January
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| Branch snow party |
As I was fixing dinner and thinking about the RS lesson I was going to teach and Shar's pants I needed to sew before school Monday and her primary talk to help her with, I got a call to go visit a sister who was very depressed. I didn't know her very well and I felt too busy and didn't want to go. The spirit said to me "She is your sister, you go to her" and I was impressed as to what message to give her and it all ended up a really positive experience. I was very thankful for this further understanding that the Lord knows all things and also that I was able to "hear". I'm trying more to hear and do because if we don't do what we're prompted then we won't hear anymore.
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| Em and Aaron making a snow fort on the deck |
Aaron had a toothache. Our dentist moved so we took Aaron to another dentist in town. The dentist took an x-ray and said they'd need to do a pulpotomy which often doesn't take and you end up pulling the tooth anyway. Or we could put Aaron out, pull the tooth and fill any others. I didn't feel good about any of this. Aaron didn't hear any of this from the dentist nor did I share my feelings but that evening he told me "I don't think I want that dentist to fill my tooth. I asked why and he said "well I think he was real nice and I liked him but........well I just don't trust him." (I didn't even know Aaron knew what trust meant.) We called uncle LaVar in Solvang and he said "save the tooth." We took Aaron to a different dentist and they put in a medicated filling and phewww...all was well!
As I was tucking Aaron into bed he asked me if I would tell Shar that he loved her because he had told her earlier that he didn't like her anymore. He said "I made a schedule that if I ever tell anyone I don't like them, then I have to tell them I love them in the same day." He is so loving. I told him he could run down and tell her himself. He then confided in me "Mom, I am worried because I think Chelsey wants to marry me but I don't really want to marry her and I'm afraid that if I act like I like her then she will think I want to marry her." I tried not to laugh and reassured him that it would be a long long time before he was old enough to marry. He then said "but she always wants to dance with me in the gym at church and I don't want to dance with her." Life becomes so difficult when you turn six!
Feb Happy Birthday Jennifer! 14 years old!
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| Daddy daughter party :) |
Got called into RS presidency (1st councilor).
Emily & Andrew got chicken pox.
Margo invited Chris and I to stay at her place in San Fran again while she was gone so we found a young couple to babysit and we went for the weekend. I was a little worried leaving them all...especially the twins in this busy stage. It was good to get back and find the children safe and no one sick or with more chicken pox. (Andrew came down with them the day after we returned.) I was so grateful that Chris gave each of the kids a blessing before we left. Sounds like we should have paid Sharilyn for babysitting though. Terra just watched tv and ate the whole time and never fixed a meal for the kids and wouldn't change a diaper. Sharilyn did everything.
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Andrea got chicken pox really bad...mostly on her face. The twins are changing so fast. Andrea says "Hi Mama, Dada, hot, yukki, hat and peek a boo".
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| Chris Jen & Shar went on a church youth activity to Yellowstone snowmobiling. The rest of us enjoyed our time at home ...time slowed down...we ate simple and just played together. |
Emily raced in the SV Kindercup. She came in 17th (last place for her age bracket) which made me quite pleased with her because it proved she isn't the dare devil I feared her to be. She was in control and very cautious and had a great time.
Shar's birthday was a surprise party at Louie's Pizza with 10 friends. Also she begins Young Woman's! Hard to believe. Time is flying.
Jennifer went to an all day musical workshop in Twin Falls. We all drove down that evening for the concert. Also this month Jennifer walked and groomed dogs with GSA and helped blind children ice-skate. She began track so is riding the late bus home every day. I'm so grateful for a late bus. Jen also got her patriarchal blessing
Sharilyn went into town after school and sold 44 boxes of GSA cookies in just two hours! She also went to a GSA camp where they cross country skied into the Boulder yurt and spent the night. They even set up a hot tub! Sharilyn won the Jurors award for Artist Expression in a Earthday leaf. We went to the celebration and saw her leaf mounted. She won a t-shirt and $15.00 gift certificate at Chapter One Books.
Friday the 13th a bird flew down the chimney and couldn't get out. The twins laughed and squealed with delight as it flew around in a panic. I made the room all dark and let the bird find light from the door and it flew to the light.
The twins are close to walking. They are so cute and so much more work than I ever imagined. I have had to change my way of thinking. Instead of trying to accomplish a list of things each day with the twins on the side, I have to take care of the twins with my list on the side. Time keeps changing so fast. I just keep plugging along and try to do my best at what I have been given and I am happy with what I have to do.
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Chris & I and Pooley's went to Boise and got trained as temple officiators.
Chris & I went to a wonderful Olive Tree Symposium and then did a session in the Ogden Temple. Aaron was so sweet. As we were preparing to go, he told me that he was going to try really hard to not cry because he wants daddy and I to do what the Lord wants us to do because he really wants us to get to heaven. Oh does that ever touch the heart. I wish we could travel by thought so that our meetings/outings could be less invasive of our precious time.
April
Our family did a musical number for Easter Sunday and Chris & I were asked to speak on the atonement but we ended up bearing testimonies instead because President Chandler was released and Chris sustained as our new Branch President. (talks were given a couple weeks later) Chris chose Gale Pooley and Leonard Weaver as councilors.
We went out to Nasers and gathered a whole pickup full of dried cow pies to use for fertilizer in the garden. We ran them through the shredder to make nice fluffy fertilizer. We put all the bags in the back of the pick up along with two garbage cans. Emily & Aaron were in the cans! While going down the road on our way home, the lid to Emily's can blew off. We pulled over and the cars passing by were surprised to see little Emily pop her head out of the garbage can with her big grin full of missing teeth. ha ha! That night I made pizza for dinner and we found a perfect round cow pie disk and put it on Jen's dinner plate. She was a great sport and we all had a fun laugh.
Margo was in town. It was good to see her. Chris invited me and the kids to the office for lunch. I made a tray of enchiladas.
May
Emily was baptized on the twins birthday! She was baptized in the Farr's hot tub here in Hulen Meadows due to the font in Hailey being not in service. Mom & Dad Klingler came. The Farr's house is in the park in Hulen and I think it is one of the most beautiful settings in the world. It was so peaceful and special.
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On May 2nd we went over to Weaver's and had another little party because Lexie was born on the same day as the twins! Brenda and I often talked about how fun that would be if they were born on the same day and then voila!
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| Top R-L: Tasia, Aaron, Andrew, Lexie, Andrea Bottom R-L: Andrea and group pic |
It is hard these days to find time to sit down and write. I am interrupted so much even now as I write it takes me forever to get such little things done. The twins are into such creative explorations that cause me a bit of difficulty. Andrew mostly. He pries lids off things with his teeth and when it's honey or shortening smeared all over himself, hair, floor, shelves, cans etc. it's big time clean up. Boxes of baggies are emptied, tin foil and plastic wrap run races with the toilet paper. Food is played with rather than eaten and it is used to amuse the feet on the floor. They think their highchairs are really jungle gyms and often refuse to eat sitting down. I finally decide they must not be hungry and stick a bottle in their mouths and put them in the play pen for a few minutes of peace while we eat or clean up the strewn menagerie. It all sounds pretty funny now that I have written it down and I wouldn't trade it for the world.
Lake Powell Houseboat with Mom & Dad & Steve
(see next page)
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Sharilyn graduated from 6th grade. :)
Jennifer wanted to bring a cake to YW for the Peterson twins birthday. I baked one for her to take and was hurrying to cool it off because we were short on time. I must have done a really great job greasing the pan because as I was waving the pan through the air to cool it, the cake flew out and landed on the floor. None of us could refrain from laughing really hard.
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Emily at Stanley Lake:
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| Had Weaver's over for dinner and served stirfry. Afterwards I found a note that Heidi and Missi wrote to each other asking if they liked the food. No they didn't! Ha ha. |
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| Amazing drawing Em & Aaron did with squirt bottles! |
The twins were playing on the deck as I was hanging clothes on the line. They love to run back and forth through the cool wet clothes and laugh and giggle. I spread all the socks out on the deck to dry. I turned around and when I looked back, Andrea had picked up every sock and put it back into the basket. I spread them back out and went inside for a moment and when I came back out the twins were both cleaning up all the socks and had pulled half the clothes off the line and put them all into the basket with the socks. It looked so cute but I brought them into the house and went out and put everything back up to dry! They are so cute when they hear music they turn around dancing and nodding their heads to the rhythum.
Andrea was eating something. I ran over and pulled it out of her mouth and it was a couple big black beetle legs! I stepped back and stepped into something gooey. I looked down and it was the chewed up, spit out beetle body! Eeewww
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| This is the most beautiful family in the world This is our pretty Sun Valley chapel |
While Jen was gone to basketball camp, it was the Sawtooth Conference which included the company dinner at our house. I was asked to help for part of the conference again (registration desk and some activities) so Sharilyn was our babysitter and deserves a gold metal! She not only took care of our four little ones but the two Kunz boys that Jen usually babysits and then the Citrit boys would come over. They moved but are here visiting their grandma. It was such a hectic week and Sharilyn was pretty full time babysitting. One of the days I got home and she had made a tuna casserole and did 3 loads of wash while I was gone. I've decided to give her half of what Sawtooth pays me even though her job was much harder than mine. She deserves a reward! (She even prepared a talk for sacrament meeting this Sunday. She spoke about experiences of John Warren Pickett crossing the plains.)
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| Toby, Emily, Aaron, Cole |
Jen called from Rexburg (she's there for basketball camp) and talked to Shar, Em, Aaron and the twins. After the call, Emily was sitting on the sofa looking very sad. I sat down beside her and asked her what was wrong and she started sobbing. She said she missed Jen. Aaron peeked in and sat by me and joined Em in the sobbing because he missed her too. They both snuggled close to me sobbing and then suddenly burst into laughter at themselves! ha ha!
One morning as I was getting ready to go to the conference, Aaron climbed in our bed and started talking about when Chris and I went to San Francisco. He referred to a picture of a hand signing "I love you" that I had drawn on paper and attached a candy for each day we'd be gone. He told me how he cried and cried when he would look at the picture because it was something from me and he missed me. I suddenly felt so sad getting ready to go to the conference, realizing that he wanted me to stay home and I really wanted to stay home with him. I am so very grateful that I get to be home with our wonderful children! I love them more than anything! I'm so thankful for a dear husband who works hard to provide so amply for our family. We have so much and I feel so grateful.
We had another tadpole hunting FHE, this time with Nasers and Pooleys and hooray! We are growing a frog!
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| Aaron has become so good at mowing! |
We all had fun growing the tadpole into a frog and today we set the little frog free back into Nasers pond!
Klingler Reunion at Camp Manipu
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SEPTEMBER
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The hotsprings are really beautiful with waterfalls cascading down into different temperature pools. |
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| Em & Aaron in the Hemmingway School Christmas play |
I had a presidency meeting at our house and the twins were playing in the other room. I kept thinking I better go see what they were up to because they were being so quiet but I was so enjoying the lack of interruption. Just then, Andrea began to wail and cry so hard. I rushed in and found both the babes inside the fireplace, black from head to toe and ashes in their eyes and hair and carpet. They were picking up the ashes and putting them in each other's hair and it appeared that before they climbed in, they had been sliding ashes down their little slide. I can picture the poof as it hit the bottom onto the carpet. I picked them up and plunked them into the tub, clothing and all...and our meeting ended abruptly.
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