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Welcome to the Family

I feel like I'm already on vacation--which is bad, because I have a lot of work to get done. But still....
Let's see. Wednesday Kory and I went to the temple with Austin and then took he and Leah to The Hickory. Kory and Austin tried the Big S burger--which is basically a hamburger between two cheese sandwiches. With bacon.


It's hard to wrap your head around. And your mouth.

On Friday we took the kids to the Festival of Trees, although when Kory saw how crowded it was, he said, "Okay, we're in and out in seven minutes."
"Seven minutes?" I said.
"Okay, you give us a time limit."
"Twenty minutes."
"Okay, thirteen."
He drives a hard bargain. And I think we were pretty close to thirteen. It was wall to wall people so it wasn't that fun to look around. After that we went to the Pizza Pie Café and ate. We got home and watched the Two Towers. I was cuddled up with Kory on one side, Caleb on the other, and Chloe laid across the top of us. Kory looked at me and laughed.
"Welcome to the family."

Saturday I was babysitting for my sister, Kristi. However, I did fit in about forty-five minutes of dress shopping and think I found the one I want--it happened to be the first one I tried on. Here's another one I was considering, because it's bad luck to show the for reals one.



We all headed over to my parents house, because Jodi is here visiting with her kids and the kids played all afternoon. Kory came later with his kids and the party continued. I spent most of the time making dinner and cleaning up dinner. Kory said, "I'd love to help you, but Eli insists on watching the football game." (Eli is Kristi's one-year-old.) Actually it was helpful just to have someone watching him, so all was well.

Today I hung out some more with Jodi and Evan. Love these pics. It reminds me of the book The Napping House.






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  1. I know you don't know me, I promise I am not a weird stalker! My husband teaches seminary in St.Anthony and we have known Kory for most,if not all, of the 22 years we have lived and taught here. I am just so happy he has found you! I can tell you are an amazing woman...I have read your blog for a long time. Anyway, congratulations and best wishes!!

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