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Hey Mom! Check out the goods mom. You want some of these pictures? I know you do. All you have to do it make one simple call with an offer. These aren't even the cute ones. I'll be waiting for that call.

Great Grades

Guess who got great grades this quarter? Yes, the princesses did! I promised to take them to dinner anywhere they wanted to go. #3 wanted McDonald's. #2 picked, as you can tell from the pictures, Pukie Cheese. It's no secret that the devil created chuckie cheese to drive parents crazy with all the bells and ding dinging and those flashing lights don't help and brake the bank with the worst pizza in the universe! What's funny is that there are TV screens all over the place telling kids to exercise and eat healthy. All this while serving greasy pizza and mountains of candy in the prize box. You know that I would never give kids the amount of money needed to win the bazillion tickets it takes for the big stuffed rat that's hanging up high with the lights shinning on it. But they sure had enough tickets for candy and the goofy jewelry that is only going to get caught in the vacuum anyway! This is to show you how much I truly love my girls. I pulled them out of school early. Told them how proud we were of them and recognized their hard work. Smiled at the children when we got to hell. Not once did I complain. Didn't even rush them out. Didn't yell. Just sat and read. Even took the girls to McDonald's for an ice cream afterwards. Good job girls! Mommy and Daddy love you.

Strawberry Time

Every year since arriving in NC we have gone strawberry picking at the same farm. Gross Farm has the best butter pecan ice cream in the entire universe too. The kids just have to always try to out do each other in who picked the biggest berries, who's faster, who can pick the most. Dew is no help when he is the one antagonizing them the most. Eight buckets of berries. Eight! Thanks Dew. There were enough strawberries to can three cases of jam, five small tubs of freezer jam, about six gallon size freezer bags, enough for strawberry shortcake twice and strawberry pancakes. Not to mention how many berries we ate during the processing of. This year the entire family helped with cleaning and hulling. It was an opportunity to see how we worked together as a family. If these are the kids that are supposed to care for Dew and me when were old....... it'll be interesting.

The Little Gorrrrillas

My brother has three good looking and adventurous kids. Here's Gordo riding Chavo. Chavo is crazy. He's huge and crazy! The doors to the house are left open so Chavo can have free reign over the property.

All three know how to ride dirt bikes. I can barely petel a regular bike.



Now this is the princess. Daddy's girl through and through.

Jill

Everyone knows Jill! But for those of you that don't. This is Jill. My friend.
















This is Jill and Mark. My friend and nephew.

Just a taste of the good stuff

Hey mom! Isn't this a cute picture? Their are many more where this came from. That's if you have the $ that is. How much is it worth to you? Call, we'll talk business.

Befor and After

Before.

After.

This is Nana. Jill and I took one look at her and said "makeover!" Nana's hair was supposed to be shorter but we made a mistake of letting a Spanish speaking beautician cut her hair. Hey mom, remember this day. Nana and mom hadn't spoken in long time until this day. After the makeover, I took Nana with me to pick up my mom from work. In all fairness I did call my mom ahead of time and told her I had a surprise for her. Only she thought it was Jill who I had flown in from Utah earlier that day. Could have swor my mom's heart stopped when she saw Nana sitting on the passager side of her car. It was great! Hey mom, it was all Jills idea.
This is Meesa and her Josh. I like this brother-in-law too. I was lucky to get a picture of their faces though. Meesa and Josh have this face locking disease that makes it hard for them to eat, talk, breath, move without their toungs being locked together.

BABYBABYBABY

Anita sent me on my two week AZ vacation with no kids or husband, with this bear. It was so I wouldn't forget her. In no way do I think this bear can be any more handsome than our new nephew Mark. Good job Licha and Josh.

Along with new babies comes tons of baby stuff and lots of sanitizing too. Like these nipples on my eyes. Don't worry they were cleaned before I put them on my eyes. This is one of my great brother-in-laws Josh. Well I call him Jushua because my other sister Meesa married a Josh too. Who happens to have been Jushuas best friend growing up. Crazy hu?

Now this picture I love! So, I was telling Jill about this friend from Peru that wraps her baby in some funky way on her back. Since we don' t have a baby to practice with.... The next best thing would be my sisters baby! Get used to it Baby Mark. Soon you will be jumping through hoops to entertain us. Anyways. We kinda got the hang of it. Mark didn't look to comfortable though. Meesa saved Mark by buying him Mobi.

Baptism Day

See mom? I did take pictures! The dress fit beautifully and so did the shoes. Good job mom. Anita had a joint baptism with Jeremiah Harrison. As with Morris tradition there had to be a "most memorable baptism moment." Chris and Miah arrived in their baptism clothes and forgot to bring clothes to change into afterwards! It was great! I can't recall a time when when we've sang so many church hymns to pass the time. When the clothes finally arrived, it was late and Rachel didn't get to give her talk. Sure would hate for that talk to go to waste. Bishop should have her give it this Sunday for the entire ward to hear.

Anita, Alicia and Jessica are giving Marcus a makeover. Maybe I'll make copies of this picture and pass it around school for all to see.?.? Hummm.

Happy 8th Birthday Nin

I can't believe my baby is 8! 10 more years, just 10 more years...... I can do it. I know I can! Dew was just saying how fast time passes. "In a few more years it'll just be the two of us"he tells me. You would have thought that would have made me happy. I was in tears!