Jenn's Project 365

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2010-02-24T09:32:00.000-08:00

My crazy life this week includes anywhere from 11-13 kids at my house :) I think they're having fun tho!

54/365

2010-02-23T09:31:00.000-08:00

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2010-02-22T09:31:00.000-08:00

Reasons I love my card swap! It is so nice to have a card on hand when you have birthday/holiday/WHATEVER come up. Can I consider a card stock part of my *food* storage?

51/365

2010-02-20T09:31:00.000-08:00

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2010-02-19T09:30:00.000-08:00

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2010-02-18T09:30:00.000-08:00

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2010-02-17T09:30:00.000-08:00

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2010-02-16T09:29:00.000-08:00

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2010-02-15T09:29:00.000-08:00

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2010-02-14T09:29:00.000-08:00

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2010-02-13T09:28:00.000-08:00

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2010-02-12T09:28:00.000-08:00

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2010-02-11T09:28:00.000-08:00

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2010-02-10T09:28:00.000-08:00

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2010-02-09T09:27:00.000-08:00

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2010-02-08T09:27:00.000-08:00

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2010-02-07T09:27:00.000-08:00

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2010-02-06T09:26:00.000-08:00

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2010-02-05T09:26:00.000-08:00

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2010-02-04T09:26:00.000-08:00

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2010-02-03T09:25:00.000-08:00

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2010-02-02T23:37:00.001-08:00

ah Groundhog's Day....is there a better movie out there?

32/365

2010-02-01T21:54:00.000-08:00

1st day of Feb = Love!

31/365

2010-01-31T21:52:00.000-08:00

This is pretty much all Nate has been doing for many many days now....

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2010-01-30T21:50:00.000-08:00

Talon - doing his best making his Mom and Dad proud!

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2010-01-29T21:44:00.000-08:00

*Where's your nose?*

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2010-01-28T20:33:00.000-08:00

Lil' Miss had her pajama party today at preschool. She was pretty excited to get to wear her PJ's all day and take her *puppy* to school for show-n-tell.

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2010-01-27T20:24:00.000-08:00

the phrase I like to use when describing maybe finally getting the hang of making bows for my girls the way I want is actually the title of I believe it is an Alabama song *close enough to perfect for me* :)

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2010-01-26T20:27:00.000-08:00

Princess Mia

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2010-01-25T20:22:00.000-08:00

my beautiful baby boy!

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2010-01-24T23:56:00.001-08:00

today we celebrated January birthdays!

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2010-01-23T23:55:00.000-08:00

Mom is bound and determined to guilt Paula and I into starting a farmville.....I swore I wasn't gonna do it but aren't we suppose to obey our parents?

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2010-01-22T23:51:00.000-08:00

tonite we had a last minute girls night out - we went and saw the 10pm showing of The Blind Side and I am in LOVE with this movie. It was a much needed great night out with fun girlfriends which was made even better by it being an awesome movie!

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2010-01-21T20:33:00.000-08:00

HA! While feeling like crap i've been reliving the early 90's via youtube. It is almost scary the things that can be found on youtube w/out even searching for very long - I think I could relive my entire childhood!

20/365

2010-01-20T20:29:00.000-08:00

U.G.H! I'm sick, 1/2 the kids are sick - we're surviving on puffs plus and vicks vapor rub!

19/365

2010-01-19T20:19:00.000-08:00

Anna lost her 1st top front tooth today, I don't think it'll be long before she loses the 2 to the left of it. She's looking quite toothless at the moment since she's lost 4 bottom teeth and has only grown 2 back!

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2010-01-18T22:09:00.000-08:00

Today Morgan turned 19 months.

we celebrated both his 19th months and Aunt Lisa's 27th birthday with cupcakes made completely from scratch! YUMMY!

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2010-01-17T19:25:00.000-08:00

the date on the tag of this hat is 01/01 - which means this month this beautiful hat is celebrating 9 years this month. I have bought Nate at least 3 other hats to try to fill the shoes of this one and he always goes back to it. His mom and sister were quite grossed out by it today so it gets the joy of being POTD for 1/17/10.

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2010-01-16T23:21:00.000-08:00

today good things happened.

Uncle Dan came over and put a new furnace in for us - we once again have HEAT.

Then our newly turned 5 Mia got to go get her own library card. She is SO excited and picked out a bunch of barbie books and then we picked out some Berenstain Bears books for Bright and us to read all together.

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2010-01-15T23:06:00.000-08:00

oh my poor baby Morgan :(

what did we do to deserve you getting croup while everything else was going on :( 6 kids and this is the 1st time i've ever had to deal with croup - it's so SO sad!

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2010-01-14T22:59:00.000-08:00

after a solid 30 years of service Nate and I received a phone call to come home ASAP that the house had a horrid smell of melting plastic coming through the vents. So we rushed home and unfortunately for us our old furnace gave up the ghost....the motor burned up and they don't even sell this furnace anymore so .....bye bye buddy

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2010-01-13T21:58:00.000-08:00

sweetest sweet cousins

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2010-01-12T21:39:00.000-08:00

card swap - such amazingly talented ladies!!!

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2010-01-11T21:42:00.000-08:00

hatred - I cleaned the boys room and this is how Brighton thanked me - he threw everything out of his top drawer looking for something......good thing I love HIM so much!

10/365

2010-01-10T21:59:00.000-08:00

and so begins the *may I?* tournament/competition of 2010!

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2010-01-09T21:45:00.001-08:00

Bright is playing the *drums* in his amazingly wonderful fuzzy pants :D

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2010-01-08T21:49:00.000-08:00

Nate and I got to go out on a REAL date :) it was fantastic!!!

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2010-01-07T21:53:00.000-08:00

Mr. Morgan has discovered dinosaurs - he does the greatest jobs making dinosaur noises and is loving all the dino's that Bright has :)

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2010-01-06T21:58:00.000-08:00

SUPER MAGGIE!!! Gosh we love this dog!

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2010-01-05T22:00:00.000-08:00

The DYNAMIC DUO! Mr. Cole and Mr. Morgan have been having SO much fun together - being good, playing nicely, being monsters and wrecking the whole house!

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2010-01-04T22:08:00.000-08:00

Mr. Coler-bear gets a new-do from Uncle Nate!

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2010-01-03T21:54:00.000-08:00

remember this post well i'd like to tell you I did a great job with that! and even if you look REALLY closely at this picture - under ALL of those clothes on my bed that I have to put away from vacation (at least I managed to get them clean before coming home) my bed is made - aren't you proud of me.

Anyway - I need hangers and so this is my 3rd POTD!

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2010-01-02T21:51:00.000-08:00

unfortunately on 1/2/10 we were in our car ALL THE LIVE LONG DAY and my camera was in the back in it's new comfy bag so these pictures were taken pretty much in the dark and with my cell phone - but they are some of the highlights - Brighton peeing on the side of the road, me eating loads of good n plentys, kids watching movies on my laptop and Belle and Bright pretty darn worn out!

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2010-01-01T00:56:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year's from (most) of our family to yours!

A new goal!

2009-12-31T08:25:00.000-08:00

I am pretty sure once I go back thru I did pretty darn good at taking a picture every day of 2009 - but I didn't actually keep up on this blog - so my goal for 2010 - starting on 1/1/10!

June 8, 2009 - 159/365

2009-06-08T22:21:00.000-07:00

I know - i've slacked off a little bit but i'm going to go back and fix that when I get my computer back.

I was downstairs tonite switching over laundry and I saw a little (at the time it kinda freaked me out because it looked deformed) bird stuck in my window well. This explained the weird noise I heard earlier in the evening outside my kitchen window.

Nate was a champ and dealt with me waking him up to go rescue the bird and he got him and put him in a box. I took the box out front and freed him in my garden (dear. Mr./Ms. bird - i'm sorry if you are a girl cuz I keep calling you a boy) and have to just hope the cats don't get him :(

June 7th, 2009 (158/365)

2009-06-07T22:30:00.000-07:00

Today we celebrated Heather's 31st Birthday. She'll be out of town on her actual birthday (6/12)

and I made this cute card I was pretty proud of so for now i'm using this picture - altho I may update and change this later with pictures Zach took :)

June 6th, 2009 (157/365)

2009-06-06T22:36:00.000-07:00

when I have my computer back i'll post the pictures for this day - it was the kids final soccer games so I can't post just 1 so i'll make a collage of their pics from the games.

June 5th 2009 (156/365)

2009-06-05T22:38:00.000-07:00

We have been having SUCH odd weather already this month. Beautiful sunshiney days with bursts of downpours. It's pretty nice actually, it cools things down nice and quickly.

June 4th, 2009 (155/365)

2009-06-04T22:40:00.000-07:00

Yay for new shelves in the linen closet - not to mention the fact that I was able to check off a big project on the *to do* list - and eliminated a bunch of stuff that didn't need to be in there and made it look all purdy!

June 1st 2009 (152/365)

2009-06-01T22:44:00.000-07:00

This was one of the girls 4th of July skirts from 2007. I did a little altering and made a shirt to go with it for a friend of mines little girl and then made a full new set for the baby. I am really going to miss these skirts. They were one of the 1st sets I made for the girls and I still just LOVE the way they turned out.

May 31st, 2009 (151/365)

2009-05-31T22:52:00.000-07:00

ok - so this post is a flat out lie but you'll forgive me right? This was taken on 5/30 but was to funny not to share.

The kids had soccer pics today - I was snapping some pictures of them while they were doing the pictures. The little boy *posing* for the picture i'm pretty sure his name is Wesley and this had me laughing so hard!

May 30th, 2009 (150/365)

2009-05-30T22:47:00.000-07:00

We had a fun night out with Jake and Rae and their girls. I think the highlight for the kids was definitely playing in the fountain with Jake. The kids loved riding on the back (or the front - wherever Jake would let them climb on) of Jake's wheelchair and he was a great sport taking them each on little rides over and over.

May 29th, 2009 (149/365)

2009-05-29T22:55:00.000-07:00

*ah....baby buns!*

May 28th, 2009 (148/365)

2009-05-28T22:58:00.000-07:00

Miss Mia in her new gap giraffe outfit made by ME! Mia got this giraffe dress last year and I never loved the way it fit her and I still had it and the matching shoes laying around so I decided to have some fun with it. We LOVE the results!

May 26th, 2009 (146/365)

2009-05-26T23:00:00.000-07:00

Brighton, the sweet big brother sharing his popsicle with Morgan.

76/365 - March 17, 2009

2009-03-17T00:47:00.000-07:00

will be updated when we get the pics from the school.

The older kids had pictures at school and the younger 3 were very sick so not a lot of pictures were taken today.

75/365 - March 16, 2009

2009-03-16T00:43:00.000-07:00

Grandpa's Funeral was today, it was hard and beautiful all at the same time.

74/365 - March 15, 365

2009-03-15T00:39:00.000-07:00

Belle was looking thru the hymns to figure out what song to sing. She was being very diligent with it!

73/365 - March 14, 2009

2009-03-14T00:36:00.000-07:00

We had a couple long days and Mia was completely worn out!

72/365 - March 13, 2009

2009-03-13T00:34:00.000-07:00

This is an older picture but I wanted to use it. Grandpa Butler passed away today and we are all heartbroken about it. You'll be missed Grandpa.

71/365 - March 12, 2009

2009-03-12T00:29:00.000-07:00

sweet boy loving his new bed!

70/365 - March 11, 2009

2009-03-11T00:25:00.000-07:00

spring-like weather has arrived for at least a couple days.

69/365 - March 10, 2009

2009-03-10T00:22:00.000-07:00

Morgan's carseat cover. Matchy Matchy, just how I like it :D

68/365 - March 9, 2009

2009-03-09T00:18:00.000-07:00

free bagels....need I say more?

67/365 - March 8, 2009

2009-03-08T00:16:00.000-08:00

After the pictures on Sat. Mia wanted Uncle Zach to take pictures of her on Sunday. I just LOVE this one! WTG Uncle Zach!

66/365 - March 7, 2009

2009-03-07T00:12:00.000-08:00

This is the bed that Nate built!

How amazing is he? We had NO success finding a bed for Brighton that wasn't a character bed so his dad made him one - in no time flat. Bright LOVES it!

65/365 - March 6, 2009

2009-03-06T00:08:00.000-08:00

other reasons she is still alive.....

Could she be any cuter? I made this outfit for my friends daughter and Mia modeled it for me - the hands on the hips and the hip stuck out, 100% her idea of what you should look like when you're posing for a picture!

64/365 - March 5, 2009

2009-03-05T00:04:00.000-08:00

look at those beauties! My new friends well i've had them a while but i'm determined we will become friends!

63/365 - March 4, 2009

2009-03-04T23:59:00.000-08:00

there are reason's Mia is still alive. Magic Erasers are 1 of them! I am not sure there is a wall in the house right now that doesn't have her name on it somewhere!

62/365 - March 3, 2009

2009-03-03T23:53:00.000-08:00

self feeding - gives mom 2 seconds to get the real food out w/out being screamed at!

61/365 - March 2, 2009

2009-03-02T23:45:00.000-08:00

Miss Mia helped make the cookies for Family Home Evening, she was determined they be pink even tho they were chocolate chip.

60/365 - March 1st 2009

2009-03-01T23:42:00.000-08:00

best.present.ever!

My goal for March was to learn better how to use this and I am happy to say that I have mastered it - ok that's a lie but today alone I figured out how to get designs from my computer onto the machine and that is HUGE!

59/365 - Feb. 28th 2009

2009-02-28T23:37:00.000-08:00

tools - the ones I don't think I could live w/out!

58/365 - Feb. 27, 2009

2009-02-27T23:28:00.000-08:00

1st teeth!!!!!!!!!! Look at those chubby cheeks!

57/365 - Feb. 26, 2009

2009-02-26T23:04:00.000-08:00

2 pics not 1. I made this and am super excited about it!!!

56/365 - Feb. 25, 2009

2009-02-25T23:00:00.000-08:00

uh oh, what's this? Who's up on his hands and knees?!?!?!

55/365 - Feb. 24, 2009

2009-02-24T22:57:00.000-08:00

don't I have a beautiful view out my back door? I love my mountains!

54/365 - Feb. 23, 2009

2009-02-23T22:45:00.000-08:00

my life line to avoiding death (and peeing my pants) daily!

53/365 - Feb. 22, 2009

2009-02-22T22:41:00.000-08:00

Baby Harrison was seriously mad at his mom for putting a dorky hat on him! LOL!!!!!!!

52/365 Feb. 21st, 2009

2009-02-21T22:39:00.000-08:00

sleepy sweet boy

51/365 - Feb. 20th 2009

2009-02-20T23:56:00.000-08:00

This is Mr. Brighton's 1st picture of a person - isn't it SO cute! I love it!

50/365 - Feb. 19th, 2009

2009-02-20T19:20:00.001-08:00

Funny Funny Belle. Belle got in trouble for doing a major DUH! I called her from the neighbors yard and instead of taking 2 seconds to slip into her shoes she ran, across the wet mud in her white socks, I told her I wasn't very happy with her and that she had to pay for the socks. Later she gave me this note. It reads (as I put it in order):

To Loved Mom, Dad
Mom i'm sorry for walking in the mud! I'll pay you back!

Love you Mom, Dad

Your sorry daughter Belle!

49/365 - Feb. 18th, 2009

2009-02-20T19:16:00.000-08:00

How did 8 months fly by so quickly?! Sweetest baby boy oh how I love you!

48/365 - Feb. 17th, 2009

2009-02-20T19:14:00.000-08:00

Mr. Morgan, sitting up so well!

47/365 - Feb. 16th, 2009

2009-02-20T19:12:00.000-08:00

Morgan LOVES to be swaddled. He sleeps SO well this way!

46/365 - Feb. 15, 2009

2009-02-20T18:56:00.000-08:00

I know SUPER ewe gross. On the 10th I pulled a no brainer and burned the crap out of my finger on my curling iron. Here it is, 5 days later and it continues to get worse rather than better I think :( As it dries out it is cracking and hurting and is SO stinking tender...

45/365 - Feb. 14th 2009

2009-02-16T08:54:00.000-08:00

Happy Valentine's Day from all of us to all of YOU!

44/365 - Feb. 13th, 2009

2009-02-16T08:51:00.000-08:00

today was valentine party day at school. The kids were SO excited for their parties and looked super cute if I do say so myself :)

43/265 - Feb. 12th, 2009

2009-02-16T08:45:00.001-08:00

Valentines, Valentines everywhere!

We had a lot of fun making valentines this year. Talon, Belle and Anna all helped me make theirs and sat and signed them all. They turned out so cute and were a lot more fun than just buying a box of cards!