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Rocket Videos

All the videos I took of the rocket launch day were duds!  So here's a fun one...

And here's a couple of the failed rocket launches...

Parker took the lead to help with the launch. 

Yoda was perched from a play structure.  Greg and Mimi were using trigonometry to calculate how high the rockets went. 

bouncing off the walls

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Breaking the ice

It was a warmish day and no one had plans for an hour or so, so we hauled everyone to the park.  They pretended to be upset, but then there was all this ice to play with.

Another Swing

Yoda wanted to show how far he can jump off a swing!

Swing

Mimi loves this swing.

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We could get home late from something and she'll sweetly ask, "but can a swing just for a little while?"  It could be very cold and she'll bundle up to get outside and swing.  If we can't find her in the house, we can find her in the yard.  More then one neighbor has commented on how cute it is. 

Musical

Mimi is trying out for a play today!  She asked Parker to help her rehearse.

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I was so confused why I could only hear Parker but not Mimi.  Here she is trying out for the role of the mute King so she was trying to be very expressive, but also silent! 

Time Lapse Christmas

Thought it would be funny to film us opening presents, but in time-lapse mode!

So here's like 20 minutes of us unwrapping presents, but jammed into less then 2 minutes.  Right at the end we give the camera a wave :)

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 We put together many puzzles this year! 

And chilling afterwards...

More of Moab...

 Family Reunion

 Floating trampoline

 Grandad's 100th birthday

 This is across the street from my parents' house. 

 Yoda finally felt confident to jump off the diving board

And Happy Birthday, Dad :)

Duel of Fates

While searching through old videos Parker was pretty excited about this one...

It's a song from Star Wars Episode I

Some orchestra

So many concerts, here's just one...

I tagged along with the middle school on their field trip to entertain the elementary schools they used to attend. 

Wax Museum

As mentioned before, Yoda learned all about Orville Wright for his wax museum project.  To see Mimi's and Parker's, click here...

 It's not easy to hear anything, but he really wanted a video ...

Merry Christmas!

Lots going on this month... it's nice to be busy with nice things.

 First we visited a very special Santa :) 

The kiddos sang at the ward Christmas Party-- Yoda is doing a little boogie-pose off to the right, he's in a blue shirt. 

Mimi is in the middle, wearing pink.  She was super serious, but we were able to get this little smile our of her.

Yoda is in the back row, just under the flag.  This was a school choir concert.
Parker also had a school orchestra concert that same night, Greg attended so I don't yet photos or video from it...

We also visited Nana's good friend's house for cookie decorating and model-train inspiration.

Mimi was in her first play- Scrooge.  She was the pudding vendor and the tallest in the cast.
Here's a brief video, it's toward the end of the play.

There is a lot of work to do on the train track.  Every Christmas I think, "this year I'm going to make this happen!"  Fingers crossed! 

Mimi in the sky

For Girl Scouts we gave the girls a cookie sales goal and going Zip Lining would be their reward.  They totally did NOT meet it!  Zip Lining is pretty pricey, so we did a Rope Course instead which was more reasonably priced and it was a tad shorter.  Mimi LOVED it!  There was a short zip line at the end of each course. 

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Mimi and the bass

Mimi's in 6th grade and learning more interesting music this year.

I know the video is quite fuzzy, but the music is nice :)

At Grandma's in Utah...

After we left Moab we headed north to see Greg' Grandma and a few more cousins in SLC!

  Lots of good food and lots of fun :)
Someone suggested that Yoda was small enough to fit through the laundry shoot, but he was too scared.  Mimi was on it!  

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 Playing in the Grandma's basement! 

 Parker helped out by filling the bird feeder.

So much fun! 

Mimi's game

It's a mixture of rolling dice, and drawing doodles from a book....I'll let her explain in this video....

She didn't know I was filming her at first, she thought I was getting ready for a photo, but she kept talking so I started filming.  It worked out well :)

Fishing on a beautiful Fall day

My dad gave the kiddos fishing poles this summer, we finally had a chance to get out and try them!

 Mimi found some mud...

And a video of Yoda casting ...