Cameron’s birthday was a bit different this year. I decided to do her first “friend party” and, of course, went overboard by inviting 24 children (I know, what can I say). We didn’t keep our tradition of visiting a farm or pumpkin patch or corn maze this weekend, so we are going to do that
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Baby sister is having a BABY, my first nephew/niece (its a boy, Mason) on my side of the family and so it was baby shower time! She had two friend baby showers but my mom, sister Laura and I wanted to throw her a “family” shower along with a handful of friends that lived down
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The girls wanted to throw a tea party over the summer with their neighborhood friends and, of course, I said we shall! I mean, how do you say no to requests like that? The night before the party, Abby and I sat down to think of what we were going to do and we decided
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Distance for Davis Fundraiser in Davis County, Utah. 58% of my readers live in Utah and so I hope that some of you can make it! Just click on the graphic below to be taken to the official site. In March 2010, Davis, a 14-year-old Kaysville Junior High School Student, contracted a random virus that
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I have shared in the past how we are working towards having more “eco-friendly” birthday celebrations. Also, we want more COST FRIENDLY and more tradition oriented celebrations. We have the same birthday banner that we use every year, our birthday wreath that the girls sit under, and our birthday “linens.” I finally got around to making their
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This is a great way to dye your Easter eggs this year (by the way, Easter is in 18 days!) for whatever reason matters the most to you: it’s a fun science experiment, you stay away from commercial dyes, it is cheap AND its just something new and different! All Natural Easter Egg Dyeing Colors
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We did it! She turned four and had a very fun birthday weekend! We took 6 of her little friends, along with their moms, to go see the play If You Give a Mouse of Cookiein Orem at the Scera. I highly recommend you go to this. It was the perfect length, perfect set, perfect story line and cheaper
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When you marry a boy from the Brown Family you are forced to cook something quite disgusting. After cooking it two years in a row while being pregnant and getting sick due to the smell, I said…enough! Corned Beef. Ugh it is gross, it makes my house smell gross and I refuse to eat it.
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We are all better and have been for over 48 hours. I lost 10 lbs and gained almost all of it back after eating a huge amount of pizza when I finally felt good enough to eat. After my lovely cleaning lady scrubbed the house, I then scrubbed the house to get rid of germs. AND
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These “Be Mine Valentine Bracelets” are AMAZING (in my humble opinion)! How clever is this? You could even tie one of these around a lollipop to bulk it up as a school Valentine’s Day Gift. The “Be Mine” messages are IN the bracelet, which is just made of a small piece of ribbon and itty bitty pieces of velcro.
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