Month: September 2007

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Brooklynn’s First Scrapbook Page

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My six year old niece, Brooklynn, “discovered” scrapbooking this week. We set up her craft table in our office/scrap room so that she has her own little corner. I gave her all my scraps and extra stuff, and some of my old pictures to practice with.

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The results were amazing. She decided a couple of days ago that she was finished practicing and wanted to move on to “real” pictures. So we gave her a couple pics from the family sealing to work on. Her favorite layout so far is of she and Spencer.

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She’s learning all sorts of things about: ribbon, adhesives, rub-ons, stamps, sticker letters, coluzzle, and patterned paper. It gives me chills. For six….she is amazing at putting things together and creating. And now, she’ll always have a picture of her first scrapbook page.

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Lake Powell Trip 2007–Another Hirschi Success

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This past weekend was spent at Lake Powell on the annual Hirschi Family Summer’s End Excursion. 30 people, two boats, four Seadoos, a sandy beach, and lots of sun. We had a great time especially since we were spoiled with a 75′ luxurious houseboat. Brian out did himself this year!!! The boat had a hot-tub, five bedrooms, three flat screen TVs with Dish, and lots of other extras. Some of us stayed on the boat and some camped on the beach. We had more food than could possibly be eaten in four days, but the dinners we made were outstanding.

Of course, me being the dork that I am hauled my tub of scrapbooking supplies and created five beautiful pages. That was the best part for me. Well, playing Hand and Foot with the girls while eating peanut M&Ms and drinking diet coke ranks a close second. Adam spent most of his time in bed with a nasty cold, but he did get some exploring in. He took a Seadoo a couple of times and was gone for hours exploring the water filled canyons of the Lake.

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As for the many kids on the trip, well, they spent most of their time fishing with Grandpa Hirschi, digging a giant hole in the sand (they did get buried at the end of the trip), building sand castles, swimming, and chasing lizards. Yes, the picture of Brooklynn holding something up is a dead lizard on a stick. She was quite proud. I say quite disgusting, but she LOVES animals.

Kudos to Jaimee and Brian for all their hard work and generosity. That is one of my favorite things about them…they are always willing to share everything they have to make others happy even if it stressed them out or inconveniences them. I love that!!! Thanks guys. The trip was perfect.

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A Farewell Montero

Since moving to Logan my Montero has been used maybe 10 times, maybe!!! So we finally decided to find her a new home. The Montero has been with me the past five years. She helped get me through my Masters program. She stuck out the blistering summers in Las Vegas.  She was there on our first date, when we fell in love, and when we got married. All in all, she’s been a good little car. 

The real trick comes as Adam and I learn to share something like a car, especially since the Tacoma is HIS. Actually, I think if there was one possession he could carry into the next life it would be his 2005 Toyota Tacoma. That’s saying a lot since we all now how much he loves computers and canyoneering. Hopefully, he would choose me if it came down to it, but I think it might really be a toss-up. I better make sure it’s me who flips the coin!!!

Anyhow, we found Montero a good home here in Logan where she will get to rome the streets much more often. A young Chinese doctoral candidate bought her so he has more room when his parents come to visit from China (for three months). Be good to her James….and she will be good to you. Goodbye Montero. I love you!!! 

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Back to School (Part Deux)

Well, it’s been a bit of a whirlwind the last few days (weeks). I feel like now that the Fall semester has started that I’m “really” in school. Today I was in school for roughly 12 hours – 2 group presentations, 1 seminar, 2 after-class discussions, etc. Really a lot of fun.

Rach and I (mostly Rach) have been busy taking pictures. Rach has been getting a lot of requests from quasi-family for pictures of their kids; totally cute pictures. Go to http://www.arfinephotos.com/children.php to see some of our favorites.

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