Monday, April 27, 2009

Daddy loves Sammy’s

Paris has been dying for daddy to eat at Sammy’s. So for Family Home Evening, we did.

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Okay, their shakes are just amazing!!!

Paris always orders the Banana Cream Pie Shake and Jared and I tried the Apple Cobbler Pie Shake. They are soooo good!!!!

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Waiting for our food

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Paris always gets the quesadilla.

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Jared and I had the burgers.

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We all love the fries!! Even the sweet potato fries were good. 

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After eating Tristan was tired so she decided to lay down. I don’t think it turned out the way she pictured it!

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Daddy tried to save her and Paris and I just laughed.

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Esher played the mousetrap game until our food came.This boy loves his daddy’s “Ipod Phone” as he calls it.Sammy's 014

I love Sammy’s motto…

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And you can taste the love in every bite. Our waitress was awesome too. She just talked and entertained the kids when she could, so cute!

So, daddy loves Sammy’s. We can’t wait to try their breakfast one day! Oh ya, and they even have coke in a bottle-yeah!!

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So I Guess We Have A Pet

Today when I picked-up the girls from school some friends came over so the kids ran to the front door to greet them. One of them noticed that the mommy duck was not there and the eggs had hatched. They were so excited and sad that they didn't get to see the babies when one of them …..

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heard some chirping. There was a duckling in the corner just yelling for it’s mommy. It stayed in the bushes so we couldn’t get it. I told the kids to just leave it alone until that night to see if the mom would come back for it. 

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It took the kids awhile to actually come in. I ran upstairs to take a shower and when I came out I noticed the baby duck in the back yard.

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It was trying to hide under the cushions. I knew then that if we didn’t take it in it would wonder off and one of our neighborhood cats would get it….so I guess we have a pet now. It is super cute.

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Tristan our animal lover just cornered it, grabbed it and put it in this box. No fear!

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From that moment on Tristan was it’s mommy.  When Tristan walks away she starts chirping super loud, but if she can see her at the top of the box she calms down. Their favorite thing to do together is watch TV.

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We tried to feed it worms and I think it ate a couple.

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That night they each took turns keeping it warm since we don’t have a heat lamp or anything else.

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They even had it take a dip in their sink.

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They named her Caramel, she is really cute!

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Sunday, April 26, 2009

Daddy’s Home For Good!

We are all so excited that this is daddy’s final business trip for the year-yeah!!!!!

The kids ran out the instant they heard the garage door open. They didn’t even give daddy a chance to get out of the car.

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It was so funny because the first thing Esher asked daddy to do was fix the sound on his computer. I guess he knows what daddy’s good at. And just like that it worked. We love daddy’s talents!!!

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Paris showed him his cake.

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And of course Paris saved daddy some of the batter, his favorite!!!Daddy Arrives 026Daddy Arrives 027

Tristan had to show him her “popcorn” plant.

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All the kids made “I love you” cards for him.

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Then they all got small gifts from daddy.

Esher tried his hardest to keep his eyes closed but he couldn’t help but peek every now and then.

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He ran to get his M&M car to fill it up with Skittles and M&M’s.Daddy Arrives 066Daddy Arrives 069

Tristan and Paris really wanted new earrings and that’s exactly what daddy brought them.Daddy Arrives 053

These are for Paris. When we took off the earring she has on now her ear started bleeding, so she is going to wait a week to try them on, but she loves them.

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Tristan’s ears were fine so she switched them right away! She can’t wait for Show and Tell on Tuesday. She loved them so much I’m not kidding when I say this but the whole rest of the night all she talked about were the earrings.

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The earrings are just beautiful and are real silver. I was so proud of My Love when he said he got the guy down from $20 each to $16 for both. I didn’t think he had it in him, I guess a severe pay cut will do that to anyone!!

When we were first married and travelled together he broke me from being a bargainer. I would never pay the asking price no matter if it was pennies for what I wanted. Travelling through Southeast Asia you learn how to bargain with everyone for everything!! Well, My Love started pointing out the poverty in the 3rd world countries we were traveling in and how blessed we were, so he encouraged me to try and be more generous with our money.  After his speech I couldn’t do it anymore no matter what. Even if I was being ripped off because I spoke English and had lighter skin I couldn’t bring myself to play the bargaining game anymore. Don’t tell my fellow trekking buddies that I met throughout Asia. They will hate me for hiking up the prices for all of us English speaking fair skinners. But what can I say, I am a broken girl!

The girls and us love to watch The Amazing Race together so that is exactly what we did before we all went to bed!!

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For lack of a better, more experienced, and stronger photographer (our camera is dang heavy), Esher was the one who took our picture.

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The last one was his best, you can see all of our heads!

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We all just love this guy so much!!! The world just seems so much more doable when we are all together!!!!