Here are all of the random pictures from the month of November.
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| Wes wanted to rake the leaves in our yard for money. We agreed on the amount of $1 per hour. He worked really hard at it, but of course, felt like he'd worked for an hour after just 20 minutes. We ended up raking our neighbor's leaves as well and tried to be all sneaky about it since she wasn't home. The kids had fun helping with the service! |
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| The kids also helped in the yard at Great Grandpa and Grandpa Smith's house! |
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| We went to my cousin, Megan's house to help celebrate her son, Isaak's first birthday. |
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| Wes and Sydney had fun eating cake under the table. |
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| Grandma and Grandpa Hanks came one weekend so Dad Hanks could ordain Brian a High Priest for his new calling. The kids had fun reading all of the kids books on Grandma's Kindle. |
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| Wes drew this in his "buddy journal" that he writes back and forth with his teacher. I thought Uncle Craig would appreciate how highly Wes thinks of his Zelda-playing abilities. |
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| My dish helper one morning. |
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| Ruth figured out she could crawl up the stairs! She is 10 days shy of nine-months-old in this picture. |
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| When Brian was out of town, we made cookies with real sugar since we could eat them but he couldn't. We did still use wheat flour though. |
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| Since Brian was out of town, I had to take the girls with me during Wes' piano lesson. We took a chilly stroll around the block before it got to dark. |
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| Baby in a basket. |
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| Brian and his mom went to this giant candy store while he was visiting them in Utah. |
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| The kids were all jumping on our bed (I was helping Ruth). Ruth thought it was hilarious. |
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| Siblings. Love. |
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| One day I was using my CSI pen I bought in Vegas and it made me happy, so I took a picture. (I was planning the ward Christmas party program.) |
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| Sydney and her one (wo)man band. |
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| My cute baby girl. |
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| Bundle up ready to get Wes from school. |
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| It's just hard not to take pictures of her cuteness. |
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| Brian went to New York for work and he said one of the highlights was seeing one of the only Gutenburg Bibles. |
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| Another highlight was the New York Public Library. |
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| Sydney finished an entire 200-page workbook and earned herself a daddy-daughter date to Big Al's. |
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| Ruth likes to crawl up the stairs with one princess in her hand. When she got upstairs, she found the princess she had left the last time she had crawled up. So, she explored the upstairs, crawling around with a princess in each hand. I seriously think these ladies were the best toy purchase I've ever made! |
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| Wes wanted to help Ruth learn to walk. It's nice to have older siblings to help teach younger siblings things! |
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| Ruth loves to go in the piano room and pull up there and play. |
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| Wes at piano lessons with Sister Cravens from our ward. |
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| Sydney wrote herself a thank you note from a school friend. I don't think she even gave Bianca anything. |
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| Sydney sat Ruth down on this little stool. For some reason it struck me as cute to see my baby sitting on a "chair". |
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| Wes had a "reader's theater" in his class. He had all of his parts memorized, too! |
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| Screen time. Ruth thinks she's such a big kid. :) |
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| After Brian finished reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, we watched the movie. You can tell the kids were sucked in. |
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| Playing at the library. |
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| Brian's attempt at having both kids help put the star on the tree. They actually did nearly all of the Christmas decorating on Black Friday while I was working (for fun) at Old Navy. |
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| Brian was nice enough to paint Sydney's fingernails with the nail polish she bought herself. |
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| Baby's first Christmas! |
