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Friday, July 17, 2009
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Still Scrappin'
As much as Megan would love for Carter to grow up to be a creative genius like his mom, I think at this point he's just in it for the free reign of the tape.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Pirate's Booty
A while back, I read about the FREE biweekly kid's clinic that Lowe's offers from our friends James and Cali's blog. I checked it out and was excited to see that they would be building a treasure chest for the next one. Carter couldn't stop talking about it the day before, even though he had never gone. They gave him the apron and goggles free, as well as the kit with pre-drilled holes for the nails to make it easy on little hands.
He was beside himself when he had to stop playing with it to take a nap, but I had a plan. He woke up asking where his treasure chest was and I said he would have to follow the maps to find it. He followed a series of 4 maps (authentically burned and wrinkled) through our house to find his hidden treasure. The chest even has a false bottom as a secret hiding place!
Thursday, July 09, 2009
The Arizona Experience
Megan's away for a couple of days, so I'm hijacking the blog today.
Those of you who have never been to Phoenix, in the summer, are missing an experience that you find in few places in this country. Today you'll get the next best thing.
Picture a nice, overcast summer evening.
Now, preheat your oven to about 300. (Yeah, you know where I'm going with this, but humor me.) While the oven's heating, grab your blow dryer.
. . . . . .Ok, the oven's hot.
Now, you're inside your nice A/C chilled house and you want to go out for a walk now that the sun's down. You open your front door (cue: open the oven door and think of that picture) to check out the temperature. (That nice warm blast of air is really what it feels like to open the door). Hmmm. It seems unreasonably hot, considering the sun has already set, but you notice the trees are waving a bit, so maybe the breeze will help. You step outside (you guessed it, turn the blow dryer on now and wave it around your face) and realize the breeze seems to be even hotter than the outside temperature. How can that be?
This experience is what kept us inside for most of our first summer here and made us wonder whether we actually had neighbors or not.
Since then we've accepted that it's just going to be hot and there is nothing we can do about it, so we've come to enjoy the Arizona summer in all it's fury. We love going to the zoo, going on famly walks, and most of all swimming! The pool is really the only thing that takes the edge off the heat and we never get tired of the water. So, if this exercise has turned you off to the idea of visiting us in the summer. No worries. Just bring your suit! We have a few pools down here.
Foho Family Reunion 2009 Part Four: Swim Party
Next on the schedule of our Reunion-palooza was swimming. 
Foho Family Reunion 2009 Part Three: Choices
After we had a big breakfast at Jim's, each person was given an envelope with $2.15 in it. We all headed to the dollar store, where we had the choice to spend our money on two things for ourselves, one thing for ourselves and one thing for the women's shelter, or two things for the women's shelter. My mom just left her trunk open with a box in it while people were coming out of the store and if you had something for the shelter you could drop it in the box.
Here's my cute momma:
It was really interesting to be able to watch my siblings help their children make choices since I didn't have Carter and Shane with me at the reunion. They are all great examples to me.
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Conversation overheard (bewtween a brother of mine and his daughter -- NOT the ones pictured above):
Daughter (admiring a box of fake nails almost reverently):
OOOOOooooooh! These are so pretty!
Father:
For you or for the poor children?
Daughter (without pause and in cheerful voice):
For ME!!!
Here's my cute momma:
It was really interesting to be able to watch my siblings help their children make choices since I didn't have Carter and Shane with me at the reunion. They are all great examples to me.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------Conversation overheard (bewtween a brother of mine and his daughter -- NOT the ones pictured above):
Daughter (admiring a box of fake nails almost reverently):
OOOOOooooooh! These are so pretty!
Father:
For you or for the poor children?
Daughter (without pause and in cheerful voice):
For ME!!!
Foho Family Reunion 2009 Part Two: Jim's Family Restaurant
My parents have a favorite restaurant in American Fork for eating breakfast at. It's called Jim's. Mom scheduled the private room at Jim's for us and we headed over for a hearty breakfast after our hour at Jump On It.
I didn't take too many pictures, but here are a few, mostly of the boy cousins hanging out at their table (with Uncle Rob).
Hey, aren't the rest of us eating breakfast?! Well, Luke wanted a burger, so a burger he got!
Alyssa is too cute!
Alyssa is too cute!
Some of the girls:
Foho Family Reunion 2009 Part One: Jump On It
Courtesy of my parents,
the Foho Family Reunion 2009 had a lively beginning. First thing in the morning, we met at Jump On It and shared an hour of blood, sweat, tears, giddiness, excitement and laughter.
Here is the entire crew assembled and ready to jump.
Luke was ready and in a happy mood.
His dad, my brother Chad, was also ready for fun.
Mikelle's hair made her fun to watch!
Mikelle and baby brother Crew (more of Chad's kids).
Chad's oldest, Cole, managed some sweet tricks on the foam board.
Mikelle and Holly (Rob's):
Julianna (Rob's) and Sarah (Russ') posing:
Sarah bouncing high:
My wonderful sis-in-law Liza entertaining baby Crew (Chad's):
My sister Marci and her daughter Cami:
Marci's son Sam:
My brother Russ and his little girl Ava:
Russ on the move:
My dad and my brothers, Chad and Kyle, resting:
Marci and Kyle:
Two of my cute nieces, Elizabeth (Rob's) and Annie (Marci's):
Sisters-in-law Liza and Nicole chatting it up:
The kids on their side vs. the dads/uncles in dodgeball:
Chad as king of the hill.
And a lovely close-up of his look for the day (grill courtesy of a grocery store candy machine):
No wonder his child was crawling away as fast as possible! (Just kidding Chad!) Baby Crew enjoyed his brief escape across a trampoline wonderland.
the Foho Family Reunion 2009 had a lively beginning. First thing in the morning, we met at Jump On It and shared an hour of blood, sweat, tears, giddiness, excitement and laughter.Here is the entire crew assembled and ready to jump.
Luke was ready and in a happy mood.
His dad, my brother Chad, was also ready for fun.
Mikelle's hair made her fun to watch!
Mikelle and baby brother Crew (more of Chad's kids).
Chad's oldest, Cole, managed some sweet tricks on the foam board.
Mikelle and Holly (Rob's):
Julianna (Rob's) and Sarah (Russ') posing:
Sarah bouncing high:
My wonderful sis-in-law Liza entertaining baby Crew (Chad's):
My sister Marci and her daughter Cami:
Marci's son Sam:
My brother Russ and his little girl Ava:
Russ on the move:
My dad and my brothers, Chad and Kyle, resting:
Marci and Kyle:
Two of my cute nieces, Elizabeth (Rob's) and Annie (Marci's):
Sisters-in-law Liza and Nicole chatting it up:
The kids on their side vs. the dads/uncles in dodgeball:
Chad as king of the hill.
And a lovely close-up of his look for the day (grill courtesy of a grocery store candy machine):
No wonder his child was crawling away as fast as possible! (Just kidding Chad!) Baby Crew enjoyed his brief escape across a trampoline wonderland.
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