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My friend Becky had this on her blog and I thought it was so neat. So, I uploaded this picture to this Dumpr website and look what it did! Very Cool! I printed a few pictures out for the boys to color during church. We will see tomorrow if it keeps them interested.

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Boating

We finally got to take the boat out. We took the Cherrington's with us and had tons of fun! I left Georgia with my friend Linda, I owe her big time! All the kids went tubing. Adam, Janet and Dallin went on the knee board. Here are some pictures and video's of our adventure. Turn your volume off when watching the video's so you don't have to hear my high pitched voice getting excited for Dallin!

Dallin's first try on the knee board ever!


Dallin's second try on the knee board, he did it!

Here is Hannah, happy as can be, she just got off the tube. Her second run on the tube wasn't as fun though. She got flipped off and stuck under the tube. It was pretty scary.

Janet was sporting the cutest glasses. She did awesome driving the boat, better than I did! We are gearing ourselves up to take the boat out with the kids and no husbands!
Here is cute little Aubrey, she had tons of fun on the tube as well.
This is Adam and Aubrey coming in off the tube. The tube can sit three people and it stays right behind the boat. It was hard to get it to go over the wake. It is a pretty big tube.
Dallin, Parker, and Conner. Parker and Conner kept doing thumbs down, wanting to go slower. Dallin kept giving us thumbs up to go faster. He is a little dare devil!

Dallin and Conner enjoying the ride!
Me driving, watch out!

Crumb Snatcher's Army Crawl!

Georgia will be 10 months old tomorrow. Here she is trying her best to crawl. I try to keep the "Baby Legs" on her so the carpet doesn't bother her knees. Or I will lay out her favorite soft blankie so she doesn't have to crawl on the scratchy carpet.

She was after her pink monkey. Dallin won it at Lagoon and Georgia likes to laugh at it and snuggle it. She does this also with her Panda and her Lion. It is so sweet to watch.

The boys are learning quickly that they have to keep video games and lego's picked up or else they either disappear or get ruined by the little "Crumb Snatcher" as we like to call her.

Family Photos

Here are a few more of our family photos taken by Dan and Katie Moss of Peek A Boo Photos. They turned out sooooo cute, don't you think!

A lesson to learn...

James assigned the boys the chore of doing dishes. When he tells them to do something they have a better chance of doing it than if I tell them to do it. For some reason the dishes were not coming out of the dish washer very clean. I noticed the boys put a bowl of macaroni and cheese into the dishwasher. They must have thought that the dishes didn't need to be rinsed, they would magically be washed in the dishwasher. James said I need to make doing chores fun for the boys so I decided that they needed to be taught how to do the dishes, so I taught them and we had tons of fun and filled up the dishwasher. Low and behold there were still more dishes so we did them by hand. The boys had so much fun doing the dishes by hand, they preferred to do them by hand. Anyway, they now know how to load the dishwasher and wash dishes by hand. And they do a pretty good job at it. What is it with boys and walking around the house in their underwear? Here they are doing the dishes in their underwear!

Georgia playing around

Poor little Georgia is just so sweet playing around, showing off her moves, and she takes a spill in the end. She bonked her head and the video quickly ended. She cried for 10 seconds though and was fine.

Another fun week.

We had another fun week, kind of doing the same things we already did. Because we bought the season pass to the Children's Gateway Discovery Museum we decided to take some friends with us this time. This is Caleb, Kylie, Conner, Dallin, and Matthew. Dallin and Matthew were in kindergarten together and they now do karate together. Kylie and Caleb are Matthew's siblings. They all get along really well and we had tons of fun at the museum.

Doesn't Georgia look so big in this car? Time flies!

Georgia loved playing with the balls. She loves collections of things. If I give her a pile of popsicle sticks, beans, spools of ribbon, "suckies", balls, anything she gets so excited.


On the Fourth of July we decided to just relax. So we went over to the Army pool and swam for a couple of hours. Here is the only picture I got. I didn't realize I had my camera until we were getting ready to leave. Georgia loved the water and kicking her legs. We sang "I'm a little fishy, under the sea, I'm a little fishy, 1-2-3" and dunked her under the water. She wasn't sure what to think. The first time she was a little surprised but didn't cry. The second time she fussed a little but was fine.

Finally, we took the boat out of the garage. Next step is getting it to the lake! I am a little nervous taking it out because I don't know exactly what I am doing yet. Here are the kids relaxing on the tube. I wanted to make sure it would still hold air because over the winter we had a stray cat that kept sneaking into the garage and sleeping in the boat. I don't know if it punctured any of the tubes. Better check before I get them out on the lake.

Pictures from Mexico

Finally, here are some pictures from our trip to California and Mexico. This is Georgia on the ferris wheel at the Pike in San Diego.

This is James on the taxi in Puerto Vallarta. He bought this cool hat from some Mexican guy that hand made it. We almost weren't allowed to take it off the ship because of Custom's, but you know James he can talk anyone into anything.

This is my hot husband with my adorable kids, Dallin and Conner and my cute brother Jesse (18 years old) in the waves in Cabo San Lucas.

Here is James, Conner, Dallin and Georgia swimming at the hotel pool.

Conner loved the waves, we couldn't get him out of them. He is such a good swimmer too.

Here is Conner boogie boarding, Uncle Rick showed him how and he and Dallin picked it up quickly.

My new online store!

I did it! I opened an online home-made store at Etsy.com. You can check me out at MariahMade.etsy.com (just click on that, and it will take you there) I am filling up my store as quickly as I can with lots of cute things. I will be adding new things so check in with me often to see what's new.

My sweet husband made the banner on my Etsy site and came up with the store's name. He also made this fun picture (above) to announce the opening of my shop. Thanks sweetie, I love everything. You did a great job!

Here are just two of the items in my shop. Baby Bows (above) for bald babies. I was buying these for Georgia and realized I could make them easily myself. That was the start! Below are some pink flower hair clips.

If you want to order something you can just call me so you don't have to pay for shipping!

Lagoon!

Summer Fun! Some friends of ours, Gabe and Brandi, gave us some tickets to Lagoon! James, Conner and I went once before when Conner was about 10 months old. That didn't really count though because we didn't go on any of the fun rides. Here is a picture of me and Georgia. She was pretty good most of the day.

This is Dallin, Tavener, Conner and Chloe. Tavener is Gabe and Brandi's son and Chloe is a friend of ours that comes over every Thursday and Friday while her mom is at work.

This is Dallin and Chloe going on the "Ladybug Bop."

This is Gabe, Chloe, Conner and Mallory on the "Mouse Trap." All the kids loved this one.



It got pretty hot there so we let the kids play in the water fountains. They are in the very middle of the water squirting up. It cooled them down and they dried off quickly in the sun. It was tons of fun for them.

Here is sweet little Georgia, what a trooper, hanging out in her stroller all day. We were there from 11AM and didn't get home till about 11PM. It was a long, fun day!

Busy Week!

This has been a BUSY week, but we had tons of fun. Where do I begin...

As the ward Humanitarian Leader I had to be at the church all day Wednesday for our Humanitarian Day. We quilted for 12 hours and collected baby items to donate to the Pregnancy Resource Center. It was a long day but well worth it. Georgia was an angel the whole day, she rolled around the gym in her walker all day and played. The boys were gone most of the time at a friends house. Here is a picture of me and Janet in front of a quilt we were working on.

A sweet lady let Dallin help her on the serger! He got to serge several bandages that are going to be sent to Africa. He did a great job and was proud of himself.


All week Dallin has been attending Karate Camp - Weapons. He spent at least 5 hours a day learning the Bo Staff. On the last day he spent 9 hours in training. At the end of the week he promoted to a purple belt. He was so tired and worn out each day but didn't get crabby at all. I am so proud of him and for all his hard work. Great job Dallin!

On Saturday we entered sweet little Georgia in the Provo Freedom Festival Baby Contest. She was in the girls-age category and the costume category. I made her this cute tutu dress so she would look like a flag. I guess they didn't like it enough because she didn't win. That's okay because we think she is adorable anyway. Here is a picture of her at the judging table.

And last but not least, Conner and Dallin were in the Saratoga Springs parade. They got to sit in the back of Dallas and Arlynn's truck in their karate uniforms. They threw out candy and had a blast.

I hope next week slows down. We need a little break. The suburban broke down and needs a new fuel pump so we probably won't be going anywhere. I have the truck just in case. I am so tired, hope I'm making sense.

Georgia update

Georgia is nine months old today!

She is still not crawling which is fine with me. I think once she does start crawling she will be more happier. Right now she wants to touch and eat everything.
Georgia had her tubes put in her ears on Tuesday and ever since then she takes naps. Before she would only doze off when I nursed her. Now she will take two 1 hour naps. Yeah! I can't believe how much I can get done in that short amount of time.
They say when a baby is about 4 months you can start to let them cry themselves to sleep. Well that is when she started getting her several ear infections so I kept putting the sleep training off. Now that she is feeling better I just lay her in her bed, let her cry, and 15-20 minutes later she is out. I hate the crying part, I am hoping soon she will stop the crying and know it is time to go to sleep.
She is such a sweetie, I am having so much fun with her and her brothers. I love them all. They are great kids!

Gateway Discovery Museum

Summer is finally here! We took our first summer field trip yesterday to the Gateway Children's Discovery Museum. The kids had tons of fun. We went there a few years ago and loved it. It is perfect for any age. The boys had tons of fun and Georgia couldn't get enough. Usually I can get Georgia to look straight into the camera when I take her picture but she was so curious I couldn't get her to look at me.

Georgia playing with the toys and rocking on the blue doggy!

Conner collecting balls to send up the tubes.

Dallin operating the crane.

We bought a six month season pass so now we can go there whenever we want. It's a perfect summer activity for a too hot day!

Recovering

I am still alive! I am just recovering from vacation and having you know who home for a couple of weeks. We had an awesome vacation on the Royal Carribean Cruise to Puerto Vallarta, Cabo San Lucas, and Mazatlan, Mexico. We met up with my step-dads side of the family. There were, I think, 36 of us. It was tons of fun and the kids had a blast. I bet you want to see pictures, well since James forgot to save them onto my computer I can't post any here. But he did put some up on our family website. Click on mariahandjames.org and click on Sanders Reunion. You will see a cute picture of my little mexican girl. James is still adding words to that page but you can at least see the pictures. The other pages on our website are mostly outdated except for the Iraq page. Anyway have fun looking.

Mexico or bust!

We are leaving for Mexico tomorrow! I'll post pictures when I get back.

Which Disney Princess are you?

You Are Aurora! (A.K.A. Sleeping Beauty.)

Thoughtful and loving. Authority figures probably have been sheltering you all of your life. Thankfully you're a very tranquil person who is content with what life has given you, but secretly you want to know how the outside world works.

Which Disney Princess Are You?

Hours of Entertainment!

I found this box of beans in storage recently. When Dallin was a baby we would let him sit in it and he would play with the beans forever. So when I found the box I had to get it out for Georgia. As long as her pacifier is in her mouth she won't eat the beans. As soon as her "suckie" falls out her hands, full of beans, immediately goes to her mouth. Obviously, I have to supervise her, but she could play in these beans all day! What fun.