tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63514101407338742382024-03-14T02:20:31.092-07:00Spencer & KelseyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger200125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6351410140733874238.post-51896148922985842282013-06-08T16:41:00.003-07:002013-06-08T16:41:53.628-07:00A New Blog - Going Private<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I've been pretty busy creating a new family blog, and it is now finally up to date and ready to be revealed. This older blog will remain up to direct family and friends to our new site, but both sites will become private in about a week. If you would like an invitation, please leave your email address in the comments or on facebook. Don't be shy! Thanks!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Our new blog can be found <a href="http://adayinthehills.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6351410140733874238.post-57019174782668347402013-02-17T20:50:00.001-08:002013-02-17T20:51:11.715-08:00The Colbs<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Currently Spencer and I are organizing all of our pictures clear back from when we first met, to now. It's a HUGE project, especially since the amount of pictures taken since Colby was born has likely tripled the size of our folder. So we have moved all of our pictures to external hard drives, and off of our computers, which means blogging takes one extra step. So I've decided that I really need to post some of Colby's new tricks before he grows up even more and stops doing some of the cute things that only 19 month olds do.</span><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">UPDATE: Turns out our external hard drive somehow crashed before we were able to back up any of our pictures onto another hard drive..... so we currently have </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">zero</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> pictures of our life together. I'm not allowing myself to think about it so that I don't break down in tears. Thank goodness I have a blog with tons of pictures, especially of Colby from birth to now. Now were just waiting to see if someone can extract any pictures from the hard drive in its current state. Cross your fingers for us.</span></i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">1. He is saying soooo many words. He started saying mama and dada way back when, and then just after his birthday, he said his first real word, "car-car," and he's never looked back. He has always been super talkative and will talk your ear off (if he's in a comfortable situation), but it's been tough trying to understand anything that he says. By his 18 month well check, his vocabulary grew tremendously. He pretty much repeats the last word of each sentence you say and has also started saying some phrases. Some of his favorites are: melmo, ide (outside), bite, mommy, daddy, car-car, taoys (toys), elp peas (help please), bye-bye (he screams this continuously as we leave any location), sow (show), ack (snack), ink (drink), buggy, pogi (his friend that I nanny), tubby, stinky, blankie, doggy, toes, eyes, cookie, mayail (mail), Caillou (let's not even talk about how much that I hate that he knows who Caillou is... why does that show air?? He is sooo whiny it's not even funny! Despite the fact that I hate the show, it is pretty darn cute how he says that word. I guess the five minutes before Elmo comes on will get a kid addicted to Caillou. Beware parents.). </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Some of his first phrases have been: he-go (here you go), elp peas (help please- it gets me every time), tank to (thank you), bye-bye daddy, mum on (come on) and night night.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Over Christmas break he also started singing Silent Night on his own. Out of the blue one day we heard him sing "All calm, All bwight" with the right tune and everything. He also has been singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star with me as I sing it to him before bedtime. He loves to whisper "winkle, winkle." So cute!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">2. He's fairly picky with what he eats although I'm finally finding some meals I cook for dinner that he will gobble up as well including, beef enchiladas (the boy has good taste I guess), and poppyseed chicken. Like I said, he's pretty picky. He rarely will try new foods and has some pretty intense locked lips when he doesn't want to eat something. My go to foods for him lately have been grilled cheese, meatballs, fish sticks, yogurt, occasionally a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, quesadilla, and chicken. He will eat any kind of crackers you offer him. He's not a huge fan of sweets and won't really eat too much in one sitting but his favorites are plain m&m's, cookies, and marshmallows. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">3. He knows about 20 body parts. My favorite is that every time we ask him where his nose is, he sticks his finger up his nose. He's not a nose picker (at least not yet) which makes it even more funny.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">4. Colby leads us everywhere around the house by pulling our finger and saying "mum on" (come on). He especially loves to pull our finger to follow him galloping around the house. That's the closest we've gotten to having him hold our hand - he hates it. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">5. He </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">loves</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> playing with the hot wheels and car ramp that he got for Christmas this year. He also is addicted to the movie </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Cars.</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> He asks to watch it everyday.</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span></i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">6. If I say "one," he follows up with "two, swee." He also loves the sunbeam song and knows just when to pop up.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">7. Pretty good at brushing his teeth</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">8. Learning to love stories. His current favorite is "Humpty Dumpty" by Daniel Kirk which is a more modern version of the traditional story we all grew up with. I actually love the book and don't mind reading it to him over and over again. He also loves "Freight Train" which is also a cute little book.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">9. He can climb out of his crib - as of late, he will actually fall asleep during nap time 4/7 days a week.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">10. Loves to be outside, especially to walk in the front yard - kicking the ball and getting the mail. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">11. He asks where his Dad is all day long. They are best friends and it is the cutest. As of late he has become pretty clingy to us (especially his mama). He still is pretty social it just takes him a little bit more time to warm up.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6351410140733874238.post-67906041793121991882012-12-30T15:28:00.000-08:002013-05-03T14:36:49.824-07:00Grilled Cheese Grill and Voodoo Donuts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Every vacation to Oregon requires a trip to the Grilled Cheese Grill. Seriously, this place is one of my favorite stops in downtown Portland. The menu is killer (at least I think so), and everything I've had there is delicious. Also, you get to eat in a retro double decker bus... so fun! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The next stop was Voodoo Donuts. I can't believe that for as long as I lived in Portland, I had never been there before. It's such a weird donut shop, but I loved trying the different flavors of donuts that they had.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Apparently 2 pm is a busy time at the Voodoo. We had to wait in line for 15 minutes before we could order our dozen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Surprisingly, the captain crunch donut was my favorite. The rest were super delicious too, though.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We swung by Paul and Lindsay's on the way home to drop off some treats. It was fun to see their new house now that they are actually moved in! The last time I saw it was clear back in October (over a year ago), and I only saw it through the back window. :) They were closing on the house (it was vacant)... I was not a stalker.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">First is stockings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Then on to breakfast. Donuts of course.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Then it is time to unveil the sheets for the kiddos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> Colby's was all about Elmo this year. He is OBSESSED with all things Elmo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Then of course it is present time!! I gave Spencer a few seasons of the office, new headphones, tickets to go cart racing, socks and new undies (of course - he's the logical one in our marriage), and a remote control helicopter. Spencer spoiled me and gave me a new apron, all ten seasons of friends, a sewing machine case, and a new attachment for my kitchen aid. Love that man. Colby got tons of cars, toys, stickers, clothes and shoes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Christmas was a great day full of love and giving, and it was even better that we got to stay in our jammies all the day long. The day pretty much wore Colby out!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> Love my boy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This year we started the tradition of opening a new pair of pajamas on Christmas Eve. We had some new pajamas for Colby already from Black Friday shopping so I thought Spence and I should join the fun as well. Following we played NOEL and opened gifts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> Then the evening continued with hot chocolate and donuts around the table by candlelight. Grandpa read the Christmas story as well as <i>The Night Before Christmas</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I love Christmas in Oregon. There's something so comforting about enjoying the holiday traditions. I hope Spencer and I can create the same feeling for holiday traditions for our children.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6351410140733874238.post-41421823959742078102012-12-30T12:00:00.000-08:002013-05-03T14:35:27.228-07:00Gingerbread Trains<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6351410140733874238.post-28933580241738929772012-12-30T11:00:00.000-08:002013-05-03T14:35:05.710-07:00Oh Christmas Tree<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> These three were the cutest little playmates</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And I had to include this picture... they had so much fun together!</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6351410140733874238.post-55541287283317876292012-12-30T10:34:00.000-08:002013-05-03T14:34:32.853-07:00Christmas in the Northwest<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">As long as I lived in Oregon, I had never heard of the Christmas ships. People volunteer to decorate their yachts and follow a path down the rivers in the Portland area many nights during December. Since our family arrived just before Christmas, we were able to catch one of the last days of the ships. We piled in the car and drove downtown and waited for them to arrive. My pictures aren't great, but you get the idea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> This is an awful picture, but I just wanted to document how many there actually were!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> One boat pulled up right next to us at the dock. Obviously it wasn't a yacht, but it was fun for Colby to see.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6351410140733874238.post-85137695890296636662012-12-10T16:09:00.000-08:002013-05-03T14:38:10.139-07:00NOEL and Gingerbread Houses<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">One of my favorite Brems' family traditions is a game that we play on Christmas Eve called NOEL. Each player gets a Christmas paper plate, four sugar cubes with the letters N-O-E-L written on them, and puts a $5 wrapped white elephant gift in the middle of the circle. My Dad puts one minute on the timer and when he yells "GO!", we all get our crazy on. The rule is that once you roll the word noel, you can grab a present from the pile, or you can steal a present from someone else. Truth be told... no one plays by the rule... especially my Dad. In fact, I think the only person that probably adheres to the rule is my mother. It's pretty dang hilarious and we all just laugh the entire time. This continues for one entire minute... which seems a lot longer when your playing the game. Afterwards, my Dad reads one of those "Right and Left" versions of <i>The Night Before Christmas, </i>so you never end up with the gift that you finished the game with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The tradition has been carried on to the next generation here in AZ and each year we hold a NOEL game of our own. One of the best gifts I've seen here was a few live goldfish in a wrapped up box. I think only one of them survived the trauma of the game. Poor fishies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> Colby was loving his time as the center of attention before the kids opened their presents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> We also decorated gingerbread houses. Spence claims this is the first he has ever decorated... wha????!!! I thought never dying easter eggs was weird! Maybe he just doesn't remember. Like anything he does, he was pretty meticulous... and it was a pretty good looking house!</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6351410140733874238.post-48865360493981962152012-12-07T10:13:00.000-08:002013-05-03T14:34:04.295-07:00The Chicago Caper<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">In between our November adventures and Christmas in Oregon, we decided to throw together a last minute murder mystery dinner. The boys put it together and even made dinner. Each family brought an important part of the meal, making it so delicious! Everyone dressed up and played their part so well. I love it when people really get into character! I think Keegan won the prize by staying in character . :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">J.R. and Morgan; Lindsey and Keegan </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I honestly don't remember everything we ate that night, but I do remember that Spencer made some delicious parmesan chicken! Seriously, it was really good. </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6351410140733874238.post-82729704898983137722012-12-04T10:17:00.000-08:002013-05-03T14:33:18.909-07:00Magic Kingdom.... and the rest<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Day three and four were spent at Magic Kingdom and Hollywood Studios. At Disney World you have to take a ferry or the monorail to get to the park from the parking lot. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It was SO windy and cold on the ferry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This picture cracks me up... Spencer had the day all planned out for us (as he usually does when were at a disney park), and was a man on a mission.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Obviously Colby hated that his stroller wasn't moving the entire time on the ferry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">These pics are all mixed up - this one is from Aerosmith's rocking roller coaster. I forgot how fun that ride was! We could only ride it a few times before it gave me a headache though... I guess I'm too short because my head just hits both sides of the seat the whole time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Colby could ride Dumbo, Aladdin's Magic Carpet, etc (aka any ride like Dumbo), over and over again. He LOVED those rides. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">He was not scared of the characters at all. He was holding their hands, giving hugs and talking to them like they were normal people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The castle was gorgeous for Christmas! They had it covered with millions of lights and it really was beautiful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Day three was totally spent at Magic Kingdom. Colby's favorite rides were Dumbo, Aladdin, Pooh, Peter Pan, and the Little Mermaid. Day four was supposed to be all Hollywood Studios, but there aren't very many toddler friendly rides over there, so Spence and I took the monorail back to the Magic Kingdom for the night. Lucky for us they were doing a special event that evening after the park closed to start the Christmas season. They were serving free hot chocolate, cookies, and it even "snowed!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Spencer decided he wanted the job of being the family photographer during the trip so we hardly have any pictures of him with us. Although that's kind of a bummer, I am excited that I have some pictures with me in them since I am usually the one taking them!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Before we headed to the airport, the timeshare provided snow cones at the pool.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> I'm always surprised with how well Colby does on flights. This time was no exception. He made friends with the people around us quickly and even slept... dream baby!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Overall, we had such a great time and it was even more fun that we were able to spend time with my brother Brian and his family (that we hardly EVER get to see), and my parents. What a fun trip! We did Disney three times this year. The first in February (just Spence and I with some friends), then in September with the Hill clan and last in November with the Brems'. After going so much in the last year, I think I love it even more than I did! I'm already getting antsy to go back. Until next time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Our first stop at Disney World was Epcot. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> We spent most of the day with my parents and half of the Brems' girls and had a blast. One of the first places we went was the Coca-Cola shop to taste all the "Flavors of the World." They have little cups for you to sample popular sodas from eight different countries. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Some were pretty good... and others were, well.... not so good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> Look how cute my parents are! Still so in love. :) My Dad used to be a soda jerk back in the day so this stop was a request from him. I'm glad he wanted to stop because I don't think I would have even known about it. I'm pretty sure they went to the soda shop again before they left Epcot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Spencer and I usually took turns going on rides. At one of the rides in Epcot there was a great kids playing area that Colby loved. He was sooo happy. (There are not a ton of kid friendly rides at this park so this probably was a highlight of the day for him.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There is also an amazing and humongous aquarium at Epcot with dolphins, sharks, sea turtles, fish, etc. The aquarium and the animal kingdom safari ride were some of my favorite parts of the whole trip.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The second day at Disney World was spent at Animal Kingdom. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Before we jumped on the safari ride:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It felt like the ride was at least 30 minutes, maybe even longer - and we all loved every minute of it. Seriously. Even Colby!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The animals were so close! I love wildlife tours like that. My favorite animal was the okapi (half zebra, half giraffe). It was one of the first animals we saw and I just thought they were so cool looking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I love me some pretty flamingos too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Because we were there in November, the Christmas decorations were up. Each park had their own tree decorated specifically for that park. Animal Kingdom's was covered with statues of animals, obviously. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Love that little cheeser...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Before Spencer got sick, we had planned a whirlwind adventure for November. He has about three weeks off for Thanksgiving. The first week was the cruise, the second week was Thanksgiving in Utah, and the third was Disney World with my brother's family and my parents. Since the cruise went well, we decided to go ahead with everything else and just kind of take it easy. So off to Utah we went!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Most vacations to Utah include a little fishing trip. Spencer went with his Dad, Grandpa, as well as Uncle Dan, and a few cousins. I bowed out of this one - it was a little too cold for me, obviously. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Spencer is the crazy one when it comes to Black Friday. It wouldn't be Thanksgiving without some shopping and good deals. He even went so far as to print a map of Walmart, assign each adult in the family a department/job. I stayed home with the babies while everyone went out on the town. Last year it took us hours to check out of Walmart. This year, they were literally home in 30 minutes with nearly everything that everyone wanted. No. Exaggeration. I guess assigning jobs really did work!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The day we were in Ensenada just happened to be the same day that the Baja 1000 was beginning right next to the port. TONS of off-roading vehicles were lining up getting ready race. It was so loud and there were sooo many people and vendors lining the streets. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We walked around the vendors for a little while, then continued in a different direction to get away from all the crowds. I have no idea who these people are, but they must be important enough to have a humongous statue of their heads in the middle of the city.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I don't think I have ever seen a flag as large as this one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">As we got closer to the port, they had some butcher shops along the road. I would have taken this guy home for sure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It smelt rather fishy! :/</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">These gentlemen were collecting money outside the not so public bathrooms. Apparently it isn't free there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">These guys were pretty funny to watch for a little bit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This big statue was built from bones from probably a whale or something. I remember reading where they were from, but I honestly can't remember. It was pretty cool though!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Spencer was such a good sport about not being able to get off the boat. He usually slept until we got back from our adventures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This is the only picture I have of our room. As you can tell, my stuff pretty much dominated the vanity area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Our cruise ship had a mini golf course and water slides on the top. It was too cold to use the water slides (although some people were crazy and still did), but we took advantage of the mini golf course.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I'm so glad that we were able to go on the cruise. We had a really fun and relaxing time - just what we needed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Tuesday morning we woke up in the port of Catalina Island. We grabbed some breakfast, and Emily, Ben and I got in line to taxi to the island. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It really was a beautiful island, a cute touristy place. It was great weather so I ended up taking my sweater off and wrapped it around the strap of my purse. At some point of our walk around the island, I realized I had lost my sweater! So we retraced our steps and low and behold...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">... we found it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Because Spencer wasn't feeling well enough to come to the island, I tried to take as many pictures as I could so he would feel like he still got to experience it. I took a picture of this little remote control boat someone was driving because let's face it - he's a total boy and loves this kind of stuff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A lot of people on the island drive golf carts - so many people do that they even have specific parking for them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">At the end of the day Spencer and I were at the end of the boat and saw these seals swimming away from island. When I took the picture I thought they were dolphins, but when I blew up the picture on our computer after the cruise, I realized they were seals. Emily said she woke up to some seals that morning outside of their window. I'm thinking they were the same ones we got a glimpse of that evening.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This building is an auditorium of some sort (and is/was a casino) but also has a museum about Marilyn Monroe. Apparently she lived there on the island before she became famous. In fact, they say that is where she realized she may have a career in the entertainment industry. During World War II they closed the island to tourists and used it as a military base. They say that Marilyn noticed the attention that she got from the military men just walking down the streets of Catalina Island. That attention made her believe that she could also be famous outside of the island.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">With Spencer in the hospital the few days before our planned and paid for cruise... we really weren't sure if we were going to actually make it on the boat. Miraculously, he was released on Sunday night at 9 pm and we left for California at 6 am the next morning. It seemed really crazy at the time since he still wasn't feeling well, but the doctors were fairly certain that he would only improve as the days went on, so we prayed about it - a lot - and decided to go. Sara and Melissa watched Colby - he has the best Aunties - seriously though.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">We made the six hour drive to Long Beach where some family friends took us to the port. Day one was a little rough on Spence and he honestly thought that he should have stayed in the hospital, but as the week went on he slowly got better and was glad that he decided to come. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Spence got SUPER sick the week before finals in November. He was prescribed some meds to take, but they just weren't working. After muscling it out for a week with absolutely no sleep and hardly eating anything, he called his doctor to tell him that the medication he prescribed wasn't working right and he was sent to the ER with the notice that he may have to be admitted to see what was going on. He went straight from school and spent about 11 hours in the ER before they had a bed for him upstairs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Thanks to some great friends, I was able to go to the hospital around 7 pm that night and decided to sleep there with Spence since he was not looking very good at all. It was so hard to see him in so much pain... and it was especially hard to go home to Colby without Spencer. It was just the weirdest thing to know that Colby and I were at home doing regular everyday things when he was ten miles down the road sick as a dog and we couldn't be there with him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We were blessed by so many people here that week. That was one of the hardest weeks for me to date, but it helped so much to know that there were people to help take care of our family when we needed it most. So many people offered to help watch Colby so I could visit Spencer in the hospital over the four days he spent there. We were given meals, flowers, priesthood blessings, etc. and everything was so appreciated. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The weather started to cool down in October so Spence and I were finally able to take Colby to the park one afternoon without sweating bullets. He loves the swings and especially the slide. I was able to take a photography class at the recreation center this summer but it was always way too hot to bring Colby out with me to practice taking pictures. So this was the perfect opportunity. I am SO not great at it, but its a lot of fun. I mainly just want to learn how to take pictures well enough that I am happy with the memories that I've captured of my little family as the years go on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And I had to add this one in because of the face he's making. He learned what "Ready, set, go!" meant a few weeks before. He likes us to say "Ready, set..." and then he finishes with "GO!" This is his "GO!!" face in action.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">In this last one Spence reminds me so much of Buster on Arrested Development for some reason haha! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">This pic was taken in Animation Studios... yes, I know he doesn't have shoes on, but I just had to post how HUGE that chair is compared to the Colbster!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">That morning we received the news that Grandma Hill had passed away early that morning. It was a fairly quick passing and pretty unexpected so it took us all by surprise. We were sad that we couldn't be there in Utah to comfort Grandpa that day, but were grateful that we could at least all be together. Mom and Dad changed their flight plans and left a day early to get back to Utah and Brandon and Holly did as well. We all spent as much of Day 2 together as well since we knew it would be the last day that we could.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Our second day at Disney was spent in California Adventure. The day began at Cars Land trying out the new rides and exploring the amazing Radiator Springs. It really feels like you are walking into the movie when you turn to go down that street. Cars Land is still so new that the fast passes for any of the rides are all taken by 10 am. We were able to use baby swap passes for most of the rides so it didn't make too much of a difference for our group. The babies couldn't go on the first ride of the morning so they all hung out together with a few Aunts and Uncles.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">After taking all of our family photos with Mickey, the camera man finally noticed Russell's little tummy. Silly boy!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">Passed out on Mom's shoulder during Pirate's of the Caribbean. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">We got home from Disney and waited until midnight so we could find out who won the Epic Room Makeover Giveaway. I had totally convinced myself that I was not going to win because I didn't want to be completely bummed if I didn't. All the Hill's that were still awake gathered in Mom and Dad's hotel room and waited until the final results were posted. Mandi had sent out an email to the top ten saying that she would announce the winner in a blog post at 12:00 am since the linky that keeps track of the votes would automatically display the person who won by showing how many votes that person had over the entire week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">We waited and waited and waited... and there was no blog post. I looked on the linky and my picture thumbnail was the only one that had a number of votes underneath it, so I thought that <i>maybe</i> by some miracle I had won! BUT, I couldn't be sure or let myself really believe that I had won until I saw the blog post myself. :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">12:10 am, still no blog post, so Spence leaked the news that he had talked to Mandi a few hours before and sure enough, I had won!!!!! I still was slightly in denial, but couldn't believe that we had done it! We had spent the entire last week thinking, breathing, dreaming about how to get more votes, and it finally paid off!! A few minutes later, the blog post appeared and officially showed that I was the winner. The next morning I talked to Mandi and the planning had begun. We had a crazy few days ahead of us, but we were both excited.</span></td></tr>
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