorite moments of watching these two, it was just so carefree and fun!</div>
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Sweetest Jane is such a calm spot in our lives. She still has the most tender, soft cry and people say they love it. It really is sweet. She is incredibly smiley, even tempered, and starting to be chatty with her squeals. She loves to suck on her hands, is enjoying tummy time up on my shins when I am lying down and have my legs in the air, and she </div>
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She is becoming more and more alert every day, but still so easy to tote around. She came to the Jazz game with Adam and I and to Adam's swearing in ceremony. </div>
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The girls practice changing diapers often on Jane's changing table. They get their diaper bag and line up the babies and get to work. I am lucky to have such helpers, truly. Whenever Olive grabs a diaper for Jane it has to have Mickey and "Puto" on it. </div>
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I just love our little family! Not every day is calm and nice, there are days when I am so disappointed with my lack of patience. I am learning though and grateful for the chance to do so!</div>
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Being out in nature is like a new novel best friend for a child, they just collected sticks, rocks, and climbed all over.</div>
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I hardly heard a word from the little tykes, except when they started talking about how leaves are like toilet paper when you are out in the wild.</div>
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Being a mother of three has opened my eyes to something.</div>
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I now understand more about something I discovered while I was helping my mom organize her pictures a couple of years ago. We were making stacks of pictures for each of the 5 children. </div>
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Then I looked at my pile, truly, there must have been a box of picture that was lost in my parents move.</div>
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I had one pint sized stack of pictures. At least there were some, right?</div>
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I laughed about it and thought it was a little funny and sad that my pile was so small.</div>
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Well, I completely understand now! My picture taking days have decreased drastically, not by choice, but by necessity. I have toted the camera to so many events and not taken one shot, there is just not a free moment.</div>
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The time I spend staring in awe over Jane is no less than our other two girls. I may even spend more time peeking in at her. I have slowed my bustling days down so much just so we can enjoy her simple sweetness. I know in a moment, she will be five and on the bus to kindergarten.</div>
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There may be fewer pictures, but my enjoyment of being a mother has only increased with little Janie Woo (as Olive calls her).</div>
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I am going to try to bulk up her stack of pictures as the months go by, but if it is still yet smaller than her sister's stacks, I hope she knows that the size of the stack, is no where close to the size of the love!</div>
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This shows just a morsel of the love C has for Jane because Lover is one of her favorite treasures. She had no trouble sharing it with that little zonked out peanut.</div>
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Peaceful sleep and luscious cheeks</div>
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This was when she was still sleeping in the bassinet that my late Grandpa Winegar made.</div>
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The night celebrating our nephew Liam's birthday was the ultimate summer night, so I just want to document it!</div>
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We had the most tasty and adorable barbeque at my sister's home.</div>
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She had the hot dogs on an old fashioned hot dog roller machine, ice cream in little plastic baseball hats, and even cracker jacks! We were excited to see there are still prizes inside but they are pretty lame, like a paper pencil topper.</div>
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That didn't stop us from having a wonderful time, especially all of the kids.</div>
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The girls splashed, ran, and rolled down the wet grassy hill. They were beside themselves with how much fun they had. </div>
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I love seeing little Jane in other peoples arms, she just looks beensy. Her calm temperament has us pretty smitten. </div>
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It was a perfect celebration for adorable Liam!</div>
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We are pregnant!</div>
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The REAL announcement is that Adam PASSED the BAR!!!!</div>
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Wahoo!!! Wahoo!</div>
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He found out on Saturday and we were all beyond giddy. What a relief for Adam to have all of the hard work from the summer pay off! We are so proud of how he juggled studied such grueling hours throughout the beautiful summer, helped us move and get the house ready, and was an amazing husband and father when little Jane came, even though it was getting close to testing day.</div>
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WE LOVE YOU ADAM!!</div>
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And since we are announcing things and need some pictures to feast our eyes on, Caroline started Kindergarten and she wishes that the weekend was filled with school too. She has made lots of friends and has an obsession with one, Olivia. It is the most innocent and carefree bond, I adore watching them. They seriously almost hyperventilate when they spy each other at the bus stop.</div>
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Her favorite thing about going to school is riding the bus. </div>
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I am so glad he rode just so he could report how hilarious it was. </div>
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The kids were chanting "Parent on the bus! Parent on the bus!" They thought it was the funniest thing.</div>
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Caroline sat by Olivia and they had a lot to say..or Caroline did anyway:</div>
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C: I can't believe we are riding on the bus! Whoa, this bus driver drives crazy! I hope he is careful. Can you believe they don't have carseats on the bus? That's crazy!</div>
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I can't believe you lost a tooth Olivia, that's crazy!</div>
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Adam said she used the word Crazy about 20 times. </div>
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The next day when Adam walked Caroline across the street to the bus stop, some boys were eyeing him up and down and said, "There's that parent."</div>
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He caused quite a commotion.</div>
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She has been giddy about everything, as you can see. And Olivia and Caroline can't even get on the bus without holding hands. </div>
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I knew she would be confident and thrilled to start school. We were actually late the first day, (parent of the year, I know) which maybe was good because I didn't really have time to think too much. </div>
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I had to steal a kiss from her, and poof, she was off and loving life.</div>
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Nothing compares to being out in the open air! We have had a lot of fun adventures this summer out in the beauty of Utah. Nature does something magical for children. The vast amount of space and countless new textures lures them into a state of endless awe. </div>
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While we were down in St. George we went looking for petrified wood. The place where we explored was right outside of Zion's National Park. It was a perfect cloud cover day to keep the southern temps reasonable for being outside without a pool.</div>
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We found lots of great pieces and one is in our garden at our home!</div>
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Not only did we bring home lots of petrified wood, but Olive made sure we had all of the pinecones and other treasures she scooped up.</div>
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Another incredible day was spent in the Uinta's at Trial Lake. Adam and his dad camped overnight, and the girls and I met them in the morning. It was invigorating to be up in the mountains with the crisp morning air. We fished most of the morning and then had some lunch before we headed out on the canoe.</div>
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These are the only fish that I caught that day. I think I will keep them and be entertained forever by watching them attempt to make fish faces.</div>
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It was the perfect little getaway for our family with new sweet baby Jane.</div>
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Daddy is pretty lucky to have two little fisherkin. They had a ball and were proud of their catch of the day!</div>
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It you are ever having a bad day and are close to the mountains, just take a drive and spend the morning or the day up there and I promise you will feel 100% blissful!</div>
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And just because she was not well represented in this post and she is such a love, here is pleasant Jane, who even has a sweet cry that melts my heart.</div>
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It was just the 4th of July right? Well it sure seems like that! Summer has flown by and school started for big Kindergartener Caroline today! I love the feeling of a routine that is settling in our home, I am ready for a bit of routine.</div>
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We had a great fly by the seat of your pants summer though and I have lots to catch up on!</div>
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Little Jane is only a week old here, ah what a pure delight! </div>
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The kids took a little spin on the bikes and scooter across the street. The girls love riding their bikes, they never really rode the bike we had in Virginia, I was too lazy to get it out of the storage room every time.</div>
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Corinne made this incredible <a href="http://blog.hwtm.com/2012/06/vintage-americana-4th-of-july-party-bbq-picnic/">punch</a> that was actually red, white, and blue! </div>
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<br />The Beckstromshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17253550733785734836noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3118434032986038557.post-66365151855563097382012-08-15T21:19:00.000-06:002012-08-15T21:19:10.347-06:00Neil Leslie Diamond!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
This is what started it all. The cassette tape that we listened to and practically wore out as my family drove through Wyoming, Nebraska and other states to get to my grandpa's cottage in Wisconsin year after year. </div>
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It is Neil Diamond baby, and the Winegar love for him started young! I knew his music was totally amazing, but I didn't find out just how amazing until a couple of weeks ago.</div>
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Back in December my sister schemed a very thoughtful gift and gave Adam and I Neil Diamond tickets for my birthday. For Christmas, she also gave tickets to my parents and sister and her husband.</div>
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It turned out to be perfect timing for the concert in July because Adam finished the bar exam on the 25th and so how perfect to celebrate big on the 28th at the Neil Diamond concert!</div>
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It was kind of a big bonding joke with my family and we all had some good laughs that we were going to the concert.</div>
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As we were walking in I mentioned to Adam that we were the only people our age at the concert. He said, "Oh no, look there are some...." then he started to count and point out "one, two, three....oh there's four others."</div>
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I left totally pumped. If you have not seen a Mr. Diamond in concert, go to the next one, if he lives to do another one...he is 71 years old. I don't doubt that he'll be back though, he was gliding all over that stage and shakin' his pleather covered hips. Man does he have moves, we were huddled over laughing so hard as he opened his arms and practically floated across the stage.</div>
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He definitely knows how to please the crowd with 4 reprises of Sweet Caroline (such a great moment!). On the last one he didn't even sing, he said jokingly that he was totally sick of the song and that he wasn't going to sing it anymore (pause)..."but you can with my band!" The crowd just roared it was seriously perfection.</div>
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I thought I knew the man well. I mean, I had even watched a Christmas concert of his years ago in Chicago at my awesome Aunt and Uncle's home. We were drawn in by Neil then as we dined over <a href="http://www.buona.com/">Buona Beef</a>.</div>
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I had no idea, however, that he wrote Red Red Wine and that UB40 did a cover of it.</div>
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He also wrote the classic song sung by the Monkees "I'm a Believer".</div>
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Other classics he sung were Shilo, Cracklin' Rosie, and of course Comin' to America!</div>
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<br />The Beckstromshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17253550733785734836noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3118434032986038557.post-60085487505277331642012-08-09T21:48:00.002-06:002012-08-09T21:52:49.506-06:00Baby armoir<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Years ago I found a pine armoir that I fell in love with. Little did I know in my single, childless days that I would enjoy using it for our little girls clothes, blankets, shoes, and more later on!</div>
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I used it in Caroline's nursery, but didn't for Olive because there wasn't room in our little New Hampshire or Virginia apartments. </div>
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I am excited to use it again in Jane's nursery and the first thing is up, the clothing dividers. I have 3-12 month dividers that keep the dresses and bubble suits organized. This keeps the favorite little pieces on display for you each time you open the doors to the armoir so you can enjoy them longer than they fit! (Jane is already in size 1 diapers and almost out of newborn clothes at weeks.)</div>
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The final outcome is something like <a href="http://www.marthastewart.com/266597/organizing-babys-armoire">this</a> just for an idea of what you can do! (We are not quite that organized yet, pics to come)</div>
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I was absolutely giddy to get out the teeny tiny clothes again.</div>
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"Is it swim lessons yet?" This is what we heard every five minutes as we drove down to St. George last week. Olive is obsessed and it's so fun to see her light up when we do anything at the pool.</div>
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While we were waiting for Jane to arrive, we found some swim lessons that fit into our schedule perfectly. It was also a bonus because a dear friend of mine had her little girl at the same neighborhood pool so we had time to catch up! Jane came with 2 lessons left and so my incredible mom took the girls for the last two days.</div>
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Our girls are little fish and have no fear when it comes to the water. Having no fear is a bittersweet thing because water and children scare me to death, it can be a fatal combo. It is also the best combo when they are watched like hawks. I loved watching them do their ice cream scoop arms and dolphin kicks. Olive has taken a liking to cannonballs as well after she saw Caroline do one.</div>
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She stands at the edge of the pool and yells in her excited toddler voice, "CANNONBALL!" and then proceeds to jump into the pool. </div>
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Here she is looking like an Olympic swimmer: composed, focused, and intense....and I must say that her toddler belly is a pretty cute one!</div>
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These two little sunshines made my day each morning when I got to watch them splash around completely giddy. They cheered each other on and were so proud of each other too. In St. George we played "Polympics" as Olive said. Caroline was Missy Franklin and Olive was Rebecca Soni and they gave Michael Phelps (Adam as assigned by Caroline) a run for his money.</div>
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While waiting for Jane to arrive, we tried to stay occupied so the wait wouldn't seem so long. There are several posts that will be coming from the "waiting for Jane" phase.</div>
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One of the most exciting things that happened was Adam's big 3-0 birthday!! </div>
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I had been looking forward to this day for a long time because I had a present that I had been anticipating to give him.</div>
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A long time ago last year I saw a really cool idea on pinterest, of course. I became obsessed with the idea, as I do best, and began to get the ball rolling to make it happen. I emailed family and friends back in September and told them my plan. I mentioned Adam's big day was coming up in June 2012 and that I wanted letters with memories and things they admired about Adam. Being so early, I didn't get any response right away, but many people were working away on their thoughts.</div>
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As time came closer, the letters started coming in. I put them all in old air mail envelopes and numbered each one with a sticker number. </div>
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There actually turned out to be a few extra envelopes needed because Adam's dad wrote about a 15 page letter to him, which was absolutely tender. </div>
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So many of the thoughts brought tears to my eyes actually, as they came in and I read them. I kept thinking to myself, yes, Adam does put me and the girls first and always has our best interest at heart. Yes, he does genuinely care about everyone he comes into contact with and goes above and beyond to help them.</div>
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The girls and I had more fun watching him read the letters than we do watching a favorite movie. There were some pretty funny memories included that had us laughing really hard. It was fun too because as he opened the letters, he would begin reading it without looking at who it was from. Then he would try to guess.</div>
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I think here he is reading one of the nephews letters that began, "Adam my darling...."</div>
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Pure comedy.</div>
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I was so glad that I started pulling it together so long ago. I kept having the feeling to have Adam's now late mother write a letter. Things with her illness progressed too quickly for her to write one on her own, but Adam's sister wrote down thoughts that his mom had. </div>
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Things turned so tearful as he opened her letter and kept looking at the line "Thoughts from mom" and then looked at what was written. He did that a couple of times to figure out if his mom had really included some memories. He had a look of surprise, happiness, and mourning all at the same time. </div>
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That day he really missed her. I burst into tears as I explained how that letter was possible because it was done last fall.</div>
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The tears didn't last too long as we read the sweet and funny things his mom had remembered about her boy.</div>
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Thank You to Jamilyn for following through on a requested favor to do that many months ago!</div>
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The pictures that the girls drew also made Adam teary. He gets so many beautiful drawings from them, but he knew these were special. He just loved them climbing on his lap to explain where the balloons were and that Olive drew a backpack (he has been studying for the BAR exam.)</div>
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Happy Birthday sweets! We just love you more every year!!</div>
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She has arrived!!</div>
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We were so lucky to welcome Jane to the world on June 28th at 12:58 a.m.</div>
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She is absolutely perfect and I can't even talk about her without getting a huge grin on my face. </div>
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She was a healthy 7 lbs. 1 oz. and 19 1/4 inches long, our biggest baby yet. </div>
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She came out and took a refreshing breath and cried, which was beautiful to our ears after <a href="http://www.beckstromfam.blogspot.com/2010/12/happy-happy-birthday.html">Olive</a> gave us a scare at her birth.</div>
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The delivery went super fast, as I was just about ready to push when we arrived at the hospital. My contractions went from random 20 or 15 minutes apart to 2 1/2 minutes apart all of the sudden. It seemed like the longest and bumpiest ride to the hospital! I am glad that Adam stayed calm and didn,t speed the whole way as I was desperately requesting.</div>
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Oh she is so lovely and calm, I rarely put her down, which is why I am typing one handed right now :)</div>
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The proud and babealicious dad shortly after she was born.</div>
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We are so glad that Jane wanted to come join the fray! Adam and I stayed the maximum time at the hospital so we could just enjoy one on one time with her.</div>
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Liam and all 8 other nephews were thrilled to hold their new little cousin. </div>
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Now that Jane is here our other two babies are so so huge! Where has 5 years gone with little C? And boy are Olive's diapers ginormous!</div>
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I love how they just swoon over their new little sister.</div>
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Since being home things have been awesome! Yea there are a lot of crazy moments, or sometimes entire mornings of lots of tears, but I don't want to wish any of it away. I will take a bit drama to have these sillies in my life that make me so content to just be. They truly mesmerize me.</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After being here for six weeks, we are finally in our home. We were in a few weeks ago, but had to leave again because the odor from the hardwood floors was too strong to be around. Even after it was probably ok to sleep inside, I was just nervous about breathing in anything harmful through the night, so we decided to sleep under the stars in our backyard. It was one of the best nights sleep I've had, even with a little sprinkle of rain!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We stayed with both of our gracious parents who gladly open their homes to us. Thank you for all of your help you guys, we are so so lucky to have you!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has been exhausting, and my mood was starting to turn a bit sour with moving all over and having to kind of move our things out again after they were put in place. Also, I must be screaming EASY TARGET because someone also got into our stuff and stole some things from my drawer. Remember when we lived in <a href="http://www.beckstromfam.blogspot.com/2011/06/dear-new-york-thief-please-dont-target.html">New York last summer</a> and my phone was taken? Well, I need to toughen up my look or something because I hate feeling so violated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, the girls and I have all been on edge, but I think we are through the roughest transition. Olive was so wiped out working on the house every day that she couldn't even move the book before falling asleep. Olive has been off the binky for about 3 weeks and it was a pretty seamless weaning! We cut to snips in the end of the binky and gave it to her one night as usual. She put it in her mouth and started sucking on it. I thought the trick had failed, but after our bedtime book, she took it out and gave the binky the most disgusted look. She told us it was broken and she needed another one. We gladly handed her another one, snipped as well, and she went to bed sans binky!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Thomas cousins and the girls enjoyed all of the boxes lying around. We are so glad to only have a few left that are a little playhouse for the girls now :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She was so thrilled about every gift she opened, and she made everyone feel so good about their choice in gift. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The unicorn pillow pet has been a request since she was 3, and she said that receiving it was "more than she ever could have dreamed!" She seriously kills me with her one liners.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ahhh...to be with family was just perfect. She has eaten up every minute and has picked up right where she left off with cousins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The girls have had a lot of practice getting ready for our sweet little babe (coming in less than two weeks) by holding Nora every chance they get. I have loved snuggling Nora too and hope that some easy going vibes transfer to our baby just like sweet Nora.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Caroline's bday baby as we call it (someone with the same birthday) is our dear friends little girl Ava. We attended her party later in the week and had a fabulous celebration!</span></div>
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<br />The Beckstromshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17253550733785734836noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3118434032986038557.post-79353034842301910172012-06-17T08:02:00.002-06:002012-06-17T08:02:44.595-06:00A Father to Celebrate!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
We couldn't be more excited than to celebrate our babe dad Adam today! He is someone that the girls and I learn from every day, little small lessons on ways to be simply magnificent. Truly, we couldn't have someone better to be beside us every day. I am overwhelmed with gratitude that our girls have him to look up to and to have in their life. Even though it seems that the past whirlwind of three years has been nonstop busy, he has taken the little extra time he has had to be silly with them, explore new places, cuddle up and read countless books to them, teach them from example about loving the gospel, and calm any sadness when emotions are high.</div>
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We are so proud that he graduated a month ago after three years of pure intensity!</div>
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He has worked so hard and it has been so fun to watch him just dive in to all opportunities that have come along. We love you babe!</div>
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Happy Father's Day AND Graduation!!!!</div>
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I have been dying lately to blog about two of my favorite things, our charismatic, hilarious, tender hearted, sharp little Caroline and Olive. Oh I just die over them and can't believe how well they have made transition after transition. We are still in a bit of transitioning preparing our home from a rental to a place for us to settle again. They just go with the flow and go from Grandparents homes, to friends homes and they are always</div>
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They turned a corner several months ago where they just bloomed into the best of friends.</div>
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They love to just hide in a little spot and whisper and play, little do they know that mom is just outside of their little hiding spot listening to their cute voices. Olive likes to ask you what something is, like an animal in a magazine or book. If you say it right she energetically says, "Good job!" Also when we tuck her in at night (now in her big girl bed!) she yells as we shut the door, "Don't let the bed bugs bite!" </div>
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She was less than thrilled when we pulled up to our home in Salt Lake. I excitedly said, "Girls, this is our new home, what do you think!?" Olive took one look at the overgrown jungle lawn and flower beds and bluntly said, "It's not good."</div>
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She is a total hoot.
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Here is one of their cozy little nooks. They have their little camping lanterns that they got for Easter and they were reading under the comforter. Adam and I found them because it was too quiet so we had to go on a search. </div>
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Olive basically watches Caroline's every move and does accordingly. If Caroline pushes her own hair out of her face, Olive follows suit. If Caroline crawls into a small little closet to hide, Olive is right behind. <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJGPl3k2ZKSzRcn0WHMjo1FDmc18PE21OE1HsaRCtTfz8foO3KhgFU5y2nijj_HpMz51Hs5QSZVG9Br21ML_H0-f5jY9Mr-JDbwHlM5leOfmUq0TjFKEJnK7Wh8PHeimNwkIirGvJi3Tk/s1600/April+15,+2012+Jane's+shower+014.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJGPl3k2ZKSzRcn0WHMjo1FDmc18PE21OE1HsaRCtTfz8foO3KhgFU5y2nijj_HpMz51Hs5QSZVG9Br21ML_H0-f5jY9Mr-JDbwHlM5leOfmUq0TjFKEJnK7Wh8PHeimNwkIirGvJi3Tk/s640/April+15,+2012+Jane's+shower+014.JPG" width="424" /></a></div>
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Caroline is the ultimate caretaker. She is always there to help me, daddy, or Olive. I just melted over the sign she made and taped to their bedroom door to help keep things calm for sleeping Olive. She is so ready for another little sister!</div>
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When Olive wakes up for the morning, or from her nap, Caroline often reads her stories and Olive happily listens. Caroline also makes sure to pile her crib with plenty of toys so Olive doesn't get bored.</div>
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This darling baby is not ours, it is our first niece! (We have 9 fantastic nephews.) Caroline begs to hold her and just sits their so still and calmly and makes sure baby Nora is happy. We are so lucky to have such a helper.</div>
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Olive says she will feed our sweet baby her bottles. The other day when I had a jacket on, my sister asked Olive where her baby sister was. Olive smiled and rubbed my belly and said, "She is in this cozy jacket."</div>
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Our little one is still cooking and this pic is from several weeks ago at 31 weeks.</div>
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I am now almost 35 weeks feeling really good. I know that the second trimester is supposed to be the time when you are full of energy, but my energy was sucked dry. I had to nap almost every day to survive. Lately, I have gone all day and into the night working away moving in, organizing, planting our tomatoes and cucumbers, painting bunk beds...it has been great. The nesting bug really hit and I am so grateful that I have been full of energy. The only strange new thing that I have been experiencing is my rib pain on the left side. It's mostly when I lay down and the nerves just ache, but truly I can't complain!!</div>
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If this baby comes when Caroline did, I have a week and a half left of pregnancy. If she comes on Olive time she will be a week early. We are excited to see when her arrival will be. I am still hoping for her due date, July 4th, my favorite holiday!</div>
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