tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38837714720567055712024-02-19T00:50:34.338-08:00Allred FamilyRyan * Anna * Monica * Leah * JillianALLRED FAMILYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06738084432544617017noreply@blogger.comBlogger307125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883771472056705571.post-64872474284155718322013-05-09T22:29:00.002-07:002013-05-09T22:29:33.052-07:00November 2012 November was a very bittersweet month. Ryan came home from training: <img height="239" src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/482955_10151292551471180_1114432532_n.jpg" width="400" />(yay!) and we prepared to move to Little Rock Air Force Base in Jacksonville, AR (sad). While Ryan had been going to school full time, had worked in California for six months and then went on to training in San Antonio for another three months, I had been blessed with incredible friends who buoyed me up during a very difficult time for my family. November was a month of wretched good-byes and see you laters that weighed on my heart heavily.<br />
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I didn't take many photos on my camera, but I have plenty of Facebook photos.<br />
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Before<br />
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After<br />
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Monica and Leah love having shorter hair. I like not having the fuss when it comes time to detangle.<br />
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These guys.<br />
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Seriously. Just thinking about them and how much I miss them some days chokes me up. But they were direct answers to prayer for me. And I will always love them. I don't know why, but in this pic, in the empty house, I feel like this summed us up. There was nothing in the house and we still had so much fun.<br />
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Benji and Hana<br />
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Liz, Me, and Hana<br />
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All of us out for my last authentic Mexican dining experience before hitting the road to Arkansas.<br />
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I'm not kidding. I haven't had good Mexican food since I moved to Jacksonville. I'm not entirely convinced it exists out here.<br />
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Before we drove out to Arkansas, we were able to spend Thanksgiving in Albuquerque with my family and I was able to hug and kiss Grandma Kathy a few more times before she passed away in January. I was also able to get some pretty good pics with the family.<br />
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Blue Steel and Le Tigra<br />
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Ferrari and Magnum<br />
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Mom and Me!<br />
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Me and Dad!<br />
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The cousins<br />
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Us with Maggie and John<br />
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With Aunty Michele<br />
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With Aunty Theresa<br />
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And Aunty Sarah<br />
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We were also able to spend some time in Ramah with Jodi and Jeff and see Kris and Lonnie as well.<br />
We went hiking in the mountains to help Jesse cut some lumber and we shot guns for a bit.<br />
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Finally, on November 27th, we stopped in Dallas to see the Milbergers and...<br />
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...we arrived at Little Rock Air Force Base in Jacksonville, Arkansas.<br />
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The next day, Jillian turned 2!<br />
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<br />ALLRED FAMILYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06738084432544617017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883771472056705571.post-58344256284330098152013-05-09T21:58:00.002-07:002013-05-09T22:34:52.105-07:00September-October 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
In October, Liz and I did a marshmallow ghost craft with the girls. </div>
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For Halloween, Monica was a witch, Leah was Rainbow Dash, and Jilly was a chef.</div>
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The Facebook photos:<br />
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We had a chocolate white elephant gift exchange Ladies' Night.<br />
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I built my first table from scratch.<br />
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We got to meet Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles! It was wonderful to hear his apostolic blessing that as we taught our children, they would hear us and hearken to our words.It was also very sweet and heartening to watch him allow Monica and Leah to hug him.<br />
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Monica lost another tooth, this time during Primary.<br />
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We went to the Mesilla Valley Pumpkin Patch with our friends.<br />
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We went to the Stake Halloween Carnival<br />
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I played in my first sand volleyball tourney and got to cheer on my friends, Jen Shumway, Cody Sowards, and Amber Jensen as they dominated the tournament. My team didn't win a single game. And. It. Was. So. Fun!<br />
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I went to a Minute-To-Win-It Halloween Party. I was a gypsy.<br />
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Courtney, Hana, me, and Liz<br />
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Kristen Marberger was my partner for the games since her hubby wasn't able to come party either. She was a musketeer. We won third place.<br />
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The girls doing what they do best, being cute.<br />
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A super cute photo of Jillian milking it.<br />
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About this time, Liz, Hana and I were having Scrabble nights and it was helping the time go by with less stress as they made life easier. I also started playing volleyball at the church and fell in love with all the ladies there. It made the time much more easily borne and I believe I was a better mother for having a good place to take out my frustration and have fun doing it. I also was playing basketball when I could with Amber and the guys from church. I realized at this point just how out of shape I was. But they were all still so encouraging and forgiving of my suckiness that it made it easy to keep coming and start improving again. Melissa Watson, Emily Harrington, and Dayna Young, Kim Green, Liz and Hana were also huge lifesavers as they leant their ears and shoulders for me. I was seriously blessed with wonderful sister friends.<br />
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<br />ALLRED FAMILYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06738084432544617017noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883771472056705571.post-88980259130406202302013-05-09T21:00:00.001-07:002013-05-09T21:00:52.676-07:00Summer 2012 - Smart Phone PhotosSince I was able to post most of my phone photos to Facebook, I want to preserve those here on the blog as well, so I am going to try and copy and paste the ones from last year on this blog post.<br />
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Me and Emily Harrington, friend extraordinaire.<br />
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Leah and her nap necessities.<br />
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We went to Elephant Butte with Erin and Matt Peterson and their boys, Levi and Weston. We had so much fun despite the wind!<br />
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Monica turned 7!<br />
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Leah turned 4!<br />
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We went to Ramah to visit with Kris and Lonnie and attended some of the Lambson family reunion. The girls caught their own snake to play with.<br />
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Napping with Gramma Kris<br />
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A fun evening stroll with Grandpa Lonnie<br />
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We had a fun birthday pool party at Aunty Theresa's<br />
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And at Nana and Papa's<br />
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We celebrated the 4th of July with the Peterson's and this pic looks way worse than what happened.<br />
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See? No damage.<br />
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Besties at Bahama Buck's. She and Ryan planned the ultimate getaway day out.<br />
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Leah is the cat whisperer.<br />
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We went dancing. A lot.<br />
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Me and Hana. Love her!<br />
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Monica pulled her own tooth out.<br />
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Hana and I went with Liz to get her first pedicure.<br />
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Perfect!<br />
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We went to the Deming Duck races. You put your duck in the water and splash him to get him to swim faster than the other ducks.<br />
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And I bought my first floppy hat. Loved going to the races with Liz and Phil!<br />
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This was the best red chile burrito I'd ever eaten.<br />
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For Labor Day, I flew out to spend the weekend with Ryan in San Antonio.<br />
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We had a great day at Sea World!<br />
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We saw the Alamo.<br />
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Made new friends, Ariel and Phil Council.<br />
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And that was the summer of 2012. In a very small nutshell.<br />
<br />ALLRED FAMILYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06738084432544617017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883771472056705571.post-41137826896521926172013-05-09T20:18:00.002-07:002013-05-09T20:18:43.046-07:00Summer 2012In an effort to get caught up quickly and not get too overwhelmed by the fact that we are over half a year behind, I'm going to summarize as best I can. <div>
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ALLRED FAMILYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06738084432544617017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883771472056705571.post-6400798108027049512012-08-06T22:50:00.000-07:002012-08-06T23:35:10.486-07:00The Miracle MoveThis summer went by very quickly, thanks to a decision to move out of our small, cramped 1000 sq ft house into a much roomier 1600 sq ft house in a much nicer area. As Eli put it when Sara asked him what he thought of the new place he said, "Well, I didn't feel like I needed to have a gun on me in the new neighborhood." HAHA! I never thought the old neighborhood was really ghetto, but I will admit to wishing I had more training with a weapon a couple times.<br />
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Anyways, after Ryan's visit for Mother's Day, we received more information about his training for his job in the Air Force. Altogether, with all the schools required, it would be 10 months long. There was some speculation that we might be able to join him for some of the training, but since none of the individual schools themselves were six months long, it wasn't a guarantee. So, June was the perfect time to sign a new year lease. So far, the only regret I have about that decision is that we moved away from being a minute away from some really good friends, Hana and Benji. Now they're about 5-10 minutes away, depending on traffic - we still get to play. But everything else has been 100% worth it.<br />
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Since the move pretty much eclipsed this summer, with all the preparation going into the packing and then unpacking, it kind of blurs together, but there were some incredible things that happened for me that I don't want to forget.<br />
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First of all, I want to be clear that I am very grateful that Ryan had work in California with Travis. It paid the bills and we were able to upgrade to a house I could feel comfortable in while he was gone. Having said that, I think it was one of the worst choices we've ever made as a couple in the strain it placed on our family. To continue to be apart from each other after the Air Force job came available was something I had a difficult time with accepting. Ryan would probably agree that it is a gross understatement that I fought against it for the last four months. But - I've had some personal miracles in the last few months that I recognize may not have been possible or even recognizable had Ryan been here, and they are the silver lining to the challenge that was the last six months for me.<br />
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My miracle, that I label as the 'miracle move', isn't so much about the move itself, but about the incredible power of friendship and faith that happened to take place around this pivotal moment. I'd been struggling with the principle of tithing for a long time. It's always been a struggle for me, to be honest, but the last couple years have been particularly difficult. For many months while Ryan was in his last year and a half of school, we'd pay our tithing and still not be able to make ends meet. Not by a long shot. For a lot of family and some friends on the outside looking in, the solution was simple - get a job. However, we knew from previous experience that when our focus shifted from school to employment, that school didn't get the attention it needed. Becoming an officer in the Air Force is incredibly competitive, and GPA matters big time. So for us, sacrificing for one year and half to be able to get Ryan the career he wanted for the next 20-30 years was worth the effort and preparation and we truly believe he will be blessed for his efforts. And I believe that we were already, it just wasn't in the way I wanted it.<br />
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So I stopped paying for a little while, partly because we had no income to pay tithing on, and partly because I rationalized that if we weren't going to make it anyways, what was the point when we did get a little bit of money? Then there was a talk one Sunday about how not all tithing is paid in cash. It really touched me. And I started to think of what I could "pay" or offer the Lord when we had nothing financially to give? And mostly out of sheer obedience because I knew the Lord would bless us somehow and because I wanted to have a current recommend, I got us caught up on tithing. Every check was hard to write. I never felt that joy that people talk about who don't struggle with the principle. I never had the "just enough money left over to make it" experience. Or the "money that came out of nowhere" experience.<br />
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Then, there was a talk that literally made me burn inside as I felt the firy confirmation of the Holy Ghost touching my soul. My friend, Michelle McDonough, gave a talk about how when she was younger she was challenged to take the Lord up on his promise in Malachi where he says, "Bring ye all the tithes in the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it." When she talked of her experience, I felt like the Lord was whispering to me, "Prove me. Just try it." And I thought, "Ok, Lord, I will prove you."<br />
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That day, the week I paid the deposit on the new house, I pulled out my checkbook, and instead of just writing the check and handing it in, I took time to say a prayer. I knew that paying my tithing was the right thing to do. So, I simply asked Heavenly Father to open my eyes to be able to see and recognize the blessings that would come from paying my tithing. At this particular time, I was also struggling with loneliness. I missed Ryan more than I thought I could bear at times. I missed having a partner to share the load. I missed having someone to back me up with parenting. I missed the safety I felt with his arms around me. I missed the way he could make me laugh. I missed my friend. So I'd also been praying to be able to have confidence in knowing who I could call on and also who needed a friend, because the loneliness for me was becoming overwhelming and I wondered if anyone else might need me the way I needed them. <br />
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Within the first week of preparing to move, I went visiting teaching with Michelle and we met our new sister on our route, Liz Winston. A couple nights later was a girls' night out and we hit it off even more there. She offered to come help me start packing the next day. I honestly don't think I would have been anywhere near prepared on moving day without her help then, and nearly every other day until moving day. Her friendship was one of my miracles.<br />
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And then there were the many friends who offered and asked to take my girls for me so I could pack quickly without them underfoot - Alejandra, Yaneth, Kim, the Parks, Jenny and Marley. Each offer felt like a little miracle because it always came just as I was starting to worry about having to inconvenience someone else and actually ask for help. Then we add in the friends who helped me in the sweaty armpit of the house that was our garage - Kim, Brooklin, and Melissa. Even after we found a scorpion (thankfully already dead) they helped me til I finished the side we were working on. I'm just getting started. Add in the friends that randomly stopped by to ask to help me pack - Valerie, Chelsea, Megan, Sarah and Brooke Park one night after a basketball game drove by and stopped to help organize the toys and pack up the girls' rooms. A few days later Yaneth came to help and Emily, May, Katie, and Camille stopped by because they were near the neighborhood. I cried. We were just days from the move at that point and I was so overwhelmed. I hired babysitters, Taylor and Madison Jensen, Dene and Jonece Thompson, Emily del Plain and Bridget Anderson and they all refused payment because they wanted it to be service. Alexis came by twice, to help pack and start moving my kitchen, bathrooms and closets before the main move. Eli and Erin and Matt Peterson also helped take things apart to get ready to move. During the move, the girls were taken care of by a tag team of angels, Dayna, Sephonnie, and Alejandra.<br />
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Thanks to two incredible home teachers, Brandon Hicks and Matt Peterson, we had 19 men show up from the Elders Quorum and High Priest Group to move us out of the house. (Steve Jensen, Ted Brannan, Mark Harrington, Ryan Bybee, Mike and Logan Mathews, Garrett Lewis, Denton Park, Rob del Plain, Corey, Cayden and Tannen Christianson, Matt Young, Leo Clear, Jason and Jacob Karl, Will Watson) Brandon and Doug, who came up from El Paso to help, led the charge and we got everything moved within a few hours. For the men lifting, it probably was the slowest morning. But for me, it felt like it whizzed by. Like one second I lived in one house and then I blinked and all my things were in the new house. After the inital chaos died down and I was left to assess the work left, Doug assembled the tetris-like beds Ryan built as much as possible before he had to leave to get ready for Lesa and the kids to come back home. To say I was overwhelmed with the next step when it took 44 people on my thank you list to get me to that point in time is putting it lightly.<br />
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As hard as I tried to label walls and make it easy to know where I wanted things, the garage was still quite a labrynth. On the first load I can tell they tried to put things where the labels were. The next load it was more like guidelines. And by the third load it was a free for all just to get it in the house. Liz stayed with me to help unpack, and Brooklin came and helped me in the girls' rooms. Later, Hana and Benji called and they offered to come over and help since Benji had to work that morning. Then Marley called and said Dan would come help that night as well since he was at work during the move, too. I felt like the Grinch when I realized how many people I was going to have to help me that evening. I got an idea. An awful idea. An awfully wonderful idea. I wondered if they would help me in the garage, "Clean House" style, where you pull everything out and then put only what you want to keep back in. Since I'd just gone through everything I knew I wanted to keep it all. I just needed to get all of Ryan's tools on one side of the garage and stack all the storage boxes on the other. It took the five of us 45 minutes to be able to get the garage organized enough to park my Chevy Blazer in on the first night. To me, that is miraculous. The thought of doing the garage by myself was paralyzing.<br />
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And you would think at this point that that would be it. But then there was Eli, who helped me several times with getting the old house ready for inspection and sweet Sara who offered to watch the girls even though Rand was still barely a few weeks old. Besides organizing movers, Brandon had also organized a team of young men to help clean the yard and garage. So Eli and I really only had to focus on painting touch ups and patching a few holes.<br />
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I think it would be easy to pass things off as coincidence that I happened to start paying tithing with a different attitude when my friends were already willing to help. That those were good things already in my life. That is all true, but I think the miracle for me was seeing God's hand in them being a part of my life. To recognize and fully appreciate the value of each person and to know surely that I am not alone is the miracle. Because I am a very social person, being alone is often the same thing as being lonely. I need my friends. I cherish opportunities to help others because it lets me be around others. So the miracle for me was recognizing that Heavenly Father knows this about me, too. And he sent me an abundace of earhly angels to come to my rescue. Lookiing back, there is absolutely no way I could have made it through this summer as frustrated as I was being apart from Ryan without such wonderful friends. And each time I prayed for my eyes to be opened when I paid my tithing, it became easier to count my many blessings which almost always amounted to people and the experiences I was able to share with them. Friends, family, and in particular a loving and generous father-in-law, Ralph, and good neighbors - all by and large are my greatest blessings. Therefore, I cannot think that the timing of it all was a coincidence. It's still hard to write out those checks, even though I know that money will be spent more charitably with the Church than what I would choose to spend it on. I may always struggle with paying tithing, but I think as long as I keep praying to have eyes to see, I'll always be able to count my blessings. I think it was C.S. Lewis that said something like "Among Christians there are no coincidences." <br />
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I believe it.<br />
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Lovely Leah</div>
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Sweet Jill.</div>
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When Ryan was home in April, we had a little "Daddy and Me" photo shoot. We had taken the girls to the park so that Monica could show off her new skill. She is definitely her father's daughter! I love how much these girls love their daddy and it makes me fall in love with Ryan even more to see how much he loves his girls. They've each got him so wrapped around their little fingers!</div>
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Monica had to show Daddy how she had taught herself to ride her bike without training wheels. </div>
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I've been so impressed with her tenacity in tackling this skill!</div>
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<br /></div>ALLRED FAMILYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06738084432544617017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883771472056705571.post-42223455999273615642012-04-29T00:07:00.000-07:002012-04-29T00:20:37.807-07:00Pro's Ranch, White Sands, Graham Central Station, and an Air Force AssignmentRyan came home to visit last weekend and we had a blast! He flew in on Thursday night. While he was traveling he received an email and phone call from Msgt (Master Sergeant) Ullmann stating that Ryan received an EAD date for entering active duty, the day he swears in (August 8), and that Little Rock, Arkansas would be the location, whether duty station or school locale, we were unsure, but the message was clear- Ryan received a school slot to be a loadmaster in the Air Force! We are so excited and incredibly grateful for this opportunity. Plan A!! Through further investigation by our good friend, Becky Clinton, it looks more like Little Rock is the school location, but we shouldn't be surprised if it ends up being our first duty station as well! I did a little research...Memphis is only a two hour drive from Little Rock. Graceland would be so fun to visit!<br />
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So we had a lot to celebrate with him coming home. We thought we were going to have to wait til the next day to hear anything at a previously scheduled appointment with the recruiter. But nope. He was kind enough to share as soon as he got the news. WOOHOO!!<br />
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On Friday, we took Ryan to my new favorite grocery store, Pro's Ranch Market. It's like stepping into Mexico. The whole atmosphere is festive and very ethnic. Dried, whole shrimps, huge tortilleria, Mexican sodas, cows' heads in the carniceria. Awesome. And a fun cafe with the most delicious taquitos I think I've ever had. <strong>Funny story</strong>: While I was ordering our food, Ryan sent Monica to me to ask me to buy him a coke. While I was trying to balance the coke on the tray of food that not only had the taquitos but 12 ramekins of sour cream, guacamole sauce, and salsa, I lost control of it all and spilled the coke on the counter and received a shower of sauces all down the front of my jeans. I've never seen so many people jump into action before. There were at least four employees helping me clean up the mess and a few customers in line offering me money to buy the next round of food, and a very helpful gentleman told me where the restroom was. I thanked my fellow patrons for their offers but declined and went to the bathroom.<br />
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When I came back from cleaning myself up, they didn't make me pay again, but they wouldn't let me hold the tray either! I reached for it and one of the employees grabbed it before I could, smiled sweetly and said she'd take it to me. Clearly, I was not to be trusted. Ryan joked that everyone was so helpful because I looked Mexican. He goes, "You're their people." LOL! Anyways, we stocked up on the produce we needed and enjoyed the last of the taquitos. Have I mentioned how delicious they were?<br />
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Ryan and I went to dinner at Outback and enjoyed being on a date for the first time in 10 weeks. Big thanks to my friend, Kim, for watching our girls!<br />
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Saturday, we went to White Sands and absolutely loved it. We will be doing that again. Pictures follow this post. After we came home, we tried to get the girls in bed before Dory came to babysit. She's my friend, Alejandra's, honorary daughter. She's a foreign exchange student and she was so sweet to refuse being paid, and said she was babysitting for service. Sweet, sweet girl. We went dancing at Graham Central Station. Since we got there before 9, there was no cover charge. Sweet! We had a great time tearing up the dance floor with a bunch of grandmas and grandpas. They knew how to move!! We were trying to copy some of their moves. There was one couple that was so cute to watch. They mainly did the lindy hop and west coast swing dance moves, but every once in a while they'd start a conga line with just the two of them. Ryan and I decided we want to be them when we grow up. We also enjoyed watching a white-haired gentleman dance to every single song - by himself. He two-stepped and waltzed his way around the floor with no shame for a good three hours before he took a partner to the floor. Good times on the country western dance floor!<br />
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Sunday we enjoyed going to church together as a family and playing the piano in Primary uninterrupted as Ryan entertained Jillian. We also took the girls to the park so Monica could show Ryan how she had taught herself to ride her bike without training wheels. I'm so impressed with her persistence. We were at the park play group when her friend Michelle let her try riding her bike without training wheels. In about 30 minutes, she was riding steadily! When we came home she asked me to take off her training wheels and then spent the rest of daylight practicing in our little backyard. <br />
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Monday went by too fast. We took the girls to the jumping place in the mall as we took a break from our search for some decent patio furniture. After having some friends over and hanging out in the backyard, I realized we needed patio furniture. I enjoy having people over, and I might even say my sanity necessitates having people over, but I had nowhere to put them that didn't seem like we were already living in backwoods Arkansas, where we probably will live before too long. LOL! Ok, bad joke. Anyways, we went to every thrift, consignment, and second-hand store in Las Cruces, Hobby Lobby, Big Lots, Walmart, and finally Home Depot. Thank goodness Daddy's Store had some very reasonably priced unfinished wood adirondack chairs. I painted them turquoise yesterday and today. Turns out turquoise absorbs heat well. Very well, in fact. I couldn't rest my arms on the armrests, it was so hot. And I thought, <em>if they're this hot in April, how hot will they be in July and August?</em> So, I will have to go to white. <br />
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Anyways, Tuesday morning, before the sun's alarm even considered going off, we took Ryan to the airport to go back to California. It was a terrific visit and we can't wait for the next one! All day Tuesday Leah asked me when we were going back to the airport to pick up Daddy. We'll have to make an advent chain for the next visit. My girls--they sure love their daddy! </div>
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It sure warmed my heart. I worried if she would be resistant to him since it had been two and half months. I just remember how difficult it was for Monica to go to him when he'd been gone for a year. But then I have to remind myself that she was a baby, baby, when he deployed, and it had been a full year. Thanks to the Air Force, the length we expect our separation to last has been drastically shortened. Whew!</div>
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When the girls got tired of climbing that hill, they chilled in the back of the Blazer, so Ryan and I had fun jumping off the dune to see if we could get any cool photos. It was a blast trying to get a perfect pose. I think we got some cool shots.</div>
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Jillian loved the sand. Like, really loved it. We had just put sunscreen on her and then she stuck her face right in the sand...and trying to dust it off was not happening. It would not come off for nothing! We did finally rinse it off with water at the end of the trip and had her leaning over the edge of the tailgate. The park rangers drove by at that moment and stopped to make sure she was ok. I think once they realized she wasn't in trouble and we weren't trying to drown her, they accepted our answer of, "we're ok!" They really looked skeptical.ALLRED FAMILYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06738084432544617017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883771472056705571.post-71127980267810727472012-04-26T23:20:00.002-07:002012-04-26T23:20:43.166-07:00White Sands: Sledding<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We borrowed sleds from the Harringtons and went to White Sands while Ryan was home visiting. It was such a blast. And, in a fun little twist, it was a free day! We love saving some pennies! Anyways, the girls loved it. LOVED it! Ryan and I had fun, too. The sand was so soft and when you dug your toes in, it was so cool against your skin. We will definitely be going again! ALLRED FAMILYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06738084432544617017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883771472056705571.post-44787294385758547552012-04-12T08:36:00.001-07:002012-04-12T08:43:14.669-07:00Easter 2012- TestimonyThese last two months have been a very big learning experience for me. I thought I knew I what I was doing when Ryan was gone. I've never enjoyed him being gone. For one thing, I've never liked being alone - ever. Ask Emily. When we were in college and I'd get home from work and no one was home, I'd call her up and within seconds she'd guess, "You're home alone, aren't you?" But beyond that uncomfortable aloneness, I always seemed to be able to rise to the occasion. I wasn't the type who needed a lot of outside help. I appreciated it and accepted it, but I didn't always feel the need to ask for it.<br />
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This time, however, it has not been the same. I have felt very guilty inside, because I have felt weak. Anytime I started feeling sorry for myself, I would think of a friend in my ward who has been through a lot lately, from pre-existing health challenges, to a bad C-section, a car accident, a viral/bacterial infection from swimming with the dolphins in Mexico, to another car accident involving an 18-wheeler. And on top of that, she has three very small children. <em>Those are real challenges</em> I would tell myself, and then I'd very quickly snap out of my pity party. What is homeschooling, college classes, and normal mothering alone to all that? A blessing!<br />
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But I started to analyze why I was frequently falling into a slump. Why did I need to "snap out of it" so often? Why was I feeling so guilty for admitting that even though I wasn't dealing with physical challenges, that what I was dealing with was still hard? And the thought came to me that when Ryan was deployed, it made sense for life to be hard. I'd accepted at the beginning that it was going to be hard and I prayed accordingly. I remember when friends would say how hard they thought it was for their husbands just to be gone a few weeks on business, I was always really generous and I never looked down on them. Because instinctively then, I knew it was hard no matter what the reason their husband was gone. But I've been very hard on myself this time around. I haven't wanted to admit that it was hard because it doesn't make as much sense for it to be hard when I can call Ryan anytime I want to, and I still have friends whose husbands really are in harm's way. Really are fighting a war on the front lines. And they can't call them and hear their voices so readily on the other line.<br />
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Last week it all came to a head. I was going on several nights in a row of crying myself to sleep. I didn't know who I could talk to about it being hard without it seeming like I was being ungrateful. I could count my blessings all day long and still feel a heaviness in my heart at the end of the day. Translating my gratitude into happiness was getting difficult. And I had started to feel claustrophobic. One of the good things about deployments, is you generally have an idea of when it's going to end. I realized we are still up in the air. Because about a month ago the Air Force recruiter called saying there was a new job open with 15 positions and put Ryan on the list for that job. A week or so later we were told he had the #1 slot in the central recruiting command. But we haven't heard anything since. I'm generally a flexible person. I don't put much into plans and have been known to cancel for any number of reasons and it doesn't often hurt my feelings if others cancel on me. But when it comes to the big stuff, I like to know where I am going. And for the last month, we got our hopes up really high that our Plan A was back in play.<br />
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But then time went on without any word and our excitement and overall enthusiasm started to wane as day after day we still heard nothing. I started to fall deeper and deeper into a depression and I knew I needed to ask for help. I called my home teachers and they responded very quickly to my request for a blessing. I was blessed with peace, calm, and comfort and counseled to focus on the prize, on the eternal goals, the mansions in heaven and to focus on the big picture. I was blessed to be a good example to my family and promised that I would start receiving answers to my prayers and questions that I had been seeking. I was assured of Heavenly Father's love for me and His awareness of me.<br />
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After the blessing, Matt gave a good analogy, about a child doing a dot-to-dot, and as a parent, you can see what the picture is going to turn out to be, but as the child doing the dot-to-dot, all you can see are the dots. And how as a parent, Heavenly Father knows what our picture is going to be, and if we who are doing the dot-to-dot could just step back for a moment, we might see some of the picture, too.<br />
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I really have incredible home teachers. And visiting teachers! I have felt so reassured that I am in the right place at the right time. About a week before Easter, I was asked to play a musical number in Sacrament Meeting. Having received counsel to step back from the immediacy and uncertainty of where I was in my life now and look at the bigger picture, I felt sure I was given a blessing to consider an eternal perspective. I'd been playing with "That Easter Morn" and "He is Risen" for the week before my blessing, but it came together with the addition of "If You Could Hie to Kolob". I'd been thinking about what it would be like to be where God is. To seek to be near Him. To want His arms surrounding me in a fatherly hug. And then to consider the sacrifice of His only begotten son. To the pain the Savior felt in Gethsemane and again on the cross, to His triumph over death. Which victory allows us all to return to Heavenly Father and to be where He is. Working on the arrangement of the hymns and feeling the spirit of those hymns helped heal the pain I was feeling. <br />
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This week has been so much better! Things have still "gone wrong", but I'm recovering more quickly and regaining my sense of humor. I've been blessed with particular inspiration for things I have been asking and thinking about. I've always been an advocate of the power of choice and our agency being the one thing Heavenly Father will not take from us. So how powerful must that be? So I had the thought after Leah came out of the bathroom dripping wet when she was only supposed to be brushing her teeth, that I could laugh or I could scold her. And then I thought, what if I could make the choice ahead of time to laugh? Like we are always taught to decide ahead of time that you won't do this, or you won't do that so when the situation presents itself, you don't have to decide. The decision was already made. So I thought, if I could just choose to laugh more, at the truly insignificant things, how much easier would motherhood be? How much more fun would it be? And don't my girls deserve to have a mom with a sense of humor?<br />
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So that's my goal, because I know Heavenly Father wants me to be happy, even now when I have a full plate of obligations and responsibilities and don't have Ryan here to lean on directly. I have a wonderful Relief Society president who has been coming every Thursday to let me run a couple errands or take some personal time. I have wonderful friends and home and visiting teachers who have offered and taken my children for me. I have lots of opportunities to see friends throughout the week with Zumba and play group. And I have three beautiful daughters who are, as Brandon said the other night, "scary good." They are not difficult children. They listen very well for their ages. They are happy, and they are considerate of their mom. And I just have needed some help getting the right perspective and getting my act together. My life is truly blessed. I can't see where we are going right now. There is no established end date for this particular challenge. But I know there will be one. And in the meantime I have fabulous friends and daughters who I will make the most of my time with, and a loving Heavenly Father who shows His hand and His love by the angels He sends to me.ALLRED FAMILYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06738084432544617017noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883771472056705571.post-49114140994348462532012-04-12T00:40:00.001-07:002012-04-12T08:48:34.731-07:00Easter 2012 - The Pretty Picture<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHJpGfp0IE-mUbPZjjnIJfzCdezdcBPl20w2h2SN4IOhSDt_CDyqlqXoJJ7fUHER1JD5nmA6WJFQozigWsLEWGKobwRGRT7PylxVsvn2qu5q8D5eh_Doe7gqrwFeFTHermw5Dom6wGongm/s1600/33.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" qda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHJpGfp0IE-mUbPZjjnIJfzCdezdcBPl20w2h2SN4IOhSDt_CDyqlqXoJJ7fUHER1JD5nmA6WJFQozigWsLEWGKobwRGRT7PylxVsvn2qu5q8D5eh_Doe7gqrwFeFTHermw5Dom6wGongm/s400/33.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I wish I had gotten pictures of Easter dinner. Melissa Watson came over with her kiddos and we shared dinner together. It was so great to talk to her!</div>ALLRED FAMILYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06738084432544617017noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883771472056705571.post-83738470288435070872012-04-12T00:36:00.000-07:002012-04-12T00:36:43.107-07:00Easter 2012- The Baskets and Egg HuntOne thing about having independent daughters is that they beat me to waking up in the mornings- every day. (Not like I was ever good at getting up early in the first place. Freakishly early, like for Seminary in high school, yes. But just regular early, not so much.) And they can be very quiet. Most of the time I don't mind this because they just pick a show or movie to watch quietly until Jillian wakes up at a normal time and then I have to get out of bed and we turn it all off and get our day started. <br />
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But on special occassions, I sometimes wish I was an early morning person so I could witness their first reactions. Monica and Leah had already eaten their candy from their baskets, which was a single row of peeps and a single 2" chocolate bunny. In our sugar sensitive household, that's a splurge. And they had gone outside to find the eggs the Easter bunny hid for them. Leah found two in the time it took Monica to round the rest up. Leah, as you might imagine, was quite upset. Not to mention, Jillian was still asleep. So I explained to Monica that since she had gotten all the eggs so fast, she had to re-hide them and help Jillian get her eggs in her basket and let Leah go for it.<br />
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Monica agreed this was a good compromise. So we got Jillian up, showed her her basket and then tried to convince her that searching for our colored eggs was fun. Poor Monica couldn't pry Jillian away from her little notebook and shiny pencil for the world. It was hilarious! Maybe next year...<br />
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Anyways, on March 2nd, we participated in the Dr. Seuss "Read Across America" and had a Seussathon. By far, "Wacky Wednesday" was our family favorite. Ask Monica to tell you about it. I bet you she can't make it through the first few descriptions without giggling uncontrollably. Go read it and look closely at the pictures. We could not stop laughing! Monica was dying of laughter. I had to remind her to breathe, but her giggling got me going and even after Leah fell asleep we had to read it one more time. My sides have never ached more! So you probably have to go into it with low expectations and you should definitely read it with a young child just discovering the world of absurdity. It's the best.<br />
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The next day was Saturday and we had a little Dr. Seuss party. Ashlynne and Lesa were going to come up so we invited Camille Harrington up to be Monica's buddy. Then Ashlynne got sick and they couldn't come. So we invited Katie Curnutt and then she got sick after arriving to the party. This flu season has been brutal!<br />
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So in the end it was Monica, Leah, Jillian and Camille. We had a blast! We kicked it off by watching "Horton Hears a Who" and eating some snacks...<br />
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1.) Ryan accepted the offer to work with his brother, Travis, out in California. <br />
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2.) I turned 30. Yep. A new decade of life. Crossed the threshold of "old". Said goodbye to my youth. Ok, so maybe not the youth thing. Just a few months before that when I was purchasing a replacement part for my vacuum, the man thought I'd just graduated from high school and was astounded to discover I was the mother of 3 children and am going on 9 years of marriage. So maybe people will think I'm 19 now that I'm 30. That beats people thinking I had a child when I was 12...<br />
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Anyways, I got a few celebrations. I got to have lunch with some of my favorite ladies, (Emily Harrington, Sara Hicks, Michelle McDonough, Lesa Miller and Rachel Morsbach) at my favorite lunch eatery and continue my love affair with Dion's ranch dressing. We had dinner at Texas Roadhouse and I got spoiled with a full rack of their mouthwatering ribs. And on Saturday we had cake and ice cream with the Millers, after which, we (the adults) played Just Dance. And. It. Was. Awesome.<br />
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I also received a beautiful handmade necklace, they-don't-make-my-ears-swell-so-they're-completely-awesome-earrings, a beautiful handmade card, and the most recent movie in the Twilight saga. (I might be a closet Twi-hard.) I also received a set of charcoal pencils and a sketch book from my sister, and an awesome you just got old 30 year old gift set complete with 80's candies and cartoons, socks for my circulation, Bengay, and a 30 Years In the Making t-shirt that will be making its way around the family from my cousin, Maggie. I can't wait to send it to Emily next year! And the last thing I got on my birthday was a perfect bed that Ryan built from scratch. I am so in love with it. I need to finish decorating and then I will post a picture of this beautiful bed!<br />
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3.) Ryan left to California on February 15 with the plan of checking it out to see if we could make it work. It took less than a week for him to decide he loved it. Construction, building, remodeling...it's all in his blood. So, we started making plans for moving us out to California. We estimated it would take til about July for us to be able to afford the move and rent and all that good stuff. Plan B!<br />
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The rest of February is kind of a blur. I do remember that the day he left, I locked us out of the house and had to ask for help from one of my neighbors to break in. A day or two later, Leah wanted to help get Jillian out of her playpen. Since she couldn't <em>lift</em> her out, Leah decided she would <em>cut</em> the netting on the playpen to let Jill out. I know. But I sewed it up with some yarn and it wasn't so bad anymore.ALLRED FAMILYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06738084432544617017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883771472056705571.post-84605424184174882972012-04-11T20:37:00.000-07:002012-04-11T20:37:44.348-07:00Monica lost her first tooth!On March 1, 2012 Miss Monica lost her very first tooth! It was about time, too, with her replacement shark teeth already fully emerged behind the front two teeth. I had told her to wiggle her tooth and watch "Spongebob" for a while. A few minutes later she said, "Mom, I think my tooth is ready to come out." It didn't look any different to me so I sent her back to watch cartoons and get wiggling. After she wiggled it again she came back very excited and said, "Look, Mom!" It was laying down, bleeding against her gums!<br />
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With Ryan in California, I had to get over my loose tooth heebie jeebies and step up to the plate. But first I had to be sure I was needed. I told her to try pulling it first. She yanked it and it didn't come out. I had her bring me a tissue and gave it a little twist as I pulled and it came right out! Whatever jolt of pain she initially felt was immediately replaced with overflowing excitement. She was jubilant, ecstatic, and whatever other happy superlative might be appropriate here. I thought she would not be able to contain herself and then all at once she got this look in her eyes of sudden realization and announced, "I want to go to bed so the tooth fairy can come. Can I? Please?" <br />
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I've never been one to say no to a child requesting bedtime, but the tooth fairy informed me she needed to go get cash. So my friend, Cynta, came over and read to the girls so I could take the tooth fairy to Walgreens. I told her instead of candy, that I'd like Monica to have a cool new toothbrush. So she went all out and got her a "decorate your own" handy dandy spinning toothbrush. <br />
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The next morning was awesome. Monica came running in to my room with her cheers of what she was given from the tooth fairy already out of her mouth before she even reached my room. If you've been to my house, you know what a feat that is. The hallway is tiny and our rooms are very close. Monica was EXCITED. And it was so much fun to watch her!<br />
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