Flashback

This is for the Thompson's Entertainment

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Where does the time go? What would I give to hold that cute little girl again? If only I could find something that could freeze my kids forever. I love her little curls and cute voice!

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But I guess some things never change. Lucy will always be Lucy!

(She's in time out for making a BIG mess in the laundry room, not for hitting Parker. But every time I used to ask her if she was being good she'd tell me that she hit Parker because one time she did and I guess it really stuck. The beeping sound is the timer for her to get out of time out.)

Holdin' On!

To every last minute of summer!

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We feel it slipping away and we don't want it end!

We decided to enjoy one of our last days at the one and only Hogle Zoo.

I loved being together with just my kids!

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Even if Emilee complained a lot on the way there, after an AWESOME day together she confessed that it was a pretty fun day after all! Of course! When is she going to realize that any day with her mom and brother and sisters is FUN!!!
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Summer Please Stay!!!!

Laguna Beach 2010

We stopped in Vegas on the way there and met up with the Clark's.

We ate at the yummy Rio's Seafood Buffet & then went and hit the town.

This is us all shoved in the their mini van cruising the strip.

We got some awesome stares when we all piled out.

Bret and Nic are the Vegas experts and showed us around the town.
We had never seen the Belagio fountains and we were very impressed!

My kids were a little shell shocked to say the least at the whole city in general.

Emilee kept asking when we could leave because she was scared to death by the people.

Max had his eyes closed as we would walk through the casino in our hotel.

Our road trip was much funner with hilarious texts from Bret and Nicole and stops for ice cream at Dairy Queen.

We enjoyed the rest of week in Paradise!

Grandma bought these girls their ear rings and it was probably the highlight of their trip.

These fish spent 80% of their days in the pool. And Lucy learned to swim!!!!

We had some fun adult dinners!

And we spent last week doing nothing but this...

Playing...

Eating Good...

Being with cousins that we don't see enough...

Soaked in the sun...

Laughed a lot with Jamie's stunts...

Relaxed...

(Jason was very particular about his chairs this year and would excavate them out just perfect.

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Matt was always in charge of digging the trenches to keep us all dry.)

And made memories together as a family!

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Thanks mom and dad for arranging it all and getting us there.

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We love you!!!

Lucy's Laundry Tactics

Lucy does not like emptying her laundry basket!

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After I wash their clothes, I fold them and put them into their own individual buckets for them to put away in their closets.

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Yesterday, after Lucy supposedly emptied her bucket I found all of her clothes thrown in pile in her tub in her bathroom.

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So today I told her to get them all out, refold them and put them all away where they are suppose to go. She told me this morning, "Mom I got all the clothes out of the tub and put them away."

Of course I was on the phone and so she ran out to play.

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A little bit later, this is what I found behind our couch.

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What do I do with her????