tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33240369128647172002024-03-12T21:57:54.035-07:00Mandy and ChrisJoy in the coming and going, watching and waiting, living and learning.Mandy and Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04137870909668187762noreply@blogger.comBlogger1284125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3324036912864717200.post-9845569058237845652018-04-18T21:13:00.000-07:002018-04-18T21:13:45.780-07:00Table Rock Hike<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We try to make it to the top of Table Rock once a year or so - and I think this was our best hike up there yet! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Chase rode in the pack for a little while, but was a trooper and hiked up the rest of the way, without complaint! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Enjoying the view!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> And this is what she looks like when she's screaming at me to hold her hand! Girlfriend knows what she wants. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> On our way down - an amazing hike with amazing people!</span><br />
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Mandy and Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04137870909668187762noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3324036912864717200.post-15923881493417617132018-04-09T21:11:00.002-07:002018-04-09T21:11:51.417-07:00Bigfoot Trap Hike<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Every year I search for new adventures for our family, and every year I think we've done them all... but we never run out of fun new things to do around here! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Our latest find was a fun little hike to an old Bigfoot trap - yes, really! Apparently the person who built the trap truly believed it would catch Bigfoot! Well, we didn't spy Bigfoot but the hike was lovely - shaded, easy enough for the kids to hike the whole way, and lots of creeks, bridges, and climbing for the boys!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> This little guy just had the best attitude! "I YUV DIS HIKE, MAMA! IT'S SO FUN!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> And this wee one walked the whole way back! "WHOA!!" she'd exclaim every time she lost her balance. It was adorable. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Love going on adventures with my family! </span>Mandy and Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04137870909668187762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3324036912864717200.post-19371611999963446212018-04-04T20:57:00.001-07:002018-04-04T20:57:23.963-07:00Musical Baby<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Isla loves to sing, and I often hear her singing this little tune... a few weeks ago I realized she's singing "The Greatest Show"!!! I love it and I could watch it over and over and over again!</span><br />
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<br />Mandy and Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04137870909668187762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3324036912864717200.post-17126687925944555002018-04-03T21:13:00.001-07:002018-04-03T21:13:29.913-07:00An End of an Era<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On Easter Sunday, Cole corned me while Chase was in the hall and whispered:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"Mama, did the Easter Bunny bring my Easter basket or was it you?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've been anticipating this question for a while. His questions have become progressively more probing and curious about "magical" things. I've always said something along the lines of "Well, what do you think?"... but I knew I never wanted to lie. And my personal belief system with kids is that if they're old enough to ask the question, they are old enough to receive a direct and honest answer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I whispered back, "It was me, sweetie."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"Was it you just this time or all the times?" he whispered, still conscious of Chase.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"All of the times."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He looked at me, grinned a big smile, and wrapped his arms around me tightly. "Then thank you for all those baskets, Mom!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This boy. His loving, thoughtful, generous heart. In all the years I've pictured this conversation, I never imagined it ending up like this. He exceeds all my expectations. I just can't believe I get to be his mama!</span>Mandy and Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04137870909668187762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3324036912864717200.post-83162835511989700142018-04-01T21:20:00.000-07:002018-04-03T21:20:36.462-07:00Happy Easter!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Mandy and Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04137870909668187762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3324036912864717200.post-25646458351129766452018-03-11T21:41:00.003-07:002018-03-11T21:41:55.848-07:00Random<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">These flowers while we were picking Cole up from school:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This piece of toast shaped like... something? I can't remember.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A "HUMONGOUS BIG BIG BIGGEST CHEERIO IN THE WHOLE WORLD!":</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Chase's face in this one!!!! Seriously, every time I'm not sure how he can "smile" any stranger...and then he comes up with some crazy weird face! I crack up every time I look at this picture!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Here's the perfect tree!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> And his ubiquitous panther!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Cutting down the tree was a group effort!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> How old is he??!! I can't believe how grown up my little boy is looking these days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Baby girl, trying her hardest to keep up with her brothers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The perfect start to our Christmas season!</span>Mandy and Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04137870909668187762noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3324036912864717200.post-43410995004792889782017-11-22T19:47:00.000-08:002017-12-05T19:47:13.090-08:00Crisp Fall Days<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Crisp fall days are officially here! I love these red-nosed faces!</span><br />
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<br />Mandy and Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04137870909668187762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3324036912864717200.post-46359296411729733882017-10-31T20:17:00.000-07:002017-11-02T20:17:34.640-07:00Trick or Treating<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Trick or Treating this year was an absolute blast! We met up with our dear friends in their picture perfect neighborhood and had so much fun walking around and collecting treats. It was Isla's first time and she got the hang of it right away! By the end she was opening her treat bag before she'd walk up to the door, and hold it open for the person to drop the treat right inside. She had so much fun and was absolutely adorable!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Art imitated life this year, so we went as a zoo. Presenting our panther, lion, peacock, zebra, and zookeeper (although, I believe I'm the real zookeeper around here!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Cole's and Chase's costumes were fine to do, but I REALLY had a blast making Isla's. Sparkly onesie? Sequined head band? Peacock feathers and tutus? Oh yeah!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> And I think it turned out just adorable!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Chase insisted on holding Cole's hand until he felt a bit more confident walking up to people's houses!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What fun - I already can't wait for next year!</span>Mandy and Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04137870909668187762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3324036912864717200.post-28138878754736086202017-10-30T20:37:00.000-07:002017-11-02T20:37:33.413-07:00Happy Halloween!<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I just love doing a family themed Halloween costume. It's such a fun challenge for me to figure out how to make everything! We were really struggling this year with agreeing on something - the last few years Cole has stated his opinion and we made it work from there, but this year was trickier. Finally, he declared he wanted a panther costume, and Chase enthusiastically agreed to be a lion (his favorite animal!) so our zoo theme was born.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This year was my first time actually making a onesie for Isla - I couldn't find just what I was looking for, and when I spied this fabric I knew it was perfect! </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Oh my - and this adorable lion. He was so easy to please with his costume - our only problem was that he didn't want to take it off! I made it so soft like his favorite footie pajamas and Chase was a huge fan!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is her "IT'S SO HEAVY!!" face:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One of my favorites is watching the boys concentrate while they make their faces - this year Chase even wrote “BOO!” on his! Favorite family traditions, continued!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Fifty pounds of apples later, we were set to go! We already can't wait until next year!</span>Mandy and Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04137870909668187762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3324036912864717200.post-41402142757676401392017-08-23T19:22:00.001-07:002017-08-23T19:22:13.318-07:00Boating at Willow Lake<div style="text-align: center;">
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Mandy and Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04137870909668187762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3324036912864717200.post-84279172840475832702017-07-09T21:01:00.001-07:002017-07-09T21:01:22.602-07:00Blueberry Picking!<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As you know, I'm obsessed with U-pick farms. We've done raspberries, peaches, blackberries, apples - but we've never made it to a blueberry farm... until now!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Blueberries might be one of my favorites for u-pick! They were easy to pick (low to the ground for the kiddos), fast to pick and not ridiculously expensive (peaches are the trickiest - expensive and it's easy to pick a ton!). We read "Blueberries for Sal" before we went and the boys loved looking for bears to share our blueberry haul.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> And Chase kept my basket well-supplied with flowers too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I wore Isla in the ergo on my back... if I ever wanted to know if she was asleep or not, I'd just hold up a blueberry...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> and her little hand would sneak up and grab it...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> and in it would go!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A lovely day with almost five pounds of blueberries as a reward!</span>Mandy and Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04137870909668187762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3324036912864717200.post-69826387144428237952017-06-06T21:04:00.000-07:002017-06-06T21:04:08.496-07:00Grants Pass Balloon and Kite Festival<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">There was a lot going on this weekend! Grants Pass had their first balloon and kite festival! Unfortunately the wind was a little too strong for the hot air balloons, so we didn't see any of them - but Cole was thrilled to see the world's biggest kite - an enormous American flag kite!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Chase felt brave enough (as long as Cole was with him!) to climb the hay bale tower.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> This awesome boy helping him down:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> So many kites!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> This kite was Chase's favorite - look at that grin!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> And the boys' favorite part was digging in the dirt! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Such a fun weekend full of new experiences!</span>Mandy and Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04137870909668187762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3324036912864717200.post-84947049987188221232017-06-05T21:11:00.004-07:002017-06-05T21:11:42.608-07:00Airport Day<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The annual Airport Day at Ashland Airport was this past weekend! I've wanted to go for the past few years but kept missing it for some reason or another - this year I put it on our calendar over a month in advance so we'd be sure to make it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As soon as we stepped out of the car, the kids were all awestruck by the helicopters that were taking off right next to the parking lot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> They even had fire trucks, ambulances, and a jump house!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But the highlight was undoubtedly Cole's and my first helicopter ride! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We both had ear to ear grins the whole time! What an experience with my boy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The boys have been planning their costumes since December! Chase loved his "Ulk" costume (it's not the Hulk, he'll totally correct you if say Hulk!!) and Cole had so much fun with the mask and shield of his Captain America!</span></div>
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Mandy and Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04137870909668187762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3324036912864717200.post-50563377437417651372017-05-24T21:16:00.000-07:002017-05-24T21:16:13.138-07:00An iPod Lesson<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This evening, the boys were having a difficult time calming down and getting settled for bed. It's been a trend of this, the last few weeks - an argument between the two of them, Chase being loud while Cole was trying to fall asleep, Cole demanding a book from Chase... and its worse at night, when my patience is low and I'm tired.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Earlier this year, I caved and allowed Cole to listen to his beloved ipod at night until 7:30 - it kept the boys from baiting each other and provided a quiet buffer for Cole to fall asleep without Chase's loud noises. It was working super well - everyone was falling asleep earlier. But Cole's ipod hasn't made an appearance in a couple of weeks, and despite my inquiries, Cole insisted it wasn't broken and everything was fine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Finally, this evening, I climb into Cole's top bunk to snuggle him a bit before bed. Something about the quiet, the dark, the before bed... Cole's defenses are down, he's more likely to open up to me so we can talk. I tread carefully during this time - I don't want to abuse the privilege of his confidence by nagging, attacking, or accusing. I gently ask him if I can take his ipod downstairs to put a new book on it - he quickly answers, "No, that's ok." "Are you sure? I have three new good ones, I know you'll love them."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Suddenly, he breaks down, sobbing in my arms. I hold him close and ask him as non-accusingly as possible - "Cole, is your ipod broken?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">He looks up with a tearstained face and the words tumble out, tripping over each other in their haste to get out. "Yes - it's locked again - I'm sorry, I didn't mean to -"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My first instinct is to hold him close. I can feel his shame. I'm so sad he's been holding onto this burden for weeks. He's embarrassed, he's worried we'll be angry with him, he's been missing his most cherished object. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And I'm heartbroken, for him and for me. You see, one of my main goals as a parent is to be my children's rock: the one they can come to, no matter what. I want my children to know no matter what, they can rely on their mama to help them. Kids make mistakes - little kids make little mistakes, big kids make big mistakes. I don't want my son to be afraid to ask me for help when he slips up and makes a wrong choice, whether it's accidentally pressing a wrong button on his ipod or making a wrong choice and getting drunk at a friend's house as a teenager. Fear of parental wrath has escalated so many situations into tragedies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I remember growing up, my parents had a rule. Anytime, anywhere, any situation, if we called them they would come pick us up, no questions asked. It didn't matter if we were drunk, if we were at an unsupervised party, if we had missed curfew. I never had to use it, but I was always comforted in knowing that my safety was the biggest importance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I'm always working on finding the balance in parenting. My latest goal is to find the balance between disciplining our children and fostering the trust and understanding between us, so they know they can always come to us for help if they make a mistake. That's my job as a parent - to help my children navigate this tricky world we live in. And how can I do that if they are too afraid to come to me for help?</span>Mandy and Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04137870909668187762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3324036912864717200.post-16875278017522243592017-05-23T20:55:00.000-07:002017-05-23T20:55:02.557-07:00Crazy Driver!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Isla had entirely too much fun driving the shopping cart the other day!</span></div>
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