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Well, it's official: my blogging has achieved "guilt" status. It is now a part of the ritualistic self-bludgeoning that I do each night as I lay in bed and rehearse my list of daily failures, "I should read more with Chelsea... I shouldn't have snapped at Spencer... I forgot to take my calcium... I never got around to sweeping the front steps... I need to blog more..."
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As you know, blogging is one more thing that every good Mormon wife should be doing. And it definitely ranks right up there with calcium. So today, I am attempting double duty: I am not only going to blog (hence this rambling) but, I ALSO went and got my eyebrows waxed which is a big plus for me because I was starting to look like sasquatch.

The following is a list (some with photos) of a few things we have done since April 6. I swear we've done more than this, but if an event isn't photographed it quickly slips from my memory into the nebulous oblivion of "did I do that or did I just read about it in a Stephenie Meyer novel?"

Here are a few of the things that I am sure happened:

Bryce turned three on June 1st.

And of course, he got some clothes.

Because there is nothing he likes more

than changing his clothes.

Here he is blowing out his candles
(and wearing his new shirt).

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Spencer caught a fish.

But there is a story behind this fish.
(No, really, it's an interesting fish story, I promise...)

Do you see the size of this fish?
Do you see the size of this bottle?

Carter and Spencer went "fishing" (i.e. some string & some cheese & some boyish enthusiasm) at the small pond here in our park where they caught several ugly fish. Carter needed to gut a fish to complete his fishing merit badge, so he brought his fish home in a bag. Spencer wanted to keep his fish, so Carter shoved it down into the very narrow opening of this powerade bottle.

The fish only lived for about 20 minutes.
Carter told Spencer it died due to a lack of oxygen.
But the coroner ruled it blunt force trauma.

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April ate something

I'm not sure why I took this picture or what she was eating, 

but apparently at the time it seemed relevant.

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We went hiking with Jon and Gina.

Oh, and Cookie came too.

You just can't see her because she likes to go her own way!

She's really on Jon's back, see her little arm?

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And, as I am sure many of you are aware,

Carter got new basketball shoes.

He worked long and hard for these shoes.
(Not quite as long as Jacob worked for Rachel, but it seemed that long!)

They are of course, signed by Kobe Bryant, which enhances their value in the eyes of some, and decreases their value of eyes of most.

But, a special thanks goes out to uncle Jon who finagled the sales price on these "no longer on sale" shoes. If you want the full story, you'll have to ask Jon or Carter. It's a pretty good one. 

(But not quite as good as the fish story.)