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March meets Tate

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We always start March by celebrating Natalie!  This year she had her friends go ice skating. She also competed in Brain Bowl! And then we started Spring break...Brynne brought Tate out for us to meet.    We showed him all the sights - Table Rock, the Bigfoot trap, and the flowers at Cathedral Hills. Also we celebrated  Brynne's golden birthday. Spring sports started!  Track for Natalie and Avery, and golf for Kenna! More hiking... we started remodeling the kitchen! March was really so much better than February!

The doldrums

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February was slow and cold.  Brynne went to AZ to run a half marathon with her friend. In spite of the very  dry winter we did get a snow day!  Sort of.... barely. But it still felt like this was the appropriate way to spend an evening...

Just another Missionary Monday!

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 January 2026 started off quiet - but there was one exciting thing that happened!  Kenna received her mission call on January 13, 2026!   She opted not to have a big reading with people, but instead called each family group on their own and shared her call with them.  I think it made it pretty special for her to read it over and over and hear everyone's excitement and congratulations. The other thing that happened though, before this even, is that Avery arrived from Saudi Arabia to spend a semester in the United States attending public high school.  I took very few pictures of her but here is one of her getting a tour of the high school Also, birthday lunch for a friend - I'm so blessed to have so many wonderful and inspiring women in my life. Kenna enjoying the fire on a cold winter's day I took a trip to CA with my Dad for the memorial of his cousin.  While there we had dinner with the Smith's from Fort Bragg... And drove by the house that my mom gre...